Axie Origins Postseason 18: Elite 4 Sep 6 and Collectible Ticket bAXS

Sky Mavis opened Origins Postseason 18 on September 5, 2026, after Season 18 ended on September 2. The Elite 4 championship is scheduled for September 6 at 7PM PH / 6AM EST, with 1,200 bAXS plus an Origin Axie for the champion. Collectible Chest holders should check Collectible Tickets now: Season 18 issued 11,430,100 tickets against a 10,000 bAXS pool, and Sky Mavis says bAXS will land on players’ Ronin addresses over the next few weeks.

Background

Axie Infinity: Origins is Sky Mavis’s live turn-based card battler on Ronin. Season play runs in eras with ranked ladders; postseason wraps the competitive crown and pays collectible-holder rewards that were locked during the season.

On July 8, 2026, The Lunacian Origins S18 is LIVE post⁠ (opens in new tab) set the calendar: Rare Era (July 8), Epic (July 22), Mystic (August 5), Final (August 19), and season end September 2. S18 was the second season with official rewards in bAXS (Bonded AXS): a non-transferable utility token backed 1:1 by AXS, used for breeding, ascending, evolving, and staking inside the Axie economy. The top 2,000 players shared an 80,000 bAXS season pool. Separately, collectible axie holders who finished the Rare Era at Tiger rank or higher while keeping their collectible for the full era earned Collectible Chests with tickets for a 10,000 bAXS side pool.

Era rewards during S18 were held until competitive integrity checks finished. Multi-accounting and leaderboard manipulation were framed as permanent bans from Origins.

What happened

Postseason open and Elite 4 schedule

On September 5, 2026, The Lunacian published Welcome to Origins Postseason 18⁠ (opens in new tab). The post congratulates players who finished S18 and sets the Elite 4 livestream on September 6 at 7PM PH / 6AM EST as the competitive climax.

Four finalists will play for the season crown. The tournament prize pool is 1,200 bAXS, with an Origin Axie for the champion. Finalists are asked to join the Axie Tournament Discord for bracket logistics that sit outside the blog post.

Elite 4 contest rules

Per the same Lunacian postseason notes:

• Each player registers three teams of three axies each.
• Collectible axies must include their morph parts in the submission.
• Teams may not overlap by more than 9 of 18 axie parts.
• An eligibility tool will check legal pools.
• Each axie may sit on only one team; no swaps after registration.
• Morph parts on collectible axies should stay locked once axie pools are released.
• Bracket: standard double elimination. A player who reaches the Grand Finals without a match loss holds a twice-to-beat advantage.
• Match win condition: first to 3. A player must win one game with each team and cannot reuse a team that already won a game in that match.

Collectible Ticket payout math

Collectible rewards are separate from the Elite 4 purse. Ticket count depends on the Collectible Chest tier you opened. Tickets also set your share of the 10,000 bAXS collectible pool.

Season 18 snapshot from the postseason post:

Sky Mavis says Collectible Tickets convert to mAXS at that per-ticket value, and bAXS will be sent directly to each player’s Ronin address within the next few weeks. Treat the window as studio-timed, not a same-day claim button in the postseason blog.

Who it affects

Origins competitors and viewers

If you finished inside the Elite 4, follow Tournament Discord instructions for registration locks, morph-part submission, and the eligibility tool before pools freeze. Everyone else can treat September 6 as a watch window for the season crown, not a new ladder grind.

Regular season leaderboard rewards for the top 2,000 players were already tied to the 80,000 bAXS S18 pool and integrity holds. Watch App.axie and Lunacian follow-ups for any remaining claim notices rather than treating the postseason post as a full payout FAQ.

Collectible axie holders

If you earned Collectible Chests in Rare Era (Tiger+ while holding the collectible for the full era), check your Collectible Ticket balance now. Your payout scales with tickets against the 10,000 bAXS pool and the published per-ticket value. Expect bAXS on the Ronin address tied to your Axie account over the coming weeks, not an instant marketplace credit.

AXS and bAXS holders

Season and collectible payouts cited here use bAXS. That does not change how you buy or trade transferable AXS on Ronin. Converting bAXS to AXS still follows Treasury fees scaled to Axie Score, as described in the S18 launch post⁠ (opens in new tab). If any balance still sits on a Waypoint path, keep the separate badge and bAXS Waypoint migration timeline in mind; it is not part of this postseason announce.

At a glance

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Closest pages:

• Games hub: /games
• NFT hub: /nft
• Blockchain hub: /blockchain
• Related game: Axie Infinity: Origins
• Related: Ronin network · Ronin platform · AXS
• Related reading: Axie Classic Season 16 community handoff, Waypoint badges and bAXS migration

What to watch next

• Elite 4 result and champion Origin Axie award after the September 6 stream (follow Axie Infinity on X⁠ (opens in new tab) and The Lunacian⁠ (opens in new tab))
• Collectible Ticket → bAXS credit notices on App.axie and Ronin wallet balances over the next few weeks
• Any official Morph Ticket distribution notes; community channels teased Morph Tickets as coming soon without amounts or dates in the postseason blog
• Season 19 calendar once Sky Mavis publishes the next era schedule

Bottom line: Check your Collectible Ticket count against the published 10,000 bAXS math, and watch your Ronin address for the studio payout window. Treat Elite 4 as the September 6 championship stream, not a new open ladder.