Barstool is officially back on its Mountain Dew hype train, and this time the countdown has a hard date attached. "Tune into Camp Barstool starting August 24th" is the exact line the company's main account fired off, which settles any debate about when the wilderness content machine starts rolling again.
@MountainDew Tune into Camp Barstool starting August 24th
The bigger story dropped from Ohio's Tate, who confirmed the piece of news that's actually going to get people talking: Werewolf is back. For anyone who's followed Camp Barstool's past editions, Werewolf isn't a random party game bolted on for content -- it's become one of the event's signature bits, complete with high-stakes buy-ins and chaos that outlives the actual camp week on podcasts and recap shows. This year's lineup pairs the "usual suspects" -- Big Cat, PFT, Turani, KB, Cheah, Eddie and Hank -- with wildcards Rico Bosco, Buddy Doitche, Jerry O'Connell and Tim Woods.
Jerry O'Connell's presence isn't a total surprise -- the actor has become something of a recurring guest at Camp Barstool, previously popping up for stunts like waterskiing attempts and a buy-in Werewolf game during past editions. Bringing him back into the wildcard mix for this year's game suggests Barstool is leaning into the celebrity-guest chaos that's worked before rather than reinventing the format.
As always, Mountain Dew is the sponsor stamping its name on everything, and the promo rollout has the whole company chipping in on-camera. The Chicago office got its turn answering who they're picking to survive the wild, mixing staff reactions with the standard "Do the Dew" branding that's followed Camp Barstool for years.
Barstool's Chicago office staffers give on-camera answers about who they're picking to survive the wild, part of the Mountain Dew-sponsored promo push.
The activities themselves are already teasing the kind of physical chaos Camp Barstool is known for. One clip shows someone identified as KB launching off the inflatable water blob and sticking a flip into the lake while spectators in Mountain Dew gear cheer from the beach -- exactly the kind of stunt that's made Camp Barstool's water-day content a recurring hit in past years.
KB launches off the inflatable water blob and flips into the lake as Mountain Dew-branded spectators watch from the beach.
With the date locked in and the Werewolf cast revealed, the real intrigue is how the wildcards mesh with the veterans once the game actually starts. Big Cat and PFT have run this event before and know how to work a room, but throwing Jerry O'Connell, Buddy Doitche and Rico Bosco into the same lodge is the kind of variable that made past Camp Barstool weeks unpredictable in the first place. August 24 is the date to have circled.