International prize list of Diplomacy

Tournaments for the Diplomacy board game have been conducted around the world for decades.

The World Diplomacy Championship

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During the 1970s, there were very few Diplomacy tournaments outside North America. At that time, the winner of the tournament held at American DipCon was considered by the North American players as a world champion of Diplomacy.

The World Diplomacy Convention (WorldDipCon or WDC) was created in 1988 and the winner of the tournament held at this convention ("The World Diplomacy Championship") is acknowledged as the World Diplomacy Champion (also called the WDC Champion).

The location of each WDC, with the players taking the top three places in the tournament held there, are listed below:

Year Host City Host Country World Champion Second Third
1988 Birmingham   Great Britain   Phil Day   Matt MacVeigh   Jim Mills
1990 Chapel Hill   United States   Jason Bergmann   Jeff Bohner   Steve Cooley
1992 Canberra   Australia   Steve Gould   Eric Roche   Bruno-André Giraudon
1994 Birmingham   Great Britain   Pascal Montagna   Stéphane Gentric   Bruno-André Giraudon
1995 Paris   France   Bruno-André Giraudon     Antonio Ribeiro da Silva   Thomas Sebeyran
1996 Columbus   United States   Pitt Crandlemire   Leif Bergman   Björn von Knorring
1997 Gothenburg   Sweden   Cyrille Sevin   Roger Edblom   Borger Borgersen
1998 Chapel Hill   United States   Chris Martin   John Quarto-von-Tivadar   Mark Fassio
1999 Namur   Belgium   Christian Dreyer   Leif Bergman   Ivan Woodward
2000 Hunt Valley   United States   Simon Bouton   Brian Dennehy   Matthew Shields
2001 Paris   France   Cyrille Sevin   Brian Dennehy   Chetan Radia
2002 Canberra   Australia   Rob Stephenson   Grant Steel   Yann Clouet
2003 Denver   United States   Vincent Carry   Edward Hawthorne   Frank Johansen
2004 Birmingham   Great Britain   Yann Clouet   André Kooy   Cyrille Sevin
2005 Washington[1]   United States   Frank Johansen   Tom Kobrin   Edi Birsan
2006 Berlin   Germany   Nicolas Sahuguet   Cyrille Sevin   Yann Clouet
2007 Vancouver   Canada   Doug Moore   Jake Mannix   Mark Zoffel
2008 Lockenhaus   Austria   Julian Ziesing   Cyrille Sevin   Daniel Leinich
2009 Columbus   United States   Andrew Goff   Daniel Lester   Jim O'Kelley
2010 The Hague   Netherlands   Gwen Maggi   Igor Kurt   Xavier Blanchot
2011 Sydney   Australia   Andrew Goff   Grant Steel   Liam Cosgrave
2012 Chicago   United States   Michael A. Binder   Don Scheifler   Matt Shields
2013 Paris   France   Cyrille Sevin   Toby Harris   Gwen Maggi
2014 Chapel Hill   United States   Thomas Haver   Daniel Lester   Phil Weissert
2015 Milan   Italy   Toby Harris     Rubén Sanchez García Luengo de Madrid   Thomas Haver
2016 Chicago   United States     Chris Brand   Doug Moore   Andrew Goff
2017 Oxford   Great Britain   Doug Moore   Marvin Fried   Tanya Gill
2018 Washington   United States   Andrew Goff   Doug Moore   Adam Sigal
2019 Marseille   France   Gwen Maggi   Andrew Goff   Christophe Borgeat
2020 and 2021 Event not held
2022 Dover   United States   Daniel Lester   Peter McNamara   Peter Yeargin
2023 Bangkok   Thailand   Jamal Blakkarly   Brandon Fogel     Chris Brand
2024 Varedo   Italy     Nicolas Sahuguet   Peter McNamara   Fabian Straub
2025 San Francisco   United States
2026 Athens   Greece

The 2020 event was originally scheduled for Dover, USA, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Both the already-selected 2020 (Dover) and 2021 (Bangkok) events were pushed back two years.

Virtual Face-to-Face

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Online play with real-time voice negotiations, known as virtual face-to-face, became widespread in 2020, leading to three major annual competitions with global participation.

Virtual Diplomacy Championship (VDC)

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The VDC is an open tournament held over a single weekend in December. Rounds are scheduled to be convenient to players around the world.

Year Champion Second Third
2020   Morgante Pell   Nicolas Sahuguet   Bill Hackenbracht
2021   Nicolas Sahuguet   Farren Jane   Liam Stokes
2022   Riaz Virani   Jason Mastbaum   Johnny Gillam
2023   Jamal Blakkarly   Peter McNamara   Mikalis Kamaritis

Virtual Diplomacy League (VDL)

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The VDL is an open league with monthly gamedays and rounds convenient to players around the world. The season culminates in a championship game held in January.

Year Champion Second Third
2020   Tanya Gill   John Anderson   Morgante Pell
2021   Nicolas Taillet   Brandon Fogel   Mikalis Kamaritis
2022   Brandon Fogel   Nicolas Taillet   Timothy Crosby
2023   Mikalis Kamaritis   Nicolas Taillet   Matthew Totonchy

Diplomacy Broadcast Network Invitational (DBNI)

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The DBNI is an invitational tournament held annually in February. Players earn invitations based on their performance at a wide variety of Diplomacy competitions over the previous year, including in-person face-to-face, virtual face-to-face, and extended deadline online play. The champion receives the title "DBN Diplomat of the Year".

Year Diplomat of the Year Runners-up
2021   Peter McNamara   Matthew Crill

  Russ Dennis

  Andrei Gribakov

  Farren Jane

  Nicolas Sahuguet

  Markus Zijlstra

2022   Jason Mastbaum   Brandon Fogel

  Katie Gray

  Farren Jane

  Seren Kwok

  Ed Sullivan

  Nicolas Taillet

2023   Brandon Fogel   Chris Brand

  Noam Brown

  Peter McNamara

  Nicolas Sahuguet

  Ruben Sanchez

  Riaz Virani

2024   Peter McNamara   Johnny Gillam

  Seren Kwok

  Doug Malotte

  Ed Sullivan

  Matthew Totonchy

  Christopher Ward

Online Diplomacy Championship

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Created in 2015, the Online Diplomacy Championship occurs once every two years, rotating between a number of Diplomacy websites. The winner is considered to be the World Champion of Online Diplomacy, a format in which phases are processed once every one or two days, and all correspondence is sent in written form via the host site. Players in online tournaments typically play under pseudonyms, and accept the title under these names.

The players taking the top three places in each ODC tournament are listed below.

Year Host Website Online Champion Second Third
2015 webDiplomacy   Octavious   VillageIdiot   Yonni
2017 PlayDiplomacy   Steve Cooley &   Bravo Papa Alpha [2]   Machiara
2019 webDiplomacy   Brumark   Teccles   Napoleon of Oz
2022 PlayDiplomacy   RedCandle   Pootleflump   Yonni

North America

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DipCon

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The winner of the DipCon (Diplomacy Convention) tournament is the North American champion. The title of North American champion was not given at the beginning, but since 1972 has been awarded to each winner of the convention tournament. DipCon was created in 1966 and occurred each year (except in 1967 and 1968). There was no tournament in 1966,[3] 1969[4] 1971, and 2020.

The winner of each DipCon North American Championship tournament:

Year Host City Host Country North American Champion Notes
1970 Oklahoma City   United States   John Smythe
1972 Chicago   United States   Richard Ackerlay
1973 Chicago   United States   Conrad von Metzke and
  John Smythe tie
1974 Chicago   United States   Mike Rocamora
1975 Chicago   United States   Walter Blank and
  Bob Wartenberg tie
1976 Baltimore   United States   Thomas Reape
1977 Lake Geneva   United States   Mike Rocamora
1978 Los Angeles   United States   David Lagerson
1979 Chester   United States   Ben Zablocki
1980 Rochester   United States   Carl Eichelberger
1981 Burlingame   United States   Ron Brown [5]
1982 Baltimore   United States   Konrad Baumeister
1983 Detroit   United States   Joyce Singer [6]
1984 Dallas   United States   Jeff Key
1985 Seattle   United States   J.R. Baker
1986 Fredericksburg   United States   Malcolm Smith [7]
1987 Madison   United States   David Hood
1988 San Antonio   United States   Dan Sellers
1989 San Diego   United States   Edi Birsan [8]
1990 Chapel Hill   United States   Jason Bergmann [9]
1991 Scarborough   Canada   Gary Behnen
1992 Lenexa   United States   Marc Peters
1993 San Mateo   United States   Hohn Cho
1994 Chapel Hill   United States   Bruce Reiff
1995 Baltimore   United States   Sylvain Larose
1996 Columbus   United States   Pitt Crandlemire [9]
1997 Seattle   United States   Chris Mazza
1998 Chapel Hill   United States   Chris Martin [9]
1999 Columbus   United States   Chris Mazza
2000 Hunt Valley   United States   Simon Bouton [9][10]
2001 Denver   United States   David Hood
2002 Chapel Hill   United States   Morgan Gurley
2003 Washington   United States   Edward Hawthorne
2004 Portland   United States   Ken Lemere
2005 At Sea   United States
  Mexico
  Belize
  Rick Desper [11]
2006 Charlottesville   United States   Hohn Cho
2007 Vancouver   Canada   Doug Moore [9]
2008 Tysons Corner[12]   United States   Chris Martin [13]
2009 Columbus   United States   Andrew Goff [9][14]
2010 San Francisco   United States   Eric Mead
2011 Fairlee, Vermont   United States   Chris Martin
2012 Chicago   United States   Michael A. Binder [9]
2013 Silver Spring   United States   Nate Cockerill
2014 Seattle   United States   Dan Lester [15]
2015 Philadelphia   United States   Chris Martin
2016 Chicago   United States     Chris Brand
2017 Killington, Vermont   United States   Doug Moore
2018 Washington   United States   Andrew Goff [16]
2019 Seattle   United States   Steve Cooley
2021 Dover, Vermont   United States   Adam Silverman [17]
2022 San Jose   United States   Tanya Gill
2023 Chapel Hill   United States   Mikalis Kamaritis [18]
2024 Surrey   Canada   Katie Gray
2025 Chicago   United States

North American Grand Prix

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The winner of each Grand Prix:

Year Steps Players Winner
1999 7 58   Chris Martin
2000 14 125   Matt Shields
2001 34 166   Jerry Fest
2002 17 171   Andy Bartalone
2003 16 213   Edward Hawthorne
2004 14 305   Doug Moore
2005 13 234   Andrew Neumann
2006 12 200   Jim O'Kelley
2007 12 270   Doug Moore
2008 15 275   Thomas Haver
2009 10 182   Adam Sigal
2010 10 220   Peter Yeargin
2011 9 143   Chris Martin
2012 11 202   Michael A. Binder
2013 8 136   Graham Woodring
2014 8 188   Dan Lester

Europe

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EuroDipCon

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The location and winner of each EuroDipCon tournament is listed below:

Year Host City Host Country European Champion Notes
1993 Paris   France   Samy Malki
1994 Linköping   Sweden   Xavier Blanchot
1995 Cirencester   Great Britain   Inge Kjøl
1996 Oslo   Norway   Inge Kjøl
1997 Namur   Belgium   Cyrille Sevin
1998 Bedford   Great Britain   Toby Harris
1999 Turku   Finland   Simon Bouton
2000 Paris   France   Leif Bergman
2001 Dublin   Ireland   Paraic Reddington
2002 Malmö   Sweden   Frank Johansen
2003 Dogana   San Marino   Yann Clouet
2004 Darmstadt   Germany   Edi Birsan [19]
2005 Utrecht   Netherlands   Simon Bouton
2006 Cheshunt   Great Britain   Benjamin Pouillès-Duplaix
2007 Marseille   France   Fabien Grellier
2008 Brunate   Italy   Luca Pazzaglia
2009 Bonn   Germany   André Ilievics
2010 Paris   France   Fabian Straub
2011 Derby   Great Britain   Gwen Maggi
2012 Serravalle   San Marino   Nicolas Sahuguet
2013 Namur   Belgium   Gwen Maggi
2014 Rome   Italy   Peter McNamara [20]
2015 Leicester   Great Britain   Cyrille Sevin
2016 Paris   France   Gwen Maggi
2017 Milan   Italy   Gwen Maggi
2018 Paris   France   Lei Saarlainen
2019 Marseille   France   Gwen Maggi
2020 Sion    Switzerland   Alex Lebedev
2021 Serravalle   San Marino   Alex Lebedev
2022 Sierre    Switzerland   Christophe Borgeat
2023 Paris   France   Jelte Kuiper
2024 Sion    Switzerland   Karthik Konath

European Grand Prix

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The winner of each Grand Prix is listed below:

Year Nb of steps Nb of players Winner
2002 10 283   William Attia
2003 11 349   Yann Clouet
2004 15 472   Yann Clouet
2005 13 364   Gwen Maggi
2006 14 340   Gwen Maggi
2007 14 272   Gwen Maggi
2008 11 207   Emmanuel du Pontavice
2009 11 175   Gwen Maggi
2010 8 172   Gwen Maggi
2011 6 108   Gwen Maggi
2012 5 76   Dave Simpson
2013 7 112   Gwen Maggi
2014 6 81   Gwen Maggi
2015 8 116   Matteo Anfossi

Australia and New Zealand

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Bismark Cup

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In the early 1980s the Diplomacy scene in Australia was built around several PBM Diplomacy magazines, of which the most significant titles were Rumplestiltskin, The Go Between, Beowulf, Victoriana, The Journal of Australian Diplomacy, and The Envoy. Most of the tournament players were subscribers, players and editors of these magazines. The Envoy, which was published between 1986 and 1991, ran a series of articles which were both popular and influential. Purportedly written by Arthur von Bismark and styled as lecture transcripts, the character of Arthur von Bismark became celebrated among the contemporary Diplomacy subculture in Australia.

The articles were popular at a time when tournament play in Australia had become more organized, with well-attended tournaments in Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney. Rating systems at the time were being hotly debated and many players desired a way to assess the best player in the tournament scene for a calendar year, as a way of overcoming the perceived inconsistencies of rating systems within one event. The annual trophy concept was accepted among the then-principle organizers of these tournaments and the title Arthur Bismark Cup was suggested by The Envoy's then-editor Mathew Gibson.

The real author of these Arthur von Bismark articles was never announced publicly, but was suspected as being either Harry Kolotas, Marion Ashworth, Neil Ashworth or Luke Clutterbuck.

When The National Tournaments Championship was created, its perpetual trophy was named The Arthur Bismark Cup (usually referred to as simply the Bismark Cup). The title of Bismark Cup Champion is awarded by the Diplomacy Association of Australia and New Zealand (DAANZ) for the best aggregate tournament results at Diplomacy tournaments held during the calendar year. It is an annual (short term) ranking. The exact number of points awarded depends on the size of the tournaments and the person's placing in that tournament.

The winner of each Bismark Cup is listed below:

Year Nbr of steps Nbr of players Winner
1989   Robert Wessels
1990   Harry Kolotas
1991 3 75   Robert Wessels
1992 5 123   Steve Gould
1993 6 93   Harry Kolotas
1994   Craig Sedgwick
1995   Rob Stephenson
1996 5 65   Craig Sedgwick
1997 5 74   Bill Brown
1998 7 92   Rob Stephenson
1999 8 117   Brandon Clarke
2000 9 111   Rob Stephenson
2001 10 104   Tristan Lee
2002 7 84     Rob Schöne
2003 6 52   Geoff Kerr
2004 8 56   Grant Steel
2005 8 65   Tony Collins
2006 10 76   Sean Colman
2007 Not organised
2008 7 58   Andrew Goff
2009 7 69   Shane Cubis
2010 7 69   Thorin Munro
2011 5 49   Grant Steel
2012-2015 Not organised
2016 ? ??   Tim Jones

As the Cup has not been awarded since that year, the 2016 winner Tim Jones is still considered the "current holder of the Bismark Cup".[21]

Diplomacy World Cup

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The Diplomacy World Cup is a team-based tournament in Online Diplomacy, a format in which phases are processed once every one or two days, and all correspondence is sent in written form via the host site. Players in online tournaments often play under pseudonyms, and accept the title under these names.

Two different tournaments, the Diplomacy National World Cup and the webDiplomacy World Cup, are grouped together in this category. The Diplomacy National World Cup only ran twice, once in 2007 and once in 2010. The webDiplomacy World Cup had its first iteration in 2010, and runs once every two years, with the exception of 2014 as the 2012 World Cup was still ongoing. WebDiplomacy World Cup teams are not country-specific, and can instead be from regions.

Edition Members of the World champion team Members of second team Members of third team
2007 [22] France
  Emmanuel du Pontavice
  Fabrice Essner
  Jean-Luc Granier
  Fabien Grellier
  Michel Lacroix
  Gwen Maggi
  Jean-Pierre Maulion
  Nicolas Sahuguet
    Rubén Sanchez García Luengo de Madrid
  Cyrille Sevin
Italy
  Enrico Agamennone
    Alessio Cei
  Giovanni Cesarini
  Davide Cleopadre
  Marco Noseda Pedraglio
  Luca Pazzaglia
  Roberto Perego
  Leonardo Quirini
  Andrea Ziffer
Argentina
  Leonardo Colangelo
  Pablo Echevarría
  Mike Goldfeld
  Martin Kaplan
  Marcelo Larroque
  Ismael Puga
  Felipe Sanchez
  Ariel Max Sanchez Romero
2010 [22] Ireland
  Mike Cosgrave
  Brian Dennehy
  Aidan Duggan
  Conor Kostick
  Cian O'Rathaille
  Nigel Phillips
  Rick Powell
United States
  Kevin Dietz
  Jim Green
  Melinda Holley
  Brian McCain
  Pete Marinaro
  Charles Mullin
  Kyra Olson
  Yashwant Parmar
  Eric Sorenson
France
  Frédéric Coste
  Fabrice Essner
  Gwen Maggi
  Jean-Pierre Maulion
  Jean-François Mougard
  Reynald Nicod
  Vincent Reulet
  Nicolas Sahuguet
    Rubén Sanchez García Luengo de Madrid
  Cyrille Sevin
2010 [23] South America
  Rubetok (Captain)
  Xapi
  JesusPetry
  rdrivera2005
Southeast Europe
  hellalt (Captain)
  Kompole
  Dejan0707
  Ouraguinus
Iberia
   JECE (Captain)
  Silver Wolf
  StevenC.
  Troodonte
2012 [23] California A
  The Hanged Man (Captain)
  uclabb (Assistant Captain)
  Tasnica
  Mujus
Iberia
   JECE (Captain)
  Troodonte (Assistant Captain)
  gantz
   MuadDib
The Balkans
  hellalt (Captain)
   Hellenic Riot (Assistant Captain)
  rokakoma
  Kompole
2016 [23] Cascadia
  ghug (Captain)
  VillageIdiot (Assistant Captain)
  MadMarx
  Balki Bartokomous
  thatwasawkward
Dixie
  Gen. Lee (Captain)
  ckroberts (Assistant Captain)
  eturnage
  The Czech
  DrCJG
Sweden
  Vixol (Captain)
  Seichuto (Assistant Captain)
  AronAmbrosiani
  SunRa
2018 [23] Cascadia
  Balki Bartokomous
  VillageIdiot
  ghug
  cspieker
  MadMarx
Greatest Lakes
  Tom Bombadil
  Durga
  Yigg
  Yoyoyozo
  peterwiggin
  jmo1121109
California
  ezio
  micha
  slypups
  Ogion
  The Hanged Man
2020 [23] Yorkshire Puddings
  CaptainMeme (Captain)
  Brumark
  Scarabus
  desdemona22
  teccles
Eastern Canada
  Hamilton Brian (Captain)
  cdngooner
  Yonni
  Peregrine Falcon
  Lando Calrissian
Prosecco
  gimix (Captain)
  Riccardo Falconi
  Babbo Natale
  Superwerty
  Randaz20

See also

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Diplomacy List of world championships in mind sports

Notes

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  1. ^ Originally scheduled to be in Hunt Valley, but moved when the original host convention moved from Hunt Valley to Lancaster.
  2. ^ Tournament scoring in ODC 2017 allowed for a tie for first place.
  3. ^ DipCon I held in Youngstown, and hosted by John Koning in his home, 31 August 1666.
  4. ^ DipCon II held in Youngstown, because "...we had so much fun last time, let's do it again."
  5. ^ Held as part of Origins, which was in San Mateo, but held in a separate hotel because of space limitations
  6. ^ We can see in Diplomacy World 35 that the name of the winner is Joyce Singer.
  7. ^ The best North American player,   Marc Hurwitz, finished 2nd.
  8. ^ Hohn Cho won the 1989 DipCon Diplomacy tournament, but that year's "DipCon Champion" was decided by a number of events.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g This year, the DipCon was the WorldDipCon.
  10. ^ The best North American player,   Matthew Shields, finished 3rd.
  11. ^ Played during a cruise from Galveston   and with several stops: Progreso  , Cozumel   and Belize City  .
  12. ^ DipCon status was removed from the Bangor event by the NADF on 30 July 2008.
  13. ^ Results Disputed. Under normal hobby practice, the Tournament Director is ineligible for prizes due to real or perceived conflicts of interest. David Webster acted as TD, but still declared himself the winner.
  14. ^ The best North American player,   Jim O'Kelley, finished 3rd.
  15. ^ The best North American player,   Chris Martin, finished 2nd.
  16. ^ The best North American player,   Doug Moore, finished 2nd.
  17. ^ DipCon 2020 reported in 2021 (COVID-19).
  18. ^ The best North American player,   Michael A. Binder, finished 2nd.
  19. ^ First European:   Gihan Bandaranaike (second of the tournament).
  20. ^ First European:   Filippo Lonardo (second of the tournament).
  21. ^ "Diplomacy Results and Rankings". daanz.org. Diplomacy Association of Australia and New Zealand. 8 May 2022. Retrieved 11 August 2024. The current holder of the Bismark Cup (the 2016 winner) is Tim Jones.
  22. ^ a b This tournament was an iteration of the Diplomacy National World Cup.
  23. ^ a b c d e This tournament was an iteration of the webDiplomacy World Cup.
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