Five different gaming rooms on Pokémon Showdown are offering you a medley of games to compete in over the next three weeks! Earn more points than anyone else to reach the top! Each of these rooms regularly host both smaller games and larger events that award Winter Gaming Olympics (WGO) points. So how can you maximize your WGO success? That's where this Tips and Tricks Guide comes in: to give you the secrets of the Winter Gaming Olympics!
Battle Dome is a room where you play a role-playing game with magic, strategy, and luck! Play with or against other mages and warriors in our wide variety of game modes. We provide over 100 different class + weapon combinations so that you can play as your favorites.
Get ready for dozens of minigames; creative, interactive, userhosted games; and fast-paced scripted games in our humble little Game Corner! Feeling lucky? Ready to test your knowledge? Got fast fingers? With so much variety everywhere you look, there is something to be enjoyed by everyone!
Who can you trust? A twist on the murder mystery genre, mafia is a game of trickery, deceit, and social deduction. Will you problem-solve with the rest of the town, sleuthing and voting out mafia members? Or will you lie your way to victory as mafia, picking off town players one by one? For lovers of strategy and deception, the mafia room is the number one stop!
No single game is the same in this boundless room. We dabble in quick trivia, complex puzzles and everything in between. We have many special styles of hunts and questions, so there's never a boring moment in Scavengers. When you're not solving a hunt, try creating your own questions to challenge your fellow scavengers.
Trivia is the room where you can show off your vast knowledge of useless topics, be it Pokémon or the 28th Vice President of the United States. You can take turns asking and answering questions in under a minute in our Blitz minigame or try your hand at our scripted officials held six times a day, where the winner gets a boatload of points!
Hidden Value in Each Room
Ready for some pointers? There are two primary ways to get points in WGO, and the first way is to play regular games: these games are the meat and potatoes of WGO. But the mouth-watering dessert is the big, special events that every room is offering for a chance at the big points! So which way is better? Well, that's the trick: to take hold of victory in WGO, you've gotta have a balanced meal. So let's learn what each room has on the menu!
Big Time Events in Battle Dome and Mafia
Each room will host special events, but Battle Dome and Mafia will host the most of them; the two rooms will alternate hosting a big event every day. However, smaller, unscheduled games for points will also happen regularly throughout the day in each room. Remember that these rooms are very different types of games. Battle Dome is a board-and-dice game based on combat, while Mafia is a psychological game of calculation and deception. To get the most points, master both strategies!
Zero Gravity Circus
There are no limits to what you can walk on, but gravity will pull you in random directions!
90 points for the winner(s) and 40 for participation, as well as an additional 2 per kill.
The Floor is Lava
Your favorite childhood game experienced in Battle Dome!
90 points for the winner(s) and 40 for participation, as well as an additional 2 per kill.
Auth Trio
A Battle in the Dome style game where instead of gaining one passive ability and an extra skill, you can pick three of each!
90 points for the winner(s) and 40 for participation, as well as an additional 2 per kill.
Delibird PvP
Fight each other with the special skill known as Present!
90 points for the winner(s) and 40 for participation, as well as an additional 2 per kill.
Random Teams PvP
A team fight where teams change every other turn!
90 points for the winner(s) and 40 for participation, as well as an additional 2 per kill.
Speed Tourney
A full Battle Dome tournament hosted entirely in one game!
90 points for the winner(s) and 40 for participation, as well as an additional 2 per kill.
WGO Raid
A huge team fight against a powerful foe with a twist: afterwards you'll have to face each other!
180 points for the winner(s) and 80 for participation, as well as additional kill points (+4 per kill).
Hydra
Two heads are better than one! In this event, players use joint accounts for double the lying and double the fun.
90 points each for the winning team, +30 for MVP.
Game Corner Crossover
Discover the Pokémon identities of your foes to eliminate the competition!
90 points each for the winning team, +30 for MVP.
Free For All
Beginning alone, you must form alliances to survive... but who can you trust?
125 points for the winner, 100/75/50/25 for the rest of the top 5, 10 for 6th through 10th.
Sacrifice Tournament
A duo-vs-duo tournament format where you'll have to trust your partner to advance to the next round... where you'll receive an entirely new partner! Adapt to your partner to advance!
100 points each for the winning team, 75 each for the runner-up team, 50 each for the semi-finalist teams.
Trivia Crossover
Answer questions to unlock advantages over your opponents in this spin on Mafia!
90 points each for the winning team, +30 for MVP.
Mafia Anonymous
Preconceptions mean nothing in this format, where even your username and identity is a secret from everyone.
90 points each for the winning team, +30 for MVP.
Battle Dome Crossover
Special knowledge about your opponents versus strength in numbers. Will your team win?
90 points for the winner(s) and 40 for participation, as well as an additional 2 per kill.
Mafia's Idea
Mafia played with never-before seen roles: a cornucopia of possibilities!
180 points each for the winning team, +60 for MVP.
Every Hour Scavengers
Scavengers will host scheduled games every single hour on the hour all throughout WGO, so you always know when to be there for the start of the next game. Each game will offer three brand new, uniquely creative pieces of information to uncover or puzzles to solve, so the next three-pronged expedition is always less than an hour away!
(1) KO (Knockout) Games
An elimination round challenge! The last person to finish each hunt gets eliminated, until the last man remains standing!
125/100/75/50/25 points for the top 5, 10 for participation
(2) KO (Knockout) Games
An elimination round challenge! The last person to finish each hunt gets eliminated, until the last man remains standing!
125/100/75/50/25 points for the top 5, 10 for participation
Puzzle Weekend
Hosted by Scavengers' own puzzle masters, form groups to take on Scavengers' most daunting challenge over this fun and pain-filled weekend!.
30 points per puzzle solved, 25 for the meta puzzle hidden within the rest, +175 for winning team, +125 for second place, +75 for third
Team Scavengers
Combine efforts with your fellow Scavengers to solve a series of puzzle hunts!
Four hunts, each worth 50/40/30/20 points to the top 4 teams to finish, in that order.
The Times to Triumph in Trivia
Trivia will also host scheduled games of knowledge and speed, held daily at 4 AM, 8 AM, 12 PM, 4 PM, 8 PM, and midnight, all in EST, for a total of six per day. Here's the important part: these games offer more points than the regular games from any other room! Trivia also offers one of their many different minigames at least three times throughout each day. Make sure you try each minigame, because they all offer a different kind of strategic challenge, not to mention lots of points!
(1) Minigame Championship
Play a series of minigames including one-on-one duels and fast-paced blitzes for a chance at major points!
100 points for 1st, 75 for 2nd, 50 for 3rd, 25 for 4th, 10 for 5th, plus the minigame points earned throughout the five minigames for all participants.
(2) Minigame Championship
Play a series of minigames including one-on-one duels and fast-paced blitzes for a chance at major points!
100 points for 1st, 75 for 2nd, 50 for 3rd, 25 for 4th, 10 for 5th, plus the minigame points earned throughout the five minigames for all participants.
Ready... Get Set... Game Corner
Game Corner comes at you fast and furious! They'll hold the most total games, with several Pokémon-themed contests played every hour. They also host the most different kinds of games, with a never-ending variety that includes card games, chance games, guessing games, puzzle games, and more, so you'll be sure to find the ones you'll fall in love with!
(1) Game Tournament
If you're up to the challenge, test your might and join one of our many Tournament events, where you are pitted against another user in a randomized game and advance in a bracket-style tournament! Think you have what it takes to reach the top?
The winner gets 200 points, the runner-up 100, semifinalists 50 each, quarterfinalists 25 each, other participants 10 each
(2) Game Tournament
If you're up to the challenge, test your might and join one of our many Tournament events, where you are pitted against another user in a randomized game and advance in a bracket-style tournament! Think you have what it takes to reach the top?
The winner gets 200 points, the runner-up 100, semifinalists 50 each, quarterfinalists 25 each, other participants 10 each
(3) Game Tournament
If you're up to the challenge, test your might and join one of our many Tournament events, where you are pitted against another user in a randomized game and advance in a bracket-style tournament! Think you have what it takes to reach the top?
The winner gets 200 points, the runner-up 100, semifinalists 50 each, quarterfinalists 25 each, other participants 10 each
Game Corner Battle Frontier
Commonly referred to as GCBF, Game Corner Battle Frontier is an epic minigame challenge where users face off against a Frontier Brain who specializes in a category of games, such as Speed, Puzzle, or Luck. Defeat a Frontier Brain in a best-of-3, 1v1 competition, to receive their medal. Collect every medal to become the GCBF Champion!
50 points per medal (earnable once per medal), 50 more for champion (earnable once)
Note that the Battle Frontier is not a scheduled event and you may challenge a Brain whenever they are available and accepting challenges! More details here.
The Final Trick to Know
When you have a feast laid out in front of you, for the most satisfying meal, try a little bit of everything! There's no better way to start than to pick a place and jump in. Whether it's becoming an Axe-wielding Rifter in Battle Dome, conquering Fraxure's Battle Chain in Game Corner, scheming to the top of Mafia's Free For All, puzzling through a Psywaves question in Scavs, or taking on Trivia's Titanomachy minigame, your challenge awaits!
