Kingdom vs Kingdom Season 23 recap

Castle day for Season 23 was 7 November 2026. Prep ran 2 to 7 November. The battle phase opened at 10:00 UTC, the castle fight ran from 12:00 to 22:00 UTC, and the results are on MightPulse now.

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The season in numbers

Prep is scored on both sides of a war, so the raw total looks huge. Counted once per matchup, kingdoms put up about 4.29 trillion prep points. Median kingdom score was 3.38B. Mean was 3.54B. Last season those figures were 4.41T, a 3.45B median, and a 3.74B mean. The board came down a little. The drop is at the top: 30 kingdoms cleared 10B last season, and 13 did it this time.

If you lost prep, you held about one time in three. If you won prep, you took the castle about two times in three. Last season that split was 63% and 37%. A few more sieges finished this time.

The byes were K10, K620, K1144, K1338, K1866, K2141, K2283, and K2421.

Highest prep scores

These are the ten biggest scores, win or lose. K86 leads. K924 is second, and this time they finished the castle. K393 is the only top-ten kingdom that lost the prep.

Kingdom 1 landed 39th with 8.46B against K118 (7.42B). They won the prep and did not take the castle. Jestia stayed king in Kingdom 1. JeffTheLandShark stayed king in 118. Last season Kingdom 1 was 135th at 7.44B and swept K39. A higher score, a worse rank, and the siege failed.

The smallest prep win was K445 at 362M over K386 (321M). The siege failed. The smallest prep win that also took the castle was K245 at 365M over K288 (352M).

The top of the board did finish

K86 is the score of the season: 16.37B to 9.25B against K231, and they took the castle. 鏡中的雷伊 of TMD was appointed High King on both thrones. That 16.37B is the biggest score this cycle. It is still well under K924's 31.72B from Season 22, which remains the highest prep we have on record.

K924 is the other headline. Last season they put up 31.72B against K685 and missed the castle, the first miss after a long run of sweeps. This season they scored 15.72B to 3.39B against K837 and took it. FROG of ACE was appointed High King on both thrones. Going into this season they were 12 for 12 on prep and 11 for 12 on the castle. They won both this time.

K240 put up 11.03B against K321's 2.50B and took the castle. Peggy 呸姬 of DRX was appointed High King. Last season K321 held a 15.82B score against K172. This season they were on the other side of a blowout.

K57 is the tight one near the top: 11.01B to 10.09B against K163, and they still took the castle. Ian52033 of OUT was appointed High King.

Winning prep did not mean winning the castle

K273 is the miss people will point at. Fifth on the board, 10.99B to 10.58B, only 406 million in it, and K393 held. Death Qcat stayed king in 393. MVP stayed king in 273, which is the attacking kingdom appointing its own king after a failed siege. K393's castle was the one in play.

Highest prep scores that failed the siege:

K312 won 9.88B to 3.57B, close to 3 to 1, and still did not take K491. K1 is further down the same list: 8.46B to 7.42B, and K118 held.

Holds worth a look, ranked by the defender's own prep:

K393 is the highest scoring hold. K675 held a war that was 9.16B to 9.11B. K118 held Kingdom 1.

Full wins (prep and castle)

809 kingdoms won both. Highest scoring sweeps:

K242 beat K359 10.56B to 10.36B and took the castle. Scorpio of KNG was appointed High King. K14 did the same to K61, 10.40B to 10.34B. DongtanReze of GOK was appointed High King. Two of the closest wars at the top of the board still ended in a take.

Closest prep wars

These are the smallest gaps as a share of the combined score.

K232 vs K181 is the narrowest board of the season: 1.70 million points on a 7.20B war, and K232 took the castle. Last season the narrowest war was K58 vs K71, 287,000 points, and that siege failed.

Four other close boards are not listed. Their last score was saved before prep ended, and the castle hall showed the other kingdom won both, so those point totals were removed. K1891 against K1912 was removed too. The saved score had 1891 ahead before prep ended, and both thrones kept a regular king, so the result is a held castle.

Biggest stomps

Largest prep ratios among winners. Seven of the eight biggest converted. One did not.

K618 is the one that got away: 5.27B to 971M, about 5.4 to 1, and the castle stayed in K631. Mins of SKS stayed king in 618. A wide prep and a failed siege, on a smaller stage than K924's miss last season, and the same kind of result.