How to join?
The Top 10 teams from the Sky Race Season move to the Storm League for one race after the season ends.
The Storm League holds only one race, with one single group.
The race takes place the week following the end of the season.
After the race is over, all teams return to the Gold League.
What makes it different?
The race in the Storm League is quite different from regular races.
In the Storm League, if the attacking team's Arsenal is intact and the attack breaks through the defense, it will reduce the altitude of the opposing team’s balloon based on the damage dealt.
In other words, if a team's city defense is broken, their balloon will start losing altitude from opponents’ attacks — but only if the attacking team’s Arsenal is undamaged.
Here’s another interesting detail: In the Storm League, the Workshop heats up more slowly when using the harpoon.
Does that mean it’s harder to gain altitude in the Storm League?
Overall, yes. But there’s a twist — in the Storm League, the Workshop provides a double bonus to balloon speed.
What about the pressure from top-tier teams’ attacks?
Is there really no way to hold them back? Not quite!
In the Storm League, the Fort has double the defense reserve.
And here’s another fact: the Storm League generates twice as much defense at a time.
This means that breaking through a well-upgraded Fort solo is nearly impossible.
What are the rewards?
The amount of gold earned from winning and hitting checkpoints in the Storm League is increased compared to the Gold League.
Individual rewards for placement are also greater.
But most importantly — at checkpoints and on the final winners' podium, players will receive puzzle pieces, which are parts of unique Black Cards from new collections.
The puzzle pieces collected by the team at checkpoints go to the Team Vault. From there, only the Team Captain can distribute them to team members.
Puzzle pieces awarded for race placement are received individually — every team member gets the exact number of pieces shown in the reward for that placement.
A bit more about the nature of these puzzle pieces and Black Cards:
Puzzle pieces cannot be traded.
However, unlike gold cards, Black Cards can be freely traded between players.
And finally — the team that takes 1st place in the Storm League will also receive a unique Storm League Winner Badge, in addition to everything else listed above.