The Jackbox Gauntlet (2023)

"Who will survive?"

**The Jackbox Gauntlet (2023)** was a special survival tournament, the third mainline event to be hosted by Square 2 Charge. The event featured several matches that saw multiple members of the Square 2 Charge community facing off in an endurance style event playing multiple games from all ten of the released Jackbox Party Packs. This event was also open invite, allowing competitors outside of Square 2 Charge to participate, inviting them to stay on for future events.

## Background

In August 2023, The Kiwi Dragon announced his intentions to host a Jackbox Party Pack themed event at some point within 2023 or 2024. This would end up becoming The Jackbox Gauntlet, which was initially scheduled to begin after The 1999 Speedrunning Championship (2023), but due to unforeseen circumstances, Kiwi would advise JaNinJuice and Bobbledink that it would be in the best interest of the channel to let QUICKELODEON (2023) take priority.

The tournament was initially devised as a way to crown a new S2C World Champion after Lucas B had vacated the championship, following his tournament victory in The 1999 Speedrunning Championship, and his subsequent semi-retired status following that event. Kiwi presented this idea in August 2023, but the idea of using the tournament to crown a new champion was not met favourably. The S2C World Championship would later be claimed by Rexy after defeating Danta Fanta in the QUICKELODEON Grand Final, and so as a result an alternative prize was devised: the last player left standing from The Jackbox Gauntlet would gain the opportunity to challenge Rexy for the S2C World Championship, with the surviving player being able to choose any date, any time, any game, any goal and any additional stipulations, so long as both parties were available, and had access to the game in question.

In the later part of November 2023, Kayotie was brought on as a consultant, advising as to the best order to play the games, as well as suggesting which ones would be best to play. As a result she received a credit as co-host of the event. Around this time, an official date for the tournament was revealed: December 16, 2023.

## Event Progress

All nine rounds, in addition to a single warm-up round, and a bonus tenth round, which acted as a tie-breaker, were ran on December 16, 2023.

It should be noted that the event had several issues, stemming from the worldwide Discord outage that occurred on the same date. However, the competitors were able to push on and finish the event with no further issues.

## Special Rules

One competitor was eliminated from each round, except where noted otherwise, as the order of play was hampered by Discord outages.

Eliminated players were welcome to stay on as audience members and influence the outcome of each game.

## Competitors

As of the end of the recording of the event on December 16, 2023, there were ten competitors who participated, with a further three no longer able to participate, and one disqualification.

**Returning competitors from QUICKELODEON (2023):**

* The Kiwi Dragon - 'The Rugrats Redemption' Exhibition Race Winner (Hosting)
* See Jay See - Round 1, Round 1 Loser's Melee Winner
* Bobbledink - Round 1, Round 1 Loser's Melee

**Returning competitors from The 1999 Speedrunning Championship (2023):**

* Lucas B - Winner

**Making Square 2 Charge tournament debut:**

* Kayotie - Debuted in Super Charge Season 3

**Making Square 2 Charge channel debut as competitors:**

* Fubdable - DEBUT
* Gizmocat11 - DEBUT
* Karlamon - DEBUT
* KingOfThePiggus - DEBUT
* Seagullcupcake - DEBUT

**Returning competitors who signed up but had to drop out:**

* MidnightHeart - Withdrew application on December 1st, 2023 due to timing issues relating to volunteer work

**Competitors who signed up and were supposed to debut but had to drop out:**

* Redxthetank - Withdrew application on November 30th, 2023 due to time issues relating to work
* HazrdousSloth - Withdrew application on December 15th, 2023 due to illness

**Competitors who signed up and were supposed to debut but no-showed and were subsequently disqualified:**

* Balint Handra - Was given multiple opportunities to show up, however, despite this, he never showed up. As a result Balint was disqualified

**Tournament starting roster:**

## Matches

These matches are tentative, and subject to change.