GAG2 Guild Competition Tracker

What Is the GAG2 Guild Competition?

Every guild in Grow a Garden 2 participates in a rotating weekly competition that resets on a 7-day cycle. Each reset introduces a different scoring objective, guilds are ranked on a shared leaderboard, and reward pets are delivered to every qualifying member through the in-game Mailbox at cycle end. The leaderboard drops to zero when the new cycle begins, so last week's top score carries no advantage into the next week.

It helps to understand that two separate systems run at the same time. The weekly competition leaderboard determines the exclusive reward pool, which includes the Ice Serpent and Black Dragon. Both are Super rarity pets unavailable through any Sheckle purchase or egg hatch. The regular weekly guild rewards are a separate pool delivered to all members who meet a basic contribution threshold regardless of leaderboard placement. A guild can earn both if it stays active. For the full breakdown of guild creation, joining, member slots, and roles, the GAG2 Guild Guide covers the setup side in detail.

Current Competition: Pet Safari (Week 6, July 25 - August 3, 2026)

Pet Safari is the sixth guild competition added to Grow a Garden 2, confirmed by the official game wiki as starting July 25, 2026. The objective is straightforward: tame wild pets to earn points for the guild. Unlike every previous competition format, Pet Safari does not restrict each player to their single best result. Every tame counts toward the guild's total score, which fundamentally shifts the strategy from one big moment to sustained activity across the full week.

How Pet Safari Scoring Works

Points are awarded per tame based on the rarity of the pet captured. The base rarity values are as follows (community-reported, consistent with the in-game tracker):

Variant multipliers stack on top of base rarity points:

A Mega Super pet, for example, yields 500 x 3 = 1,500 points per single tame. A Mega Common earns 15 x 3 = 45 points, which beats a plain Rare at 50 points. The variant check before skipping any pet is not optional; it directly decides whether a tame is worth stopping for. To plan which pet types to prioritize, the GAG2 Pet Abilities guide covers every rarity tier and what each pet does when placed in the garden.

Pet Safari Strategy: What Actually Works

Volume beats luck. Fifty Common tames (750 points) out-score one Super tame (500 points). The community consensus from active grinders confirms that building a consistent rotation system produces more weekly guild points than camping for rare spawns and hoping.

Private server rotation is the most reliable Pet Safari method. Running five private servers simultaneously with alt accounts parked AFK allows pets to respawn in each server by the time the main account cycles back to Server 1. Public servers spawn pets faster but draw competition from other players actively fighting for the same spawns. Deep public servers with inactive players are an exception worth using when private server count is limited.

One detail that costs players points: tame credit applies when the pet reaches the garden, not the instant of the tame. Leaving a server immediately after taming can lose the point. Waiting for garden credit every time is not optional.

A PvP-ready loadout matters for public server runs. Gear selection affects how reliably contested pets can be secured. The full GAG2 gear list covers every item available from the Gear Shop and which combinations are worth the Sheckle investment.

What to Avoid in Pet Safari

Several mistakes appear consistently in guild competition chats and Reddit threads:

Pet variant mechanics, including how Big, Huge, Rainbow, and Mega interact with base abilities, are explained in the GAG2 Pet Variants guide.

All GAG2 Guild Competitions: Full Event History

Guild competitions have rotated every week since guilds launched. Each event introduced a different scoring mechanic and a different reward pool. The history below covers every event in order, with the confirmed scoring rules and key insights players needed to maximize their guild's contribution.

Week 1: Biggest Plant (June 13-20, 2026)

The Biggest Plant event was the first guild competition added to the game, launching alongside the guild system itself on June 13, 2026. Scoring was simple: each member earned 1 point per kilogram from their single heaviest harvested crop. Only the heaviest result per player counted, and the guild total was the sum of every member's best.

Mutations did not affect guild scoring in this format because mutation multipliers change sell value, not raw weight. Raw weight was the only variable that mattered. The best crops for this event were multi-harvest varieties with high weight potential: Moon Bloom and Dragon's Breath both grow heavy and harvest repeatedly, giving multiple chances to hit a peak weight. Mushrooms offered a strong weight-to-cost ratio at 15,000 Sheckles per seed. Bamboo, despite its reputation as an early income crop, proved too light for competitive scoring and was explicitly not recommended for Biggest Plant week.

Sprinkler setup was critical. Size luck determines weight band outcomes, and the cap is 100. A Super Sprinkler alone reaches the cap. A Legendary Sprinkler (65 size luck) combined with a Rare Sprinkler (40 size luck) also reaches 100. Players who spread sprinklers across multiple plots instead of stacking all sprinkler power on one crop lost significant scoring potential. The GAG2 Sprinkler Calculator shows the exact size luck value of every tier combination and the resulting weight band probabilities.

Biggest Plant was the only week the Ice Serpent appeared as the top prize before the Black Dragon was introduced. The Mega Rainbow Ice Serpent at Rank 1 has not repeated as the top tier in any subsequent week.

Week 2: Cash Crop (June 24-30, 2026)

Cash Crop shifted the scoring entirely to sell value. Each player's contribution was determined by their single biggest crop sale during the week. Stockpiling high-value crops and timing one massive coordinated sell was the dominant strategy rather than volume farming.

This was the week where Blood Moon timing directly determined guild rank. The Bloodlit mutation, confirmed at a 70x multiplier on multi-harvest crops per official developer data, created a situation where players who had ripe Dragon Fruit or Moon Bloom in the ground when Blood Moon fired saw their single sale value jump by an order of magnitude compared to players who had already harvested. Guilds with members spread across multiple time zones, ensuring someone was farming during every Blood Moon window, had a structural advantage.

The Double or Nothing selling minigame also directly affected scores. A 6x roll on a high-value mutated crop could jump a player's placement significantly in a single session. For a full breakdown of how mutations compound with weather events, the GAG2 Mutation Calculator handles every multiplier combination including Bloodlit. The GAG2 weather events guide explains Blood Moon timing and the full event rotation.

Cash Crop was the debut week for the Black Dragon, which has appeared as a top reward in every subsequent guild competition. It is a Super rarity pet that cannot be purchased with Sheckles or hatched from standard eggs.

Week 3: Biggest Carrot (July 1-8, 2026)

Biggest Carrot was the first event focused on a single specific crop type. Only Carrots counted for scoring regardless of weight, so any guild members still planting Dragon Fruit or Mushrooms contributed nothing. Each player's score came from the weight of their single heaviest Carrot harvested during the week.

The event introduced carrot-specific point multipliers: Gold Carrots counted for 2x their weight, and Rainbow Carrots counted for 2.5x their weight. This meant mutation pets became the decisive factor. Players running a Unicorn (doubles Rainbow mutation chance) or a Golden Dragonfly (applies Gold mutation) had a structural scoring advantage over players without those pets.

The sprinkler rule confirmed for Biggest Carrot: only the strongest active sprinkler in range contributes to size luck calculations. Stacking two sprinklers of the same tier does not help. Size luck caps at 100. The full scoring mechanic breakdown with pet setup priority is covered in the Biggest Carrot guild event guide.

Week 4: Big Spender (July 9-16, 2026)

Big Spender was the first and only competition where farming skill had no bearing on guild rank. Every Sheckle spent during the week counted as 1 point, applied to the spending member's total. Every purchase qualified: Seed Shop, Pet Shop, Gear Shop, and slot expansions.

The strategic implication was straightforward and irreversible: all large planned purchases, including expensive seeds, pet slots, and sprinkler upgrades, should have been timed to land during this specific week. Players who had spent heavily on the same purchases the week before lost those points permanently. Guilds with members who held high Sheckle balances and timed their spending during Big Spender week scored well regardless of individual farming performance.

For players building toward a large Sheckle spend, the GAG2 Profit Calculator helps project how quickly different crop setups recover the cost of expensive items like Legendary and Super Sprinklers.

Week 5: Tallest Plant (July 17-24, 2026)

Tallest Plant scored on height rather than weight or sell value for the first time. Each member contributed 1 point per foot of their single tallest plant, and the guild total combined every member's best height score.

Height mechanics in GAG2 differ from weight mechanics. Certain crops grow significantly taller than others at comparable growth stages. Bamboo and Corn emerged as the dominant choices for this format, with Bamboo particularly notable as a crop that had been explicitly deprioritized during Biggest Plant week due to light weight but became valuable in Tallest Plant due to vertical growth. The Firefly pet improves size, and stacking Fireflies during a growth session amplifies height gains. The GAG2 AFK farming guide is relevant here as Tallest Plant rewards leaving crops in the ground as long as possible rather than harvesting on a tight cycle.

Week 6: Pet Safari (July 25 - August 3, 2026)

Pet Safari is the active competition as of July 29, 2026. Full scoring details, strategy, and mistake breakdowns are in the current competition section above.

GAG2 Guild Competition Rewards: Full Tier Breakdown

Guild competition rewards are distributed to members at the end of each 7-day cycle based on the guild's final leaderboard rank. The top tiers contain exclusive pets obtainable through no other method in the game.

What Makes the Top Prizes Worth the Grind

The Ice Serpent is the strongest defensive pet in the game. It flies through the garden and breathes frost on any intruder, freezing them solid and stopping movement entirely. Rainbow variants extend the freeze duration by a 1.25x multiplier. It cannot be purchased with Sheckles or hatched from eggs. Night raids are the biggest threat to high-value gardens, and the Ice Serpent is the only passive counter that completely stops fast-moving thieves. For the full ability breakdown, the GAG2 Pet Abilities guide covers freeze duration, variant interactions, and how it compares to the Bee and Bald Eagle in layered defense setups.

The Black Dragon fills a completely different role. It flies around the garden eating ripe fruits and periodically lays eggs that hatch into additional pets. It has a 3.5 percent per second eat chance, an 8-second cooldown, and lays an egg after eating 8 fruits with a 10 to 30 second delay. This makes it the only in-game source of pets outside of map spawns and guild rewards. A guild with multiple members farming daily during a Cash Crop or Biggest Plant week can realistically target Ranks 11-50 for Black Dragon with 15 to 20 active members.

Is the Guild Competition Worth It?

How Guild Brackets Changed Everything (July 2026 Update)

Guild Brackets launched on July 20, 2026, and they changed the math on what is achievable for smaller guilds. Before brackets, all guilds across the entire game competed on a single global leaderboard, making the Ice Serpent tier essentially unreachable for a guild with fewer than 30 to 40 consistently active daily farmers. After brackets, guilds now compete in local brackets against similarly ranked or sized guilds, with the top-3 local guilds each week earning weekly rewards separately from the global leaderboard.

The practical effect is significant. A guild with 15 active daily farmers placed in a competitive local bracket can realistically target Ice Serpent tier weekly, whereas before brackets that same guild would have been buried on the global leaderboard by larger guilds with more members. Being in an inactive guild is now even more costly than before. An active 15-person guild in a competitive local bracket consistently outperforms a 50-person guild with 40 inactive members.

The bracket update also introduced global bracket competition running alongside local brackets, giving top-tier guilds a separate competitive path. Checking member activity before a competition week and leaving inactive guilds is now more directly tied to reward eligibility than at any previous point in the game's history.

GAG2 Guild Competition FAQ

What Comes After Pet Safari? Next Competition Preview

Pet Safari is estimated to end on August 1-3, 2026, aligned with the Fall Harvest Update confirmed for August 1, 2026. The rotation has not repeated as of Week 6, meaning no previous format has run twice. Whether Week 7 returns to Biggest Plant or introduces a new format entirely is not confirmed as of July 29, 2026.

The August 1 Fall Harvest Update is expected to be the largest content drop since launch. Leaked and community-sourced details include a new world area, new crops including Brier Rose and Maple Seeds, a Vile mutation, new pets, new gear, and the Guild Crates system. Guild Crates run from Uncommon through Super rarity and reportedly drop super sprinklers, watering cans, and secret seed packs, though in-game effects remain unconfirmed at the time of writing.

The August 1 Admin Party is also confirmed, where the game's developers manually enter active servers to trigger rare weather events and distribute exclusive rewards. Having high-value multi-harvest crops planted and ripe before August 1 is the most direct preparation step. The GAG2 Admin Party and Fall Harvest Guide covers what to prepare and what to expect minute by minute. The GAG2 Event Tracker tracks the current active events and updates immediately when Week 7 is announced.

For players who want to understand the broader event history of the game, the official Grow a Garden 2 Fandom wiki maintains a publicly updated log of confirmed guild mechanics and past competition records.

Tools to Help You Score Higher Each Week

The right calculator makes a measurable difference in competition planning. The GAG2 Sprinkler Calculator shows the exact size luck value and weight band probabilities for every sprinkler combination, which is essential prep for Biggest Plant and Tallest Plant weeks. The GAG2 Mutation Calculator handles all 9 confirmed GAG2 mutations including Bloodlit at the verified 70x rate, useful for planning Cash Crop strategy around Blood Moon timing. The GAG2 Weight Calculator estimates weight odds per sprinkler setup so players can decide whether to harvest now or wait for a heavier band.

For Pet Safari specifically, the GAG2 Pet Abilities guide confirms every rarity tier ability value and how Big, Huge, Rainbow, and Mega variants multiply the base effect. Before committing to a farming session, running projections through the GAG2 Profit Calculator can confirm whether the time investment in a given format is returning higher Sheckle-per-hour than a standard farming session.

Private server strategy for Pet Safari rotation is explained fully in the GAG2 Private Server guide. Players new to the game who want to understand how the entire farming economy connects before joining a competitive guild will find the GAG2 Beginner Guide useful as a foundation.