---
title: "Offer to pick up a free agent"
method: POST
path: "/tournaments/{identifier}/free-agents/{freeAgentId}/offers"
tags: ["Tournament Free Agency"]
---

# Offer to pick up a free agent

`POST /tournaments/{identifier}/free-agents/{freeAgentId}/offers`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://teambattles.gg/api/v1`
- URL: `https://teambattles.gg/api/v1/tournaments/{identifier}/free-agents/{freeAgentId}/offers`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Sends a pickup offer from one of YOUR teams to a free agent listed in the tournament's pool. Nothing is rostered by this call - it creates a PENDING offer that the agent accepts or declines via POST /tournaments/{identifier}/free-agency/offers/{offerId}/respond.

The agent named by freeAgentId must currently be AVAILABLE, and the participant named in the body must be one of your teams and APPROVED in this tournament; you must be its captain, co-captain, or organization owner. Either condition failing answers 400 error_invalid_input or 403 respectively. An agent already rostered anywhere in this tournament cannot be offered to.

RESENDING IS SAFE BUT NOT FREE. A live PENDING offer from the same team to the same agent answers 409 error_free_agent_offer_exists - revoke it first if you want to change the message. An offer that was previously declined, revoked, or expired is reused rather than duplicated, so a team and an agent never accumulate offer rows.

Both IDs must belong to the tournament in the path; either one from a different tournament answers 404 error_tournament_not_found, identically to one that does not exist. Requires the tournaments actor free_agency capability.

## Path parameters

- `identifier` string, required: Tournament slug.
- `freeAgentId` string, required: Free-agent pool entry ID, as returned by GET /tournaments/{identifier}/free-agents.

## Request body

- TournamentSendOfferBody: Free-agent pickup offer payload.
  - `participantId` string, required: Participant ID of YOUR team making the offer. You must be its captain, co-captain, or the owner of the organization that owns it, and it must be APPROVED in this tournament. Discover it via GET /tournaments/{identifier}/me.
  - `message` string: Optional message delivered to the free agent alongside the offer.

## Response `200`

The offer was sent.

- TournamentWriteAck: Acknowledgement returned by the tournament write endpoints whose backing operation has nothing to return - the organizer writes (endpoints 22-34), the team roster writes (40, 41), and the competitor self actions that neither mint nor resolve a row (38, 39, 44, 45, 47). Endpoints that mint a row answer with that row's id instead, and the two respond endpoints (42, 46) answer with the decision they recorded.
  - `success` true, required: Always true; failures are error responses.
  - `timestamp` string, required: Response generation time (ISO 8601).

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad request (invalid body, cursor, limit, or date).
- `401`: Missing or invalid API key.
- `403`: API key lacks the required permission.
- `404`: Resource not found.
- `409`: Conflict.
- `429`: Rate limited.
- `500`: Internal server error.

## Changes

- **2026-07-23** `33b122ff59d0`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/teambattles/apis/teambattles-api/changes/tournaments/:identifier/free-agents/:freeAgentId/offers/post.md)

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