[Nuke Event] Total Drama Orbis - Round 1

[Hatebi]

Better late than never, get ready for...
Total Drama Orbis!

Good morning campers! It's been a little while, huh? Especially considering I said the next big Arrgh event would be soon™ way back in January. Want to know what happened? Sure, I'll fill you in: YOU GUYS HAPPENED! There's been like what, 5 wars since then? Look, that's just way too many. How can we be expected to put on a show when the stage is already booked 4 months in advance? No, it's clear, we've gone way too far in the other direction on this stuff. Now y'all have too much hate & hostility in your hearts. I'm afraid there's only one cure: the indomitable POWER OF FRIENDSHIP! Yes, this will be the world's first...
Team-Based Nuke Event!

Meet the Team(s)
For this event, every participant alliance will be paired with an alliance they are not currently signed to forming a "team". What does this mean for you? Simple: you and your teammate will effectively act as one alliance for the purpose of this nuke event. Which is to say, if you're the last team left standing by the end, both you and your teammate will be getting nuked!  Teamwork and coordination between you and your partner will be essential to getting yourselves removed from the target list. Now, let's meet our lucky contestants!

Team Gardening Grandmas
Rose & Grumpy

Team Snow Birds
The Syndicate & Weaponized Assault Penguins

Team First Contact
Eclipse & Black Knights

Team Crunchyroll & Chill
The Fighting Pacifists & Weebunism

Team Watchful Wardens
Spectre & Guardian

Team Orbital Orcs
Event Horizon & The Sword Coast

Team Windrunning Romans
The Knights Radiant & The Legion

Here's a neat little graphic for those of you in attendance who are more use to picture books than word books. 



What is a Nuke Event Anyways?
If this is your first rodeo, these nuke events take place on the forums and determine who Arrgh's next nuke run target will be. This event will consist of 3 rounds, with each round presenting an opportunity for two of our featured seven teams to be eliminated. After the third and final round, whichever team is left standing will be our target and receive a world-class, once in a generation MEGA BARRRAGE of premo Arrgh nukes & missiles. In addition to the whole team gimmick, we've got a second twist: each round will have a completely different minigame to play! So if your team ends up sucking at this one, you might fair better at the next. We good on the basics? Great, now let me introduce you to our first game: Balance!

How to Play: Balance
With that out of the way, let's get into the fun stuff. For this first round, you and your partner are going to be tasked with balancing the votes for your team as closely as possible. Using team First Contact as an example, if Eclipse has 30 votes, Black Knights will want their vote count to be as close to that as possible. The two teams with the smallest gap between their votes will be removed from the event and spared a nuking. To prevent any "luigi wins by doing nothing" incidents, your team must have a combined total of at least 20 votes. Anything less and you'll be stuck on the target list. 

Some quick advice for ya, you can only vote for a single option on the poll. You'll have to decide between either balancing your own team or unbalancing another. Working with your teammates to have a big impact on the votes will be vital.

Buying Points
Poor balance? Worried someone will mass vote for one of your teammates near closing time? We've got you covered. We're selling Extra Points for the dirt cheap price of 50M each! Purchased Extra Points will automatically go towards whichever alliance on your team has the smallest vote count, bringing the vote gap closer to 0. Once you've hit the perfect score of 0, all remaining Extra Points will bring it into the negatives. If multiple teams hit a perfect score of 0, the team with the biggest negative score will take priority in being saved. If there's still a tie after factoring in Extra Points, the team with the higher vote count overall will take priority. Extra Points will only be revealed at the start of Round 2. Interested in buying Extra Points? Shoot me (Hatebi) a DM on discord or open a ticket in the Arrgh server! Extra Point sales will close immediately after May 16th's DC, so don't delay too long. 

Schedule
Round 1: May 13th DC - May 16th DC
Round 2: May 17th DC - May 20th DC
Round 3: May 21st DC - May 24th DC
Hit Date: May 25th, after DC

There'll be a 1 day break between each round for us to calculate the results, whip up the next forum post and, after the third round, prepare to smack whichever unfortunate team hasn't eliminated themselves. 

Misc. Stuff
- Full anonymity. The identity of all Extra Point buyers will not be revealed. 
- Interested in joining in on the fun? As usual, we're extending an open invitation to temporarily join Arrgh, nuke some peeps, get paid and leave once we're done. 
- Think the chosen alliances and teams look a little weird? Yeah, me too. We'll be doing a little behind the scenes section in the final forum post, but just to hold you over until then, the team list has been ship of theseused like 4 times since we started planning the event. 
- Some cool hints for the next games for people who read this section: Round 2 will be easy for teams with large member counts, while Round 3 will be much easier for smaller member count teams. Neither will feature a poll. 
- Credit for the event artwork goes to my friend reg00 (she also did the art for the Wheel of Misfortune). Alliance portraits were drawn by the very talented @EL DOMO

As always,
Arrgh!

Edited May 14 by Hatebi

[EL DOMO]

 

[MBaku]

Have fun suckers 

 

[Mac]

😆

[hidude45454]

Bold of you to think PnW players know how to make two numbers equal to each other given the past few years of global conflict

[Monti]

I fricking love total drama island 

[Jacob Knox]

Another fun 10/10 nuke event from Hatebi.

[Uncle Iroh]

[hillbilly]

I'm too grumpy fer this.

[Williamson]

Best of luck friends! 🫶

[Athena Meli Waya]

Arrgh! 

[Vilktakis]

 

[Chima]

Yam

[Anas]

I like the alliances personifications 

[Mayor]

On 5/13/2025 at 4:57 PM, Hatebi said:

These are really accurate... well done.

[Robert2424]

So....what happens if everyone is equal?

[Shuayb]

Who's hitting Arrgh this time?

[ranoss]

can't wait to keep rosians warm and glowing

[Gul le Necro]

Arrgh Nuke event, best event !

[Sinisa Vuco]

👍

I believe Alex should consider bringing you onto the event creator team at P&W. Your events are genuinely more engaging and entertaining than those typically created by the game developers. They’re fun, dynamic, and far more interesting than the usual 'collect-the-reward(ex: easter eggs)' tasks. Even when things go sideways, it’s still a great time!

[Don Juan]

Have you considered that there is the option of alliances banding together to roll Arrgh? I don't think you hold the cards you seem to think you do.

[Vasya Nyasha]

36 minutes ago, Don Juan said:

Have you considered that there is the option of alliances banding together to roll Arrgh? I don't think you hold the cards you seem to think you do.

[Sir Scarfalot]

5 hours ago, Don Juan said:

Have you considered that there is the option of alliances banding together to roll Arrgh? I don't think you hold the cards you seem to think you do.

Can't be done. It's been tried, a lot, but you can't do damage to someone that has nothing to lose and doesn't need military to achieve their goals.

[Kurdanak]

130 people (as of now) spending their Friday night staring at a forum poll, this is truly a moment.

[Don Juan]

3 hours ago, Sir Scarfalot said:

Can't be done. It's been tried, a lot, but you can't do damage to someone that has nothing to lose and doesn't need military to achieve their goals.

You realise that they couldn't do so much damage in return as they get extorting through this sort of stuff if people are silly enough to pay. And you can coordinate to take down nuke numbers, it isn't an insurmountable task. You sound like you're pre-defeated. There have been past campaigns against factions like Arrgh which have been successful. Papers Please etc.