WSOG 2026 : Rules & Events

In addition to immediately winning the tournament prize-money in each tournament, players accumulate Gundam Points based on their final position with additional points for winning, cashing and bubbling. There are also Gundam Bonus points awarded for being able to achieve specific milestones during a tournament. These milestones include: being chip leader after Round 3 (Fast-Break Bonus), best improvement in position (Chip-n-Chair Bonus) or knocking out the current Gundam Point Leader (Bounty Bonus.)
At the end of the year, the points are totaled and a Gundam Championship is crowned, who takes control of the Gundam Necklace, wins the Gundam Trophy and is awarded the 1st place Championship prize pool (there is often 2nd and 3rd place prize money as well.)

Summary of 2026 World Series of Gundam Points

Gundam Position Dependent Points

• Position Points (PP) = Total Player Count – Place + 1
• Victory Points (VP) = +3, for winning the tournament
• Cash-Out Points (COP) = +2, for making the money
• Bubble Boy Point (BBP) = +1, for closest to money (bubble-boy)

Gundam Bonus Points

• Bounty Bonus (BY) = +1, Player who knocks out the participating player(s) with the most (or tied for the most) Gundam points* gets a point (+1).
• Chip-n-Chair (CC) = +1, greatest position improvement from end of the first break to end of tournament (tie-break goes to lowest place finish.)
• Fast Break Bonus (FB) = +1, chip leader at the end of the first break.

* The Gundam Point leader totals their points without dropping any tournaments. Taking the top 11 event scores for each player only occurs after the finish of the Main Event. For Event #01 bounty uses final points from previous year. If the participating point-leader wins the tourney, no bounty points are awarded.

Late-entry & Re-buy

• Players that pre-register will be allowed late-entry during the late-entry period. Players that do not pre-register will not be allowed late-entry by default*.
• There is typically a re-buy period, where during this period a player is allowed to re-buy up-to 2 times.
• The late-entry and re-buy period will typically last until the end of the first break.
  * The host has the right to make exceptions to late-entry requests.

World Series of Gundam Championship

Each tournament is treated as a stand-alone tournament, with its own prize-pool. So, if you aren’t interested in playing in all the tournaments, you can still have fun participating in any given WSOG tournament. Less than 10% of the buy-in is diverted to the WSOG Championship fund, leaving >90% going to the immediate prize-pool. All of the money goes back to the players (no rake, no house profit.)

The player with the most Gundam Points from 11 of the 12 events at the end of the year is declared the World Series of Gundam Champion and wins the 1st place payout and the championship trophy!
Note: The reason that only 11 of the 12 events are used, is to allow every player the opportunity to miss an event without penalty, and for those who can make all 12 events, it allows them to drop the lowest result.

What if there are ties?
If two or more players tie for 1st place then all tied for 1st place will play a tie-break tournament to determine the final placements.
If there is a tie for any other positions then the tie is not broken and the prize money is equally distributed between the places paid and the tied-players.

The payout structure for the Championship is determined by using the standard Gundam tournament payout structure where the equivalent # of players is the rounded average # of players in all the events over the entire series (the Main Event should be weighted as 2-tournaments since the buy-in was doubled.) The “virtual” buy-in is calculated by dividing the rounded average # of players into the total prize-pool.

* These games will be played on PokerStars.net (instructions for joining).