Team Belgium

Belgian champion Carcassonne 2025 (live) and 2026 (online), online runner-up in 2024 and live runner-up in 2022. Bronze medallist at the Carcassonne World Championship 2025 and semi-finalist of the online Carcassonne event at the Mind Sports Olympiad 2023.

Did you know? CraftyRaf published several chess courses on Chessable. His course The Checkmate Patterns Manual won a bronze medal for course of the year 2020 and became one of the most popular courses on the platform, with over 5,000 students.

Belgian champion Carcassonne 2022 (live and online), online runner-up in 2023, third at the live championship in 2023 and 2024 and runner-up in 2010. Belgian champion Catan 2017 (live).

Fun fact: JinaJina loves board games and discovering the world, preferably both at once. That once ended in an improvised game of Catan at 5,000 m altitude, somewhere in Nepal. Travel blog

Belgian champion Carcassonne 2006, 2007 and 2017 (live), Belgian champion Catan, Puerto Rico and Castles of Burgundy, and winner of the multi-game competition of the Belgian Boardgame Federation in 2024. A respectable 6th and 7th place at the Carcassonne World Championship.

Fun fact: obiwonder played the final of the Belgian Championship 2017 against his son. Father and son reached the final by beating N2xU and 71Knives in the semi-finals.

Belgian champion Carcassonne 2024 (online), 2023 (live) and 2019 to 2022 (league). Belgian champion Catan 2019 (live) and 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2025 (league), and Belgian champion 7 Wonders.

Did you know? 71Knives has played two Catan World Championships, three Catan European Championships, one Carcassonne World Championship and one Agricola World Championship.

Did you also know? 71Knives is an organising member of the renowned Catan Clan Tournament, which you must definitely take part in.

Team captain

Belgian champion Carcassonne 2024 (live) and 2023 (online). Also Belgian champion Castles of Burgundy and Splendor (three times), and winner of the multi-game competition of the Belgian Boardgame Federation in 2023.

Fun fact: N2xU owns too many unplayed board games.

Belgian online runner-up Carcassonne 2022 and third in 2024 and 2025.

Did you know? Nicedicer loves spending his free time on a mountain bike, bobbing on an air bed or doing DIY projects.

Fun fact: the DIYer in Nicedicer built a pizza oven with an integrated swimming pool heater in his garden. Imagine Nicedicer bobbing on his air bed in a pizza-oven-heated pool, enjoying a slice of homemade pepperoni pizza with extra cheese. We wonder if the cocktail blender will power a whirlpool next.

Belgian champion Carcassonne 2016 (live) and runner-up in 2023. Bronze medallist at the Carcassonne World Championship 2016.

Did you know? Carcassonne is one of the only board games Wannes plays competitively. Normally he prefers to break his head over cooperative games such as Arkham Horror and Tainted Grail.

Belgian champion Carcassonne 2015 and 2018 (live), Belgian champion Dominion, Cacao and Heckmeck am Karteneck.

Did you know? Joren played the Carcassonne World Championship three times and reached a respectable 14th place.

Fun fact: Joren's brother owns Sunken Tower Games, a company that starts from history and creates games from that perspective. Joren is a game tester and advisor for the company.

Belgian online champion Carcassonne 2025.

Fun fact: Fabian discovered that Carcassonne competitions exist and created a BGA account only after reading Dan Chard's The Book of Carcassonne: Strategy, Tips and Tactics.

Did you know? Fabian is a huge Porsche fan and collector, big and small. He has taken part in many car events across Europe, visiting every place where Porsche built its legend.

Belgian online runner-up Carcassonne 2026. Proud member of the national team, for which she has qualified every year since 2021.

Did you know? mobidic is the highest rated female Belgian Carcassonne player ever and so far the only woman to reach the team. Come on girls!

Fun fact: her friends refuse to play Carcassonne with her. Thanks, BGA!

Quarter-finalist of the online championship 2024.

Fun fact: when Michiel isn't playing Carcassonne you'll probably find him training for a marathon or triathlon. Mens sana in corpore sano, that's the spirit.

Did you know? He ran a marathon with valmir79 and beat him by 8 seconds. If he beats everyone in Carcassonne the same way, we're all happy!

Belgian champion Catan, Castles of Burgundy and more, Belgian champion of the multi-game competition and winner of the Europemasters 2004.

Did you know? Defdamesdompi is a former number 1 of the Belgian Boardgame Federation ranking.

Belgian runner-up Carcassonne 2017, in a final against his father. A respectable 13th place at the Carcassonne World Championship.

Fun fact: his father (obiwonder) and his uncle each have three Belgian Carcassonne titles. It's in the genes, they say. Big shoes to fill, we say. Father and son

Bronze at the online championship 2026.

Fun fact: Thomas has a collection of over 100 different games that he plays with his friends at home. Like Learn to fly, he trains a lot for triathlons.

Did you know? Thomas claims to pray to the Carcassonne gods to pull the right tile at the right moment to finish that supermega city!

Quarter-finalist of the online championship 2024.

Did you know? Ludo was the third Belgian player to break the 700 Elo wall in online Carcassonne.

No significant Carcassonne results... yet!

Fun fact: Tony is British born and a huge Newcastle fan. He has lived in Belgium since the early nineties.

Did you know? Tony is also a huge fan of Napoleon and mainly plays strategic wargames: La Bataille (Napoleonic), Blind Swords (American Civil War), Panzer Grenadier (WWII) and Musket & Pike (English Civil War and Thirty Years' War), all played very seriously. Fellow Carcassonnians, be warned!

Did you know? AnTHology is passionate about board games and tries out new ones regularly.

Fun fact: AnTHology loves riding his motorbike and playing some tunes on his guitar.

Two-time Belgian champion Monopoly (2000 and 2009).

Did you know? rally8 played the Monopoly World Championship in Toronto (2000) and Las Vegas (2009).

Fun fact: rally8 is a big fan of... drum roll... rally racing.