Battle For Dream Island Again (Season 2 of Battle For Dream Island)

The information in the article below contains spoilers for the BFDI series. Please watch the episode(s) if you have not seen them yet.

## *Battle for Dream Island Again* (Season 2)

### Genre(s)

Adventure

Fantasy

Comedy

Drama

Object show

### Original release

* June 29, 2012 — August 1, 2013 (Season 2a (first run))
* September 1, 2023 – present (Season 2b (revival))

### Upload schedule

* Irregular (June 29, 2012 – August 1, 2013)
* Monthly (September 1, 2023 – present)

### Host(s)

TV (episode 1-2, co-host 3-7)

Puffball Speaker Box (episode 3–5a, 8+)

Firey Speaker Box (episode 5a-8)

### No. of contestants

22 (Originally)

15 (Currently)

### Teams

* W.O.A.H. Bunch
* Team No-Name
* FreeSmart (formed in BFDIA 5)

### Video resolution

1080p (episode 1 — 5)

4K (2160p) (episode 6+)

### Created by

Cary Huang

Michael Huang

### Produced by

HTwins.net/jacknjellify (in real life)

Announcer (in-universe, episode 1-5)

### Voice actors

Cary Huang, Michael Huang, Adam Katz, Graham Taylor (formerly), Satomi Hinatsu, Ian Woodside, Braden Whiteside, Kenzie Bryant

***Battle for Dream Island Again***, otherwise known as **BFDIA** and stylised in the logo as **Battle for Dream Island AGAIN**, is the second season of *Battle for Dream Island*. It features 12 returning contestants from BFDI, along with 10 new contestants (six of which were the recommended characters from the previous season), which were voted onto the show by the viewers. Also, unlike the last season, three different hosts host the show; they are TV, Puffball Speaker Box, and Firey Speaker Box, instead of the Announcer, who hosted the previous season, but it was revealed in BFB 29 that the Announcer had been running BFDIA this whole time (TV was following Announcer's orders and the Puffball Speaker Box was a creation by the Announcer).

After Michael Huang announced that he and Cary were taking a break from BFDI due to difficulties juggling both production of the show and their schoolwork, BFDI went on hiatus for roughly three years, until the premiere of *IDFB*, a third season, with its only episode so far, "Welcome Back", releasing on September 1st, 2016. With the release of *IDFB, BFDIA* was confirmed to be cancelled.

On September 1st, 2023, the season saw an official revival with the release of "Well Rested", exactly ten years after the planned airdate of the unfinished sixth episode. BFDIA now runs concurrently with *Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two*.

## Contents

* 1Overview
* 2Characters
	+ 2.1Contestants
		- 2.1.1Team status
	+ 2.2Returning contestants
	+ 2.3Debuting contestants
	+ 2.4Non-returning contestants
* 3Teams
* 4Recommended characters
* 5Credits
	+ 5.1BFDIA 1—5
	+ 5.2BFDIA 6—
* 6Battle for Dream Island - Season 2a (All Episodes)
	+ 6.1Description
	+ 6.2Timestamps
* 7List of episodes
* 8Trivia
* 9Hosts
* 10Remaining contestants
* 11Eliminated contestants
* 12Episode thumbnails
* 13References
* 14External links

## Overview

This season involves 22 inanimate objects (12 veterans, 10 newbies) that the viewers voted to compete for Dream Island, which, despite declaring a winner last season, still does not have an owner. The contestants are divided into two teams; before a contest, players may switch teams if they want to. Contests are chosen by spinning a wheel, and the winning team gets immunity, while the losing team is up for elimination—the viewers vote by rating (liking/disliking) contestants' videos. The contestant with the most likes on their video can spin a wheel and receive a prize depending on when the wheel stops, while the contestant who has the most dislikes on their video is eliminated and sent to the Tiny Loser Chamber, which is itself located in the Locker of Losers. The current elimination place is the Weak Trembling Fortress.

## Characters

*Main article: List of Battle for Dream Island characters#Season 2: Battle for Dream Island Again (BFDIA)*
### Contestants

*See also: Battle for Dream Island Again/Elimination table*

#### Team status

* *In addition, Bubble competed during all 5 parts of BFDIA 5 even though she wasn't an official BFDIA contestant, and was "eliminated" in "The Long-lost Yoyle City".*

### Returning contestants

* Rocky - 1008 votes
* Firey - 724 votes
* Teardrop - 585 votes
* Needle - 489 votes
* Spongy - 456 votes
* Pin - 405 votes
* Tennis Ball - 359 votes
* Coiny - 334 votes
* Pencil - 320 votes
* Match - 315 votes
* Ice Cube - 313 votes
* Golf Ball - 215 votes

### Debuting contestants

* Nickel - 892 votes
* Bomby - 582 votes
* Dora - 439 votes
* Ruby - 381 votes
* Donut - 307 votes
* Fries - 303 votes
* Book - 296 votes
* Yellow Face - 292 votes
* Puffball - 291 votes
* Gelatin - Joined differently

1. ↑ Jump up to:1.0 1.1 Gelatin and Golf Ball were chosen to compete in BFDIA by DegrasssiFan and InternPony707 (now called "Dave George", with the handle being "MrEvilRegi1") respectively, the two contest winners. (https://youtu.be/6KrxVYo0mBQ)
2. ↑ Jump up to:2.0 2.1 2.2 Book, Yellow Face, and Puffball didn't originally make it, but due to Leafy, Bubble, and Flower's absence, were allowed in.
3. ↑ Yellow Face wasn't originally allowed into the voting, but was later allowed due to all of the votes he got, and also joined the game due to Leafy, Bubble, and Flower's absence.

### Non-returning contestants

A **bold** name means that this contestant originally competed in the first season. An *italic* name means that this contestant would've competed in BFDIA had they been present.

* ***Leafy*** - 607 votes
* ***Bubble*** - 559 votes
* ***Flower*** - 313 votes
* TV - 287 votes
* **Pen** - 285 votes
* Nonexisty - 266 votes
* ***Woody*** - 266 votes
* Black Hole - 262 votes
* **David** - 251 votes
* **Blocky** - 239 votes
* **Eraser** - 185 votes
* Firey Jr. - 179 votes
* Taco - 159 votes
* 8-Ball - 154 votes
* Fanny - 153 votes
* **Snowball** - 143 votes
* Cake - 134 votes
* Robot Flower - 119 votes
* Remote - 115 votes
* Marker - 109 votes
* Pie - 104 votes
* Balloony - 102 votes
* Naily - 100 votes
* Cloudy - 97 votes
* Lollipop - 95 votes
* Lightning - 93 votes
* Evil Leafy - 90 votes
* Bell - 90 votes
* Basketball - 86 votes
* Pillow - 79 votes
* Barf Bag - 78 votes
* Eggy - 77 votes
* Clock - 59 votes
* Gaty - 54 votes
* Grassy - 53 votes
* Roboty - 50 votes
* Tree - 49 votes
* Saw - 36 votes
* Bottle - 29 votes
* Bracelety - 18 votes

1. ↑ Jump up to:1.0 1.1 1.2 Leafy, Bubble, and Flower would've competed, that is, if they were alive/present at the voting results. However, they weren't, meaning they would not join.
2. ↑ Despite not joining, TV still became the host of the season.
3. ↑ Jump up to:3.0 3.1 Even if they did get enough votes to join, Woody and Nonexisty would not be eligible to compete because they were dead/non-existent at the time of the voting results.

## Teams

* BFDIA 1
* BFDIA 2
* BFDIA 3
* BFDIA 4
* BFDIA 5a
* BFDIA 5e
* BFDIA 6
* BFDIA 7
* BFDIA 8

The 22 contestants that were able to join are divided into 2 teams and were available to switch. Making one team with 3 and the other with 19.

## Recommended characters

Recommending a character was slightly different from season 1. Instead of simply recommending a character in the comments section of a video, you would recommend one on a Google rating system (similar to YouTube's rating system). At the end of the voting period (1st through 10th of every month), the 25 recommended characters with the most likes would be featured in the following episode. Copyrighted characters and people would not be allowed to be recommended. The link no longer works because Google Moderator has been shut down and redirects to a 404 page on bfdi.tv.

Recommend is revoked in Intruder Alert. Pink post shows forum to recommend, along with new rule for recommending.

## Credits

### BFDIA 1—5

* Created and directed by Michael and Cary Huang
* Written by Cary Huang
* Voice actors:
	+ Cary Huang - Match, Pin, Ruby, Spongy, and Tennis Ball
	+ Michael Huang - Book, Bubble, Coiny, Firey, Fries, Golf Ball, Pencil, Puffball, Yellow Face, and Firey Speaker Box
	+ Adam Katz - Nickel
	+ Graham Taylor - Gelatin
	+ "Needle's V.A" - Needle
	+ MaximumPower2002 - Ice Cube

* Animation by Michael and Cary Huang
* Audio by Michael Huang
* Editing by Cary and Michael Huang
* Music by Kevin MacLeod

### BFDIA 6—

* Created and directed by Michael and Cary Huang
* Written by Cary Huang
* Voice actors:
	+ Cary Huang - Pin, Ruby, Spongy, and Tennis Ball
	+ Michael Huang - Book, Coiny, Firey, Fries, Golf Ball, Pencil, Puffball, Yellow Face, and Firey Speaker Box
	+ Braden Whiteside - Spike Ball Speaker Box and stick figures
	+ Kenzie Bryant - Ice Cube and Needle
	+ Satomi Hinatsu - Bomby
	+ Ian Woodside - Gelatin
	+ Adam Katz - Nickel

* Audio editors:
	+ Benjamin Cross
	+ Braden Whiteside
	+ Cary Huang
	+ Daniel Booth
	+ Griffin Weber
	+ Justin Chapman
	+ Michael Huang
	+ Sam Thornbury

* Voice processors:
	+ Braden Whiteside
	+ Michael Huang
	+ YellowAngiru

* Animators:
	+ Adam Katz
	+ Aiden L. "Aidsie"
	+ Aiden Gomez
	+ Allen Lee
	+ FusionAnimations
	+ Benjamin Cross
	+ Brannon C. "BrannFlakes"
	+ Bryan Ndubisi
	+ Cary Huang
	+ Christopher Yeh
	+ Cormac Oliver
	+ Florence Chapell
	+ Giovanni Edwards "GuyGoon"
	+ Griffin Weber
	+ Ivan Maslov
	+ Spherigon
	+ Joseph Pak
	+ Lazlo T.
	+ Niall Burns
	+ YellowAngiru
	+ Xander Archibald

* Prop/Background artists:
	+ Adam Katz
	+ FusionAnimations
	+ Cary Huang
	+ Joseph Pak
	+ Lazlo T.
	+ Michael Huang
	+ Punch-Holer
	+ YellowAngiru
	+ WormBuffet
	+ Xander Archibald

* Editors
	+ Cary Huang
	+ FusionAnimations
	+ Joseph Pak
	+ Xander Archibald

* Music by Kevin MacLeod

## Battle for Dream Island - Season 2a (All Episodes)

On December 15, 2018, between the releases of "What Do You Think of Roleplay?" and "Return of the Rocket Ship", the jacknjellify channel uploaded an official, one-hour-and-22-minute video compiling every episode of the second season up to "The Long-lost Yoyle City", with black title cards marking the start of a new episode. On the old thumbnail, the word "2" was shown, and Coiny and Ruby's assets were normal.

After the release of "Well Rested", the video's title was edited to mark the season as "Season 2a".

### Description

*"Want to watch the Full Season of Battle for Dream Island AGAIN? Look no further! This cartoon compilation has All Episodes of the second season of BFDI, BFDIA! Watch as twenty-two characters battle for a nothing(?) in an elimination-centric animated series!"*

### Timestamps

* 0:00:00 Episode 1: Yeah, Who? I Wanna Know
* 0:07:28 Episode 2: Get Digging
* 0:18:52 Episode 3: Insectophobe's Nightmare 3
* 0:25:39 Episode 4: Zeeky Boogy Doog
* 0:36:01 Episode 5a: Get in the Van
* 0:51:39 Episode 5b (game)
* 0:52:06 Episode 5c: No More Snow!
* 0:59:02 Episode 5d: It's a Monster
* 1:09:18 Episode 5e: The Long-lost Yoyle City

## Trivia

* Of the original season 1 contestants, Leafy, Bubble, Flower, David, Blocky, Pen, Eraser, Snowball, and Woody did not qualify for this season.
* This is the only season of BFDI that has the viewers pick the entire cast of contestants who get to compete.
* Rocky was the most voted contestant to join this season.
	+ Bracelety was the least voted.
* This is the first and only season of BFDI that doesn't require voting with YouTube comments. Viewers instead voted by rating the contestants' videos.
* The prize of *B.A.G.U.E.T.T.E.*, Cary Huang's camp, would have been to choose a recommended character to join BFDIA, but *B.A.G.U.E.T.T.E.* was cancelled and replaced with *Ten Words of Wisdom*.
* Of the 12 returning contestants, five were originally on the Squishy Cherries, and seven were originally on the Squashy Grapes. Every member of Another Name also returns.
* There are 11 male and 11 female contestants each in BFDIA.
	+ Among the returning contestants, there are seven females and five males,
	+ Among the new contestants, there are six males and four females.
	+ All the returning male contestants competed on Another Name except for Spongy.
* The episode titles so far, except "Insectophobe's Nightmare 3" are said by a character within the respective episode:
	+ Puffball said "Yeah, who? I wanna know!" (12 times),
	+ Fries said "Get digging" (5 times),
	+ Firey said "How about Zeeky Boogy Doog!",
	+ Pencil said "Shut up and get in the van!",
	+ Nickel said "No more snow!",
	+ Pencil said "Oh my God, it's a monster!",
	+ Pencil said "The long-lost Yoyle City!",
	+ Nickel said "We're going to be so well rested tomorrow!",
	+ Ruby said "Intruder alert!" (2 times)
	+ and Yellow Face said "It smells so... meaty meaty in here."
* All five armless contestants from Season 1 (Golf Ball, Ice Cube, Rocky, Spongy, and Tennis Ball) competed in season 2, along with Nickel, Yellow Face, and Puffball for a total of eight armless contestants.
	+ It would be nine if one also counts Pin after losing her limbs.
* This season used to have the longest episode, "Get in the Van", at 17 minutes, until it was surpassed in 2017 by "Getting Teardrop to Talk", at 28 minutes.
	+ The record has been broken multiple times since then, with the longest episode currently being "Chapter Complete", at 43 minutes.
	+ This record was also broken within the same season by "Well Rested", at 29 minutes.
		- However, if BFDIA 5 is counted as one episode, then this season still has the longest episode, at 48 minutes.
* This is the first season where the teams are uneven before they face any eliminations. *TPOT* became the second when Teardrop joined in "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life" as a team made up of her alone.
* This is the only season that allows the contestants to switch teams freely every episode.
* This is the first season in which not every episode releases on the 1st of the month.
* Golf Ball was originally not going to be in BFDIA, as she did not receive enough votes, but she was chosen to join by InternPony707.
	+ Book, Yellow Face and Puffball also did not receive enough votes, but were allowed to join due to the absence of Leafy, Bubble and Flower.
	+ Gelatin was not up for voting but was chosen to join by DeGrassiFan.
* Pin, Needle, Golf Ball, and Coiny have surpassed their ranks in BFDI.
	+ The same could potentially apply to Tennis Ball if he ranks higher than 10th, Pencil if she ranks higher than 9th, Ice Cube if she ranks higher than 7th, and Spongy if he ranks higher than 5th place.
* This is the first and only season to have the first eliminated contestant not be female (Donut). In BFDI, Flower was the first to be eliminated, BFB had Pencil eliminated first, and TPOT had Pie eliminated first.
* BFDIA remains as the only season where every single elimination is decided by the viewers.
	+ In BFDI, Teardrop and Golf Ball were eliminated despite not getting the most votes and Tennis Ball and Ice Cube were voted out by the contestants.
	+ In BFB, 40 contestants quit the season and Profily was eliminated by Four's choice.
	+ In TPOT, Teardrop was instantly eliminated.
* Just like Season 1, BFDIA has a secret message found by taking every spoken word that corresponds with each episode number in numerical order.
	+ The message, so far, reads: "Don't try that thing again because it definitely".
* Michael released the BFDIA files as a response to braveman30's question about when the BFDIA and IDFB files will be released.
* Dora is the only contestant who didn't die in this season.
* This is the first season in which Bubble is not the first contestant to die. In this case, Yellow Face was the first to die.
* This is the only season that allowed a select number of recommended characters to appear at a time, being 25.
* Due to "Return of the Hang Glider" having less than 1,000 votes, this season was originally not going to be produced, but it was produced anyway for unknown reasons.
* This is the first and only season where Rocky's team didn't place 2nd in the first contest.
* Initially, the official reason for *BFDIA*'s cancellation is because of the termination of jacknjellify's AdSense account.
	+ Multiple reasons have been given for the show's cancellation in canon:
		- In IDFB 1, it's revealed that Ruby forgot to remove the lens cap on FreeSmart's camera, therefore no one saw anything that happened between BFDIA 5e and IDFB 1.
		- In BFB 29, it's revealed that Announcer didn't have any more savings to keep the show running, resulting in the show ending production. Firey Speaker Box continued the season after Announcer left in BFDIA 6, however it was never officially broadcast.
* A QnA with Sam Thornbury confirmed that all future episodes of BFDIA would lead to IDFB 1.
* This is currently the only season of BFDI to not have anyone picked last, as everyone was switching sides and making up new teams.
* This is the only season Golf Ball and Tennis Ball competed in where they weren't on a team that starts with the letter A.
* This is the only season (so far) to see Needle and Coiny die onscreen.
* This season will potentially mark the first and only time where Spongy isn't a rejoiner and isn't the highest ranking armless contestant. Both of which are true for BFDI and BFB.
* This is the first season where Donut, Gelatin, Puffball, and Yellow Face have died.
* In the 2023 revival, multiple character's voice actors are different from their original ones from 2013.
	+ Ian Woodside, who voiced Gelatin since the Battle for BFB episode "The Game Has Changed" replaced the original voice Graham Taylor.
	+ Kenzie Bryant, who voiced Needle since the Battle for BFB episode "Why Would You Do This on a Swingset" and Ice Cube since the Battle for BFB episode "Today's Very Special Episode" replaces the original voice Cary Huang.
	+ Satomi Hinatsu, who voiced Bomby since from Battle for BFB replaces Michael Huang.
* According to Sam's statement which was shared by Lexi, BFDIA will follow the same production format as TPOT, which they both released around two months or so.
	+ Since "Well Rested", an episode has been released every month. It is unknown how long this will be kept up.
* BFDIA by far has the longest gap between two episodes of the same season, with 10 years between the release of "The Long-lost Yoyle City" and "Well Rested", breaking the previous gap of one year between the release of "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?" and "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life".
* BFDIA is one of the two seasons to have the cast permanently relocate to a new location in the middle of the season. The other season is BFB.
* If finished, BFDIA could break a world record for the longest finished season of any object show.
* As of "Intruder Alert", Donut, Coiny, Pin, Dora, Match, Puffball, Tennis Ball, Golf Ball, and Fries are the only contestants who haven't officially switched teams.
* BFDIA is one of the two seasons to have multiple elimination areas, being the TLC/LOL and the Weak Trembling Fortress. The other is BFB.
* BFDIA is one of the two seasons to be split into two parts, the other being BFB.
* BFDIA finishing will more than likely cause some inconsistencies based on future seasons:
	+ In "SOS (Save Our Show)", the Announcer refers to Gelatin as the only contestant to never be eliminated. This will only be true if Gelatin wins BFDIA.
	+ In "Chapter Complete", Spongy says he's been eliminated four times. This will only be true if Spongy wins BFDIA.
		- Although, since Spongy's elimination in The Escape from Four was a failure, one could argue he did not count that elimination.
* After the release of "Well Rested", BFDIA was split into two parts. Season 2a takes place from "Yeah, Who? I Wanna Know" to "The Long-lost Yoyle City", and Season 2b starts with "Well Rested".
* BFDIA is not only the longest running BFDI season, but the longest running object show *ever*, lasting exactly 4,155 days as of November 14, 2023.

## Hosts

TV (Formerly from Yeah, Who? I Wanna Know - Intruder Alert)

Puffball Speaker Box (Formerly from Insectophobe's Nightmare 3 - Get In The Van) (Currently from Meaty - present)

Firey Speaker Box (Formerly from Get in the Van - Meaty)

## Remaining contestants

Bomby

Book

Coiny

Fries

Gelatin

Golf Ball

Ice Cube

Needle

Nickel

Pencil

Pin

Ruby

Spongy

Tennis Ball

Yellow Face

## Eliminated contestants

Donut ("Get Digging") (22nd)

Dora ("Insectophobe's Nightmare 3") (21st)

Teardrop ("Zeeky Boogy Doog") (20th)

Match ("Get in the Van") (19th)

Puffball ("Well Rested") (18th)

Rocky ("Intruder Alert") (17th)

Firey ("Meaty") (16th)

## Episode thumbnails

"Yeah, Who? I Wanna Know" (Ep. 1)

"Get Digging" (Ep. 2)

"Insectophobe's Nightmare 3" (Ep. 3)

"Zeeky Boogy Doog" (Ep. 4)

"Get in the Van" (Ep. 5a)

BFDIA 5b

"No More Snow" (Ep. 5c)

"It's a Monster" (Ep. 5d)

"The Long-lost Yoyle City" (Ep. 5e)

"Well Rested" (Ep. 6)

"Intruder Alert" (Ep. 7)

"Meaty" (Ep. 8)

## References

1. ↑ Jump up to:1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 This contestant is in the TLC and can't rejoin anymore!
2. ↑ https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-rtrg1i6b9YU/WoAgq5PaG4I/AAAAAAAAAn0/fIOGLgJhPpcLwN49G1GOUbjBLgQkN4y0QCL0BGAYYCw/h228/2018-02-11.png