Bangkok Diplomacy Club

The Bangkok Diplomacy Club is one of the first asian Diplomacy communities.
Bangkok
== Genesis ==
Created in february 2020 in preparation of the World Diplomacy Championship 2021 by Chris Sanderson (Battlefield Bangkok), Fabian Weiner (Ninive Game Store) & Lei Saarlainen (WDC Bangkok 2021).
The Bangkok Diplomacy Club aims to organize Diplomacy games and Diplomacy-style board games (Game of Thrones, Dune, ...).
A first game was organised in the Battlefield Bangkok Boardgame cafe in 2016 and won by Chris Sanderson.
Some games were organised by Tom Aikins at the American bar, but any traces of them have been lost.
== Upcoming Competitions ==
=== World Diplomacy Championship 2023 17/20 August 2023 ===
Full article : World Diplomacy Championship 2023 Bangkok
The greatest Diplomacy event organised for the first time in Asia. the WDC 2023 will be organised at Battlefield Bangkok probably 17/20 august 2023
* Date 17/20 August 2023
* Venue Battlefield Bangkok 
for more information you can contact Lei Saarlainen at leisaarlainen@gmail.com
=== Bangkok Diplomacy Open 2023 ===
the Bangkok Diplomacy Open 2023 will be held at Battlefield Bangkok in may 2023 at Battlefield Bangkok will be a 4 round competition over a week-end
== Running Competitions ==
=== Thai/Asean Diplomacy Championship 2022/2023 ===
the Thai/Asean Diplomacy Championship is a running competition played along the year
==== Standing ====
 	Player 	#1 	#2 	#3 	#4 	total	#	Pre	rating
1 	Sascha Heylmann 	2515	 	 	2835	5350 	2	2 	1044
2 	Lei Saarlainen 	1470	2100	 	945 	4515 	3	2 	835
3 	Jean-Pierre Blanchet	 	 	2835	 	2835 	1	2 	722
4 	Ben Scherrey 	1155	945 	735 	840 	3675 	4	 	459
5 	Wenzel Frick 	 	 	1260	 	1260 	1	2 	420
6 	Tony Scherrey 	735 	735 	840 	945 	3255 	4	 	407
7 	Danny Scherrey 	630 	1575	630 	70 	2905 	4	 	369
8 	Morgan Baugh 	 	630 	 	1260	1890 	2	 	315
9 	Yukai Jerng 	 	 	945 	525 	1470 	2	 	245
10	Nicholas Palevsky 	315 	 	 	 	315 	1	 	63
==== Games ====
* Game #1 Bangkok FTF 13 august 2022 Battlefield Bangkok Winner Sascha Heylmann
* Game #2 Bangkok FTF 20 august 2022 Battlefield Bangkok Winner Lei Saarlainen
* Game #3 Bangkok FTF 15 october 2022 Bangspace Winner Jean Pierre Blanchet
* Game #4 Bangkok FTF 5 november 2022 Bangspace Winner Sascha Heylmann
*Game #5 Bangkok Speedboat (inperson) 20 november 2022 Battlefield Bangkok Winner Lei Saarlainen
== Past Competitions ==
=== Thai/Asean Diplomacy Championship 2020/2021 ===
Full article : Thai/Asean Diplomacy Championship 2020/2021
the Thai/Asean Diplomacy Championship was played along the year. Also included are games played by the Da Nang Diplomacy Center (DN), the Hong Kong Diplomacy Community (HK) and First Saturday Games (FS) organized by the Asia Pacific Diplomacy Association.
the Thai/Asean Championship used the Bangkok 2020 scoring system
==== Standing ====
 	Player 	#1 	#2	#3 	#4 	#5	#6 	HK 	FS 	#7	SI1 	total	#	rating
1 	Mario Huys 	 	 	4 	 	23	 	 	13.43	26	6 	72.43	5	8.05
2 	S. Heylmann 	13 	6 	31 	8 	4 	14 	 	8 	6 	1.2 	91.2 	9	7.02
3 	L Saarlainen	7 	18	 	 	 	9.33	 	5 	 	17.5	56.83	5	6.31
4 	Peter Darby 	15.5	4 	16 	1.2 	 	14 	 	 	 	 	50.7 	5	5.63
5 	Wenzel Frick	6 	7 	0.9	20.2	7 	 	5 	 	11	6 	63.1 	8	5.26
6 	J-P Blanchet	 	 	 	 	 	7 	 	 	11	15 	33 	3	4.71
7 	Tristan Lee 	 	 	 	 	 	 	20.2	 	 	 	20.2 	1	4.04
8 	F. Weiner 	7 	9 	 	9 	5 	6 	 	 	 	 	36 	5	4
9 	Tom Barbé 	 	18	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	18 	1	3.6
10	H. Boulanger	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	17.5	17.5 	1	3.5
==== Games ====
* Game #1 FTF 04 March 2020 Battlefield Bangkok winner Anthony Reardon/Peter Darby
* Game #2 FTF 11 March 2020 Ninive Game Store winner Tom Barbé/Lei Saarlainen
* Game #3 Correspondence 24 March 2020 - 23 April Webdiplomacy winner Sascha Heylmann
* Game #4 Correspondence 18 April - 2 May Webdiplomacy winner Wenzel Frick
* Game #5 Virtual FTF 2 May Webdiplomacy/Diplomacy Discord winner Mario Huys
* Game #6 Correspondence 11 May - 2 June Correspondence Webdiplomacy/free winner Wenzel Frick
*Game Hongkong #1 FTF 6 june 2020 Wheat & Wood Boardgame Café winner Tristan Lee
* First Saturday Speedboat 3 Octobre Backstabbr winner Andrew Goff
* Game #7 Correspondence 15 November 2020 - 12 January 2021 Correspondence Backstabbr/Discord winner Mario Huys
* Game #8 Correspondance Spice Island Correspondance Vdiplomacy winner Herve Boulanger/Lei Saarlainen
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=== Bangkok Diplomacy Open 2022 ===
Full article : Bangkok Diplomacy open 2022 
the Bangkok Diplomacy open 2022 3 days, 4 games, was organised the 25/27 november at Battlefield Bangkok
==== Standing ====
 	Player 	res	nat	Pts 	#1 	#2 	#3 	#4
1 	Sascha Heylmann	THA	GER	4445	1050	 	1645	2835
2 	Farren Jane 	KOR	USA	3889	2415	1484	 	630
3 	Andrew Goff 	AUS	AUS	2982	1050	1484	1645	1260
4 	Mario Huys 	JAP	BEL	2587	1365	1484	840 	140
5 	L Saarlainen 	THA	FRA	2475	840 	1029	1330	1260
6 	J-P Blanchet 	THA	FRA	2079	 	1239	840 	
7 	Tristan Singh 	THA	CAN	1575	525 	630 	 	945
8 	Hari Kurokawa 	THA	JAP	1470	 	 	630 	840
9 	Chris Sanderson	THA	GBR	175 	 	 	 	175
10	Wenzel Frick 	THA	LIC	140 	 	140 	 	
==== Games; ====
* Game #1 FtF 25 november 2023 Battlefield Bangkok winner Farren Jane
* Game #2 FtF 26 november 2023 Battlefield Bangkok winner Mario Huys, Andrew Goff, Farren Jane
* Game #3 FtF 26 november 2023 Battlefield Bangkok winner Andrew Goff, Sascha Heylmann
* Game #4 FtF 26 november 2023 Battlefield Bangkok winner Sascha Heylmann
== Media ==
The forum of the Bangkok Diplomacy Club is in the Discord server of the Asia Pacific Diplomacy Association:
https://discord.gg/kzvCuWf__FORCETOC__
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