HELLO COMPETITIVE GAMERS Organized teamplay with comms in a tournament format is more fun (and less toxic) than solo queue. That's why we created our weekly "SCOUTING GROUNDS" event where you'll play alongside other high-skill players. Even if you've never played before, we've got coaches and existing pros to help you git gud ASAP! Top 4 players from each week get to play in our $200 weekly pro tournament! If you're Platinum or higher in games like LoL, CS, OW, DotA, Valo, or Supervive, you're going to love Sparkball. ⚡️Simply share a screenshot of your rank in our Discord and we'll grant you access to the event. ⚡️ See you on Friday at 11 AM PST/7 PM UTC

SPARKBALL UPDATE: We've been a bit quiet post Next Fest as we were finalizing an investment deal that would guarantee us a full year to finish development on Sparkball and release next year. Unfortunately, we learned a couple days ago that that deal was no longer happening. Given we've been building the last couple months with the assumption that we were clear for another year, we're obviously in a VERY difficult spot now. It's an incredibly backbreaking to build a competitive multiplayer game like Sparkball on a limited and uncertain budget. While we certainly made a lot of mistakes, I'm still proud of what we've been able to accomplish and how magical of a game Sparkball is. Gaming is obviously in a terrible spot right now and we just made a few too many mistakes to overcome our position. But we wouldn't be very OPTI if we threw in the towel before we gave absolutely everything we had to make this a success. We're shifting down to a super small team and spending the next couple months building out what we hope will show that the world NEEDS Sparkball to be finished and fully released. With resources even more limited than they already were, we will be going largely silent until we're prepared to launch Phase 1 of our Save Sparkball plan. We expect this to happen in ~1.5 months. In the meantime, we wanted to at least get this announcement out in the interest of transparency and promise 2 things: 1. We will be using a portion of our last bit of budget to consolidate former incentives (NFTs, badges, Friendship, etc.) and ensure our supporters get something tangible. We'll be launching that Rewards Consolidation and Sweepstakes once Phase 1 Launches., 2. We will not be attempting to sell anything or directly raise money from our community. We need at least ~$2M to reliably launch Sparkball so any money we take from players (including a token launch) feels unethical until we're confident we can actually deliver long-term., The only thing we'll be asking from our players is simply kind words on the internet and showing up to our events - it's you who will help us create that proof that Sparkball is worth saving. We're very.... very down right now, but not out quite yet. We'll see you in a few weeks with the Phase 1 Launch and we promise to keep shouting LETS PLAY SPARKBALL! until we can't anymore.

Want to brawl and ball harder than ever? Then you shouldn't miss out. Join us today at 4 PM UTC on our Discord channel for the traditional Sparkball game night!

Ready to watch the 50 best players in Sparkball duke it for a cash prize?! The Sweatfest Invitational is officially taking place on July 18, 2025 4 PM UTC. Congratulations to all our guaranteed Sweatfest Invitational players. For those who didn't quite make it, we've created a signup form that teams can pick up players from. If you think you've got the skills, fill out the form at forms.gle/yFmD2EbWwwYYz2Ei9 See you on the 18th!

Another day to brawl hard, ball harder ⚡️⚽️.

Join us for our Next Fest Recap and Live QA, starting in 1 hour at 10 AM PST/5 PM UTC on our Discord channel!

Gspark. Don't forget to stay hydrated.

That's a wrap! Sparkball's first ever Steam Next Fest has officially ended! It was a wild week that saw its fair share of issues, but there's so much to be excited about as we saw so many new players fall in love with Sparkball (perhaps a little TOO much) We're already working on the post-mortem breakdown on what went right and what went wrong. I'll be sharing that with the community later and hosting an AMA hopefully the end of this week! We'll have a feedback form available tomorrow as we'd love to hear your opinions, including discussing them in the Community Town Hall the week after this one! Thanks again for joining us and we're excited to take these lessons learned with us into Season Zero!

Now that the dust has settled, it's time to get SWEATY. Announcing our first ever SWEATFEST INVITATIONAL where Sparkball's best of the best will compete for over $3,000! * The top 50 ranked players during Steam Next Fest will be invited to form teams and compete on June 28th. * Only 1 member per team can be outside the top 50. * We will be enforcing duos only for those aiming for Top 50! See you at the top!

Day 5 – Sparkball Weekend begins! We’ve got two massive announcements coming today, but we’ll spoil a bit of it and say you probably will want to start REFERRING your friends to come play. (HINT HINT) Patch notes for today: * Buffed your favorite hero * Fixed a myriad of crashes that were happening on load-in and early in the game. * Reconnect should work now if your game crashes mid match. * Put in some backend tracking/penalties for leavers * Corrected an issue with region selection for parties that should result in better average ping across your matches. Queues are opening now, LETS PLAY SPARKBALL!