Team World Blitz Championship 2024

Gomokuworld's Online World Blitz Cup (WBC) is a championship in one-minute gomoku and open to everyone. One-minute gomoku means swap2 gomoku games with the time control 1 minute per player and game and is a highly involving kind of sport enjoyed by many gomoku players. To excel in it, one has to possess a whole bunch of various skills and abilities – the ability to think very fast and accurately, intuition, time management, emotion control, a lot of learned gomoku shapes, and fine motor skills. It is a highly intellectually demanding activity that causes strong adrenaline rushes.  

This time, once again, Team Gomoku World Blitz Championship is organized. The tournament will determine which country is currently the best on the planet at one-minute gomoku as well as help popularise gomoku in general and let many people fulfil their competitive instinct and experience strong emotions to spice up their lives. The main difference between the previous and the current edition is the enhanced time control, namely 1 minute min + 1 second per player (with Fischer increment). All further details are explained in the rules below.

In the previous edition of the TGWBC, 18 teams from 5 countries, as well as two international teams competed, consisting of 74 players in total. The championship was won by Hungary A, namely Zoltán László, Márk Horváth, Kristóf Ménesi, and Gergő Tóth. The second place was taken by Poland A, namely Łukasz Majksner, Bogdan Brachaczek, Adrian Fitzermann, and Kamil Pawela. The third place was taken by Czech Republic A, namely Vladimir Nipoti, Miroslav Háša, and Jan Kopecký.

Summary of the most essential rules (i.e., those that every participant must know): 

    English: file TGWBC-2024-ENG-SHORT.PDF below

    Polish: file TGWBC-2024-POL-SHORT.PDF below

    Hungarian: file TGWBC-2024-HUN-SHORT.PDF below

    Czech: file TGWBC-2024-CZE-SHORT.PDF below

    Russian: file TGWBC-2024-RUS-SHORT.PDF below

    Vietnamese: file TGWBC-2024-VNM-SHORT.PDF below

Full version of the rules: file TGWBC-2024-ENG.PDF below