The Bangkok Diplomacy Club is one of the first asian Diplomacy communities.
Bangkok
Genesis[]
Created in february 2020 in preparation of the World Diplomacy Championship 2021 by Chris Sanderson (Battlefield Bangkok), Fabian Weiner (Ninive Game Store) & Lei Saarlainen (WDC Bangkok 2021).
The Bangkok Diplomacy Club aims to organize Diplomacy games and Diplomacy-style board games (Game of Thrones, Dune, ...).
A first game was organised in the Battlefield Bangkok Boardgame cafe in 2016 and won by Chris Sanderson.
Some games were organised by Tom Aikins at the American bar, but any traces of them have been lost.
Upcoming Competitions[]
World Diplomacy Championship 2023 17/20 August 2023[]
Full article : World Diplomacy Championship 2023 Bangkok
The greatest Diplomacy event organised for the first time in Asia. the WDC 2023 will be organised at Battlefield Bangkok probably 17/20 august 2023
- Date 17/20 August 2023
- Venue Battlefield Bangkok
for more information you can contact Lei Saarlainen at leisaarlainen@gmail.com
Bangkok Diplomacy Open 2023[]
the Bangkok Diplomacy Open 2023 will be held at Battlefield Bangkok in may 2023 at Battlefield Bangkok will be a 4 round competition over a week-end
Running Competitions[]
Thai/Asean Diplomacy Championship 2022/2023[]
the Thai/Asean Diplomacy Championship is a running competition played along the year
Standing[]
| Player | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | total | # | Pre | rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sascha Heylmann | 2515 | 2835 | 5350 | 2 | 2 | 1044 | ||
| 2 | Lei Saarlainen | 1470 | 2100 | 945 | 4515 | 3 | 2 | 835 | |
| 3 | Jean-Pierre Blanchet | 2835 | 2835 | 1 | 2 | 722 | |||
| 4 | Ben Scherrey | 1155 | 945 | 735 | 840 | 3675 | 4 | 459 | |
| 5 | Wenzel Frick | 1260 | 1260 | 1 | 2 | 420 | |||
| 6 | Tony Scherrey | 735 | 735 | 840 | 945 | 3255 | 4 | 407 | |
| 7 | Danny Scherrey | 630 | 1575 | 630 | 70 | 2905 | 4 | 369 | |
| 8 | Morgan Baugh | 630 | 1260 | 1890 | 2 | 315 | |||
| 9 | Yukai Jerng | 945 | 525 | 1470 | 2 | 245 | |||
| 10 | Nicholas Palevsky | 315 | 315 | 1 | 63 |
Games[]
- Game #1 Bangkok FTF 13 august 2022 Battlefield Bangkok Winner Sascha Heylmann
- Game #2 Bangkok FTF 20 august 2022 Battlefield Bangkok Winner Lei Saarlainen
- Game #3 Bangkok FTF 15 october 2022 Bangspace Winner Jean Pierre Blanchet
- Game #4 Bangkok FTF 5 november 2022 Bangspace Winner Sascha Heylmann
- Game #5 Bangkok Speedboat (inperson) 20 november 2022 Battlefield Bangkok Winner Lei Saarlainen
Past Competitions[]
Thai/Asean Diplomacy Championship 2020/2021[]
Full article : Thai/Asean Diplomacy Championship 2020/2021
the Thai/Asean Diplomacy Championship was played along the year. Also included are games played by the Da Nang Diplomacy Center (DN), the Hong Kong Diplomacy Community (HK) and First Saturday Games (FS) organized by the Asia Pacific Diplomacy Association.
the Thai/Asean Championship used the Bangkok 2020 scoring system
Standing[]
| Player | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | HK | FS | #7 | SI1 | total | # | rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mario Huys | 4 | 23 | 13.43 | 26 | 6 | 72.43 | 5 | 8.05 | |||||
| 2 | S. Heylmann | 13 | 6 | 31 | 8 | 4 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 1.2 | 91.2 | 9 | 7.02 | |
| 3 | L Saarlainen | 7 | 18 | 9.33 | 5 | 17.5 | 56.83 | 5 | 6.31 | |||||
| 4 | Peter Darby | 15.5 | 4 | 16 | 1.2 | 14 | 50.7 | 5 | 5.63 | |||||
| 5 | Wenzel Frick | 6 | 7 | 0.9 | 20.2 | 7 | 5 | 11 | 6 | 63.1 | 8 | 5.26 | ||
| 6 | J-P Blanchet | 7 | 11 | 15 | 33 | 3 | 4.71 | |||||||
| 7 | Tristan Lee | 20.2 | 20.2 | 1 | 4.04 | |||||||||
| 8 | F. Weiner | 7 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 36 | 5 | 4 | |||||
| 9 | Tom Barbé | 18 | 18 | 1 | 3.6 | |||||||||
| 10 | H. Boulanger | 17.5 | 17.5 | 1 | 3.5 |
Games[]
- Game #1 FTF 04 March 2020 Battlefield Bangkok winner Anthony Reardon/Peter Darby
- Game #2 FTF 11 March 2020 Ninive Game Store winner Tom Barbé/Lei Saarlainen
- Game #3 Correspondence 24 March 2020 - 23 April Webdiplomacy winner Sascha Heylmann
- Game #4 Correspondence 18 April - 2 May Webdiplomacy winner Wenzel Frick
- Game #5 Virtual FTF 2 May Webdiplomacy/Diplomacy Discord winner Mario Huys
- Game #6 Correspondence 11 May - 2 June Correspondence Webdiplomacy/free winner Wenzel Frick
- Game Hongkong #1 FTF 6 june 2020 Wheat & Wood Boardgame Café winner Tristan Lee
- First Saturday Speedboat 3 Octobre Backstabbr winner Andrew Goff
- Game #7 Correspondence 15 November 2020 - 12 January 2021 Correspondence Backstabbr/Discord winner Mario Huys
- Game #8 Correspondance Spice Island Correspondance Vdiplomacy winner Herve Boulanger/Lei Saarlainen
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Bangkok Diplomacy Open 2022[]
Full article : Bangkok Diplomacy open 2022
the Bangkok Diplomacy open 2022 3 days, 4 games, was organised the 25/27 november at Battlefield Bangkok
Standing[]
| Player | res | nat | Pts | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sascha Heylmann | THA | GER | 4445 | 1050 | 1645 | 2835 | |
| 2 | Farren Jane | KOR | USA | 3889 | 2415 | 1484 | 630 | |
| 3 | Andrew Goff | AUS | AUS | 2982 | 1050 | 1484 | 1645 | 1260 |
| 4 | Mario Huys | JAP | BEL | 2587 | 1365 | 1484 | 840 | 140 |
| 5 | L Saarlainen | THA | FRA | 2475 | 840 | 1029 | 1330 | 1260 |
| 6 | J-P Blanchet | THA | FRA | 2079 | 1239 | 840 | ||
| 7 | Tristan Singh | THA | CAN | 1575 | 525 | 630 | 945 | |
| 8 | Hari Kurokawa | THA | JAP | 1470 | 630 | 840 | ||
| 9 | Chris Sanderson | THA | GBR | 175 | 175 | |||
| 10 | Wenzel Frick | THA | LIC | 140 | 140 |
Games;[]
- Game #1 FtF 25 november 2023 Battlefield Bangkok winner Farren Jane
- Game #2 FtF 26 november 2023 Battlefield Bangkok winner Mario Huys, Andrew Goff, Farren Jane
- Game #3 FtF 26 november 2023 Battlefield Bangkok winner Andrew Goff, Sascha Heylmann
- Game #4 FtF 26 november 2023 Battlefield Bangkok winner Sascha Heylmann
Media[]
The forum of the Bangkok Diplomacy Club is in the Discord server of the Asia Pacific Diplomacy Association: