Roblox morning briefing — September 25, 2026: the finale's rule and date are posted, and Tower Defense Simulator is sued for $35 million

The finale's rule is written down, and its live event has a date

• The venue is +1 Speed Keyboard Escape, a game that already runs a recurring live session called Admin Abuse. Roblox's events page names it as the description, and 4Lulz reported at 01:07 that the hub's own teleport leads there. 23
• A countdown for the final puzzle appeared in the hub at around the same time, at 00:42. 4
• The label on the treadmill changed overnight. It now reads "Play for a small bonus on the final puzzle!", where the earlier wording promised early access to the puzzle itself. 5
• Roblox also moved the event's secret pedestals into the hub lobby, beside the year each one belongs to, after players reported they could not find them. 6
• Community guides describe Saturday's session as an opportunity as well as a spectacle: attending the live Admin Abuse run is reported to grant a bonus for the final battle. 7
• The leaderboard route is the shortcut. The long route is the one the event page has described since launch: finish the secret quests in the participating games, and the same puzzle opens without a leaderboard place. 8
• One guide reads the leaderboard shortcut as twenty places in each of twenty games, which caps it at 400 players across the event. Slots close per game as they fill, so a place in a game a player already knows is worth more than a start in one they do not. 7

Five badges are still dark, and the Plus track's third item has a page

• The secret quests have arrived in batches of five every other day, starting on 19 September. The same rhythm puts the last five on today, and the two previous batches both went live overnight, so the final one can still land before Monday. 89
• The participation badge has now been handed out 29,249,312 times, 315,382 of those in the past day. 9
• Two of the three items Roblox promised subscribers are out and moving: the Roblox Plus Hard Hat sits at 715,457 and Noob Attack: Birthday Bash at 171,476. 9
• The third one has a name and a page. The Twentieth Teapot was uploaded on 17 September, sits off sale, and Roblox's own badge text for it reads "Awarded to Plus subscribers in The Hunt: Roblox 20". 91011 Nobody has been granted it yet; its badge count reads zero. 9 RoNews reported at 03:49 that subscribers are about to receive it. 12

• The hub's own counters moved again. It has taken 208,461,413 visits and 215,501 favourites, and held 10,335 players when this briefing read it at 08:08. 13
• The page itself shows 19,000 likes against 4,305 dislikes, and an update stamp of 25 September. Roblox's API records the last change to the experience at 02:13 this morning. 1314

A $35 million lawsuit over Tower Defense Simulator

• The complaint's account of the partnership starts on Discord in 2017. 15 Kim had built the game as a high school computer science project, and offered Shirley 30% of its revenue over chats and calls. 15
• The share rose to 40% in 2020. Both developers formed S corporations, quit college, and moved together into an apartment and later a penthouse. 1516
• When they hired two engineers, they paid them in Robux, moving roughly $50,000 into a third Roblox account every few months to, in the complaint's words, "facilitate payroll". 15
• The break came at an office in 2022, when Kim asked Shirley to sign an employment agreement. Shirley refused on the grounds that he was a partner. His last revenue-share payment, $92,749, arrived in September 2023. 1516
• A November 2023 meeting to unwind the partnership ended without agreement. In December 2023, Shirley says, he was locked out of the business accounts and "terminated" by email. 1516
• The money divides into $10 million of unpaid partnership distributions and $25 million for Shirley's interest in the partnership, plus a ruling that he co-owns the game's copyright. 15
• Nobody has responded yet: Aftermath reported that neither side answered its request for comment. 15
• The case follows two similar ones from this year, over Anime Vanguards and over Forsaken, both of which turned on who owned a hit and how the money was split. 1618

Shorts ideas to chase first

1. Eight days of hints, one screen. Walk to the trophy in the hub's Infinity section and read its prompt on camera: top 20 on any secret-challenge leaderboard buys early access to the final puzzle. Say the cap out loud — 400 players. 17
2. Saturday, 8:00 PM. Roblox's events page with its countdown and 4.2 million interested, then the venue: +1 Speed Keyboard Escape. 2
3. Fifteen lit, five dark. The badge page as a scoreboard, with S02, S09, S10, S12 and S20 still on zero with three days left. 9
4. The teapot nobody owns. The Twentieth Teapot's page — uploaded 17 September, off sale, awarded to Plus subscribers — beside its badge count of zero. 910
5. $92,749, and then an email. The complaint's timeline as captions over the game's icon: a 30% share agreed in Discord, engineers paid in Robux, a final payment of $92,749, and a termination by email. 1516