Draft Night 3079 (Online)
Forget the eco-disasters and corporate-state coups, it’s Draft Night for the world’s most popular (and profitable) sport!
Join up to 64 other players to define the culture of the sport, make lots of money, and draft the best players in competition to be the next World Champion!
Draft Night is a Fantasy Sports Draft for the World’s Most Popular Sci-Fi Sport
Players will run team franchises as Owners, General Managers (‘GMs’), Sabers (analysts), and Vice Presidents – each with slightly different roles and focuses throughout the event. Each franchise must analyze athlete stats, balance their budget, draft the best athletes, and push the franchise Owners (collectively known as ‘The Cabal’) to agree to adopt League policies which benefit their franchise.
At the end of the draft, the sports season will be simulated and the next World Champions declared!
Draft Night 30XX is a legacy megagame system, where the narrative, monetary, and sporting elements carry over from event to event. The 3079 season will be the third running of the megagame but don’t worry, first-time players will not be inordinately rewarded or penalized.
Saturday, February 22, 2025
2:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Google Calendar • ICS
↓ See more details below! ↓
Forget the eco-disasters and corporate-state coups, it’s Draft Night for the world’s most popular (and profitable) sport!
Join up to 64 other players to define the culture of the sport, make lots of money, and draft the best players in competition to be the next World Champion!
Draft Night is a Fantasy Sports Draft for the World’s Most Popular Sci-Fi Sport
Players will run team franchises as Owners, General Managers (‘GMs’), Sabers (analysts), and Vice Presidents – each with slightly different roles and focuses throughout the event. Each franchise must analyze athlete stats, balance their budget, draft the best athletes, and push the franchise Owners (collectively known as ‘The Cabal’) to agree to adopt League policies which benefit their franchise.
At the end of the draft, the sports season will be simulated and the next World Champions declared!
Draft Night 30XX is a legacy megagame system, where the narrative, monetary, and sporting elements carry over from event to event. The 3079 season will be the third running of the megagame but don’t worry, first-time players will not be inordinately rewarded or penalized.
Saturday, February 22, 2025
2:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Google Calendar • ICS
↓ See more details below! ↓
Forget the eco-disasters and corporate-state coups, it’s Draft Night for the world’s most popular (and profitable) sport!
Join up to 64 other players to define the culture of the sport, make lots of money, and draft the best players in competition to be the next World Champion!
Draft Night is a Fantasy Sports Draft for the World’s Most Popular Sci-Fi Sport
Players will run team franchises as Owners, General Managers (‘GMs’), Sabers (analysts), and Vice Presidents – each with slightly different roles and focuses throughout the event. Each franchise must analyze athlete stats, balance their budget, draft the best athletes, and push the franchise Owners (collectively known as ‘The Cabal’) to agree to adopt League policies which benefit their franchise.
At the end of the draft, the sports season will be simulated and the next World Champions declared!
Draft Night 30XX is a legacy megagame system, where the narrative, monetary, and sporting elements carry over from event to event. The 3079 season will be the third running of the megagame but don’t worry, first-time players will not be inordinately rewarded or penalized.
Saturday, February 22, 2025
2:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Google Calendar • ICS
↓ See more details below! ↓
The Event
Draft Night satirically looks at contemporary sports culture through the lens of dystopian sci-fi tropes, tonally similar to the What will Football Look Like in the Future series by SB Nation, the Blernsball segments of Futurama, or sci-fi bloodsport movies like Rollerball. It also highlights the important role of statistics in sports, in a similar manner to the Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Micheal Lewis (adapted into a movie). The broader background universe is a non-descript, kitchen-sink, sci-fi dystopia in the vein of Shadowrun, the Cyberpunk franchise, and others. Themes concerning the the societal impact of technology are similar to those seen in the new season of West World and Black Mirror. Consuming any of this media before the event is not required or encouraged from a game play perspective.
The Setting
In the year 3079, the League holds nearly unparalleled cultural influence. But all is not well, many franchises are one bad season from bankruptcy, broader cultural debates are eroding the prestige of the pastime, and the rising popularity of Space Cricket threatens to dethrone the League’s spot as the world’s most popular sport.
Draft Night 30XX is a legacy megagame system, where the narrative, monetary, and sporting elements carry over from event to event. The 3079 season will be the third running of the megagame but don’t worry, first-time players will not be inordinately rewarded or penalized.
The Deetz!
Rules and roles will be distributed via email before the event. You can browse the materials for Draft Night 3078 for a general sense of the game’s setting and mechanics.
A special discord server will be setup to run the game - links to which will be sent out ahead of time.
Some parts of the game (the analyst of “saber” game) revolve around Google Sheets, although in-depth knowledge is not required.
Players who participated in previous seasons will be allowed to play the same team in this season.
The main event (the draft) will take place on a Saturday, with the awards ceremony (a debrief) happening the next day.
Age Limit. 18+
Have questions or concerns? Please reach out at phillymegagames@gmail.com
Summary of some of the events of the previous season
Snap shot of one of the post-season games
Draft Night 3078 Post-Season