2025 World Championship
| 2025 World Championship | |
|---|---|
 Greg Shaw, 2025 World Champion | |
| Organizer | Players Committee |
| Dates | 3–5 October 2025 (main event 4–5 October)[1][2] |
| Venue | Hampton Inn & Suites, SeaTac, Washington, USA (Seattle area)[1] |
| Format | Open |
| Players | 55[1] |
| Champion | Greg Shaw |
| Runner-up | Joe Olson[1] |
| Previous / Next | 2024 · 2026 |
The 2025 World Championship was the 30th Star Wars CCG World Championship, held by the Players Committee at the Hampton Inn & Suites in SeaTac, Washington, over the weekend of 3–5 October 2025, with four sanctioned events across three days; the main event was played on 4–5 October.[1][2] The main event had 55 players.[1] Hall of Famer Greg Shaw defeated Joe Olson in the Final Confrontation with Shadow Collective and The Force Is Strong In My Family (Luke Saga),[1][2] winning his first World Championship after finishing runner-up in 2002 and 2003.[1] Brian Fred was inducted into the Players Committee Hall of Fame on Saturday morning.[1]
Results
Final Top 8 order and Day 2 (Top 8) decks as published.[2]
Top 8 bracket
Day 1 was eight games of Swiss play with a cut to the Top 8.[1]
- Quarterfinals: Shaw def. Pat Johnson; Brian Fred def. Benji Chu; Olson def. Matthew Harrison-Trainor; Hayes Hunter def. Sam Tashima.[1]
- Semifinals: Shaw def. Fred; Olson def. Hunter.[1]
- Final: Shaw def. Olson.[1]
Game scores were not published. The games were streamed with commentary by Dan Tartaglione and Garrett Larson and posted to a YouTube playlist.[1]
Day 1
Day 1 standings and decks in the order published on the Players Committee results page.[2]
Side events
- Team tournament (Friday evening, 11 teams, glass mug trophies): won by team "Scott Norwood", Brian Fred and Jonny Chu; Mike Turner and Nate Davis were second.[1]
- Cube (Friday, 18 players): won by Steve Harpster; Anthony Howard was second.[1]
- Consolation (Sunday, 36 players): won at 6–0 by Bryan Mischke (spelled "Brian Mischke" in the wrap-up); Jonny Chu was second.[1]
- Hall of Fame: Brian Fred, inducted on Saturday morning, presented by his New Allies teammate Mike Kessling.[1]
Photographs
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Brian Fred, inducted into the Hall of Fame -
Brian Fred with his Hall of Fame award -
Community card depicting Brian Fred (2025 Hall of Fame) -
2025 World Championship banner
See also
Sources
- 2025-09 World Championship – Seattle, Washington (October 4-5, 2025), starwarsccg.org (6 October 2025). Preserved copy: swccg.com snapshot
- World Championship 2025 Wrap-Up: Greg Shaw Wins his Crown, starwarsccg.org (23 October 2025). Preserved copy: Internet Archive
- 2025 World Championship Forum, forum.starwarsccg.org
- GEMP importable decks, forum.starwarsccg.org
- 2025 World Championship YouTube playlist
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 World Championship 2025 Wrap-Up: Greg Shaw Wins his Crown, starwarsccg.org (23 October 2025). Preserved copy: Internet Archive
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2025-09 World Championship – Seattle, Washington (October 4-5, 2025), starwarsccg.org (6 October 2025). Preserved copy: swccg.com snapshot