Welcome to Picture Perfect, a column dedicated to analyzing photos from throughout army history. In this week’s edition, we will be exploring the Snowball Showdown.

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Background

On June 7, 2015, Club Penguin Army Central hosted a tournament known as Snowball Showdown. This tournament featured 16 armies. The Snowball Showdown was styled as a single-elimination competition.

Snowball Showdown bracket 2015

The Snowball Showdown stood out from other tournaments due to the event taking place on OldCP. OldCP was a Club Penguin Private Server different from the original Club Penguin. Within this server armies fought in battles, throwing snowballs at their opponents to score kills. Each kill added to the army’s points, and the overall kills determined the winners of each match. The higher the points, the better.

Events were locked to participating armies, so new joins were placed in a starting room and asked to enter a few commands. These commands gave them their uniform and army tag. After wearing their army’s uniform, troops were able to freely explore the island and find penguins from opposing armies to fight.

CPAC explaining how to use codes

After the match began, participating armies instructed their troops on which rooms to fight in and who to attack. Troops followed orders and launched snowballs at their enemies, sometimes staging ambushes. However, if they ended up dying the troop would get spawned into a different room.

Footage of Snowball Showdown

Mechanics

Attacking was as easy as clicking a button, as all players had to do was press their “T” key, the designated key for launching snowballs in the game. Each time a snowball hit, the target took damage. Once they dealt enough damage, the target died, and a line of text appeared above their name. This text displayed “+1 Kills” and signaled a gained point. Additionally, players had the option to customize their snowballs. They could pick between multiple options, including a snail, a fireball, a puffle, and more. 

Snowball options

At the end of every battle, a scroll-shaped text box popped up announcing the match’s results. It listed each participant along with their kill-to-death ratio and teams. Every match was ten minutes long, and snowball fights happened around the clock, meaning there was plenty of time to participate and have fun. 

Snowball Showdown end of match

Snowball Showdown was an excellent way for armies to have fun together. It offered a friendly competition environment and allowed players to interact with each other outside of battles and war. What are your thoughts on the game? Would you be interested in participating in Snowball Showdown if given the chance? Let us know in the comments!

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