European Championship Boardgames
The European Championship Boardgames or EuropeMasters is a team championship that has been held at European level since 2000. The first tournament took place during the Gen Con Benelux convention in the Netherlands, later tournaments from 2001 at the Spellenspektakel in Eindhoven and from 2003 at the international game days in Essen. The Masters Europe date back to the 1988 to 1998 carried out Intergame . The qualification takes place via national championships, in Germany this is the German team championship in the board game . As there are four players from each team to determine the European team champion in four games. In 2004 five games were played on the occasion of its five-year existence. The participating teams came from the following countries in 2006: Belgium, Germany, France, Ireland, Italy, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Hungary. In 2007 teams from Finland and Austria also took part. Sweden was added in 2009. Since 2012, Canada has also been represented as a non-European country. The most successful country is Germany with nine wins ahead of Great Britain with four wins.
The championship's mascot is “Gioco” (Italian: game), a sculpture created exclusively for the EuropeMasters by the Dutch sculptor Jolanda Kleiss .
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The places in the games are distributed in such a way that each of the four players on a team sits once in each position, i.e. once each starting player, 2nd, 3rd and 4th player. Each team plays each game once in each position, and no one else ever plays against another from the same country. The points for the tournament are distributed based on the placement in a game.
- 1st place = 5 points
- 2nd place = 3 points
- 3rd place = 2 points
- 4th place = 1 point
If there are tied players, the points will be added and divided. For example, if there is a clear first and a clear fourth place, the other two receive (3 + 2) / 2 = 2.5 points each.
Intergame: Forerunner of the European Championship Boardgames
From 1988 to 1998, European board game championships were held as intergame . Here German teams were successful four times, Austria and the United Kingdom each three times and a team from the Netherlands once.
| year | winner | country |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Cologne-Bonn team |
 Germany
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| 1989 | Bloodstock |
 United Kingdom
|
| 1990 | The copy slaves |
Germany
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| 1991 | The Hopeless |
 Austria
|
| 1992 | The Awful Green Things from Vienna |
Austria
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| 1993 | The Hopeless |
Austria
|
| 1994 | De Bloedjes |
 Netherlands
|
| 1995 | The legionaries |
Germany
|
| 1996 | Emslandske Speelfroende |
Germany
|
| 1997 | Mix & Max |
United Kingdom
|
| 1998 | The Good |
United Kingdom
|
