Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Easier to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Light strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Draft an eccentric team, survive quick flag-capture matches, and collect enough fans and trophies to reach the championship final.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Deck Construction
Build a deck before play by selecting cards under defined construction rules.
Hand Management
Time and sequence a limited hand of cards to preserve future options.
Open Drafting
Select cards or items from a shared face-up display.
Deck / Bag Building
Add new pieces during play to improve the cards, tokens, or dice drawn later.
Finale Ending
End the game when a specific timing or state condition is reached.
Read the full game description
Challengers! Beach Cup is a one-to-eight-player deck-management tournament that keeps every participant playing at the same time. The competition lasts seven rounds. In each Deck Phase, players visit a new table and improve their teams by choosing cards from themed sets filled with animals, athletes, aliens, wizards, pirates, and other unlikely recruits. Cards bring different strengths and more than forty abilities, so a successful deck depends on finding combinations that work without overflowing the bench. The Match Phase is an automatic back-and-forth contest for a flag. The active player reveals cards until the total strength is enough to capture it, placing defeated characters on the bench and resolving abilities as they appear. If a player must bench a character type already present but has no space left, the match is lost. Trophies and fans earned across the tournament decide who reaches the final, where one last match crowns the winner. Beach Cup includes two beach playmats, enough cards and components for a complete standalone game, solo rules, and sixteen Trainer cards that add asymmetric powers. Its sets can also be mixed with the original Challengers! for a larger pool of teams and combinations.
