Block Wars Origins Season 18

The winners of BWO Season 18.

**Block Wars Origins 18** is the eighteenth canon Origins event, and the twenty-second event overall. It took place at 1:00 PM EST on February 11, 2023.

## Teams

### Substitutions

* Team Nova: McBigMacPlayz subbed in for TVManGriffin.

## Games and changes

### Games and Maps played

The game pool remained unchanged, with 8 games in rotation in this event: Battle, Construction, Extraction, Move, Party, Race, SkyZone and Spleef.

* Battle continue to be played on **Hull**.
* Construction continue to be played on **Winter Bay**.
* Extraction is played on a new map, **Vault**.
* The minigames played in Move are **Trident**, **Parkour**, **Ice Boat**, and the return of **Dropper**. Trident received some map changes and Parkour received new levels.
* The minigames played in Party remains the same, with **Beep Test**, **Frozen Feet**, **Crossfire** and **Splat** being played.
* Race continues to be played on **Canyon Run**, but the map has received minor changes.
* SkyZone is played on a new island set, **Construction?**.
* Spleef continue to be played on **Sorbet**.

### General changes

* An NPC has been added to the lobby, which can be used to change various events settings within the player profile.
* A swear filter has been added to chat.

### Gameplay changes

* In Battle, in the final Sudden Death, players are no longer given Wither effect. Instead, players' health slowly drop until they all have 1 heart each.
* Players can now select their own plot in Construction before the game begins.
* In Extraction, Players return to spawning seperately instead of grouped up. Additionally, extracting time has been reduced from 8 seconds to 5 seconds.
* In Party's Splat, players can now only go into squid mode in their own color.
* In SkyZone, players now spawn on the outskirt of the map instead of in the middle, and must work their way inward. Loot now get progressively better the further in the map. With this change, grace period is removed, and players now spawn with leather armor and a wooden sword. Jump pads is also added to the islands, and players now receive a minimap by default.
* In regular Spleef, the last 3 layers now decay simultaneously. Players also can now get kill credits from spleefing. And in TNT Spleef, players no longer use their bow to launch up, instead, they are given a "Super Charge" which is solely used for this purpose. The Super Charge has a 5 second cooldown.
* In Bridges, more time is added before the game begins and between rounds to allow for more strategizing.

## Result Overview

### Game 1: **Spleef**

Winning team:  Team Goofy - 1,695

Top 5 players this game:

1. ShadowDragoMC - 536
2. Kelawesome - 494
3. Sncm - 432
4. CxrtxR - 423
5. Wylbert - 391

### Game 2: **Move**

Winning team:  Team Goofy - 1,632

Top 5 players this game:

1. Solawr - 511
2. WitheredFlux - 473
3. Toph033 - 436
4. ItsFinnishDaniel - 485
5. fayewars - 403

### Game 3: **Construction**

**(X1.5 Point Multiplier)**

Winning team:  Team Annoy - 2,079

Top 5 players this game:

1. Solawr - 326
2. Step\_To\_Hell - 312
3. Dynamitedoughnut - 305
4. ShadowDragoMC - 302
5. Rekt\_DJ - 273

### Game 4: **Battle**

**(X1.5 Point Multiplier)**

Winning team:  Team Goofy - 2,040

Top 5 players this game:

1. Kaos21a - 461
2. Kelawesome - 398
3. ItsFinnishDaniel - 366
4. fayewars - 366
5. Dynamitedoughnut - 348

### Game 5: **Party**

**(X2.0 Point Multiplier)**

Winning team:  Team Devil - 3,000

Top 5 players this game:

1. Solawr - 530
2. Kelawesome - 468
3. Toph033 - 466
4. fayewars - 465
5. Step\_To\_Hell - 456

### Game 6: **Race**

**(X2.0 Point Multiplier)**

Winning team:  Team Annoy - 2,794

Top 5 players this game:

1. Solawr - 560
2. Dynamitedoughnut - 497
3. Toph033 - 492
4. WitheredFlux - 490
5. Kelawesome - 467

### Game 7: **Extraction**

**(X2.5 Point Multiplier)**

Winning team:  Team Goofy - 3,055

Top 5 players this game:

1. ItsFinnishDaniel - 438
2. Kelawesome - 374
3. MCmorganplayz - 344
4. Kaos21a - 327
5. WitheredFlux - 320

### Game 8: **SkyZone**

**(X3.0 Point Multiplier)**

Due to technical difficulties, Game 8: SkyZone was skipped in this event.

### **Bridges** Finale

 Team Goofy VS.  Team Falls

* ShadowDragoMC scored for  Team Falls. (0-1)
* ItsFinnishDaniel scored for  Team Falls. (0-2)
* ItsFinnishDaniel scored for  Team Falls. (0-3)
* ShadowDragoMC scored for  Team Falls. (0-4)

 **TEAM FALLS WINS BW ORIGINS SEASON 18!**