FACE TO FACE EVENTS

New Tournaments - 2025

Upcoming Tournaments

+ UK

• HandyCON 2025 (Milton Keynes), 19 January 2025 (to be confirmed);
• Waterstones (Cambridge), 15 February 2025 (buy tickets here);
• AIRECON 2025 (Harrogate), March 2025;
• UKGE 2025 (Birmingham), 1-2 June 2025;

+ Europe

• II.Getxo Hive Tournament (Getxo, Basque Country, Spain); 4 January 2025;
• 2nd Basque Country Championship of Hive (Bilbao, Basque Country), 7 June 2025;
• European Hive Convention and Open 2025 (Budapest, Hungary), 21-22 June 2025 (more info coming soon!)

+ Rest of the World

Past Tournaments

• Barcelona (Spain), at DAU festival, 16 November 2024 (congrats to Jordi!);

• Divertinango tournament (Guatemala City, Guatemala), 2 November 2024 (congrats to Erick Reyes!); 

• Thornaby Hive Open (Thornaby, England), 12 October 2024 (Very successful!)

• Draughts on Wheels (London, England), 9 October 2024, 19:00 (tickets here)

• TableTop Scotland (Edinburgh, Scotland), 7 September 2024;

• UK Hive Cup 2025 (from October on, for now, check out UK Hive Cup 2024 page)

• 1st Guatemalan Hive Championship, 5 September 2024 (read more in News); 
  

• Mind Sports Olympiad (London, England), 18 August 2024, 14:00 (read the blog article);

• GenCon 2024 (Indianapolis, USA), North American Hive Championship in 3 days: Simultaneous, Hive Championship and Finals;
• 24hours BoardGameMarathon (Ilminster, UK), 3 August 2024;

• Divertinango (Guatemala City, Guatemala), 22 June 2024, 16:00;
• 1st Basque Country Championship of Hive (Basque Country, Spain), Basque Association of Oware and Strategic Games, 1 June 2024, more info here;
• European Hive Convention and Open 2024 (Budapest, Hungary), Budapest University of Sports Science, 8-9 June 2024, (find the article here!);
• Q-Con (Belfast, Northern Ireland), 15 June 2024;

• Ghenos League in Italy: see the official page for details;
• Gothenburg (Sweden), at GothCon, 30th March 2024 at 12.00; 
  
• InterOcio Festival, Madrid (Spain), 16th March 2024 at 16.00; 
  
• Barcelona (Spain), at DAU, 18th November 2023, Saturday at 16:30, registration form here (big success!);
• Getxo (Basque Country, Spain), Basque Association of Oware and Strategic Games, 4th January 2024;

Let us know if you want us to list your tournaments here or if you want to run an official Gen42 tournament. 

You can run your official tournament if you follow the WHT tournament guidelines (button below).

2024 UK Hive Cup

• Harrogate, 17 March 2024, 10.30am at AireCon (run by Gen42), book tickets here

• Milton Keynes, 19-21 April 2024, HandyCon (to be confirmed, run by Gen42)

• Birmingham, 2 June 2024, Finals at UKGE (biggest board game convention in the UK! run by Gen42)

All rules and info can be found on this page.

2023 UK Hive Cup Finals (UKGE)

4th June 2023, 12:00 - 16:00

The UK Games Expo is the biggest festival of table top games in the UK, is there any better place to run the most important Hive tournament in the UK?

Save the date, the tournament is open to anyone!

Format

6 rounds Swiss tournament, 15min+10sec, flexible format (Hive base as standard, PLM expansions if both players agree)

Prizes (an exlcusive magnetic set!) and medals to the Top 3 players

Tickets available here

Pre-Register here

Full rules here

2023 Tournaments in Europe

In summer 2023 we will have a series of tournaments in Europe:

• Modena (Italy), 21st May 2023, 2pm at ModenaPlay (register by email to tornei@ghenosgames.com)

• Belfast (Northern Ireland), 17th June 2023, 11am at Q-Con (pre-register here)

• Ilminster Somerset (England), 22nd July 2023, at 24hBoardGameMarathon (the event raises money for a charity, tickets here!)

• London (England), 23rd August 2023, 10am at Mind Sports Olympiad (tickets on the website)

Rules and registrations to be released soon for each of these events (for typical rules see the UK Hive Cup above and the general guidelines below)

2023 UK Hive Cup

Series of rapid swiss tournaments with Finals at the UK Games Expo (biggest boardgame convention in the UK!):

• Brighton, 19th November 2022, 6pm, at Dice Saloon

• London, 3rd December 2022, 6pm at Rogues Quarter

• Birmingham, 6th February 2023, 6pm at Chance & Counters

• Harrogate, 11th-12th March 2023, 6pm at AireCon

• Manchester, 22nd April 2023, 6pm at FanBoy3

• Birmingham (FINALS), 4th June 2023, 12am (UKGE, read below)

All the tournaments, including the finals, are open to anyone!

Full rules here

Pre-Register here