Block Wars Origins Season 25

The winners of BWO Season 25.

**Block Wars Origins Season 25** is the twenty-fifth canon Origins event, and the thirty-seventh event overall. It took place at 11:00 AM ET on December 9, 2023.

## Teams

### Substitutions

* Team Cocoa: Endae subbed in for MasterGarf as the latter's PC was having issues.
* Team Stupid: natcrackers subbed in for Noname4297.

## Games and changes

### Games and maps played

The game roster for this event remained the same, with Battle, Blitz Hunt, Construction, Extraction, Order Up, Party, Race and Spleef being in rotation, and Move and SkyZone were benched.

* **Battle** was played on a new map, **Frostbite**.
* **Construction** continued to be played on **SpaceLock**.
* **Extraction** was played on a new map, **Toy Town**.
* The minigames played in **Party** are **Beep Test**, **Crossfire**, **Line It Up**, a brand new minigame, and **Splatzones**, the first Party Flip Game. See below for more information about Flip Games.
* **Race** continued to be played on **Gold Leaf**. The map has received an update which reduces trident sections.
* **Spleef** continued to be played on **Sorbet**.

### General changes

* The Hub has received a Winter themed makeover.
* A new loading screen has been implemented, which will show between games and rounds.
* There is now music during the tutorials of each game.

### Gameplay changes

* Order Up has recieved a new batch of festive recipies. They include sugar cookies, stuffed chicken, beef wellington, roast dinner, and eggnog,
* Construction has recieved new holiday themed builds.
* Party has introduced Flip Games, which are alternate versions of existing Party minigames.
	+ **Splatzone** is the first flip game, being based off Splat.
		- The map features capture zones and much less paintable space.
		- There are five capture zones in the middle of the map and four miniature zones in each corner of the map
		- There are structures by each capture zone that give you power ups. The list of power ups are the Detonator, the Paint Bucket, the Paint Bomb, and Overfill.
		- Players are given a new weapon which shoots a blast of paint. The weapon deals a lot of damage at close range but loses accuracy the further you shoot.
		- Players recieve more health.
		- Points are gained by holding capture points and getting kills.
* Party is recieving a new game called Line It Up.
	+ You and your team have to work together to line up a shape into a hole in the floor.
	+ Every teammate will have their own button to control, which corresponds to a direction.
	+ Each team will have one player randomly selected to be at the top of the map. This player will change after every two shapes.

## Results Overview

### Game 1: **Battle**

Winning team:  Team Slay - 1,674

Top 5 players this game:

1. ubhi - 453
2. WitheredFlux - 410
3. EpicFH - 379
4. DONG\_FORTNITE - 367
5. Kaos21a - 350

### Game 2: **Construction**

Winning team:  Team Slay - 1,862

Top 5 players this game:

1. WitheredFlux - 493
2. Solawr - 485
3. Kaelan\_ - 419
4. ManWithRaft - 400
5. ShadowDragoMC - 388

### Game 3: **Order Up**

**(X1.5 Point Multiplier)**

Top 4 teams this game:

1. Team Jolly - 2,610
2. Team Slay - 2,423
3. Team TTW - 2,160
4. Team NoHoHo - 2,078

### Game 4: **Spleef**

**(X1.5 Point Multiplier)**

Winning team:  Team Fetch - 2,103

Top 5 players this game:

1. WitheredFlux - 453
2. EpicFH - 446
3. Solawr - 418
4. Standen05 - 399
5. Kaelan\_ - 266

### Game 5: **Race**

**(X2.0 Point Multiplier)**

Winning team:  Team Stupid - 2,952

Top 5 players this game:

1. DONG\_FORTNITE - 491
2. Solawr - 487
3. Kaelan\_ - 450
4. EpicFH - 435
5. ubhi - 423

### Game 6: **Extraction**

**(X2.0 Point Multiplier)**

Winning team:  Team NoHoHo - 4,056

Top 5 players this game:

1. JohnDubuc - 504
2. Kaelan\_ - 468
3. EpicFH - 456
4. Standen05 - 394
5. KyleEff - 380

### Game 7: **Party**

**(X2.5 Point Multiplier)**

Winning team:  Team Fetch - 3,913

Top 5 players this game:

1. Standen05 - 409
2. Solawr - 400
3. EpicFH - 390
4. Kaelan\_ - 381
5. WitheredFlux - 374

### Game 8: **Blitz Hunt**

**(X3.0 Point Multiplier)**

Winning team:  Team Slay - 5,334

Top 5 players this game:

1. Solawr - 484
2. ManWithRaft - 460
3. natcrackers - 394
4. WitheredFlux - 394
5. ActuallyNarwhal - 372

### **Bridges** Finale

 Team Slay VS.  Team NoHoHo

* WitheredFlux scored for  Team Slay. (1-0)
* Kaelan\_ scored for  Team NoHoHo. (1-1)
* Kaelan\_ scored for  Team NoHoHo. (1-2)
* JohnDubuc scored for  Team NoHoHo. (1-3)
* JohnDubuc scored for  Team NoHoHo. (1-4)

 **TEAM NOHOHO WINS BLOCK WARS ORIGINS SEASON 25!**

## Trivia

* This event welcomed two new players: DJ\_PBnJ and ZoomingZap.
* This event also welcomed back ManWithRaft and marbou9, who hadn’t played since Origins Season 19.