skate. Starts Testing Block Parties With Up to 150 Players
The new Meetups event runs every 30 minutes and sends players through three randomized city locations.
skate. has started testing Meetups: Block Parties, a new social contest that can bring up to 150 players together on one server. The weekend playtest is now underway, with players able to join events by simply skating into the active area.
The test follows the schedule outlined in our Block Parties test preview. Full Circle also provided a refresher in its Steam announcement, including details on how the mode handles movement, scoring, and rewards.
How Block Parties works
Block Parties is the first version of the broader Meetups category, which is designed to bring players together across the city without forcing them through a traditional matchmaking process. There are no sign-ups, queues, or interaction prompts. Once an event is active, players can skate into the area and take part.
Events begin every 30 minutes at :15 and :45 past the hour. Each one lasts 30 minutes and moves the group through three randomized locations connected across the city. The route can include well-known hubs as well as quieter spots, creating a moving group session rather than a contest locked to one arena.
Street, park, and vert challenges
The objectives rotate between street, park, and vert challenges, with randomized sequences keeping each session from following the exact same pattern. Point scaling gives players more room to build a score through trick chains, while later rounds add multipliers that can give competitors a chance to recover from an early deficit.
Block Parties uses two leaderboards during each event. The Round Leaderboard tracks live performance through scores and distance for the current round. The Overall Leaderboard combines results from every round. Its interface shows the top players alongside the competitors immediately above and below your own position, making it easier to see who is within reach.
First place in a round also receives a visual crown above their character. Everyone in the event can see who currently holds the lead, so the scoreboard has a physical presence in the city instead of staying hidden in a menu.
Rewards and player feedback
The event itself does not award currency directly. Instead, players earn rewards by completing tasks tied to Block Parties. Those tasks do not require a first-place finish, so players can make progress even when they are not fighting for the top of the leaderboard.
Players can share feedback through the Block Parties feedback thread. Bugs should go in the dedicated Block Parties bug megathread so the team can separate technical issues from general reactions to the mode.
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- Genre Sport
- Platforms Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One
- Perspective Third person
- Modes Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
- Release September 16, 2025
- Publisher Electronic Arts
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