The World Block

The World Block is the highest level international Blokus competition currently running. The event is held every 5 years by The council of Blokus. The tournament features several high-level Blokus Grand Master competing in several Blokus matches, after which the winner is awarded the prize pool.

The inaugural tournament was held in 25 AC by its current owners, it was started for the sake of having a easy place to determine who the best Blokus Grand Master is. It was unsuccessful at first until they started bribing people with prize money, the first World Block was won by Christian Potter.

The Format
The tournament is a Single-elimination tournament, and accepts and invites up to 128 competitors, however usually only half of the 128 invited people attend.

The last recorded time when every single person who was invited actually attended the event was during the Blokus anime's early run, in 1940. At the end of each round only half of the remaining competitors make it through.

The Prizes
Prior to the update in 2000 the competitor in first place wins three purple squares (which can be formed to create a full purple piece), the competitor in second place wins two purple squares, and the competitor in third place wins one purple square as well as the main prizes.

The other prizes awarded include:

1st- 100 of the worlds highest valued currency* at the time, and +300 Blokus points.

2nd- 100 of the worlds second highest valued currency* at the time, and -17.5 Blokus points.

3rd- 100 of the third worlds highest valued currency* at the time, and +1/5 Blokus points.

4th- 100 Indian Rupees and +7 Blokus points.

Selection Process
Every year prior to The World Block every major continent (Australia is treated as part of Asia but New Zealand inst) has their own qualifier tournament, with the number of competitors corresponding in size to the population of the continent it is on divided by the amount of letters in the country hosting the game, this was implemented for "balancing reasons".

The top 5 competitors of each of these tournaments is invited into The World Block.

For example, in Asia, the number of competitors is 5772, wheras the European tournament has 314 competitors.