List of world championships in mind sports

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This page gives a list of world championships in mind sports which usually represent the
most prestigious competition for a specific board game, card game or mind sport. World
championships can only be held for most games or mind sports with the ratification of an official
body. Some Eastern games only have amateur world championships and separate professional
competitions as can be seen for Go (list of professional Go tournaments).

Contents

 1All-round game competitions

 2Classic/traditional strategy games
 3Card games
 4Esports
 5Mental disciplines
 6Modern abstract strategy games
 7Multiplayer board games
 8Professional services competitions
 9Speaking competitions
 10Tile games
 11Word games
 12Information technology
 13See also
 14References

All-round game competitions[edit]

World championships that consist of competitions across multiple events to find the strongest
games all-rounders.

Competing First Last Held

Sport Competition name Current holder Next
entities held Held every

Abstract strategy Abstract Games World  Andres

Individuals 2008 2013 2014 One year
games Championship[1] Kuusk

International e-Sports
Esports Nations 2009  South Korea 2018 2019 One year
Federation

Decamentathlon World  Matthew

Decamentathlon Individuals 1997 2017 2018 One year
Championship[2] Hathrell

Mind Sports The Pentamind[2] Individuals 1997  James 2017 2018 One year
Heppell

Classic/traditional strategy games[edit]

Major world championships for classic strategy board games, such as chess or go.

Competing First Last Nex Held

Sport Competition name Current holder
entities held held t every

Backgammon World
Backgammon Individuals 1967  Eli Roymi 2019 2020 One year
Championship

World Chess
Chess Individuals 1886  Magnus Carlsen 2018 2020 Two years
Championship

International Draughts World

Individuals 1885  Roel Boomstra 2018 2019 One year
draughts Championship

 Sergio Scarpetta (3-
World Checkers Move) 2017 2019
English draughts Individuals 1847 Two years
Championship  Lubabalo 2018 2020
Kondlo (GAYP)

 Alexander
Brazilian
World Draughts-64 1985 Schwarzman (Braz) 2018 ? ?
draughts and Individuals
Championship 1993  Igor Mikhalchenko 2019 2020 One year
Russian draughts
(Rus)

Go Ing Cup Individuals 1988  Tang Weixing 2016 2020 Four years

Renju World
Renju Individuals 1989  Cao Dong 2019 2021 Two years
Championship

Gomoku World
Gomoku Individuals 1989  Martin Muzika 2019 2021 Two years
Championship

Shogi Meijin (shogi) Individuals 1937  Masayuki Toyoshima 2019 2020 One year

World Xiangqi
Xiangqi Individuals 1990  Wang Tianyi 2017 2019 Two years
Championship

Card games[edit]
World championships in card games.
 Competing First Last Held
Sport Competition name Current holder Next
entities held held every

Contract bridge Bermuda Bowl Teams 1950  Poland 2019 2021 Two years

World Mahjong
Mahjong Individuals 2002  Baohua Sun 2017 2019 Two years
Championship

World Series of Poker

Poker Individuals 1970  Hossein Ensan 2019 2020 One year
Main Event

Magic: The Gathering  Javier

Individuals 1994 2018 2019 One year
World Championship Dominguez
Magic: The Gathering

World Magic Cup[3] Teams 1995  France 2018 2019 One year

 Naohito Inoue
(Junior)
Pokémon Trading Pokémon World  Magnus
Individuals 2004 2018 2019 One year
Card Game Championships[4] Pedersen (Senior)
 Robin Schulz
(Master)

 Steven G Peach

Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Yu-Gi-Oh! World  Takahiro

Individuals 2004 Hamada (Duel Links) 2018 2019 One year
Card Game Championships[5]
 Charley Futch
III (Junior)

Wizard World  Vasilis

Wizard Card Game Individuals 2010 2018 2019 One year
Championship[6] Papadakis

Esports[edit]
Official world championships in both individual and team based esports.

Competing First
Sport Competition name Current holder Next Frequency
entities held

Arena of Valor
International Teams 2017  J Team (2018) 2019 One year
Championship
Arena of Valor

Arena of Valor World

Nations 2018  South Korea (2018) 2019 One year
Cup

Call of Duty  eUnited (2019)

Call of Duty Teams 2013 2019 One year
Championship

Clash Royale Crown  Sérgio "Sergioramos" No regular

Individuals 2017 TBD
Championship Ramos (2017) schedule

Clash Royale

Clash Royale League Teams 2018  Team Liquid (2019) 2020 One year

Counter Strike: 2020

Major Championship Teams Fall 2013  Astralis (2019 Fall) Biyearly
Global Offensive Spring

Dota 2 The International Teams 2011  OG (2019) 2020 One year

EA Sports FIFA FIFA eWorld Cup Individuals 2004  Mohammed "MoAuba" 2020 One year
Harkous (2019)

 Kyle "Bugha" Giersdorf

Solos
(2019)

Fortnite: Battle
Fortnite World Cup 2019 2020 One year
Royale
 Emil "Nyhrox" Pederson
Duos &   David "aqua" W.
(2019)

HearthStone 2018  Mihai “languagehacker” 2018

Individuals One quarter
Championship Tour Summer Dragalin (2018 Fall) Winter

Hearthstone

HearthStone Global
Nations 2017  Denmark (2019) 2020 One year
Games
 Competing First
Sport Competition name Current holder Next Frequency
entities held

Heroes of the Heroes of the Storm  Generation

Teams 2016 2019 One year
Storm Global Championship Gaming (2018)

League of League of Legends

Teams 2011  FunPlus Phoenix (2019) 2020 One year
Legends World Championship

Overwatch World Cup Nations 2016  South Korea (2018) 2019 One year

Overwatch

Overwatch League Teams 2018  London Spitfire (2018) 2019 One year

Individuals 2010  Walid "usmakabyle"

Teban (2019)
PES PES League 2020 One year

Teams 2018  eLiga Sul Stars (2019)

 Shoma Honami (2015:

Master)
Pokémon World  Mark McQuillan (2015:
Pokémon Individuals 2009 2016 One year
Championships Senior)
 Kotone Yasue (2015:
Junior)

PUBG Global  Generation Gaming Gold

Invitational - TPP (2018)

PUBG PUBG Global Teams 2018 2019 One year

Invitational - FPP  Oh My God (2018)

PUBG Mobile Star

Challenge  RRQ Athena (2018)

Smite World  eUnited (2018)

Smite Teams 2015 2019 One year
Championship

StarCraft II World  Joona "Serral"

StarCraft II Individuals 2012 2019 One year
Championship Series Sotala (2018)

Street Fighter Capcom Cup Individuals 2017  iDom (2019) 2020 One year

World of
World of  Method Black (2019)
Warcraft Arena World Teams 2008 2020 One year
Warcraft
Championship
Mental disciplines[edit]
Competitions using mental tests.

Competing First Nex Held

Sport Competition name Current holder
entities held t every

Memory World Memory Championships[7] Individuals 1991  Alex Mullen 2018 One year

Mental Calculation World Cup Individuals 2004  Tomohiro Iseda 2020 Two years

MSO Mental Calculation World

Individuals 1998  Wenzel Grüß 2020 One year
Championship
Mental
calculation
 Mohammad El Mir
(Juniors 1)
Junior Mental Calculation World Individuals (age  Wenzel Grüß
2013 2017 One year
Championship restricted) (Juniors 2)
 Izdar Abulizi
(Seniors)

Memory and Memoriad Individuals 2008 (15 winners) 2020 Four years
Calculation

Modern abstract strategy games[edit]

Competitions in abstract strategy games.

Competing First Nex

Sport Competition name Current holder Held every
entities held t

Arimaa Arimaa World Championship[8] Individuals 2004  Jerome Richmond 2020 One year

Bōku Bōku World Championship[9] Individuals 2000  Alain Dekker 2017 One year

Entropy/Hyle Entropy World Championship[9] Individuals 1997  David Jameson 2019 One year

Project Gipf World

GIPF Individuals 2008  Mathijs Booden (2008)
Championship

Kamisado Kamisado World Championship[9] Individuals 2011  Andres Kuusk 2017 One Year
 Competing First Nex
Sport Competition name Current holder Held every
entities held t

Lines of Action LoA World Championship[9] Individuals 1997  James Heppell 2017 One year

Morabaraba Morabaraba World Championship Individuals 1997  Rannyadi Moses (2008)

Othello/Revers
World Othello Championship[9] Individuals 1977  Yusuke Takanashi 2018 One year
i

Stratego Stratego World Championship[9] Individuals 1997  Tim Slagboom 2020 One year

Twixt TwixT World Championship[9] Individuals 1997  Florian Jamian 2017 One Year

Multiplayer board games[edit]

Competing First
Sport Competition name Current holder Next Held every
entities held

One year (since

Diplomacy World Diplomacy Convention[10] Individuals 1988  Gwen Maggi 2020
1994)

Hare and Hare and Tortoise World  Dario de

Individuals 1997 2017 One year
Tortoise Championships[11] Toffoli

 Ashleigh No regular
Monopoly Monopoly World Championships[12] Individuals 1973 TBD
Bailey schedule

Settlers of  Quetzal
Catan World Championships[13] Individuals 2002 2020 Two years
Catan Hernández

Teams (4  Team Bogdan,

4 games German Board Game Championship[14] 1984 2018 One year
players) Bonn

EuropeMasters - European Teams (4  Nash

4 games 1988 2018 One year
Championships Boardgames[15] players) Equilibrium, CZ
Professional services competitions[edit]
World championships for professionals and students in professional services industries and
disciplines.

Competing First Held

Sport Competition name Current holder Next
entities held every

TEXATA: Big Data Analytics World  Thomas

Big Data Analytics Individuals 2014 2018 One year
Championships[16] Hjelde Thoresen

ModelOff: Financial Modeling World  Joseph Lau

Financial Modeling Individuals 2012 2016 One year
Championships[17]

Loyalty Marketing and LoyaltyGames: Loyalty and

Individuals 2014  Martin Naude 2016 Two years
Gamification Gamification World Championships[18]

Speaking competitions[edit]
World championships in speaking.

Competing First Held

Sport Competition name Current holder Next
entities held every

World Livestock Auctioneer  Jared Miller (2018)

Auctioneering Individuals 1963 2019 One year
Championship

World Universities Debating  Daniel A. DeBois &

Pairs 1979 2019 One year
Championship[19] Archie J.W. Hall (2018)

Debating

World Schools Debating

Nations 1988  China (2018) 2019 One year
Championships

World Universities Debating

Championship in Spanish
Debating (Spanish) Campeonato Mundial Pairs 2011  Antonio Fabregat & 2018 One year
Universitario de Debate en Javier De La Puerta (2017)
Español[19]
Tile games[edit]
World championships held in tile-based games include:

Competing First
Sport Competition name Current holder Next Held every
entities held

Individuals 2006  Genro Fujimoto

Carcassonn
Carcassone World Championship[20] 2019 One year
e

Juniors 2017  Samuel Pires

Continuo Continuo World Championship[9] Individuals 1997  David M. Pearce 2017 One year

World Championship Domino  Chris Authement

Individuals 1976 2020 One year
Tournament[21]

Dominoes

Domino World Championship[22] Individuals 1995  Hege Lofthus 2012 One year

Hexago Hexago World Championship[9] Individuals 2007  David M. Pearce (2007)

Saboteur Saboteur World Championship[23] Individuals  Monika 2019 One year

Nagelmüller

Tantrix World Championship (online)[24] Individuals 1998  Tamás Gombkötő 2015 One year

Tantrix

One year
Tantrix World Open (real tiles)[25] Individuals 2009  Niklas Andersson 2015[26]
(irregular)
Word games[edit]
World championships in word games.

Competing First
Sport Competition name Current holder Next Held every
entities held

 Nigel Two years; one

Scrabble (English) World Scrabble Championship[27] Individuals 1991 2020
Richards (2019) year since 2013

Spanish World Scrabble  Selene Delgado

Scrabble (Spanish) Individuals 1997 2018 One year
Championship[28] (2017)

French World Scrabble  Nigel

Individuals 1972 2018 One year
Championship Duplicate[29] Richards (2017)

Scrabble (French)

French World Scrabble  Benjamin

Individuals 2006 2018 One year
Championship Classic[29] Valour (2017)

Information technology[edit]
World championships in competitive programming.

Competition Competing First Held

Sport Current holder Next
name entities held every

Competitive  Gennady
Topcoder Open Individuals 2001 2020 once a year
programming Korotkevich (2017)

See also[edit]
 World championship
 List of world championships
 List of world cups and world championships for juniors and youth
 World cup competition

References[edit]
1. ^ Abstract Games page at MSO, http://www.boardability.com/game.php?id=abstract_games, 15 February
2011
2. ^ Jump up to:a b Mind Sports Olympiad Supplements, The Times, July–August 1997.
3. ^ "2018 World Magic Cup - Deux fois c'est bien". Retrieved 20 January 2019.
4. ^ "2018 Pokémon World Championship recap". Retrieved 20 January 2019.
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6. ^ "Wizard World Champion 2018". Retrieved 20 Jan 2019.
7. ^ Omonira-Oyekanmi, Rebecca; Moyer, Justin (2010-09-13). "For this champion, life is (mostly) a memory
game". The Washington Post.
8. ^ Arimaa World Championship results pages, http://arimaa.com/arimaa/wc/, 31 Dec 2014
9. ^ Jump up to:a b c d e f g h i Mind Sports Olympiad results pages,http://www.boardability.com/results.php, 15
February 2011
10. ^ Peery, Larry. "A History of World DipCon". Diplomatic Corps.
11. ^ "2015 Results". Retrieved 10 May 2016.
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13. ^ "CATAN World Championship 2018 in Cologne: The new world champion comes from Mexico".
Retrieved 10 May 2016.
14. ^ "German Board Game Championship for teams / www.DMMiB.de".
15. ^ "EuropeMasters - Open European Championships Boardgames".
16. ^ TEXATA website, http://www.texata.com//
17. ^ ModelOff website, http://www.modeloff.com//
18. ^ LoyaltyGames website, http://www.theloyaltygames.com//
19. ^ Jump up to:a b World Debating website, http://www.debating.ie//
20. ^ Moder, Peter Janshoff / Thomas. "Carcassonne - World Championship 2018 -
Finals". www.spielezentrum.de. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
21. ^ by Rotary Club:"World Championship Domino Tournament page".
22. ^ by Fédération Internationale de Domino (FIDO): "Fédération Internationale de Domino (FIDO): World
Championship page".
23. ^ Möder, Felix (1 December 2018). "The Saboteur Award Ceremony". Amigo Spiele. Retrieved 2
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24. ^ Tantrix official results (online) 2013 http://tournaments.tantrix.co.uk/auto/index.php?
page=showph2&comp=WTC&do=final&year=2013
25. ^ Tantrix official results 2013 http://www.tantrix.com/tournaments/index.php?
page=home&comp=WTO&year=2013
26. ^ Announcement of 5th WTO (World Tantrix Open) Archived 2014-01-26 at the Wayback Machine
27. ^ Official Scrabble World Championship site, http://www.wscgames.com/
28. ^ FISE Scrabble site, http://fisescrabble.org/torneos/mundiales/
29. ^ Jump up to:a b FISF Scrabble site, http://www.fisf.net