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Welcome to Risk Tournament School

We’ve launched Risk Tournament School sessions for players who want to join practice games and gain expert knowledge before their tournament game. Veteran players will be running “Tourney School” sessions. Look for the ping @Tourney Info & Help on the Main Discord Server where you can:

• Play through upcoming round's settings
• Ask strategy questions in real time
• Get tips directly from experienced tournament players

Session Times:
• Monday - Barry /Snail starting at 17 UTC
• Saturday - Barry /Snail starting at 12 UTC
• Sunday - Harlow starting at 3 UTC
• Sunday - Barry /Snail starting at 19 UTC

Welcome to the tournament scene!

The recent announcement of Risk FFA World Championship 2025 Season 2 have reached hundreds of new players

Almost 600 brand new faces have signed up so far, and almost 1000 more have joined the Discord community without signing up yet.

Keep an eye out on Discord for notifications about your first tournament game, news and updates from the tournament and more.

Here on Friends of Risk you can find a lot of other resources, like links to other Discord servers, list of upcoming tournaments and valuable information to up your game like Zombie pathing maps, dice calculators and instructional videos.

Signup for the most enjoyable tourney you have ever played

Meta Meme tournament is back for season 2 on the Retry-Games Discord server

SMG: How to improve RISK

I'm writing this as my own personal wish list for what it would take to improve RISK, especially for tournament games.

Allow for true anonymous lobbies/games
You don't know who you played against until the match is over. This is hopefully something SMG will be able to look into when the network overhaul is finally completed

Get rid of all the cheating
As everything you do in the game is only validated client-side, hackers are able to trick the game into suddnely spawning extra troops, extra capitals or even better dice odds. This will more or less solve itself when the network overhaul is finally completed

Fix the balanced blitz dice code
This is something we are supposed to be beta testing already the next upcoming weeks

Add the fortify by % tool to make longer/slower (but probably more strategic) cap games more enjoyable
We know SMG have ideas to solve this, but there are no official news from SMG on this one, yet

Actually working dynamic turn timer
The new dynamic turn timer was inspired by a community feature request, but it was poorly implemented. Please make it so that everyone gets a fixed amount of back time for each successfull attack.

Add a toggle for turning bonuses off on any map
This will create a huge possibility for great and skilled progressive games and add a whole new dynamic to the game

Adjustable speed blitz round limit
Let us choose how long a speed blitz game should run for, not only 5 turns max. This will add a lot of new ways to play the game.

Friends of Risk is now Ad-free for 12 months

No ads, no tracking code, no annoyance - for EVERYONE

Thanks to some very special people we have raised enough donations to keep FoR completely ad-free again for 12 months.

Any additional donations will just keep extending the ad-free period of course.

Get ad-free for $5/month with donations

After keeping Friends of Risk running for 2 years with minimum donations from the community I have been forced to enable Google Ads to try to cover the about $100 monthly running costs of hosting the website, databases, rankingsystem, eventmanager, Riskbot, zombie pathings and other resources you find on friendsofrisk.com.

For those of you who find ads annoying, I have made a tool to disable the ads for 1 month pr. $5 you donate (minimum $15 pr. donation to keep workload at a minimum)

Just send me (eirik) an DM on Discord after donation, and I will disable ads for you asap.

11 new zombie pathing maps added

Thanks to our great community of Zombie pathing creators we have added 11 new pathing maps to the maps database.

- Ottoman Empire
- The Skeld
- Pangea
- Arctic
- Dino World
- Draculas Castle
- Brazil
- Castle
- Forsaken Lands
- United States Advanced
- Arkeanos

53 maps are still missing their Zombie pathing, if you want to get involved and try to create some yourself, please head over to the Zombie Discord server and get a guide on how to get started!

Try the RISK match simulator

Dive into a dynamic, fully-simulated RISK match, capturing every twist of randomness and chaos you love: escalating card trades, unpredictable zombie outbreaks, insane dice rolls, strategic alliances, and brutal betrayals. Friendships will be tested—who will conquer the chaos and dominate the infinite board?

Made specially for streamers to engage with their audience, but fun for anyone to try out Play a game

Small changes to Eventmanager

Players are no longer marked as new if they have played at least ONE tournament game before. Earlier this mark was only removed when you recieved your first Sabr ranking points after a tournament was done.