Block Wars Origins Season 17

The winners of BWO Season 17.

**Block Wars Origins Season 17** is the seventeenth canon Origins event, and the twentieth event overall. It took place at 1:00 PM EST on December 17th, 2022.

## Teams

### Substitutions

* Team Chill: Stellxa subbed in for RektDJ.

## Games and changes

### Games and maps played

The game pool remained unchanged, with 8 games in rotation in this event: Battle, Construction, Extraction, Move, Party, Race, SkyZone and Spleef.

* Battle is played on a new map, **Hull**.
* Construction is played on **Winter Bay**, a festive version of Bay. The game received holiday-themed builds.
* Extraction is played on a new map, **Ice Rink**.
* The minigames played in Move remained the same, with **Ice Boat**, **Parkour**, **Bridges** and **Trident** being played. Ice Boat received a new map, while new levels are added to Parkour.
* The minigames played in Party also remained the same, with **Splat**, **Frozen Feet** (a variant of Fire Feet), **Crossfire** and **Beep Test** being played. Beep Test received new levels, and Crossfire received new floors.
* Race continue to be played on **Canyon Run**.
* SkyZone continue to be played on **Middle Age**.
* Spleef continue to be played on **Sorbet**.

### General changes

* The Hub received many festive decorations.

### Gameplay changes

* A new point multipliers system is introduced:
	+ Game 1-2: remained 1x
	+ Game 3-4: increased from 1.25x to 1.5x
	+ Game 5-6: increased from 1.5x to 2x
	+ Game 7: increased from 1.75x to 2.5x
	+ Game 8: increased from 2x to 3x
* Bridges is now a best of 4 instead of best of 5.
* Jump Pads used in all games are now manual.
* Added new outer capture points to Battle maps. These capture points are worth half the points compared to the middle one.
* The amount of builds needed to complete in Construction is reduced from 24 to 20.
* In Party's Splat, kills now add ammo to the paint gun.
* SkyZone's lootable received an update. Less leather will appear, while chainmail armor, various potions and more enchantments are added to the lootable. A new item is also added to the game: Zipline Gun, which can help players traverse around the map. Additionally, the middle island now decay horizontally until it fully disappears.
* In Spleef, the bottommost layer is locked until the decay starts. This does not apply to TNT Spleef.

## Result Overview

### Game 1: **Construction**

Winning team:  Team Chill - 1,366

Top 5 players this game:

1. WitheredFlux - 325
2. Step\_To\_Hell - 310
3. Standen05 - 295
4. ShadowDragoMC - 286
5. SMK64 - 285

### Game 2: **Battle**

Winning team:  Team Chill - 1,496

Top 5 players this game:

1. Chugabunga - 484
2. Standen05 - 458
3. WitheredFlux - 418
4. C10WD - 368
5. Step\_To\_Hell - 334

### Game 3: **SkyZone**

**(X1.5 Point Multiplier)**

Winning team:  Team Chill - 2,595

Top 5 players this game:

1. ItsEndae - 452
2. WitheredFlux - 422
3. Standen05 - 384
4. Step\_To\_Hell - 370
5. gummywroms - 350

### Game 4: **Spleef**

**(X1.5 Point Multiplier)**

Winning team:  Team Bells - 2,823

Top 5 players this game:

1. MarcusDoesMC - 473
2. Step\_To\_Hell - 452
3. WitheredFlux - 392
4. MasterGarf - 374
5. Chugabunga - 327

### Game 5: **Race**

**(X2.0 Point Multiplier)**

Winning team:  Team Bells - 2,800

Top 5 players this game:

1. C10WD - 540
2. DONG\_FORTNITE - 513
3. WitheredFlux - 489
4. EpicFH - 457
5. Standen05 - 453

### Game 6: **Extraction**

**(X2.0 Point Multiplier)**

Winning team:  Team Cream - 3,072

Top 5 players this game:

1. Step\_To\_Hell - 480
2. Standen05 - 468
3. Chugabunga - 432
4. blueskiesclub - 430
5. Toph033 - 430

### Game 7: **Move**

**(X2.5 Point Multiplier)**

Winning team:  Team Bells - 4,483

Top 5 players this game:

1. DONG\_FORTNITE - 563
2. WitheredFlux - 524
3. C10WD - 485
4. Toph033 - 436
5. oGarfield - 403

### Game 8: **Party**

**(X3.0 Point Multiplier)**

Winning team:  Team Comet - 4,722

Top 5 players this game:

1. EpicFH - 504
2. oGarfield - 451
3. DONG\_FORTNITE - 400
4. Toph033 - 386
5. Sncm - 379

### **Bridges** Finale

 Team Bells VS.  Team Cream

* MarcusDoesMC scored for  Team Bells. (1-0)
* ShadowDragoMC scored for  Team Cream. (1-1)
* ShadowDragoMC scored for  Team Cream. (1-2)
* Chugabunga scored for  Team Cream. (1-3)
* Chugabunga scored for  Team Cream. (1-4)

 **TEAM CREAM WINS BW ORIGINS SEASON 17!**

## Refrences

1. ↑ Team update announcement for Team Chill