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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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?
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.
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Oct 19-20, 2025
Sofia, Bulgaria
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.
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:
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:
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:
We will soon provide more organizational information regarding the conference and the audience area.
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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.
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.
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.
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