Community Spiral Cup 2022

The 2022 Community Spiral Cup was a two-month community competition for both Wizard101 and Pirate101 that was hosted by KingsIsle Entertainment, associated with the IslePlay community livestreams on hosted by Kyle "Kyle IceWielder" Donahue and Chris "Hawkules" Willis. The event was named after the fictional Spiral Cup from the world of Wysteria in Wizard101, which was released in August 2011. Communities for both MMORPGs competed in two separate game-specific leagues for the "Ultimate Prize," a custom mount variant based on the colors of the winning communities as well as trophies for all of those communities' participants.
In total, there were four challenges that communities competed in for their shot at the Ultimate Prize. The first of these four challenges, Themed Decoration, kicked off the Community Spiral Cup during the IslePlay episode on September 9, 2022. This challenge was then followed by Item Collection on September 23, Speed Running on October 7, and PvP on October 21. The start of each challenge coincided with an IslePlay livestream. The Community Spiral Cup concluded fully on November 4, 2022. The top four communities for each challenge won a number of "Standing Points" that were dependent on their position in the top four. There were also bonus points that a community could win for submitting art and/or memes on social media and tagging either #SpiralCupArt or #SpiralCupMeme.
The Ultimate Prize winners of the tournament were the Goomers (the community of Wizard101 content creator Goomay) for Wizard101 and the DemonAxe community for Pirate101. Goomay's mount, named Utopian Sabertooth, was added to the Wizard101 Crown Shop.
==Information==
The very first Community Spiral Cup began with the first challenge on September 9, 2022 and concluded with the fourth and final challenge on November 4. During the course of the event, communities competed in two separate game-specific leagues for the "Ultimate Prize," the chance to have a mount variant and a trophy variant based on the winning community's colors implemented into one or both games.
Every two weeks, a new challenge kicked off during that week's episode of IslePlay and each community worked together to place in the top four of the challenge over those two weeks, which would give a certain prize pool to that community, given to participants at random:
*1st place: 15x 1-month memberships
*2nd place: 9x 1-month memberships
*3rd place: 7x 1-month memberships
*4th place: 5x 1-month memberships
Throughout the length of the tournament, communities obtained points through placing in the currently ongoing challenge. The points would track the community's overall Cup Standing to determine who would win the Ultimate Prize at the end of tournament. Each challenge, two bonus points would be awarded, which an individual could enter for by posting Spiral-related art and memes on Twitter using the hashtags #SpiralCupArt or #SpiralCupMeme and identifying what community they were a part of. The points awarded were as follows:
*1st = 5 points
*2nd= 3 points
*3rd = 2 points
*4th= 1 point
*Art Bonus = 1 point
*Meme Bonus = 1 point
Sign-ups for community leaders and members began on August 17, 2022 and concluded on September 7 at 3 pm CT for community leaders and were originally intended to conclude on September 9 at 5 pm CT for community members, but were later extended to September 12 to allow for more community members to be a part of the tournament.
==Participants==
The following 26 Wizard101 and/or Pirate101 communities are participating in the Community Spiral Cup as of September 21, 2022.
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*Carmellos Crusaders
*Crescent Lounge
*DemonAxe
*Faerie Forest
*Ferricord
*Fierce Silver Wolves
*Final Bastion
*Golden Warriors
*Goomers
*Legends of the Spiral
*Party Guild
*Ravynwood Community
*Royal Pirates
*Solace
*Speedsters
*Spiral Speedrunners
*The Fellowship (aka drol eht fo sgnir)
*The Magicians Guild
*The Spirals Shadows
*The Stronghold (Knightly)
*The Tub
*The Valiant Explorer's Guild
*Wiki101
*Wiz Heads
*Wizard101 Greek Community
==Challenges==
The first-ever Community Spiral Cup will include four challenges which the specifics of will remain a secret until the day that the challenge is announced during that day's episode of IslePlay.
*Challenge 1 – Themed Decoration (September 9–September 23, 2022)
*Challenge 2 – Item Collection (September 23–October 7, 2022)
*Challenge 3 – Speed Running (October 7–October 21, 2022)
*Challenge 4 – PvP (October 21–November 4, 2022)
===Challenge One: Themed Decoration===
Challenge One of the Community Spiral Cup, Themed Decoration, officially started during the episode of IslePlay on September 9, 2022. In this challenge, Community Leaders submitted pictures of up to four player-decorated houses in both Wizard101 and Pirate101 that were decorated by chosen "delegates" of their respective communities. The decorating theme for Wizard101 was "Magical Library" while the theme for Pirate101 was "Tavern." The challenge had two categories: Unrestricted (UR) and Free to Play (F2P). Each community could submit three UR submissions and one F2P submission per game. UR meant that the decorator could use anything including Crowns items, while F2P meant the decorator could only use houses and items obtained with Gold. Submissions for the challenge were due on September 21, 2022 at 10pm CST.
During the IslePlay livestream on September 23, 2022, the winners of Challenge One were formally announced. The art bonus point for Wizard101 was given to Growling Panda of Ravynwood Community for their Celestia Remix, while the meme point was given to Wizard101 content creator Goomay, leader of the Goomers community. The Pirate101 meme bonus point was given to DemonAxe, but there was no art bonus point given as none of the participating communities in the Community Spiral Cup posted one. For the Pirate101 league, Wiki101 took fourth place in the main challenge with Shini's F2P build and Lone's UR build, Royal Pirates took third place with PrincessChica's F2P build and Bolty's UR build, Final Bastion took second place with Box of Chocolates's F2P build and Ryan's UR build, and DemonAxe won first place with God's F2P build and Emily Night's UR build. For the Wizard101 league, Final Bastion took fourth place with SilverBlade's F2P build and Becca's UR build, The Fellowship won third place with Zeus's F2P and UR builds, The Magicians Guild won second place with Rose's F2P build and Jasper's UR build, and Goomers won first place with ApparentlyMe's F2P build and Street_Matter's UR build.
<tabber>Wizard101=
Wizard101	Wizard101 	Wizard101 	Wizard101 	Wizard101
Position 	Community 	Winner 	Winner 	Points
Position 	Community 	F2P 	UR 	Points
#1 	Goomers 	ApparentlyMe	Street_Matter	+5
#2 	The Magicians Guild	Rosie 	Jasper 	+3
#3 	The Fellowship 	Zeus 	Zeus 	+2
#4 	Final Bastion 	SilverBlade 	Becca 	+1
|-|Pirate101=
Pirate101	Pirate101 	Pirate101 	Pirate101 	Pirate101
Position 	Community 	Winner 	Winner 	Points
Position 	Community 	F2P 	UR 	Points
#1 	DemonAxe 	God 	Emily Night	+5
#2 	Final Bastion	Box of Chocolates	Ryan 	+3
#3 	Royal Pirates	PrincessChica 	Bolty 	+2
#4 	Wiki101 	Shini 	Lone 	+1
</tabber>
===Challenge Two: Item Collection===
Challenge Two of the Community Spiral Cup, Item Collection, officially kicked off during IslePlay on September 23, 2022, soon after the announcements of the winners of Challenge One. During the challenge, community members collected as many select items as they could in either game, split up into Unrestricted (UR) and Free to Play (F2P) categories like the previous challenge. For the F2P category of Pirate101, members collected the four variants of Pillow Fight Pillows, while the UR category collected the Nefarious Knives, Nefarious Novablaster, and Nefarious Staff from the Tower of Moo Manchu dungeon. In Wizard101, members competing in the F2P category collected Novice gear while members in the UR category collected Merciless gear dropped from the Hall of Heroes dungeon.
During IslePlay on October 7, 2022, the winners for the challenge were revealed. For the Wizard101 league, Goomers won first place with 1,074 F2P items and 234 UR items. They were followed, in order, by Final Bastion, The Spirals Shadows, Ravynwood Community, DemonAxe, Wiki101, The Fellowship, Solace, Valiant Explorers Guild, Crescent Lounge, and the Wizard101 Greek Community. For the Pirate101 league, Wiki101 won first place with 1,278 F2P items and 10 UR items. For the Wizard101 bonus points, DemonAxe won the meme bonus point and the Wizard101 Greek Community won the art bonus point. For Pirate101, DemonAxe won both bonus points.
===Challenge Three: Speed Running===
Challenge Three of the Community Spiral Cup, Speed Running, kicked off during IslePlay on October 7, 2022 and ended on October 21. The challenge was originally intended to be PvP, but was switched with Speed Running to allow more planning time for the PvP challenge.
===Challenge Four: PvP===
Challenge Four of the Community Spiral Cup, Speed Running, kicked off during IslePlay on October 21, 2022 and ended on November 4. It was the final challenge of the 2022 tournament. The final challenge was originally intended to be Speed Running, but it was swapped with PvP in order to allow the PvP tournaments more time to develop.
==Cup Standings==
===Challenge One===
A star ★ denotes the community won bonus points.
<tabber>Wizard101=
Wizard101	Wizard101 	Wizard101
Position 	Community 	Points
#1 	Goomers 	6 (★+1)
#2 	The Magicians Guild	3
#3 	The Fellowship 	2
#4 (Tied)	Final Bastion 	1
#4 (Tied)	Ravynwood 	1 (★+1)
|-|Pirate101=
Pirate101	Pirate101 	Pirate101
Position 	Community 	Points
#1 	DemonAxe 	6 (★+1)
#2 	Final Bastion	3
#3 	Royal Pirates	2
#4 	Wiki101 	1
</tabber>
===Challenge Two===
A star ★ denotes the community won bonus points.
<tabber>Wizard101=
Wizard101	Wizard101 	Wizard101
Position 	Community 	Points
#1 	Goomers 	11
#2 	Final Bastion 	4
#3 	Magicians Guild 	3
#4 (Tied)	The Fellowship 	2
#4 (Tied)	Spiral Shadow 	2
#4 (Tied)	Ravynwood 	2
Other 	Wizard101 Greek Community	1 (★+1)
Other 	DemonAxe 	1 (★+1)
|-|Pirate101=
Pirate101	Pirate101 	Pirate101
Position 	Community 	Points
#1 	DemonAxe 	11 (★+2)
#2 	Wiki101 	6
#3 	Final Bastion	5
#4 	Royal Pirates	2
#5 	Ravynwood 	1
</tabber>
==Gallery==
CSC promo image.png|Community Spiral Cup promo image
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