DigiLab has been live for a week. Here’s where things stand.
The Numbers
DigiLab started as a project for the Dallas-Fort Worth Digimon TCG scene. On February 24th we opened it up to everyone. In seven days, 23 new scenes signed up across 9 countries.
| Count | |
|---|---|
| Scenes | 25 |
| Players | 1,100+ |
| Tournaments | 340+ |
| Stores | 60+ |
| Countries | 9 |
Most of those tournaments aren’t new. Communities uploaded their backlogged results going back to October 2025. That’s five months of local tournament history, preserved and searchable.
The Scenes
Here are the local scenes with the most activity so far.
| Scene | Players | Tournaments | Stores |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas (DFW) | 178 | 62 | 13 |
| New York (NYC) | 71 | 37 | 5 |
| New York (Hudson Valley) | 17 | 24 | 2 |
| Brazil (Santa Catarina) | 40 | 20 | 7 |
| Brazil (São Paulo) | 73 | 14 | 6 |
| Canada (Metro Vancouver) | 57 | 9 | 5 |
| Ohio (Cincinnati Area) | 40 | 9 | 4 |
| Virginia (Richmond) | 37 | 6 | 2 |
| Australia (Sydney) | 20 | 4 | 2 |
DFW has the deepest history since it’s where DigiLab started. New York and Brazil came in strong with multiple sub-scenes and stores already uploading. Vancouver, Cincinnati, Richmond, and Sydney rounded out the first wave.
Online tournaments are tracked separately through the Online scene. That includes organizers like PHOENIX REBORN and Eagle’s Nest, which account for 149 tournaments and 509 players on their own.
The nine countries represented so far: United States, Brazil, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Denmark, Portugal, and Spain.
What Surprised Us
The backlog uploads. We expected scenes to start fresh. Instead, communities immediately uploaded months of past results. Hudson Valley loaded 24 tournaments from just two stores. São Paulo had six stores contributing within a day of joining. People wanted their history tracked, not just their future events.
Community ownership. Scene organizers didn’t wait for us to set things up. They created their stores, uploaded their results, and started comparing ratings on Discord before we even checked in. The upload-from-screenshot workflow made that possible.
International reach. We built this for a Texas locals scene. Within 48 hours of going public, we had scenes in Brazil, the UK, Denmark, Portugal, Australia, and New Zealand. The Digimon TCG competitive community is more global than we expected.
What’s Next
- Rating system revamp (the current algorithm has some known issues we’re fixing)
- More scenes onboarding as word spreads
- Deck meta analysis tools so you can see what’s winning at your locals
- Head-to-head records between players
Get Involved
If your scene isn’t on DigiLab yet, join the Discord and we’ll get you set up.