Previous Tournaments

While the full prose of these tournaments were lost in the Great Secret Fires of 2020, there were four Secret Wars tournaments between 2018 and 2020 that preceded the Hollow Knight Midterm. Below are brief summaries of each.

Secret Wars I
Secret Wars I was a standard Gelocity tournament in spring 2018. It was the first Gelocity tournament after the Great Gel Wars of 2017. It has been so long that only a few details of the tournament are still remembered today. Beecher was marked as the victor. He was made to watch Twin Peaks season 1, Atlanta season 1, and Barry season 1, all of which he enjoyed to some extent, but only with Barry would he continue watching the series after the terms expired. On the other hand, he had Jack watch a bunch of movies, as follows: the Austin Powers trilogy, The Thing, Die Hard 3, Creed, Predator, The Raid, The Raid 2, Rear Window, The Green Mile, Argo, The Fugitive, and Your Name. A lot of movies, to be sure, but Jack would soon turn the tables...

Secret Wars II
A year after the first one, Secret Wars II continued the tradition in spring 2019. Jack was the victor this time, and his terms were the following movies: Hereditary (lol), Burn After Reading, Room, About Time, Bad Times at the El Royale, Zodiac, Nightcrawler, Mulholland Drive, Lost in Translation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and the Before trilogy. Beecher, the loser, was still able to enact his terms of Mob Psycho 100 and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, the latter of which would have a profound impact on Jack's psyche for the years to come.

Cuphead Midterm
In fall 2019, Beecher and Jack finally figured out a game to do a midterm for, boss speedruns in the game Cuphead. It was a best-of-19 (first to 10) grudge match of every boss in the game, and in a shocking blowout, Beecher came out on top with a decisive, historic, landslide victory of 10 to 2. Humiliated, Jack was forced to play Dark Souls, in an attempt by Beecher to get him to finally appreciate the wonders of the genre. But with the advanced age and overall user-unfriendliness of the first Dark Souls, especially on PC, this attempt was far from successful. He fulfilled his term to ring the bells of awakening, then tossed the game into the flames of Mt. Doom and vowed to never play Dark Souls or a Soulslike again as long as he lived. Meanwhile, Beecher had to watch (surprise, surprise) more movies. He watched six episodes of literal cringe-fest Nathan for You, then watched Inside Llewyn Davis, Paddington, Paddington 2, and The Nice Guys.

Secret Wars III
Finally, in spring 2020, Secret Wars III was underway. While Beecher took off to an early lead, Jack would then decisively take the remaining games to win the tournament. In a shocking plot twist, Beecher had to watch more movies. They were as follows: What We Do in the Shadows, 5 episodes of the WWDitS TV show, Lady Bird, 1917, Frances Ha, The Death of Stalin, Ready or Not, Good Time, Drive, Uncut Gems, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, BlacKkKlansman, Snowpiercer, and Memories of Murder One Cut of the Dead. On the other hand, Beecher gave Jack two underrated epic indie gems: Celeste and Hollow Knight. He enjoyed Celeste, though stayed as far as humanly possible away from the B/C-sides and Chapters 8-9. He also surprisingly loved Hollow Knight. He finished it, then went back to it and obtained the true ending and 90-something percent completion, doing pretty much everything the game had to offer except for the hardest bosses and a few random collectibles.

The Future
Finally, with the introduction of this wiki, every tournament starting with the Hollow Knight Midterm will be properly chronicled. Hopefully, this wiki does not meet the same fate as the previous, and all pages will stand the test of time.