ER Champ 2025

ER Champ 2025

ER Champ 2025 features an engaging story culminating with a live final event in Sofia, Bulgaria. Form a team now and start training for the competition, as the qualification stage will be held in June. Below you will find all the most important information about this year's edition.

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About the championship

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Story this year

Every year ER Champ has a unique intriguing story and narrative. You will get acquainted with it during the stress test, and then get to know the main part of it during the qualification stage. Everything will be wrapped up in the grand final and the story will reach its conclusion. This year our story is entitled "Boo-tiful Adventure at Dalloway Manor".

Welcome to Dalloway Manor, where mischievous ghosts outshine any hint of terror! Journalist Howard Craft and photographer Lily Jones set out to debunk the legends of the haunted manor.

But once inside, they find themselves trapped by playful, nosy spirits who love pranks more than scares. To escape, they must solve the manor’s mysteries and uncover its secrets.

Will Lily and Howard outwit the ghosts and find their way out? Or will they become permanent residents of Dalloway Manor?

Grand final in Bulgaria

ER Champ is a world-wide championship. It’s important for us that the finals of the competition are held in a different country every year. After Poland and Czechia, the time has come for Bulgaria.

We’d like to invite you to Sofia, October 20, to our venue called The Purgatory. We are preparing many attractions you can attend during the final event. More details can be found below.

Schedule

Online games

Howard Craft and Lily Jones enter an abandoned manor where strange things happen, and players must help them explore the rooms and find a way to stop the ghostly curse.

Welcome to Dalloway Manor!

Welcome to Dalloway Manor!

Qualifications

Welcome to Dalloway Manor, where horror meets absurdity, and ghosts prefer wit over scares! Howard Craft, a journalist for the local newspaper, and his friend Lily Jones, an ambitious young photographer, have heard plenty of spooky stories about the abandoned Dalloway Manor. People say its walls hold too many secrets and that anyone who enters may never leave. Dismissing these as silly myths, the two set off to explore the ruins. Maybe they’re just curious, or maybe they’re amateur ghost hunters hoping to catch proof of spirits on camera. But as soon as they step inside, the door slams shut behind them. Instead of terrifying ghosts, they find mischievous spirits who love pranks more than hauntings. To escape, Lily and Howard must solve the manor’s mystery—before they, too, become ghosts!

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Before the Booo...

Before the Booo...

Stress test

An abandoned manor. Whispers of ghosts. And two curious souls who dare to enter: Howard Craft, a local journalist, and Lily Jones, a young photographer. Welcome to the Booootiful Adventure at Dalloway Manor. This is where it all begins.

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Live final

The ER CHAMP 2025 finals will be held on October 20 in Sofia, Bulgaria. The top 10 teams selected in the qualifiers will compete against each other in unique rooms built specifically for this occasion. Also, for the first time ever, we will hold a mini-conference for escape room owners during the event. All of that will happen at a venue called The Purgatory.

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For finalists

During the finals, each of the 10 teams will compete in two rooms specially built for the occasion. In addition, on the day before the finals, there will be a special event during which you will be invited to practice in the ER Champ rooms from previous years in the headquarters of the Funky Monkeys company.

Prepared for the finalists are:

  • waiting room with attractions
  • full catering during the competition
  • afterparty with attractions
  • networking with the escape room community
  • special pre-event

FOR ESCAPE ROOM OWNERS

We invite you to a mini-conference for owners of escape rooms where we will present a case study of the construction of the best rooms in the world.

You can expect:

  • interesting speeches and panels
  • networking with the escape room community
  • presentations of interesting products
  • afterparty with attractions

FOR AUDIENCE

You are invited to participate in watching the competition together and network with the escape room community - other enthusiasts, owners, our staff, and of course the finalists themselves. During the event there will be an opportunity to play the final rooms of ER Champ yourself.

Prepared for you are:

  • competition audience area
  • afterparty with attractions
  • opportunity to play in the ER Champ rooms
  • limited merchandise of ER Champ

We will soon provide more organizational information regarding the conference and the audience area.
Visit our website or sign up for the ER Champ newsletter to stay up to date.

ESCAPE ROOMS IN SOFIA

During your stay in the Bulgarian capital, we wholeheartedly recommend to play the local escape rooms. You can easily find them using the Lockme platform. On Lockme, you will also find information on how to travel around Sofia.

WHAT IS LOCKME

Lockme is a marketplace that allows you easily search for, review and book escape rooms. It also provides you with your own diary of visited rooms. You can now find escape rooms from various countries there, including Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, and of course Bulgaria. Browse and book escape rooms in a convenient way and get the best time slots. Lockme is also the main organizer and sponsor of ER Champ.

Useful links

ESCAPE ROOMS IN SOFIA HOW TO PLAN YOUR TRIP TO BULGARIA
A map of escape rooms in Sofia

ER Champ Newsletter

2025 program team

Ambassadors

Organizers

Partners

  • Organizer / Sponsor

    Lockme

    Lockme is a worldwide marketplace of escape rooms. Currently, it has a database of almost 4,000 escape rooms in 13 European countries and supports 7 languages. Under the Lockme brand, you will find other projects, including world-renowned escape room tabletop games from the Escape Tales series.

  • Co-organizer

    Funky Monkey

  • Co-organizer

    Aber

  • Technical partner

    My Cuda Robimy My Cuda Robimy

  • Meritorical partner

    Exit19

  • Technical partner

    Tutek Live Tutek Live

  • Technical partner

    The Purgatory The Purgatory

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