Throwback Challengers leaving SOON

You may have noticed the throwback challengers are still around. The challengers will retire at 11:59pm TODAY (Monday, March 16). Hopefully, these last few hours will give you all a chance to finish getting your wins in.

Survival is still running and will be for a few days. More information to come!

March 17, 2026, 4:55 am by BoaConstrictor
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- at least the battle count issue was not resolved with the move - wow, how fast is this site now!!!!

So what's the decision? Will you bring these challengers back on in a couple of weeks, so we can continue, where we left off before the downtime on March 7th?

March 16, 2026, 11:23 am by hannahharmin
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I'm surprised there are no news posts about the free skins? Also, kissing bots are not working and only one site is registering kisses, for us users who are in contests. I guess that's fine because it's even for everyone across the site but the kissing bots aren't even giving any kisses anymore.

March 16, 2026, 11:23 am by brokensafety
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It's too laggy to battle with my remaining two battle pets. At least I got battles in with my main and second pets before the downtime and the change was made on legacy that resulted in poor performance. Hopefully this is addressed soon.

March 16, 2026, 10:04 am by Bliss
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I didn't battle at all because of all the issues and lag. I read about battling issues and that also affected my decision to not bother

March 16, 2026, 10:00 am by Angelica
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I was so surprised at how many rounds my tier 3 pet was able to win!

March 16, 2026, 8:30 am by METROID
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The lag makes it impossible to finish up any battles I may have left. I'm glad we had extra days, but they didn't really matter when the lag on here is awful. I hope the Healer moves back over here after Survival ends, cause until battling is moved to Kumos, with Kumos sometimes having instability, it could really affect the flow of battling if Kumos is down or something.

March 16, 2026, 8:17 am by moonstarr
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I was so super excited about these challengers at first, but the extreme lag got to a point where I finally had to mostly give up for a while. All in all, I got around a third of my babies through the gauntlet although... strangely, a few challengers said I'd already been through with certain pets when I haven't.

Hopefully, once things are running well again, we'll get some more throwback challengers that want to come out and duel err--play.

March 16, 2026, 7:33 am by Danny_Sadler
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I wondered if Survival would be extended, and was surprised that there was no news about it, or even people asking about it on Keith's long forum post about the site issues.

March 16, 2026, 6:55 am by Chibois
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survivor challengers tomorrow?

March 16, 2026, 6:04 am by BoaConstrictor
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Forgot to list: Lag started 2 weeks prior to announced end, due to Survival (with extra downtime). Meaning that finishing dailies first was almost impossible and left no time to battle at the end of the day (and I had taken 2 weeks off specifically for battling!!! stolen lifetime)

The healer is also "broken", it was moved to Kumos solely, where we do not battle - have no access to.

March 16, 2026, 5:28 am by ColdDragon
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This sucks. Its been almost impossible to battle for weeks now due to the lag. Announcement to finish up doesn't help when battling is this messed up.

March 16, 2026, 5:14 am by Oak
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I´m an avid battler but the lag makes it really annoying. Could you please extend the time? ;-;

March 16, 2026, 5:13 am by Profound
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Sadly, the lag has made it near impossible to do anything much. I'd love to get some of these under sinful's belt but even questing and restocking has been affected.

I'll battle next time. Hopefully there will be a next time, sometime soon! (Could this potentially be an annual event, just for throwback battles, maybe?)

Huge appreciation for all the recent fixes otherwise. Thankyou for taking the time to address them. <3

March 16, 2026, 4:40 am by BoaConstrictor
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The lag is still horrenuous! - Actually seems a lot worse again today than yesterday. Battle count is still not fixed - we are deprived of the loot. for a couple of days weapons were broken (are still a little)

all of which means, since last Saturday (7th) (not only) battling has been kind of impossible.

The logical plan should be to definitely bring them back (for a week - 2 weekends? = 9 days, during an otherwise quiet time without events) once everything has been fixed, if you retire them today!!!

March 16, 2026, 3:40 am by Skolletta
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Glad it started working again. Best of luck getting it done quickly. c:

March 16, 2026, 3:24 am by Foghawk
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Thanks. I checked and found that the armory and "Edit Set" were 504ing for me too... but then they suddenly started working again, as did "Choose Weapons". Maybe Keith fixed something? If it sticks I'll take it! Now to, uh, blitz all the remaining opponents on a worknight I guess. x_x

March 16, 2026, 2:30 am by Skolletta
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I think Panzer Hydra is also affected but the rest should be fine? I did find that the choose weapons page takes an extra long time to load, so I prefer to alter my sets manually via the armoury/scrolls page first and then just battle with defaults. I hope you can get things working!

March 16, 2026, 2:09 am by Foghawk
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I haven't been battling since the downtime both because of the 5th win issue (do you know whether it's only those challengers, ?) and because I cannot load the "Choose Weapons" page at all—I get a 504 error every time. Might that be fixed?

I tried to report this on the "Battle Coliseum Broken" thread, but I haven't been able to post on the forums in a week either (I get "Error submitting post" on Legacy and 502 errors on Kumos).

March 16, 2026, 1:45 am by Skolletta
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Uhhh but a lot of the challengers are still registering old wins as having been completed during this event, so we’ve been unable to earn 5th win loot for those challengers since the downtime. D: Any chance of a fix before the challengers disappear? (See my post ">https://subeta.net/forums.php/read/943517/Battle-Coliseum-Broken/2/">here for more details) Affected challengers: mini gelatin, two-headed dysfunctional teddy bear, rain sylph, pylon attacks!, gelatin stomper

March 16, 2026, 1:28 am by Sekhmet
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And then RELEASE THE NEXT WAVE!

March 16, 2026, 1:24 am by demon
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more blood for the blood god!

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