The Boardgame Players Association is a non-profit corporation established to support the shared interests of board game

Board game

A board game is a game which involves counters or pieces being moved on a pre-marked surface or "board", according to a set of rules. Games may be based on pure strategy, chance or a mixture of the two, and usually have a goal which a player aims to achieve...

 players. The BPA is best known for hosting the World Boardgaming Championships

World Boardgaming Championships

The World Boardgaming Championships is a convention held yearly since 1999 by the Boardgame Players Association. It is typically held in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It was last held August 2 to August 8, 2010. It is next scheduled for August 1 to August 7, 2011...

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In addition to its flagship event, the BPA also sponsors or co-sponsors the following annual events:

• Enlightentment – Held in Timonium, Maryland focusing on the Age of Renaissance
  Age of Renaissance
  Age of Renaissance is a board game designed by Don Greenwood and Jared Scarborough and published by Avalon Hill in 1996. The game is for 3-6 players and the box claims that the game should take 2-6 hours to play, though as with any serious multiplayer strategy game, this can entirely depend on the...
  
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• D-Day – Held in Timonium, Maryland focusing on the Breakout Normandy game
• Euro Quest – Held in Timonium, Maryland focusing on a variety of board and games game
• Waterloo – Held in Timonium, Maryland focusing on the Napoleonic Wars
  Napoleonic Wars
  The Napoleonic Wars were a series of wars declared against Napoleon's French Empire by opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789, they revolutionised European armies and played out on an unprecedented scale, mainly due to...
  
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• Winter Activation Meeting (WAM)
  Winter Activation Meeting (WAM)
  The Winter Activation Meeting is a "genre" convention sponsored by the Boardgame Players Association, featuring tournament play of two-player historical card-driven games . It began in 2003. In 2007, tournaments included Twilight Struggle, Paths of Glory, and Wilderness War...
  
   – Held in Timonium, Maryland focusing on two-player historical card-driven games

The BPA also Play-By-eMail Tournaments for selected games, including:

• Breakout: Normandy
• Manifest Destiny
  Manifest Destiny
  Manifest Destiny was the 19th century American belief that the United States was destined to expand across the continent. It was used by Democrat-Republicans in the 1840s to justify the war with Mexico; the concept was denounced by Whigs, and fell into disuse after the mid-19th century.Advocates of...
  
  
• Paths of Glory
  Paths of Glory
  Paths of Glory is a 1957 American anti-war film by Stanley Kubrick based on the novel of the same name by Humphrey Cobb. Set during World War I, the film stars Kirk Douglas as Colonel Dax, the commanding officer of French soldiers who refused to continue a suicidal attack...
  
  
• The Russian Campaign
  The Russian Campaign
  The Russian Campaign is an award winning strategic board wargame of the Eastern Front during World War II, during the period 1941-45. The unit scale is German Corps and Russian Armies and roughly covers the Berlin to Gorki region and Archangel to Grozny...
  
  
• War at Sea
  War at Sea
  War at Sea is a strategic board wargame depicting the naval war in the Atlantic during World War II, published by Jedko Games in 1975, and subsequently republished by Avalon Hill in 1976 and more recently by L2 Design Group in 2007....
  
  
• Victory in the Pacific
  Victory in the Pacific
  Victory in the Pacific is a board wargame published by the Avalon Hill game company in 1977. Based on the game system first used in War at Sea, also published by Avalon Hill, the game deals with the Pacific Theater of Operations of World War II...
  
  
• We the People
• For the People
  For the People
  For The People is the debut album from Hip Hop collective Boot Camp Clik, consisting of Buckshot from Black Moon, Cocoa Brovaz, formerly known as Smif-N-Wessun, Heltah Skeltah and O.G.C. The crew officially organized in 1995, with all eight members appearing on the song "Cession At Da Doghillee"...
  
  
• Empire of the Sun
  Empire of the Sun
  Empire of the Sun is a 1984 novel by J. G. Ballard which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Like Ballard's earlier short story, "The Dead Time" , it is essentially fiction but draws extensively on Ballard's experiences in World War II...
  
  
• Wilderness War