We are honored to announce that the official Babble Royale dictionary was updated this evening in recognition of the Season Zero Champions.
As you all know, every season each of the top ten (or so) most successful players gets to permanently add a word of their choosing to the official and, we repeat, permanent, in-game dictionary used by the game. Forever.
It could be anything you want.
It could be your name. It could be your boyfriend or girlfriend's name. That's the one that we, personally, would do. It could be the name of a product that is sponsoring your promising eSports career. It could be, oh, we don't know, a clever pun. In Latin. That sort of thing. The sort of clever thing an erudite word-lover might think up if they were planning to permanently deface the sacred tome that governs the holy ceremony at the center of a small but growing mindsport that some people are calling "the next Pickleball."
Well, without further ado, Ladies and Gentlemen, we give you...
THE NEW WORDS
LIGMA
added by 5CR4BB13
WOOGLES
Added by AXCERTYPO
POG
Added by FIZZIX_IS_FUN
AIAIAIA
Added by BYNAK
AIAIAIAIA
Added by BEST459
UWU
Added by WANDERER15
II
Added by MORRACONDA
BBQ
Added in honor of BBQ, Season Zero Cybervillain
Ok, this one we should briefly explain. BBQ is a bot. And that's bad. We mean it's bad, in general, to stick bots into online games. It can ruin games, and that sucks. We know a lot of people will be disappointed with our decision to include BBQ in this list, but here's the thing - BBQ had the decency to not play all the time. They only played some of the time. And that demonstrated a certain amount of consideration, an indication that they knew they could spoil the game and were trying not to.
And they played in a style that, while clearly automated, wasn't using map hacks, exploits, or lightning-fast inputs. It was just good at certain aspects of the game. Too good. Better-than-human. But not in a way that was trivial to describe and prohibit. Like, any simple "speed limit" we applied to catch BBQ would also have, occasionally, caught many of our best human players.
And, with all due respect, BBQ sucks in every aspect of the game that isn't raw anagramming. In positioning? In look-ahead? They're beatable and we've seen humans beat them. We've seen games improved by BBQ's presence. We've seen expert players turn and surgically remove BBQ so that casual players could continue playing. We've seen steel-hearted competitors sacrifice their own MMR, joining hands and throwing themselves on BBQ to protect high-level tournaments from being spoiled. We've seen Will Anderson shift gears to deal with BBQ. And let us tell you - that's a beautiful thing.
It doesn't say, in the Babble Royale Rulebook, that you have to be human to play. It's just a game. The rule is don't be an a--hole, and BBQ followed that rule.
BBQ was a heel, but they were a true heel and we salute them.
Also, it's a good new way to get rid of Q's. ;)
Speaking of which...
QBAP
Added by ANCIENT COSMOGRAPHER
YEET
Added by NML
VI
Added by BIGGIEMAC42
OK
Added by ASIANPYRO
Congratulations to all the Season Zero Champs. We love you. This is your game as much as it is ours, and we love the crazy changes you just made to it.
As always, we invite everyone to join the discord where we're sure these players will be happy to personally respond to any questions you might have about this update. :)
-frank and james