Play online the best backgammon tournaments organized by the best backgammon sites. As many of you already know, a backgammon tournament is actually a competition with a relatively large number of players. This backgammon tournaments can be fwith buy-in or you can play for free. The tournaments with Free participation and cash prizes are called freerolls, find more details on our Backgammon Freerolls page.

Backgammon tournaments usually contain many consecutive backgammon games played, and the winner of the tournament is declared based on the combined results of individual games. There are several types of tournaments available at online backgammon sites. We give some examples of tournaments that can be found on the Internet.

Sit & Go
A Sit & Go  tournament is a backgammon tournament where the number of participants is known from the beginning, and is a fixed number. The tournament begins when the number of registered players is equal with the number of players that can participate in the tournament. Most Sit & Go tournaments are between 4 and 64 players.

Event
In this type of tournament they can register an unlimited number of participants till the date and time of current event. Prizes will increase proportionally with the number of registered players.

Swing
In Swing tournaments all players participate with an equal number of chips and play until will remain only one player with all the chips. The games are played one-to-one and the stake is known from start for all players, if at any time you have less than the minimum stake for the game, they will consider all remaining money chips as the minimum stake. More details can be found on the websites that offer this type of tournament.

Satellite
Satellite tournaments can offer you the buy-in for a big backgammon tournament, so you can play there without paying the buy-in. For example play a satellite tournament with buy-in 1 $ and you can earn the entry fora big backgammon tournament with the buy-in 50$. It's just an example to understand better what are the Satellite tournaments.

Knockout
Another type of tournament more interesting knockout tournament that involves playing a game in successive rounds. In each round each player is playing one scheduled game and those who have the highest rank will go on until it reaches the finals where absolute champion is declared.

For more information about backgammon tournaments please consult the official websites of backgammon softwares, the list of backgammon softwares is here : Backgammon Software. For discussion and questions about backgammon tournaments go to Backgammon section from our forum.