Improvements Kubb World Championship 2025
Ahead of the Kubb World Championships 2025, we will not be updating the detailed rules. However, we are making some adjustments to the game itself, where we hope that the game will flow even better and that it will be clearer for you as participants. You will find all updates in bold red text under supplementary rules under the About Kubb World Championship and World Championship Rules tab.
The points that have been updated are:
Tiebreak will be introduced in all matches except for the semi-finals, final and the bronze match on Saturday in 6vs6.
Match duration before Tiebreak:
Group play Friday: 90 minutes (best of 3 sets)
Little World Championship Friday: 30 minutes (best of 1 set)
Group play Saturday: 75 minutes (best of 3 sets)
Little World Championship Saturday: 30 minutes (best of 1 set)
Knockout Saturday: 90 minutes (best of 3 sets)
Semifinals and finals Saturday: No time limit (best of 3 sets)
Clarification of Tiebreak procedure
Tiebreak instructions:
When it is time for a Tiebreak, the team that is throwing a round is the first to finish it. A new round is counted from when the first kubb has been thrown in. To start a tiebreak, you need to do the following steps:
1. The teams throw the closest to the king with each stick, the winner of the closest to the king (Team A) wins the advantage in the tiebreak.
1.1 The advantage from the Tiebreak starts from the first round of the team (Team A) being allowed to throw, even if the team is not allowed to throw together in the subsequent set.
1.2 The first tiebreak kubb is removed after raising of field kubb after Team A’s first round of the tiebreak.
1.3 It is always the kubb that is closest to the baseline that is removed (if there are any base kubbs left, they must be removed before the field kubbs. The base kubb that is furthest from the field kubbs that have been thrown is removed first.)
1.4 After Team A’s first round of the tiebreak, one kubb is removed each round from the opponent’s half of the court after the kubbs have been thrown in. This continues until the end of the match.
New procedure for knockout kubb
Instructions for knockout kubb:
In the event that two or more teams finish on the same score after the group stage is complete, set difference will be counted first and then the head-to-head score. Should the teams still be tied after this, a throw-out ball will be played, supervised by a referee/official. The throw-out ball will be played according to the following steps:
1. The starting order is according to the referee´s drawing
1.1 The team that starts throws in 5 kubbs that the referee then raises
1.2 The team throws its six sticks to knock down the 5 field kubbs, if successful, the team continues to throw at the base kubbs
1.3 The winner is the team that has firstly thrown down the highest number of base kubbs and secondly the number of sticks it took to knock down the 5 field kubbs. If a team does not get the 5 field kubbs down, the number of kubbs the team has got down after 6 sticks is counted
1.4 If the teams throw exactly the same result, they throw again until a winner is chosen
Guaranteed place in the Little World Championship for those who do not advance to Saturday or to the playoffs on Saturday
From this year onwards, no registration is required for the Little World Championship after the group stage has ended if the team has not managed to advance to the big competition. The Little World Championship involves a straight play-off with direct elimination. The winner of the Little World Championship on Friday wins a place in Saturday’s group stage and thus competes further in the big competition.
Possible for Friday teams to register for the Little World Championship on Saturday
From this year onwards, we are making it possible for teams that have not managed to advance to Saturday’s group stage in the big competition and have not won the Little World Championship on Friday to participate in Saturday’s Little World Championship. This enables teams that do not reach the level to advance to the big competition from Friday to still compete on Saturday and thus get another day of play.
Registration for Saturday’s Little World Championships must be done before 18:00 on Friday to the secretariat.
Best regards,
Kubb World Championship Organization
2025-04-28
Kubb World Championship 2024!
Results 6vs6 2024:
1st StrandedGoose
2nd Hablingbo
3rd No Ragrets
4th Håiet Putta Bra
You can find all results under the tab: Competition info 6vs6 – Result lists – 2024
Results 1vs1 2024:
1st Theo Sturve
2nd Josef Björklund
3rd Oscar Eriksson
4th Urban Helander
You can find all results under the tab: Competition info 1vs1 – Results
The Kubb VM 2025 will be played 31/7 to 2/8.
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Updated supplementary rules 2024
We have from 2024 updated, clarified and add som new rules. You will find the changes in red marked text under About the Kubb World Championship – Rules in WC – Supplementary rules.
The reason for these rule updates is to speed up the game, clarify some unclear rules and contribute to a more standardized rule booklet in the world.
Kubb is a very old game. “Throwing logs” is quite popular in Sweden now, particularly on the island Gotland. Kubb is a “partygame” which is played outdoors with 2-12 participants. Everyone can participate, young as old.
The game is played on a field which is 5×8 meters, the size can be less or more depending on the skills of the players. The field should be fairly smooth and flat, usually we play on grass but gravel, sand or snow could also do.
The game pieces are made of pine and one set consists of the following parts:
- 1 KING approx. 9×9 cm square and 30 cm´s height.
- 10 KUBBS approx. 7×7 cm square and 15 cm´s height.
- 6 THROWING BATONS, round 44 mm in diameter and 30 cm´s in length.
- 4 CORNER STICKS and 2 MIDDLE STICKS 2x2x30 cm are also useful to have.
The players are divided in two teams and take place behind their respectably baseline. The game’s aime is to knock down the kubbs of the other team with the throwing batons according to the rules. When all the kubbs are knocked down, the king should be knocked down, the team which does this has won.
Since 1995 “VM i Kubb” (“World championship of Kubb”) is arranged on Rone IP (Gotland), 2004 there was 168 teams (of 6 members) in the competition from 8 different nations, playing mixed men, women and children.
1: King, 2: Kubbs, 3: Throwing batons, 4: Corner stick, 5: Baseline
