Happy new year!

2025 is coming to an end, and what a year this has been for Friends of Risk

A total of 153000 page visits this year, compared to 47000 last year.

Over 7000 games have been played using the FoR Eventmanager in 75 different events, compared to 2850 games in 23 events last year.

1140 unique players have played in FoR hosted tournaments this year compared to 592 last year.

All in all a decent growth! Looking forward to 2026.

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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.