Nathan FieldThe Skool Games was Skool's quarterly contest for community owners, and that format ended in June 2026. In its place, Skool now runs the Skool Game: one leaderboard that never stops, ranking owners by the monthly recurring revenue (MRR) their communities bring in. Every fact comes from Skool's own pages and its Skool News videos, checked on 29 September 2026.
The Skool Games was Skool's quarterly contest for community owners, created with Alex Hormozi in 2024. Skool ended that format in June 2026. It now runs the Skool Game: one always-on leaderboard in its free Skoolers group that ranks owners by total monthly recurring revenue, with status emojis and awards at set milestones.
One note on the name. Skool now calls it the Skool Game, singular. And many people who search "skool games" want free browser games to play at school. This page is only about Skool's game for community owners.
What the Skool Game is now
Skool describes the Skool Game on the About page of Skoolers, its group for community owners, in three parts. Competition: "compete with others to see who can grow the most". Leaderboards: "realtime leaderboards showing earnings by category". Status: emojis next to your name, plus physical awards.
The detail comes from Skool News #64 (7 Jul 2026), the video at the top of this page. Skool's team says the new game is always running, and you level up whenever your revenue does. They said the board would go live within about a week. It sits inside Skoolers, which is a private group, so what follows is the board as Skool showed it in the video:
- One leaderboard. The default view ranks everyone together by total MRR. Category leaderboards still exist, but they are no longer the default. You click through to them.
- A rank for everyone. The list shows about the top 100 owners. Anyone below that still sees their own rank, plus a progress bar to their next milestone.
- What each row shows. The owner, their group, its category, its traffic, its MRR growth over the last 30 days, and its total MRR. Showing traffic is new.
- Status emojis. Each revenue milestone puts a new emoji next to your name. The new format adds two milestones, at $3,000 and $1,000,000 MRR.
The milestones
These are the MRR levels Skool's team named in #64, and what they said each one brings. They are Skool's own thresholds for status, not a forecast of what anyone will make.
| MRR milestone (Skool's figure) | What Skool's team said comes with it |
|---|---|
| $3,000 | A clover emoji (new in this format) |
| $10,000 | A rocket emoji |
| $30,000 | A crown emoji |
| $100,000 | A diamond emoji, going platinum, and a physical award |
| $300,000 | A red diamond emoji and a physical award |
| $1,000,000 | A new top level they call goated, and a physical award |
Going platinum
Skool's team calls reaching $100,000 MRR going platinum. Platinum owners join a private club. The team said they plan two meetups a year for it, with no cameras and no formal event.
The old Skool Games had rounds and a finish line. The new Skool Game has neither: your rank moves whenever your revenue does.
How Skool says you play
In #64, Skool's team lays the game out as a loop:
- Create a community and drive traffic to its About page, from YouTube, Instagram, TikTok or anywhere else.
- Watch where your traffic comes from and how well it converts, and improve both.
- Grow your MRR, and earn status as you pass each milestone.
- Rank in Skool's Discovery page as well, which brings you traffic from Skool itself. The team calls Discovery the other side of the game.
Who runs it
Skool does. The board lives inside Skoolers, Skool's private group for owners, which its About page shows as run by Sam Ovens, Skool's CEO.
Alex Hormozi is the name most people link to the Skool Games. Skool's About page says: "Alex Hormozi partnered with Skool in 2024 to create The Skool Games." He is not a founder of Skool. The same page says Skool was founded in 2019 by Sam Ovens (CEO) and Daniel Kang (CTO). Our post on who owns Skool covers the company side.
What it costs to take part
There is no separate entry step in what Skool showed, and Skoolers shows as free to join. In practice, the cost is running a paid community. You only have MRR on Skool if members pay you, and charging members needs a Skool plan.
| What | Cost on 29 Sep 2026 | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Joining Skoolers, where the board is | Free, as shown on its About page | skool.com/skoolers |
| Skool Hobby plan | $9 a month, plus 10% + 30c per transaction | skool.com/pricing, Payments FAQ |
| Skool Pro plan | $99 a month, plus 2.9% + 30c per transaction up to $899 (3.9% + 30c above $900) | skool.com/pricing, Payments FAQ |
| Free trial for a new owner | 14 days on either plan | Help centre, article 227 |
Our Skool pricing guide works through which plan costs less at your size. If you don't run a community yet, you can start a Skool community (affiliate link) on the 14-day free trial.
Is the Skool Games legit?
Yes. It is Skool's own program. Skool names the Skool Games on its About page, describes the Skool Game on the Skoolers About page, and presents it on its own YouTube channel.
There is also nothing to buy. Status comes from the revenue your community makes. Of the platinum club, Skool's team says: "You can't buy it. You have to earn it." So if anyone asks you to pay to enter the Skool Games, or to get a spot on the board, that is not Skool.
For the wider question of whether Skool itself is safe to use, see is Skool legit.
Is it worth it for a new community owner?
You don't sign up for it, so the real question is how much attention to give it. An honest answer:
- It costs nothing extra. The board ranks the revenue a paid community already makes.
- The top of the board is a long way off. The list shows about the top 100 owners. Early on, what helps is your own rank and your next milestone.
- It rewards one kind of business. The board ranks monthly recurring revenue, so it rewards memberships over one-time sales. If your members are better served by a one-time course or a high-ticket program, don't reshape your offer for a leaderboard.
- Your numbers can be on show. If your group makes the list, its row shows its category, traffic and total MRR to other Skoolers members. If you would rather keep your revenue private, know that before you climb.
Our advice: build the community you would build anyway, and let the board count it. If you are starting from zero, our guide on how to start a Skool community covers the setup.
The old Skool Games: quarterly rounds
Before July 2026, the Skool Games ran in quarterly rounds. Skool posted recordings of the Games events on Skool News, from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026. From Q2 2025 on, their titles say they feature Alex Hormozi.
In #64, Skool's team said the old format had nine separate leaderboards, so it was hard to tell who was winning overall. The end came in two steps. In Skool News #62 (23 Jun 2026), Skool's team said the round ending on 28 June 2026 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific would be the last Skool Games in that form. They teased a new game. Two weeks later, in #64, they said the old Games had stopped and showed the Skool Game that replaced it.
Skool's leaderboard FAQ in the help centre was last updated on 17 September 2025. It still describes the quarterly board, which ranked owners by MRR growth since the start of each round and counted at most $100 a month per membership. Read it as a record of the old format, not the current one.
This is the most recent of those recordings, for the Q1 2026 round. It shows the old format, not the new board.
Keep the members the board counts
The Skool Game ranks total MRR, so every member who stops paying lowers your number. Two things quietly cost owners paying members: cards that fail and members who cancel. Skool already does part of the work. It retries a declined card, shows a red Declined label on the member, prompts them to update their card, and lets you retry the charge by hand. On the Pro plan you can also add a cancellation video that members see on step two of canceling. Backpack adds a personal follow-up on top. Payment Recovery messages a member in your own words when their card fails, and Cancellation Recovery does the same when a member cancels. You write the messages and Backpack sends them from our servers, so it works with your computer off. It is $9 a month for every Skool community you admin, with every feature, and you can try Backpack free for 7 days. Backpack is not affiliated with Skool.
The Skool Games in short
The Skool Games, Skool's quarterly contest created with Alex Hormozi, ended in its old form in June 2026. Today it is the Skool Game: one always-on leaderboard in Skoolers, ranked by total monthly recurring revenue, with status emojis, physical awards and a platinum club at Skool's own milestones. It costs nothing beyond running a paid community. If you want to play, that community is the first step: you can start a Skool community here (affiliate link).
FAQ
Is the Skool Games still running?
Not in its old form. In Skool News #62, Skool's team said the round ending on 28 June 2026 would be the last one in the old format. Since then Skool runs the Skool Game, one leaderboard in Skoolers that ranks owners by total monthly recurring revenue. It has no rounds. It is always running.
How much does it cost to take part in the Skool Games?
Nothing to join. Skoolers, the group where the board lives, shows as free. But the board ranks revenue your members pay you, so you need a paid community. A Skool plan costs $9 or $99 a month plus transaction fees, and new owners get a 14-day free trial on either plan.
How is the Skool Game leaderboard ranked?
By total monthly recurring revenue, according to Skool News #64. The default view is one leaderboard for every category, and you can still click through to a category view. Skool's team said the list shows about the top 100, but every owner can see their own rank and how far they are from the next milestone.
What do you get for going platinum on Skool?
A place in a private club for owners at $100,000 or more in monthly recurring revenue, according to Skool's team. They plan two informal meetups a year for the group, and platinum also brings a physical award. More physical awards come at $300,000 and $1,000,000 MRR. Skool's team says the club cannot be bought.
Where can I see the Skool Games leaderboard?
Inside Skoolers, Skool's own group for community owners, at skool.com/skoolers. Its About page shows it as private, free to join, and run by Sam Ovens. Skool's team showed the new board in Skool News #64. Skool's leaderboard FAQ, last updated in September 2025, still describes the old quarterly version.
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