Smosh Seasonal Games

Smosh Seasonal Games is a series of videos uploaded on Smosh Games and Smosh Pit. It sees the entire Smosh family divide into teams to compete against each other in season related games.

Summer 2015 (Smosh Summer Games)
Broadcast recording: June 2015

Originally aired: July 2015

Teams
Bold is team captain

Special Awards
Race Committee: Shayne Topp

Guest (not) invited (outside competition): Joe Bereta

Place: Mobli Beach House at Venice, Los Angeles

Sponsored by: Loot Crate

Trivia: This is the official introduction of Shayne Topp to the channel

Winter 2016 (Smosh Winter Games)
Broadcast recording: January 2016

Originally aired: February 2016

Teams
Bold is team captain

Special Awards
Race Committee: Joe Bereta, Sunny Peabody and Matt Raub

Place: Big Bear Lake

Trivia: Ian and Anthony did not participate in the games, but instead provided commentary.

Summer 2016 (Smosh Summer Games: Camp)
Broadcast Recording: Late May - Early June 2016

Originally Aired: July 2016

Teams
Bold is team captain

Special Awards
Race Committee/Camp Counselors: Matt Raub (AKA Counselor Rip Assley), Sunny Peabody (AKA Counselor Hawt Dawgz) & Joe Bereta (AKA Dr. Gonna Have Sex With All Of You)

Guest/s (not) invited (outside competition): Pamela Horton

Place: Camp Green Lake, California

Trivia: Sohinki left the Games early due to illness, resulting in him automatically being named LVP.

Winter 2017 (Smosh Winter Games: Again!)
Broadcast Recording:   January 2017

Originally Aired:  February 2017

Teams
* Bold is team captain

Special Awards
(Gnar-certified) Race Committee: Joe Bereta, Matt Raub, Sunny Peabody, Sarah Whittle & Tanner Risner

Guest/s (not) invited (outside competition): Tim Baker

Place: Big Bear Lake

Trivia:


 * This is the official debut of Boze as a Smosh Games member.


 * This is the final Seasonal Games to feature Anthony and Ian as team captains.


 * This is currently the longest-running Seasonal Games, with twenty-eight episodes.

Summer 2017 (Smosh Summer Games: Wild West)
Broadcast Recording: Early - Mid June 2017

Originally Aired: July 2017

Teams
* No team captains

Special Awards
Officials: Joe Bereta (AKA Sheriff Pinky McFinger), Sunny Peabody (AKA Sheriff Wyatt Sizzurp) & Matt Raub (AKA Sheriff Matt Dog Back Raub Bad Bomb Bad Dog McRib Big Log Hot Dog)

Place: Bonnie Springs Ranch, Nevada

Guest/s (not) invited (outside competition):

Trivia:
 * This was the first Smosh Seasonal Games not to feature Anthony Padilla, due to his departure from Smosh six days before the opening episode.
 * It was revealed in the Smosh Games Live episode JENGA TRIVIA CHALLENGE! that this season was filmed in the week starting June 5, 2017, the week before "Anthony is Leaving Smosh" was released.
 * This was the Smosh Seasonal Games debut of Damien Haas.
 * This was the first Seasonal Games to have no team captains. Instead, the teams were chosen via a lottery.
 * This is the first and only Seasonal Games to take place in a state other than California.

Summer 2018 (Smosh Summer Games: We Blew It)
Broadcast Recording: Late July - Early August 2018

Originally Aired: August 20 - August 25, 2018

Teams
Bold is team captain

Special Awards
Officials: Matt Raub (AKA #BestRef) and Sarah Whittle

Guest Judges/#GuestRefs: Garrett Palm, Joe Bereta, Josh Mattingly, Luke Mattingly, Marissa Zaenger, Spencer Agnew, Tanner Risner and Tim Baker

Place: California

Trivia:
 * This was the first Seasonal Games that did not last for at least a month. Instead it lasted only a week, with a daily video on either Smosh Games or Smosh Pit.
 * As revealed in a SmoshCast Highlights clip, this was because Defy Media did not want Summer Games to be made that year and only gave Matt Raub around an eighth of the typical budget for a Seasonal Games.
 * This Seasonal Games also featured the least amount of Special Episodes, with only one.
 * This was also the latest that Summer Games has ever aired, and the first time it did not begin airing in July.
 * This was the third Seasonal Games to have a theme that wasn't based around the season it took place in, with this Games being themed around balloons and inflatables (the first two being Winter and Summer Games 2017 respectively).
 * While Smosh Summer Games: Camp could also be defined as not themed around the season, residential camps in America are notorious for taking place during the summer.
 * This was the first Seasonal Games to not feature Sohinki or Flitz. It can be assumed that Sohinki was asked to take part but declined.
 * The "You'll Float Too" (LVP) award's name was derived from the movie It.
 * This was the first Seasonal Games to feature team captains that were not Ian and Anthony. The 2018 captains were chosen based on awards given at Summer Games 2017: the Inflatabulls were captained by Joven (Biggest Fail, Summer Games 2017) and the Balloonatics by Shayne (Most Epic Moment, Summer Games 2017).
 * Instead of the captains picking team members, teams were chosen by drawing different-colored balloons.
 * This was the first Seasonal Games to feature Lasercorn and Wes on the same team, meaning that one or the other would have to break their streak of respective wins and losses. Ultimately, the Balloonatics won, meaning that Lasercorn kept his winning streak and Wes's losing streak was finally broken.
 * Due to the amount of losses he had earned before, Wes was determined to be "cursed" by other Smosh members, including the staff and editors. Wes's curse featured heavily in this year's Summer Games, hinting that something may have ultimately changed - and sure enough, at the end of the final event video a cutscene was shown with a voiceover, confirming that "Wes's curse" had finally been lifted.

Summer 2019 (Smosh Summer Games: Apocalypse)
Broadcast Recording: Mid-June 2019

Originally Aired: July 19, 2019 - August 15, 2019

Teams
* No team captains

Special Awards
Officials: Matt Raub, Sarah Whittle and Ryan Todd

Guest Judges: Joe Bereta

Place: Barstow, California

Sponsored by: Borderlands 3

Trivia:
 * Smosh Summer Games 2019 officially has the lowest participation level of any other Seasonal Games in terms of actual Smosh cast members, with only eleven competing (not counting Winter Games 2016, when Ian and Anthony acted as commentators but were still technically part of their respective teams).
 * It was revealed in the 22nd episode of SmoshCast that Sohinki was invited to take part, but was in Italy at the time of recording.
 * As a result, Kimmy Jimenez appeared as a guest competitor to even out the teams.
 * This is the fourth Seasonal Games to have a theme that wasn't based around the season it took place in, with this Games being themed around the Apocalypse, inspired by the Mad Max movies and the TV series The 100.
 * This is the first Seasonal Games to not feature any kind of team selection process; instead, the teams were put together off-camera and presented fully-formed to the viewers.
 * Matt Raub revealed in the above episode of SmoshCast that out of the seven previous team selection sequences, most were staged - for their later seasons as team captains, Ian and Anthony had already had discussions behind the scenes about who they were going to pick, mostly in the interest of having balanced teams. Matt implied that Summer Games 2019 was the first year that Smosh decided to stop pretending the teams were randomly selected.
 * According to the 26th episode of SmoshCast, potential team names included: "Send Nukes", "Wakka Flakkolypse", "The Fall Out Baes", "Nuclear Winners" and "Toxic Yaasinity".
 * Just as one of the themes of Summer Games 2018 was "Wes's Curse", a theme of Summer Games 2019 was "Lasercorn's Streak" - as the only competitor to have never lost a Seasonal Games, Lasercorn described his team, Mushroom Clout, as being "blessed with the power of the Streak", and therefore unbeatable, whilst Team ToxiciTea simultaneously declared that this was the year the Streak would be broken. After the final video, Lasercorn's winning streak was finally snapped.
 * On social media, the hashtags "#Breakthestreak" and "#Thestreakisreal" were established as a way for viewers to show their respective support for either ToxiciTea or Mushroom Clout.

Summer 2020 (The Video Game)
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Ian, Courtney, Shayne and Damien played a video game version of Smosh Summer Games, created by Core Games, which was based on previous years' themes. This one video acted as a replacement for Summer Games 2020 as a large-scale version was unlikely to take place.


 * Officials: Matt Raub and Sarah Whittle
 * Place: Smosh Games Studio

Additional Statistics

 * Lasercorn, Olivia, Joven, Wes, Ian and Shayne are the only players who have received multiple individual awards.
 * Wes is the only player to have earned the same award three times (Biggest Fail).
 * Joven, Olivia, Shayne and Lasercorn are the only four who have earned the same award twice (LVP, MVP and Most Epic Moments respectively).
 * With five awards, Joven has the most individual awards; Wes has four, Olivia, Lasercorn and Shayne all have three, and Ian has two.
 * Joven is the only player to have received a one-off award (Counselor's Choice).
 * Joven is also the only player to have been both an MVP and an LVP.
 * On the flip side, Keith and Kimmy have no individual awards.
 * As of 2019, the MVP and LVP awards have had the most variety in recipients, having both been awarded to a total of six people. Five people have received the award for Biggest Fail, while only four have won Most Epic Moment.

Trivia

 * Lasercorn holds the record for Seasonal Games victories with a total of six (all consecutive), and became the last to suffer a defeat in Summer Games 2019. Wes was the last member to win, suffering a record of five losses in a row until finally being put on the winning team in Smosh Summer Games 2018 (being currently on a winning streak of two).
 * Wes's complete lack of wins prior to 2018 inspired the hashtag '#wesiscursed', coined during Winter Games 2017.
 * As of Summer Games 2019, Courtney now shares Wes's record of five consecutive Seasonal Games losses, whilst Keith is the only player to have six Seasonal Games losses.
 * Lasercorns's undefeated status up until Smosh Summer Games 2019 inspired the competing hashtags "#Breakthestreak" (in support of Team ToxiciTea) and "#Thestreakisreal" (in support of Team Mushroom Clout).
 * Wes, Keith, Noah, Mari and Damien have yet to win a Winter Games, while Sohinki and Boze have never won a Summer Games.
 * As of 2019, Kimmy Jimenez (0-1) is the only competitor who has yet to win any Seasonal Games.
 * In the eleventh episode of SmoshCast, it was revealed that the original concept for Smosh Summer Games was created by Matt Raub and Joe Bereta as a bonding exercise between the Smosh Squad and Smosh Games, predominantly as their individual offices were on opposite sides of their floor and the two channels rarely interacted with each other.
 * When both have competed, Boze and Sohinki have always been on the same team (Spaghetti Yetis and Cowbaes).
 * Until the team lineups for Summer Games 2019 were revealed, Courtney and Joven had also always been on the same team (Bananarama, Blue Balls, Kumbayaaas, DaBlizzards, Cowbaes and Inflatabulls).
 * Smosh Seasonal Games has served as the official debut of two Smosh members: Shayne Topp in Summer Games 2015, and Boze in Winter Games 2017.
 * While Damien's first official appearance as a Smosh cast member was during Summer Games 2017, he had appeared in other videos prior to that point and would not be established as a Smosh Games member until that August.
 * On her personal channel, Courtney has a vlog entitled "BEST CAMP EVER!" that shows the behind the scenes of the week spent filming Smosh Summer Games: Camp. She later uploaded another vlog during Smosh Summer Games: Wild West entitled "BEST SUMMER GAMES YET!".
 * Some Seasonal Games events have appeared in multiple seasons:
 * Some form of Punishment Sport appeared in all five seasons released onwards from Smosh Summer Games: Camp (Punishment Archery, Punishment Curling, Punishment Shootout, Punishment Scuba and Punishment Zombie Shootout).
 * Coincidentally, for the first four of those games, every team that won also went on to lose the entire Games that season, for the first four seasons (Archery - Kumbayaaas, Curling - DaBlizzards, Shootout - Cowbaes, and Scuba - Inflatabulls). That streak was broken when ToxiciTea won the Punishment Zombie Shootout and eventually the whole of Smosh Summer Games.
 * A belly flop competition has appeared in four seasons of Summer Games (Summer Games 2016, Summer Games 2017, Summer Games 2018 and Summer Games 2019).
 * Mousetraps were a part of at least one of the challenges for each of the first four seasons (Blindfolded Mousetrap Challenge, Exploding Kittens Mousetrap Gauntlet, Mario Mousetrap Olympics, and Snowboard Mousetraps & Opening Ceremony.)
 * There has been a form of Netflix And Chill in four seasons in total (Winter Games 2016, Summer Games 2016, Winter Games 2017 and Summer Games 2019.)
 * A one-off episode of Netflix And Chill was also released on Smosh Games early in 2018, during which Matt Raub revealed that the episode was intended to be a sort of substitute for the entirety of Smosh Winter Games that year.
 * Pain Pong has appeared in three season of Seasonal Games (Winter Games 2016, Summer Games 2016 and Winter Games 2017)
 * During Smosh Summer Games: Wild West, Joven was viewed by many fans to be the rightful MVP, causing mild uproar on social media when the award went to Flitz instead.
 * This mirrored a previous fan outrage during Smosh Summer Games: Camp, after Olivia's controversial second MVP award, which many viewers believed she didn't deserve.
 * An estimate of who the rightful MVP and LVP were in each season is calculated on Smosh Seasonal Games Rankings.
 * According to the 26th episode of SmoshCast, some potential themes that were pitched for Summer and Winter Games include: Medieval, Smosh University, Pirate, Shipwrecked, Tropical and Cruise.
 * The third Smosh Winter Games was due to be uploaded throughout February 2018, but was ultimately canceled, as Defy Media did not want any Seasonal Games in 2019.
 * After the cancellation of Smosh Winter Games 2018, Smosh confirmed on Twitter that while Winter Games would not take place that year, Smosh Summer Games 2018 would still be happening, and they requested location ideas in the same statement. However, no kind of Summer Games promotion occurred on any of the Smosh YouTube channels for several months, and in July, the traditional month used for the Summer Games upload schedule, nothing was uploaded. Instead, in a break with tradition, the first promotion and the full broadcast were released in late August, with a much shorter run-time than previous years.
 * Since Smosh's parent company, Defy Media, closed its doors, it became clear that there would not be a Smosh Winter Games in 2019 and that the future of Smosh Seasonal Games as a whole would become uncertain. However, in a video on Olivia's personal channel, she and Mari both expressed hope that they would be able to do Summer Games again someday, and sure enough, the eleventh episode of SmoshCast confirmed that Smosh Summer Games 2019 was being planned; while it was confirmed that Joven (and by extension Wes) would likely take part, the question of whether other former members would return to compete was left unanswered.
 * On July 16, 2019, the official trailer for Smosh Summer Games - Apocalypse was uploaded, which officially confirmed that Wes and Joven would be returning to compete, but that the other potential competitors, Sohinki and Boze, would not.
 * In the twenty-sixth episode of SmoshCast, Matt Raub revealed that Smosh Winter Games 2020 was unlikely to happen, despite widespread support for the idea from fans.