FACE TO FACE EVENTS

Meet fellow Hive players in person and take part in friendly competitions!
Check out the list of events and cities where you can join us below.

If you want to run your own local tournament, it's pretty easy, find all you need here or get in touch with us.

Tournaments and Events Calendar 2026

Upcoming Events

+ 🇬🇧 UK Hive Cup 2026 (look at the full calendar here)

+ Europe

  • 🇩🇰 Denmark - Fastaval, 1-2 April, Hobro (tournament start at 14.00 on the 2nd of April)
  • 🇪🇸 Basque Country, Spain - 3rd Basque Country Championship of Hive, 6 June, Bilbao.
  • 🇨🇿 Czechia - Pardubice Czech Open, 18 July, Pardubice (more info soon)
  • 🇮🇹 Italy - European Hive Convention 2026, 5-6 September, Rome.


+ Rest of the World

  • 🇺🇸 Indiana - GenCon (TBD)


Past Events

2026

  • 🇮🇹 Italy - Hive al Centro sportivo in miniatura, 14 March, Rome.
  • 🇺🇸 Minnesota - Con of the North, Bloomington, 13-15 February 2026. Simultaneous exhibition with Randy Ingersoll and Tournament.
  • 🇵🇦 Event Pajugá (PlisPlis), Panamá, 31 January 2026

2025

  • 🇪🇸 Bizkaia Hive Tournament, 20 Dec, San Ignacio (Bilbao), Bar Kanpion (Info, photos and results here)
  • 🇬🇧 UK Hive Cup 2025
  • 🇬🇧 TableTop Scotland (Edinburgh), 7 September 2025, 10 am (Sign up here)
  • 🇬🇧 Waterstones (Cambridge), 16 August 2025, 4pm (Hive Demo + Tatsu tournament)
  • 🇬🇧 Mind Sports Olympiad (London), 20 August 2025, 10 am (Schedule and tickets here)
  • 🇸🇪 Malmö game week (Malmö, Sweden), 30 August 2025, Learn to play in the morning and Tournament at 15:00
  • 🇩🇰 Bastard Café (Copenhagen, Denmark), 31 August 2025, 13:00-18:00, Learn to play and friendly tournament
  • 🇺🇸 GenCon 2025 (Indianapolis, USA), 31 July - 3 August: series of lectures and simultaneous exhibition by Randy Ingersoll!
  • 🇬🇧 European Mensa Annual Gathering (Cardiff), 9 August 2025 
  • 🇭🇺 European Hive Convention and Open 2025 (Budapest, Hungary), 21-22 June 2025 (Results) 
  • 🇬🇧 Q-CON (Belfast), 14 June 2025, 2 pm (info here)
  • 🇪🇸 2nd Basque Country Championship of Hive (Bilbao, Basque Country), 7 June 2025
  • 🇲🇽 MarLudico Hive League 2025 (Mexico), Finals at MegaXP (31 May - 1 June)
  • 🇬🇧 Norwich Games Festival (Norwich, UK) 27 May 2025, 1 pm
  • 🇬🇧 UKGE 2025 Simultaneous Hive Exhibition (Birmingham, UK), 31 May 2025, 3 pm
  • 🇬🇧 UKGE 2025 (Birmingham, UK), 1 June 2025, 11 am
  • 🇬🇧 Plungington Community Centre (Preston, UK) 13 May 2025, 7 pm
  • 🇺🇸 ConoftheNorth (Minneapolis, USA), 15 February 2025, free play in the morning, simultaneous play in the afternoon
  • 🇮🇹 Ghenos League at Play (Bologna, Italy), 6 April 2025, 15.00 (the winner received flight and hotel for the EHC 2025!!)
  • 🇬🇧 AIRECON 2025 (Harrogate), 16 March 2025, 10.30 am
  • 🇬🇧 Waterstones (Cambridge), 15 February 2025, 7 pm (Results)
  • 🇬🇧 Hitching + Letchworth Board Game Club (Letchworth), 30 January 2025, 7 pm (Results)
  • 🇬🇧 HandyCON 2025 (Milton Keynes), 19 January 2025, 11 am (buy daily entry ticket here)


2024

  • 🇪🇸 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;

  • 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;

  • 🇬🇧 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)

  • 🇮🇹 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;  

2023 Tournaments in Europe

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



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!):



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

Full rules here

Pre-Register here