Players

Michiel Meire

Learn to fly

Belgium Team Belgium BGA profile

Quarter-finalist of the online championship 2024.

Fun fact: when Michiel isn't playing Carcassonne you'll probably find him training for a marathon or triathlon. Mens sana in corpore sano, that's the spirit.

Did you know? He ran a marathon with valmir79 and beat him by 8 seconds. If he beats everyone in Carcassonne the same way, we're all happy!

Bio

Michiel Meire, known online as Learn to fly, finished 23rd at the Belgian Championship in 2025 as best result and ranks 11th in the Belgian ranking. Learn to fly has played 2 editions of the live Belgian Championship since 2024.

Since 2025, Learn to fly has played 24 international matches for Belgium and won 16 (67%). On Board Game Arena, Learn to fly has played 9,214 rated games, with a peak rating of 678.

Honours

Best tournament results for Learn to fly.

Year	Tournament	Result
2026	Belgian Carcassonne Online Championship	4th
2025	Belgian Championship (live)	23rd

Played: 2 editions of the live Belgian Championship and 5 editions of the online championship (best: 4th in 2026).

Key figures

Measure	Value
Belgian ranking	11th (207 points, ranking rating 1707)
Head-to-head rating	10th (1672, peak 1717 on 1 Dec 2025)
Head-to-head matches	430: 256 won, 157 lost, 17 drawn (60% won)
BGA rating	567 (peak 678)
Rated BGA games	9,214
International matches for Belgium	24 (16 won, 8 lost)

National team

Learn to fly has won 10 of 16 matches at official team championships and is the 9th most-capped of 21 Belgian players.

Tournament	Won–lost	Highlights
WTCOC 2026	5–1	Wins against Chile, Colombia and Czech Republic and 2 more
ETCOC 2026	1–2	Win against Greece
WTCOC 2025	0–3	Narrowest loss: Croatia (245–254)
ETCOC 2025	4–0	Wins against Greece, UK and Czech Republic and 1 more

In friendly internationals the record is 6–2. Highest score for Belgium: 304 points, against RCP (ETCOC 2026).

Rivalries

Learn to fly's most frequent opponent is valmir79 (60 matches, 35–24–1). Against the top 10 the best record is versus 71Knives (no. 6 head-to-head): 8–4–0.

Opponent	Matches	Won–lost–drawn
valmir79 (Thomas Declerck)	60	35–24–1
SurferRosa	22	10–12–0
Defdamesdompi (Dominic Reberez)	19	7–11–1
mobidic (Maud Quaniers)	18	11–7–0
JinaJina (Nicolas Victor)	17	7–9–1
Baesje (Servaes Hereman)	16	12–4–0
Nicedicer (Tom De Smedt)	16	10–6–0
CraftyRaf (Raf Mesotten)	14	8–6–0

Source: the Carcassonne Belgium statistics (Belgian Championship, online championship, league, World Championship and international matches), rankings computed on 31 October 2026. This bio is rebuilt every night.

Team Belgium

24 caps, 16–8 won – lost (67 %), points +157. Debut on 11 February 2025 against Croatia (HR). All caps

Date	Competition	Opponent
11 Oct 2026	ETCOC 2026 1/4 final	Someone_you_know RCP	Lost
Game 1 115 – 118 BGA table Game 2 102 – 88 BGA table Game 3 87 – 111 BGA table Points 304 – 317
11 Oct 2026	ETCOC 2026 Gr.Stage 4	Ste-fa-na-kis Greece (GR)	Won
Game 1 96 – 86 BGA table Game 2 95 – 95 BGA table Points 191 – 181
21 Sep 2026	ETCOC 2026 Gr.Stage 1	nazario77 Ukraine (UA)	Lost
Game 1 94 – 86 BGA table Game 2 108 – 111 BGA table Game 3 77 – 93 BGA table Points 279 – 290
6 Jun 2026	WTCOC 2026 1/4 final	LSC Hong Kong (HK)	Won
Game 1 92 – 91 BGA table Game 2 94 – 82 BGA table Points 186 – 173
27 May 2026	WTCOC 2026 1/8 final	barry10 Italy (IT)	Won
Game 1 88 – 99 BGA table Game 2 86 – 76 BGA table Game 3 89 – 75 BGA table Points 263 – 250
20 May 2026	WTCOC 2026 1/16 final	vomo_43 Czech Republic (CZ)	Won
Game 1 115 – 106 BGA table Game 2 98 – 89 BGA table Points 213 – 195
9 May 2026	WTCOC 2026 Gr.Stage 3	maister35 Colombia (CO)	Won
Game 1 67 – 92 BGA table Game 2 89 – 76 BGA table Game 3 96 – 63 BGA table Points 252 – 231
3 May 2026	WTCOC 2026 Gr.Stage 2	Besson00 Brazil (BR)	Lost
Game 1 75 – 93 BGA table Game 2 114 – 106 BGA table Game 3 103 – 112 BGA table Points 292 – 311
13 Apr 2026	WTCOC 2026 Gr.Stage 1	CrisRamirez Chile (CL)	Won
Game 1 98 – 113 BGA table Game 2 81 – 80 BGA table Game 3 84 – 83 BGA table Points 263 – 276
9 Apr 2026	Friendlies Friendly 47	Moster84 Sweden (SE)	Won
Game 1 131 – 69 BGA table Game 2 124 – 59 BGA table Points 255 – 128
26 Mar 2026	Friendlies Friendly 43	migcrack Spain (ES)	Won
Game 1 90 – 73 BGA table Game 2 120 – 89 BGA table Points 210 – 162
17 Mar 2026	Friendlies Friendly 41	A1egat0r Ukraine (UA)	Lost
Game 1 88 – 105 BGA table Game 2 57 – 101 BGA table Points 145 – 206
19 Oct 2025	ETCOC 2025 1/2 final	AtumOrig RCP	Won
Game 1 99 – 96 BGA table Game 2 87 – 79 BGA table Points 186 – 175
19 Oct 2025	ETCOC 2025 1/4 final	posij118 Czech Republic (CZ)	Won
Game 1 106 – 99 BGA table Game 2 100 – 99 BGA table Points 206 – 198
18 Oct 2025	ETCOC 2025 Match 3	statmatt UK (GB)	Won
Game 1 63 – 93 BGA table Game 2 108 – 97 BGA table Game 3 85 – 82 BGA table Points 256 – 272
18 Oct 2025	ETCOC 2025 Match 1	Rico13mpatsoni Greece (GR)	Won
Game 1 85 – 86 BGA table Game 2 99 – 86 BGA table Game 3 119 – 101 BGA table Points 303 – 273
21 May 2025	WTCOC 2025 Match 4	Rasdarot Croatia (HR)	Lost
Game 1 66 – 85 BGA table Game 2 111 – 87 BGA table Game 3 68 – 82 BGA table Points 245 – 254
8 May 2025	WTCOC 2025 Match 2	Alexey_LV Latvia (LV)	Lost
Game 1 88 – 123 BGA table Game 2 58 – 78 BGA table Points 146 – 201
27 Apr 2025	WTCOC 2025 Match 1	StevenChangTW Taiwan (TW)	Lost
Game 1 94 – 73 BGA table Game 2 63 – 83 BGA table Game 3 70 – 94 BGA table Points 227 – 250
10 Apr 2025	Friendlies Friendly 38	statmatt UK (GB)	Won
Game 1 117 – 107 BGA table Game 2 70 – 95 BGA table Game 3 92 – 91 BGA table Points 279 – 293
2 Apr 2025	Friendlies Friendly 37	maxdk9 Ukraine (UA)	Won
Game 1 106 – 88 BGA table Game 2 100 – 82 BGA table Points 206 – 170
25 Mar 2025	Friendlies Friendly 36	Tiuku Finland (FI)	Won
Game 1 108 – 63 BGA table Game 2 94 – 92 BGA table Points 202 – 155
17 Mar 2025	Friendlies Friendly 34	Zwollywood The Netherlands (NL)	Won
Game 1 79 – 66 BGA table Game 2 92 – 94 BGA table Game 3 126 – 109 BGA table Points 297 – 269
11 Feb 2025	Friendlies Friendly 32	vegaorion Croatia (HR)	Lost
Game 1 92 – 99 BGA table Game 2 82 – 94 BGA table Points 174 – 193

Tournaments

Tournament	Place	Points
BCL 2026 Spring ML	6
Team Belgium Qualifiers WTCOC 2026	3 (Group A · qualified)	2
BCOC 2026	4
BCLC 2025	23	3
Team Belgium Qualifiers WTCOC 2025	1 (Group A · qualified)	4
BCOC 2025	7
BCLC 2024	86	8
Team Belgium Qualifiers WTCOC 2024	4 (Group A)	3
BCOC 2024	18
BCOC 2023	15
BCOC 2022	20

Ranking breakdown details

Event	Raw	Decay	Points
ETCOC 2026 [Gr.Stage 4] — W vs opp	4	1.00	4.0
ETCOC 2026 [1/4 final] — L vs opp	0	1.00	0.0
ETCOC 2026 [Gr.Stage 1] — L vs opp	0	1.00	0.0
WTCOC 2026 [1/4 final] — W vs opp	6	1.00	6.0
WTCOC 2026 [1/8 final] — W vs opp	6	1.00	6.0
WTCOC 2026 [1/16 final] — W vs opp	6	1.00	6.0
WTCOC 2026 [Gr.Stage 3] — W vs opp	4	1.00	4.0
WTCOC 2026 [Gr.Stage 2] — L vs opp	0	1.00	0.0
BCL 2026 Spring ML — rank 6 (ML)	20	1.00	10.0
WTCOC 2026 [Gr.Stage 1] — W vs opp	4	1.00	4.0
Friendlies [Friendly 47] — W vs opp	2	1.00	2.0
Friendlies [Friendly 43] — W vs opp	2	1.00	2.0
Friendlies [Friendly 41] — L vs opp	0	1.00	0.0
BCOC 2026 — rank 4	35	1.00	26.3
ETCOC 2025 [1/4 final] — W vs opp	5	0.85	4.3
ETCOC 2025 [1/2 final] — W vs opp	5	0.85	4.3
ETCOC 2025 [Match 1] — W vs opp	4	0.85	3.4
ETCOC 2025 [Match 3] — W vs opp	4	0.85	3.4
WTCOC 2025 [Match 4] — L vs opp	0	0.85	0.0
BCLC 2025 — rank 23	3	0.85	2.6
WTCOC 2025 [Match 2] — L vs opp	0	0.85	0.0
WTCOC 2025 [Match 1] — L vs opp	0	0.85	0.0
Friendlies [Friendly 38] — W vs opp	2	0.85	1.7
Friendlies [Friendly 37] — W vs opp	2	0.85	1.7
Friendlies [Friendly 36] — W vs opp	2	0.85	1.7
Friendlies [Friendly 34] — W vs opp	2	0.85	1.7
Friendlies [Friendly 32] — L vs opp	0	0.85	0.0
BCOC 2025 — rank 7	17	0.85	10.8
BCLC 2024 — rank 86	1	0.72	0.7
BCOC 2024 — rank 18	3	0.72	1.6
BCOC 2023 — rank 15	8	0.61	3.7
BCOC 2022 — rank 20	3	0.52	1.2

Recent games

Date	Opponents	Score	Elo
30 Oct 2026	cutedam11 (78)	101	567 (+6)	table
30 Oct 2026	Angelosan (0)	1	561 (+9)	table
30 Oct 2026	EestiSnowQueen (79)	103	552 (+3)	table
29 Oct 2026	Astymeloisa (92)	106	549 (+1)	table
29 Oct 2026	valle13 (1)	0	548 (-9)	table
29 Oct 2026	Bestwall (123)	118	557 (-6)	table
29 Oct 2026	Fantasties (1)	0	563 (-16)	table
29 Oct 2026	Eagledust (82)	145	579 (+5)	table
29 Oct 2026	Stwasi (83)	86	574 (+9)	table
29 Oct 2026	Carquinyolis (66)	62	565 (-12)	table
29 Oct 2026	Carquinyolis (126)	109	577 (-13)	table
28 Oct 2026	Robarkson (98)	116	590 (+5)	table
28 Oct 2026	Tywexx (60)	116	585 (+2)	table
28 Oct 2026	obiwonder (128)	100	583 (-7)	table
28 Oct 2026	obiwonder (115)	98	590 (-8)	table
28 Oct 2026	Kithara (101)	81	598 (-6)	table
28 Oct 2026	phmv (62)	90	604 (+5)	table
28 Oct 2026	micceli (0)	1	599 (+5)	table
27 Oct 2026	Bestwall (89)	97	594 (+13)	table
27 Oct 2026	g3rappa (1)	0	581 (-9)	table
27 Oct 2026	purecountry (74)	125	590 (+3)	table
27 Oct 2026	JXIV (83)	94	587 (+7)	table
26 Oct 2026	rittaimasuku (1)	0	580 (-13)	table
26 Oct 2026	jonben9603 (83)	95	593 (+5)	table
26 Oct 2026	nl96be (0)	1	588 (+6)	table