College Football Risk
College Football Risk, or CFBRisk, is a biennial collegiate strategy game that takes place during the spring and is inspired by the Hasbro Boardgame Risk. Each season, more than 8,000 students and non-students participate, representing all NCAA Division I FBS schools in the United States. The game is a continuation of the popular game run by the college football subreddit, "r/CFB," on the social media site Reddit. CFBRisk first took place in the spring and summer of 2018. It is an MMOG-style game where college football fanbases compete for control of a fictionalized map of the United States. The goal is to control as much territory as possible for ultimate domination of the map. From season one forward, College Football Risk has been played independently from Reddit. Gameplay Premise The concept of overtaking another team's territory spurs from a series of Reddit posts where users modified maps of the United States to illustrate a team's power, known as college football 'imperialism maps' or 'empires maps.' These were not based on the board game Risk, but the outcomes of college football games throughout the season. Fanbases and news sites later pointed out the similarities to the Risk, and a game where