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This year's Staff Tournament has now started over at the Altador Cup. The format of the event remains unchanged, with you selecting a team of five staff for each round and getting points based on how they score. The Star Player feature also returns. (You need to select your 5-player team first, then you'll see the option to pick a star player—make sure you don't forget after setting your team! ⭐️)

You will have until the end of Monday, June 12th at 11:59 PM NST to make your selections for this first round.

This year, the following line up changes have been made:

New Players:

• Fae
• Ivy
• Stone
• Willow

Not Returning:

• DJ Sally
• Mac
• SenorMalo
• Username Redacted

Your picks might be helped by checking out the 2022 Staff Tourney guide here at JN to get a sense of which players may earn you the most points:


Who will you be picking for Star Player in round 1? Let us know the comments!

An Altador Cup re-release mystery capsule is now available in the NC Mall. This capsule includes items from previous AC Neocash events from over the years.


This capsule also comes in two different bundles that effectively give a bulk discount:


To see what's inside the new re-release capsule, check out our Mystery Capsule guide as we assemble the contents!


(And if you open any of these capsules, let us know if you receive a prize not listed on our guide!)

To celebrate JubJub Day, a new colour is available:


A rose bush inspired outfit is also available at the Garden Centre:



Some elemental clothes are also available at Cog's Togs:



A new instrument is also available:

Update 8:00 AM: The glitch with scoring appears fixed, and games are now counting correctly.

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Update 6/6: Live play has begun in the Altador Cup. However, the games are glitchy at present and scores sent are not always counting across all four games. Which games work appears variable between users. If sending scores, we recommend to refresh the AC home page in a different tab after each score to see if it counted in the 'Your Stats' section.

All Star requirements are confirmed to be 6,600 rank points this year. However, due to scores not counting, we are currently unable to confirm what the adjusted daily caps on score sends are.

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Right on the edge of Altador Cup game play commencing, TNT has posted a rather surprising update to this year's Cup rankings and prize shop over on The Official Neopets Team Message Board:

Hi Neopians, we have an update on the Altador Cup!

Because we know how time-consuming this event can be, we decided to implement a quick quality-of-life change. We are scaling down the maximum games cap and rank requirements by 25% and adjusting the Prize Pool proportionally. You can still play all of your same favourite games, but without as much of the burnout... and you will reap all the same benefits! We hope this helps you better lead your team to victory this year!

In short, this means that you can put in less effort for the same payoff as in prior years. Once the games actually begin (tonight, June 6th at 12:00 AM NST—in about 6.5 hours from time of writing!), we will begin collecting data and post updates on our Altador Cup guide with the new rank up numbers.

What do you think? Are you going to play a little less in this year's Cup? Or will you be playing the same to get more prize shop points than you normally would? Let us know in the comments!

UPDATE, 5:30 PM NST: As of a little bit ago, this avatar has been updated to count towards your avatar count on your userlookup and in your high score. Since the avatar is freely available to all using the code below, this makes good sense!

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Although the Official Neopets Cookbook is not yet due to release for another week, some bookstores have started stocking the book early. As a result, the avatar inside the cookbook is also now available:


Each cookbook does not contain a unique code, like previous books published in the past, and can be claimed by anyone at Grundo Warehouse by entering the following code:



While claiming this avatar will refresh your placement on the avatar high score list (just like gaining another avatar does), it does not actually count towards your avatar count. Additionally, this code is NOT a Space Faerie code so it will not award her as a Battledome challenger.