Bending Grounds Public Beta Timeline

This page is the timeline for [BETA] Bending Grounds, the unofficial elemental arena by CSL Studios. It is playable during the public beta on Roblox. It is not affiliated with Avatar: The Last Airbender, Paramount, or Nickelodeon. If another site tells you the fighter “left beta last week,” check the Roblox title first. The [BETA] tag is still there.

Use this timeline to place Air, Plant, codes, and shutdowns on a calendar instead of treating every Discord ping as day one.

27 April 2026 — place created

The Roblox place 103745056080809 (universe 10092464577) was created on 27 April 2026. That is the folder date, not a trailer premiere. Developer: CSL Studios, group 280212962. Genre listing: Action / Battlegrounds & Fighting. Avatars: R6. Platforms listed: Mobile, Console, and PC.

Early builds already pointed at the loop that still exists: pick a Nation, open Character Customization, spin the current slot, train abilities, run quests, then PvP. Server size settled at 18.

Upcoming Bending Grounds on Roblox

May–June 2026 — tester Discord phase

Before the wider public testing window, CSL Studios ran a tester Discord period through May and June 2026. That is where movement tech, Nation kits, and UI such as More Spins were squeezed in a smaller population. If you were not in that tester group, you did not miss a separate paid product. You missed an access list that later opened.

Notes from that phase that still matter:

• Codes were not a daily calendar. They clustered on elemental and milestone drops.
• Chi Blockers were discussed as a real, non-paywalled style, not a Robux gate.
• Badge work included Welcome Badge and First Adherent (held a player).
• Shutdowns already meant iterate-and-fix, not cancellation.

The invite that remains public is documented on the Discord hub and the links page. The raw invite is the official Bending Grounds Discord.

Later — public testing

Public testing followed the tester window. Exact clock times for “the doors opened” are unconfirmed in beta; we will not invent an hour. What we can say:

• Anyone with Roblox can join the place during the public beta.
• The listing still shows [BETA].
• Traffic grew into the current snapshot: about 1.85 million visits, 12.3 thousand favorites, around 140 concurrent.
• TikTok @BendingGrounds became a teaser channel alongside Discord.

If you joined after this window, start with Getting Started, claim working codes, then pick a style from the players hub.

What [BETA] still means on a live place

Beta here is not a fake scarcity tag. Practical consequences:

1. UI can move. The Codes tab lives under More Spins on the right of Character Customization. A patch can restack that panel. Keep how to redeem bookmarked.
2. Kits can change. Fire Blast deflect / earth wall / 15% burn / dash cleanse, Flame Kick structure breaks, Air Funnel block-and-ragdoll, water camera combos — any of those numbers or cancels can shift without a version stamp.
3. Sub-bending is incomplete. Plant is recent. Community mentions also include Sand, Lightning / Sun Warrior, Blood (Hama), Mist, and Spiritual Projection. Treat extra names as unconfirmed in beta until you see them on your slot.
4. Ranking still gates master moves. A lucky spin does not skip the rank loop.
5. Shutdowns are the patch vehicle. Rejoin, then check this wiki’s updates hub rather than assuming a blog post is coming.

Around 3 September 2026 the place showed a fresh updated timestamp. That is a last-touched signal, not a named expansion.

Air and Plant on this timeline

They are the two elemental headlines we can attach to codes:

• Air update → NewAir → 5 Current Slot Spins
• Plant sub-bending → WeGotPlant → 6 Current Slot Spins

Combat notes and spin advice live on the Air and Plant update page so this timeline can stay chronological.

How to use the timeline as a player

• New today: Redeem codes first. Spins sit on the current slot.
• Returning from May testers: Expect more population, Plant in the mix, and the same 18-player cages.
• Labbing combos: Recheck after every shutdown. The water combo string and Hama quest path are community-documented, not frozen.
• Hunting scripts: There are still no confirmed dedicated scripts. A beta label is not permission to inject.

The public beta is a long hallway, not a finish line. Creation in April, tester Discord in May–June, public testing after that, Air and Plant as the named drops, and a [BETA] sticker that has not peeled off. If you only remember one date, remember 27 April 2026 as the place birthday and treat every later shutdown as another coat of paint on the same arena, not as a sequel you missed.