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UFC 287 marks the next UFC Pay-Per-View event of Reignmakers UFC with expanded contest types for users to choose from. Beginning on Tuesday January 31, 2023, users will be able to choose from CORE, RARE, ELITE, LEGENDARY and REIGNMAKER tier contests, which will hold true for all future Reignmakers UFC events.
Moving forward, all Pay-Per-View Event Packs will come in one SKU. 2023 Pay-Per-View packs will include five (5) Fighter Game Cards with one RARE+ guaranteed. The pack pool will include all participating fighters in the event and cards of all rarities. Each of the fighters scheduled to participate in UFC 287 will be included in the pack pool with a supply of 1,200 CORE tier Fighter Game Cards, 300 RARE tier Fighter Game Cards, 75 ELITE tier Fighter Game Cards, 15 LEGENDARY tier Fighter Game Cards and 1 REIGNMAKER tier player card.
Along with the pack drop, REIGNMAKER tier Fighter Game Cards will be auctioned throughout the course of the week. For clarity, one (1) edition of each fighter participating in the event will have a REIGNMAKER tier Fighter Game Card within the pack pool and another REIGNMAKER tier Fighter Game Card for auction. In totality, fighters will have two REIGNMAKER tier Fighter Game Card editions released per fight.
How Contests Work
Reignmakers UFC scoring will work the exact same as the DraftKings' DFS scoring system users are accustomed to:
For more information on how the MMA scoring works on DraftKings, visit our Rules & Scoring page.
All lineups will feature a captain. Whichever fighter users place in their captain spot will receive a 1.5x bonus for all statistics accrued. Our DFS product has an entire page dedicated to MMA Captain Mode if looking for more information.
All Reignmakers cards have a series of properties associated with them and these properties impact the way you play the game.
Card rarity is the most commonly used property to gate contests. Every contest will have rarity rules tied to entry.
The rarity requirements needed from Reignmakers UFC cards for the CORE, RARE, ELITE, LEGENDARY and REIGNMAKER tier contests for 2023 are shown below:
Note: Captains must be at the rarity tier of the contest or higher, so a RARE contest requires a captain to be at least of the RARE tier, ELITE contest requires a captain to be at least of the ELITE tier, etc.
Rosters are considered eligible as long as they include five (5) fighters scheduled to fight from a given event. No duplicate fighters are allowed. If a user owns multiple Fighter Game Cards of the same fighter, they may be used in separate lineups but not within the same lineup. Example: Alex Pereira cannot be rostered twice within the same five (5) fighter lineup.
2023 Pay-Per-Views will include contests at all rarity levels moving forward. Essentially, each Pay-Per-View will include a CORE contest, a RARE contest, an ELITE contest, a LEGENDARY contest and a REIGNMAKER contest.
UFC Fight Night events will include $125,000 in total fantasy contest prizing, while Pay-Per-View contests will include $250,000 in total fantasy contest prizing!
The cost of a UFC 287 pack will be $34.99, and each pack will guarantee at least one (1) fighter game card that is of the RARE rarity tier or higher (which includes ELITE, LEGENDARY and REIGNMAKER). 25 of the 26 fighters scheduled to fight at UFC 287 will be included in the pack pool, with Trey Ogden being the exception since his fight has been rescheduled within a 28-day window.
Each fighter in the UFC 287 pack pool will have 1,200 CORE editions, 300 RARE editions, 75 ELITE editions, 15 LEGENDARY editions and one (1) REIGNMAKER edition, equating to 30,000 total CORE tier cards, 7,500 total RARE tier cards, 1,875 total ELITE tier cards, 375 total LEGENDARY tier cards and 25 total REIGNMAKER tier cards within the UFC 287 pack pool.
One REIGNMAKER tier edition of each fighter will also be auctioned off via the DraftKings marketplace with a $1 starting bid and bid increment of $50. This will be the norm for all Event Sets moving forward, as well.
How to Build Your Lineup
Event packs will be an ongoing theme for Reignmakers UFC, as they will be available for purchase in anticipation of every Pay-Per-View and UFC Fight Night, beginning in 2023. Starting with the first event, UFC Fight Night 1.14.23: Imamov vs Gastelum, contests of five different rarity tiers (CORE, RARE, ELITE, LEGENDARY and REIGNMAKER) will be offered at all events.
Packs will consist of CORE, RARE, ELITE, LEGENDARY and REIGNMAKER tier fighter game cards for 25 of the 26 fighters scheduled to fight at UFC 287:
Fighters |
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Fighters |
Israel Adesanya |
Jaqueline Amorim |
Ignacio Bahamondes |
Karl Williams |
Gilbert Burns |
Cynthia Calvillo |
Chris Curtis |
Rob Font |
Steve Garcia |
Kelvin Gastelum |
Lupita Godinez Gonzalez |
Kevin Holland |
Samantha Hughes |
Jorge Masvidal |
Gerald Meerschaert III |
Nuerdanbieke Shayilan |
Alex Pereira |
Luana Pinheiro |
Santiago Ponzinibbio |
Joe Pyfer |
Christian Rodriguez |
Raul Rosas |
Chase Sherman |
Michelle Waterson |
Adrian Yanez |