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🤯 IT'S TIME FOR PPP 2026! 🤯
(Side note: raffle prizes for 2025 will be sent out over the weekend. Thank-you for your patience!)
For those of you who are new to the party, and those who are PPPs (pool party professionals), this is the general gist.
ALL BREEDINGS THAT ARE ELIGIBLE FOR PPP PERKS MUST BE SUBMITTED BEFORE JUNE 3, 2026. Breedings after this date do not qualify for perks!
ALL PERKS CAN BE FOUND HERE
The event will run until October 31, 2026, 11:59pm. This gives you five months to work on and design as many predictions as you can!
- The Prediction Caps are being temporarily removed for all coins during this time!
- Any artist that makes a prediction can enter themselves into a raffle by posting in the Artist Raffle Forum
- All edit percentages are "loose" for this event only, so we will not get up in your business if you submit a 50% breeding and it is 57%. If you have a 50% breeding and we can't tell what species it is, then we might have a problem.
- Remember! Predictions can be done for USD however if they are not Platinum Breeding Coin, Scribble or Sketch Breeding Coin predictions they must go through the Commission Panel!
RULES
• All predictions must have the PSD attached in order to qualify for this event.
• Breeding rules still apply! If you bought a breeding slot, for only one baby, please ensure that you have the owner's permission before making extra baby predictions! If someone violates this, they may have their baby deleted without refund.
• Please included "Prediction Pool Party" in your breeding notes, or predictions and breedings will be processed as normal!
• All artists must have a forum for their sales thread in our new Pool Party Subforum.
• All artists must have a forum for their raffle entries in the Artist Raffle Subforum.
Just a general note as well, per the USD commissions KB article, fees must be paid within one month of finishing commissions as long as your fees total $5 or more. I will be following up with users that have outstanding fees over the coming weeks, so please make sure you have these squared away where possible. You can pay your fees either by generating an invoice, or taking on breeding lists, GCC, and other panel work.
Users who fail to pay their fees or begin to work off their balance may have their access to the commission panel and capless PPP predicts suspended until their owed balance is paid in full. Thank-you for your cooperation!
PPP F.A.Q
Submit a SCC to the PSD pool
PPP 2026 A.B.A (Ask Brad Anything)
User-Submitted SCCs
Posted by Brad
(#2575) on Wed Jun 3, 2026 9:23pm
- vladthebad
(#8672)
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Posted on: Thu Jun 4, 2026 8:11am
I was being blind, thank you!
- Rhee
(#258)
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Posted on: Thu Jun 4, 2026 12:21pm
Don’t really get why there’s a cut off it would be nice to have a warning before the announcement. What is the purpose of the cut off?
Prevent over saturated queues? Cause that’s already a thing
- Corbeau
(#7625)
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Posted on: Thu Jun 4, 2026 12:38pm
Rhee (#258) Yeah, historically, having a grace period to submit would leave the queues even fuller than they were before. If you check the status page, the queues really aren't that backed up (its mostly eggnog and scribble lol) so I'd wager it's to clear as much of the remaining stock out so they can potentially sell coins again :)
- Dragongirl
(#36910)
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Posted on: Thu Jun 4, 2026 2:40pm
Thanks for the clarification, Brad! I guess I'll just have to make
sure I stock up on plenty of Psychic Calls for my inventory next year,
or go buy one of those Fortune Telling Magic Orbs on Amazon so I can
predict the unannounced cutoff dates in advance! 🔮🔮😂
In all seriousness, I totally get that grace periods are tough on the
staff queue, it's just a bummer when real-life vacation chaos and travel
make it easy to miss the guessing window. I'll definitely try to submit
much earlier next time!"
I still luckily do have one queued up, it's basically a leftover from last year's event that I messed up due to stress, so ended up not doing it last year, but a bit bummed that I have to wait till 2027 to do the ones I wanted.
- Brad
(#2575)
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Posted on: Thu Jun 4, 2026 3:14pm
Rhee (#258) - Yes, that's exactly why we don't announce the dates in advance. In the past when we have allowed a grace period, the number of breedings in queue ballooned to double or triple what we originally started with. This also happened with the RBC event we did a few years back, where we went from 20 coins to almost ~300 in less than 24 hours.
Adding to the problem of an already oversaturated queue doesn't resolve the problem.
This is also directly answered in the FAQ.
Q. Why was there no cutoff deadline for breeding submissions this year?
A: The purpose of PPP is to remove preexisting breedings from the queue. Giving a grace period and deadline defeats this purpose as many breedings flood the queue and leave them worse off.
- Kandria
(#111)
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Posted on: Thu Jun 4, 2026 3:57pm
Also popping in here to Nudge future Questions to the linked threads in the news post
PPP F.A.Q
PPP 2026 A.B.A (Ask Brad Anything)
Brad puts a lot of work into making sure all the basics are already covered, and we're getting questions that are already laid out, with the reasons why, in the FAQ here. Also, putting the questions in the ABA thread archives them in an easy place to find for all users to refer to over time, where users might not think to look in the comments section of a news post.
Staff of course still welcomes comments here, but let's try to funnel official PPP questions to the threads :) please and thank you!
- Rhee
(#258)
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Posted on: Thu Jun 4, 2026 4:30pm
Don’t really get why there’s a cut off it would be nice to have a warning before the announcement. What is the purpose of the cut off?
Prevent over saturated queues? Cause that’s already a thing
- Rhee
(#258)
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Posted on: Thu Jun 4, 2026 4:31pm
Sorry about this double post and thank you for the clarification!
Posted on: Thu Jun 4, 2026 3:28am
vladthebad (#8672) - These are covered in the FAQ! If you have any other questions, use the Ask Brad Anything thread in the subforum. :D