This weekend we held a BIGMOON BASH featuring spooky Beasties! Coaches had to use one of theme Beasties on their team (Collarva/Wormask/Plumask, Yueffowl/Albrax or Skulkapi) and their individual results were tallied up to determine which Beastie family would reign supreme. So, who was the Bash Champion this time around?
🏆 Final Results!
By a narrow margin The Albrax guild is the winner! We saw the results fluctuating wildly throughout the Bash - 24 hours in, Albrax had the worst winrate and was in last place. But it goes to show, every game counts! Albrax players rallied hard at the end and brought their score up just enough to ultimately win this spooky contest.
Now let's take a look at the coaches who scored highest this time around!
👑 Top-Scoring Players
- Juninha (The Valiant Hearts) | Bash Score: 2856
- ArtemTotem (The Shining Stars) | Bash Score: 2840
- MochaTeehee (The Hello Fishes) | Bash Score: 2796
- Arc Tech (The Arcane Machines) | Bash Score: 2764
- Sabrewoif (The Has-been Dinosaurs) | Bash Score: 2756
- Phoenix (The Flaming Birds) | Bash Score: 2756
- N/A
- Zonk (The Violet Enigmas) | Bash Score: 2744
- Erin (The Nefarious Pants) | Bash Score: 2740
- Dino (The Wayward Pirates) | Bash Score: 2732
- Bz (The 100 Enigmas) | Bash Score: 2724
- GFZA (The Fun Pizzas) | Bash Score: 2704
- Boolerex (The Big Flowers) | Bash Score: 2704
- Score (The Jamming Ballers) | Bash Score: 2704
- N/A
- N/A
- Matt (The Big Rally) | Bash Score: 2664
- Darc Tech (The Arcane Robots) | Bash Score: 2660
- HP (The Jolly Jokers) | Bash Score: 2652
- Stardust (The Starbound Dinosaurs) | Bash Score: 2644
- WebBowser (The Questing Beasts) | Bash Score: 2640
- 99dash (The Golden Blazes) | Bash Score: 2600
- Choc (The Ultimate Dinosaurs) | Bash Score: 2592
- Bolimar (The Crimson Angels) | Bash Score: 2580
The median Bash Score this time was 1988. This is slightly higher than the previous median, but notably this time we're seeing a narrower range of scores at the top ranks - many more players scored well on average, but everybody took a few losses, even in the topmost ranks. With such a tight race between the representative Beasties, it follows that the competition between coaches was just as tight!
A big congratulations to all the top-scoring players!
📊 Beastie Usage Stats!
As has become tradition, we've collected a ton of data on Beastie usage during this event and we're happy to share that data with you for further investigation!
> Check out the STATS here!
In addition to these usage stats, this time around I thought it might be fun to share a little more insight into how teams were built for the different guilds. Let's look at the most common partners for the theme Beasties!
Plumask
- Fetcham - 26.8%
- Froofulks - 23.7%
- Hopra - 20.7%
- Mistic - 16.6%
- Surgus - 16.0%
With Plumask, we're seeing a lot of spirit attackers as partners. Typically with spirit-focused teams you'd expect to see Rally especially with Plumask's Stagecraft trait raising their defense in the crowd. But in practice, the top 4 of these 5 Beasties aren't actually Rally users! Perhaps spirit users are finding success just focusing on attackers without a lot of Rally support.
Albrax
- Mistic - 21.7%
- Crabaret - 21.0%
- Trat - 20.8%
- Armantis - 17.0%
- (Tie!) Platypulse, Garood - 15.5%
We saw more diversity on Albrax teams, perhaps demonstrating the way Albrax fits well into many different compositions. There's definitely a bit more of a Mind-type bent here.
Skulkapi
- Armantis - 29.2%
- Wottle - 20.7%
- Daredillo - 17.2%
- Illugus - 16.0%
- Supilero - 14.8%
Skulkapi definitely had a perfect pairing which players honed in on in Armantis, who loves to occupy the net and can take advantage of Skulkapi's lane guarding abilities to more consistently proc Power Forward. Across the board, we saw more bulky Beasties here... it seems Skulkapi players liked playing a bit more slow and steady. It nearly won them the race, but alas, not this time!
🙇 Thank you!!!
This upcoming week will include the one-year anniversary of Beastieball's early access launch! We're still in between major balance patches/milestones, so don't expect any big updates this week... but we do have a new little something we've been cooking up that advanced players will definitely be interested in. Look out for an announcement in the near future with something to test in the experimental branch!