Battle For Dream Island

Battle for Dream Island, abbreviated as BFDI, is a Youtube series that first began on Jan. 1st, 2010, made by jacknjellify. The show takes place in Goiky. There are a total of 25 episodes. A sequel, BFDIA, began soon afterwards.

Overview
This season involves 20 (later 21) characters who have known each other all their lives, and are casually living together. But when the host, the Announcer, falls from the sky and tells everyone about the luxurious island known as Dream Island, competition sparks, and everyone begins battling each other for the island.

In Episode 1 Part 2, the 20 contestants were divided into 2 teams.The 2 teams competed in contests at the beginning of every month, with the losing team being put up for elimination, known as Cake at Stake. The viewers then got to decide who they wanted to be eliminated between the 1st and 10th of every month, with the contestant having the most votes being eliminated, and sent to the Tiny Loser Chamber, or TLC.

In Episode 9, the teams reformed, and a 3rd team called was formed in the process. During Cake at Stake, the 2 most voted contestants would leave the losing team. The winning team would then choose one of the 2 to be on their team, with the other being eliminated.

In Episode 12, the teams dissolved, and the contestants competed as individuals. A point system was also introduced. The contestant's scores were carried out through the season, and they could earn/lose points depending on how they did in a contest. At the end of an episode, the 3-4 contestants with the lowest scores would be up for elimination, and the most voted contestant would be sent to the TLC.

In Episode 19, the point system ended, and competitors competed for immunity. 1 or 2 people won immunity each episode, with the rest of the contestants being put up for elimination, and the most voted competitor being sent to the TLC. This process continued until the final 3. The viewers then voted between the 3 finalists, with the most voted contestant winning Dream Island. After Firey won Dream Island, Leafy bought it, and it soon vanished because of that. Soon after, Announcer came back to space. This leads up to the events of BFDIA.

Cake at Stake
This is the elimination process for Battle for Dream Island; initially, the team that lost last contest, unless the last contest was a reward contest, is put up for elimination. The viewers then vote who they want to be eliminated on the losing Team between the 1st and 10th of each month. At the beginning of the next episode, the elimination ceremony, known as Cake at Stake commences.

If a contestant is safe, then they will receive a slice of cake. The competitor with the most votes will not get the cake, and will be eliminated from the battle, and thus, sent to the TLC. Since the eventual merging of the teams, the contestants that did not receive immunity (or got the lowest scores during the point system stage of the game) are put up for elimination. Typically, 3-4 contestants were put up for elimination during the merge. In certain contests, the contestants themselves got to choose who was eliminated, not the viewers.

Recommended characters
Starting in episode 10, the viewers got to create their own characters in the comments section of a video that would make cameos in the next episode. Originally, their were no restrictions on creating characters, however, starting in episode 18 ("Reveal Novum"), only one recommended character was allowed per recommender, and as of episode 23 ("Hurtful!"), no copyrighted characters were allowed to avoid lawsuits.

In Episode 17 ("The Reveal"), 30 handpicked recommended characters were chosen to be part of a special voting period, with the most voted character joining the competition. The winner of the voting was David, who joined as the 21st contestant of Battle for Dream Island.

Re-uploaded episodes
There were 2 episodes of the season that had to be re-uploaded due to fatal errors in the originals. The first was Episode 12 ("A Leg Up in the Race"). In the original, Golf Ball and Rocky were shown on the Another Name team. However, in the previous episode ("Lofty"), Golf Ball got eliminated and Rocky got moved to The Squishy Cherries, and neither of them should have been with Another Name. As a result, the episode was taken down, and a new version was uploaded, with the error fixed.

The second was Episode 20 ("Gardening Hero"). This episode was originally missing a 30-second portion that contained elimination/rejoin details and the recommended characters for that episode. The episode was later re-uploaded with that part of the episode included.

Rewards
Many contests reward the winners. Usually, the prize is immunity for the winning team/contestant(s), but sometimes the reward is an eliminated competitor/rival teammate being added/moved to the winning team. Before the points were added, contestants could also win Win Tokens for performing the best of all. If a contestant is up for elimination, they could use their Win Token to erase half of their votes, helping them stay safe during eliminations. However, they could only be used before the votes were revealed. Other rewards (BFDI posters, BFDI DDSs, teddy bears, houses) were also given out prior to reaching a new stage in the competition.

Trivia

 * Overall, there were a total of 53 characters (Excluding random Recommended Characters/Speaker Clones) in the 1st season (20 (21 if David is counted) contestants, 3 hosts, and the 30 (29 if David is not counted) hand-picked recommended characters).
 * All of the characters either had both arms and legs, were armless, or didn't have any limbs at all.
 * 33 characters have both arms and legs. (32 if Pin is not counted)
 * 10 characters are armless.
 * 10 characters have neither arms nor legs. (11 if Pin is counted)
 * None of the limbless people ever competed in this season, but Pin lost her limbs in a following season.
 * There is a sequel called Battle for Dream Island Again as confirmed in February 2012.
 * All of the finalists in this season had both arms and legs.
 * All of the finalists in this season also weighed less than 1/10th of an ounce.
 * There are a total of 6 episodes in this season in which the voters did not vote someone to be eliminated.
 * The first 3 eliminated contestants all rejoined the game.
 * Two contestants shared an antagonist role.
 * Flower is the first and last to eliminated in BFDI.
 * The first shown object in BFDI is Match and Pencil with the weird voices.
 * Before BFDI, jacknjellify had only 11 subscribers, but after, his number of subscribers grown more than a factor of 1000! (Now he has 162,000+ subs.)
 * BFDI raised jacknjellify up to the 4988th most viewed channel in the world.
 * In BFDI is mostly dry. It's rained 1 time 4 years ago and not rained after that.
 * BFDI never delayed (at least the first season).
 * BFDI also stands for Blocky's Funny Doings International, a prank company in Battle For Dream Island
 * Battle for Dream Island was premiered on New Year's Day of 2010.
 * There was no food characters in this season.
 * However, if you count recommended characters, like Fries, Pie, Eggy and Taco, there is food.