Another BIGMOON BASH is beginning soon in Beastieball! During Bigmoon Bashes, coaches can challenge each other in open matchmaking for a limited time. During the event you'll have a Bash Rank, which will improve based on your performance. After it's over, you'll receive in-game rewards based on your participation, such as Social Battery and Sports Points.
🏁 Rules & Details
When: August 23, 2025 00:00 UTC to August 25, 2025 00:00 UTC (equivalent to Friday, August 22 @ 4PM PST to Sunday, August 24 @ 4PM PST)
BANNED Beasties: Riplash, Maraptor, Albrax, Hopra and Surgus!
Players of all skill level are invited! All you need to do to participate is to play the game on that day and join the Bash on SportNet! SportNet is typically unlocked within the first 2 hours of your adventure, after beating your first Ranked boss. And if you aren't confident in your own Beastie team, you can use a randomly generated one instead - just go to Team Setup and set "Random Team" as your current team.
Official Game Rules:
- First to 2 Points wins
- Standard time limit on move selection
- No Undos allowed
- No duplicate Beastie species allowed
- Relationship Combos are disabled
- All Beasties are set to Level 50
❓ FAQ
Why are THESE Beasties in jail?
During the previous Bash, we ran a bit of a science experiment. We captured the public discussion we could find in Beastieball-focused spaces over the course of the Bash and then ran an algorithm on it to count how many messages were sent about each Beastie specie. This also accounted for nicknames and lingo, like saying "shark" or "sharp" to refer to Riplash. Here are the results of that!
As you can see, we've simply jailed the 5 most-discussed Beasties. (Something fun to note: although fewer individual messages were sent that mentioned Albrax, the total wordcount of those messages was the highest of the bunch by far. Albrax seems to draw more long-form essay-like complaints than other Beasties!) 🤓
With this rule in effect, we're confident there will be no more complaints about PvP balance in Beastieball. We look forward to the calm discussion that is sure to emerge from this upcoming, perfectly calibrated Bigmoon Bash.
I still have complaints about balance!
I don't see how that's possible, but if it makes you feel any better, we're well underway on a large balance patch which will be coming to the game soon! After this Bash is over, we'll begin testing the new changes in the Experimental branch, so please look forward to that update.