2026 BPA PBEM Football Strategy Tournament

I am pleased to announce the 2026 BPA “Play By Email” tournament for Football Strategy. It is open only to members of the Boardgame Players Association (BPA). If you attend the World Boardgaming Championship (WBC), and are up to date on your registration fees for 2026, then you are already a member. If not, you can purchase an “Associate Membership” (PBEM only) for $10 from this website: https://www.boardgamers.org.

Tournament Registration:

To register for the tournament, you must do three things.

• Have an account on the mpge web site. (See “Playing FBS Online” below)
• Send an email to fbs26@kww.us to let me know you’re interested.
• Be familiar with how the game is played. Also see:
  • Getting started Instructions
  • Play Clock
  • “What’s new?” (If you played in the 2025 tournament, nothing has changed since then.)

Just registering on the site does not register you for the tournament. You must send me an email letting me know you want to participate in the tournament. (You are free to register and use the site anytime without participating in the tournament.)

Tournament Format:

For this to be an official BPA tournament, we must have at least 16 participants. This event will be run in a league format. (See the details page for more information)

Tournament Game Length:

Individual games are played “live” and should take less than 2 hours to complete. (However, the game engine does allow a game to be suspended and resumed at a later time.)

The total length of the tournament will depend upon the number of participants, but will take roughly 8 days per round.

Playing FBS online:

This tournament will be run using my “Multi-Player Game Engine”.

Contact me if you have any questions. All games must be played on-line.

GM: Ken Whitesell (email: KenWhitesell -at- comcast.net)

I will not be playing in the tournament, no official assistant GMs are assigned.