Arena season 14: Here We Go!

[Archduke]

Congratulations to all participants and winners from the previous season!

But wait, what exactly is "the Arena?"

The Arena is the competitive mode on BGA. If you master a game and want to play it competitively, this is THE mode to use, so you can challenge the best players and get the most experience points.

The Arena is organized in seasons of 3 months each. Achievements are awarded to the best players at the end of each season.

To play in the Arena: select "Play" and then choose "Arena" instead of "Simple game."

Read more about Arena mode

Arena format and Gurus

In the last 7 seasons, it was you (more exactly the gurus) who chose the game formats for the Arena: player number, options used, ...

We are very happy to see that this way of doing things contributed to making the Arena more popular: thank you to all gurus for their smart suggestions and their votes!

Rules updates

No Arena rules are changing this season. It does not mean we are 100% satisfied with how the Arena is running, but you seem to appreciate the current rules so we want to keep them as they are for now.

Season 14 is NOW Launched.

The new Arena is now open for its new season.

Some Explanation About: Relegations

At the end of each season, after winners have been awarded, you are relegated.

Some custom relegation rules may have been applied to games for some reason (ex: we decided to update the number of leagues), but in general here is what happens:

• For games with 6 or 5 different leagues, all players are decreased by 3 leagues.
• For games with 4 different leagues, all players are decreased by 2 leagues.
• For games with 2 or 3 different leagues, all players are decreased by 1 league.
• For all games and all leagues, your number of Arena points is reset to 1, and your AES ("Arena Elo") is reset to 1500.

It's up to you to find the way to the elite!

May the odds be ever in your favor!

You'll find soon below the updated options for each game for this new arena season

[Archduke]

7 Wonders:

• Number of players: "4" (prev: "3")

99 (addition card game):

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Abyss:

• Kraken expansion: "Enabled" (prev: "Disabled")

Akropolis:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")
• Architect level: "Easy - Hippodamos" (prev: "Medium - Metagenes")

Amyitis:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Applejack:

• Additional tree tile: "Yes" (prev: "No")

Architects of the West Kingdom:

• Player board side: "Asymmetric Side" (prev: "Symmetric Side")

Arctic Scavengers:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")
• Hidden information: "Keep private and skip attack prompts for players with empty hands" (prev: "Keep private, but skip attack prompts for players with no attack cards")

Bahama Taxi:

• Number of players: "4" (prev: "2")

Bandada:

• Use hidden scoring card: "No" (prev: "Yes")

Barbu:

• Last two: "Yes" (prev: "No")
• Trumps: "Yes" (prev: "No")
• Domino: "Yes" (prev: "No")
• Game mode: "Geronimo" (prev: "Regular - 2 iterations")
• Take them all counts positive: "No" (prev: "Tricks, hearts and Queens")

Barrage:

• The Leeghwater Project expansion: "Enabled" (prev: "Disabled")

Beyond the Sun:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

Big Time Soccer:

• Game length: "Standard" (prev: "Short Match")

Boomerang: Europe:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "4")
• Direction variant: "Off" (prev: "On")

Bärenpark:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Caravan:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Caverna:

• Number of players: "4" (prev: "3")
• Live scoring: "Enabled" (prev: "Disabled")

Chicago Express:

• Number of players: "4" (prev: "3")

City of the Big Shoulders:

• Friendly Stock Sales: "Yes" (prev: "No")

Cloud City:

• Upgraded Models Variant: "One" (prev: "Off")

Connect Four:

• Board size: "10x10" (prev: "9x9")

Copenhagen:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Cribbage:

• Match Length: "One Game" (prev: "Best of 3")

Dark Agent:

• Party style: "2 aims" (prev: "5 aims")
• Playerboard: "SVR (Russia)" (prev: "Random Agency for each player")
• Playerboards second team: "player choice" (prev: "Random Agency for each player")
• Playerboards third team: "player choice" (prev: "Random Agency for each player")

Diam's:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Dice Forge:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")
• Promotional cards: "Yes" (prev: "No")
• Tiebreaker: "Yes" (prev: "No")
• Remove 6 gold die face: "No" (prev: "Yes")

Dice Hospital:

• Hard mode: "Opening crisis" (prev: "Opening crisis + Nationwide Epidemic")

Dice Theme Park:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "4")

Downforce:

• Additional powers: "Use two powers during each auction" (prev: "Mix with standard powers and draw six")

Earth:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")
• Game Mode: "Advanced" (prev: "Standard")
• Solo Difficulty Level: "Beginner" (prev: "Medium")

Eruption:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Expedition: Northwest Passage:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Fleet:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "4")

Florenza: The Card Game:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

For Sale:

• Money visible: "Yes" (prev: "No")

French Tarot:

• Number of players: "5" (prev: "4")
• Bonuses: "Poignées + Misères" (prev: "Poignées only")
• Minimal bid: "Guard" (prev: "Small")

Fruit Picking:

• Board setup: "Mirror setup" (prev: "Random setup")

Glow:

• Side of the board: "The Archipelago of Darkness" (prev: "The Province of Shadows")

Go:

• Grid size: "9×9" (prev: "19×19")
• Method of counting: "Chinese" (prev: "Japanese")

Gold West:

• Number of players: "4" (prev: "2")
• Bandits mini-expansion: "Include this expansion" (prev: "Exclude this expansion")
• Trading Post mini-expansion: "Tiles from this expansion or the base tile" (prev: "Exclude this expansion")

Great Western Trail:

• Game setup: "Customized" (prev: "Standard game")
• Variant: Simmental: "On" (prev: "Off")
• Building 1 side: "A" (prev: "Random")
• Building 2 side: "A" (prev: "Random")
• Building 3 side: "A" (prev: "Random")
• Building 4 side: "A" (prev: "Random")
• Building 5 side: "A" (prev: "Random")
• Building 6 side: "A" (prev: "Random")
• Building 7 side: "A" (prev: "Random")
• Building 8 side: "A" (prev: "Random")
• Building 9 side: "A" (prev: "Random")
• Building 10 side: "A" (prev: "Random")
• Promo: Building 11: "Off" (prev: "Random")
• Building 12 side: "A" (prev: "Random")
• Promo: Building 13: "Off" (prev: "Random")
• Building 11 side: "A" (prev: "Random")
• Live scoring: "Off" (prev: "On")

Hand and Foot:

• Number of jokers per deck: "2" (prev: "3")
• Completed melds required to go out: "2 clean/2 dirty (wild melds not allowed)" (prev: "2 clean/2 dirty/1 wild")

Happy City:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "4")

Hawaii:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Hearts:

• Initial points: "75" (prev: "100")
• Count hand scores: "Enabled" (prev: "Disabled")

Hoarders:

• Number of players: "5" (prev: "4")
• Beaver mode: "Amigo's Beaver variant (5 or 6 players)" (prev: "Standard Beaver")

Hungarian Tarokk:

• Declarer trulls in three are: "Automatically scored without playing" (prev: "Not treated specially")

Innovation:

• Echoes of the Past expansion: "Disable" (prev: "Enable")

It's a Wonderful World:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "4")

Iwari:

• Feats: "All feats" (prev: "No feats")

Jump Drive:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

King of Tokyo:

• Number of players: "4" (prev: "5")
• Pick monster: "Pick" (prev: "Automatic")
• 2-players variant: "Enabled" (prev: "Disabled")

Koi-Koi:

• Koi-Koi multiplier: "Soft Koi-Koi" (prev: "Hard Koi-Koi")
• Cards of the month: "Enabled" (prev: "Disabled")

Krosmaster Arena:

• Format: " BGA Season 14" (prev: " BGA Season 13")

La Granja:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Lewis & Clark:

• Number of players: "4" (prev: "3")
• Rules: "Second Edition" (prev: "First Edition")
• Solo Level: "1 - Easy" (prev: "3 - Above Average")

Lost Explorers:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

Lost Ruins of Arnak:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")
• Board side: "The Bird Temple (standard)" (prev: "The Snake Temple (advanced)")

Love Letter:

• Number of players: "5" (prev: "4")

Marco Polo II: In the Service of the Khan:

• Include all Characters: "No" (prev: "Yes")

Marrakech:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")
• Rotate Assam at the end of turn: "yes" (prev: "no")

Mascarade:

• Number of players: "4" (prev: "6")

Mattock:

• Board size: "7 hexagons per edge" (prev: "5 hexagons per edge")
• Initial setup: "Freestyle" (prev: "Fixed")

Mech A Dream:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")
• Enlightened robots variation: "Disabled" (prev: "Enabled")

Minhwatu:

• Number of rounds: "3x Player count" (prev: "1x Player count")

Monster Factory:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

MOW:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

Nidavellir:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

No Thanks!:

• Number of players: "5" (prev: "4")

Obsession:

• Game Length: "Extended" (prev: "Standard")
• Expansion: "Wessex" (prev: "None")

Oh Hell!:

• Number of players: "4" (prev: "5")
• Game style: "Up only" (prev: "Down, then up")
• Bidding: "Simultaneous" (prev: "Sequential")

Oh-Seven:

• Card-passing variant: "Enabled" (prev: "Disabled")

P.I.:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

PARKS:

• Wildlife Expansion: "Enabled" (prev: "Disabled")
• Wildlove Variant: "Enabled" (prev: "Disabled")

Photosynthesis:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Piraten kapern:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Puerto Rico:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

Race for the Galaxy:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "4")
• Expansion: "Brink of War + Rebel vs. Imperium + The Gathering Storm" (prev: "Base game")
• Goals: "On" (prev: "Off")

Railways of the World:

• Game Map: "Railways of Mexico (Max 4 players)" (prev: "Railways of Great Britain (Max 5 players)")

Rallyman: GT:

• GT type: "GT-5" (prev: "Random")
• Track length: "Medium-length track" (prev: "Random")

Reflection:

• Maximum time to solve a puzzle: "5 minutes" (prev: "10 minutes")

Sapiens:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Seasons:

• Difficulty level: "Official Tournament authorized cards" (prev: "Archmage Level + Enchanted Kingdom & Path of Destiny expansions")

Senshi:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

Skull:

• Number of players: "4" (prev: "5")

Solo:

• Number of players: "4" (prev: "5")

Space Station Phoenix:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")
• Game Setup: "Player choice (mixed hubs)" (prev: "Player choice (basic hubs)")

Spot it:

• Mini-games: "Towering inferno" (prev: "Triplet")

Spots:

• Tricks: "Randomly Generated Set" (prev: "Random Recommended Set")
• Solo Difficulty: "Easily Paw-sible (Aila has nothing)" (prev: "Standard (Aila has 1 treat)")

Steam Works:

• Persona assignment: "Random" (prev: "Draft")

SteamRollers:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")
• Game Difficulty: "Medium" (prev: "Hard")
• Solo mode difficulty level: "Clerk" (prev: "Conductor")

Super Fantasy Brawl:

• Draft mode: "Competitive draft" (prev: "Random pool draft")

Sushi Go!:

• Soy sauce: "On" (prev: "Off")
• Pass both ways: "Off" (prev: "On")

Teotihuacan: City of Gods:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

Terra Mystica:

• Game board: "Fjords" (prev: "Base Game")

The Boss:

• Game mode: "Base game + Saint Louis" (prev: "Base game")

The Isle of Cats:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

The King's Guild:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Thurn and Taxis:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Tournay:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")
• Mode: "Normal" (prev: "Advanced")

Troyes:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

Tumbleweed:

• Board size: "8x8x8 (Standard)" (prev: "6x6x6 (Beginner/Blitz)")

Tzolk'in:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

Ultimate Railroads:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")
• Railroads: "Asian" (prev: "German")
• Industry: "Asian (One Shared Track)" (prev: "Russian (One Private Track)")

Uncle Chestnut's Table Gype:

• Number of players: "4" (prev: "2")
• Variant: "Rule of Chaos" (prev: "Random start")

Unconditional Surrender! World War 2 in Europe:

• Scenarios: "Germany 1945" (prev: "France 1944")
• Weather: "Follow rules" (prev: "Historical weather")

United Square:

• Number of rounds: "2-rounds game (2 players only)" (prev: "1-round game")

Wizard:

• Variant: "Hidden prediction" (prev: "Plus / Minus 1")

Yokohama:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

[frogstar_A]

Something seems to have gone badly wrong with the relegation code, as I have been reduced to Bronze in every game, even those with leagues!

Moderators please investigate,...

[boardgamelife]

why we are all in bronze league?

[MasterMystery]

also on bronze everywhere, furthermore there seasm to be a bug on anachrony, no end of season, it reset games played but not awarded rankings neither reset the leagues? what happened there?

[Frederick de Grosse]

I think all relegations have been to Bronze league. At least all mine were and I was in the Elite Leagues of 10 different games.

[noyb]

Yea, I was surprised to be drop from elite to bronze in my 6 favorite games also. I think this explains it - "For all games and all leagues, your number of Arena points is reset to 1, and your AES ("Arena Elo") is reset to 1500." ... or was this a bug / error?

[frogstar_A]

Yea, I was surprised to be drop from elite to bronze in my 6 favorite games also. I think this explains it - "For all games and all leagues, your number of Arena points is reset to 1, and your AES ("Arena Elo") is reset to 1500." ... or was this a bug / error?

No it's a bug

Arena points means 1 shield

AES is nothing to do with leagues directly

[KalaKPL]

Oh no... all relegation has been realized to the bronze league.... Even from the elite league. Please investigate and fix it.

[krayez]

Some of the games such as earth, cribbage, space station phoenix and Naidaveller aren't showing up on arena mode but are on the list.

Kristina