International prize list of Diplomacy

The World Diplomacy Championship

Virtual Face-to-Face

Virtual Diplomacy Championship (VDC)

Year	Champion	Second	Third
2020	Virtual Diplomacy League (VDL) The VDL is an open league with monthly gamedays and rounds convenient to players around the world. The season culminates in a championship game held in January. Year Champion Second Third 2020 Diplomacy Broadcast Network Invitational (DBNI) The DBNI is an invitational tournament held annually in February. Players earn invitations based on their performance at a wide variety of Diplomacy competitions over the previous year, including in-person face-to-face, virtual face-to-face, and extended deadline online play. The champion receives the title "DBN Diplomat of the Year". Year Diplomat of the Year Runners-up 2021 Online Diplomacy Championship Created in 2015, the Online Diplomacy Championship occurs once every two years, rotating between a number of Diplomacy websites. The winner is considered to be the World Champion of Online Diplomacy, a format in which phases are processed once every one or two days, and all correspondence is sent in written form via the host site. Players in online tournaments typically play under pseudonyms, and accept the title under these names. The players taking the top three places in each ODC tournament are listed below. North America DipCon The winner of the DipCon tournament is the North American champion. The title of North American champion was not given at the beginning, but since 1972 has been awarded to each winner of the convention tournament. DipCon was created in 1966 and occurred each year. There was no tournament in 1966, 1969 1971, and 2020. The winner of each DipCon North American Championship tournament: Year Host city Host country North American Champion Notes 1970 Oklahoma City United States North American Grand Prix The winner of each Grand Prix: Year Steps Players Winner 1999 7 58 Europe EuroDipCon The location and winner of each EuroDipCon tournament is listed below: Year Host city Host country European Champion Notes 1993 Paris France European Grand Prix The winner of each Grand Prix is listed below: Year Nb of steps Nb of players Winner 2002 10 283 Asia Pacific Region Asia Pacific Championships The Asia Pacific Championships were first held in a minimal capacity in 2023, to coincide with the 2023 Bangkok WDC. From 2024 the APAC Championships have been managed by the Asia Pacific Diplomacy Association, and held annually. Each APAC Champion is listed below: Year Host city Host country APAC Champion 2023 Siem Reap Cambodia Bismark Cup In the early 1980s the Diplomacy scene in Australia was built around several PBM Diplomacy magazines, of which the most significant titles were Rumplestiltskin, The Go Between, Beowulf, Victoriana, The Journal of Australian Diplomacy, and The Envoy. Most of the tournament players were subscribers, players and editors of these magazines. The Envoy, which was published between 1986 and 1991, ran a series of articles which were both popular and influential. Purportedly written by Arthur von Bismark and styled as lecture transcripts, the character of Arthur von Bismark became celebrated among the contemporary Diplomacy subculture in Australia. The articles were popular at a time when tournament play in Australia had become more organized, with well-attended tournaments in Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney. Rating systems at the time were being hotly debated and many players desired a way to assess the best player in the tournament scene for a calendar year, as a way of overcoming the perceived inconsistencies of rating systems within one event. The annual trophy concept was accepted among the then-principle organizers of these tournaments and the title Arthur Bismark Cup was suggested by The Envoy's then-editor Mathew Gibson. The real author of these Arthur von Bismark articles was never announced publicly, but was suspected as being either Harry Kolotas, Marion Ashworth, Neil Ashworth or Luke Clutterbuck. When The National Tournaments Championship was created, its perpetual trophy was named The Arthur Bismark Cup. The title of Bismark Cup Champion was awarded by the Diplomacy Association of Australia and New Zealand, now awarded by the APDA, for the best aggregate tournament results at Diplomacy tournaments held in Australia and New Zealand during the calendar year. It is an annual ranking. The exact number of points awarded depends on the size of the tournaments and the person's placing in that tournament. The winner of each Bismark Cup is listed below: Diplomacy World Cup The Diplomacy World Cup is a team-based tournament in Online Diplomacy, a format in which phases are processed once every one or two days, and all correspondence is sent in written form via the host site. Players in online tournaments often play under pseudonyms, and accept the title under these names. Two different tournaments, the Diplomacy National World Cup and the webDiplomacy World Cup, are grouped together in this category. The Diplomacy National World Cup only ran twice, once in 2007 and once in 2010. The webDiplomacy World Cup had its first iteration in 2010, and runs once every two years, with the exception of 2014 as the 2012 World Cup was still ongoing. WebDiplomacy World Cup teams are not country-specific, and can instead be from regions. Edition Members of the World champion team Members of second team Members of third team 2007 France