Minesweeper World Championship 2025
The Minesweeper World Championship 2025 will take place at 42 Madrid on the last weekend of September - for the first time in ten years!
Main Events
There will be three main events:
The Minesweeper World Championship 2025
The World Championship will use exactly the same format as previous world championships, ie, 0+5+5/3h.
As a brief explanation, this means that players play as many games as they like for three hours, and the sum of their five best intermediate and expert times is their final score - obviously, the lower the better!
It will be played on Scoreganizer using Vienna MineSweeper. The version used will support skins, and with that larger square sizes.
A more detailed explanation with examples is available on the info page for the World Championship 2015.
The Chord Cup
The next iteration of this modern (yet already venerable) PvP event series.
More details coming soon!
Minesweeper Royale
This event will take place on minesweeper.online. Players will compete in a free-for-all in multiple categories.
More details coming soon!
A note on L chords
The Chord Cup and Minesweeper Royale will support L chords; however, the Minesweeper World Championship will not, only L+R chords are supported.
This is because the World Championship operates under the ruleset of the official world ranking on minesweepergame.com.
If you haven't played with L+R chords before, we recommend getting used to that well before the tournament. If that is the case, odds are, you play on minesweeper.online - you can switch to L+R chords in settings.
Location
The address of 42 Madrid is:
Distrito Telefónica - Edificio Norte 3
Ronda de la Comunicación, s/n
28050 Madrid
España
Participate
You will need an account for that. If you don't have one yet, you can make one here.
Schedule
This is our preliminary schedule. It might still change slightly, but you can rely on the events being on those days in that order at roughly that time (and not missing a main event if you need to leave at 15:00 on Sunday).
Friday, 2025-09-26
- Arrivals
- Get some rest (you'll need it - there will be a party the next night)
Saturday, 2025-09-27
- 08:30: Players arrive at the venue and get set up
- 09:00-12:00: Minesweeper World Championship 2025
- 12:00-14:00: Lunch break, time buffer in case of tech issues
- 14:00-17:30: Chord Cup 8 part 1
- 17:30-18:30: Merienda
- 18:30-21:00: Chord Cup 8 part 2 - top8
- 14:00-21:00: Reimbursement station
- 21:00-22:00: Awards ceremonies for WCH/CC, thanking sponsors, etc
- 22:00-??:??: Dinner, Party (details TBA!)
Sunday, 2025-09-28
- ??:??-15:00: Minesweeper Royale (details TBA!)
- 15:00-20:00: Other small Minesweeper-related activities/games, food, reimbursement station reopens
Reimbursement station
There will be a reimbursement station where people can make their refund claims as they get eliminated from CC, to avoid there being a huge line. May contain traces of merch, no promises yet.
More Information
You can find a list of announcements/decisions that are relevant to the world championship here.
Also, we will update this post as more information becomes available!