NO FUN ALLOWED

The thumbnail for DARK VINCE AWAKENS: Ultimate Level 9 CPU Tournament, featuring (from left to right) Palutena, Dark Vincent and Audible Link.

### Air date

March 17th, 2019

**NO FUN ALLOWED** was the 1st tournament of Season 3 and the 11th tournament overall of the CPUCS, airing on March 17th, 2019. The tournament video on YouTube is titled "DARK VINCE AWAKENS: Ultimate Level 9 CPU Tournament" and the episode used the same title in the recap video, "THE VINCENT SAGA: Ultimate Level 9 CPU Highlights." It was hosted by Alpharad, JoSniffy, and Turvis.

A Dark Vincent from the Fallen Timeline made his debut along with his servant, Dark Ken, seeking to replace Vincent in the Light Timeline. Dark Vince defeated Vincent, and the two Dark Realmers made a successful run to semifinals before being stopped by Audible Link and King Dedede.

With Dark Vincent seemingly vanquished, Audible Link won the tournament, but Dark Vince returned in Thug Finals to challenge him, seeing potential within the three-time tournament champion. Dark Vince defeated Audible Link, turning his own bombs against him and spiking him with a Down Air, causing the timeline to collapse.

## Plot

The tournament ran as usual until the final battle of Round 1, where a mysterious fighter, Dark Vince, appeared to challenge Vincent. Dark Vincent revealed to the commentators that he was Vincent from a timeline where ToyConvict was good at the game, won PRISON BREAK, and took over the world. That timeline's Vincent became bitter and hate-filled, transforming him into Dark Vincent.

Dark Vince soundly defeated his Light Realm counterpart and went on to best Little Mac in Round 2. Meanwhile, his henchman, Dark Ken, disguised as the real Ken, a perennial loser, beat Rosalina and Inkling on the other side of the bracket. However, before the two Dark Realmers could take over, King Dedede and Audible Link took them on and eliminated them, saving the timeline. After a friendly duel between the two, Audible Link was declared the tournament champion for his third title.

Seeing potential in the returning champion, Dark Vince ambushed Audible Link in Thug Finals to draw him to his cause. Turning the champion's Remote Bombs against him, Dark Vince quickly overcame Audible Link. With a powerful spike, the dark conqueror defeated Link, sending him to the Dark Realm and causing their two timelines to merge and collapse.

## Notable Moments

* After Link's first match sponsored by Audible.com, Alpharad jokes that *"If you guys like Audible Link, be sure to click the 'audible link' in the description below"*, followed by forced laughter from the other commentators. Fittingly, Audible Link goes on to win the tournament.
* Dark Ken (disguised as the Light Realm Ken), after winning an anti-climatic match against Rosalina, proudly proclaims to the audience *"I did it!"*. The commentators laugh at the suggestion that the fight was intense and difficult (especially considering his opponent), with Alpharad commenting "*You sure did!"* It is worth noting that Ken was the second worst player at the time of this episode.

* Palutena tries to edgeguard Inkling, but fails. For this reason, she teleports to do it again, but Inkling reads the teleport and responds with his back air, knocking her offstage.
* In the battle against Ryu, the Ice Climbers suffer an early setback when Nana is KO'd early in the match, leaving Popo by himself with few options. To the surprise of the commentators, Popo manages to single handedly take two of Ryu's stocks and get a very good percent lead before being KO'd, leading them to joke that Sopo took the game by himself.
* Dark Vincent appears in the bracket, challenging Vincent to determine who is stronger. Vincent defends himself valiantly, but his dark counterpart defeats him by using Vincent's poor recovery (Soaring Axe Kick) to his advantage.
* To the surprise of the hosts, Little Mac manages to gimp Dark Vincent without moving from the stage. Despite this, Dark Vincent defeats Little Mac, once more taking advantage of his opponent's poor recovery (Rising Uppercut).
* When it seems Dark Vincent is going to cheese King Dedede for another victory, the king of Dream Land spikes him to the blast zone, saving the timeline from his wrath.
* In Thug Finals, Dark Vincent makes intelligent and disrespectful plays fitting of Vincent. He uses his own bombs twice in a row to trigger Audible Link's bombs before gimmering Link with a down air, even though he was already defeated with an inadequate recovery. This victory collapses the timeline, to the horror of the commentators.

## Trivia

* The tournament video has a specially made intro to the music of "*Fighting Gold"*from the anime series*, Jojo Bizarre's Adventure**,* created by /u/Dzejkobik on the CPUCS subreddit.
* NO FUN ALLOWED was the first tournament with a very heavy plot; while previous tournaments had smaller elements of lore, such as the sponsorships, rivalries, and ToyConvict, NO FUN ALLOWED was the first to focus around the effect of what the characters did and introduce larger elements like the Dark Realm.
* This was the first CPU tournament where the video title uses the phrase 'Ultimate Level 9 CPU Tournament' as a sub-title rather than as part of the main title.
	+ Previous tournament videos all had either adjectives (e.g. 'INSANE') or proper nouns (e.g. 'Piranha Plant's') before the phrase for the video title.
	+ This also started the trend of using the phrase as a sub-title, which would go unbroken until the first episode of Season 4, TIMESKIP.
* This was the first CPU tournament where the video's thumbnail used completely new art and not an in-game screenshot, a practice that would continue with few interruptions throughout Season 3 and beyond.
	+ Palutena is prominently featured on the thumbnail despite performing relatively unremarkably in this tournament. This is likely due to Palutena being one of Alpharad's favorite characters.
* This is the first physical appearance of the Dark Realm, as that is where Thug Finals is held, on the Midgar stage.
	+ This would seem to suggest that the Midgar stage is part of the Dark Realm, even though it appeared in regular Light Realm tournaments both before and after Season 3.
* NO FUN ALLOWED featured 3 new fighters, bringing the total number of fighters who had participated in the CPUCS up to this point to 73.
* This is the only episode of Season 3 where PG Incineroar participates in brackets, compared to four appearances in Season 1 and three in Season 4.

## Gallery

Link finishes off King K. Rool with an up tilt in his first ever battle as Audible Link.Rosalina & Luma use their forward smash against Dark Ken, taking one of his stocks.Inkling defeats Palutena with an off-stage Back Air.Dark Vincent uses his up smash against Vincent to take away one of his stocks.Vincent, reading Dark Vincent's moves, prepares to knock him out with his Down Air..Dark Vincent parries a forward smash from Vincent.Little Mac takes a stock from Dark Vincent with his down smash.Little Mac attempts to recover with his Rising Uppercut, but fails as he's too far away from the ledge.Dark Vincent takes a stock from King Dedede with his up smash.King Dedede evens the game against Dark Vincent with a back air.King Dedede hands Dark Vincent his first loss in the CPUCS, sending him to the blast zone with his down air.Audible Link finishes off King Dedede with a back aerial in finals.Dark Vincent teabags against Audible Link in the Thug Finals, echoing Vincent.Dark Vincent counters one of Audible Link's Remote Bombs with a grenade.Dark Vincent spikes Audible Link with his Down Air, collapsing the timeline.

## References

1. ↑ https://jojo.fandom.com/wiki/Fighting\_Gold
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoJo%27s\_Bizarre\_Adventure
3. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/user/Dzejkobik/
4. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/CPUCS/