RIVALS
RIVALS Events Schedule: Update 22 Start Time and Countdown
RIVALS’ next scheduled event is Update 22, which brings a new standard weapon — the first new standard weapon RIVALS has added in nearly two years, according to Nosniy Games — and marks the end of the Summer Event that arrived with Update 21. The studio has it set to run from the evening of September 4 through September 26, 2026.
RIVALS is one of the largest first-person shooters on Roblox, regularly holding about 160,000 players in duels at once and having drawn about 18,000,000,000 visits alongside about 90,000,000 favorites. That scale is part of why an update no one has seen the contents of is already pulling in so much early interest.
Last updated September 3. We update this page as the schedule changes.
Upcoming events1 scheduled
🎉 UPDATE 22 🎉
New Weapon
Sep 4, 9:00 PM – Sep 26, 12:00 AM ET
Standard weapon inventory expands for the first time in nearly two years as the Summer Event concludes.
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Current and upcoming events
Update 22 (September 4–26)
Update 22 is the next event on RIVALS’ calendar. Nosniy Games is using it to introduce a new standard weapon — the studio says it’s the first new standard weapon in nearly two years — while retiring the Summer Event that Update 21 brought. Roblox lists it as a new-content event, and it’s scheduled to open on the evening of September 4 and run for about three weeks, closing September 26, 2026.
The event is set to begin at 9:00 p.m. ET on September 4, 2026 (8:00 p.m. CT / 6:00 p.m. PT) and run until midnight ET on September 26. Exact start and end times are in the schedule above.
Interest is already enormous, with more than about 7,200,000 players marked as going before the event has started. For a limited-time drop that isn’t live yet, that is an unusually large turnout, and a sign of how closely RIVALS’ player base follows each update.
FAQ
When does RIVALS Update 22 start?
Update 22 is scheduled to begin at 9:00 p.m. ET on September 4, 2026 (8:00 p.m. CT / 6:00 p.m. PT). It runs until midnight ET on September 26, 2026.
What does RIVALS Update 22 add?
Nosniy Games is using Update 22 to add a new standard weapon, which the studio describes as the first new standard weapon in nearly two years. The update also closes out the Summer Event that arrived with Update 21. Roblox lists it as a new-content event.
How many players are interested in Update 22?
More than about 7,200,000 players have marked themselves as going on Roblox’s event page — a very large number for an event that hasn’t started yet.
How many people play RIVALS?
RIVALS regularly holds about 160,000 players in duels at once and has drawn about 18,000,000,000 lifetime visits, making it one of the biggest shooters on Roblox.