CC26 Tournament — Register Now

CC26 is the inaugural Conquer the Map competitive tournament, open to all registered players. It's the first time we've run an official competitive event, and we've designed the format to be fair for experienced players while staying exciting for everyone watching. Registration opens April 1, 2026. Group stage runs April 5–12. Finals are April 19, 2026. Tournament Format: The tournament uses a group stage followed by elimination rounds. All registered players are seeded into groups of 4, based on their current leaderboard coin ranking. Each group plays a round-robin — every player in the group plays against every other player. Points are earned based on final placement in each room (3 points for first, 2 for second, 1 for third, 0 for fourth). The top 2 players by points from each group advance to the quarter-finals. Quarter-finals pair the group winners against the runner-ups from other groups. Semi-finals and the Grand Final are single-elimination 6-player rooms, with all players competing simultaneously in one room rather than head-to-head brackets. This is intentional — the situational card system and mission objective dynamic make multi-player finals more strategically interesting than 1v1. The Grand Final features the top 6 commanders from the semi-finals. If fewer than 6 semi-finalists advance, remaining spots are filled by the highest-ranked eliminated players from the quarter-finals. Prizes: First place: 12 months of Premium membership plus an exclusive Crown Champion badge displayed on your profile and in all game rooms permanently. This badge is not available for purchase and will never be awarded again outside of CC26. Second place: 6 months of Premium membership plus a CC26 Runner-Up badge. Third place: 3 months of Premium membership. All Grand Final participants (top 6): An exclusive CC26 Grand Finalist profile frame, displayed on the leaderboard. All tournament participants: A CC26 Participant badge showing you competed in the inaugural season. How to Register: You must have a registered account with a verified email address to participate. Guest accounts are not eligible. Go to the CC26 registration page (linked from the leaderboard) and confirm your entry. Registration is limited to the first 128 players to keep the bracket clean and manageable for the first season. We're capping at 128 because it creates a clean bracket: 32 groups of 4, with 64 advancing to the quarter-finals, 12 to the semi-finals (two 6-player rooms), and 6 to the Grand Final. Rules and Conduct: All standard game rules apply. Collusion — cooperating with another player to manipulate results in a way that benefits your co-conspirator at the expense of fair competition — is grounds for immediate disqualification. Tournament staff will review flagged games. Disconnections: if a player disconnects during a tournament game, a bot takes their place for the remainder of that game. There are no re-dos for disconnections. Make sure you're on a stable connection before your group stage windows begin. Cheating: any attempt to exploit bugs or use external tools to manipulate game state will result in permanent disqualification from CC26 and a ban from all future tournaments. Time zones and scheduling: group stage games are played during scheduled windows (times announced in the CC26 Discord channel). If you miss your window without advance notice to tournament staff, you forfeit that match. Strategy Notes for Competitors: CC26 will test your ability to win across multiple 4-player rooms in the group stage, not just one game. This means consistency matters more than aggression. Players who aim for a solid second place in every group stage game will often outscore a player who wins one game and finishes last in two others. In the elimination rounds, the format shifts to 6-player games. Six-player dynamics are significantly different: continent control is harder to hold, mission objectives are more likely to conflict, and the situational card system becomes more chaotic with more players drawing against it. Players who've practiced in 6-player rooms will have a meaningful edge. The mission objective system creates a hidden information game within the tournament meta. Experienced players watch opponent behavior to deduce their objectives — a player aggressively pushing into South America in the first 3 turns probably has a continent-conquest mission. Use this information to decide when to block and when to let an opponent advance. We're looking forward to watching the community's best commanders compete. Good luck, and may your dice roll true.