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Twitch Plays Pokémon (TPP) is a series of social experiments that started in February 2014 in which commands representing buttons on the requisite Nintendo console are entered into a chat on Twitch, and then translated into a game of Pokémon via an IRC bot. In short, a horde of people fighting over a controller (at its peak, over 100,000). Throughout its life, Twitch Plays Pokémon has spawned hilarious characters, memorable moments, and even a few joke religions. It won the award for "Best Fan Creation" in the first-ever The Game Awards in 2014 and a Guinness World Record for the most participants on a single-player online video game.

There are currently 48 completed runsnote The stream considers both Touhoumon and Moemon as the 12th run, as well as both Red and Blue from the fourth anniversary as the 28th run. Each of the six runs of The Gauntlet is however counted seperately, as the 41st to 46th run., as well as numerous side-games and intermissions.

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It has also spawned an unofficial spinoff by the name of Fish Plays Pokemon, in which a fish plays Pokémon Red, as well as many, many other snowclones.

The official stream can be found here . The stream's official subreddit can be visited here . There also is an official Twitter account, available here . For archived progress of the runs, go here .

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Season 1

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Season 3

Season 4

Season 5

Season 6

Season 7

Off Season: Side-Games

Off Season: Other Games

Twitch Plays Pokémon: Arena: A months-long intermission of Pokémon Stadium 2 played between Pokémon X and Pokémon Omega Ruby and later with Pokémon Battle Revolution in-between major runs after Omega Ruby. It features a competition aspect where the chat controls the team that they bet on, with larger bets having more control over the selection of a Pokémon's attacks.

Twitch Plays Pokemon Conquest: A special intermission run between Black and Black 2. It was played entirely in democracy mode, and its protagonist was a girl named ABnp3a (aka. Lady A.B. the Third). It returned later as part of the intermission preceding Storm Silver, this time focusing on the post-game content. Twitch Plays Telefang: A special intermission played between Crystal Anniversary and Brown, which followed the adventures of Johnny Rogue and Kuribute (who may have been Jasmine) as they attempted to save Shengdu from Domesday.

Twitch Plays Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team: Debuting during Crystal Anniversary, it was played simultaneously with the current main game or intermission rather than in between matches, although it was changed to the side-game format to replace Ultra. It follows former human Squirtlee and its partner Pika Cena trying to save a world of only Pokémon.

Twitch Plays Intermission Games: Acting as a Gaiden Game in between main runs or a few days before a main run starts, the mob plays anything that the streamer puts. So far, they have played Golden Sun, Pokkén Tournament, Mother 3, Petz, the Omega Ruby demo, EarthBound and Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS among others.

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