1) GFDT: Knock-out tournament
2) php League: Two four game seasons with WTA scoring.
3) The TGM Champions' Trophy: Two games among the seven top performers from 2008-2009.
4) The Masters: Round Robin for 49 players, 8 games each. Points are scored by getting solos, and only by getting solos.

More detail about the two new tournaments:

The TGM Champions' Trophy:

The Champions Trophy is the showcase tournament of the Diplomacy calendar, involving just seven players, chosen on the basis of performance in competitive diplomacy over the previous year. This year it will include the three top players from the Premier League, the winner of League A and the three top players from the GFDT who haven't already secured a place through the leagues

The tournament begins after a short break following the summer season of the league, and consists of two games played simultaneously, with a slow phase length. The champion is the player deemed to be positioned highest at the end of the season under the league scoring system.

In future years it will include the current champion, the two Premier League winners, the top two players from The Masters, and the two top players from the GFDT.

The Masters:

Hosted by TMG and TGM, The Masters is an annual round-robin tournament. Owing to the nature of diplomacy, as a seven player game, this necessitates a tournament with exactly 49 players. These will be chosen from all the entrants, on the basis of Ghost-rating, Games played and time spent playing on phpdiplomacy. This is to help ensure against CD.


Games will be opened on a monthly basis, starting with September, with the last game opening at the start of April. Points will be scored by solo wins only, each solo scoring a single point. The position is determined by the number of points a player has at the end of the tournament. If there is a tie, it is broken first by seeing how many solos each player has conceded, and then by who you won solos against, so looking at the sum of the points of the players beaten in the solos, a higher position will be awarded to the player who beat better opposition.

This format will mean that meta-gaming and "good-will play" is impossible- you never meet the same player again, and there is no way to have an outcome that is beneficial to more than one party from a game. Thus it should give as pure a WTA experience as possible. It also gives 49 players a chance to mingle with many other players.