2025 BPA PBEM Football Strategy Tournament

I am pleased to announce the 2025 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 2025, 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 fbs25@kww.us to let me know you’re interested.
  • Read the “What’s new?” page to see how the game has been changed.

Just registering on the site does not register you for the tournament.

Tournament Format:

For this to be an official BPA tournament, we must have at least 16 participants. This event will be run as a single elimination. (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 12 days per round. However, once all games in a round have been completed, the two-week period for the next round will begin two days after the last game in the current round has been completed.

Playing FBS online:

This tournament will be run using my “Multi-Player Game Engine”. See the notes on the instructions pages. 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.