Prizes & Categories

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Brickscalibur 2026

Here you can find all of this year’s categories, along with their respective details and prizes!

There are multiple prizes to be won – and with two prizes per category plus special awards you might have a lot to pick from!

Have fun and enjoy! If you do have questions, reach out to us on Discord!

Shops and Keepers

Peddlers' Places

Stores and their wares are but one side of the coin – the shopkeepers and owners are usually just as interesting: Upstanding or less so, they all have curious stories to tell, and now is their place to shine!

Create a shop keeper and their business! Be it a blacksmith or a wandering peddler, they all need means to sell their merchandise, even if its a bridge that they are selling. Grand emporium or tavern in a questionable part of town – may this category allow you to scratch your entrepreneurial itch!

Custom-Built Trophy

An awesome trophy that will be unveiled soon – maybe yours to display soon?

Custom-Built Trophy

An awesome trophy that will be unveiled soon – maybe yours to display soon?

Playing it by ear

Symphony of Construction

Music can make you remember, forget, heal or dream. It speaks to those who listen and inspires them to create. Magical, isn’t it?

For this category, listen to the provided piece of music and build a creation based on whatever images, feelings or ideas may come to you. Make it a scene, a brick-built character, tell a story or create a still life – this category is as open as it can be and there is no right or wrong.

This category is directly inspired by the wonderful work of Paul Vermeesch and his ground-breaking concept of Symphony of Construction, a two-medium game of artistic telephone combining music and LEGO bricks. The piece of music was composed by Ian Spacek specifically for Brickscalibur.

Custom-Built Trophy

An awesome trophy that will be unveiled soon – maybe yours to display soon?

Custom-Built Trophy

An awesome trophy that will be unveiled soon – maybe yours to display soon?

Lumos!

A Light in the Dark

Where there is dark, there is light: Be it a dim lantern in gloomy catacombs or a campfire in the night, a light promises warmth and hope, driving back the dark shadows and what might lurk inside them. It guides or simply illuminates the interesting – a light does so many things!

Show us a baker in the early hours of the morning, a scribe working with the light of a candle, or a rescue party arriving at dawn. Bring light into the dark, in whatever way you see fit. Brickbuilt or achieved through smart photography or other means – the choice is yours.

Custom-Built Trophy

An awesome trophy that will be unveiled soon – maybe yours to display soon?

Custom-Built Trophy

An awesome trophy that will be unveiled soon – maybe yours to display soon?

Creature Feature

Minifigure Menagerists

A farmer needs their oxen, a knight their trusty steed, a witch a feline friend – so many parts of life wouldn’t be the same without a companion of the creature kind.

Show us a group of minimum five minifigures along with a creature that is somehow essential to this ensemble. Think of a desert caravan and their camels, or a group of hunters and their hunting dog – whatever you choose, and brickbuilt or not, do make the creature important.

This category is all about the minifigures – as such your entries should only contain characters and their accessories and the creature of your choice. To keep things fair, larger side-builds will result in a deduction of points.

Custom-Built Trophy

An awesome trophy that will be unveiled soon – maybe yours to display soon?

Custom-Built Trophy

An awesome trophy that will be unveiled soon – maybe yours to display soon?

As Easy as ABC

The Castles of Alphabetica

Alphabetica’s beautiful castles and their architects need to follow one important rule: Castles are to celebrate, embody and adhere to a letter of of the alphabet.

Letter-shaped or not, think of building a manor with a mausoleum and a moat maybe, or one featuring ancient alabaster arcades with apple orchards. Or a royal residence with rafters and rose windows, or one with a dragon in a dungeon, and dreadful defence structures – whatever character you end up picking, better follow Alphabetica’s rules to the letter!

You are welcome to be creative with words, synonyms, and spelling variants.

Custom-Built Trophy

An awesome trophy that will be unveiled soon – maybe yours to display soon?

Custom-Built Trophy

An awesome trophy that will be unveiled soon – maybe yours to display soon?

Collaborative Con-noisseurs

It's a Trap!

Whether for survival or for unsavoury reasons, setting traps and ambushes is an art in itself: Be it mice or two-legged prey, one better carefully plan their surprise lest they fall into their own spike pit.

Work together as a Team of Two to set a trap, for whatever it may be. Create a MOC each and show us the suspense of the unknown party about to fall for it – or show us the aftermath: Did you successfully spring your trap or are you more about the clean escape? Whatever you decide on, aim to capture everyone’s imagination!

Custom-Built Trophy

An awesome trophy that will be unveiled soon – maybe yours to display soon?

Custom-Built Trophy

An awesome trophy that will be unveiled soon – maybe yours to display soon?

In for a side quest?

Individual Awards

For those fancying an extra challenge, these indiviudal awards can be that side quest that your LEGO castle life needed: A little hunt for some extra treasure, and a step out of your comfort zone.

These awards can be won in addition to winning a category prize.

Best Use of Color

Cerulean Count

Try and be creative with the colors you are using!

Best use of color, as decided by the judges.

40893: The Lord of the Rings: Grond

Great for those that want to bring color into their foe’s life – by battering down their front door!

Best Part Usage

Elemental Sorcerer

Try and be creative with the bricks you are using!

Most creative piece usage, as decided by the judges.

40893: The Lord of the Rings: Grond

Looking to complete your Lord of the Rings collection? Or simply after more orc minifigures? Then this prize is for you!

Best Storytelling

Royal Poet

Try and be creative with the stories you are telling!

Best story telling, as decided by the judges.

40893: The Lord of the Rings: Grond

It doesn’t have a very poetic name but it sure brings other arguments to the table.

There can only be one

The Dragonslayer Award

Those that aspire to more can compete for the Dragonslayer Award: A title bestowed on the highest scoring builder each year, it grants them a seat at the round table, a virtual gallery of the best castle builders out there.

For a shot at the Dragonslayer Award you will want to build in all six categories and bring your A-game! There can only be one!

Custom-Built Trophy

A mythical creature and a forest god – something truly special trophy for this year’s Dragonslayer!

Built by Markus Rollbühler. Shipped from Germany.

Discord

Find us on Discord!

Will you answer the call? Then pack your armor, your swords, lances and bricks, and join us in this year’s Brickscalibur over on Discord!

Winter time is castle time – why not enjoy it with friends?