2026-07-08 IN THE NEXT BUILD

THE SIGNING DESK GETS ITS LETTERHEAD

Every run opens the same way: your new sponsor slides three parts across the desk and you keep one. It's the first decision of the season — and until this week it looked like the last screen we ever furnished. Three thin boxes, text huddled at the top, a PICK button drifting somewhere below it, and a big dead nothing in between.

The old sponsor signing gift screen: three sparse teal boxes with large empty gaps between the rules text and the PICK buttons. — Before. The furniture said “placeholder”, the moment said “season opener”.

So the desk got the full contract treatment. The title now sits on an amber letterhead with checkered-flag ends — the same slab language as the site's big buttons — and the three gifts are proper cards: each part in its own display case, name, a rule line, and every PICK on one shared baseline no matter how long the rules text runs. The panel throws a hard drop shadow off the dimmed map, and the cards deal in left to right when the desk opens.

The redesigned screen: amber checkered header band reading Sponsor Signing Gift, three equal cards each with a framed part icon, gold name, divider, rules text and aligned PICK button. — After. Same three parts, now presented like they cost somebody money.

And because signing a contract should feel like signing a contract: hover a card and it leans forward and lights up gold. Pick it and a red SIGNED! stamp slams across it, the two parts you passed on fade into the shop shadows, and the desk clears away. Keyboard and pad players are covered too — the middle card starts focused, so Enter signs on the spot.

Mid-pick flourish: the chosen middle card glows with a gold border and a red SIGNED! stamp slammed across it at an angle, while the outer two cards are dimmed. — The stamp lands under the part name, so you can still read what you just signed for.

The small print: nothing about the offer changed — same three non-trophy parts, same seed, same one free pick. This was a furniture pass, and the furniture now matches the occasion.