The best way to find out what the Great Canadian Board Game Blitz is all about is to watch our promo video:


          Photos of last board game towers before winner clips by Elizabeth Beard from DangerGirl Photography.
          Music by The Tea Party; song name "Winter Solstice".


The Great Canadian Board Game Blitz (GCBGB) is a circuit of board game tournaments held at Canadian game conventions and retailers. You play several rounds of games over the span of eight hours, collecting points based on your finishing rank in each game. The finals are held each summer in Toronto at Fan Expo. You can check the schedule below for upcoming events to see if there is a championship near you.

We ran our second finals event at FanExpo 2011 in August. Micah Fuller from Hamilton, Ontario was crowned the Great Canadian Champion of 2011. This 2011 finals concluded our second season, and we are looking forward to many more!

The next finals event will occur at Fan Expo in Toronto in August, 2012. Important note about the GCBGB finals: anybody can participate in the finals, but the finalists from the championships will be given dedicated spots in the tournament. The rest of the participants will be given spots on a first-come, first-serve basis.

To sign-up for an upcoming blitz, please send us an email with subject "GCBGB Sign-up". In the email, please give us your name and tell us which blitz you would like to sign-up for. If there is a Facebook or Meetup event for the blitz, then marking yourself as attending is another way to sign-up. Lastly, you can follow-up on the BoardGameGeek thread indicating that you plan to come.

To be notified of upcoming championship announcements, subscribe to this thread on BoardGameGeek.

Thanks to Christian Monterroso, we also now have a BoardGameGeek Micro Badge: .

To find out more, please see the About GCBGB section.