Bouquets of Whimsy

MM1: BOUQUETS OF WHIMSY

In this very simple Main Match, players try to make bouquets of love to decorate the dance with. These bouquets are scattered all around a 4x4 Gridius Game 4 garden. There will be just 4 rounds. In each round, players must submit for a TILE they go to collect a bouquet. If there is one player at that tile, they will be able to collect that bouquet. If there is more than one player, they will all fight because we, as humans, are predisposed to conflict, and will be unable to collect the bouquet. You may not return to the tile you just visited, or any tile orthogonally connected to it, next round. Flowers that are collected will be replaced by another flower, following this cycle: red flowers → blue flowers → green flowers → yellow flowers → red flowers.

Additionally, there are wonderful Shaymins flying around the garden. You may decide to murder a Shaymin and take their Gracidea, a magical flower that can be any type of flower you want. However, if more than 5 players murder Shaymins, the pungent odor of the corpses will incur the wrath of chaotic_iak and all players who murdered Shaymins this round will be cursed — all their flowers will shrivel immediately. For shame!

You may also spend 1 garnet on any given round to double your potential flower intake. However, if you are unable to retrieve a flower, you will be given -1 flower(s) of the type(s) you tried to retrieve. Yes, those exist. Deal with it. This cost doubles with each use.

INFORMATION

At the end of each round, all players' tile submissions are revealed, and it will be revealed who collected which flowers from the garden. The next round's garden will also be revealed.

It will not be publicly revealed whether players spent garnets or killed Shaymins, unless more than 5 players killed Shaymins. If so, the wrath of chaotic_iak will be made public and all players who killed Shaymins that round will be publicly shamed.

You will privately always know how many flowers you have of each type.

SUBMISSIONS

You must submit a tile, whether you decide to use garnets, and whether you decide to murder a Shaymin. If you murder a Shaymin, please submit what flower you would want your Gracidea to be.

Missed submissions will be randomized, and you will always murder Shaymin.

RESULTS

At the end of the MM, the player who collected the most flowers of the flower type collected the most overall wins 3 Tokens of Life. If there is a two-way tie, both players win 2 Tokens of Life. If there is a 3-to-5-way tie, all tied players receive a Token of Life. If there are more than 5 players tied, all Tokens earned through this win condition are nullified. The player who collected the most flowers of the second most type overall also wins a bonus Token of Life. If there is a tie, all tied players receive a bonus Token of Life, up to a maximum of 2. If more than 2 players tie for this win condition, all players who tied have their Token nullified. The player who collected the least flowers of the flower type collected the most is the first Elimination Candidate. The player who collected the least flowers of the flower type collected second most is the second Elimination Candidate. Elimination Candidate takes precedence over Bonus Tokens. If there is a tie, the winners of the MM will break it.

You satisfy the "Grunkle Squeaky win-con" for this MM if you collected the second most flowers of the flower type collected the most overall and do not win a bonus Token of Life.