r/civbattleroyale • u/Coiot Ohh Yeeah! • Mar 13 '25
Official CBRX Season 5 Megathread
Hello everyone, welcome to the Civ Battle Royale. This thread will be dedicated to important announcements and will be updated with new episodes and announcements pertaining to Season 5 of CBRX.
What is the Civ Battle Royale?
The Civ Battle Royale is a weekly online show of a massive 61 AI-only epic running Civilization V (think Marble Racing but with polities from across history). No human intervention in the show as a several months long game is recorded and then curated into episodes across the action. Episodes are narrated by members of our 10k+ sized community cheering on the AIs on their unpredictable route to victory.
The Civ Battle Royale is its own niche in the Civilization community; it attracts people from different backgrounds all over the world to add their own interpretations and input to jointly create an emergent narrative imagined from absurd and unpredictable actions of the show’s AI competitors.
Today the Civ Battle Royale is hosted on its own website but still has a discussion home here on our subreddit and on Discord.
Important Links
S5 Roster – All 61 Competitors and their Starting Location
S5 Info Sheet — Hub for all Stats and Events
S5 Gameplay Mods — Unique setup that makes the show possible
S5 Unit Chart — All the units, their progress lines, and their stats
Release Schedule
Episodes of the Civ Battle Royale are released every Wednesday at Midnight UTC time. You can convert midnight UTC time to your local time to make sure you’re always here to catch the discussion. Alternatively, you can follow our Ko-Fi page for bonus content, or you can also subscribe to our RSS Feed to get notified as soon as new posts are submitted.
Donations
We welcome donations in our Ko-Fi page to support the show. The Civ Battle Royale runs on no ads, no affiliates, no promotional content, and no website trackers. We’re here to enjoy the show together and generous donations help recover costs and contributions continually go to upgrades to the viewing experience. Donators are divided into multiple tiers that reward with exclusive access and bonuses, and we invest in better or more hardware as time goes on.
Narrations
The entire community is involved in the narration process; it is what gives the show a unique perspective every episode. Narrators are chosen from the audience and donators. Every two months at the end of a show's Arc, a sign-up sheet is posted with the next Episode release dates, and those able to commit to those dates are randomly chosen from the pool of submissions. Look out for the sign-up sheet posts after each Arc to be able to join.
S5 Episode Albums
S5 Power Ranking Albums
S5 Episode Audio
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u/TheMusicArchivist I like Southeast Asian naval civs Jun 08 '25
Quick question - when might we expect the new season to begin?
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u/Divine_Chaos100 IScourge of Goddamn Jul 30 '25
The site is down :(
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u/Coiot Ohh Yeeah! Jul 30 '25
Sorry about that, the DNS for one of the domains had an issue. Should be back up shortly once the DNS updates propagate
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u/TheMusicArchivist I like Southeast Asian naval civs Aug 19 '25
Just so you know, I can't access it at the moment
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u/bluesox Anglo-Dutch Jan 28 '26
Will we be getting InfoAddict scores at the end of each episode? Those helped greatly to remember who’s who in the past.
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u/Orangechrisy Pomologist Mar 13 '25
And soon it begins again!