List of world championships in mind sports
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).
All-round game competitions
World championships that consist of competitions across multiple events to find the strongest games all-rounders.
| Sport | Competition name | Competing entities |
First held |
Current holder | Last Held | Next | Held every |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abstract strategy games | Abstract Games World Championship[1] | Individuals | 2008 |  Andres Kuusk |
2013 | 2014 | One year |
| Esports | International e-Sports Federation | Nations | 2009 |  South Korea |
2018 | 2019 | One year |
| Decamentathlon | Decamentathlon World Championship[2] | Individuals | 1997 |  Matthew Hathrell |
2017 | 2018 | One year |
| Mind Sports | The Pentamind[2] | Individuals | 1997 | James Heppell |
2017 | 2018 | One year |
Classic/traditional strategy games
Major world championships for classic strategy board games, such as chess or go.
| Sport | Competition name | Competing entities |
First held |
Current holder | Last held | Next | Held every |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Backgammon | Backgammon World Championship | Individuals | 1967 |  Eli Roymi |
2019 | 2020 | One year |
| Chess | World Chess Championship | Individuals | 1886 |  Magnus Carlsen |
2018 | 2020 | Two years |
| International draughts | Draughts World Championship | Individuals | 1885 |  Roel Boomstra |
2018 | 2019 | One year |
| English draughts | World Checkers Championship | Individuals | 1847 |  Sergio Scarpetta (3-Move) Lubabalo Kondlo (GAYP) |
2017 2018 |
2019 2020 |
Two years |
| Brazilian draughts and Russian draughts |
World Draughts-64 Championship | Individuals | 1985 1993 |
 Alexander Schwarzman (Braz) Igor Mikhalchenko (Rus) |
2018 2019 |
? 2020 |
? One year |
| Go | Ing Cup | Individuals | 1988 |  Tang Weixing |
2016 | 2020 | Four years |
| Renju | Renju World Championship | Individuals | 1989 | Cao Dong |
2019 | 2021 | Two years |
| Gomoku | Gomoku World Championship | Individuals | 1989 |  Martin Muzika |
2019 | 2021 | Two years |
| Shogi | Meijin (shogi) | Individuals | 1937 |  Masayuki Toyoshima |
2019 | 2020 | One year |
| Xiangqi | World Xiangqi Championship | Individuals | 1990 | Wang Tianyi |
2017 | 2019 | Two years |
Card games
World championships in card games.
| Sport | Competition name | Competing entities |
First held |
Current holder | Last held | Next | Held every |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contract bridge | Bermuda Bowl | Teams | 1950 |  Poland |
2019 | 2021 | Two years |
| Mahjong | World Mahjong Championship | Individuals
Individuals |
2002
2014 |
Baohua Sun
|
2017
2017 |
2019
2020 |
Two years
Three years |
| Poker | World Series of Poker Main Event | Individuals | 1970 |  Hossein Ensan |
2019 | 2020 | One year |
| Magic: The Gathering | Magic: The Gathering World Championship | Individuals | 1994 |  Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa |
2019 | 2020 | One year |
| World Magic Cup[3] | Teams | 1995 |  France |
2018 | 2019 | One year | |
| Pokémon Trading Card Game | Pokémon World Championships[4] | Individuals | 2004 |
|
2019 | 2020 | One year |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game | Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championships[5] | Individuals | 2003 |
|
2019 | 2021 | One year |
| Wizard Card Game | Wizard World Championship[6] | Individuals | 2010 |  Vasilis Papadakis |
2018 | 2019 | One year |
Esports
Official world championships in both individual and team based esports.
| Sport | Competition name | Competing entities |
First held |
Current holder | Next | Frequency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arena of Valor | Arena of Valor International Championship | Teams | 2017 |  Team Flash (2019) |
2020 | One year |
| Arena of Valor World Cup | Nations | 2018 | Vietnam (2019) |
2021 | One year | |
| Call of Duty | Call of Duty Championship | Teams | 2013 |  Dallas Empire (2020) |
2021 | One year |
| Clash Royale | Clash Royale Crown Championship | Individuals | 2017 |  Sérgio "Sergioramos" Ramos (2017) |
TBD | No regular schedule |
| Clash Royale League | Teams | 2018 | Team Liquid (2019) |
2020 | One year | |
| Counter Strike: Global Offensive | Major Championship | Teams | Fall 2013 |  Astralis (2019 Fall) |
2020 Spring | Biyearly |
| Dota 2 | The International | Teams | 2011 |  OG (2019) |
2020 | One year |
| EA Sports FIFA | FIFA eWorld Cup | Individuals | 2004 | Mohammed "MoAuba" Harkous (2019) |
2020 | One year |
| Fortnite: Battle Royale | Fortnite World Cup | Solos | 2019 | Kyle "Bugha" Giersdorf (2019) |
2020 | One year |
| Duos | Emil "Nyhrox" Pederson &  David "aqua" W. (2019) | |||||
| Hearthstone | HearthStone Grandmasters - Global Finals | Individuals | 2019 | Sato "Glory" Kenta (2020) |
2021 | One year |
| HearthStone Global Games | Nations | 2017 | Denmark (2019) |
2020 | One year | |
| Heroes of the Storm | Heroes of the Storm Global Championship | Teams | 2016 | Generation Gaming (2018) |
One year | |
| League of Legends | League of Legends World Championship | Teams | 2011 | Damwon Gaming (2020) |
2021 | One year |
| Overwatch | Overwatch World Cup | Nations | 2016 | United States (2019) |
2020 | One year |
| Overwatch League | Teams | 2018 | San Francisco Shock (2020) |
2021 | One year | |
| PES | PES League | Individuals | 2010 | Walid "usmakabyle" Teban (2019) |
2020 | One year |
| Teams | 2018 | eLiga Sul Stars (2019) | ||||
| Pokémon | Pokémon World Championships | Individuals | 2009 |
|
2016 | One year |
| PUBG | PUBG Global Invitational - TPP | Teams | 2018 | Generation Gaming Gold (2018) |
2019 | One year |
| PUBG Global Invitational - FPP | Oh My God (2018) | |||||
| PUBG Mobile Star Challenge |  RRQ Athena (2018) | |||||
| Smite | Smite World Championship | Teams | 2015 | eUnited (2018) |
2019 | One year |
| StarCraft II | StarCraft II World Championship Series | Individuals | 2012 | Park "Dark" Ryung Woo (2019) |
discontinued | One year |
| Street Fighter | Capcom Cup | Individuals | 2017 | iDom (2019) |
2020 | One year |
| World of Warcraft | World of Warcraft Arena World Championship | Teams | 2008 | Method Black (2019) |
2020 | One year |
Mental disciplines
Competitions using mental tests.
| Sport | Competition name | Competing entities |
First held |
Current holder | Next | Held every |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | World Memory Championships[7] | Individuals | 1991 |  Emma Alam |
2021 | One year |
| Mental calculation | Mental Calculation World Cup | Individuals | 2004 | Tomohiro Iseda |
2020 | Two years |
| MSO Mental Calculation World Championship | Individuals | 1998 |  Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash Jonnalagadda |
2021 | One year | |
| Junior Mental Calculation World Championship | Individuals (age restricted) | 2013 |
|
2017 | One year | |
| Memory and Calculation | Memoriad | Individuals | 2008 | (15 winners) | 2020 | Four years |
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Modern abstract strategy games
Competitions in abstract strategy games.
| Sport | Competition name | Competing entities |
First held |
Current holder | Next | Held every |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} David Jameson |
2019 | One year |
| GIPF | Project Gipf World Championship | Individuals | 2008 | Mathijs Booden |
(2008) | |
| Kamisado | Kamisado World Championship[9] | Individuals | 2011 | Andres Kuusk |
2017 | One Year |
| Lines of Action | LoA World Championship[9] | Individuals | 1997 | James Heppell |
2017 | One year |
| Morabaraba | Morabaraba World Championship | Individuals | 1997 | Rannyadi Moses |
(2008) | |
| Othello/Reversi | World Othello Championship[9] | Individuals | 1977 | Yusuke Takanashi |
2018 | One year |
| Stratego | Stratego World Championship[9] | Individuals | 1997 | Tim Slagboom |
2020 | One year |
| Twixt | TwixT World Championship[9] | Individuals | 1997 | Florian Jamain |
2017 | One Year |
Multiplayer board games
| Sport | Competition name | Competing entities |
First held |
Current holder | Next | Held every |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diplomacy | World Diplomacy Convention[10] | Individuals | 1988 | Gwen Maggi |
2020 | One year (since 1994) |
| Hare and Tortoise | Hare and Tortoise World Championships[11] | Individuals | 1997 | Dario de Toffoli |
2017 | One year |
| Monopoly | Monopoly World Championships[12] | Individuals | 1973 | Ashleigh Bailey |
TBD | No regular schedule |
| Settlers of Catan | Catan World Championships[13] | Individuals | 2002 | Quetzal Hernández |
2020 | Two years |
| 4 games | German Board Game Championship[14] | Teams (4 players) | 1984 | Team Bogdan, Bonn |
2018 | One year |
| 4 games | EuropeMasters - European Championships Boardgames[15] | Teams (4 players) | 1988 | Nash Equilibrium, CZ |
2018 | One year |
Professional services competitions
World championships for professionals and students in professional services industries and disciplines.
| Sport | Competition name | Competing entities |
First held |
Current holder | Next | Held every |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Data Analytics | TEXATA: Big Data Analytics World Championships[16] | Individuals | 2014 | Thomas Hjelde Thoresen |
2018 | One year |
| Financial Modeling | ModelOff: Financial Modeling World Championships[17] | Individuals | 2012 | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Joseph Lau |
2016 | One year |
| Loyalty Marketing and Gamification | LoyaltyGames: Loyalty and Gamification World Championships[18] | Individuals | 2014 | Martin Naude |
2016 | Two years |
Speaking competitions
World championships in speaking.
| Sport | Competition name | Competing entities |
First held |
Current holder | Next | Held every |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auctioneering | World Livestock Auctioneer Championship | Individuals | 1963 | Jared Miller (2018) |
2019 | One year |
| Debating | World Universities Debating Championship[19] | Pairs | 1979 | Daniel A. DeBois & Archie J.W. Hall (2018) |
2019 | One year |
| World Schools Debating Championships | Nations | 1988 | China (2018) |
2019 | One year | |
| Debating (Spanish) | World Universities Debating Championship in Spanish Campeonato Mundial Universitario de Debate en Español[19] |
Pairs | 2011 |  Antonio Fabregat & Javier De La Puerta (2017) |
2018 | One year |
| Debating (Portuguese) | World Debating Championship in Portuguese Campeonato Mundial de Debate em Língua Portuguesa[19] |
Pairs | 2018 | David Alatorre López & Brittany Garcia (2019) |
TBD | One year |
Tile games
World championships held in tile-based games include:
| Sport | Competition name | Competing entities |
First held |
Current holder | Next | Held every |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carcassonne | Carcassone World Championship[20] | Individuals | 2006 | Genro Fujimoto |
2019 | One year |
| Juniors | 2017 |  Samuel Pires | ||||
| Continuo | Continuo World Championship[9] | Individuals | 1997 | David M. Pearce |
2017 | One year |
| Dominoes | World Championship Domino Tournament[21] | Individuals | 1976 | Chris Authement |
2020 | One year |
| 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 |  Oleg K. |
2020 | One year | |
| Tantrix | Tantrix World Championship (online)[24] | Individuals | 1998 |  Tamás Gombkötő |
2015 | One year |
| Tantrix World Open (real tiles)[25] | Individuals | 2009 |  Niklas Andersson |
2015[26] | One year (irregular) |
Word games
World championships in word games.
| Sport | Competition name | Competing entities |
First held |
Current holder | Next | Held every |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scrabble (English) | World Scrabble Championship[27] | Individuals | 1991 |  Nigel Richards (2019) |
2020 | Two years; one year since 2013 |
| Scrabble (Spanish) | Spanish World Scrabble Championship[28] | Individuals | 1997 |  Selene Delgado (2017) |
2018 | One year |
| Scrabble (French) | French World Scrabble Championship Duplicate[29] | Individuals | 1972 | Nigel Richards (2017) |
2018 | One year |
| French World Scrabble Championship Classic[29] | Individuals | 2006 | Benjamin Valour (2017) |
2018 | One year |
Information technology
World championships in competitive programming.
| Sport | Competition name | Competing entities |
First held |
Current holder | Next | Held every |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Competitive programming | Topcoder Open | Individuals | 2001 | Gennady Korotkevich (2017) |
2020 | once a year |
| Corewars | ICWS | Individuals/teams | 2016 | ? | ? | yearly |
See also
- World championship
- List of world championships
- List of world cups and world championships for juniors and youth
- World cup competition
References
- Abstract Games page at MSO, http://www.boardability.com/game.php?id=abstract_games Archived 2012-03-25 at the Wayback Machine, 15 February 2011
- Mind Sports Olympiad Supplements, The Times, July–August 1997.
- "2018 World Magic Cup - Deux fois c'est bien". Retrieved 20 January 2019.
- "Meet the 2019 Pokémon World Champions!". Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- https://www.konami.com/yugioh/worldchampionship/2019/en/
- "Wizard World Champion 2018". Retrieved 20 Jan 2019.
- Omonira-Oyekanmi, Rebecca; Moyer, Justin (2010-09-13). "For this champion, life is (mostly) a memory game". The Washington Post.
- Arimaa World Championship results pages, http://arimaa.com/arimaa/wc/, 31 Dec 2014
- Mind Sports Olympiad results pages, http://www.boardability.com/results.php, 15 February 2011
- Peery, Larry. "A History of World DipCon". Diplomatic Corps.
- "2015 Results". Retrieved 10 May 2016.
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- "CATAN World Championship 2018 in Cologne: The new world champion comes from Mexico". Retrieved 10 May 2016.
- "German Board Game Championship for teams / www.DMMiB.de".
- "EuropeMasters - Open European Championships Boardgames".
- TEXATA website, http://www.texata.com//
- ModelOff website, http://www.modeloff.com//
- LoyaltyGames website, http://www.theloyaltygames.com//
- World Debating website, http://www.debating.ie//
- Moder, Peter Janshoff / Thomas. "Carcassonne - World Championship 2018 - Finals". www.spielezentrum.de. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
- by Rotary Club:"World Championship Domino Tournament page".
- by Fédération Internationale de Domino (FIDO): "Fédération Internationale de Domino (FIDO): World Championship page".
- Möder, Felix (1 December 2018). "The Saboteur Award Ceremony". Amigo Spiele. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
- Tantrix official results (online) 2013 http://tournaments.tantrix.co.uk/auto/index.php?page=showph2&comp=WTC&do=final&year=2013
- Tantrix official results 2013 http://www.tantrix.com/tournaments/index.php?page=home&comp=WTO&year=2013
- Announcement of 5th WTO (World Tantrix Open) Archived 2014-01-26 at the Wayback Machine
- Official Scrabble World Championship site, http://www.wscgames.com/
- FISE Scrabble site, http://fisescrabble.org/torneos/mundiales/
- FISF Scrabble site, http://www.fisf.net
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