Curiosities Group Stage - 2026
World Team Carcassonne Online Championship
2026
Greetings meeply-minded folk,
It was certainly a long and grueling 5 weeks of Carcassonne for our WTCOC teams and we have (mostly) enjoyed every second of it. From unexpected wins to heartbreaking losses, such is the nature of any competitive game. Now that the group stage dust has settled, let’s review some of the Group Stage Curiosities...
Group Stage in review
- Number of games played: 976
- Number of duels played: 396
- Number of matches played: 80
- 212 duels had 2 games played (424 games total)
- 184 duels had 3 games played (552 games total)
- 18 games ended in a draw
- 8 games were lost due to no-show
- 18 games were lost on time
- Number of matches ending with a scoreline:
- 9 matches ended 5-0 (11.25%)
- 29 matches ended 4-1 (36.25%)
- 42 matches ended 3-2 (52.5%)
Group Stage Team and Player Stats
- Teams with number of match wins
- 4 wins — 3 teams
- 3 wins — 11 teams
- 2 wins — 13 teams
- 1 wins — 9 teams
- Teams with the highest
- Matches won % : China, Japan, France (100%)
- Duels won % : China (80%); France, Portugal, Italy (75%)
- Games won % : China (69%); Japan, Ukraine (67%)
- Games won - Games lost: China (20); France, Japan, Ukraine (16)
- Number of players who won all their duels: 82
- Number of players who won all their games: 21
- Number of players who played at least 1 game: 366 (93.6%)
- Players who played the most games (12) : viv- (Fra), pollo_verde (Ita), portgard (Vnm)
- Teams that have the most players (3) playing in all 4 matches and their contributions:
- Czech Republic - martypartyouje, posij118, majkls : 9/12 duel wins
- Finland - Nallerheim, Larpaattori, Tappajahaukii : 8/9 duel wins
- Lithuania - Muzhachello, Liudeselis, Euclid314: 9/11 duel wins
- Equally represented : All players in both Japan and Ukraine had played 2 matches each.
Group Stage MVP for Eliminated Teams
- The following is based on contested win percentages (minimum 2 duels played)
- Australia — King_Deded4d5 — 100% (4-0)
- Belarus — Korshuk Dima — 67% (2-1)
- Catalonia — steam4206 — 100% (3-0)
- Chile — Claudio Jorquera — 67% (2-1)
- Croatia — vegaorion — 100% (3-0)
- Ecuador — Jotanan — 67% (2-1)
- Finland — Larpaattori — 100% (4-0)
- Guatemala — Leykos — 50% (2-2)
- Hungary — szigfrid — 67% (2-1)
- Malaysia — kaika87 — 67% (2-1)
- Sweden — Helge_H — 75% (3-1)
- Thailand — Pakshe — 75% (3-1)
- United Kingdom — corelli — 100% (2-0)
- United States — jpiekut — 67% (2-1)
- Uruguay — BDDL1 — 75% (3-1)
- Vietnam — portgard — 50% (2-2)
Group Stage records
- The highest winning scores in a game:
- 154 posij118 (Cze)
- 149 R2RIO- (Lat)
- 148 viv- (Fra)
- The game with the highest combined score:
- 277 Muzhachello (Ltu) vs Natpeera-ch (Tha) at table #841983030
- The lowest winning score:
- Highest point difference
- Longest active streak in games
- The game with the lowest combined score:
- 114 Tatan D (Col) vs portgard (Vnm) at table #841950023
- The highest losing score:
- The longest road:
- The largest city:
- The largest ruin:
- 30 Megot Noskill (Aus) at table #842369281 They only managed to
score 4 other city points aside from this ruin.
- The largest field:
- 36 Xing1007 (Chn) and robill (Hun) shared this field at table #853020205
- Most points scored with roads in a single game:
- Most points scored with cities in a single game:
- Most points scored with monastery in a single game:
- Most points scored with fields in a single game:
- 45 Lichidakiller (Mex) at table #853068280, Meami (Ger) at table #847006152, vadzimir (Blr) at table 841992167, Carquinyolis (Cat) and Blitz (Fra) at table #837610151
- Latest first point scoring:
- Most meeples placed on average:
- 19.8 marusingfire (Jap) placed the meeples 99 times over 5 games (Average meeple placed: 16.86)
- Most and fewest city caps drawn by players in a single game
- Lichidakiller (Mex) 18 - 4 BBKosta (RCP)
- Fewest city caps drawn by the winning player in a single game
- Fewest number of completed cities by the winning player in a single game
Meeple management records
- Game won with the most meeples placed
- Game won with the fewest meeple placed
- Game with the most meeples placed
- 42 mosapal (Hun) vs mirr14 (Gre) at table #837585722
- Game with the least meeples placed
- 24 Patablanca-uy (Uru) vs webbi (Arg) at table #849661403
- Most turns spent by the winning player without a meeple at the end of the game
Carcanopoly and tile discard records
- Number of games all of a particular tile is drawn by one player (with number of tiles, and the odds)
- 5 Curves (RRFF)
5 Intersections w/o cities (RRRF / RRRR)
18 Monasteries (FFFF / FFFR)
7 Big cities (CCCR / CCCF / CCCC)
1 Doritos (CCRR / CCFF)
2 Tiles with shields ( 2xCCFF / 2xCFCF 2xCCRR / 1xCCCF / 2xCCCR / 1xCCCC)
Honorable mentions:
- Meami (Ger) drew 12 of the 13 road-end tiles at table #845823408 (1/1934 odds)
- Megot Noskill (Aus) and squallus (Fra) both drew 29 of the 44 road tiles at tables #838426307 and #853168119, respectively (1/3251 odds)
- Lichidakiller (Mex) drew 18 of the 22 city cap tiles at table #841990938 (1/4654 odds)
- Number of times tiles were discarded
- 22 CCCC
- 6 FFFF
- 4 RRRR
- 1 CCRR
- Players with multiple discards
Time-based records
- Least amount of thinking time used by a winning player in a game
- 2:41 migcrack (Esp) at table #842473766 (week 2)
- 2:44 notnewatthis (Por) at table #839120535 (week 1)
- 2:48 King_Deded4d5 (Aus) at table #838429207 (week 1)
- Note: previously mentioned faster speed records were obtained in games using the incremental BGA clock, which does not take into account about 70 seconds per player per game.
- Least amount of time used by a winning player in a duel
- Longest game in the group stage
- 29:54 Berna1871 (Bra) vs Vainiria (Chl) at table #842429441
- Longest duel in the group stage
- 1:27:42 CTCTCTCTCT (HK) and danielayala94 (Mex) at table #845189095 (week 3)
- Shortest game in the group stage
- 7:40 danisvh (Cat) and D3xt3r99 (Gua) at table #852603531
- Shortest duel in the group stage
- 16:05 danisvh (Cat) and D3xt3r99 (Gua) at table #852603531
- Player with highest average thinking time (>3 games)
- 14:47 dareyoutofightme (Vnm) from 4 games
- Player with lowest average thinking time (>3 games)
- 3:17 migcrack (Esp) from 5 games
Close scores and starter rates
- Game with the highest draw scores
- 115 Aliyoo (USA) vs Logan Ghanesh (Mal) at table #845901906
- Players involved with multiple close games (4p or less)
- 4 James Boon (Mal), Carcharoth 9 (Bel), Liudeselis (Ltu)
- Players involved in multiple draws
- Starting player sweeps (most games, always starting player)
- 6 Dos_Diable_nero (Jap) and CrisRamirez (Chl)
- Non-starting player sweeps (most games, never starting player)
- 5 Norberts96 (Lat), StevenChangTW (Tai), YguruguruY (Jap), adrianalex86 (Mal)
- Team with the highest starter rate
- Sweden (29 / 44) - 65.91%
- Team with the lowest starter rate
- Vietnam (18 / 46) - 39.13%
- The starting player won 56.05% of the time
Rookie records
- Number of games involving WTCOC 2026 rookies: 137
- Number of wins by rookies: 55 (~40% win rate)
- Rookies of the Group Stage:
- King_Deded4d5 going 4-0 in the group stage with a respectable 8-2 game won-loss record.
- Honorable mentions:
- Steam (Cat) winning 3-0 duels
- HappyTim7 (Ger) winning 3-0 duels
- Bestwall (RCP) winning 3-0 duels
- Team of Rookies for the tournament
- Japan lined up 5 new players this WTCOC 2026, who won 9 of 10 duels they played, with a 19-5 game won-loss record.
ELO related records:
- Game with the highest average ELO
- Nallerheim (Fin) vs AnnenMay (RCP) - Average ELO: 735
- Win rate of players with higher ELO
Streamer records:
We tallied the number of matches and streaming hours from our fellow 3 main English streamers on Youtube during this Group Stage and found the following:
- Total stream duration: 76h 14m 3s
- Most matches streamed:
- 28 matches each by Nallerheim and yzemaze
- Most hours streamed
- 34h 25m 32s, Nallerheim (2 hours more than the next streamer)
- Longest stream
- 3h 11m 1s, Nallerheim (Week 4: WTCOC 2026 Group Stage Week 4 || Netherlands - Malaysia || China - Greece || Thailand - Czechia)
- Week with the longest stream
- Week 4 saw 17h 57m 39s of Carcassonne streamed cumulatively by the three streamers.
- Most broadcasted teams (not including multi-matches streams)
- Australia (5h 7m 46s)
- Lithuania (4h 34m 31s)
- Ukraine (2h 59m 48s)
Carcassonne winning streaks
After a certain WTCOC 2026 debutant broke a certain Japanese player's ongoing duel wins streak this season, Mr Curiossonne and his assistants decided to investigate which players had the longest winning streak across all editions of WTCOC (as well as any notable ongoing streaks to keep our eyes on). We do apologize in advance if we are missing any anyone… we haven’t fully cross-referenced changes in player names and accounts over the years, and still have to verify the 2020 and 2021 game results with BGA game logs for accuracy. That being said, here are the some of the very impressive streaks we are aware of:
Game streaks
- WTCOC 2026 players active streaks (as of the end of group stage)
- Muzhachello (Ltu) — 10 games (2025 - )
- WTCOC 2026 notable game streaks
- Lichidakiller (Mex) — 8 games (2025 - 2026 week 4)
- kaika87 (Mal) — 8 games (2024 - 2026 week 4)
- Players with the longest WTCOC game streaks
- Alexey_Lv (Lat) — 15 (!) games (2023 - 2024)
- should (Jap) — 13 games (2024 - 2025)
- 3106kun (Jap) — 13 games (2020 - 2022)
- arop (USA) — 13 games (2022)
Duel streaks
- WTCOC 2026 players with active streaks (as of the end of group stage)
- Muzhachello (Ltu) — 9 duels (2025 - )
- vegaorion (Cro) — 7 duels (2025 - )
- WTCOC 2026 notable duel streaks
- should (Jap) — 15 (!) duels (2023 - 2026 week 1)
- Players with the longest WTCOC duel streaks
- 3106kun (Jap) — 13 duels (2020 - 2022…) 'dormant' streak
- pinder_tron (Jap) — 11 duels (2020 - 2021…) 'dormant' streak
- Salva3xz (Col), manarori (Mex), Someone_you_know (RCP) — 10 duels, ending 2025, 2024, and 2023, respectively
- If either 3106kun or pinder_tron decide to return to WTCOC, they can extend their duel streaks!
Mr. Curiossonne wants your help
Who are you supporting to be WTCOC 2026 champions? Do share with us your insights. In fact, send us some photos of you supporting your favourite team and you may see them in this section in the coming weeks.
Thank you for reading, sharing & caring,
szigfrid, JinaJina, Mingo, kaika87, posij118 😘
