The Winners

Diddy

Kooper

Toad

Grumpy Cat (Additionally)

**The Winners** are a team that competed in Brawl of the Plushies. The team consists of Luigi, Waluigi, Diddy Kong, Toad and Kooper.

## Description

The Winners is a team of five generally weak contestants. Ironic. But what the team lacks in strength, they make up for in high IQ and great coordination. This is mainly due to the team being made up of closely knit friends. They spend most of their down-time playing games and hanging out.

In BOTP 10, Grumpy Cat chose to join The Winners because of Forgotten being outnumbered, The Idiots having a bad team name and Team Awesome's lack of brainy contestants. Unlike all the other contestants left on the team, she was quite negative and apathetic. Despite this, Grumpy was the smartest contestants both on her team on in the game and almost had a chance to make it to the finale, but due to an accident with her jetpack, she came crashing down to the Earth and was eliminated due to major physical injury.

## Coverage

### **BOTP 1-13**

In BOTP 1, Luigi asks Waluigi and Diddy Kong to be on a team with him, with they both agree to. Later, Toad asks Luigi if he and Kooper could join the team, which Luigi happily agrees to. When asked to name their team, Luigi responds by naming their team "The Winners" due to the ***L*** on his cap.

In BOTP 2, Toad then tries to wake up Kooper, only for him to be taken by a ghost. Later, Waluigi touches an electrical cord out of curiosity. The cord eletrocutes him, leaving their team with four members left. Diddy then walks up to Waluigi, laughing at his blunder, only for him to accidentally touch the cord and also get electrocuted.

In BOTP 3, Toad and Luigi are tasked with finding the hiding spots of the other members, but due to Luig and Toad's confusion and lack of coordination, there are only able to find Kooper; this in turn leading to their first elimination.

In BOTP 4, the team is faced with elimination. Lakitu hands out Amiibos for the contestants to catch, with the contestant who doesn't get any being eliminated. Obviously, due to Kooper's constant sleeping, he gets eliminated. In the challenge, the team sells Peep flavored Oreos. At the end, they obtained $3 which was barely enough to save themselves from elimination.

In BOTP 5, The Winners had a very minor part. In the challenge, Lakitu excused both them and Forgotten due to them being the previous two teams up for elimination.

In BOTP 6 during the cooking challenge, Waluigi buys a bag a Cheez-Its from a "drunk hobo down the street." Suprisingly, the simplicity of their meal got them a win, with it getting a score of 10/10.

In BOTP 7, Luigi is the first one to throw the egg. He tries to throw it to Peach, only for her to throw him off the side of the cliff. The egg ends of in Flippy's hands and he tries to throw the egg to DK, only for Waluigi to grab it. He ends up dropping it and gets magically tied to Wiggler. Toad is the next one to catch, but gets attacked by the egg, and too gets thrown of the side of the cliff.

In the race challenge in BOTP 8, the team decides to use a run-down bus as their mote of transportation. As the team tests it before the race, they fall of a ledge and the fall injures Toad. During the race, Diddy pilots the bus, accidentally running over speedbumps and further hurting Toad. Once the team reaches the stairs, the bus crashes, leaving the team to lose.

In BOTP 9, the prize being thrown are golden badges. Waluigi forgets to catch one, leading to his elimination. Before leaving, Toad offers to be eliminated instead, partially due to his injuries, and gets eliminated instead. In the challenge, the team uses their bus from the last episode to sail across the lava lake and are the first team to be safe.

In BOTP 10, Grumpy Cat joins the game with only 3 votes. She picks The Winners because of Forgotten being outnumbered, The Idiots having a bad team name and Team Awesome's lack of brainy contestants. Her over-thinking causes them the challenge.

In BOTP 11, Waluigi gets eliminated again due to his low-attention span. Luigi is the only one who catch the Surprise Mushroom, which turns him into a cat. He tells Grumpy this, which she isn't too thrilled about. In the Quiz challenge, The Winners are in the bottom two with Team Awesome. The Winners barely avoid elimination due to Team Awesome's cheating

In BOTP 12, DK uses a Bomb-Omb and accidentally blows up the Recovery Center. In the challenge, Diddy (as well as Peach, Daisy and Lemmy) are hit by dodgeballs and fall of the ledge.

In BOTP 13, The Winners and Forgotten merge and became [Gibberish] which is a combination of the words ***Gumball***, ***Balloon***, ***IDFB*** and ***Banana***.

### **BOTP 14-18**

The last 4 episodes of BOTP have [Gibberish] competing for the $100,000.

* In BOTP 14, the shark attacks all the remaining contestants on [Gibberish] which led to the team's first elimination.
* In BOTP 15, Diddy and the rest of dead contestants are recovered. Flippy is eliminated along with Daisy and DK. In the Cat Tower challenge, [Gibberish] uses balloons to scale the tower and end up winning a second time.
* In BOTP 16, Grumpy gets sent out of orbit, leading to team's second loss and for Grumpy to quit due to injury.
* In BOTP 17, Diddy is eliminated and Luigi is the last remaining member of The Winners. Luigi, Lemmy, Yoshi and Mickey share the prize in BOTP 18 and let all the other 17 contestants access to the mansion.

## Trivia

* The Winners is the largest non-merge team in the game (6 members)
* The team name **"The Winners"** is a reference to Luigi have an ***L*** on his cap, which often means loser but was changed to Winner for comedic affect.
	+ This is a reference to Luigi's **Palutena's Guidance,** where Pit says: "I'm sure that stands for winner."
	+ This is referenced when the team logo pops up in BOTP 1, saying "The Losers" instead of their actual name.
* The Winners and Forgotten are the only two teams to have one of their members quit, with Kipper quitting just because and Grumpy Cat quitting due to major injury.
	+ Coincidentally, Forgotten and The Winners are the two teams that merged in BOTP 13.
	+ Even though this is true, Kipper never joined [Gibberish] and instead merged with The Idiots and Team Awesome to make Jet P.A.C.K.