Friendship Games

—Official warning

*This is the article about Petrovburg's sport titular event. For the story, see Luna the Miracle Boy: Friendship Games.*
The **Friendship Games** is a sporting competition that takes place around Petrovburg. In the Luna the Miracle Boy: Friendship Games story episode, the rivaling campuses – Canterlot Presidentials and Seborga High, are face off in various sporting events.

## Depictions in the series

The Friendship Games are a competition held every four years between the CPU Wondercolts (Canterlot Presidential University) and the SHS Shadowbolts (Seborga High School). For the past few Games, the SHS Shadowbolts have won every time for their sake of honor to France's reputations.

## Involved competitors

Each team consists of twelve students, with the highest six scorers from the first wave moving on to the second and third waves.

### Seborga High Shadowbolts

The Seborga High Shadowbolts for the current year consists of:

### Canterlot Presidential Wondercolts

The Canterlot Presidential Wondercolts for the current year consists of:

All twelve students take part in the Academic Decathlon, which only the latter six move on to the "Tri-Cross Relay" and "Capture the Flag" waves after getting the best scores for their team. In a previous year, Uncle Joe was a member of the SHS Shadowbolts.

## Waves

### Academic Decathlon

This wave involves all participants showcasing their skills in different parts of the international curriculum. The wave is a systematic elimination contest. Judges from the two competing campuses mark students from the two teams on their performance in the set tasks of the contest with the lowest-scoring students being eliminated in every stage.

The contest climaxes with a spelling bee. This penultimate round continues until only one contestant from each team remains in the games. The two remaining contestants move on to the "elimination equation" round in which they must solve a complex calculus problem before the combined other students within a time limit.

On the Friendship Games shown in the eponymous story episode, the SHS Shadowbolts claim victory in wood-shop and home economics, while the CPU Wondercolts win in chemistry and mathematics. The spelling bee results in the contestants are being reduced to Roman Rosalina and Luna Vernadsky in the elimination equation round, which Luna wins this stage. As a result, the Canterlot Presidential Wondercolts are overall winners of this wave.

### The Tri-Cross Relay

This wave involves archery, speed skating, and motocross. Like all true relays, each set of contestants can only begin their section after the previous section is completed by their team members. This is a straight race with the first team to complete the three levels declared the winner.

 **Motocross** | Jason Esofita (CPU Wondercolts)Celestia Diane (CPU Wondercolts)Pavel Vedrona (SHS Shadowbolts)Benjamin Pradayastri (SHS Shadowbolts)

The first round of the relay is an athletic obstacle course ending with an archery competition. Contestants must score a bulls-eye on a moving target to complete this round. Unlike both subsequent rounds, the first two contestants from each team run the course simultaneously; the second contestants are only cleared to begin after the first completes the challenge.

The CPU Wondercolts win this round after an early significant lead by Zaynab, which she has been squandered by Luna. The latter CPU Wondercolt is unable to complete the challenge until his teammate girl (i.e. Dennis), frustrated by Luna's utter inability to hit his target, tutors him on how to properly aim a longbow at a moving target.

The next round is a speed skating competition with two pairs of competitors aiming to be the first to complete eight circuits of an athletics track. The CPU Wondercolts win this section of the competition. Tobias and Vincent enjoy a massive early advantage, but Roman and Cecil manage to catch up and overtake. It is only through a final, unorthodox move by Tobias that the CPU Wondercolts triumph.

The final round is a motocross along with a set of high-speed dirt tracks and high jumps. Once again, the two pairs of competitors start simultaneously upon their teammates completing the previous round.

The racing of this round is extremely disrupted when Roman's magic sensing and containment device is knocked open and generates several universal portals from Equestria. This allows several large motile carnivorous plants to invade the track. In the resulting chaos, Roman and Pavel are both directly attacked by plants, and Celestia and Benjamin are both knocked off of their bikes.

The CPU Wondercolts are declared overall winners after Celestia crosses the finish line narrowly ahead of Benjamin. However, Mrs. Keith disputes the outcome of this round, claiming that Jason's use of Pegasus flight magic and the plants' presence were both evidence of an organized strategy of cheating on the part of Canterlot Presidential University.

### Capture the flag

Sergey the Twilight Sparkle explains that this final round involves palace pennants being hidden somewhere around Canterlot Presidential University, one from Canterlot Presidentials and one from Seborga High. The pennants of the two campuses have the red-white-blue-based tricolor with golden edges: Canterlot Presidentials' pennants resemble the Serbian flag, and Seborga High's pennants resemble the French flag. The two teams have to locate their pennant and return it to the judges to be declared the winner.

Before this round is started, Principal Keith and the SHS Shadowbolts pressure Roman into releasing all of the magic she collected in her amulet. This leads to a chaotic incident where a magically-transformed Roman attempts to blast her way into Petrovburg and Equestria before Luna (with the aid of his friends) is able to subdue her.

After that explosion, Principal Keith accuses Princess Finlandia as the "vindictive woman" and demands that Luna should be disqualified and Canterlot Presidentials must forfeit the games. Keith threatens to report Luna's heroic action to Princess Aulia for otherwise. However, her demands are rejected by her fellow judges when two of the SHS Shadowbolt combatants denounce her behavior towards Luna and it becomes clear that no one is willing to back up his claim of magically-assisted cheating. As the Games are currently at one victory each and the final round now cannot be played, Finlandia declares a tie.

## Other depictions

Jason mentions that in previous years, that Canterlot Presidentials has lost against Seborga High in soccer, tennis, and golf. One day after the Friendship Games, Martin personally commends Luna for his heroic action in banishing Nightmare Moon out of Roman's body. She resigns from the SHS Shadowbolts and joins Equestria Girls along with Celestia, Dennis, and Tobias to start her journey with the Petrovburg Heroes.

## References

1. **Main course**
	* https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Friendship\_Games\_(event)