Battle For Magic City

**Battle For Magic City** (**BFMC**) was the second season of the Battle For Magic series, created as a sequel to Battle For Magic Town. It ran from December 23, 2013, to October 7, 2014. This was the first BFM season uploaded to the Battle For Magic channel. Initially hosted by Nazrininator (Touhou Power-Up) and Retro Guy (Lollipop), the latter quit hosting in BFMC 10B: A New Stage In the Game [RESULTS] and became a contestant as Flower. YearsAnimations made the episodes from BFMC 29A - Toilet Paper takes the Limelight to BFMC 32B - Tetris Block's Revenge [RESULTS], after which Naz resumed production. Retro returned to hosting, replacing Naz, in BFMC 38A - Hot Potato.

The camp began with sixty contestants competing for Magic City, though more would join through numerous debuts. The first phase of the game divided contestants into six tribes named after Touhou characters. BFMC 10B: A New Stage In the Game [RESULTS] switched the game to two teams, Cirno and Suwako. The teams were split into four in BFMC 20A - Music Tournament, merged into three in BFMC 22A - Bingo!, and reorganized into two in BFMC 24A Elimination. The teams were finally merged in BFMC 30A - Shtap Sign's Rules. The final episode uploaded was BFMC 40A - An Unexpected Guest. The remaining contestants at the end (with some exceptions) were put into a poll to decide the winner, which was won by Test Tube. Battle For Magic City Again, the third BFM season, was created by Retro and others to succeed BFMC.

The camp was rocked by several controversies, including illegal use of multiple accounts to rejoin by Top Hat/Rocky, an elimination being rigged by Gelatin, and preferential treatment by Nazrininator toward Ruby. This disillusioned Naz with BFMC and was the main reason he gave up hosting and left the object show community.

## Coverage

Nazrininator planned a sequel to Battle For Magic Town long before it ended. The name "Battle For Magic City" was by analogy with BFMT; this camp would be a larger version of its predecessor, and a city is a larger version of a town. One early mention of Battle For Magic City was made before BFMT 18B in a comment on the final episode of Single Letters And Numbers, a camp of Naz's that ran at the same time as BFMT. Before BFMT's finale, Naz made a video to solicit opinions on a schedule for BFMC. In the finale of BFMT, Naz announced that Retro Guy would cohost the season.

BFMC was formally announced with a video uploaded November 30, 2013, which allowed viewers to vote ten veterans into BFMC. The remaining fifty contestant slots were opened on December 21, 2013, with BFMC 0. The first episode, 1A, was posted on December 23 on the Battle For Magic City YouTube channel.

In 1B, thirteen contestants who did not do the challenge were eliminated by Cirno's Vending Machine, while the rest were placed on one of the six tribes: Reimu, Marisa, Sakuya, Sanae, Yuyuko, and Patchouli. Ping Pong Ball rejoined by a vote in 2A and joined the Marisa Tribe. In each B episode from 2B to 8B, the three tribes that ranked low in a challenge had their lower-scoring contestants placed up for elimination. In every A episode from 3A to 9A, a contestant was voted off each of the previous episode's losing tribes through viewer voting. Challenges were initially done through YouTube private messaging, but in 5A, Naz created the BFMC Forum as an alternative. During this period, a series called BFMC Daily Question ran alongside the camp.

Initially, contestants were allowed to give their confessionals in the episodes. For 3B, the confessionals were shown in a separate video. Starting in 4A, no confessionals were shown due to the large number of them.

In the comment section of 5B, an argument broke out between several contestants and Joshua K., the user of recently eliminated Top Hat. This prompted Naz to create the BFMC Code of Conduct, which disallowed insulting any other contestant.

9B put almost every contestant up for a single elimination. In 10A, USB was eliminated and three contestants rejoined by a vote. In that episode, Flower vanquished Lollipop and took over BFMC before dissolving the tribes and creating two teams, Cirno and Suwako. She then put all remaining contestants into elimination tag. After three contestants were eliminated in 10B, uploaded February 22, 2014, Flower was removed from hosting the show. She was allowed to join the game as a contestant instead. This was the first major plot in the Battle For Magic series, and it represented Retro's departure as a host.

In 11A, the challenge was a Pokemon-esque tournament of battles. In a February 25 update video, Naz stated that 11B would be the last episode of the camp since he was becoming too busy with school to host. He planned a continuation called BFMC2, to be released in the following summer. However, he ended up continuing BFMC without a significant delay.

Between 11A and 12B, Naz allowed nine contestants to debut in addition to Flower. One of these, Rocky, was played by JCL Kaytwo, who was determined to be the same person as Joshua K. Since he was already eliminated, his debut would not be allowed. In 13A, in response to this controversy, Naz eliminated Top Hat (who had replaced Rocky) and banned both from BFMC for a year.

Each B episode from 12B to 19B put the lower-scoring half of the losing team up for elimination, where one contestant was eliminated in the following A episode. 14A and 14B saw the series' first Would You Rather challenge.

In 16A, Gelatin, Clock, and eight others were up for elimination. Gelatin would have been eliminated, but he illegally cast multiple likes for himself, eliminating Clock. In the aftermath of the scandal, several contestants criticized Gelatin. Naz made a video imploring others to forgive Gelatin and gave him an Immunity Token. Clock remained eliminated. Naz also changed the voting so that only contestants were allowed to vote. Although Gelatin continued in the camp, he was later eliminated and subsequently received a year's ban from BFMC.

In 20A, the teams were split into four tribes based on the original six: Resurrected Reimu, Restored Marisa-Patchouli, Revamped Sakuya-Debuter, and Revived Sanae-Yuyuko. They were quickly renamed to the Reimu Tribe 2.0, Marisa Tribe 2.0, Sakuya Tribe 2.0, and Sanae Tribe 2.0. In 22A, the Sanae Tribe 2.0 was dissolved into the other three, each of which switched to have 2.1 in their name. Each episode put the lower-scoring members of two teams up for a single combined elimination.

In 23A's elimination, Ruby was receiving a lot of votes. Naz informed Ruby that she was at risk and who voted for her. She used this information to get Badge voted out instead. After criticism, Naz planned for Badge to rejoin and Ruby to be eliminated, but this did not occur after backlash. 23B brought back viewer voting for 24A's elimination.

In 29A, YearsAnimations (Toilet Paper) temporarily took over the show. Years had been a contestant as Tetris Block before quitting in 27A. 29A also showed the results of a rejoin challenge, which Clock won. The teams were dissolved in 30A.

Years initially made BFMC stylistically similar to his previous camp Battle For Replica Island, which was quite different from Naz's camps. Clock criticized the style in a comment on 30A, which prompted Years to make an apology video and try to imitate Naz's style for future episodes.

From 32A Part 1 through 32B, Tetris Block returned to take over BFMC. He led an army made of contestants who quit or were banned from the show. The contestants had to defeat him and his allies in a challenge by picking RPS 25 options to defeat them. After Tetris Block was defeated and vanished, Touhou Power-Up returned to running the camp. 32B was the last episode produced by Years.

After 33A, Naz announced BFMC's cancellation, but Ruby, Flower, and others persuaded him to uncancel it. He continued hosting up to 37B. 33B began a point system to decide who was up for elimination. Starting in 36B, confessionals returned to the camp.

While Ruby was in the game, Naz exhibited favoritism toward her through favorable challenge scores. This favoritism was motivated by Naz's belief that Ruby's user would commit suicide if Ruby was eliminated from BFMC. The situation boiled over when Clock and Flower denounced Ruby's treatment. Naz again planned for Ruby to be eliminated but later backtracked on this. On August 24, Naz referred to the events as a self-caused disaster. The next day, Retro took over as the host of BFMC, while Naz ceased hosting Battle For Magic permanently and left the object show community.

The era following Retro's return to hosting in 38A was known as "Battle For Magic City, Part II". After their brief return, confessionals again disappeared from videos. He allowed several contestants who previously quit to return to the game. Goldenzoomi, who controlled Golf Ball until 35B, was deemed to be unfairly removed and returned as Woody.

Retro slated the final rejoin and debut, both for two contestants. The eliminated contestants were divided into two groups, those eliminated before 25A and those eliminated after 25B. A challenge narrowed down the potential rejoiners and debuters for an ultimate vote. The debuters were Trikiesyl and Traffic Light, while Fly Swat won of the recently eliminated contestants. Soap Chex (eliminated as Soap) got the most votes of those eliminated early, but Retro allowed Globe to rejoin as well, since Soap Chex submitted a joke entry to the challenge.

The season's final episode, BFMC 40A, was uploaded on October 7, 2014, after which BFMC went on a long hiatus. Eventually, Retro decided to cut BFMC short, and created a final poll to decide the winner. Those who had just rejoined and debuted were excluded, effectively nullifying their returns. To succeed BFMC, Retro created Battle For Magic City Again. The results of BFMC's final vote were announced in BFMCA 0A on January 15, 2016. Test Tube won the vote, Clock came in second, and Casey placed third.

## Contestants

### Veterans

Users returning as a different character are in italics. Late debuters are marked with an asterisk.

* Book (jay28jay2)
* Coiny (TheOnlyBoxThatSubs)
* Disc (BeAwesomeOne)
* Fan (TheRedBreloom)
* Flower (Retro Guy)\*
* Golf Ball/*Woody* (goldenzoomi)
* *Milk* (BOTIMaker1212)
* Needle (Jeelhu77)
* Paintbrush (Supercool16)\*
* Pencil/*Match* (Ben1178)
* Portal Gun (SirenRabbid1687)
* *Reversal Token* (KirbyRider1337)
* Snowball (TardisTheTardis)
* *Sunglasses* (BFDI BOYERS)

### First-time contestants

Late debuters are marked with an asterisk.

* Asthma Inhaler (ngradrian)
* Atlas (Joe Ferbian)
* Badge (DeeAndEd)
* Boombox (John zhao)
* Boxing Glove (Lucas Brazil)
* Butter (John Smith)
* Candy (Dahlia DaWitch)
* Casey (LstarAnimationz)
* Cat Bed (Reviloja2)\*
* Cheesy (Spongy317)
* Cherries (Alex Coffey)
* Clock (Ni Hao Guylan)
* Coney (MegaEpicFilms)
* Crayon (objectdude73)
* Dusty (Thelementalraccoon)
* Firey (smeltking)
* Fly Swat (OfficialMatrVincent)
* Fries (Cody Nutt)\*
* Gelatin (Nicholas Sternes)
* Golf Ball (Nickit)
* Globe (SuperNinBFDI)
* Ice Cube (DarkSid3Gam3r)\*
* Kite (e-s-purr)
* Knife (misterperfectawesome)
* Lighter (Alexander Rector)
* Locky (TheGkanderson77)
* Marble (MrAndrewtb)
* Masky (MATT DB)
* Melony (Kobe Fish)
* Microphone (lorri peterman)
* Mii U (objectville)
* Nickel (BlasteroidBob21)
* Paper Airplane (JRP14ization)
* Ping Pong Ball (ConskiHogan)
* Pearly (Sandi Wescott)
* Pen (Hunter Jaye)\*
* Pencil (Sumixam28)\*
* Picture (theyoylecakestudios)
* Pin (NeonGrenades)\*
* Pin (PowerPointninja)\*
* Popcorn (B Beatsman)
* Puffball/Lightbulb (Brandon D)
* Propeller Hat (WhaiJay)
* Rubik's Cube (sonicplaysmincraft)
* Ruby (pokpower8)\*
* Soap/Soap Chex (Kalini Houdini)
* Soccer Ball (KnifeThebeast)
* Suitcase (RoboStarTheBomb)
* Television (Nicholas Logan)
* Test Tube (elfireball42)
* Tetris Block (YearsAnimations)
* Tiki (SmithchadsPants)
* Tissue (Enzo S.S)
* Tissues (Daniel Webb)
* Toothy (bladethe blade)
* Top Hat/Rocky (Joshua K/JCL Kaytwo)
* Traffic Light (deedo886)
* Trikiesyl (XanyLeaves)
* Trophy (Dhs spivak)
* USB (Nathanael Cameron)
* Whistle (NINJAxxSNIPER)
* Yin-Yang (Cpinkman3)