page_title: College Football Risk
section_title: Premise
hierarchical_section_title: College Football Risk / Gameplay / Premise
caption_attribution_description: English: Graphic of the CFB map showing all territories.
context_page_description: College Football Risk, or CFBRisk, is an annual collegiate strategy game that takes place every spring and inspired by the Hasbro Boardgame, Risk. Each season, more than 8,000 students and non-students participate, representing all NCAA Division I FBS schools in the United States. The game is a continuation of the popular game run by the college football subreddit, "r/CFB," on the social media site Reddit. CFBRisk first took place in the spring and summer of 2018. It is an MMOG-style game where college football fanbases compete for control of a fictionalized map of the United States. The goal is to control as much territory as possible for ultimate domination of the map. From season one forward, College Football Risk has been played independently from Reddit.
context_section_description: The very first iterations of the game were not directly based on the boardgame Risk, but the outcomes of college football games throughout the season.  Fanbases and news sites later pointed out the similarities to the boardgame Risk, and a game where fanbases themselves controlled the outcome, independently of their teams actual performance, was developed as a collaboration between schools in the college football offseason.  The concept of overtaking another team's territory spurs from a series of Reddit posts where users modified maps of the United States to illustrate a team's power, known as college football 'imperialism maps' or 'empire maps.'  Now modelled after the boardgame Risk, CFBRisk is played on a map of 131 territories in the United States, 130 of which represent the geographical home of NCAA Division I FBS schools and one additional territory designated for team Chaos. Initially, home territories were determined by which school is closest in straight-line distance to the geometric center of each county, but have now been adjusted as to reduce the overlap in state boundaries. The goal of the game is to expand your home team's territory and ultimately control the entire game map.  
  Players affiliate with a school and have the option to make a single move every day.  Players either defend one of their own territories or attack an adjacent territory that is held by an enemy team.  Every night at 11PM EST, the results of each team's attack and defense are calculated for every territory, and the map updates based on which teams win each territory. Every team is assigned a point value based on the total number players from that team who attacked or defended a given territory and a random number generator (RNG) determines the victor. The odds of winning a given territory is found through the ratio of total points of each of the attacking teams and the defending team. A random player from the winning team of a territory is selected every round and designated as the MVP.
caption: The CFBRisk Map on Day One
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