Secret Wars IV

Secret Wars IV shall be the fourth tournament in the illustrious Secret Wars series. By previous trends, it is estimated to take place some time in Summer 2021.

Barring anything crazy, the rules, contestants, and term rules will remain the same as prior. Secret Wars IV will mark a historic milestone in Gelocity history. Including the OG series and all midterms, it will be the tenth tournament overall. Not only that, but not even the original Gelocity ever made it to IV.

As for terms, that as always will be decided at the last possible minute. Beecher has only one potential idea for now (guh huh), but otherwise has exhausted his reserve of essential media recommendations over the years. On the other hand, the sun will die before Jack runs out of movies to recommend, so another 10-pack is incredibly likely. But only time will tell.

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The tournament kicked off in stunning fashion on the night of June 10, 2021. After 10+ minutes of pre-game Invincible discussion, they were quite literally off to the races. Jack won the first two maps in a close race, with Beecher forgetting how portals work in the final stretches of the first race, this brought the set count up to 1-0 in Jack's favor. Moving into the second set, Beecher would go on to strike back with the next two games, including one where Jack's brain broke on a puzzle and cost him 30 seconds early on which he never recovered from. This is despite, as some sources say, Gelocity having very good comeback mechanics.

With a tied 1-1 score, it all came down to the final set. On the first game, Jack somehow died on the infamous fan drop in which an honor rule is in place. They kept playing, because 5 seconds later Beecher once again forgot how portals worked and fell into the goo, evening it up. Beecher won a close race, securing game point. The second game was quite dominant for Beecher, that is until the very end when Jack used one of the extendable walls and stopped him dead in his tracks on the final lap. This is the first and probably last time in recorded history that those walls will have an impact. Jack won and brought things dead even to a final game. The final game had no particularly noteworthy moments, but one fatal mistake cost Jack significant time, and Beecher secured the game, the set, and Secret Wars IV.

As a result, Beecher is spared from a few movies (now having to watch 7 + TV episodes as opposed to last year's 13-14 + TV episodes), and Jack watches The Boys, a show he probably would have watched anyway. Secret Wars as a whole is now at an even 2-2 between our competitors; counting the previous era, Gelocity is 4-3 in Beecher's favor; and counting midterms as well, 6-4 in Beecher's favor. Perhaps next year Jack will turn the tides, but the stakes are low because Beecher will have the struggle of his life coming up with any more terms.

* If you need any help getting it set up, I gotchu. You'll be able to use save states for massive quality of life, and you'll probably need them if you're trying to actually finish the game. Just have to be careful with them to not accidentally lose hours of progress.

** As for the game itself, no set hours or anything, just play it for however long you like. Remember that I have the entire game world downloaded into my brain, so I'll be able to answer any and all questions of where to go or what to do.