Block Wars Pride 2023

The winners of BW Pride 2023.

**Block Wars Pride 2023** is the first spin-off Content Creators event, and the twenty-ninth event overall. It took place at 2:00 PM ET on June 17, 2023. This event aims to raise money for Outright International, which works with regional, national and global organizations to catalyze change in improving lives of members of the LGBTQ+ community.

## Fundraiser

Due to the event being primarily focused on charity, there are 8 special events that would happen at certain donation milestones.

* **Milestone 1: Add Hunt** ($150): Add Hunt to the Decision Donut game roster.
* **Milestone 2: Lucky Block Skyzone** ($300): Add Lucky Blocks to SkyZone.
* **Milestone 3: Spleef TNT Run** ($450): Change one round of Spleef to a Spleef-TNT Run hybrid.
* **Milestone 4: Powerup Chaos** ($900): Players are given multiple different powerups in the Decision Donut.
* **Milestone 5: Skin Swap** ($1,400): Players have their skin swapped in pairs.
* **Milestone 6: Spectator Swap** ($2,150): Players become spectators, and all spectators, admins and staffs vote for the next game in the Decision Donut.
* **Milestone 7: Creative Mode** ($2,600): All players are on Creative Mode after the event ends.
* **Milestone 8: 20 vs 20 Bridges** ($3,000): Unlock a special version of Bridges, where all 40 players participate.

At the end of the event, a total of $3,125 was raised and donated to Outright International.

## Teams

### Substitutions

* Team Diglett: HBomb94 subbed in for Krinios.
* Team Awesome: KojisRevenge subbed in for Soupforeloise. Right after that, Michaelmcchill subbed in for KojisRevenge.
* Team PPPPP!: Raddles subbed in for Tubbo.

### In-Game Substitutions

* Team Golden Goats: Wolfeei subbed in for gutsluvr for Game 3. After that, highkeyhateme subbed in for Wolfeei until the end of the event.

## Games and changes

### Games and maps played

There are 9 games in rotation in this event: Construction, Extraction, Move, Order Up, Party, Race, SkyZone, Spleef, and the return of Hunt. Battle is out of rotation for this event.

* Construction continue to be played on **Pasture**. The game received pride themed builds.
* Extraction is played on a new map, **Pride Garden**.
* The minigames played in Move are **Parkour**, **Trident**, **Ice Boat** and **Dropper**. Ice Boat received a new map.
* The minigames in Party are **Splat**, **Photon**, **Crossy Road** and **Crossfire**.
* Race continues to be played on **Kerbal**, with the map has received pride themed decoration.
* SkyZone continue to be played on **Construction?**.
* Spleef continue to be played on **Sorbet**.

### General changes

* The Hub and many game maps received pride decorations.
* Revamped the Pride Picker menu.
* Added a fishing minigame to the hub.

### Gameplay changes

For this event, several modifiers are added to some of the games:

* In Hunt, a new feature, Taunt, is added. Hiders have different items which can be uses to tease Hunters, such as making sound or placing a glowing arrow. Hiders receive points every time they use a Taunt item.
* Lucky Blocks are added to SkyZone, which when broken will give players different items and effects. Similar to regular building blocks, the Lucky Blocks decay after some time.
* In Spleef, a TNT run modifier is added to one round. Blocks disappear beneath the players' feet as they run across the arena. Breaking snow blocks does not give players snowballs in this round.

## Result Overview

### Game 1: **Extraction**

Winning team:  Team Blue Dudes - 1,810

Top 5 players this game:

1. zyye - 518
2. hunter\_hhhh - 362
3. Krtzy - 358
4. Purpled,  jojosolos - 344

### Game 2: **Spleef**

Winning team:  Team Purp - 1,461

Top 5 players this game:

1. Ameston - 556
2. pee\_fart2 - 446
3. Purpled - 396
4. apokuna - 387
5. OfficialDelta - 370

### Game 3: **Order Up**

**(X1.5 Point Multiplier)**

Top 4 teams this game:

1. Team Diglett - 2,295
2. Team PPPPP! - 1,583
3. Team Purp - 1,463
4. Team Bottoms - 1,373

### Game 4: **Hunt**

**(X1.5 Point Multiplier)**

Winning team:  Team Bottoms - 2,423

Top 5 players this game:

1. acho - 502
2. HBomb94 - 454
3. FireBreathMan - 431
4. mysticat\_ - 406
5. Greninja - 393

### Game 5: **Move**

**(X2.0 Point Multiplier)**

Winning team:  Team Blue Dudes - 2,888

Top 5 players this game:

1. FireBreathMan - 472
2. apokuna - 410
3. Antfrost - 398
4. mysticat\_ - 357
5. acho - 354

### Game 6: **Race**

**(X2.0 Point Multiplier)**

Winning team:  Team Purp - 2,772

Top 5 players this game:

1. FireBreathMan - 470
2. Purpled - 440
3. Ameston - 436
4. Antfrost - 420
5. Nukerii - 400

### Game 7: **Party**

**(X2.5 Point Multiplier)**

Winning team:  Team Purp - 3,835

Top 5 players this game:

1. Purpled - 420
2. mysticat\_ - 402
3. FireBreathMan - 399
4. Antfrost - 388
5. apokuna - 372

### Game 8: **SkyZone**

**(X3.0 Point Multiplier)**

Winning team:  Team Awesome - 5,085

Top 5 players this game:

1. Purpled - 504
2. jojosolos - 489
3. apokuna - 402
4. Krtzy - 396
5. Greninja - 369

### **Bridges** Finale

 Team Purp VS.  Team Blue Dudes

* apokuna scored for  Team Purp. (1-0)
* apokuna scored for  Team Purp. (2-0)
* acho scored for  Team Blue Dudes. (2-1)
* hunter\_hhhh scored for  Team Blue Dudes. (2-2)
* acho scored for  Team Blue Dudes. (2-3)
* Nukerii scored for  Team Purp. (3-3)
* acho scored for  Team Blue Dudes. (3-4)

 **TEAM BLUE DUDES WINS BLOCK WARS SEASON PRIDE 2023!**

### **Bridges** 20v20

All players are grouped into 2 teams ( Team Diglett and  Team Bottoms)

* Team Diglett:  Smallant1,  Ameston,  AnthosTVV,  LineChu,  mysticat\_,  Krtzy,  ghostiefruit,  jojosolos,  Purpled,  Michaelmcchill,  5uppps,  itsllama\_a,  acho,  OfficialDelta,  Stryxo,  apokuna,  KyleEff,  heyGraecie,  raddlez,  The\_Eret
* Team Bottoms:  Antfrost,  ElainaExe,  HBomb94,  RedVelvetCake,  AshleyRoboto,  Greninja,  JustKaboodle,  Jvckk\_,  highkeyhateme,  DarkEyebrows,  Caatlyn,  Punz,  simplyfir,  hunter\_hhhh,  zyye,  animagician,  Nukerii,  pee\_fart2,  FireBreathMan,  ShubbleYT

**Result:**

* Antfrost scored for  Team Bottoms. (0-1)
* Antfrost scored for  Team Bottoms. (0-2)
* raddlez scored for  Team Diglett. (1-2)
* Antfrost scored for  Team Bottoms. (1-3)
* jojosolos scored for  Team Diglett. (2-3)
* highkeyhateme scored for  Team Bottoms. (2-4)

 **Team Bottoms wins Bridges 20v20!**

## Final Individual Placements

\* Wolfeei subbed in for gutsluvr for Game 3. After that, highkeyhateme subbed in for Wolfeei until the end of the event. Their combined score would be 1,647, ranked at 25th place.

## References

1. ↑ BW Season Pride 2023 Announcement
2. ↑ Tiltify - BlockWars Pride 2023
3. ↑ Team update announcement for Team Diglett
4. ↑ Team update announcement for Team Awesome (KojisRevenge)
5. ↑ Team update announcement for Team Awesome (Michaelmcchill)
6. ↑ Team update announcement for Team PPPPP!