Tile 43 on the Blackout event board requires you to finish an online match with a Casual-tier player on your team. It can be especially troublesome to trigger, since matchmaking no longer reliably puts you with someone in the Casual tier. The quickest workaround skips The Park and The Rec entirely: go to your own MyCOURT, set the court to online, and add AI teammates to your side. You can complete the requirement there by yourself.
Quick answer: In your own MyCOURT, set the kiosk to Go Online, invite AI players, then start and finish or quit a 2-on-2 or 3-on-3 match. Tile 43 checks off instantly.
What tile 43 of the Blackout event requires
The Blackout board works like bingo: completing objectives fills tiles and advances you toward the event rewards. Tile 43 asks you to Play one online game with at least one teammate from the Casual tier (0/1). A single completion is enough to count.
The complication is how the game groups players. A Casual-tier teammate is marked by a black banner plate under their name, and matchmaking now tends to place you with players on the same plate you last competed on. That makes running into a Casual player at random unreliable, which is why the MyCOURT method below is the cleaner route.
Complete tile 43 solo in MyCOURT
Your personal MyCOURT can be flipped online and stocked with AI players, and a match played there counts toward the objective. This clears tile 43 without needing a second account or a human Casual teammate.
Because the court is set to online, you do not have to actually complete a full game. Backing out through the pause menu once the match has started is enough to register the objective.
Confirm tile 43 is complete
As you exit back into MyCOURT, the Blackout card pops up on screen with tile 43 checked off and marked as completed. If you want to double-check, open the Blackout board from the event menu and look at the objective. It should read as done rather than 0/1.
Alternative: find a Casual player through matchmaking
If you would rather clear the tile in a real online match, you can still hunt for a Casual teammate directly. The catch is that Casual players are harder to land in matchmaking, so this route takes patience.
- Look for a teammate with a black banner plate under their name — that is the Casual tier.
- Head to the Casual corner or the randoms court in The Park and invite any black-plate player you see.
- Queue a 2v2 doorway in The Theater and check the loading screen for a Casual teammate before the game starts.
One way to increase your odds of drawing a Casual matchup is to start fresh on a new MyPLAYER. Create a new build in the file manager and advance through the archetype screen. The exact attributes do not matter for this purpose.
When prompted for a starting point, pick Start hooping in THE CITY rather than the NBA career path. From your apartment, head out to The Theater and enter a 2v2 door to begin matchmaking. Once a Casual teammate loads in, playing the game through completes the objective.
Between the two approaches, the MyCOURT AI method is the more dependable one, since it removes matchmaking luck from the equation entirely and lets you finish tile 43 in a single short match.
