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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

[email protected]

2025-04-28

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.

• Instead of painted lines we will use strings as mid and side lines
• 100% of the kubb need to be inside the string
• Base kubbs are supposed to be placed in front of the string but as close as possible

The afterparty for Kubb World Championship will as last year takes place on kapten Grogg and Under Trädet at Ronehamn after the finals on Saturday evening. Taxi Söder will as usual be ready to transport you from the WC arena to the afterparty at Ronehamn with a distance of 3 km.

For bookings with Taxi Söder: 0498-20 80 80

You can find more information about the afterparty on our social medias, Instagram: Kubbvm and Facebook: VM i Kubb

The registration is now open and will be open until 2023-07-19. You will find the registration under “Competition info 1vs1” and “Competition info 6vs6”. From this year you will need to have at least tree players with non swedish passport or ID to have the possibility to register your team as a non swedish team. This is due to the drawing where the foreign teams will be separated in different groups in the Friday qualification stage.