Play Diplomacy Tournaments & Online

Where to Play

Getting 7 people together to play Diplomacy can sometimes be difficult. Fortunately, there are a ton of opportunities to play! Tournaments in the NADF circuit make up the backbone of the face-to-face hobby in North America.  Some of these events have been held for over thirty years in the same location, others are brand new. The best place to keep up to date with the latest in the North America community is the NADF Discord server. The Diplomacy Broadcast Network keeps a regularly updated list of virtual and face-to-face tournaments held across the world on their website.

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Virtual Games & Online Play

Online Diplomacy games are sometimes called asynchronous, because players negotiate and submit orders whenever they wish before a preset deadline, as opposed to negotiations and order writing done all at the same time in a face-to-face game.  Players write “press” to each other, in the form of written communication handled either by a chat function within the website or app used for the game, or in some formats, by email.  Whether you play under your own name or a pseudonym also varies by platform.

Virtual Diplomacy League (VDL)

One good thing to arise from the 2020 pandemic was the creation of a totally new way to play Diplomacy, virtual face-to-face. The Virtual Diplomacy League runs monthly games throughout the year, culminating in a Championship Top Board in January. The games are run on the Backstabbr platform, with player negotiation and overall organization hosted on the vWDC Discord server.

There is also VDL information on the Diplomacy Broadcast Network website.

Discord Servers

NADF

The North American Diplomacy Federation hosts a Discord server, where you can find discussion, information on upcoming tournaments and ways to connect with the diplomacy hobby.

vWDC

The Virtual World Diplomacy Community is the hub of Diplomacy activity in the medium of virtual face to face play.  This server hosts the Virtual Diplomacy Championship, Masterclass meetings most weekends where players chat in a conference call format about Diplomacy subjects, houses the Club Growth Initiative, and lots of other features.

For an explicitly non-tournament vibe in your online Diplomacy play, try the Casual Diplomacy server. Click here for an invite.

NEXUS

Once you learn how to navigate Discord, there are other Diplomacy servers you will want to check out.  The Nexus Leagues community runs online leagues utilizing multiple websites and apps to encourage a “nexus” of players between those otherwise disparate communities.

Casual Diplomacy

For an explicitly non-tournament vibe in your online Diplomacy play, try the Casual Diplomacy server. Click here for an invite.

Local Clubs & Face to face tournaments

Windy City Weasels – Chicago’s Diplomacy Club

DixieCon Website

ARMADA — The Association of Rocky Mountain Area Diplomacy Adversaries

Contact cascadia.open@gmail.com for information.

Bay Area Diplomacy Association | Meetup

Diplomacy Club: Los Angeles Legionnaires | Meetup

Find information on the Diplorats on the NADF Discord server!

Boston Massacre Website

Totalcon is a general games tournament in Marlborough, MA which hosts a Diplomacy event.

General information about the convention can be found at here. Join the Carnage Discord server for more information!