Football's back and here's a first look at what's coming—new contests, a refreshed card set, new preseason GB Pass, and a stack of platform upgrades. We'll be rolling out full details on each of these in the weeks ahead.
🔥 Contests: $700K+ on the Line
We're running 18 weeks of standard, specials, and event contests with $700,000+ in cash up for grabs across the regular season.
All your favorites are back every week: Inferno, Volcano, Scorcher, Spark, Flamethrower, and more. And we've built in marquee weeks worth circling on your calendar:
- Week 5 — Fury: a three-contest event slate stacked on top of the regular lineup
- Week 9 — Midseason Madness: our single biggest week of the season, with a $75,000 pool across Madness
- Week 12 — Thanksgiving and Week 16 — Christmas: holiday specials with bonus prize pools
- Week 18: a season-closing King of the Hill contest to send it off right
We're saving the full week-by-week prize pool breakdown and payout structures for a dedicated release closer to kickoff—consider this the preview.
📦 Packs: CORE 2026
New season, new Items set. CORE 2026 brings refreshed artwork across all our Items—building on the look of last year's 2025 CORE set.
Here's what's in each pack:
Common Pack — 4 Player Items
- 1 item between 25–125 overall (multiplier up to ×1.5)
- 3 items between 25–75 overall (multiplier ×1.0–×1.3)
- Combined pack strength: 185–215 total overall
- 2% chance of a bonus Wild Item · 0.5% chance of a Franchise Item
Rare Pack — 6 Player Items
- 1 item between 66–150 overall
- 1 item between 66–125 overall
- 1 item between 66–95 overall
- 3 items between 25–95 overall
- Combined pack strength: 365–445 total overall
- 5% chance of a bonus Wild Item · 1% chance of a Franchise Item
Epic Pack — 10 Player Items, no duplicates
- 2 items between 96–150 overall (2 Epics guaranteed every pack)
- 3 items between 66–135 overall
- 5 items between 66–95 overall
- Combined pack strength: 775–1,035 total overall
- 15% chance of a bonus Wild Item · 3% chance of a Franchise Item
Across every tier: sidelined players (IR, PUP, suspension, and similar designations) are always excluded, pack contents lock in the moment you buy, and an unopened pack won't retroactively pick up new guarantees or content changes.
🎟️ GB Pass
GameBlazers Pass—a season-long rewards track. It opens with the Pre-Season Pass, running August 4 – September 1, with 5 levels of Free and 10 levels of Premium rewards.
Premium unlocks for $14.99 and comes with an instant 400 XP boost—about a 3-level head start right away.
| Level | XP Needed | Free Reward | Premium Reward |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 50 (starter pack opening) | Common Pack (Untradeable) | Common Pack (Untradeable) |
| 2 | 100 | Random QB (Untradeable) | Random QB (Untradeable) |
| 3 | 195 | Random TE (Untradeable) | 1.0x Boost |
| 4 | 345 | Random RB (Untradeable) | Random WR (Untradeable) |
| 5 | 550 | Random WR (Untradeable) | 1.0x Boost |
| 6 | 740 | — | Random RB (Untradeable) |
| 7 | 925 | — | 1.1x Boost |
| 8 | 1,100 | — | Contract Extension (1-Month) |
| 9 | 1,325 | — | Necromancer |
| 10 | 1,600 | — | 85+ Overall Item (Untradeable) |
20 total items across the Free and Premium tracks combined.
🏈 Roster Upgrade Challenges
The first Welcome RUC of the 2026 Football season will go live on August 4th. New RUCs will be released every Wednesday of the regular season through week 18, giving you an opportunity to complete challenges to improve your roster.
⚙️ Overall Updates
We're also bringing a brand-new way to play: Play Caller, a daily mini-game where you call plays against the CPU, read the defense, and try to string together the perfect drive. A new challenge every day. Full details coming soon.
Item Overall updates: Player Overalls won't sit still all season. The first update lands August 4th, then every four weeks after that, wrapping up at Week 16—so your roster keeps pace with how players are actually performing.
Season kicks off Wednesday, September 9. See you on the field. 🔥
