2025 calendar!

Our March game will be Brass Birmingham. A legendary euro game where players compete both in economy and territory control to capitalize on the industrial revolution.

Rules for competition: The Tourney will take place over 3 weeks of randomly seated tables. Player with compete over both ages using the default setup for their player count. Weeks 1 and 2 are worth 10,7,5, or 3 points while the final game will be worth 15,11,7,5 points. Tiebreakers will be money followed by reverse starting player order.

In April we'll be playing The White Castle. A dice drafting and worker placement game quickly rising in popularity where you play as a noble family in feudal Japan competing to place your different family members into different positions in the The White Castles royal court.

Rules for competition: The Tourney will take place over 3 weeks of randomly seated tables. Player will draft starting cards in reverse player order. Week 1 and 2 are worth 10, 7, 5, or 3 points while the final game will be worth 15, 11, 7, 5 points. Tiebreakers will be money, followed by reputation, followed by reverse starting player order.

For the first half of May we'll be playing Settlers of Catan. A game that truly needs no introduction flex those negotiation skills and rolls the dice to collect resources and settle at a level of competition you've never experienced before.

Rules for competition: The Tourney will take place over 2 weeks with 2 games being played each day. For this reason each player will have a 20 minute clock that they start before they roll dice on each of their turns. Negotiation will cut into your time so feel free to make deals on other players turns and it’s on you to decide when there isn’t a deal to be made and pass the turn. Once you run out of time you will have 15 seconds per turn. Starting positions will be snake drafted in player order. Game ends immediately upon reaching 10 points.

In the second half of May strap yourself to the back of your seat for a game of Galaxy Trucker. Build your ship out of different parts in real time to start out the game and then navigate your vessel through dangerous missions to score as many points without falling apart!

Rules for competition: The Tourney will take place over 2 weeks with 2 games of 3 rounds each being played each day. Players will play with the default rules for building ships and playing out the game. Tie breaker will be highest ending score in the final round.

For June we're moving back to the euro genre for Ark Nova! A strategic action management game about building out a zoo to both be as appealing as possible while making sure you take the time to save the endangered animals that truly need it.

Rules for competition: The Tourney will take place over 3 weeks of randomly seated tables. Each player will be randomly dealt 2 maps and choose one having seen the base conservation projects and bonus tiles but not starting hands. Tiebreaker will be supported conservation projects followed by money.

For July we’re launching off Beyond the Sun! Play across the galaxy in a worker placement game focusing on researching advanced technology and colonizing planets far off in the solar system.

Rules for competition: The Tourney will take place over 3 weeks of randomly seated tables. Each week will use the standard setup for your player count drafting factions in reverse player order. Tie breakers will most automation, followed by lowest supplies on mat.

In August we’ll be enjoying the autumn leaves in the forests of Root! Come battle it out with every expansion in an all out asymmetric experience! We’re really excited how the table politics plays itself out in a three week league and each round will be seeded such that every player has a chance to win the league!

Rules for competition: Games will be seeded based off rough placements making sure to limit opportunities for kingmaking. While negotiating is encouraged, any deals to be honored week to week would go against the spirit of the league despite the format. Games will be setup and faction decided using the advanced setup rules released by Leader Games.

September competitive league will take us to the Castles of Burgundy. As the seasons grow colder we retreat back to our home kingdom and use the bounty of the year to expand. Participate in a careful race to score points collecting and placing tiles to create the most powerful kingdom possible! or at least at your table

Rules for competition: We will use a bracket placement system, default rules for setup, and no expansions.

Also in September we’re going to have a one day War Chest competitive league! Come in for a single day to compete for your very own crown to defend your kingdom! Play this modern Chess like game where you draft unique units to battle against your opponents to control territory 1 on 1!

Rules for competition: Each table will be set with a unique set of 8 pieces to draft with. Get randomly assigned to tables each round for a unique matchup every round.