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The Digital Home of the Filipino Game of the Generals
Every rivalry deserves a better arena — a homegrown Filipino strategy sport, reborn for the phone in every pocket, and an open invitation to bring it home.
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BAKBAKAN®
The Digital Home of the Filipino Game of the Generals
Every rivalry deserves a better arena — a homegrown Filipino strategy sport, reborn for the phone in every pocket, and an open invitation to bring it home.
Two crews. A tense face‑off on a street corner. It builds like it's headed somewhere bad — then it doesn't. They sit down, phones out, and settle it in BAKBAKAN instead. That's the whole pitch, told in fourteen seconds.
Game of the Generals — Salpakan — was invented in the Philippines in 1970 by Sofronio H. Pasola Jr., who built it for his daughter after she asked for something with the depth of chess but simple enough for anyone to pick up. For more than five decades it has quietly lived in classrooms, barangay halls, and family gatherings — a homegrown Filipino invention that never got the spotlight it deserved.
Each Commander fields 21 pieces in secret — ranked from a Five‑Star General down to a Private, plus two Spies and the Flag. Neither side knows the other's ranks until two pieces meet in combat.
Higher rank wins on contact — except the Spy, who fells any officer but falls to the lowly Private. Capture the enemy Flag, or march your own safely across the board, and you win. Equal parts memory, nerve, and quiet bluffing — chess's clever, more accessible cousin, and entirely Filipino in origin. We build for it as a sport — ranked, rated, and worth training for. It's also, still, simply a game: the kind you can teach your kids on a Sunday afternoon.
Jeepney.io built BAKBAKAN® as a live, competitive home for Game of the Generals — free to download, easy to learn, built for a phone. Every Commander gets a public profile, a rank, and a place in a genuine sporting ladder.
Real‑time 1v1 battles, any time, against Commanders anywhere in the world.
New players train against an in‑house AI (DOMENG) before stepping onto the ranked board.
Full bracket generation, live standings, and match history — run entirely on the platform.
Entry fees and sponsor contributions are held and paid out automatically when a tournament concludes.
Tournaments on BAKBAKAN are organized in tiers that mirror the Philippines' own structure of governance — so a Cup can be scoped to exactly the community it's meant to serve.
We build and run the entire tournament at no cost to your office. Sponsorship funds the prize pool and puts your name on it — transparent, tiered, and open to any size of support.
| Barangay | ₱30,000 |
| Municipality | ₱50,000 |
| City | ₱100,000 |
| Province | ₱250,000 |
| Region | ₱500,000 |
| National | ₱1,000,000 |
| Continental | ₱2,500,000 |
| World | ₱5,000,000 |
For a founding LGU partnership, we're glad to shape a package around your office's own budget and calendar.
A safe, skill‑based sport for the youth — rivalry settled on a board, not a street corner.
Global visibility inside BAKBAKAN's Championship Network, alongside every other LGU running a Cup.
A genuine homegrown story — backing a Filipino invention, not an imported franchise.
Turnkey and low‑cost — we build and operate the tournament end‑to‑end.
A lasting presence in constituents' everyday lives, well past a single event or news cycle.
BAKBAKAN's Armory already lets any Commander equip the real flag of any nation on their pieces — a small, permanent point of national pride built into the sport itself. That makes it something more than a cosmetic: a quiet, low‑cost, high‑goodwill gesture the Philippines can extend to its nation‑friends.
A partner nation's flag, gifted and unlocked for our Commanders around a state visit or anniversary. A Cup opened to that nation's own community here, or ours abroad. This is the kind of soft, cultural diplomacy that costs little and is remembered — and we'd welcome the chance to explore it coursed through our own ambassadors and consuls posted abroad, honorary consuls representing partner nations here at home, the embassies and diplomats of other countries stationed in the Philippines, or, where it fits, friendship and cultural programs run through the United Nations.
A partner nation's flag, unlocked platform‑wide as a goodwill gesture around a state visit, anniversary, or cultural exchange.
A tournament co‑branded with a partner embassy or consulate, open to that nation's community here and ours in turn.
Open to routing through Philippine ambassadors, consuls, and honorary consuls abroad, or foreign missions and diplomats posted here.
Where it fits, extended to friendship and cultural programs through the United Nations — a sport built for exactly that kind of table.