Running an official tournament does not immediately qualify the winner for further championships, although it can help. Qualification for local, national, and then world championships will vary depending on the country you’re in. Hasbro hosts an annual Monopoly World Championship. Once every four to six years, with increasingly longer intervals between tournaments since the inaugural one in 1973.

Brian Nuttall, the reigning champion of Monopoly in the United Kingdom, was asked to compete in the inaugural Monopoly World Championship in 1973. When the Monopoly World Championship first started, it was intended as an annual event. Tournaments were held in 1973, 1974, and 1975, before they started to become less regular. Suppose a game reaches its time limit before all participants have had a chance to participate. In that case, the person in first place receives 16-25 points, depending on the number of players left in the game. The 2015 tournament welcomed 28 players, who all took part in three preliminary rounds, each lasting an hour – these were unseeded games that were drawn randomly.The winners of each semi-final advanced to the final to play a 2-hour timed match, although it only actually lasted for 47 minutes. Properties had to be auctioned if they were not bought, there was no reward for landing on Free Parking, and play continued either until all players, barring the winner, were bankrupt, or a time limit expired. The high production values of Monopoly Championship Edition set it apart from other game versions of Monopoly. The gameboard of the Championship Edition is fancier, featuring metallic residences and hotels, and the tokens and dice come in a velvet pouch. In terms of continents, this means that the World Championships have been held in North America 8 times, Europe 4 times, and Asia twice.

The world championships are held every four to six years. The 2021 championship was cancelled because of Covid and there is no confirmed date for the next one. When it comes, I hope to win again. Nobody has won the title twice.Classic Monopoly rules were used for competition in the World Championships every year from 1973 through 2004. Participants used just two dice and played under the standard Monopoly rules. After the three preliminary rounds, the top 16 players in terms of points advanced to the semi-finals. The current Monopoly world champion is Nicolo Falcone, of Italy. He won the last tournament held in 2015, meaning he is officially recognized as the current world’s best Monopoly player. He defeated prior world champion Bjorn Halvard Knappskog at the final table. It’s believed that this change was to help promote the new version of the game and also to make the event more marketable to spectators and viewers, who may not want to sit and watch two-hour games. There have been several changes to the structure of the world championship. Still, since 2000, things have settled into a reasonably stable pattern.