Grand Mapper: War of Elysium

**Grand Mapper: War of Elysium** is the thirteenth season of the Grand Mapper competition overall. It premiered on July 4th, 2020 from the Grand Mapper Discord server, and it ended on October 10th, 2020, with Dual Belgium Mapping winning the season.

The prize was 2 months of Discord Nitro and 100,000 Tatsumaki points on the Grand Mapper Discord server.

## **Twists**

* **War of Elysium**: Thirty of Grand Mapper's greatest legends are placed on the battlefield of the Peloponnesian War, fighting for the biggest prize in the history of the competition.
* **Expanded Cast**: For the first time in Grand Mapper, thirty players competed in a season.
* **Expanded Merge**: This is the season with the biggest merge ever - around 15 players.
* **Expanded Jury**: The amount of jury members was around 24 players, making it the season with the biggest jury.
* **Tartarus**: Upon being voted out, players will be sent to Tartarus, where they will collect grands through various quests and challenges, and wait until they can return to the game.
* **Elysian Grand**: The Elysian Grand is a form of currency that is worth 1000x a Grand from previous seasons.
* **Elysian Emporium**: A store where players can use their Elysian Grands to buy various advantages for a challenge or an elimination.
* **Elysian Tiebreaker**: The new tiebreaker system is also known as an Elysian Tiebreaker, in which the player with the least amount of Elysian Grands would be eliminated.
* **Elysium**: After Hellas Union was disbanded, the last 6 remaining players reached Elysium.

## **Season Summary**

### **Premiere Episode**

*"I am going to be all guns blazing now!'' -* BlackBird

The season premiered on the 4th of July, starting out with thirty players, two unions - Athens and Sparta, and brand new twists, one of them being the Elysian Grand.

On Day 1, the first immunity challenge started. In the end, Athens won immunity, as Chari and Sundisc won reward in the form of a small advantage - a Score Advantage that increases an individual score by +1.00.

Sparta, due to losing the first challenge, was sent to elimination. Russian Spy would be the 1st Person voted out in a 8-7 vote against Protonian. When the last vote was shown, a new twist in the season was revealed - Tartarus. There, every person voted out will wait until the Revenge Challenge.

Following that, the second immunity challenge starts, as both unions had to nominate 2 people that will compete in a live quiz about the Peloponnesian War. Athens nominated Frkon and Oceanic, while Sparta nominated Great British Mapping and Vicc. At first, Athens managed to score in almost every single question, but in the end, Vicc made a huge comeback, leading to the final question, where in the end Great British scored the 10th point for the union and made Sparta immune from the elimination. Athens, having only 8 points, went to the second elimination, where Gulfstream was the 2nd voted out in a 9-5-1 vote against Saxony Anhalt and BlackBird.

The third immunity challenge was the usual check-in challenge, as Sparta yet again won immunity, and Athens was sent to the third elimination. Omega became the 3rd Person voted out in a close 5-4-4-1 vote against Atchison, BlackBird and Saxony.

After that, the first individual immunity challenge was announced, with both unions going to elimination. Frkon and Quebec won the challenge, taking with them Skeletal, Sundisc, Protonian, Linearis and Simple Mapping to safety, as Romanian Order lost his vote, due to the fact that he did not submit. Sparta went to elimination first. The elimination ended in a 6-6-1 vote between Romanian Order, Sirius and Lazer Kiwi. Due to the tied vote, a new twist in the season was introduced - the Elysian Tiebreaker, as the player that had the least Elysian Grands in the tie would be eliminated automatically. In the end, Romanian Order was sent to Tartarus. After that, the 5th elimination came, where Athens was sent to vote someone out. BlackBird became the 5th Person voted out in a 11-2 vote against Atchison.

### **Episode 2**

*"The hardest choices require the strongest wills."* - Protonian

The episode started out with a Grand Mapper Auction, as players would be able to bid on various 20 items. Protonian won the Individual Immunity in Sparta for the next elimination. After that, the fourth immunity challenge started, with Sundisc and Rojo winning an Elysian Grand, and Athens winning immunity, as for Sparta - attending elimination. During the elimination, Protonian played his idol on Quebec, thinking that the majority would vote her. In the end, however, Sirius became the 6th Person voted out in a 6-6-2-1 vote against Lazer Kiwi, Vicc and Qiming, and the 2nd Person to be voted out due to an Elysian Tiebreaker.

### **Episode 3**

*''One's quitting, one's inactive and one's deranged." -* Rojo

During the fifth immunity challenge, Sparta thought that most of Athens was inactive in the spam challenge, however they were caught by surprise when they discovered that in the end Athens won, with 203,669 messages. Sparta, having only 163,742 messages, went to elimination again, with Protonian being the 7th Person voted out in a 7-5 vote against The Aham One.

The sixth individual immunity challenge was a series of duels between various Athens and Sparta players. With Sparta winning 8 out of 11 duels, and of course, immunity, Athens had to attend an elimination. Before the elimination, former runner-up Linearis decided to quit the competition, and in the end he was voted out in a 7-4-1 vote against Saxony and Simple.

### **Episode 4**

*"It's a bit of a gamble."* - Qiming

The seventh immunity challenge came after the elimination, in which Hamezz had to compete against Dual Belgium in a live diss challenge. Dual Belgium, winning 2 out of 3 rounds, made Sparta immune from the upcoming elimination, as he won himself an additional Elysian Grand. Athens, as an union, has decided to vote out Saxony completely in an unanimous 10-1 vote against Chari.

Following that, the eight immunity challenge came through, with Athens winning it this time. Sparta, while attending elimination, was in total disarray. During the elimination, Great British lost in a suspicious 7-6 vote against Sundisc, making him the 10th Person voted out of **Grand Mapper: War of Elysium.**

### **Episode 5**

*"I thought you lost access to weed in Arizona." -* Ankhor

At the start of Episode 5, a third union was announced - Babylon, signalizing the swap. However, Sundisc and Frkon didn't get into any unions, so they were moved to exile. After the swap, a reward challenge started, with everyone receiving 1 Elysian Grand, as Quebec, Hamez and Chari win an additional one. Quebec also wins Individual Immunity for the next elimination, as Athens wins a Medium Advantage, and Babylon wins a Small Advantage.

Right after the results, the ninth challenge started. Athens won it, as Sparta and Babylon went to elimination. In Sparta's elimination, Qiming was voted out in a 4-2 vote against Aham. In Babylon, Simple was voted out in a 6-1 vote against GreenBall.

### **Episode 6**

*"A W is a relief."* - Lazer Kiwi

Episode starts with Sundisc joining Sparta, and Frkon joining Babylon. After that yet another challenge begins, as Athens and Sparta win it. In the elimination, an another Elysian Tiebreaker happens, with Atchison losing against Varot in a 3-3 vote. Afterwards, Atchison becomes the 13th Person sent to Tartarus.

The eleventh immunity challenge is won by Athens and Sparta yet again, with Vicc saving Athens from the elimination by purchasing a challenge advantage. In Babylon, Varot is voted out in a 3-2 vote against Hamez.

In the next challenge, Athens manages to continue winning immunity challenges, keeping it's streak. Babylon also wins its first challenge. Sparta, on the other hand, goes to elimination, with Sundisc losing in a 3-3 Elysian Tiebreaker vote against Aham, becoming the 15th Person voted out.

### **Episode 7**

*''Here's when the plot tickens." -* Frkon

Episode 7 starts with the countryhuman challenge, in which Athens and Sparta, once again, prevail. Babylon has to send the 16th Person out, and during the elimination Lazer Kiwi is eliminated in a 3-1 vote against Hamez.

After that comes the diss track challenge, in which Athens and Babylon win. During the 17th elimination, Oceanic is voted out in a 3-1-1 vote against Chari and Skeletal.

### **Merge Episode**

*''Bye bye, weak chain!''* - Hamez

To celebrate the the achievement, the 13 contestants were given a break day and did not have to compete in a challenge or elimination. Elysian Emporium, also shutting down for the remainder of the episode.

Instead, the players in Tartarus competed in their first challenge to get back into the game. In this challenge, the contestants had to create an art of the Union as well as receive votes from the other members of Tartarus, and only 2 would win and join the Hellas Union.

Russian Spy and Sundisc won the challenge, narrowly beating the three former winners, Simple, Lazer Kiwi and Gulfstream.

Russian Spy would also receive 3 Elysian Grands as reward for coming first.

Then following day, the first individual immunity challenge began, with each contestant having to make an alternate flag of a classical state and the top five highest scoring winning immunity for the following elimination. Imperialis claimed the 1st place victory, granting himself immunity and 2 Elysian Grands. Rojo, Sundisc and Vicc would win immunity aswell.

Québec, who had previously got immunity at the Auction would also place in the top 5 spot, taking the prize away from another contestant.

Elimination began with hefty strategy and anticipation, seeing players clash as well as work together. In the end, Hamez would be the 18th Person voted out in a 10-5 vote against Aham.

### **Episode 9**

*''I don't want to go without fucking him over."* - Quebec

Episode 9 commenced with players competing in an immunity challenge where they would create battle maps of an alternate proxy war during the Cold War. Rojo, Imperialis, Frkon and Dual Belgium would win. Aham would be eliminated in a 7-6 vote against Sundisc at the elimination afterwards. A immunity challenge where players would create countryball art of Gabon VS India then took place, with Sundisc, Chari & Rojo being the victors. Frkon would get eliminated with 9 votes at the following elimination.

### **Episode 10**

*"It's time to start taking things into my own hands."* - Russian Spy

At the Final 12 in Episode 10, Hellas Union would be divided into two teams of 6, Apollo and Artemis. The second auction would commence, where Sundisc would buy surgery that allowed him to switch teams. On Team Artemis, Russian Spy would win immunity and on Team Apollo, Vicc won immunity in the 20 Questions challenge. Both teams then faced elimination, where GreenBall and Mink were voted out, becoming the first two members of the jury.

### **Episode 11**

*''I'm not made to be evil like this.''* - Dual Belgium

Episode 11 started with Saxony and Sirius leaving Tartarus. Rojo won the Immunity Challenge, where he made a map of an alternate country in South America. At elimination, Skeletal made a move and played a brand new advantage in Grand Mapper, the advantage menu. This allowed him to select a Hidden Immunity Idol and he played it on himself. He cancelled 6 votes against him, putting Sundisc back into Tartarus with 4 votes to his name. Chari then won the following challenge, where players created alternate national anthems.

Before the elimination, Vicc plays an idol on himself in his confessional, however, after discovering that Rojo is the majority target, he decides to wait. During the elimination, Owlz plays an idol on herself, and in reaction to that, Vicc plays his on Rojo. This caused no valid votes to be cast at elimination, forcing everyone who's not immune into the Elysian Grand Tiebreaker, sending Russian Spy back to Tartarus automatically.

### **Episode 12**

*"Salts on the table."* - Quebec

Following the elimination of Russian Spy, paranoia was high in terms of idols and advantages, and at the start of Episode 10 this paranoia would be proven true, as Owlz used a Skip & Steal advantage in order to force Chari out of the seventh individual immunity challenge and the following elimination. Imperialis won this challenge, creating a diss track on Rojo and Vicc. Rojo would proceed to be burned more by getting eliminated in a 4-3 vote against Skeletal. Following the elimination of Rojo, players would compete for immunity by creating a countryball map or a flag map about an alternate outcome of the Peloponnesian War. Vicc won this challenge, and another 4-3 vote would commence at the Final 7, this time with Imperialis being eliminated against Skeletal once again.

### **Episode 13**

*"You know what, now or never."* - Chari

Episode 13 was short and sweet, with the players competing in a timeline creation challenge, in which Skeletal came out victorious. Although there were only 6 people attending the following elimination, another 4-3 vote came out, with Owlz being eliminated against Vicc.

This would conclude the Hellas Union, as the season would commence it's final phase... And the Revenge Challenge would begin.

### **Penultimate Episode**

"*Life will always give you a chance. What matters is whether or not you're willing to take it*." - Gulfstream

The episode starts with the Hellas Union being disbanded, as the remaining players enter Elysium. With that, the Revenge Challenge begins, in which GreenBall manages to win himself a place in Elysium. The rest of the Tartarus members become a member of the jury. The tenth individual immunity challenge begins in the meantime, with Quebec winning it. After that, a massive strategy planning began, with Vicc, GreenBall and Chari working together to take down Skeletal. Upon discovering the fact that Skeletal has an idol, Vicc and Chari decide to risk it and try to take him down. GreenBall, on the other hand, betrays the alliance, and works together with Skeletal. Quebec and Dual Belgium decide to vote GreenBall. In the end, a 2-2-2 Elysian Tiebreaker vote occurs, in which Vicc is eliminated. In the following challenge, Dual Belgium wins a quiz, leading to his immunity in the next elimination, where Skeletal plays his idol and cancels 2 votes against him, eliminating Quebec in the process with a 2-1 vote.

### **Finale**

"Let's just keep this war going." - GreenBall

The final episode of Grand Mapper: War of Elysium starts with the Final Immunity Challenge, where the Final 4 had to make a video on the War of Elysium. In the end, Skeletal wins himself a spot in the Final 3 by winning the challenge. The final elimination ends in a 2-2 vote between Chari and Dual Belgium. The tiebreaker is a live quiz about the 19 Jurors of the game, with each juror having a single question about his gameplay. Chari scores 3 points, while Dual Belgium scores 10 points, making him the victor of the quiz. With that, the final person voted out is Chari.

After that, the jury is introduced, as each juror will be able to ask as many questions as possible to the finalists and the finalists can choose whether or not to answer. Later, enough questions and speeches were made, leading to the Live Finale of Grand Mapper: War of Elysium.

In the end, The Winner of **Grand Mapper: War of Elysium** is Dual Belgium, managing to win in a 15-3-2 vote against Skeletal and GreenBall. He also shares the Fan Favorite Award with Sundisc.

## Trivia

* **Grand Mapper: War of Elysium** lasted 3 months and 6 days, making it the longest season in Grand Mapper.
* It also had 30 players, making it the season with the biggest cast ever.
* This is one of the three seasons to have returning players only, the other ones being Grand Mapper: All Stars and Grand Mapper: Revenge & Redemption Ultimus.
* This is Grand Mapper's second *All Star* season, the first being Grand Mapper: All Stars.
* This season is the third to have episodes, with a total of 15 episodes this season. The other two seasons to have episodes are Grand Mapper: Revenge & Redemption Ultimus and Grand Mapper: All Stars.