World Othello Championship

The World Othello Championship (WOC) is held annually at the end of October or beginning of november.

It is sponsored by the Anjar company (directed by the Becker family, owner of the othello license worldwide),

Megahouse Japan and the local distributor of the game. The location changes every year; 2008 was played in

Oslo-Norway and 2006 was held in Mito, the native city of Goro Hasegawa (Japan), near Tokyo.

Karsten Feldborg participated the most WOC's. A list of the 406 different participants can be found on this page.

The tournament is three days long.

The first two days are a 13 rounds swiss tournament to determine the top four players who will proceed to the

finals on the third day. Each country can send three representatives, own citizens as well as residents, to the

World Championship - unless there is an odd number of players, in which case the host country can enter a

fourth player. In 2005, in addition to the top 3 qualifiers (male or female), each country was allowed to send

one additional female player. After the first 2 days, the top 2 female players played in a female championship.

There is an individual World Championship and a team championship. The individual champion needs to win

through a best of 3 semi-final and a best of 3 final, but, to be eligible for this "top four", both BQ and

departage may be needed.

The team champions are declared at the end of the second day of play based on the total number of wins

in the swiss (if the host country has four players, only the top three scores are counted)

After the individual final, there is the victory dinner joining all the sponsors, players and table judges.