Round 1 featured four more games. Only two games had bidding, and the English won three of the four matchups, with Darrell Morris recording the only Vikings victory. This left eight players to advance to single-elimination play in Round 2.

Round 2 featured three games. One player decided to drop out, leaving just seven players and resulting in David Schneider earning a bye into the Semifinal. Avery Abernethy defeated Ted Lange by auto-victory as the English in round 1 of their game without a bid for sides. The other two matches each featured bids of 2 to play as the English. Matt Seitz defeated Craig Melton as the Vikings by claiming 9 victory shires at the end of round 5, and Chuck Canova won his second game as the Vikings over Brian Scilzo by claiming 14 victory shires at the end of round 6. This set up the final four with 4-time defending champion David Schneider, 2023 runner-up Avery Abernethy, Chuck Canova and Matt Seitz, who had never played the game before this tournament.

Semifinal: The first Semifinal featured Matt Seitz playing as the Vikings after accepting David Schneider’s bid of four forfeited armies to play as the English. David defeated Matt in five rounds, holding Matt to just 3 victory shires at game end. The other Semifinal saw Chuck Canova accept Avery Abernethy’s bid of three forfeited armies. This game was close throughout and Avery managed to edge out Chuck after 5 rounds by holding Chuck to seven victory shires.

Final: The final featured was a rematch of the 2023 Final between David Schneider and Avery Abernethy. David opened the bidding at five for the English and Avery accepted and played as the Vikings. Avery invaded the South with Halfdan and managed to take four shires during round 1. David’s counterattacks as the English looked like they might recapture three of those shires, but fortunate dice on the closest battle went David’s way and resulted in David eliminating Avery’s entire armies to earn a round 1 auto-victory and claim his fifth consecutive 878 Vikings title.