Read our new tournament guideThanks to Oskar we now have a detailed guide for new players to get to grips with everything related to finding and participating in RISK tournaments
View the guide here
The FFA ELO system is changingStarting from today we have changed the FFA ELO system to better align settings quality and lobby strength.
Just playing on high rated settings will no longer have a huge impact on the players ELO score if the olympic average ELO rating of the players in that lobby is considered low.
Any lobby with olympic average below 1060 will be affected by this change, and it will be applied to ALL historic and upcoming FFA games eligble for ELO.
The Tournament ELO-rankings are also updated, and all previous badges have been re-voked and re-issued with these new thresholds:
Tournament Grand Master: 1200
Tournament Master: 1100
Tournament Expert: 1050
Tournament Intermediate: 1025
Tournament Beginner: 1005
Tournament Novice: 900
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We are saying goodbye to PRT!January 20th Mitch released an official statement about the end of the PRT - a 3 year long project with the goal to bring more spectators and economy in to the RISK Community scene.
They acomplished a lot in these years, and attempted a lot more. Even some of the features you find in our own tournament system at Friends of Risk were inspired by PRT.
In my eyes, the pitfall of PRT was the game itself.
- If they made something that the viewers could enjoy watchin, they players didnt enjoy playing it.
- If they made something the players enjoyed playing, the viewers got bored.
We as a community still have some ways to go to make competitive RISK approachable and enjoyable by people who dont play competitive games themselves.
Anyway, thank you so much for all you have done for the community these 3 years Mitch, and best of luck with your future projects, like innagual The Risk World Cup that will still continue as before.
All implementations/links to PRT from FoR will now be disabled.
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 SchoolWe’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
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