Helpful Hosts

**Helpful Hosts** is a duo in Duel of The Duos. It consists of Ryan Bateman and Puzzling Problems.

They originally appeared as (technically) a trio in Megalo-Mashup alongside Rebateman.

## Info

* Characters
* Together

* Ryan
* Puzzling Problems
* Rebateman

Ryan appears in both variations of the team. In both appearances, he is based on Rebateman's real life appearance. In the tourneyverse, however, Ryan has the ability to make portals to other tourneys, game worlds, etc.

Puzzling Problems in DOTD and MM is one of the species(?) that inhabit the Puzzling Problems game. Their design, unlike some other Puzzling Problems in the tourneyverse (mainly Puzzling Overdrive) is the same as in the game, 2d and all.

Rebateman in Megalo-Mashup is a unique case of a character as they appear as a BG element but is a whole character. However, in DOTD, they seem to be missing for now... When interviewing (in-universe) Ryan about this, he refused to comment on this subject matter.

* Bracket Run
* General Info
* Tracks
* Source List

For DOTD, the bracket hasn't started and they haven't appeared in a crossover match yet. For Megalo-Mashup, they weren't competing and the bracket wasn't revealed.

Ryan and Puzzling Problems originally featured as Inserted Interviewers in the tournament Megalo-Mashup in the interviewer role, with a shadow called Rebateman (based on Rebateman's avatar), but after they were kicked out due to reorganization/rebooting of the tournament, they went around the tourneyverse for a bit with a few other kicked characters like Nervous Brickdown and Peashooter. Some characters got to other tourneys, some characters went missing, but there were a good few still with them. Eventually, they found a place to stay - what was Megalo-Mashup after it got canceled and the current people moved away. This is where DOTD takes place.

They have received so far a few tracks in DOTD and none in MM.
Note that any track on YouTube won't be linked outside of the playlist.

* YouTube Playlist Link
* Solo Tracks
* Multi-Character Tracks

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNXu5GvX5SnjQmxfs-fTVT1r9RU3LWqEW

* Go Hundai!

* Green Fighter (with Galactic Doctor)
* Homemade Filler (Crossover) (with Robo-Word, Creeper News and Galactic Doctor from DOTD) (with Pokegods, Super Muppets and Widget (of Brick To Scale) from Mega's Mega Mart) (Not on YT)
	+ SC Link: https://soundcloud.com/duel-of-the-duos/homemade-filler
* Ryan's Birthday Party (with entire cast of DOTD) (Not on YT)
	+ SC Link: https://soundcloud.com/duel-of-the-duos/ryans-birthday-party

Note that their Megalo-Mashup source list has been lost to time.

* Music from or related to indie platformers
	+ (Karlson Vibe, Shante, Cave Story)
* Audio from or related to New Zealand and New Zealand media (Including VGM)
	+ (Royals, Hairy Maclairy, Anne Perry)
* Audio related to hosts, including popular music tourney hosts (50+ YT subs/SC followers on an account)
	+ (Quiz Show, Host Hoedown, DREADSCAPE) (edited)

### Art Info

Their render and stocks for Megalo-Mashup were done by Rebateman. There was no stock for Rebateman.

Inserted Interviewers RenderRyan's stockPuzzling Problems' stockTeam stock.Their stocks for DOTD were originally done by Rebateman, but ended up being redone by MegaBlaziken96.

Ryan's StockPuzzling Problems' StockTeam Thumbnail