Finals Marathon

**Finals Marathon** is a special playlist mode in *Fall Guys*.

It is a time-limited show, with the first instance running from 13 December 2021.

## Additional Information

Finals Marathon is a Solo-based Limited-Time Show that greatly focuses on FINAL rounds. As of its fifth appearance onwards, the show has been changed to include more players, although it still aims to reduce the amount of players until only two are left.

Survival-based Final rounds (Blast Ball, Hex-A-Gone, Hex-A-Ring, Hex-A-Terrestrial, Jump Showdown, Kraken Slam, Thin Ice) may appear in every round, although Roll Off only starts appearing from Round 3 onwards. Race-based Final rounds (Fall Mountain, Lost Temple) are only available as one of the final rounds, likely due to having a crown which decides the winner.

However, not all Final rounds are available: Tip Toe Finale, a squad-exclusive round, is excluded, while Royal Fumble is excluded likely because the one who starts without a tail will be put at an extreme disadvantage due to the lack of presence of more players.

## Show Changes

From the fifth appearance on, the show has been completely reworked:

* The player count was changed from 6-6 to 12-16.
	+ The show still aims to gradually reduce the number of players until there are only 2 in the final.
* Blast Ball, Hex-A-Ring, Hex-A-Terrestrial and Kraken Slam have been added to the round pool.
* Fall Mountain, Lost Temple and Thin Ice have been removed from the round pool.
* The fallback round has been changed from Fall Mountain to Kraken Slam.

From the twelfth appearance on:

* Fall Mountain, Lost Temple and Thin Ice have been re-added from the round pool.

## Trivia

* On 5 October 2022, a content update changed the description of the show. Previous description: "6 beans enter - 1 bean leaves in these back-2-back final rounds!"
* From the fifth appearance on, some rounds were incorrectly tagged relative to when they appear in the show. Some examples include, but are not limited to:
	+ Kraken Slam being tagged as a Final instead of a Survival when selected as any round from 1 to 4.
	+ Jump Showdown being tagged as a Survival instead of a Final when selected as round 5.
		- This has now been fixed in a content update on 30 November 2022.
* From the fifth appearance on, all rounds will play the Final theme of their respective season instead of the Survival theme, even if they are marked as SURVIVAL rounds in the loading screen. An example of this is Jump Showdown now playing *Final Fall* instead of *Fall For The Team*.
* With the vaulting of Fall Mountain from the fifth appearance on, the show image is now a misnomer as that round no longer appears in the playlist.
	+ Additionally, the promotional image (seen below) is also a misnomer, as Lost Temple no longer appears in the playlist as well.
	+ Both of these are no longer the case starting from its twelfth appearance.
* The seventh instance of Finals Marathon was originally not scheduled; Volleyfall Tournament was. A content update replaced the latter due to some issues with the show.
* The exact mechanics are unknown, but a timeout on any of the previous rounds (with fewer eliminations than the quota, or no eliminations) can result in a six-round game.
* Despite being unvaulted in Season 4, Fall Mountain, Lost Temple and Thin Ice have *not* been reintroduced to the show's round pool after the twelfth appearance. This has been fixed as of 12 May 2023.
* As of its fifteenth appearance:
	+ The show was showing up twice in the Show Selector, which has been fixed an hour later.
	+ Same rounds can show up again in a single episode. It is unknown if this is a bug.

## See Also

* Day at the Races Solo, a similar show with only RACE rounds.
* Slime Survivors, a similar show with only SURVIVAL rounds.
* Squad Celebration, a similar show with only TEAM rounds.

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/FallGuysOwl/status/1611413509644091392
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/FallGuysOwl/status/1657059011491921929
3. ↑ https://twitter.com/FallGuysGame/status/1490687632040415234