Ryders & Sabrecats – The Teams of DreadBall: All-Stars
24th Feb 2026
Ross Connell
In DreadBall: All-Stars, you'll coach a team of all-star players in explosive head-to-head matches, packed with tactics, chaos, and glory. Designed by the father of the tabletop sports genre, Jervis Johnson, veteran designer Alessio Cavatore, and acclaimed artist Stefan Kopinski, DreadBall: All-Stars is a standalone game set in the Dreadball universe. Get notified about the launch on Kickstarter on March 17th.
The Teams of DreadBall: All-Stars
Set in a sci-fi future where mega-corporations sponsor violent sports entertainment across the galaxy, DreadBall: All-Stars represents the sport's crowning achievement and the galaxy's biggest event. Billions tune in every week to watch legends clash on the neodurium pitch. Corporations spend fortunes sponsoring teams, while fans mortgage their futures for a chance to see their heroes in action.
Tune in each week as we take a closer look at this incredible sport. This week we're looking at two teams, the Ryders and Sabrecats.
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RBN Ryders - DreadBall: All-Stars Players
Unlike the other DBA teams, they didn’t recruit DreadBall players. The RBN Ryders scoured the social synapse for popular Neurocasters, Meme-splicers, and Signal Jockeys to join them - confident their billions of fans would tune in each week to watch these popular personalities on the pitch, and the gamble paid off. Always the fan favourites, the RDN Ryders are experts at feeding off the crowd to inspire their players to greater heights.
Omega - The Nameless have a dubious reputation outside of DreadBall, following the rumoured aquaforming of several planets in the Outer Spheres. Then there’s the fact that no one can actually understand them. Despite that, billions tune in to watch Omega’s live ‘unboxing’ neurocasts, in which the creature carefully and slowly unpacks priceless collectibles with its dextrous tentacles before eating them. It was almost a no-brainer that RBN would quickly sign it up for the Ryders, and Omega’s fame has only increased as a star striker.
Rho - Whether it’s the rumour that the GCPS is run by a race of ancient snake people, the theory that Mazon Labs is purposely starting Plague outbreaks, or the whispers that the Outer Spheres don’t actually exist, it’s likely the conspiracy theory was started by Rho. He joined the Ryders to expose the terrible corruption within the DGB - although when the credits started rolling in, his attitudes to the DGB just happened to change.
Beta Simian - Beta (pronounced ‘Betta’, according to her third biography) Simian rose to fame when OverDrive viewers started noticing her in the crowd watching matches featuring her brother, Alpha. Dressed in elaborate, brightly-coloured clothing and with fur immaculately curled and teased into magnificent styles, the Munchu-Bentu Simian quickly developed a reputation for her snappy fashion sense and even snappier comebacks. It was inevitable that the Ryders would eventually come calling to add Beta to the roster!
Master Chi - Master Chi’s daily Tsudochat attracts fans throughout the Spheres who follow his advice on everything from managing difficult conversations in the workplace to dealing with break-ups and slavishly adhering to the ways of Tsu without question or doubt. Playing for the Ryders gives Master Chi the opportunity to preach the ways of Tsu to the masses and increase his ever-growing flock.
Zeta - One of the few members of the Ryders who actually played competitive DreadBall before being signed up. A former Jack for the Malvarian Muck Chuckers, Zeta began streaming pranks - which mostly involved gross bodily functions and materials - live from the locker room. After successful appearances in holo-movies like Monkey See, Monkey Poo, Monkey Business and The Fast and the Furry-ous, Zeta is now back on the neodurium as a player for the Ryders.
Urbana Sabrecats - DreadBall: All-Stars Players
Urbana is one of the largest providers of private military and security in the Co-Prosperity Sphere. To improve a reputation at rock bottom, they enlisted the help of the most popular player in DreadBall history: Lucky Logan. Keen not to see their investment suffer serious injury, Urbana scoured the leagues for the toughest players to act as Logan’s bodyguards both on and off the pitch.
Lucky Logan - Arguably one of the greatest DreadBall players of all-time. He has helped the Trontek 29ers lift the Galactic Cup a record 12 times and is regularly voted the DreadMax MVP. However, fans never really question the fact that Lucky has been playing for a very, very long time. And weren’t his eyes brown last season? Also, did he always throw with his left arm? Anyway, who cares about that when he’s already broken records for the most Strikes in a season of the DBA!
Korat O'Keefe -In what seems like a former life, Korat served as a Pathfinder for The Council of Seven. In the rare moments of free time when she wasn’t hunting down Plague victims or helping contain Veer-myn outbreaks on distant planets, Korat liked to play amateur DreadBall on the various military bases she was stationed at. However, it isn’t her DreadBall skills that Urbana cares about. Instead they’re more interested in her military prowess and when she’s not scoring Strikes in the DBA, she’s training the latest batch of Black Wing recruits.
Mau -Being a famous DreadBall player is the perfect cover for Mau, who is secretly one of the most highly sought after assassins for hire in the Galactic Co-Prosperity Sphere. So far no one has joined the dots between her unexplained disappearances during key Rushes and the ruthless assassinations of Rebs sympathisers, high profile CEOs or controversial politicians in the locations where she just happens to be playing. Urbana - one of her former employers - has promised to keep her dual life a secret, as long as she manages to protect Lucky Logan during DBA matches.
Rex -Before making her debut for the Sabrecats versus the now bankrupt Trontek Titans, Rex was last seen playing DreadBall in the notorious semi-final of the Neo Matsudo Bowl. Rex was knocked unconscious following an illegal pincer Slam between a pair of Rotatek Rockslides Guards and was quickly carted off the pitch by the Mazon Medbots. When she finally returned to the neodurium - following months in the Abominava Intensive Care Wing of Mazon Municipal Hospital - Rex had a new, bulkier appearance, complete with a few cybernetic enhancements. DreadBall Today has been keen to find out more about her treatment but she no longer gives post-game interviews. Actually, she doesn’t appear to speak at all now!
Devon "Trooper" Rogers -Devon Rogers has been a star employee for Urbana for more than a decade. Happy to execute a mission with little or no questions, Devon hopped from planet to planet doing whatever dubious task Urbana required. Keen to not lose a loyal soldier, Urbana has equipped Devon with modified Shocktrooper armour to allow him to play DreadBall and execute potentially his final mission: project Lucky Logan at all costs.
DreadBall: All-Stars comes to Kickstarter on March 17th.