Sponsor passes

A sponsor pass is your season-long goal track. At the start of every season your club is offered 3 sponsors; you sign with one, and their list of challenges becomes a set of targets to chase alongside the league — paying credits, and a currency called fame that ranks you against every other club on the same sponsor.

Find it under Club → Sponsors.

You can read all 3 offers in full — every challenge, every reward — before committing. Signing is locked for the season: there’s no switching, and the other offers close.

Each sponsor carries a demand level describing how hard its challenges are. Demand isn’t a gate — you may sign any sponsor you’re offered — but the rewards scale with it, so a gentler sponsor genuinely pays less.

Demand	What it means
Developmental	Gentle targets, modest rewards. A safe season.
Established	Needs a competitive roster. Pays accordingly.
Elite	Built for contenders. The biggest payouts in the game.

The season’s offer is drawn to include one sponsor from each demand level, so the choice in front of you is always a real one: play it safe for a modest payout, or reach for a pass you might not finish.

Challenges

Every sponsor sets exactly 8 challenges, so “complete the set” means the same amount of work whichever pass you take. A challenge asks for a number of results of a particular kind:

Podiums — top-three finishes.
Wins.
Personal bests set in official competition.
Youth results — podiums by athletes at or under a given age.

Most are narrowed further: to a discipline group, to certain meet tiers (some challenges only count championship or headline meets), to an age cap, or to distinct contributors — “podiums from four different athletes”, or “podiums in three different discipline groups”. Those breadth challenges are what stop one star athlete carrying a whole pass on their own.

Discipline groups

Sponsor challenges use six groups, finer than the four discipline families:

Group	Events
Sprints	100m, 200m, 400m
Middle Distance	800m, 1500m
Distance	5000m, 10000m, Marathon
Hurdles & Steeple	100m/110m Hurdles, 400m Hurdles, 3000m Steeplechase
Jumps	High Jump, Pole Vault, Long Jump, Triple Jump
Throws	Shot Put, Javelin, Discus, Hammer Throw

Rewards

First completion of a challenge pays credits and full fame.

Repeats pay fame only — 25% of the challenge’s fame, and no credits at all. A challenge you’ve finished keeps counting, so a strong season on a pass you’ve already cleared still climbs the leaderboard; it just can’t print money. Overflow carries: finish a challenge with results to spare and the surplus starts the next cycle. (Breadth challenges are the exception — their set of distinct contributors starts fresh each time.)

Clear all 8 challenges and the sponsor pays a completion bonus — the single biggest payout on any pass.

Fame and the leaderboard

Fame is a ranking currency and nothing else. You can’t spend it; it doesn’t carry into the next season. What it does is rank every club signed to the same sponsor, and at season end the top of that table is paid out in credits — bigger prizes on the more demanding sponsors. Clubs that never scored any fame aren’t ranked.

Because fame resets with the season and the offer is redrawn, each season is a clean race.

Quick meets count — sometimes

Some challenges accept quick meet results as well as official ones, generally the volume and breadth challenges. Championship-tier challenges never do, and personal bests never do — quick meets set no records at all. The table below shows how many of each sponsor’s challenges a quick meet can advance.

Sponsors are drawn from this pool each season. “Credits” is everything a pass pays if you complete every challenge once, including the set bonus; “Top prize” is the leaderboard reward for finishing first in fame.

Sponsor	Theme	Demand	Credits	Top prize	Quick meets
Ferrum Heavy Industries	Throws & jumps	Developmental	2,660	500	3 / 8
Harbourline Ferries	Consistency	Developmental	2,560	500	4 / 8
Meridian Dairy	Youth development	Developmental	2,370	500	3 / 8
Orchard Post	Middle & long distance	Developmental	2,520	500	2 / 8
Waypoint Radio	Hurdles & steeple	Developmental	2,500	500	1 / 8
Aeon Optics	Jumps	Established	4,440	1,000	3 / 8
Halcyon Hotels	Young contenders	Established	4,670	1,000	2 / 8
Longitude Watch Co.	Middle & long distance	Established	4,430	1,000	2 / 8
Solstice Airways	The big stage	Established	4,530	1,000	1 / 8
Velox Motors	Sprints & hurdles	Established	4,330	1,000	2 / 8
Apex Global	All-round excellence	Elite	10,200	2,500	1 / 8
Aurelian Spirits	Sprints & hurdles	Elite	10,050	2,500	2 / 8
Imperial Line	Championship season	Elite	10,300	2,500	0 / 8
Kolossos Shipping	Throws	Elite	9,800	2,500	2 / 8
Northwind Energy	Middle & long distance	Elite	10,050	2,500	1 / 8

Playing the pass

A sponsor pass shouldn’t change what your club is trying to do — it should reward what you were already good at. The read is: look at the roster you actually have, not the one you wish you had, and pick the pass it fits. A club of young throwers signing an elite sprint pass will spend a season watching a progress bar not move.

Next: how it all fits into the bigger picture — Seasons & the calendar.