Yeet&Sweet 2024: GameArt tournament dates, rules and prizes

Key points

• Announcement: GameArt unveiled the Yeet&Sweet 2024 calendar on 7 December 2023, for the second season of its slot tournament brand.
• Prize pool: €1,000,000 split across ten tournaments of €100,000 each.
• Calendar: Sweetheart Dragon in February, Sweet Greens in March, Candy Blossoms in April, Lucky Loser in May, Joker's Sweets in June, Fruitish from late July to early August, Golden Dunes in September, Sugar & Skulls in late October, Candy Cane Cup from late November to early December, and Ultimate 100 from 27 December 2024 to 5 January 2025.
• Rhythm: each stage lasted ten days, from a Friday to the Sunday of the following week, for 100 days of competition across the season.
• Scoring: €0.20 minimum bet, 30-spin cycles, points equal to the win multiplier times 100; only the best cycle counts, whatever the stake.
• Gamble: a win doubled with the gamble feature earns no extra points.
• Prizes: on the Ultimate 100 prize table, first place took €31,000, the podium took 62% of the pool and 100 players were paid.
• Games: ten slots in every published line-up; of the five core titles announced in February, only 40 Super Blazing Sevens and Lucky Coins were still in the Ultimate 100 selection.
• After 2024: no Yeet&Sweet season has been announced since; GameArt ran the 10K Double Heat in June and July 2025, with €10,000 in cash plus free spins.
• Access: the tournaments ran with real money at GameArt's partner casinos, so access depended on local gambling law.

Yeet&Sweet 2024 calendar: ten 10-day GameArt tournaments worth €1 million

On 7 December 2023, GameArt laid the Yeet&Sweet 2024 calendar on the table. Ten slot tournaments of ten days each, with €100,000 per stage. The opening gong was set for 9 February 2024 and the closing one for 5 January 2025. In between, the studio dealt out its themes like cards from a well-shuffled shoe: Valentine's dragons, Irish clovers, sweets, jokers, summer fruit. Then came the golden dunes of September, the sugar skulls of the Day of the Dead and the candy canes of December, before a finale straddling two years.

Behind the sugary names, the mechanics have the rigour of a croupier's table. Every stage opens on a Friday and closes on the Sunday of the following week: ten days, two weekends. Ten tournaments of ten days, ten games in every published line-up. The number ten is the backbone of the whole season.

The real question is what this programme was actually worth. Is a million euros a fortune or a drop in the ocean for the industry? What does a leaderboard built on thirty spins really measure? And why did the second season of a brand born in late 2022 turn out to be the last one the studio announced? Here I go through the calendar stage by stage, with its rules, its prizes and my reading of what happened behind the scenes.

What were the dates of the ten Yeet&Sweet 2024 tournaments?

The ten Yeet&Sweet 2024 tournaments ran back to back from 9 February 2024 to 5 January 2025, each with €100,000 up for grabs. GameArt left nothing to chance. Its official calendar of 7 December 2023 set all ten dates, and every announcement published a month before a stage repeated the same prize money. Over the season, that added up to €1,000,000.

Read in one go, this table tells a story of rhythm. The most common gap between two starts is exactly five weeks, which leaves 25 days of rest between stages. Two exceptions stand out. In spring, Lucky Loser kicks off just eleven days after Candy Blossoms closes. At the end of summer, the break stretches to 46 days between Fruitish and Golden Dunes, as if the studio were letting the holidays run their course. All told, the season packs 100 days of competition into the 332 days between the first gong and the last: roughly one day in three.

Names that follow the almanac

The names track the year's festive calendar, and decoding them is a small pleasure. Sweetheart Dragon opened the season on 9 February 2024, on the eve of the Chinese New Year that ushered in the Year of the Dragon. It also spanned Valentine's Day on the 14th. Two celebrations in a single name: a neat combination. Sweet Greens, the St Patrick's Day tournament, ran either side of 17 March. Its showcase was Clover Goes Wild, a new release built around the lucky clover. Sugar & Skulls covered both Halloween and the Day of the Dead, with Spooky Graves and Halloween Farm in its line-up. Candy Cane Cup already smelled of pine needles, and Ultimate 100 straddled New Year's Eve.

How are points calculated in a Yeet&Sweet tournament?

Each spin earns a hundred times its win multiplier, and only the best complete cycle of 30 spins counts towards the leaderboard. Behind that formula, the rules posted on GameArt's Yeet&Sweet page fit into a few lines. Each one carries real weight for anyone who likes to understand a game before placing a bet.

• Real money: the tournaments were played with real money only.
• Minimum bet: €0.20 per spin, or the equivalent in another currency.
• Cycle: scores are built over 30 spins, and you must complete at least one full cycle to enter the leaderboard.
• Points: each spin earns its win multiplier, meaning the win divided by the stake, multiplied by 100; the cycle adds these points together.
• Best cycle: there is no limit on the number of cycles, but only the best complete cycle is kept.
• Gamble: a win doubled with the gamble feature only earns the points of the original win.
• Single game: you play one title at a time, with the option to switch between eligible games.
• Leaderboard: it is displayed live in the game.

Every stage started at 10:00 UTC. That meant 11:00 Central European Time in winter and noon in summer, so the conversion is worth checking for your own time zone. A small detail, until the day you turn up an hour late at the starting line.

Take a cycle played at €0.20 to make this concrete. It has twenty-six spins with no win and three small wins of €0.40, each a 2x multiplier worth 200 points. Then comes one win of €6, a 30x multiplier worth 3,000 points. The cycle is worth 3,600 points. The same scenario played at €2 per spin would give exactly the same total. The score measures the ratio between win and stake, not the amount wagered.

This rule has a real virtue: a player betting €0.20 starts on the same line as someone staking a hundred times more. The Yeet&Sweet leaderboard rewards relative luck, not the size of your wallet. The rule also has a downside, and it gets mentioned less often. Since only the best cycle counts and cycles are unlimited, every new run of thirty spins buys one more ticket for the big multiplier. The format therefore nudges players to keep replaying, and that is exactly where your budget has to take back control.

One last trap for regulars: two core titles in the selection, 40 Super Blazing Sevens and Lucky Coins, offer a gamble feature that can double a win up to five times in a row. In a tournament, that button will not move you up the leaderboard by a single inch.

What does each leaderboard position pay?

The prize table published for Ultimate 100, the season's final stage, splits the €100,000 between 100 players. First place gets €31,000 and 100th place gets €100. The result is a pyramid with a very sharp tip.

The podium takes 62% of the prize pool, the top ten 86%, and the next ninety players share the remaining €14,000. Measured in minimum bets, the gap is dizzying: first place pockets 155,000 times the €0.20 stake, 100th place 500 times. None of this was improvised in 2024, by the way. The 2023 season rules applied exactly the same prize table to that year's tenth tournament, TOP 100, played from 29 December 2023 to 7 January 2024.

Which GameArt games made up the tournaments?

Every published selection lined up ten slot machines, following the same recipe. Five rotating titles were chosen to match the theme or to launch a new release, and five core titles were supposed to run through the whole season. Published on 15 February 2024, the Sweet Greens announcement promised it in black and white: “Five top-performing games are present throughout all the 10 tournaments.” In other words, a fixed backbone of five games for all ten stages.

The rotating part followed the theme closely. Revealed on 20 August 2024, the Golden Dunes line-up brought together three titles of sand and gold: Nefertiti's Nile, Aladdin's Quest and Gold of Ra. Fruitish went for four classic fruit machines, including 20 Hot Fruit Delights and 40 Super Heated Sevens.

The jokers got the same treatment. In June, the jokers' rendezvous lined up Surfin' Joker and Striking Joker around three brand-new releases. These new games, showcased from one stage to the next, sketch out the studio's 2024 roadmap:

• Sweet Greens: Clover Goes Wild, Great Buffalo Hold'n Win and Shining Royal 40.
• Candy Blossoms: 20 Hot Super Fruits, the latest release at the time, and 7s Fury 40, launched on 9 April.
• Lucky Loser: Great Buffalo Megaways™, launched on 30 April.
• Joker's Sweets: Jaguar Riches, Shining Royal 20 and Shining Royal 5, released between 21 May and 4 June.
• Fruitish: Lucky Pups, launched on 9 July.
• Golden Dunes: Safari Cubs Go Wild, released on 20 August, and The Way of the Dead, on 17 September.
• Sugar & Skulls: Ultra Cluster Kingdom, fresh out of the studio.

The summer 2024 transfer window

Summer reshuffled the deck. On 26 June 2024, a month before the start, the Fruitish press release revealed a new top five that kept only two survivors from February's quintet. That reshaped quintet is the one still found in the Ultimate 100 selection.

I find this reshuffle more telling than most sales pitches. The fruity tournament at the end of July kicked off a new core. It shows a studio that picks its core games on performance and is willing to go back on a February promise when other titles hold the table better. The two new releases showcased for Sweet Greens, Great Buffalo Hold'n Win and Clover Goes Wild, earned their place within four months. Xtreme Hot, a classic with flaming fruit released in December 2021, came in through the front door. The two survivors stand for two eras of the studio. Lucky Coins and its good-luck coins came out in November 2019. The very low-volatility 40 Super Blazing Sevens arrived in July 2023.

Lucky Loser: from tournament to slot machine

Here is a small curiosity that I find very amusing: the name of the fourth tournament went places. In May 2024, Lucky Loser was a stage in the calendar. On 5 November 2024, it became the name of a slot with 5 reels, 4 rows and 100 paylines. The official Lucky Loser game page describes a progress wheel that fills up on every spin, losing ones included. Once full, it unlocks a wheel of fortune paying up to 20 times the bet or one of four jackpots. A lucky loser: a delicious oxymoron for a gambling game. The title joined the Ultimate 100 selection in December, then the 10K Double Heat line-up in summer 2025, bringing the story full circle.

Why does a studio fund network tournaments?

A studio funds a network tournament for a reason that fits in one word: visibility. The promotion is built into its games and open to partner casinos. The studio pays the prize pool and handles the logistics, while the operator gets a turnkey promotion and can focus on marketing. Players from every participating casino end up on a shared leaderboard, which creates the crowd effect.

Leaderboards are nothing new: land-based casinos have been running slot tournaments against the clock for decades. What is new is the scale, and who foots the bill. When dozens of providers compete for attention and several new games come out every day, a tournament keeps a studio's titles in the operators' spotlight. For a Valletta-based studio that claimed more than 100 clients on its programme page, the maths adds up. Each stage bought €100,000 of visibility, shared across every casino in the network.

Still, that million needs some perspective. Pragmatic Play, a heavyweight of the industry, had announced €30 million for Drops & Wins for the 2023-2024 season. The table below sets Yeet&Sweet against other documented network promotions.

The comparison puts everyone in their place without ridiculing anyone. A mid-sized provider does not play in Pragmatic Play's league, and €100,000 concentrated on a single ten-day leaderboard is still a sum that gets noticed. At Games Global, the Rewards BURST! promotion, launched on 21 August 2026, promises five times the Yeet&Sweet 2024 budget. The real shock comes from within. In 2025, the cash budget of the 10K Double Heat was exactly 1% of the previous season's.

Did Yeet&Sweet continue in 2025?

Not under that name. Since the curtain fell on Ultimate 100 on 5 January 2025, GameArt's news feed has not announced another Yeet&Sweet season. The studio opted for a much lighter format, the 10K Double Heat. It ran two tournaments in 2025, the first from 5 to 15 June and the second from 26 June to 6 July. Ten slots were in play, including Lucky Loser, Helluva Slot and Totem Token.

The change of philosophy is obvious. The 10K Double Heat prize table pays €5,000 in cash per tournament to just five players, from €2,500 for first place to €250 for fifth. The next forty-five places receive free spins, from 500 spins on Helluva Slot for positions 6 to 10 down to 50 spins on Midgard's Fortune Megaways™ for positions 41 to 50. Less cash, more prizes in kind, and games from the studio's library promoted right down to the rewards. The tournament becomes a discovery tool as much as a race for the jackpot.

Should we read it as budget cutting, as a format that is easier to sell to operators, or as the end of a brand that had run its course? All three readings hold up, and I'm careful not to pick a winner. The studio's other promotions, from network tournaments to challenges on trade show stands, share one constant anyway: the leaderboard remains their common language. If a third season ever sees the light of day, I would look at three things first. The shape of the prize table. The stability of the core games. And a published winners' list, even one that only gives each stage's winning multiplier.

Where could you legally play the Yeet&Sweet tournaments?

It depended on where you lived. The Yeet&Sweet tournaments ran with real money on slot machines at GameArt's partner casinos, so access was governed by local gambling law. Some countries license online casinos, others keep them under a state monopoly, and some ban online slots altogether. No tournament, however generous, changes that.

Playing on an unlicensed site is never a trivial choice. Without a licence, there is no regulator to turn to if winnings go unpaid or personal data is misused. Before signing up, check the operator's licence on the public register of the authority that issued it. Malta's regulator, the MGA, is a good example. Anyone can search its licensee register by company name, authorisation status or website address. And if gambling starts taking up too much room in your life, the self-exclusion tools offered in regulated markets are there to help.

What should you check in a slot tournament's rules?

Wherever online slots are legal, a tournament should be read like a contract, not like a poster. Four checks will spare you most unpleasant surprises:

• Right version: the one that applies to your market. In 2023, the Russian version of the TOP 100 rules listed eight games missing from the six other language versions; only X-mas Express and Candy Trouble appeared in all of them.
• Cycle budget: set it before the first spin. Ten cycles of thirty spins at €0.20 means 300 spins and €60 wagered, not a quick little session.
• Prize format: cash or bonus money with wagering requirements, payout times, any caps. The operator manages your player account, so that is who you should ask.
• Casino licence: the best leaderboard in the world is worth nothing at an operator that does not pay.

What this calendar taught me

I have a soft spot for well-kept calendars. The Yeet&Sweet 2024 calendar was as easy to read as an evening programme posted at the entrance of a gaming room: a date, a theme, a prize pool, and nothing to guess. Its prize table leaves me more sceptical. Putting 62% of a prize pool on three heads means making a hundred players dream so that three get truly rewarded.

One lesson goes beyond GameArt, though. A network tournament is never just a gift to players: it is a shop window, a measuring tool and a sales argument aimed at casinos. The summer reshuffle of the five core games proved that better than any press release. The big studios keep piling up the millions, as Games Global did in August, while smaller ones look for formats that cost less and show more. A sugary interlude, or the rough draft of a format still to come? I would happily bet on the second option, just without staking too much.

FAQs:

How many tournaments did Yeet&Sweet 2024 include?

Ten tournaments of ten days each, from 9 February 2024 to 5 January 2025, with €100,000 per tournament, for €1,000,000 in total.

What were the dates of the Yeet&Sweet 2024 tournaments?

Sweetheart Dragon from 9 to 18 February, Sweet Greens from 15 to 24 March, Candy Blossoms from 19 to 28 April, Lucky Loser from 10 to 19 May, Joker's Sweets from 14 to 23 June, Fruitish from 26 July to 4 August, Golden Dunes from 20 to 29 September, Sugar & Skulls from 25 October to 3 November, Candy Cane Cup from 29 November to 8 December and Ultimate 100 from 27 December 2024 to 5 January 2025.

How are points calculated in a Yeet&Sweet tournament?

Each spin earns its win multiplier, meaning the win divided by the stake, multiplied by 100. The score adds up the points of a 30-spin cycle, and only the best complete cycle counts.

What was the minimum bet?

€0.20 per spin, or the equivalent in another currency.

Did betting more help you climb the leaderboard?

No. The score measures the ratio between win and stake, so a cycle played at €0.20 can beat a cycle played at €20.

How much did the winner of a Yeet&Sweet tournament get?

€31,000 on the prize table published for Ultimate 100, which paid the top 100 players, from €31,000 down to €100.

Which games stayed in the line-up all season?

Of the five core titles announced in February, only 40 Super Blazing Sevens and Lucky Coins were still in the Ultimate 100 selection.

Was there a Yeet&Sweet 2025 season?

GameArt has not announced one. In 2025, the studio ran the 10K Double Heat, two tournaments in June and July with €10,000 in cash plus free spins.

Could players anywhere take part in the Yeet&Sweet tournaments?

No. They were real-money promotions at GameArt's partner casinos, so availability depended on each country's gambling law. Check that the operator holds a licence valid where you live before signing up.

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