Recruit banners and events
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Polandball Go adds new balls through Recruit banners, themed sets you pull from for 1,000 Clay a time, and it marks the calendar with events that bring their own passes and quests. The game itself keeps almost no history of either. Recruit shows only the banners open now or about to open, and the in-game news holds only about three weeks of posts. This page puts the record together.
How pulls, pools and odds work is covered on Sets and Recruit pools.
1 Banner history#
The dates below are when each banner first opened, as the game's own Atlas records them through each ball's first appearance.
2025
- Polbies Classics, October 5, 2025. The core set of modern countries. It is always open.
- Legacy of Joseon, November 4.
- Lords of the Holy Age, December 7.
- Ballsmas Bash, around Christmas 2025. The Atlas gives its date as December 25, 2026, which can't be right: its three balls were already in players' Dex by October 2026, and the Ballsmas 2025 event ran from December 20.
2026
- Mandate of Heaven, January 6.
- Heirs of the Caliphate, February 1.
- A World at War, May 9.
- Countryballs World Cup, May 31.
- Crown and Cross and Silk and Steel, both June 20.
- Liberty or Death, July 4.
- The Grande Armée, July 12.
- Sword and Sickle, July 18.
- Summer Splash, August 1.
- Crossing the Rubicon, August 15.
- Empires at War, August 22.
- The New World, September 5.
- Drums of Africa, September 19.
- Trick or Treat, October 10.
Special Units, which the Atlas dates to September 1, 2025, holds just three balls: Earth, Listenbourg and Beach Ball. It had no open pool in October 2026. Ballsnar New Year has a Recruit pool of its own but no card in the Dex.
The record has a gap between February and May 2026. The game ran three events in that stretch, but no ball's first appearance falls in those months, and the game keeps no list of the banners it ran then.
2 Banners change while they run#
A banner's lineup isn't fixed. On October 3, 2026, two weeks after Drums of Africa opened, the game added 14 new balls and 5 new skins to it, led by the Legendary French Colonial Empire, with the Asante Empire, the Kingdom of Benin and the Sultanate of Zanzibar among the rest.
Trick or Treat opened on October 10 with over 120 balls and skins. Its new balls included Wallachia, Sleepy Hollow and the Lordship of Franckenstein, and its pool held two Mythicals, Vampire Romania and Haunted House Fourth Reich, both forms of older balls.
3 The October 2026 rotation#
For most of October, Recruit showed three banners: Trick or Treat as the featured one, Drums of Africa and Polbies Classics. By late October the game was bringing old banners back. On October 23, 2026, Recruit had eight sets open:
- Trick or Treat, ending in 30 days.
- Drums of Africa, ending in 9 days.
- Polbies Classics, always open.
- Ballsnar New Year, Heirs of the Caliphate, Mandate of Heaven, Lords of the Holy Age and Legacy of Joseon, each ending within the day.
Nine more were listed as coming soon, with Silk and Steel and Crown and Cross due to open within the day, The Grande Armée and Liberty or Death the day after, then Summer Splash, Empires at War and The New World over the following week. Sword and Sickle and Crossing the Rubicon were listed without a date.
A re-run is the best chance to pull a ball that is otherwise out of reach. Each set's pool and odds are listed on Sets and Recruit pools.
4 The event calendar#
The game keeps an Event Calendar, reached from the event screen. In October 2026 it listed these events, the oldest at the bottom:
- Spooky Season, October 10 to November 1, 2026.
- The Great Expedition, September 19 to October 10.
- Test event 2, August 31 to September 1.
- Campaign of Empires, August 22 to September 12.
- Path to Paradise, August 1 to August 22.
- Knight's Journey, July 5 to July 26.
- World Cup 2026, May 31 to July 1.
- Victory in Europe Day 2026, May 9 to May 30.
- April Fools 2026, March 26 to April 16.
- Ballsnur New Year 2026, February 17 to March 16.
- Crescent Odyssey, February 3 to February 16.
- The Heavenly Trials, January 6 to January 31.
- Ballsmas 2025, December 20, 2025 to January 2, 2026.
Nothing older appears in the calendar.
5 Events and banners together#
Many banners opened on the same day as an event:
- Mandate of Heaven with The Heavenly Trials, January 6.
- A World at War with Victory in Europe Day, May 9.
- Countryballs World Cup with World Cup 2026, May 31.
- Summer Splash with Path to Paradise, August 1.
- Empires at War with Campaign of Empires, August 22.
- Drums of Africa with The Great Expedition, September 19.
- Trick or Treat with Spooky Season, October 10.
An event's end isn't the banner's end. The Great Expedition closed on October 10, but Drums of Africa stayed in Recruit for the rest of October. Trick or Treat was set to outlast Spooky Season by three weeks.
6 Event passes#
An event comes with its own pass. Spooky Season's offered the Legendary Plague Doctor Omsk, a Halloween frame, two emotes and Clay. Its pass had 10 tiers, each with a Basic and a Premium reward. Its event quests were daily check-ins, from logging in on 1 day of the event up to 10 days. How the quests and tiers connect isn't clear from the screens recorded.
Alongside events, the monthly Polandball Pass runs every month with a Basic and a Deluxe track up to rank 30. See Currencies, shops and events.
7 On polbielytics#
Each ball's page shows the banner it first appeared on and the sets it can be pulled from, and the Polbies Dex can be filtered by set. The site has no feed of live banners or events from the game, so the dates here come from the Atlas and the game's own screens.
See also Balls, forms and rarity and the patch timeline.