![]() Year in year out, a great many kubb tournaments are played all over the world. ![]() The Kubb World Championship and the Kubb It Up, the European Championships and the U.S. Source: Jamie Thingelstad,, via Wikimedia Commons A good outdoor game brings people together in the fresh air and spurs conversation and camaraderie. ![]() A game to be enjoyed by family and friends and a game to serve as a spirited competition, but never mean spirited. The slogan of the Kubb World Championship - Kubb unites people and creates peace on Earth - perfectly conveys the philosophy of the game kubb. And the Kubb World Championship? It's still organised on the island of Gotland - a 3 day event that attracts more than 3000 participants every year. Belgium alone hosts more than 50 tournaments each year. Kubb tournaments are played all over the world. Kubb associations exist not only in Sweden, but also in countries like England, Germany, Netherlands, France, as well as in the US and Canada. Nowadays, most kubb sets are made of rubberwood, which does not easily chip or splinter.Īfter booming in the Nordic countries in the late 1990s, kubb has now become a global success. By 1998, kubb had become so popular that it became interesting for the Swedish company Brio open_in_new to produce cheap factory made sets - targeted at the international market. In 1995, the first Kubb World Championship was organised in Rone, Gotland. There came a demand, and so the first kubb sets for commercial sales were made. In Gotland in the late 1980s, kubb's popularity suddenly surged as it started to emerge in parks and gardens. It gained widespread popularity in the late 1980s, when commercial sets were first manufactured. Kubb as we know it today was invented on a Swedish island named Gotland. Playing a game of kubb requires both skill and precision, but also a strategical mindset! The duration of a game can range from 30 seconds to more than an hour. The number of players can vary, although 8 to 16 players is generally recommended. It takes only a few minutes to grasp and can be played on different surfaces, such as grass, sand, snow or even ice. ![]() The objective of the game is to knock over all the kubbs, and then the king, with throwing sticks - before the opposing team does.Įveryone can enjoy kubb. The word kubb stems from the term vedkubbar, which means wooden block in the Gotland dialect of Swedish.
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