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The War of the TwitchPlays (Lets Play)

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The War of the TwitchPlays (Lets Play)	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Twitch Plays Pokémon (TPP), Twitch Plays Speedruns (TPS) and Twitch Plays Paper Mario (TPPM) are a series of social experiments in which commands representing buttons on an original Nintendo or non-Nintendo console (up, down, left, right, A, B, start, select, etc.) are entered into a chat on Twitch, and then translated into a game of Pokémon, Mario, or any other franchise via an IRC bot. In short, hundreds of people are fighting over a controller. Throughout their life, Twitch Plays Pokémon, Twitch Plays Speedruns and Twitch Plays Paper Mario have spawned hilarious characters, memorable moments, and even a few religions.The War of the TwitchPlays, alternatively titled as Twitch Plays Pokémon Red/Green/Blue Race, is a crossover event between Twitch Plays Pokémon, Twitch Plays Speedruns, and Twitch Plays Paper Mario, in which all three streams competed to complete a specific version of Pokémon Red, Green and Blue, which were modified in order to eliminate all known cases of softlocking and sequence breaking. Twitch Plays Speedruns played on Pokémon Red, Twitch Plays Paper Mario was attributed Pokémon Blue, and Twitch Plays Pokémon ran Pokémon Green, a "localized" version of the Japanese Pokémon Bluenote The international versions of Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue are both based on the engine of the Japanese Pokémon Blue and feature the same sprites and maps, but use the Pokémon locations and trades from the Japanese Pokémon Red and Pokémon Green respectively, whereas the Japanese Pokémon Blue has its own unique trades and locations.. Red/Green/Blue Race is also the third main run of the eighth season of TPP, and its fifty-second main run overall.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The event started on May 8th, 2021. TPS named their Trainer "AAAAAAA" and picked a Squirtle named "NN" as their starter, and as a result eventually dropped their initial plan of getting a Nidoking in favour of focusing on Blastoise. TPP played as a Host named "B" and chose a Bulbasaur that they named "ABAAABBBBK" as their first Pokémon, and went for a strategy that centered around a Gengar obtained from an in-game trade. TPPM took control of a Trainer named "AAAA" and began their journey with an unnamed Bulbasaur, and used their Moon Stone to obtain a Nidoking with an instant K.O. move that could be boosted through the use of X Accuracy.The race concluded on May 10th, 2021. Twitch Plays Pokémon came in first, clocking in at 1 day, 3 hours, 34 minutes and 15 seconds, making RGB Race the fastest run beaten in the history of the channel so far. Twitch Plays Paper Mario came second, with a time of 1 day, 7 hours, 22 minutes and 42 seconds, and went on to capture Mewtwo, naming it "MEWTHREE". Finally, Twitch Plays Speedruns arrived in third place, at 1 day, 11 hours, 3 minutes and 13 seconds, beating their previous Pokémon Red timenote 2 days, 1 hour, 19 minutes and 53 seconds by over 14 hours.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })The teaser trailer for the event can be seen here. The second trailer is available here.See also here for the archived status of Pokémon Green, or the archived screenshots for Pokémon Red, Pokémon Green, and Pokémon Blue. The modified ROMs used for the race have been made available here in the form of IPS and BPS patches.
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The War of the TwitchPlays (Lets Play) / int_117d2e1f	comment	Fauxshadowing: TPPM stocked up on X Accuracy items in order to bypass the accuracy check of Nidoking's Horn Drill attack, thus making it go from a 30% chance of a One-Hit Kill to a guaranteed One-Hit Kill, but said items ultimately ended up unused as the stream's player feared the resulting constant menu navigation would leave them too open to malicious inputs.
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The War of the TwitchPlays (Lets Play) / int_2055231	comment	Leaked Experience: Most of the time, the Blue team kept a weaker Pokémon at the front of the party, in order to switch it out for a stronger one and benefit from the shared experience both Pokémon obtained, thus allowing for a more balanced level distribution across their party. Averted however after taking a loss or before fighting certain bosses, in which case HA the Nidoking, the strongest member of the party by far, was temporarily moved to the front of the party in order to deny the opponent a free hit.
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The War of the TwitchPlays (Lets Play) / int_3ee5fd12	comment	One-Letter Name: The Host of Pokémon Green was named "B". The Pokémon Red team featured a Dugtrio named "A".
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The War of the TwitchPlays (Lets Play) / int_6602cad	comment	One the Blue side of things, one of the most noteworthy examples was a regular player from TPP who purposefully fled in front of Zapdos, rendering its capture permanently impossible.
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The War of the TwitchPlays (Lets Play) / int_7833feeb	comment	Sudden Name Change: After beating the game, several of the party members from Blue were taken to the Name Rater for a name change. HA the Nidoking became "RACCATTACK", VENUSAUR became "DOM", and SPARK the Jolteon became " dog ?!".
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The War of the TwitchPlays (Lets Play) / int_858dc9aa	comment	Unwinnable: Discussed and defied. The ROMs used for the race patched out the majority of known softlock situations, such as limiting the duration of the frozen status and of the move Rage to 25 turns, making it so that Struggle affects Ghost-types, letting players afford the Safari Zone entrance fee or the Vending Machine drinks even if they have no money left, and fixing the glitched tiles of Cinnabar Island entirely. With that said, the rules mentioned two cases in which streamers would be allowed to load the last useable savestate: getting stuck on Cinnabar with no Pokémon that knows Surf and no way to obtain one, or getting stuck with a team of Pokémon without any damage-dealing moves.
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The War of the TwitchPlays (Lets Play) / int_875d8ab9	comment	Utility Party Member: On the Green team, Lapras and Spearow served the sole purpose of using Surf, Strength and Fly respectively, and were virtually useless in battle due to their low level.
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The War of the TwitchPlays (Lets Play) / int_a414c3f0	comment	One-Hit Kill: The Nidoking from Blue knew the move Horn Drill, which has a 30% chance of killing the opponent's Pokémon in a single hit. TPPM players thus stocked up on X Accuracy items, which cause the Pokémon they're used on to completely bypass accuracy checks, turning it into a literally infallible instant kill attack; however, they ultimately didn't go through with that plan due to fear of it being too easily exploited by malicious inputters.
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The War of the TwitchPlays (Lets Play) / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
The War of the TwitchPlays (Lets Play) / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: The Hall of Fame team of Green featured ABAAABBBBK, AAAAII, BB, B!♂, UaabB, and HECTOR, the latter owing its non-gibberish name to having been obtained through an in-game trade. The Hall of Fame team of Red was made up of NN, A and JK on the "Aerith" side of the trope, and of VILEPLUME, JOLTEON and Birb on the "Bob" side of it. The Blue team mostly averted this trope, but was this in comparison to the other two, with a Hall of Fame team composed of VENUSAUR, SPARK, FEESH, FIST!, HA, and CAPONE. The games' respective Rivals were named AAAAAA in Red, AAAAAAA in Blue, and Blue in Green.
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The War of the TwitchPlays (Lets Play) / int_c3c18143	comment	One particularly notable and infamous example was the whole Route 22 fiasco in Red. "Mole" players led Red all the way through Victory Road despite not having earned the Earth Badge yetnote Said malicious players claimed that it not appearing in the Trainer menu was a rare glitch that let you beat Giovanni twice at the risk of softlocking the game, forcing them to walk all the way back to Viridian City. They then got Red stuck on Route 22 for an absurdly long time by constantly jumping off the ledge, and once they finally made it through, flew them all the way back to Pallet Town. It's far from unreasonable to argue that this event alone has greatly contributed to Red coming in third place.
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The War of the TwitchPlays (Lets Play) / int_c3db1619	comment	This was also ZigZagged on a few occasions, such as when malicious players led Blue to a PC with the intent of releasing part of their team, only for another flock of players to rush to the chat in order prevent it.
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The War of the TwitchPlays (Lets Play) / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: The second trailer includes the line "In world that doesn't care... and didn't ask", poking fun at how much it is over-hyping the event given its actual relative unimportance. It also builds up with footage of fast-paced parkour tricks, intense athletic competitions and impressive agility feats all set to epic music... to a silent shot of a single person typing on their computer. One of the shots used to illustrate Twitch Plays Pokémon in the trailer is a clip of a Shiny Graveler being released.
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The War of the TwitchPlays (Lets Play) / int_d0ea147f	type	A.I. Breaker
The War of the TwitchPlays (Lets Play) / int_d0ea147f	comment	A.I. Breaker: Invoked in all three teams, with each one including at least one Poison-type in order to trick Lance into using the non-damaging Psychic-type move Agility, as the AI always favors super-effective attacks even if they deal no damage whatsoever. The Green team had HECTOR the Gengar, the Blue team had HA the Nidoking, and the Red team had VILEPLUME the Vileplume.
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The War of the TwitchPlays (Lets Play) / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
The War of the TwitchPlays (Lets Play) / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: The second trailer features epic orchestral music, intense narration that hypes up the race as "one of the single greatest events ever held" and "our generation's most important question", and fast-paced editing that mixes in gameplay clips with panoramic landscape shots, footage of actual sports competitions and athletic feats... and people typing on their computer, which you'd almost forget is ultimately all the event itself consists of.
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The War of the TwitchPlays (Lets Play) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
The War of the TwitchPlays (Lets Play) / int_e545e190	comment	Nerf: TPS and TPPM both use long held inputs and macros for lists of inputs, the maximum duration of which was reduced to only one second for the duration of the race in order to make it more fair, as TPP does not have access to any kind of similar system.
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The War of the TwitchPlays (Lets Play) / int_e70127	type	The Mole
The War of the TwitchPlays (Lets Play) / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Expectedly, there were multiple instances in which players from one stream would jump onto another in order to purposefully hinder them; most of the time, it was TPP players trying to stall TPS or TPPM, due to their much larger playerbase. The rules of the race explicitly stated that while all three channels were to moderate their playerbase as they saw fit, they had also agreed to not punish such behaviour aside from extreme cases. One particularly notable and infamous example was the whole Route 22 fiasco in Red. "Mole" players led Red all the way through Victory Road despite not having earned the Earth Badge yetnote Said malicious players claimed that it not appearing in the Trainer menu was a rare glitch that let you beat Giovanni twice at the risk of softlocking the game, forcing them to walk all the way back to Viridian City. They then got Red stuck on Route 22 for an absurdly long time by constantly jumping off the ledge, and once they finally made it through, flew them all the way back to Pallet Town. It's far from unreasonable to argue that this event alone has greatly contributed to Red coming in third place. One the Blue side of things, one of the most noteworthy examples was a regular player from TPP who purposefully fled in front of Zapdos, rendering its capture permanently impossible. This was also ZigZagged on a few occasions, such as when malicious players led Blue to a PC with the intent of releasing part of their team, only for another flock of players to rush to the chat in order prevent it.
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The War of the TwitchPlays (Lets Play) / int_eb7c34cf	type	Crossover
The War of the TwitchPlays (Lets Play) / int_eb7c34cf	comment	Crossover: The race was a three-way crossover between Twitch Plays Pokémon, Twitch Plays Speedruns, and Twitch Plays Paper Mario, as each one tried to beat their respective version of Pokémon first. During the event, each stream broadcasted the other two on the side of their respective overlays.
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The War of the TwitchPlays (Lets Play) / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
The War of the TwitchPlays (Lets Play) / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One Steve Limit: Averted with the Host from Red and the Rival from Blue, which were both named AAAAAAA.
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The War of the TwitchPlays (Lets Play) / int_eeb4a5eb	type	Anti-Climax
The War of the TwitchPlays (Lets Play) / int_eeb4a5eb	comment	The second trailer includes the line "In world that doesn't care... and didn't ask", poking fun at how much it is over-hyping the event given its actual relative unimportance. It also builds up with footage of fast-paced parkour tricks, intense athletic competitions and impressive agility feats all set to epic music... to a silent shot of a single person typing on their computer.
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The War of the TwitchPlays (Lets Play) / int_fb111d49	type	Sequence Breaking
The War of the TwitchPlays (Lets Play) / int_fb111d49	comment	Sequence Breaking: Defied. The games were modified specifically to avoid this, patching out several of the most well known programming oversights that would allow players to skip certain events. One of the most notable exemples is that Poké Dolls can no longer be used to run from the Ghost Marowak inside the Pokémon Tower, a trick that's commonly used to skip the Rocket Hidout section entirely. Similarly, a glitch that would allow players to enter the Cycling Road without a Bicycle by holding the left button during the guard's dialogue was also patched out.
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