ROSEVILLE, MN – September 4, 2024 – Fantasy Flight Games is proud to announce a strategic partnership with Keyrune Incorporated, owner and operator of Melee.gg, a premier event and tournament platform renowned for its expertise in trading card games. This collaboration will enable players and retail stores to leverage Melee.gg's extensive platform for managing Star Wars™: Unlimited Organized Play events.

Since its inception in 2020, Melee.gg has established itself as a leading provider of event and tournament management solutions, offering comprehensive tools for event registration, tournament operations, and more. As a trailblazer in TCG tournament software, Melee.gg is dedicated to partnering with game publishers to deliver an exceptional gaming experience for both participants and organizers.

Through this partnership, Fantasy Flight Games and Melee.gg aim to provide exceptional events, ensuring a seamless and engaging environment for all involved. Effective immediately, Melee.gg will be available for players and retailers to organize their events ahead of Planetary Qualifiers in October.

"We’re excited to partner with Melee.gg as we swing into the start of Competitive play!” said Jim Cartwright, VP of Strategy at Fantasy Flight Games. “Their expertise in all things trading card games and positive reputation within the TCG community makes them a perfect partner for us and our Organized Play events.”

“The Keyrune Incorporated team, makers of Melee.gg, are delighted to be working with the incredible team at Fantasy Flight Games to serve game players and tabletop game stores across the world!” said Scott Elliott, CEO of Keyrune Incorporated. “They have shown once again that their expertise in game play innovation is growing a vibrant and passionate community of players with a multitude of engaging Organized Play opportunities from the local to global level.”

Players and Retailers are encouraged to register for an account at Melee.gg. Over the coming weeks, organizers can expect additional information about how to set up events and use the Melee tools for their events. In the meantime, organizers are not yet required to use Melee.gg for their events to further qualify for Organized Play support.

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About Fantasy Flight Games

Fantasy Flight Games (FFG) is a pioneering publisher of hobby board and card games, including trademarked Living Card Games®. Established in 1995, FFG has earned a reputation for its epic themes, immersive gameplay, and top-level components. Many of FFG’s most popular titles are based on beloved licenses such as Star Wars™, Marvel, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, and George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire. In addition, FFG has its own iconic universes such as Arkham Horror Files, Terrinoth Legends, and Twilight Imperium. Throughout the course of the studio’s rich history, FFG has published games in over thirty languages and distributed to more than fifty territories. Fantasy Flight Games is a subsidiary of Paris-based Asmodee Group, a leading global publisher of tabletop games. For more information, visit FantasyFlightGames.com.

About Asmodee

Asmodee is an entertainment leader specialized in boardgames, committed to bringing people together through great games and amazing stories. 

Thanks to its global and passionate workforce of over 2,500 people, players around the world enjoy one of the largest board game IP catalogs with CATAN, Ticket to Ride, Dobble/Spot it!, Exploding Kittens and 365 more across a variety of digital and physical platforms. 

Headquartered in France (Guyancourt), Asmodee operates across Europe, North America, South America and Asia. 

Asmodee is a part of the Embracer Group AB, which is publicly listed on Nasdaq Stockholm under the ticker EMBRAC B. (EMBRAC B).

For more information: https://corporate.asmodee.com/

About Melee.GG

Established in 2020, Melee is an event and tournament platform that provides a seamless experience for publishers, organizers of events, and event participants through creation of the best software tools in the industry.

Melee provides a comprehensive suite of tools to make discovering, organizing and running game events a breeze. With features such as tournament search, organizer activity hubs, event registration, matchmaking, and tournament standings everything you need is conveniently available in one place. 

Melee is created by the team at Keyrune Incorporated, whose partners include Wizards of the Coast, Ravensburger, and Asmodee.