Terms
“Die regionale Vorausscheidung” / “RegVor” – Regional Qualifier Tournament
“Die Deutschen Mannschaftsmeisterschaft im Brettspiel” / “DM” / “Finale” – Finals of the German Board Game Championship
General Information
The German Board Game Team Championship is an annual series of board game tournaments. The event is organized by DMMiB in cooperation with various institutions, clubs and associations from all over Germany, as well as BrettspielWelt, the online platform for boardgamers in Germany and the world.
The championship takes place with its Regional Qualifiers (“Die RegVor”) in mid/end of February at 16 locations all over Germany.
Up to 20 teams may participate in each Regional Qualifiers tournament. Each team enters with 4 players and each participant plays the 4 tournament games in 4 rounds at the tournament.
The annual registration numbers usually range between 1000 and 1300 players from 200-250 teams.
The best 1 to 3 teams of each Regional Qualifiers tournament qualify for the grand final (“The DM”) in May/June in Bad Nauheim. There, the best team will be crowned as the German Board Game Champion.
The first 3 to 6 teams of the final qualify for the European Championship, the Europe Masters, which will be held in October, during the SPIEL in Essen.
The championship becomes possible only by the support of the publishing houses.
Conditions for participation
Only teams, from 4 to 6 persons, can participate. Four persons begin as team, two further persons are considered reserve players. The reserve players cannot be exchanged during a current tournament however, they only can be exchanged before the begin of a tournament (Regional Qualifier, Final, European Championship).
In principle only the announced persons are entitled to play, whereby the four, who begin a tournament, must play this to the end. If a team qualifies for one of the following tournaments, and one or more team members cannot play this tournament, the reserve players can be used.
Tournament mode
Four different board or card games are played during a tournament. The games for the Regional Qualifier tournaments are selected via an internet voting. The games for the final – “DM”, are selected by the DMMiB team. For the Regional Qualifier tournaments the teams bring along a package of the four tournament games. To the final – “DM” the games are provided by the publishing houses and the DMMiB team. The teams have the possibility to buy a package of the tournament games for a special price from DMMiB.
During the tournament four games are played in four rounds, each round with a different game.
In total 16 games for each team are rated according to the following rules:
Winner gets 5 points, the second 3 points, the third 2 points and the fourth 1 point. In the case of ties the points are summed up and divided by the number of players involved in the tie. Finally the 16 results of a team is summed up.
Registration
Registrations to the championship are starting at the SPIEL in Essen, there you can receive the first information. Deadline for applications is approximately one week before the first tournaments are played in February.
The DMMiB team, the Brettspielwelt and further 16 clubs and associations invite you to play boardgames under tournament conditions!
Peter Janshoff