The location of each WDC, with the players taking the top three places in the tournament held there, are listed below: The 2020 event was originally scheduled for Dover, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Online play with real-time voice negotiations, known as virtual face-to-face, became widespread in 2020, leading to three major annual competitions with global participation.
The VDL is an open league with monthly gamedays and rounds convenient to players around the world.
Russ Dennis Andrei Gribakov Farren Jane Nicolas Sahuguet Markus Zijlstra Katie Gray Farren Jane Seren Kwok Ed Sullivan Nicolas Taillet Noam Brown Peter McNamara Nicolas Sahuguet Ruben Sanchez Riaz Virani Seren Kwok Doug Malotte Ed Sullivan Matthew Totonchy Christopher Ward Created in 2015, the Online Diplomacy Championship occurs once every two years, rotating between a number of Diplomacy websites.
The winner is considered to be the World Champion of Online Diplomacy, a format in which phases are processed once every one or two days, and all correspondence is sent in written form via the host site.
From 2024 the APAC Championships have been managed by the Asia Pacific Diplomacy Association (APDA), and held annually.
The annual trophy concept was accepted among the then-principle organizers of these tournaments and the title Arthur Bismark Cup was suggested by The Envoy's then-editor Mathew Gibson.
The title of Bismark Cup Champion was awarded by the Diplomacy Association of Australia and New Zealand (DAANZ), now awarded by the APDA, for the best aggregate tournament results at Diplomacy tournaments held in Australia and New Zealand during the calendar year.