Yahoo Sports and Liquid Death Team Up to Launch Yahoo Fantasy Guillotine Leagues

NEW YORK, Aug. 4, 2025 - Fantasy football has never been more cutthroat.

Today, Yahoo Sports is announcing the launch of Yahoo Fantasy guillotine leagues in collaboration with Liquid Death, a killer fantasy football game where fans compete for survival every week. 

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• In a fantasy guillotine league, the lowest scoring team each week is eliminated.
• This means fans are always competing against the lowest scoring team – and the Liquid Death x Yahoo Fantasy guillotine leagues experience reflects this. The match-up screen changes dynamically throughout the week, always pitting a fan against the team in the league with the lowest projected points. The match-up screen also features a survival meter, ensuring fans know what their chances of survival are at any given moment.

• When a team is eliminated, its players hit the waiver wire. Surviving teams can then bid to claim these players to bolster their rosters.
• Elimination continues until one team is left standing. 
• This marks the first time fantasy guillotine leagues are formally available on Yahoo Fantasy. However, fans have been manually running these leagues on Yahoo Fantasy for several years. This required commissioners to customize their league settings, manually remove players from eliminated teams, and lock those teams from making roster moves. Now, the game is fully set up for fans – no customization or manual operation necessary. 

The game brings together the best-in-class Yahoo Fantasy football experience with several hilarious Liquid Death twists.

• The game’s logo features a Liquid Death-designed head. Fans can customize their fantasy team avatars with the head, which is available in 18 unique colorways.

• Each week, surviving fans can kick the eliminated team’s head through the uprights with a simple flick of the finger (paper football style).

• Meanwhile, teams that get the axe are booted out of the stadium and into eternity, with an opportunity to drown their sorrows with Liquid Death along the way. 

• Liquid Death branding is embedded in areas such as league invitations, the draft loading screen, and the survival and elimination screens. 

“We are thrilled to blend Yahoo Fantasy’s innovation and gameplay with Liquid Death’s world-class creativity and, together, put our own unique spin on fantasy guillotine leagues,” said Ryan Spoon, President of Yahoo Media Group. “This launch is an exciting, different, and new way for our millions of fantasy fans – and for the next wave of fans – to play fantasy sports.”  

Yahoo Fantasy guillotine leagues are available in both public (14-team) and private (up to 18-team) leagues. Fans can also start a fantasy guillotine league mid-season so long as the number of teams in the league don’t exceed the number of weeks remaining through week 17. 

The launch of Yahoo Fantasy guillotine leagues officially kicks off the Yahoo Sports 28 Days of Fantasy campaign. Over the next four weeks, Yahoo Sports will introduce a new feature a day to celebrate the 28th year of Yahoo Fantasy football.

To sign up for a Yahoo Fantasy guillotine league, visit yahoo.com/fantasy. 

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About Liquid Death

As one of the fastest growing non-alcoholic beverage brands, Liquid Death uses comedy and entertainment to make health and sustainability 50 times more fun. We take low-calorie beverages and package them into infinitely recyclable cans that compete with the fun marketing of unhealthy brands across beer and junk food. Our product lines include mountain water, soda-flavored sparkling water, iced tea, and more. We donate a portion of our proceeds to help kill plastic pollution. For more information on Liquid Death please visit liquiddeath.com.

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