Champ'd Up is a drawing game featured in The Jackbox Party Pack 7. Enter the Scrawliseum, where player-created characters fight over unusual titles. Who will be crowned the Champion of Cowards? The player who sees the prompt or their challenger who only sees their competition? Train your soon to be champion with pen and highlighter and find out for yourself!
Gameplay[]
This game is centered around drawing "champions" to "fight" against each other in a similar venture to Tee K.O.. Players create two characters: a Champion and a Challenger. Champion's are created from a known title, e.g. 'The Champion of Cowards', while the Challenger - also known as the Underdog - is made from knowing only who they're up against and not the title. From there, the characters will face off against each other, and everyone decides which of the two characters better fits the title.
The game is played over two rounds. The first round follows the above structure of creating characters and voting. After voting is complete, the characters are given money based on the percentage of the votes they received; Underdog's will receive a 10% bonus regardless of whether they win or lose, so in the event of a tie the Underdog will win. Due to the underdog bonus, the challenger can win a matchup with as little as 48% of the vote. (If the champion gets 52% of the vote and the challenger gets 48%, they will get $5,200 and $4,800, respectively, but the underdog bonus of $480 brings the challenger's winnings to $5,280, surpassing the champion.) The winning character is awarded additional money, and the cycle repeats until all 'Champions' are elected.
The second and final round plays similar at first, but after the initial voting process a second Surprise Contest will take place. An all new title is shown, and players are given the option to tag in one of their previous fighters (in successive games, fighters carry over and can be tagged in again). The votes from both matches are cumulative, so the player with the most votes after both contests will be the winner. Players that don't tag in a character will earn more money if they win the bout.
After Round 2 is complete, the final totals are shown and the player with the most money wins.
Characters[]
Champ'd UP: Slamdown[]
As of a recent addition, players can now buy trading cards of their drawn champs to use in a special card game. Alongside this, the names of the Trainers have been revealed through the Trainer cards.
- Rue (Rooster)
- Sloane (Traffic Cone)
- Rosie (Flower)
- Raph (Giraffe)
- Corey (Apple)
- Brice (Ice Water)
- River (Fish)
- Treena (Tree)
- Toni (Phone)
- Shelley (Nesting Doll)
The rules on how to play are available to download as a PDF here.
Credits Song[]
| Champ'd Up! x4 It’s time, you’re the fav’rite Enter the stadium Champ'd up! Champ'd up! Champ'd Up! x7 |
Round 2, stakes are higher
Battles, are on fire Look to the swaying crowd Champ'd up! Champ'd up! Champ'd up! Champ'd up! Champ'd Up! x7 Champ'd up, yeah! |
Achievements[]
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The Usurper | – You win a match as the underdog |
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The Comeback Kid | – You win a second half match using a character that lost in the first half |
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The People’s Champ | – You lose the room vote but win over 80% of the audience vote |
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The Halftime Speech | – You were in last place at halftime, but end up winning the game |
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Promotional Art[]
Trivia[]
- In a livestream to give everyone an early look at the game, the developers said that the host is thought of like Cookie Masterson's brother. This is because the host of the game, voiced by Tom Gottlieb, sounds similar to Cookie, who Gottlieb also voices.
- This, however, does not mean that the two are actually related to one another.
- The trainer with a flower head, Rosie, is a reference to the player icons in Fibbage 3.
- Alongside, the trainer with the rooster head, Rue, could be a reference to Jacket from The Hotline Miami games, though this has been NOT confirmed. (but hey a guy can dream)
- Rue is also one of few characters in the entire franchise to share a name with another character, being Rue Meringue from Roomerang.
- If someone draws nothing or their answer is censored, it will show as a picture of Gene instead, who will instantly lose.
- Brice seems to be a reference to the boxing term glass jaw, which refers to boxers who are easily knocked out via a single hard blow to the chin or jaw, as if it were made out of glass.
- During an official live stream, 7 of the 10 trainers were unmasked.
- River, Rosie, Rue & Sloane were revealed with rendered illustrations, while Corey, Raph & Treena were revealed via sketches.
- This leaves Brice, Shelley & Toni to be the only trainers yet to be officially unmasked in any capacity.
- River, Rosie, Rue & Sloane were revealed with rendered illustrations, while Corey, Raph & Treena were revealed via sketches.
- Sloane appears in Tee K.O. 2 as one of the PNGs driving the plane during the shirt making process, while River appears as a playable character.
- In the first round, the host's comments on the victor are different depending on the topic being fought over, but in games with an audience, there are also special comments on the audience's reaction to the fight or the winning trainer.
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