A total of 11 seasons – with each season a full week of 99 games and a weekend after the season – played last year before developers The Game Band placed the game on a ‘Grand Siesta’ to prepare for future seasons. Now, the game is back with a number of new features, many of which seem to be aimed at making the game more accessible and easy to follow, especially for newcomers.
A new “Feed” is added to help fans track recent events in Blaseball, which was previously challenging as many of the updates were shared primarily across the game’s community Discord or Twitter. Blaseball will also now take place with a three-week season, followed by a two-week off-season, to give fans time to catch up between events.
In addition, The Game Band has announced some other features whose implications are not yet known (obviously in line with the secret of Blaseball). ‘Concessions’ are added, which in one way or another have an impact on the voting system. There will now be ‘mysterious weekly tarot readings’, a’ Crabitat ‘added for the Baltimore Crabs (a team that’ climbed up ‘last year by winning three seasons but has not been seen since), and’ Testament ‘,’ new feature to help teams strategize and organize to get the rule changes, buffs and other voting outcomes they want.
Blaseball starts again on March 1, 2021, presumably returning to the same format of 99 matches from Monday to Friday with new games starting every hour on the hour, a national season on Saturday and a “Slabbat” on Sunday in which votes are cast counted and new rule changes take effect.
Rebekah Valentine is a news reporter for IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.