Season OneAnnouncement
Season One has a name. The First Crossing.
It opens on 1 September 2026, a named day rather than the hour each store happened to approve us, so that nobody starts the climb early. It begins where backgammon has always felt most at home. On the Mediterranean, in the late light, at a table someone has already set for you.
Twelve destinations
The voyage starts in Tangier, at Hassan's cafe, where the oud plays and strangers become rivals before the second game. From there it moves outward: marble in Athens, velvet and brass in Monte-Carlo, tiled alleys in Lisbon, gold on the water in Dubai.
Then it climbs. Tea on the Bosphorus. Sunset over Santorini. Raked gravel in a Kyoto garden at moonrise. Chandeliers in Paris. Ninety floors above a New York avenue. Snow on the peaks at Gstaad.
And at the end of it, above all of them, Orion. The celestial table. You do not arrive there early.
Each destination has its own host, its own room, its own light. We wanted them to feel less like levels and more like somewhere you had arrived.
Why places
Because backgammon has always belonged to places. You remember the cafe where someone first taught you. The old board in a relative's house. The friend who always doubles too early. The sound of a checker landing on wood.
A lobby cannot hold that. A destination can. So we built twelve of them, and a reason to cross from each one to the next.
What the crossing asks of you
Ten leagues form the ladder, from Driftwood to Orion. Your place on it comes from rated play, so the climb is not decoration. Trophies start at zero for everyone, on the same day, on the same board.
Some of the finest boards in Orion are not behind a purchase button. You reach them. That is the point of a voyage: at the end of it, the things you carry should say something about where you have been.
Season One is not the game. It is where the game starts.
At the opening
The tables are set. The hosts are waiting. Orion is already in the sky above them, and the first crossing begins.
Roll under the stars.