Block Wars Origins Season 20

The winners of Origins Season 20.

**Block Wars Origins Season 20** is the twentieth canon Origins event, and the twenty-sixth event overall. It took place at 2:00 PM ET on April 22nd, 2023.

## Games and changes

### Games and maps played

There are 8 games in rotation in this event: Battle, Construction, Extraction, Move, Race, SkyZone, Spleef, and a brand new game, Order Up. Party is benched this event.

* Battle continue to be played on **Hull**.
* Construction continue to be played on **Winter Bay**. The game received new spring-themed builds.
* Extraction continue to be played on **Steam**.
* The minigames played in Move are **Trident**, **Parkour**, **Obstacles**, and a new minigame, **Elytra**.
* Race continue to be played on **Kerbal**. The map received minor changes.
* SkyZone continue to be played on **Construction?**. New islands have been added to the asset pool and all Jump Pads have been removed, being replaced by physical bridges.
* Spleef continue to be played on **Sorbet**.
* Introduced a new map layout for Bridges.

To find out more about the new game, visit the Order Up page.

### General changes

* The server is updated to Minecraft version 1.19.4.
* Introduced an "Easter Egg Hunt" minigame in The Hub for this event.

### Gameplay changes

* Battle kits received many changes:
	+ For all kits, the helmet slot is replaced with head, and the chestplate slot is a leather tunic with the team color. The tunic change to black when the player uses the kit's ultimate ability.
	+ The Illager kit is replaced with a new Slime kit.
	+ Various other changes to other kits.
* In Extraction, players are now set to take exactly 4 hits to be killed. Natural generation is disabled and healing potions are removed.
* Speed pads in Race now have a longer effect duration.
* In SkyZone, cobwebs have been removed from the lootable. Additionally, gravestones are no longer solid blocks, players can walk through them.
* In Bridges, the height border has been increased.

## Result Overview

### Game 1: **Move**

Winning team:  Team Faze - 1,523

Top 5 players this game:

1. ilovenons - 474
2. FaZe\_Standen05 - 440
3. gummywroms - 439
4. oGarfield - 410
5. ItsFinnishDaniel - 407

### Game 2: **Spleef**

Winning team:  Team Mice - 1,566

Top 5 players this game:

1. ShadowDragoMC - 427
2. gummywroms - 425
3. Jackelton - 349
4. ItsFinnishDaniel - 330
5. SMK64 - 329

### Game 3: **Construction**

**(X1.5 Point Multiplier)**

Winning team:  Team Cook - 2,556

Top 5 players this game:

1. ilovenons - 458
2. Maskyzee - 433
3. ItsFinnishDaniel - 409
4. ModdingArt - 405
5. ShadowDragoMC - 392

### Game 4: **Extraction**

**(X1.5 Point Multiplier)**

Winning team:  Team Skies - 2,340

Top 5 players this game:

1. Antfrost - 472
2. FaZe\_Standen05 - 394
3. IRONSTARR - 372
4. Step\_To\_Hell - 370
5. FaZe\_M0RG4N - 354

### Game 5: **Race**

**(X2.0 Point Multiplier)**

Winning team:  Team Faze - 2,524

Top 5 players this game:

1. Dynamitedoughnut - 461
2. ilovenons - 455
3. oGarfield - 433
4. Toph033 - 426
5. Step\_To\_Hell - 385

### Game 6: **Battle**

**(X2.0 Point Multiplier)**

Winning team:  Team Lemon - 3,192

Top 5 players this game:

1. Step\_To\_Hell - 440
2. Toph033 - 420
3. ItsEndae - 378
4. ilovenons - 366
5. Dynamitedoughnut - 360

### Game 7: **SkyZone**

**(X2.5 Point Multiplier)**

Winning team:  Team Skies - 4,658

Top 5 players this game:

1. MasterGarf - 438
2. ItsEndae,  ilovenons - 420
4. IRONSTARR - 408
5. Antfrost - 402

### Game 8: **Order Up**

**(X3.0 Point Multiplier)**

Top 4 teams this game:

1. Team Lemon - 3,690
2. Team Flare - 3,180
3. Team Magic,  Team Skies - 2,940

### **Bridges** Finale

 Team Skies VS.  Team Lemon

* blueskiesclub scored for  Team Skies. (1-0)
* ilovenons scored for  Team Skies. (2-0)
* ilovenons scored for  Team Skies. (3-0)
* ilovenons scored for  Team Skies. (4-0)

 **TEAM SKIES WINS BW ORIGINS SEASON 20!**

## Trivia

* This was the first Series Two event where a team on a color that was not in the original four colors (Orange, Lime, Aqua, Purple) won the event.

### Participation

* This event introduced eight new players: Celestialrain, KendallWasKilled, Dovi, Spacebr0wnies, Ilovenons, Plantskid, Eurydice123 and Syhr.
* This is the largest amount of newcomers in an Origins Season since Origins Season 11.
* This event will welcome back ModdingArt and ImTogi, who hadn't played since Origins Season 14 and Origins Season 15 respectively.
* This was the first Origins event where players from the content creator roster played in Origins since the player split, with Ameston on Team Mice and Antfrost on Team Skies.