Stuttgart prize wall: the Poro playmat seats two

by Riccardo Emanuele Eustor·Riftbound Zone

At 7am UTC on Friday, Riftbound Organized Play — Riot's official account for organised play — showed off a fourth playmat for the prize wall at the European Regional Championship in Stuttgart, running November 6-8. It is not a standard mat: it is a two-player one, big enough to cover the table for both sides, and the art is a Poro party in the snow. How many tickets it will cost, Riot still has not said.

The revealOne mat, two seats

The post is short. «Want a playmat you and your duo can use together? We got you covered», Riftbound Organized Play writes, before introducing «the two player Poro Playmat, waiting for you at the #RCEU prizewall». No ticket price, no print run, no date other than the event itself.

The format is the real news here. Until yesterday every prize wall playmat was a single mat, the kind one player puts their deck and cards on. This one is built to sit in the middle of the table and cover both sides — a whole game, not half of it. The official graphic, labelled Poro scale in the top left corner, sets the new mat next to two of the ones already announced precisely to show the difference: it is wider and, above all, much deeper. One of the two next to it is the arcade-styled Riven shown on October 14; the other, rotated in the mock-up, is another of the three already revealed.

The artWhat is actually on it

No champions this time, just Poros. The illustration is a winter scene packed with the white fluffballs, set among snowy firs, confetti and streamers. Some drag wrapped presents around, some have turned into glowing yellow stars, and one in the top right holds a trophy while sitting on a chest of gold coins. The Riftbound logo sits bottom left, the Riot Games and UVS Games logos bottom right, and the caption under the image reads Prizewall Playmat. It is fresh artwork, not a card illustration reused.

The systemHow you claim anything off a prize wall

If this is the first big event you are considering, the phrase means nothing. The prize wall is the weekend's reward counter: a wall of merchandise on display, each piece with a price written in tickets. Tickets are physical tokens worth nothing on their own, earned by playing side events — the open tournaments that run alongside the main event all weekend. You do not need a Top 8 finish, you need to sign up and play. Then you pick whatever your tickets can cover, for as long as the item is still on the wall.

The pictureWhat the Stuttgart wall holds so far

This announcement takes the tally of revealed rewards to fourteen distinct pieces, none of them priced. Packs, accessories and cards Riot has not shown yet are on top of that.

The detail on the other two groups is in our pieces on the first three playmats and the ten borderless Battlefields.

The gapsWhat is still missing

Two unknowns matter. The first is the ticket cost: a double mat is a more expensive object to produce than a single one, so it is reasonable to expect it to sit above the others, but Riot has not printed a figure and we are not inventing one. The second is availability: we do not know how many copies are heading to Stuttgart, nor whether the piece will return to the prize walls of later events, as other rewards on the circuit have.

Source: Riftbound Organized Play. Images: Riot Games.