NEWS
November 2024
The Fair Play Cup is a flexible tournament with a flexible schedule that is played in teams. It's a great chance to get to know and bond with other players in the Hive community!
The deadline to sign up is 4 Jan 2025. Find all the info and rules here!
In the 2024 edition, 19 teams battled in a swiss-tournament; the Hall of Fame for the past three years is shown here.
After 4 incredibly tough games, big Congratulations to Suprisefish aka Ben Harris (UK) for winning the World Hive Championship 2024 with a score of 3.5-5 against HappyKiwi aka Patrik Berggren (Sweden)!
The first time we have had a Champion from Europe since 2016! (Tzimarou grom Greece)
The level of the WC increases every year, and every move is incredibly accurate, from the opening to the endgame.
Thanks to BoardSpace.net for hosting the Championship once again!
We hope you had fun playing and watching (check Randy's YT), and brace yourselves for next year's WC! Announcements about the format will come soon, stay assured there will be a tournament open to anyone to qualify!
The European Hive Convention and Open 2025 will be held in Budapest, Hungary on the weekend 21-22 June, save the date!
Rapid League New Season Approaching
Flexible tournament played on Hivegame.com over 10 weeks. You are sorted into a group with opponents of similar skills. Coordinate to schedule your games on Discord.
Start: November 12th.
October 2024
European Hive Convention 2025
The European Hive Convention and Open 2025 will be held in Budapest, Hungary on the weekend 21-22 June, save the date for the biggest Hive event in Europe!
You can read more about this year event on our blog page.
September 2024
The Online World Hive Championship 2024 goes on!
The World Hive Championship 2024 is in the knock-out phase now, and the matches get more and more spectacular! See the replays on Randy's YT channel.
Quarter Finals brackets!
More tournaments all over the world!
1st Guatemalan Championship! 24h boardgame marathon in England! Mind Sports Olympiad! And more are coming (check here).
June 2024
The First European Hive Convention! (8-9 June 2024)
Read our blog to learn what we did, and see the results and more photos
(spoiler: it was a blast!)
May 2024
Hivegame.com is here!
The new official open-source platform to play Hive online is here!
You can play for free, ad-free, competitive real-time and correspondence games. Challenge your friends smoothly with one click: https://hivegame.com/
If you want to contribute with code, graphic design or simply give feedback, join the dedicated Discord server with the link here.
April 2024
Hive Fair Play Cup 2024:
Congrats to the Hungarian Hive Club!
After a very tense last round, one of the teams of the Hungarian Hive Club emerged victorious in the Hive Fair Play Cup 2024, the team tournament organised (by the same club!) since 2022.
Tied with the same score (5/6) but second by Buchholz tie-break was the British team Fish and Chips! And with only half a point less (4.5) the third place went to the Eastern European Borscht.
The powerful American teams Tamanduas and The Buzz Kills got 4 and 3.5 respectively, confirming the level of competition this year was higher than ever!
Thanks to all the 19 teams for participating and see you next year in January for a new edition!
Full results can be found here.
The BoardSpace Open Qualifier 2024 has started!
56 participants this year are competing to qualify for the World Hive Championship 2024. Only the top 16 will make it!
Check when the matches are scheduled on our calendar and watch the games on BoardSpace or streamed by content creators.
Next tournaments face to face coming up
Quite a few tournaments are happening in the next few months!
- HandyCon (UK), 20 April 2024
- UKGE (UK), 2 June 2024
- 1st Budapest European Convention and Open (Hungary), 8-9 June 2024
- Norwich (UK), 8 May 2024
- Mind Sports Olympiad (UK)
- TableTop Scotland (UK)
Please let us know if any other local tournament is in the pipeline!
March 2024
Recent tournaments in Europe
- Sweden: Gothenburg (
- Spain: Madrid (InterOcio Festival)
- UK: Harrogate (AireCon)
Congratulations to the winners and to everyone who played in this event!
Full results after 5 rounds below:
February 2024
European Hive Convention and Open 2024
Budapest, Hungary: June 8-9
The first international convention for Hive players is happening in Budapest, Hungary!
The main event will be a one-day-long Open tournament on Saturday 8th, followed by seminars and workshops on Sunday 9th in the morning.
Come play Hive and meet players from all over Europe! The tournament will also be broadcast live on YouTube! Click below for more info and registration
January 2024
MSO Grand Prix 2024
The Mind Sports Olympiad is hosting again a Hive tournament online on BGA on February 10th 2024 at 18.00 UTC
(a lot of other cool tournaments are part of this event!)
Qualification Events to the World Hive Championship 2024
An exciting World Championship is over (congrats Jewdoka for winning for the 4th time!) and a new one is going to start...
Do you want to take part in the invitational Online World Hive Championship 2024 starting in July? This is your chance!
Read more about how the qualification events in the document below!
July 2023
BoardSpace Open Qualifier finished..
and the World Championship started!!
The last qualification tournament just finished and the Hive World Championship 2023 has started!
Congrats to the top 13 players who have the right to play in the World Championship.
See the full results here!
The Hive World Championship is a 32-player invitational event. The first phase is a group phase, 8 groups of 4 players each, where the top 2 move on to the knock-out phase!
You can find Results in the spreadsheet below and follow the games as they are played on BoardSpace.net (you need an account to watch), or following one of the youtube channels which do streaming and analysis:
UK Hive Cup Finals 2023
24 participants to the open tournament at the UK Games Expo held on the 4th of June 2023. Great day: turn out, enthusiasm and skill level seem to increase constantly every year!
Congratulations to Robert UΕΎar for winning undefeated the 2nd of the UK Hive Cup 2023! Closely followed by Ven Gee Lim and Jordan Chatterton.
Face to face Tournaments Upcoming
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)
May 2023
Congratulations to Tamanduas for winning the Hive Fair Play Cup 2023!
The second edition of the Fair Play Cup, the official Hive Team Championship, recently ended. The event saw 16 teams of 4 players each battling in rapid games for 3 months and culminated with the victory of the South American team Tamanduas! The team featured Quodlibet, Loizz, Kaur50 and Humdeabril. The second place was shared by 4 (!) different teams, proving that the competition was quite challenging and the result was unclear until the very last round!
Congratulations also to the best individual players of the tournament: Quodlibet (both absolute and 1st board!), InDusDusDus (2nd board), Samax (3rd board). The results are fully displayed below.
Thanks to the Hungarian Hive Club (Csigeee and Laci5555) for organizing this event, and we hope to see even more participation next year!
March 2023
Congratulations to the participants of the BGA Swiss Open Qualifier just finished! π
Complete Results can be found here.
Congratulations in particular to the top 8 who qualified to the World Cup starting in July/August. π
Details about the BoardSpace Open Qualifier starting in April/May (last chance to qualify to the World Cup) will be announced soon over the next days, stay tuned!
February 2023
The Hungarian Hive Club has interviewed Joe Schultz (aka Jewdoka), 3-times World Champion and John Yianni, the creator of Hive! The interviews are available on youtube on the channel of the Club!
The Hungarian club is organizing a tournament for women only: the Lady Cup 2023!
It's a turn-based 6 round swiss on BGA starting on March 8th.
Full rules can be found here!
(you need to register by filling the form and sending it by email to the committee).
Spread the word with your girl friends π