Here's the original announcement:
Dear Neopians!
We know you’re all excited as we prepare for the upcoming events in Neopia like the return of The Void Within, the mysterious origins of the elusive Varwolf, and the Altador Cup.
We want to acknowledge that the Altador Cup has room for improvement, and we’re working hard to address those areas so that players can enjoy the event even more. This involves a lot of behind-the-scenes work from our team, including our devs, artists, designers, and QA, to make that a reality.
In response to player feedback and with the plot just around the corner, we’ve decided to scale the Altador Cup for 2025 down to a mini-event to ensure that your time playing feels engaging and fun.
While the Cup will look different this year, there’s still a lot of fun to be had! The Altador Cup Mini-Event will begin early June and run for a total of 19 days. To help keep you informed and to answer any burning questions, review the Altador Cup: The Grey Year FAQ.
We understand that these changes are a bit of an adjustment, but we want future Altador Cup events to live up to both your vision and ours, and to make that happen, our team needs time to implement improvements thoughtfully. We appreciate all of your feedback and look forward to seeing you at this year’s mini-event!
More importantly, an FAQ has gone up, giving some hints about what this mini-event will entail:
You can participate in the Altador Cup: The Grey Year event by claiming daily prizes and reading optional lore drops about each of the 19 different teams! There will be an avatar for all and a trophy to showcase that you were around for the Altador Cup that never was. (Just be sure to claim all of your prizes before June 30th!)
Each day, there will be two new prizes: 1 regular and 1 Premium. If you are already Premium, all you have to do is click the Claim button to receive both prizes. If you are not Premium, you can claim the regular prize at any time and return for the Premium one if you decided to sign up for it later. All Premium Prizes can be claimed at any time before the end of the month (June 30th).
In short, there will not be the usual game playing or team tournament event. The TNT Staff Tournament has also been canceled. The trophy described above is a single, untiered participation trophy. The usual team avatars (awarded for joining a particular team) will also not be available. And, there will not be any Sign Up prizes like in year's past (though those will continue next year and your participation count will be saved).
Important to note: all regular (non-Premium) prizes will be available to redeem at any point during the event and through the start of the Altador Cup in 2026! Meaning, you can participate in this event for a whole year. However, if you participate during the June 3-30th event, you will receive a bonus prize. Premium prizes are only available through June 30th.
This is some wild news! Let us know what you think in the comments! How do you want TNT to improve the Altador Cup in 2026?
Important note! The 2024 Altador Cup prize shops are closing on May 31st! If you do not redeem your remaining, spendable points by the end of this month, they will disappear! Make sure you claim all of your points from both the main shop and the staff tournament shop.
, I even think the Altador Cup is cool, but the games haven't been that good since they were converted to HTML5, they're already quite repetitive and with the bugs that occur it ends up making the Cup boring, it's good to have more time to fix the problems, I think the right thing to do this year is to focus on the plot, and not have 2 events at the same time, that only serves to give more lag
... shame about the staff cup thing it was easy money each year
