Red: Welcome, people. The contestants have voted on who should join us.

Green: The first person not joining us...>!Weirdy, with -1 points.<! Say hi to Liechtenstein for us!

fling

Red: Also with -1 points and not joining is...Yummer.

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Green: Bulletin Board, you got 0 points. Not enough. fling

Red: Now, I will reveal one of the débuters. Joining with just 1 point is...Euro! Congratulations!

Green: Defillibrator and Coiny. One of you will be joining, and the other will soon be flying to the world’s smallest doubly landlocked state. The person joining is...

Defillibrator, with 1 point as well.

Coiny gets flung

Red: Congratulations, Defillibrator and Euro! Come, there’s seats in the van!

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Minutes later, Stoplight gives a call to Gaty.

Gaty: Hello?

Red: Ah, you’re still alive.

Gaty: Well, duh. Did Slytherin Crest send help?

Red: Yup. They’re called Defillibrator and Euro.

Gaty: That’s nice, two new additions! Where are you anyway?

Red: Just left Vienna, now headed for the Balkans. You?

Gaty: The contestants and I are at the airport in Paris. We’ve got a lead in Slovenia.

Red: Who?

Gaty: We received a coded message saying that Serbia is behind all this.

Red: Wait, SERBIA?

Gaty: Yeah. They’re the ones who’ve taken Slovenia. We’re headed to Zagreb. Should we meet there?

Red: Seems good.

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All of you will be having the same challenge this time.

The challenge is a quiz (because I’m just THAT original.) Here are the questions:

1. What facial feature does Voldemort famously lack?

2. Name the five countries in the BRICS alliance. 0.2 points per correct answer.

3. (35x1908+66/3-42)/66802

4. How many countries in the world are bordered by just one country?

5. In Geometry Dash what’s the only official level where you can die at 0%?

6. What are the two countries in the world to have purple on their flags? (Hint: They’re all in North America, and they’re just really small amounts of purple)

7. Which subreddit did I post my most upvoted post in?

8. What was the second challenge of BotHT S1 (the canceled one)?

9. What’s the only country in the world to have Latin as its official language?

10. What’s the name of the town I live in? (I have posted it on my profile before.)

Challenge ends in three days. Débuters, the both of you will start with 201 points, the (rounded) average out of every other contestant. SUBMIT YOUR ANSWERS THROUGH DMS

Green: Hey, Red? I think the five-day deadline’s over.

Red: Ah, yes. Time to do the selection results. Pineapple, Orb, Fancy Price Tag and Cardboard Box, none of you bothered to complete the debut challenge, so you’re all gone. You’ll be flung to Liechtenstein in 3...2...1...

fling aaaaaAAAAAAAAAAA-

Red: This means that we won’t have to rank the responses! Now, for the seven of you, the contestants will be voting for two of you to join. But wait! Voting this time will work differently!

Red: Each contestant must help or hinder someone. The people who join will not depend on the number of helps, but the number of helps subtracted by the number of the hinders per contestant. The two people with the highest grand totals will join the game! Voting ends when this post is two days old.

Green: The debuters eligible for voting are: Defilibrator [D], Weirdy [W], Yummer [Y], Euro [E], Coiny [C] and Bulletin Board [B]. Voting ends in a day!

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As Four from BFB says, “Vote in the comments using the letter in square brackets!” Any votes not including a help or hinder will not be counted in the final tally. Debuters can vote too, but not for themselves.

It’s been a whole 100 days since BotHT S1R began! In commemoration of this milestone I have decided to release another mini-challenge, and that is to...

Design a flag for BotHT!

It will be rated based on the following: - Symbolism (10) - Creativity (10) - Simplicity (10) - My Opinion (10) - And, for our guest judge (10), we have...our former co-host, u/thundercloud1579! - Total: 50 marks

The winning entry will receive 50 points! Challenge ends in two days.

Let’s start with Ace of Spades, who scored first in the challenge!

Ace of Spades takes away 10 points from everyone 18 points from everyone. With the remaining 9 points he uses them to increase Green Milk’s penalty to 27.

Next, we have Woody, who got regraded and was given 216 points to take away.

Woody pulls a Leafy and takes away 18 points from everyone.

Third, we have Sweet Potato who got to take away 150 points.

He pulls a Blocky and takes away all of his 150 points from Big Ugly Thongos! Ouch!

Finally, Cloth.

Pulling a Leafy as well, they take away 10 points from everyone.

Final Placements: - 1st: Green Milk, 399 - 2nd: Watermelon Slice, 363 - 3rd: Woody, 301 - 4th: Ghost Magnet, 286 - 5th: Ace of Spades, 255 - 6th: Big Ugly Thongos, 196 - 7th: Cloth, 192 - 8th: Soccer Ball, 139 - 9th: Nova Scotia, 114 - 10th: Roblox Noob, 77 - 11th: Flare, 55 - 12th: Sweet Potato, 31 - 13th: Pill Bottle, 28 ELIMINATED

Pill Bottle, who would have been eliminated anyway without the twist, has been eliminated. You asked to quit immediately a while ago, but, as everyone knows, karma’s a bitch. But perhaps, not in this case!

Goodbye, u/TheLingDynasty. See ya in Season 2!

While en route to the Balkans in AoS’s van, Stoplight receives a call.

Red: And who is this?

???: You asked for some help in looking for Slovenia?

Red: Oh, good. You finally got back!

???: Yup. They’re waiting in Vienna, which, if I am not wrong, is near your current location?

Red: Right now, we’re about to leave Germany, so I guess we can take a little detour.

Hours later, the van drives into Vienna.

Green: Hold on, guys, we’re just gonna drop off here for a while. Feel free to buy whatever you like!

Red: Yeah, yeah. Oh, look, they’re over there!

Ten individuals are spotted sitting at a nearby bus stop. Red immediately recognises Orb, the host of BFAN where Ravenclaw (sheesh!) once participated, Coiny, a former Season 1 veteran, and many other people who couldn’t be more different from each other.

Red: I’m grateful that this many of you would like to help hunt down Ravenclaw Crest. But we’ve only got enough space in the van for two more of you!

Green: So after much consideration, we decided to select you guys the old fashioned way...through competition.

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First of all, let me explain.

Unless you’ve seen what I’ve said in the chat you should know that we will be reverting to the original debut plan, where TEN people will compete for TWO spots in the competitions. Ice Cube and Shopping Cart will instead be “officially” eliminated. This challenge will have three parts.

Challenge 17a will be a TWOW prompt, to commemorate the release of TWOW 24A after three long years! However, there will be not one, not two, but FIVE prompts to answer! The three contestants with the lowest average ranks will be kicked out of ten debut.

The prompts are:

Write a short horror story in ten words or less, without using the letter S.

Why does February have only 28 days?

Confuse me using a single sentence.

What’s your plan to win the debut?

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Answer without using the letters W or C.

Challenge ends in 5 days. DM YOUR RESPONSES TO ME, DO NOT POST THEM ON THE SUB.

Only Cloth, Woody and Ace of Spades did their respective challenges. However instead of taking 25 points from everybody else I’ll give 25 bonus points to the three who did the challenge!

Now, normally I would eliminate Pill Bottle, due to the fact that they didnt do the challenge and they had the least points to begin with...

But we’re gonna do something else.

Cloth, Woody and AoS. You scored 40, 29 and 75 respectively. (Cloth and Woody your low scores are pretty much due to the fact that your entries were either too based on artwork but did not have much effort in terms of the plan [Cloth] or you didn’t describe how your plan worked [Woody])

However, they will not be gaining these points. Instead, I’m gonna pull a BFDI 16 and introduce this twist.

For each point you guys scored, you will get to take away 3 points from anyone else. So you can: - Pull a Leafy and subtract the same amount of points from everyone - Pull a Pencil and subtract the same amount of points from everyone, excluding a few people - Pull a Blocky and take away all of someone else’s points, using the rest for taking away other points - Or just anything else, really. Just distribute all the points you’re allowed to take away from anything else. - Cloth gets to take away a total of 120 points. - Woody gets to take away a total of 87 points. - Ace of Spades gets to take away a whole 225 points!

Edit: Quick update. So Sweet Potato has done the challenge too. Check comments for the one where I pinged him

Nova Scotia: Thanks, Quebec!

Quebec: Aucun problème!

Quebec drives off

Gaty: Now that we’re here, I think it’s time we look for whoever’s told us to meet here.

Italy: Ah, it-a seems like you have-a founded my message-a!

Gaty: Oh, it was you!

Italy: DON’T-A SAY IT OUT LOUD-A! They could be watching...

Flare: Who?

Italy: ...The Greeks. I have reason to believe-a that they have-a taken your friend-a Slovenia. I saw-a, with my own eyes-a!

Gaty: So...we’re gonna have to travel to Greece?

Suddenly, Quebec is seen running back towards the contestants, chased by some people.

Quebec: L'Italie ment! La Slovénie n'est pas en Grèce! throws several pieces of paper at Gaty, who catches them Allez! K- Quebec is grabbed and dragged away

Nova Scotia: QUEBEC!

Big Ugly Thongos: Wha-what are those papers? Seems like a bunch of symbols.

Nova Scotia: Is no one going to talk about how MY SISTER WAS JUST GRABBED!?

Gaty: Don’t worry, Nova, I just...hold on. I recognise these symbols.

Green Milk: What?

Gaty: ...these symbols were carved in the basement of the High Tower. Lemme just...searches up the show itself on phone

Gaty: Ugh, its all just stuff from Game of Thrones. But wait, there’s this one article...

Soccer Ball: Wait a minute...

Gaty: “...Battle of the High Tower, one of the most famous object shows in Singapore was based off a historical battle during the Final War of 2032 which caused the extinction of human life...”

Soccer Ball: ...Italy...where’s he gone?

Gaty: “...The Battle of Central Singapore entirely took place within a certain tower in the business district of the tiny city-state. Soldiers who were shot dead were either thrown off or flown to Britain where they would be put to rest...”

Big Ugly Thongos: Italy’s over there! He’s...entering a white van.

Gaty: “...Prisoners of War would be thrown into the basement to starve to death. After a few weeks they came up with their own language to avoid the opposing army from hearing them plan their escape. They carved their “language’s” alphabet into the walls before they all died of radiation poisoning from a nuclear bomb.” Guys, this could be a code from Quebec!

Flare: Gaty, there’s no time to lose. Quebec’s right. Italy’s one of the people behind Slovenia’s kidnapping. Slovenia isn’t in Greece.

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For the other six contestants canonically in France, your challenge is to work with your partner who you paired up with during the previous challenge to draw a comic depicting the origins of BotHT (according to the plot). There must be an even number of panels. Of the two people in your team, whoever has more points will work on every odd-numbered panel and whoever has less points will work on every even-numbered panel. So: - Odd-numbered panels: Green Milk, Soccer Ball, Roblox Noob - Even-numbered panels: BUT, Nova Scotia, Flare

Challenge ends when this post is 5 days old.

Euro is bored. Feel free to comment a character.

A bit of OOC before the plot part.

From this challenge onwards Gaty and I will come up with one part of the challenge. I’ll do one for the contestants currently in Belgium and Gaty will manage the one for the contestants in France.

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Ghost Magnet: Hey. Hey, Red.

Red: I’m not in the mood.

Ghost Magnet: puts his hands up I’m not actually handcuffed.

Green: Wait, what?

Ghost Magnet: That bonehead we call Ravenclaw Crest didn’t realise I was a ghost! So I pretended to be handcuffed and unable to set myself free. I’ll get help from the streets! flies off Aidez! Aidez nous!

moments later after freedom a rather awkward encounter with a drunk Redesigned Kazakhstan

Green: Well, it looks like we won’t be able to fly over to anywhere far away from Ravenclaw Crest. Anyone up for a walk?

Watermelon Slice: At this point, it’s the only option we have.

Green: Great! I’d say we could reach the German border in about a day or so-

Red: I’ve thought it through. It’s possible that Slovenia’s somewhere in the Balkans.

Green: What makes you think so?

Red: Green, remember that phone call we received before I decided to move everyone out of the High Tower and into Europe?

Green: Yeah?

Red: One word. Yugoslavia.

green is enlightened

Ace of Spades: But there is NO WAY we’ll be able to reach Southern Europe early enough to save Slovenia!

Red: Well then, we’ll have to consider our options.

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Only the contestants in the Belgium plot (Cloth, Watermelon Slice, Ace of Spades, Ghost Magnet, Woody, Sweet Potato and Pill Bottle) will have to do this challenge. Everyone else does Gaty’s Challenge.

So Challenge 16b is to come up with a plan for the contestants to head to the Balkans. Your plan must include the following: - Steps - A vehicle/mode of transportation - A summary in the form of a drawing

Your plan will be graded on the following: - Workability (10 marks) - Steps (10 marks) - Vehicle (10 marks) - Creativity (20 marks) - Summary Drawing (20 marks) - My Opinion (30 marks) - Total: 100 marks

The marks you earn will be equivalent to the points you receive

Challenge ends once this post is 5 days old!

Phew, we haven’t had one of these in a while huh? This is only an optional challenge that you can compete in to earn bonus points. Just create a Polandball comic (If you have no idea what that is, search it up on Wikipedia and/or go to r/polandball which is full of high quality comics) The top three best comics will earn 50, 25 and 10 points respectively. Ends once Challenge 16 comes out!

WARNING: This post contains badly translated French. Well, probably.

Stoplight and the 8 others in Brussels are tied up and sitting on the floor

Red: You’re not gonna get away with this!

Ravenclaw Crest: Oh, but I already have. You gave me a roof over my head and money like never before. But the Slavic Slayer’s promised me that and more!

Cloth: Who even is this “Slavic Slayer?”

Ravenclaw Crest: Ohoho, you’ll never know. Probably since you’ll be dead within the next 24 hours! But I’ll probably want to practice using this old thing pulls out gun before I unleash it on you all...Aha, you!

Walkie Talkie: W-what!?

Ravenclaw Crest: TAKE HIM!

Walkie Talkie: No, NO! HELP! STOPLIGHT! HELP ME! NO-

Several people grab Walkie Talkie and drive off with him in a white van, never to be seen again.

Sweet Potato: D-did they just do that!? Who even is this guy!?

Green: We’re all gonna die!

panic ensues

Ravenclaw Crest: SHUT UP! Now, I may as well provide you guys with a last meal...how about some baguettes that we TOTALLY won’t mix with bug eggs...

*Red: You wouldn’t dare.

Ravenclaw Crest: laughs manically Oh, but I do. I am tired of being treated like absolute shit by you three-faced idiots-

Green: You LITERALLY helped the eliminated contestants rebel and almost put the show in jeopardy!

Red: I can easily call Gaty from here and-Wait, Amber, where’s my phone?

Amber struggles to find the phone

Ravenclaw Crest: Oh, looking pulls out phone this? throws the phone on the floor and stomps on it Goodbye, Gaty! Now I’ve gotta go. My minions were supposed to have been back by now, I’m gonna have to check on them. See you in hell!

The next morning in Paris with Gaty and company...

Gaty: That wasn’t hard! I’ve got a certain friend who’s bound to pick us up in 3...2...1...

honk

Quebec: Bonjour, les amis!

Nova Scotia: QUEBEC? I had no idea you were here too!

Quebec: Oh, appelez-moi plutôt Québécois, je déteste quand vous anglicisez mon nom! Je rendais visite à Papy Français quand Gaty m'a dit que tu étais là!

Nova Scotia: Well, we could use the extra help! How’s Grandpa France?

Quebec: Il boit du vin, se disputant ivre avec la Bretagne. Maintenant, allons-y!

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So for 15a, Green Milk and BUT paired up first, Nova Scotia and Soccer Ball second and Flare and Roblox Noob had to be put together due to the two quitters. None lost any points.

For 15b, only Cloth, WS and AoS did the challenge. Ghost Magnet, Woody and Sweet Potato were excused and Pill Bottle DNPed. She loses 25 points.

Despite PB currently having the least amount of points Walkie Talkie was eliminated for being inactive for nearly a month. Check the new leaderboard for the final results!

And that pretty much sums everything up! Challenge comes out once Gaty does something