Team Belgium - WOC (Paris)

Team Belgium - WOC (Paris) 15 September 2022

The 44th World Othello Championship will be held in Paris this year. Belgium will send, as four years ago in Prague, a full team of five players. The competition will take place from October 27th until October 30th in the capital of France.

As usual the tournament takes off with the opening reception on Thursday evening (October 27th), the opening pairings included. A total of 13 games have to be played on Friday October 28th and Saturday October 29th to determine the qualified players for the (semi) finals. Our Belgian players will probably not involved in this battle; in all categories (elite, women and youth) many strong players are present.  Those finals will be held on Sunday October 30th. That day will be concluded with the victory dinner, prize ceremony included.

At the same time and same location there will be a KIDS EXPO, where Othello will be promoted.


All info can be found at the official pages of the 44th World Othello Championships.

Team Belgium

The following five players will represent our country:

Ralph Reijnders

  • Age: 36
  • Residence: Lanaken
  • Qualified: Runner-up Belgian Grand Prix 2022
  • WOC participations: debute
  • Best performance: /
  • List of honour: Runner-up Belgian Grand Prix 2022
  • Playing Othello since 2000, in competition since 2001
  • Profile page

Brecht Van Damme

  • Age: 41
  • Residence: Deinze
  • Qualified: 3rd place Belgian Grand Prix 2022
  • WOC participations: debute
  • Best performance: /
  • List of honour: Runner-up Belgian Grand Prix 2016
  • Playing Othello since 2006, in competition since 2007
  • Profile page

Nick Reunes

  • Age: 37
  • Residence: Gentbrugge
  • Qualified: 4th place Belgian Grand Prix 2022
  • WOC participations: 4 (2007, 2009, 2013, 2017)
  • WOC performance: 43rd  (2013 - Stockholm)
  • List of honour: Belgian champion 2007 and 2020
  • Playing Othello since 2004, in competition since 2004
  • Profile page

Nadja De Moor

  • Age: 36
  • Residence: Oudenaarde
  • Qualified: Best lady Belgian Grand Prix 2022
  • WOC participations: /
  • Best performance: /
  • List of honour: Belgian Grand Prix 2022 - best lady
  • Playing Othello since 2020, in competition since 2021
  • Profile page

Jana Verstuyft

  • Age: 12
  • Residence: Ursel
  • Qualified: Best junior Belgian Grand Prix 2022
  • WOC participations: 2 (2017, 2018)
  • Best performance: 78th (2018 - Prague)
  • List of honour: vice Belgian champion youth 2017, 2018 and 2019
  • Playing Othello since 2017, in competition since 2017
  • Profile page