The 2026 Tabletop Games Balancing Competition

Previous Competitions

This page contains information pertaining to previous editions of the competition. This includes final leaderboards, and changes to the competition.

2025

2025 was our inaugral competition. jbargu was the winner with his entry getting the highest score of 937 points.

Leaderboard

  1. jbargu’s Phase 3 (rep) - 937 pts
  2. jbargu’s Phase 3 (exp_non_web) - 934 pts
  3. YuriCat’s 1st - 905 pts
  4. jbargu’s Phase 2 (web) - 903 pts
  5. jbargu’s Phase 1 (FULL) - 889 pts
  6. jbargu’s Phase 1 (FULL) - 887 pts
  7. jbargu’s Phase 2 - 867 pts
  8. jbargu’s Phase 2a - 863 pts
  9. jbargu’s Phase 1 - 852 pts

Scoring

These were the scoring metrics used.

7 Wonders

Winrate Target
AgentWinrate
Random0%
OSLA0%
Good45%
Elite55%
Calculation

score = 1000 - winrate distance


Can’t Stop

Matchup Target
AgentRandomOSLAGoodElite
Random-0%0%0%
OSLA100%-10%5%
Good100%90%-45%
Elite100%95%55%-
First Player Win-rate Target

50%

Calculation

score = 1000 - matchups distance - win-rate distance


Dominion

Matchup Target
AgentRandomOSLAGoodElite
Random-0%0%0%
OSLA100%-40%20%
Good100%60%-40%
Elite100%80%60%-
First Player Win-rate Target

50%

Calculation

score = 1000 - matchups distance - win-rate distance


Exploding Kittens

Matchup Target
AgentRandomOSLAGoodElite
Random-0%0%0%
OSLA100%-40%20%
Good100%60%-40%
Elite100%80%60%-
First Player Win-rate Target

50%

Calculation

score = 1000 - matchups distance - win-rate distance

Leaderboard