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Backgammon World Championship 2026 (+mini rant)
Posted By: Stick
Date: Thursday, 30 July 2026, at 7:18 p.m.
In case you didn't know, the World Championship in Monaco started rolling this week. The main has a couple of rounds complete now and I'd love to share the brackets with you but I can't find any. They're supposed to be posted on gammon.gg but all I can find are 404s for the main tournament.
On top of that, to see things on that site you must register. A pure pain in the ass if you ask me to have to register to see some brackets. Quite the process too ... you can use some fake information but you still have to use a valid email where you confirm your account. After that there are more questions to fill out before you're allowed in. (name, sex, nationality, phone number, bday) You can use fake info here too but it's the hassle of it all.
One more step to register, you can't opt out of accepting to receive notifications, updates, and news.
Is there streaming going on?! Bill Riles said on his Facebook that it was for the first couple of days, the lead up events, but he never included a link? I'm poking around every backgammon group on Facebook and random backgammon friends to find anything. The Backgammon World Championship Facebook page said there's also streaming...and also didn't include any links. Wtf people?
So yes, as you might expect, there seems to be streaming through YouTube. Backgammon Galaxy YT Page.
I often feel like it's just me. I'm not even really in the backgammon world and I find this wildly frustrating. I don't even want to watch live streams though I would check results. If there were streams I might input a match here or there and share them. After the entire process of hunting down information and coming up with crumbs though I have no desire to do anything else.
Stick
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