National Championships
Dates:
August 2019 - Present
Frequency:
Once per country each year (in select countries)
Structure:
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No set restrictions
National Championships, (known as Grand Championships under Fantasy Flight Games) are high-level Organized Play tournaments that typically take place only once a year per nation or territory. National Championships are run in both Archon and the Alliance format. Under the current award structure, the top 2 players from each National Championship (in Archon and Alliance) receive an invitation to the World Championship , with the winner receiving a first round bye.
Under FFG, Grand Championship players were awarded 20 Æmbershards for participation, along with 10 Æmbershards per win and an additional 150 for the winner. The winner also received a unique "Grand Champion" KeyForge deck (with a different card back and "Grand Champion" in the name, but otherwise a regular procedurally generated KeyForge deck).
Upcoming Events
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Results
2023 Season
Country
Date
Players
Archon
Alliance
United States
August 4 – 6, 2023
Archon: 66
Alliance:
39
Champion: Nova (Jacques “Aombre”, lord de la station )
Runner-Up: VermontGamer (Pyschorubios Gaard-Viville, Thrall )
Top 4: SecondAct (SecondAct who Lionizes Helium )
Top 4: Big Z (“Pink Jacket” Tadeusz, City Dreamchaser )
Champion: AV8R Player (AoA Alliance of Logos , Mars , and Untamed )
Runner-Up: JayPower (MM Alliance of Star Alliance, Logos, and Dis )
Top 4: Jaylas21 (MM Alliance of Logos, Star Alliance, and Dis )
Top 4: SydnieSteele (AoA Alliance of Logos, Mars, and Untamed )
France
October 9-10
Archon:
Alliance:
Champion: Ashitaka (U. Ortiz, la charitable )
Runner-Up: vice-fet (Nestor, pilote de la bibliothèque hideuse )
Top 4: PetitBOT (The Agent of Ratcot )
Top 4: gued (“อาจารย์ตัวร้าย” โรบินสัน )
Champion: jelapenos (WC Alliance of Star Alliance, Logos, and Dis )
Runner-Up: Tonio (AoA Alliance of Logos, Mars, and Shadows )
Top 4: Laxie (AoA Alliance of Dis, Logos, and Shadows)
Top 4: PetitBOT (MM Alliance of Dis, Logos, and Star Alliance )
2019-2020 Season
2019
Aug. 15-18
Düsseldorf, Germany
Sealed
Adaptive
87
Unknown
Aug. 23-25
Toronto, Canada
Archon
Survival
23
Kirk Maijala
Aug. 24-25
Melbourne, Australia
Archon
Triad
48
Phillip McKay
NOVA, Washington, US
Sealed
Triad
70
Colby Bennardo
Sep. 14-15
Modena, Italy
Archon
Triad
244
Cristiano Erente
Sep. 28
Athens, Greece
Archon
Solo
Xristos Tsoukalas
Oct. 4-6
Lyon, France
Archon
Triad
67
Eddy Audibert
Oct. 19-20
Taastrup, Denmark
Sealed
Adaptive
65
Christian Vestergaard
Nov. 9-10
Utrecht, Netherlands
Archon
Survival
114
Erik Courier
Nov. 15-17
Madrid, Spain
Sealed
Adaptive
Alejandro Rosa Calero
Nov. 16-17
Stockholm, Sweden
Sealed
Adaptive
32
Andre Johansson
Nov. 23
Saint-Gilles, Belgium
Archon
Survival
Aurore Inara
Nov. 23-24
Gdańsk, Poland
Sealed
Triad
121
Unknown
Unknown
Open 2 and use 1 deck from each set
Nov. 29-Dec. 1
São Paulo, Brazil
Sealed
Triad
178
Rafael Akira
Nov. 29-Dec. 1
Shanghai, China
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Dec. 21
Taipei City, Taiwan
Archon
Survival
Unknown
2020
Jan. 18-19
Santiago, Chile
Sealed
Adaptive
Unknown
Unknown
Feb. 2
Parramatta, NSW, Australia
Archon
Adaptive
16
Alex Forndran
Feb. 29-Mar. 1
Milton Keynes, UK
Archon
Survival
158
Alejandro Rosa Calero
Not a true survival, Finals best-of-3, First 2-time GC winner
Further Reading
2023 National Championships
References