Social Season Event

Not to be confused with Social Goal, a similar feature in Bloons Pop!.

Social Season Events are events in Bloons TD 6. Support for them was added in version 54.0, but the first event did not start until 28 April 2026, after the release of version 54.2. During a Social Season, players participate in themed challenges similar in structure to Sweepstakes Events. There are both Global Goals, which count progress made by all players, and Team Goals, which count progress made by members within a Team. Participating earns rewards including Team Trophies, exclusive cosmetic items, and Perks that apply passive buffs in certain game modes.

Goals

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In Social Season Events, players complete objectives called Goals to earn rewards. There are two types of Goals: Global Goals, which count progress made by all BTD6 players worldwide; and Team Goals, which are specific to a Team and consist of objectives that must be completed individually by each member. Goals only progress after winning a game, and they must be completed in full to count. Freeplay, Advanced Challenges, Deflation, Content Browser games, Quests, Legends, and Race Events do not count towards Goal progress. Rewards for either milestone are granted as soon their requirements are fulfilled.

Team Goals

Completing Team Goals earns Stars. All Team members earn rewards when the total number of Stars earned by the Team reaches certain thresholds.

Team Goals are divided into two phases, each with five categories, each with five tiers, for a total of 50 Team Goals per season. The first category of a phase is available immediately, while the rest gradually unlock when the player completes tier 1 of the previous category. The first phase is available at the start of the season, while the second phase unlocks after the first week. The amount of stars earned depends on the Tier of the goal, and some tiers additionally reward Team Trophies.

Team Goal rewards

Tier	Reward
1	40
2	80
3	180,  20
4	400
5	800,  80

Stars required

Medal	Stars required
Tier 1	10,000
Tier 2	20,000
Tier 3	40,000
Tier 4	60,000
Ultimate	125,000

Some Team Goals contain tooltips for how to achieve each goal, which contain advice mainly for players who aren't familiar with certain features of the game.

List of Social Season Events

№	Icon	Title and description	Start	End
1		Dr. Monkey Needs You! The Monkeys have been cooking up new ideas to try on the battlefield. Grab your Team, complete goals, and try out the newest innovations from the Monkey Department of Innovation!	28 April 2026	12 May 2026
2		Striker's Vacation! Striker Jones is taking a vacation from the fight against the Bloons. What does that entail? Training! To better fight against the Bloons! Grab your Team, complete goals, and practice new ways of deploying Monkeys on the battlefield!	30 June 2026	14 July 2026
3		Quincy's Roadtrip! Quincy is on the road. Something about the journey of a lifetime, getting away from all this Bloon popping business, rest the ol' legs. Too bad, Quincy! Bloons are everywhere. The only way to win is to win! Grab your team, complete goals, and win those games!	31 August 2026	14 September 2026

Dr. Monkey Needs You!

Type	Tier	Rewards
Global Goals	Tier 1	100,  Cheap Starter,  Dr. Monkey's Lab Banner
	Tier 2	250,  Bouncy Projectiles,  Alchemist Possum
Team Goals	Tier 1	Faster Cooldowns
	Tier 2	Range Enhancer
	Tier 3	Anti-Camo Dust
	Tier 4	Anti-Regrow Serum
	Ultimate	Monkey Tycoon

Goals

Tier	Group	Goal	Amount
1	Global Goals	Generate 300,000,000,000 in-game Cash and complete the game	300,000,000,000
2		Generate 1,000,000,000,000 in-game Cash and complete the game	1,000,000,000,000
Phase 1
1	Earn Cash	Generate 25,000 in-game Cash and complete the game	25,000
2		Generate 500,000 in-game Cash and complete the game	500,000
3		Generate 1,000,000 in-game Cash and complete the game	1,000,000
4		Generate 3,000,000 in-game Cash and complete the game	3,000,000
5		Generate 10,000,000 in-game Cash and complete the game	10,000,000
1	Beat Maps	Beat any Advanced Map on Any difficulty	1
2		Beat Maps on Impoppable	5
3		Beat Maps on Half Cash	10
4		Beat Maps on Alternate Bloon Rounds	15
5		Beat any Expert Map on Any difficulty	30
1	Support Monkeys	Win games with only Support Monkeys and Heroes	2
2			5
3			15
4			30
5			50
1	Activate Abilities	Activate 50 abilities	50
2		Activate 500 abilities	500
3		Activate 1,500 abilities	1,500
4		Activate 3,000 abilities	3,000
5		Activate 7,500 abilities	7,500
1	Paragon Upgrades	Purchase any Paragon Upgrades 2 times	2
2		Purchase Primary Paragon Upgrades 4 times	4
3		Purchase Military Paragon Upgrades 5 times	5
4		Purchase Magic Paragon Upgrades 8 times	8
5		Purchase Support Paragon Upgrades 10 times	10
Phase 2
1	Beat Maps	Win games with only Dart Monkeys and Heroes	5
2		Win games with only Monkey Buccaneers and Heroes	5
3		Win games with only Engineer Monkeys and Heroes	7
4		Win games with only Desperados and Heroes	10
5		Win games with only Mermonkeys and Heroes	15
1	Remove Obstacles	Remove obstacles 20 times and win the game	20
2		Remove obstacles 40 times and win the game	40
3		Remove obstacles 70 times and win the game	70
4		Remove obstacles 125 times and win the game	125
5		Remove obstacles 200 times and win the game	200
1	Pop Bloons	Pop MOAB Bloons with Primary Monkeys	50
2		Pop BFB Bloons with Military Monkeys	250
3		Pop ZOMG Bloons with Magic Monkeys	150
4		Pop BAD Bloons with Support Monkeys	5
5		Pop BAD Bloons with any Monkey	10
1	Beat Maps	Win any games using Monkeys no higher than Tier 4	3
2		Win Alternate Bloons Rounds games using Monkeys no higher than Tier 4	5
3		Win any games using Monkeys no higher than Tier 3	5
4		Win Alternate Bloons Rounds games using Monkeys no higher than Tier 3	5
5		Win Impoppable games using Monkeys no higher than Tier 3	10
1	Tower Limits	Win any Gamemode using no more than 5 Monkeys	5
2		Win Apopalypse using no more than 4 Monkeys	5
3		Win Reverse using no more than 3 Monkeys	5
4		Win Alternate Bloon Rounds using no more than 3 Monkeys	5
5		Win CHIMPS using no more than 2 Monkeys	5

Notes:

• "Earn X Cash goals" only count extra income from any source that registers to the tower's stats (e.g. Banana Farms but not Lead to Gold). Additionally, for each player, counted income caps at $65,000,000 per day, refreshing every 24 hours from the start of the event.
• For the "Win games with Support Monkeys" and other tower-specific goals, the player can only use the required tower, Heroes, and Powers. The player must place at least one of respective tower for it to count.

According to Ninja Kiwi, the first event had 649,945 participants that collectively earned 308,076,360 stars over 13,471,616 games played.

Striker's Vacation!

Type	Tier	Rewards
Global Goals	Tier 1	Projectile Ricochet,  ×3,  Striker's Vacation Banner
	Tier 2	Monkey Star,  ×1,  Bomb Shooter Bestboy
Team Goals	Tier 1	Heroic Start
	Tier 2	Projectile Kickback
	Tier 3	Global Jungle Drums
	Tier 4	Land Advantage
	Ultimate	Boss Buster

Goals

Tier	Group	Goal	Amount
1	Global Goals	Pop Bloons with Monkeys	1,000,000,000,000
2			3,000,000,000,000
Phase 1
1	Pop Bloons	Pop Bloons with any Monkey	10,000
2			50,000
3			200,000
4			750,000
5			2,000,000
1	Try a New Hero!	Win a game with Quincy	1
2		Win a game with Striker Jones	2
3		Win a game with Ezili	3
4		Win a game with Rosalia	4
5		Win a game with Dan D'Monke	5
1	Win Co-op Games	Win 1 Co-op Games[sic]	1
2		Win 2 Co-op Games	2
3		Win 3 Co-op Games	3
4		Win 6 Co-op Games	6
5		Win 10 Co-op Games	10
1	Extreme Challenge!	Beat Logs on Impoppable	1
2		Beat Rake on Alternate Bloons Rounds	1
3		Beat Spice Islands on Magic Monkeys Only	1
4		Beat Geared on Double HP MOABs	1
5		Beat Dark Castle on CHIMPS	1
1	Tower Limits	Win games with only Bomb Shooters and Heroes	1
2		Win games with only Sniper Monkeys and Heroes	2
3		Win games with only Ninja Monkeys and Heroes	3
4		Win games with only Spike Factories and Heroes	4
5		Win games with only Druids and Heroes	5
Phase 2
1	Beat Maps	Win any games using Monkeys no higher than Tier 4	2
2		Win Reverse games using Monkeys no higher than Tier 3	2
3		Win Apopalypse games using Monkeys no higher than Tier 4	2
4		Win Double HP MOABs games using Monkeys no higher than Tier 4	2
5		Win Half Cash games using Monkeys no higher than Tier 2	1
1	Activate Abilities	Activate 75 abilities	75
2		Activate 500 abilities	500
3		Activate 2,000 abilities	2,000
4		Activate 4,000 abilities	4,000
5		Activate 10,000 abilities	10,000
1	Take Part in an Event	Claim Contested Territory tiles	1
2		Submit Boss Rush scores	1
3		Beat a Hard Odyssey made by Ninja Kiwi	1
4		Submit a score for a Boss event	1
5		Beat a Tier 5 Boss in Single Player	1
1	Generate Cash	Generate 30,000 in-game Cash and complete the game	30,000
2		Generate 750,000 in-game Cash and complete the game	750,000
3		Generate 1,500,000 in-game Cash and complete the game	1,500,000
4		Generate 4,000,000 in-game Cash and complete the game	4,000,000
5		Generate 12,000,000 in-game Cash and complete the game	12,000,000
1	Pop MOAB-Class Bloons	Win games with Level 20 Heroes	1
2		Pop MOAB Bloons with Hero Monkeys	100
3		Pop BFB Bloons with Hero Monkeys	50
4		Pop ZOMG Bloons with Hero Monkeys	10
5		Pop BAD Bloons with Hero Monkeys	1

Notes:

• "Pop Bloons with Monkeys" and "Pop Bloons with any Monkey" cap at 15,000,000 pops per player per day, refreshing every 24 hours from the start of the event.
  • The daily limit was originally 2,000,000 pops at the start of the event, but server-side updates increased it over time.
  • On July 2, 2026 at approximately 22:00 UTC, the final server-side update increased the daily limit to the current amount and lowered the global goals from 3 and 10 trillion pops to 1 and 3 trillion pops.
• Playing Co-op shares goals among all players. For example, if playing on Geared on Double HP MOABs and Player 1 has Rosalia and only Druids and Player 2 has Dan D'Monke, the respective goals (pops, winning Co-Op, winning a specific map on a game mode, placing only Druids, using specific Heroes) will be earned for all players, if these goals are unlocked already per player.

Quincy's Roadtrip!

Type	Tier	Rewards
Global Goals	Tier 1	×3,  Heroes' Wrath,  Quincy's Road Trip Banner
	Tier 2	Paragon Boost,  ×1,  Camper Van MOAB,  Bumper Sticker Bloons
Team Goals	Tier 1	Spray and Pray
	Tier 2	Enhanced Projectiles
	Tier 3	Obstacle Demolition
	Tier 4	Shrapnel Burst
	Ultimate	Ability Overcharge

Goals

Tier	Group	Goal	Amount
1	Global Goals	Win games on Medium or Hard modes	3,000,000
2		Win games on Medium or Hard modes	6,000,000
Phase 1
1	Beat Maps	Beat any Map on Medium Difficulty or Beat any Map on Hard Difficulty	1
2			3
3			6
4			10
5			15
1	Property Sweeper	Remove any modifier off Bloons	100
2		Remove Regrow off Bloons	150
3		Remove Camo off Bloons	300
4		Remove Regrow off Bloons	500
5		Remove Fortified off Bloons	750
1	Magic Monkeys	Win games with Magic Monkeys	1
2		Win games with Ninja Monkeys	2
3		Win games with Druids	2
4		Win games with Wizard Monkeys	2
5		Win games with Skywardens	2
1	Generate Lives	Generate lives across completed games	50
2			100
3			200
4			500
5			1000
1	Pets	Have pets on screen at once	2
2			5
3			10
4			20
5			30
Phase 2
1	No Lives Lost	Beat games without losing any lives	1
2		Beat games on any Map on Military Only mode without losing any lives	1
3		Beat games on any Map on Apopalypse mode without losing any lives	1
4		Beat games on Dark Path on Alternate Bloons Rounds mode without losing any lives	1
5		Beat games on Sunken Columns on Half Cash mode without losing any lives	1
1	Try a New Hero!	Win a game with Gwendolin	1
2		Win a game with Obyn Greenfoot	1
3		Win a game with Cyber Quincy Skin	1
4		Win a game with Admiral Brickell	2
5		Win games with Decryptor Corvus Skin	3
1	Mixed Bag	Remove Obstacles and win the game	20
2		Generate Cash	100000
3		Activate abilities	500
4		Pop ZOMGs	30
5		Win games with level 20 heroes	1
1	Take Part in an Event	Beat a Daily Challenge	1
2		Beat a Co-op Challenge	1
3		Submit Boss Rush scores	1
4		Submit a score for a Boss Event	1
5		Beat a tier 5 Boss in Single Player	1
1	Damage Bloons	Get Bloon damage with any one monkey in a single game.	10000
2		Get Bloon damage with one Dart Monkey in a single game	20000
3		Get Bloon damage with one Ninja Monkey in a single game	100000
4		Get Bloon damage with one Monkey Ace in a single game	500000
5		Get Bloon damage with one Quincy in a single game	2000000

Notes:

• Season Tier 5 reward lowered from 175,000 to 125,000.
• For winning games on Medium or Hard, the amount of rounds must also equal 60 or more in order to qualify as a game.

Tips

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• It is not recommended to exit to the main menu, retry last round or use continues or checkpoints because progress may not be tracked properly.
• The player can tackle on different goals at the same time, like for example, doing the "Try a New Hero!" goals in the game mode indicated by the "Extreme Challenge!" goals.
• The easiest way to complete the goals for activating abilities is to spam fast cooldown abilities. Use Tech Bot for automation, or a Tech Bot Prime with Chain Link (2-0-0) to automate multiple of the same ability.
  • Alternatively, to make progress without having to manually press ability buttons, create a regrow farm while having Tech Bots on non-money making abilities with an Energizer to speed up cooldowns. Deadeye's Take Aim is one of the cheapest ability with a short cooldown while not ruining regrow farms. Other contenders include Glue Strike, Artillery Battery's Bombardment, and Bloon Sabotage.
  • Building a Sniper Monkey farm minimizes button presses for the abilities and advances Cash goals, and potentially the Paragons goals using the farmed cash.
  • Another example is to play any Beginner map with enough land on a Boss Challenge versus normal Bloonarius and spam Blade Maelstroms.
• For cash goals, Impoppable on Beginner maps, Boss Challenge, or Boss Events, give many rounds to snowball income. Strategy:Boss Bloon Event contains examples of farming setups.
• To speed up the Paragon placement goals, accumulate a large sum of cash and then buy and sell Degree 1 Paragons repeatedly (with no additional sacrifices or cash investment). It is recommended to use the cheapest Paragon per category and upgrade the most expensive Tier 5 to lose the least amount of cash after selling. The recommended Paragons and Tier 5's are:
  • Primary: Apex Plasma Master (Upgrade Plasma Monkey Fan Club)
  • Military: Nautic Siege Core (Upgrade Pre-emptive Strike)
  • Magic: Ascended Shadow (Upgrade Master Bomber)
  • Support: Master Builder (Upgrade Ultraboost)
• To speed up the obstacle goals, play maps with many removables, particularly High Finance which has the most. Use 0-1-4 Bloon Trap to accelerate farming while surviving rounds and acquiring enough money to buy all buildings on Easy.
• All tower limit goals should be played on Beginner maps for the least difficulty. For most game modes, 2TC strategies also work for the tower limit goals.
• Easy mode gives the fastest results for goals involving winning many games.
  • If restricted to Medium difficulty, Apopalypse is the fastest (this is RNG based, but on average faster than standard rounds by 22 seconds).
  • If restricted to Hard difficulty, Alternate Bloons Rounds is the fastest.
• Captain Churchill, Corvus, or Geraldo are generally the best Heroes to use for specific tower only goals.
• If the goals require popping a large amount of MOAB-Class Bloons, particularly BADs, it is recommended to play games against Elite Bloonarius.
• Goals that require popping of MOAB-Class Bloons only by specific classes, such as Heroes, should revolve the strategy on getting pops from only this tower type.
  • Specific to Heroes, choose a purely DPS Hero such as Quincy or Captain Churchill and super-buff it with any tower that does zero damage, or at least very minimal damage; treat it similarly to 2 MegaPops but focus on MOAB-Class damage only. If using Alch buffs, keep Alchemist well away from the Hero or use Permanent Brew and move it away.
• For the goals that require using towers no higher than Tier 4, use strong options such as Overdrive + Embrittlement, Aircraft Carrier or Bloon Area Denial System for group damage while MOAB Assassin, Maim MOAB, Sticky Bomb, Arctic Knight and Orca can deal with the MOAB-Class spawns, without forgetting about support options which are plentiful at Tier 4.
• For the goals that require using towers no higher than Tier 3, it is recommended to use a Hero that can carry the early game with little support to cover their weaknesses, specially on ABR (Sauda or Ezili) or has a very strong late game (Churchill or Adora) and use Tier 3 Super Monkeys as the bulk of the defense because they are the strongest options available that can reliably beat Impoppable, Dark Knight and Robo Monkey can be used to carry the mid-game and from there, the player can proceed to spam those towers or switch to Sun Avatars. Support towers are more limited at Tier 3, with the main options narrowing down to Berserker Brew, MOAB Glue and Villages with Jungle Drums or Monkey Commerce. Another option to clear this goal could be Destroyer spam with Brickell and Camo support on a map such as Spa Pits.
• For the goals that require using towers no higher than Tier 2, it is recommended to play on the easiest maps of the game and focus on a strong Hero such as Churchill and complement the defense by spamming Tier 2 Super Monkeys, use different crosspaths to cover each others' weaknesses. Support options are limited to Acidic Mixture Dip and any of the Tier 2 Villages and stalling towers for ceramics like Ice Monkeys or Glue Gunners. The save up for the Hero in the early game can be done with Monkey Subs, Boomerang Monkeys, Desperados, Druids and Mermonkeys.
• To complete goals which require the Hero to pop MOAB-Class Bloons, it's recommended to use Psi or Ezili for their insta-kill abilities, preventing other towers from accidentally 'sniping' them.
• Try to coordinate with one or more teammates if possible to clear goals at the same, specially when there are Co-op goals available.
  • For goals involving tower limits or max towers, don't rely on random Co-Op players to complete these goals.
  • Don't rely on random Co-Op players to complete CHIMPS goals unless it's a Beginner map or an easy Intermediate map.
• For winning games with minimum Hero level requirements, play Impoppable with any fast-leveling Hero on at least Intermediate and have enough MK that give Heroes faster leveling or a headstart. Alternatively, play at least Hard and farm aggressively enough to buy any remaining levels before the final round ends.
• For life generation goals, play Hard on Easy maps. Use Marketplaces (with Healthy Bananas) and Jungle's Bounties and a Spirit of the Forest to generate many lives per round. Specific Hero is not important, but choose a Hero that supports faster income generation.
• For property removal goals, always use towers that remove properties and can target at the start, and avoid high damage towers. Signal Flare, Heart of Oak, Shattering Shells, and Perishing Potions are recommended. Farm hard early to afford expensive property removals later on.
  • Alternate Bloons Rounds, Apopalypse, and Normal Dreadbloon have unusually high amounts of Fortified (and Camo and Regrow for the former) and are good for these goals.
  • If the goal for Regrows is extremely high, Regrow farming also works. Do this on Round 76 and only add degrow once the Regrows build up.
  • Each Hard game always has at least 500 Camos per game, and many more per Hard game than Medium game.
  • Each ABR game always has at least 750 Regrows per game.
• For the Pet goals, pick the cheapest option(s) for a tower and spam that tower. Sniper Chameleon Pet is the cheapest ( 50), so spam Sniper Monkeys. If playing from previous Social Season Events and incidentally earned the top Global Goals (e.g. Alchemist Possum Pet from Social Season Event #1), spam those towers too.
• Event-related goals may be time-gated. Check the Events menu, focusing on the hours left before each of the listed event(s) begin, and plan ahead for ordering when to do each event.

Related achievements

	Season Starts Achieve Tier 1 in any Stage in a Social Season Reward(s):  50 Monkey Money,  Cash Drop ×1

	Mid Season Earn 7,500 Stars in any Social Season Reward(s):  100 Monkey Money,  Monkey Knowledge Point ×1

	Season Champion Earn a perfect 15,000 Stars in any Social Season Reward(s):  200 Monkey Money,  Random tier 5 Insta ×1

Pre-release

Ninja Kiwi revealed Social Seasons in the update notes for version 47.0. They were originally named "Social Goals" and implied to include both Team-specific goals and goals that apply to all players.

• We've also heard that many people want Team activities for the main game, so we are looking into a Social Goals feature that will provide multiple challenges and rewards for hitting Team targets across all types of BTD6 play.
• And the biggest Team is everyone, so we’d also like to add some epic all players Goals to offer us a chance to truly all play together for fun event-based rewards!

Ninja Kiwi originally stated in the update notes for version 49.0 that Social Goals would come in version 51.0. In the update notes for version 50.0, they gave more details about the event, including a new feature called "Boost Rewards", and stated that all of the intended features may not be ready in time for 51.0.

Social Goals system has a heap of components including more accessible Team Trophy ownership, improvements for Teams with dormant Mayors, the framework for many types of shared Goals, and a range of Boost Rewards that will continue to benefit Teams even after the Social Goals Event has ended. We may not get all of that done for v51 so we’ll focus on the most important and fun bits.

Ninja Kiwi did not acknowledge Social Goals in the update notes for version 51.0. In the update notes for version 52.0, they announced Social Seasons instead, featuring items called Perks instead of Boost Rewards, which seems to be the replacement for Social Goals.

• Social Seasons - building out Sweepstakes-style Team-based milestone challenges where the whole Bloons player base pulls together to accomplish theme-based goals
  • Streamlined Team joining and management, including controls for active players to manage in the place of lapsed leadership
  • Perks system that allows you to earn several buffs that can be used for the duration of that season in non-competitive and non-prestige modes (Races, Competitive Boss Events, CT, CHIMPS)
    • Earn many Perks during a Season, but you can only equip a few for each game, so lots of mixing and matching to help you be more successful in single player and social co-op

Gallery

Screenshots

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  Social Season Event information pop-up
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  Social Season Event menu
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  Team Goals menu before phase 2 unlocks
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  Pop-up that appears after completing a Team Goal
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  Pop-up that appears after completing a Team Goal that rewards Team Trophies
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  Pip that appears on the main menu when a goal is complete
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  Pip that appears on the Team menu when a goal is complete
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  Message that appears in a Team's message log when a player completes a Team Goal
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  Star counter on a Team member
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  Rewards for completing a Global Goal
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  Season end screen

Assets

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  Event icon
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  Global Goal icon
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  Team Goals button
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  Social Season #1 icon
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  Social Season #1 banner
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  Social Season #1 medium banner
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  Social Season #1 small banner
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  Social Season #2 icon
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  Social Season #2 banner
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  Social Season #2 medium banner
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  Social Season #2 small banner

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