If you’ve ever been to SporcleCon, you know it’s almost impossible to explain to someone who hasn’t.

It’s trivia, sure, but it’s also hugs in hotel hallways, last-minute team names that somehow become legendary, inside jokes that carry from one year to the next, and that very specific joy of realizing you’ve found your people. For the past five years, we’ve had the absolute privilege of building that space together with you. And we’ve loved every second of it. So this is a bit of a bittersweet note to write.

SporcleCon 2026: Fan Favorites Weekend is going to be everything we love most about this event, Battle of the Brains, your favorite competitions, incredible guest hosts, and all the moments in between that make the weekend feel like a reunion. It’s the full SporcleCon experience you know and love.

It’s also the final year of SporcleCon in its current three-day format. That part isn’t easy to say. We know how special this event is, not just to us, but to so many of you who’ve made it part of your year. There’s something magical about bringing hundreds of trivia lovers into one place and just… letting your brain play. Letting all of our brains play, together.

At the same time, over the years we’ve also heard something else, just as clearly: not everyone who wants to be part of SporcleCon can make it to one big, single-location weekend. Travel is expensive. Time is limited. Life is complicated. Behind the scenes, the cost of producing SporcleCon has changed dramatically. Venue space alone has more than tripled from when we started, and core event costs like AV, staffing, and hotel commitments have all risen significantly. Producing the event at the level it deserves now requires meaningfully more resources and has become more complex each year. The space, the coordination, the time it takes from our team, it’s grown in ways that are harder to sustain without changing something.

And at its core, SporcleCon has never been about a hotel, or a city, or even a format. It’s about bringing people together who love the same things, and giving them a place to connect, compete, and belong. So we started asking ourselves: how do we stay true to that… even more?

What we keep coming back to is this: changing the format doesn’t mean losing SporcleCon, it means giving it room to grow. In the years ahead, we’re excited to explore new ways to bring that same energy to more people in more places. At minimum we’re looking into hosting Battle of the Brains in 2027, and possibly more. We don’t have every detail figured out yet and honestly, that’s part of what’s exciting. We get to build this next chapter together, the same way we built SporcleCon in the first place.

But before we turn the page, we want to do one more weekend the way we’ve always done it. Big. Joyful. A little chaotic. Full of heart. SporcleCon 2026 is our chance to celebrate everything this event has been and everyone who’s made it what it is. If you’ve been before, we hope you’ll come back and relive it with us. If you’ve been meaning to go, this is the year. And if the next version of SporcleCon ends up happening closer to you, in a format that fits you better, we can’t wait for that, too. Because at the end of the day, this has never just been an event. It’s a community. And we’re just getting started on what it can become.