Cookie Run: Braverse Organized Play, From Store to Worlds

On August 27 Devsisters announced the third and final North America Regional season of 2026: December 5 and 6, across eight stores. That is one more Regional season than the program was designed with, and three more locations than the five named for September's Season 2.

Underneath that announcement is a competitive structure that is genuinely documented — rung by rung, with prize tiers and qualification rules — and almost none of it is in the card database. It lives on the notice board at cookierunbraverse.com, spread across separate announcements published between June 2025 and August 2026. This is that structure, collected.

Our tournament guide covers how to prepare for an event. This one covers which events exist, what each one qualifies you for, and when they are.

The ladder, in one table

Devsisters published the shape of the North American program in its 2026 NA Road Map (November 20, 2025). Four rungs, and each one feeds the next:

Two rules from the same document are worth reading twice. Selling or transferring a Champion Cup invitation is prohibited. And only English Edition cards are legal at North America events, which matters if any part of your deck is imported.

The Road Map also says Regionals crown a champion for each of four zones — East, Central, West and Canada — and describes Regionals as the bridge between local seasonal play and championship events.

Brave League: the rung everyone starts on

Brave League is the primary seasonal Organized Play program, run through certified partner stores across North America. Season 3 runs July 17 to October 6, 2026, so it is live as you read this.

Season 3 changed three things, per the July 15 announcement:

• Cookie Party Online events now award Brave Points. Previously the leaderboard was fed by in-store events only. Community Day / Learn to Play events are the stated exception and award none.
• Your best six results per month count toward the Brave League leaderboard, up from the best four.
• Cookie Coin integration on TopDeck.gg is "currently preparing," in Devsisters' words — not shipped. Coins are still earned the same way; the platform view is the pending part.

Cookie Coins are the participation currency, and they are capped:

Casual play also earns Cookie Coins. One condition attached to the online side: all online matches must be recorded, and Devsisters says Cookie Coin rewards may be revoked if a requested recording cannot be produced.

The 2025 North America Organized Play notice put a cap of four Brave-Points events per shop per month. That notice is from June 2025 and predates the platform move; treat the number as 2025 wording rather than a current rule, and check with your store.

Cookie Party Online, and the points math

Cookie Party Online is the online counterpart, and Devsisters is explicit that it is designed to complement store play rather than replace it. Season 3 runs 15 events across twelve weeks: 6 Casual, 3 Competitive, 3 Themed, 1 Community Day / Learn to Play, 1 Last Chance Qualifier and 1 Season Championship.

The Brave League Points schedule is published in full. Reproduced exactly:

On top of that sit seasonal attendance bonuses, listed by Devsisters as +10 BP for attending 3 events, +20 BP for 6, and +30 BP for 9. The announcement does not say whether those milestones stack or replace each other, so do not budget on a total until an organizer confirms it — but either reading makes turning up to Casual events worth real points before you win a match.

Qualification for the Season Championship works two ways. The top 12 in Brave League Points at the end of the regular season qualify directly. The Last Chance Qualifier hands out the remaining invitations to its top 4, and to enter the LCQ you must not already be qualified, must have played at least 6 Season 3 events, and must have at least 120 BP.

The three Themed events run alternate formats. Devsisters listed the pool as Starter Deck, Pauper, Singleton, Wanted Bakers, Dungeon Oven Trials, Cookies & Coffee and Ingredient Lock. If you go looking for rules documents, note that the official "Special Format Rules" notice from April 4, 2026 links two files and both of them are for the 2-on-2 format — the themed-event formats are not documented there.

Season 3's online dates: regular season ends October 4, LCQ October 10, Season Championship October 18. Registration, pairings, standings and decklists run on TopDeck.gg; judge calls and streams run on the official Discord.

Regionals: two seasons became three

The November 2025 Road Map said Regionals happen twice a year, spring and fall. That was superseded on June 12, 2026, when Devsisters announced a third season and gave its reasoning: feedback from players and tournament organizers about maintaining competitive cadence between product releases, with Set 5: Dark Enchantress War releasing July 24 and BS-12 scheduled for October 2. The extra Regional was slotted in on September 19 to let the Set 5 metagame develop before the next release. The July 23 Community Letter later named BS-12 as Booster 12 [Festival Arena] and gave it a September 26 pre-release ahead of that October 2 date.

The participating-store lists are published in both announcements:

Two things fall straight out of putting those side by side. Season 3 is eight locations to Season 2's five, and Devsisters describes it as the largest lineup of participating locations the program has had. And Millennium Games (New York) appears on the Season 2 list and is not among the eight named for Season 3 — the announcement gives no reason, and there is nothing in it to infer one from. The closest Season 3 location to New York on the published list is TopDeck Games at PAX Unplugged in Philadelphia.

The Season 3 date is per-store: some locations run December 5, some December 6. Devsisters says to check with your local organizer for the exact date and registration. Season 3 prizing had not been published as of August 30, 2026; the announcement says it will be revealed progressively.

The NA Champion Cup

Once a year, first come first served, with priority to qualified players. The 2026 edition was held in Dallas and Devsisters called it the second official North America Champion Cup; a Gunslinger side event ran alongside it, and the Top 4 decklists were published on July 24, 2026. A 1st Anniversary Cup — marking one year of the game — was announced for Dallas in its own notice published a day earlier, with a 2-on-2 side event of its own.

The Champion Cup is where Worlds seeds are actually handed out, and the split is generous at the very top: first place takes a seed plus hotel plus flight, second takes seed plus hotel, third and fourth take the seed alone. That is four seats out of one weekend.

The trophy card above, P-149 Eternal Sugar Cookie, is filed in the card database under the product name 2026 Summer Champion Cup — one of five database entries under that name. Our promo cards guide maps the prize-card provenance in full; the short version is that Organized Play prize support is almost entirely alternate art of cards you can already buy.

The World Championship

The 25-26 World Championship was held April 11–12, 2026 in Seoul, South Korea. Attendance was open to anyone; the tournament itself was invitation-only, run as Swiss rounds into single elimination. Qualification ran through ten regions — Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, the United States and Canada.

One detail from that event is load-bearing if a 2027 seed is your goal: Worlds ran a restricted card pool. The eligible numbers were ST1–ST5, BS1–BS9 and P-001 to P-121, and sixteen specific promos were excluded on top of that — P-004, P-005, P-006, P-020, P-021, P-023, P-037, P-038, P-039, P-047, P-048, P-049, P-088, P-093, P-094 and P-095. A deck that is legal at your local store is not automatically legal at that event. That is separate from the banned and restricted list, which applies to the general format.

The next one is not in April, and the Road Map still says it is. The November 2025 Road Map put the next World Championship in April 2027. Devsisters moved it in the Community Letter published July 23, 2026: the 2026–27 World Championship is being prepared for June 2027, and the letter gives the reason — June lets competitors practise in a metagame closer to the one their own region is actually playing, once regional release schedules are accounted for. The Road Map has not been reworded, so both dates sit on the same notice board today.

The letter also sizes the event: up to 22 competitors — 4 from Korea, 14 from Southeast Asia and Taiwan, and 4 from the United States and Canada. Four North American seats, which is exactly the number the NA Champion Cup hands out. Devsisters said specific dates and a venue would be announced in August 2026; as of August 30 no such announcement had appeared on the English notice board.

Of the 2,093 entries in the English card database as of August 30, 2026, none carries a World Championship product name. The Organized Play names that do appear run from Brave League seasons and NA Regionals I to the 2025 NA Champion Cup and the 2026 Summer Champion Cup, Kingdom Battle, the 2-ON-2 Event and a single Judge promotion.

What's left on the 2026 calendar

Everything below is publisher-stated. The convention entries with no Organized Play component come from Devsisters' January 14, 2026 live-events list, which the company flags as subject to change; the Booster 12 and Starter Deck 11 dates come from the July 23, 2026 Community Letter.

The Essen entry is the odd one out, and worth stating precisely. Devsisters' January live-events list named fifteen 2026 events: fourteen in the United States and Canada, and the World Championship in Seoul. None of the fifteen was in Europe. SPIEL Essen was added on August 24 under the headline "Hello, Europe!" The announcement gives a booth number and Learn to Play sessions and attaches no Organized Play tier to the show — a demo presence, not a rung on the ladder. It sits alongside the company telling TCGplayer in August that it is preparing to expand into Europe and Oceania.

Note also that PAX Unplugged and NA Regionals Season 3 overlap in Philadelphia on December 5–6: the Season 3 store list names TopDeck Games @ PAX Unplugged, so one of the eight Regionals will run at the show.

It all registers on TopDeck.gg now

On April 15, 2026 Devsisters announced that Organized Play was moving to TopDeck.gg, effective with Season 2 on April 17, 2026. Event discovery and registration, the official store locator, Brave League rankings and leaderboards, and full tournament functionality — pairings, standings, brackets, results — all run there. Stores already approved for Organized Play did not need to re-apply. CookieRun: Braverse is listed in TopDeck.gg's own game menu, checked August 30, 2026.

Here is the trap. The 2025 North America Organized Play notice is still live on the official notice board, and it still points at play.cookieruntcg.com. That host returns a 404 as of August 30, 2026. The old PLAY platform, the "Seasons" tab it described for checking your rank, and the Top 1–32 seasonal reward structure it published are all superseded by the TopDeck.gg move. If you followed a search result to that page, you followed it to a dead platform.

If you would rather judge

Applications for the official North America Judge Program opened on August 10, 2026 and, per the notice, have no fixed deadline — they stay open until recruitment is complete.

The process is Judge Application & Test, then interview, then final selection. The test covers game rules, card interactions, tournament policies and judge procedures, and Devsisters states plainly that passing it does not guarantee selection. Applicants must currently reside in North America, and geographic spread is a stated consideration in final selection.

There is exactly one card in the English database filed under the product name "Judge promotion": Marzipan Cookie BS3-027@1, a Level 3 Yellow FLIP.

Quick Action Checklist

• Find your events on TopDeck.gg, not on play.cookieruntcg.com — that host is dead.
• Brave League Season 3 ends October 6. Your best six results per month count now, up from four, so a run of small events is worth more than it was before the change.
• Cookie Party Online is worth Brave Points from Season 3 onward. Casual events pay 20 BP for showing up, and attendance milestones sit at 3, 6 and 9 events.
• Record your online matches. Devsisters says Cookie Coin rewards can be revoked if a requested recording cannot be produced.
• The next Worlds is targeted at June 2027, not April. The 2026 NA Road Map still says April; the July 2026 Community Letter moved it, and put four of the 22 expected seats with the United States and Canada.
• If you want the LCQ on October 10, you need six Season 3 events and 120 BP before the regular season ends October 4.
• Regionals Season 2 is September 19; Season 3 is December 5 or 6 depending on the store. Confirm the date and registration with your local organizer, not with a calendar post.
• Bring English Edition cards only to North America events.
• A Champion Cup invitation is non-transferable. Do not buy one.