Battle for BFB

Don't you want to battle to win a prize?

Battle for BFB and Battle for BFDI (BFB) are two segments that make up the fourth season of the Battle for Dream Island series and the successor to the third season IDFB. It premiered on November 3, 2017, with the release of "Getting Teardrop to Talk".

A fifth season, known as Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two, aired simultaneously. It was announced to premiere on January 9, 2021, but due to bugs with the intro, it premiered on January 10, 2021. A sixth season is also planned to be made after BFB ends.

The prize used to be a BFDI, but Four upgraded it to a BFB to keep contestants competing. In "X Marks the Spot", he added the original prize (a BFDI) back to the prize pool, making BFB the first season to have two prizes.

Overview
Unlike IDFB, Battle for BFDI goes back to the traditional format of challenges and eliminations, similar to the first and second seasons. The elimination style changed to a choice of saving rather than eliminating in BFB 17.

The art style is more simplified and animated more loosely, which in turn allowed the running time of the first episode to be nearly half an hour-long, and later episodes to be able to be made within a shorter time frame.

Many unexplained plot changes have happened to let new characters join the cast and for old characters to return. Additionally, Profily debuted as a contestant in "The Hidden Contestant".

The first episode, "Getting Teardrop to Talk", introduces the fourth season's cast as well as the new hosts, Four and X from the 2008 jacknjellify video, "X Finds Out His Value".

Although the release of IDFB confirmed the end of BFDIA, the release of BFB does not confirm the end of IDFB. Since all of the characters are present (except for Evil Leafy and Nonexisty), including the ones that were originally trapped in the Locker of Losers, this might mean that IDFB is not cancelled and BFB takes place sometime in the future. However, it is highly possible, as stated by Cary in his BFB 1 reaction video.

Remaining contestants (Finalists)



 * Flower
 * Gelatin

Hosts

 * Four (BFB 1-BFB 6, BFB 10-BFB 27)
 * Donut (BFB 6-BFB 9)
 * X (BFB 9-BFB 10)
 * Announcer (BFB 28-present)
 * Purple Face (BFB 29)

Season 4a

 * Pencil ("Lick Your Way to Freedom": 4,595 downvotes)
 * Bracelety ("Today's Very Special Episode": 9,168 downvotes)
 * Liy ("Fortunate Ben": 7,553 downvotes)
 * Roboty ("Four Goes Too Far": 8,254 downvotes)
 * 8-Ball ("Questions Answered": 4,814 downvotes)
 * Stapy ("This Episode Is About Basketball": 9,028 downvotes)
 * David ("Enter the Exit": 11,292 downvotes)
 * Match ("What Do You Think of Roleplay?": 12,758 downvotes)
 * Firey Jr. ("Return of the Rocket Ship": 10,000 downvotes)
 * Dora ("The Four is Lava": 11,109 downvotes)
 * Barf Bag, Basketball, Bell, Black Hole, Bomby, Book, Bottle, Cake, Clock, Cloudy, Coiny, Donut, Eggy, Eraser, Fanny, Foldy, Fries, Gaty, Golf Ball, Ice Cube, Lightning, Marker, Naily, Needle, Nickel, Pen, Pie, Pillow, Pin, Puffball, Remote, Robot Flower, Rocky, Saw, Snowball, Tennis Ball, TV, Tree, and Yellow Face ("The Escape from Four": Left to join The Power of Two)

Season 4b

 * Balloony ("Take the Tower": 3,516 upvotes)
 * Spongy ("How Loe Can You Grow?": 3,283 upvotes)
 * Ruby ("A Taste of Space": 7,573 upvotes)
 * Loser ("Let's Raid the Warehouse": 5,600 upvotes)
 * Taco ("Who Stole Donut's Diary?": 10,565 upvotes)
 * Bubble ("Fashion For Your Face!": 6,374 upvotes)
 * Blocky ("The Game Has Changed": 11,229 upvotes)
 * Firey ("The Tweested Temple": 12,705 upvotes)
 * Woody ("The Hidden Contestant": 9,843 upvotes)
 * Profily ("The Hidden Contestant": Disqualified)
 * Lollipop ("Uprooting Everything": 9,684 upvotes)
 * Leafy ("B.F.B. = Back From Beginning": 12,113 upvotes)
 * Teardrop (“SOS (Save Our Show)”: 28,906 upvotes)

Contestants that rejoined

 * Leafy (eliminated in "Why Would You Do This on a Swingset": 6,926 votes; rejoined in "Get to the Top in 500 Steps": 13,835 votes; later eliminated in "B.F.B. = Back From Beginning")
 * Loser (eliminated in "The Liar Ball You Don't Want": 12,062 votes; rejoined in "The Escape from Four", later eliminated in "Let's Raid The Warehouse")
 * Spongy (eliminated in "The Escape from Four": 22,845 votes; rejoined in the same episode, later eliminated in "How Loe Can You Grow?")

Teams
BFB 1=The 64 contestants are divided into 8 teams of 8.


 * -|BFB 2=Pencil is eliminated.


 * -|BFB 3=Leafy is eliminated.


 * -|BFB 4=Bracelety is eliminated.


 * -|BFB 5=Liy is eliminated.


 * -|BFB 6=Roboty is eliminated.


 * -|BFB 7=Loser is eliminated.


 * -|BFB 8=8-Ball is eliminated.


 * -|BFB 9=Stapy is eliminated.


 * -|BFB 10=David is eliminated.


 * -|BFB 11=Leafy rejoins.


 * -|BFB 12=Match is eliminated.


 * -|BFB 13/14=Firey Jr. is eliminated.


 * -|BFB 15=Dora is eliminated.


 * -|BFB 16 (Pre-Split)=Spongy is eliminated.


 * -|BFB 16 (Post-Split)=Spongy and Loser escape from the EXIT, and join the show. Barf Bag, Basketball, Bell, Black Hole, Bomby, Book, Bottle, Cake, Clock, Cloudy, Coiny, Donut, Eggy, Eraser, Fanny, Foldy, Fries, Gaty, Golf Ball, Grassy, Ice Cube, Lightning, Marker, Naily, Needle, Nickel, Pen, Pie, Pillow, Pin, Puffball, Remote, Robot Flower, Rocky, Saw, Snowball, Tennis Ball, Tree, TV, and Yellow Face all join TPOT instead, thus leaving BFB. The teams were disbanded and new teams were formed in the next episode.


 * -|BFB 17=The contestants are split into two teams depending on whether their color is similar to Four or X.
 * -|BFB 18=Balloony is eliminated.
 * -|BFB 19=Spongy is eliminated.
 * -|BFB 20=Ruby is eliminated.
 * -|BFB 21=Loser is eliminated.
 * -|BFB 22=Taco is eliminated.
 * -|BFB 23=Bubble is eliminated.
 * -|BFB 24=Blocky is eliminated and the teams merge.
 * -|BFB 25=Firey is eliminated.
 * -|BFB 26=Woody is eliminated; Profily claims that they were in the game all along, but is eliminated later in the same episode.
 * -|BFB 27=Lollipop is eliminated.
 * -|BFB 28=A team consisting of the remaining four contestants is formed, but then after the elimination gets disbanded in the same episode.. Leafy is eliminated.
 * -|BFB 29=Teardrop is eliminated, Reaching to the final 2.

Battle for B.F.D.I. - Season 4a (All Episodes)
On February 27, 2021, after the release of "SOS (Save Our Show)", the jacknjellify channel uploaded an official, three-hour-and-43-minute video compiling every episode of the first part of the fourth season, with black title cards marked after the intro.

Trivia

 * This season features the most contestants out of BFDI, with 65 of them.
 * However, when just counting contestants who were eliminated before the split, those who did not join TPOT, and those who joined after the merger (Profily), a total of 25 contestants participated purely in BFB. That's 4 more than BFDI and 3 more than BFDIA.
 * Strangely, Evil Leafy and Nonexisty are the only 2 contestants not to appear in this season. This is most likely due to Evil Leafy being the antagonist and Nonexisty being more of a joke. (However, this doesn't mean that they will not appear later.)
 * Nonexisty was considered for the show, but at the time, the crew agreed he would be a waste of a slot.
 * Nonexisty would have been mentioned in a scrapped storyboard of BFB 3.
 * Evil Leafy was seen as a recommended character by Diamondcup67 in BFB 6.
 * Nonexisty was also seen as a recommended character by Pezzottable in BFB 14.
 * Nonexisty also was eligible to join in BFB 16.
 * There is an equal ratio of male to female contestants with 32 of each gender.
 * This is also the case for the show after the split with 7 of each gender.
 * Interestingly, the EXIT, after the split, has 5 of each gender, making the gender ratio for BFB overall still equal even if one ignores the TPOT contestants.
 * Prior to "The Escape from Four", it's possible that Battle for BFDI takes place in Yoyleland, as the tower on top of the Yoyle Mountain can be seen in multiple scenes, like seen in the picture on the right.
 * However, it is more likely that the season's location is nearby Yoyleland because the grass isn't purple, if the nearby land wasn't terraformed off camera.
 * After the events of "The Escape from Four", BFB now takes place at The Pillary Ruins; TPOT will be held at BFB's original location.
 * As of "The Hidden Contestant", the game is moving to a new location.
 * In "Uprooting Everything", it is shown the new location is The Desert from "Getting Teardrop to Talk".
 * Ever since "X Marks the Spot", TPOT contestants can only make cameo appearances.
 * As a result of the split:
 * There are 7 members of the Squishy Cherries and only 3 original Squashy Grapes.
 * Spongy, Roboty, and 8-Ball are the only armless contestants.
 * Roboty and 8-Ball are also legless. Stapy is the other legless contestant.
 * Dora, Gelatin, and Ruby are the only BFDIA newbies.
 * Liy and Stapy are the only members of their respective teams.
 * 8-Ball is the only ball contestant.
 * Roboty is the only mechanical mind.
 * The intro is always started by a character using their limb to resemble Four.
 * The intro's song is called "MUSIC OF FOUR'S 3D HAND".
 * Before the second half starts, a faint voice clip of the objects saying "Switch" over and over can be heard, which is taken from "Yeah, Who? I Wanna Know".
 * The hosts, Four and X, previously appeared in a 2008 jacknjellify animation called "X Finds Out His Value".
 * As of BFB 6, they disappeared through Four's multiplication with Donut.
 * As of BFB 9, X has returned, being found out as a disguised as fries within Fries.
 * As of BFB 10, Four has been recovered by Pin.
 * As of BFB 28, Four sank into the earth, and the Announcer returned to host the show.
 * This is the first season not to have past episode release dates.
 * However, the creators sometimes announce the release date for the future episode(s) after the voting. For example, Satomi Hinatsu has announced the release time of BFB 12 on July 10, 2018.
 * As of BFB 17, episode release dates are announced from non-canon videos directly preceding the main episodes.
 * The original BFDI assets for facial features and limbs aren't used in BFB (except in the air fluttering, most walking and running, other rare occasions, and sometimes even as a joke).
 * Since BFDI, BFDIA, and IDFB use the same animation style, BFB decided to use a new animation style where the mouth, arms, and legs are hand-drawn, and the animation is mostly done frame-by-frame.
 * Although before BFB a similar animation style was also used in "BFDI is Back" and "Paper Towel".
 * This is the first season in which previously eliminated contestants aren't held in the TLC. Instead, the first 12 contestants are held inside the EXIT and the rest are held in the BRB.
 * This is the first season where a female is in last place. (Note that Woody was last place in BFDI as Flower rejoined late and finished 4th/21, and Donut was 22nd/22.)
 * This is the second season where a female contestant got eliminated first (Pencil) chronologically, the first being Flower in Season 1.
 * This is the first season to not have a member of the Squashy Grapes be the first original contestant eliminated.
 * This is the first season that David and Dora appeared together, however they are in different teams, as David is on Beep and Dora is on.
 * The BFB intro was the first intro to feature the host, unlike the intros of BFDI, BFDIA, and IDFB.
 * The show is animated with Animate CC and saved on this folder.
 * This is the first season of BFDI in 6 years to get past five episodes.
 * This is due to BFDI reaching 6 episodes on June 1, 2010, BFDIA 6 being canceled, and IDFB going on its "best hiatus ever."
 * IDFB 2 is having an intentional hiatus, thus getting the name, "BFDI's best hiatus ever!"
 * Match, Spongy, Blocky & Teardrop all reach their third elimination.
 * Because of his elimination in "How Loe Can You Grow?", Spongy has become the first contestant to be eliminated four times.
 * Blocky, Flower, Teardrop, and Woody all made it farther than they did in BFDI.
 * Teardrop also made it farther than she did in BFDIA.
 * The scene backgrounds used in this series are from Paper Towel.
 * Just like the previous seasons, BFB stingers always take place at night.
 * However, this isn't true for BFB 16 and BFB 26.
 * This season marks the first time where Leafy, Bubble, and Firey were eliminated.
 * The average number of limbs of a BFB contestant is 2.98.
 * This is the first season to have contestants both join and rejoin without viewer votes or a contest.
 * This is the first season to feature a double elimination, as seen in "The Hidden Contestant".
 * The logo with X and Four spell out "bfb", X's feet being the b's and Four in the middle being an f, all in lowercase.
 * However, in the "Battle for Nothing" intro shown in "Enter the Exit", X appears to be frowning. His other foot now forms an "n", and Four is just an outline. The logo spells out "bfn".
 * When someone is walking or running, the running animation for BFDI is used.
 * BFB episodes were expected to come out every two weeks despite no official schedule for them ever being made, but many episodes were released in three weeks or more, and one of them was released barely over a year after the one preceding it.
 * As of the post-split, they are expected to be released 3-4 weeks after the previosuly released episode on Friday.
 * However, BFB 25 was released on a Tuesday, on October 13, 2020.
 * Additionally, BFB 27 was released 5 weeks after BFB 26.
 * During the Q&A of the 2019 BFDI + II Meetup, Cary stated that the host of BFB was originally going to be a giant spider.
 * The first episode was released the same day as the iPhone X, which is coincidental as X is the co-host.
 * BFB was originally going to be called Sloppy BFDI.
 * This is the first season to have teams selected by the host, as seen in "X Marks the Spot".
 * Leafy is the only contestant to be on three teams. She started on Beep, rejoined on The Losers!, then joined the Have Cots after the split.
 * Firey and Rocky are the only other characters to be on three teams in one season. They were on all three teams in Season 1.
 * The contestants not in the Final 14 of BFB were originally going to be killed off, and The Power of Two was not considered early on.
 * This is the second season to reach the merge phase, with the first being BFDI.
 * This is the first season to surpass the number of BFDI episodes.
 * This is the first season to have a team form in the middle of the merge.
 * This season will be the second season to have a proper ending, the first being Battle for Dream Island.
 * All the original contestants that were sent to the BRB after the split were original members of the Squishy Cherries.
 * Although Firey and Blocky would also be part of the Squashy Grapes, both as a reward to the team for winning the challenges in episodes 7 and 9.