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| “ | Timer starts when you press play. Send next rounds early to improve your time but be careful! Race games will not save so try not to quit mid-game. Best time wins on the global leaderboard - good luck! | ” |
| ~ BTD6 Race Event notice description |
Race Event icon
Race Event description
Race Event is an event in Bloons TD 6, first released in Version 7.0. Players can compete with other players around the world to pass all rounds as fast as possible on a predefined map with a specific set of other rules. In addition to this is a new function exclusive to this mode unofficially named "Bloon Rusher", in which the next wave of bloons from the next round can be (almost) immediately sent to quicken the pace of completing all forementioned rounds. To prevent unfair records that do not involve strategy (in particular spamming in Super Monkey Storm to win very fast), Powers and premiums such as Double Cash are disabled for all Race Events.
Players can play the event once every 3 hours within the time allotted (typically either 3 or 4 days). This can be sped up for 
100 (sometimes less in some events, or a further reduction with 
Grand Prix Spree). The player will gain higher ranks when they beat the map faster. Players who end up on a certain rank at the end of the event will earn specific rewards.
Since Version 28.0, a player can be incurred a penalty for pausing too frequently. If the player pauses more than once within 25 seconds, they will receive a gradually increasing penalty. This starts at a 2 second penalty and increases by 1 second each time. Usage of any method of pausing while the race timer runs, including checking the upgrade menu, will count towards the penalty. The settings button will show a red "timer" for recording such cooldown.
Version 25.0 adds miniature Race Events designed for a smaller group of players. Once a player completes a race, they will join up to 99 other random players. The 100 players in the group will compete for a smaller subset of additional rewards. This change was made to both improve Race Event rewards and to give casual players more incentive to play by filtering out many try-hard players.
Race Pass[]
- Main article: Race Pass
Since Version 24.0, Race Passes have been added into the game. When used, each race pass grants unlimited entries for a single race week. However, these passes cost real-life money to purchase, costing $3.99 USD and $9.99 USD to purchase 4 Race Passes and 12 Race Passes, respectively. Version 26.0 removed this exclusive payment wall by letting Race Passes be rewarded on every 50th day of the Daily Chest.
Race Event Challenge History[]
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Race Events automatically have Apopalypse rules by default, alongside any additional any special submode. Race Events automatically disable Continues and Powers (though the player may reattempt the Race Event after a 100 payment or a free entry after 3 hours).
Unless clearly stated and specified, the following rules apply to all race logs:
- Easy is from Rounds 1 to 40 with 200 Lives
- Medium is from Rounds 1 to 60 with 150 Lives
- Hard is from Rounds 3 to 80 with 100 Lives
- Starting cash is always $650
- Monkey Knowledge and Selling is enabled
- As many of available towers can be bought, unless otherwise specified.
- Time span for each race is slightly less than 4 days long, starting from Friday 20:00 NZST until Monday 15:30 NZST.
The list of Race Events that have been hosted by Ninja Kiwi can be found on the Race Event (BTD6)/List of Races page.
Below shows the race of the week in 2022. (additional info can be found on this official fan BTD6 excel tracksheet, although incomplete by race 188 and nothing beyond race 200)
Event 191 Taken From CT August 12 2022 20:00 NZST → August 15 2022 ~15:30 NZST
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Event 207 Closing Time December 8 2022 21:45 NZST → December 12 2022 ~15:30 NZST
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This race features: Limited towers, 110% bloon speed
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Event 208 Operational Assistance December 15 2022 20:00 NZST → December 19 2022 ~15:30 NZST
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This race features: Limited towers
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Event 209a Treet Yourself December 23 2022 20:00 NZST → December 24 2022 6:45 NZST
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This race features: Round 100 Race, Extra Starting Cash
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Event 209b Fightyard December 24 2022 6:45 NZST → December 27 2022 ~15:30 NZST
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This race features: 30% Cooldown Rate, Alternate Bloon Rounds, extra starting cash
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Rewards[]
Race Badges
Below are the current rewards for the main races, as of Race 82:
- 1st Prize:
1000, Black Diamond Badge, 100, 1 Monkey Boost, one 5th-tier Insta-Monkey - 2nd Prize: 750, Red Diamond Badge, 50, 1 Super Monkey Storm, one 4th-tier Insta-Monkey
- 3rd Prize: 500, Diamond Badge, 40, 1 Cash Drop, one 4th-tier Insta-Monkey
- Top 50 450, Gold-Diamond Badge, 30, 1 Monkey Boost, 1 3rd-tier Instamonkey
- Top 1%: 400, Gold Badge, 25, one 3rd-tier Insta-Monkey
- Top 10%: 300, Gold-Silver Badge, 20, one 2nd-tier Insta-Monkey
- Top 25%: 200, Double Silver Badge, 15, one 1st-tier Insta-Monkey
- Top 50%: 100, Silver Badge, 10, one 1st-tier Insta-Monkey
- Top 75%: 50, Bronze Badge, 5, one base Insta-Monkey
- Below 75%: No reward
The first time a race is completed, you earn 50 and 
2.
Version 25.0 added Mini-Races, which group a random set of up to 100 successfully raced players into a smaller leaderboard. The rewards given are separate to normal Races, and they are rewarded on top of main race rewards. Badges cannot be earned on this leaderboard, however.
- 1st Prize: 500, 20, 4th-tier Insta-Monkey
- 2nd Prize: 400, 15, 3rd-tier Insta-Monkey
- 3rd Prize: 300, 10, 3rd-tier Insta-Monkey
- Top 10%: 250, 5, one 3rd-tier Insta-Monkey
- Top 25%: 200, 3, one 2nd-tier Insta-Monkey
- Top 50%: 100, 2, one 1st-tier Insta-Monkey
- Top 75%: 50, 1, one base Insta-Monkey
- Below 75%: No reward
Strategy[]
See also: Race Event/Strategies
Summary[]
Race Events are a fast-paced gamemode where the objective is to beat the rounds as quickly as possible. This is accomplished with the Race Mode's unique mechanic called "Bloon Rusher". This button is to the left of the normal round start/fast forward button, and works similar to sending a round normally, except it can now send additional rounds even while another round is active, a lot like a more extreme version of Apopalypse. There is a 0.2 second delay minimum between each round to limit the effect of macros. Because rounds can be made very dense by sending multiple rounds at once,, high-pierce options that normally see little use, such as Spike-o-pult, Recursive Cluster, Ground Zero become extremely effective, because they can maximize their pierce.
Tips[]
- It is recommended to use high pierce towers instead of safer options typically used in CHIMPs. Spike-o-pult, Druid of the Jungle, and Cluster Bombs are a few options that are very effective in races, while safer tower upgrades like Airburst Darts, Bouncing Bullet, and MOAB Glue are typically not great for getting a good race time.
- Typically, races have Monkey Knowledge enabled. Having key monkey knowledge points such as Military Conscription, More Cash, Mana Shield, and more, can let a player be more aggressive with sending rounds, and is required to get the fastest race time.
- Selling towers to buy a stronger upgrade can be key in getting a good race time. This is notably done when building up to an upgrade more expensive than other towers used in the race, such as upgrading Juggernaut into Ultra-Juggernaut.
- Pausing the game will add a cooldown between pauses, if the game is paused while that cooldown is active, there will be a time penalty added to the player's race time. Thus, pauses should be reserved for when a player needs to prepare a quick burst of actions, such as selling towers to purchase an expensive upgrade.
- Races can be a very effective way to farm experience when the final round is 80 or more, if the race can be beaten quickly easily, and only if the player has a surplus of monkey money or race passes. This can give a lot of experience per time spent if one fast forwards easier parts of the race.
Version History[]
Balance Changes[]
Regular changes to balance out how Races work. Does not necessarily include Race meta info.
- 7.0
- Initial release
- 11.0
- Races have had a small rework which now adds a 0.2s delay between sending rounds. Multiple button presses will still queue up and release the rounds after this delay.
- 19.0
- Trophy rewards have increased (50 --> 100 for 1st, 40 --> 50 for 2nd, 30 --> 40 for 3rd)
- 24.0
- Added in-app purchase Race Passes
- 25.0
- Added mini Race Event scoreboards.
- Races can be played regardless of map unlock status
- 26.0
- Hitting the send round button in races will no longer trigger a flag animation if all rounds have already been sent.
- 28.0
| “ | [...] the idea of a race is a strategic sprint - one fast run with your best thinking in the moment | ” |
| ~ Ninja Kiwi, describing the pause delay nerf |
- Races now have a pause delay which will incur a penalty for pausing too frequently
- Pausing more than once within 25 seconds will now add a 2 second penalty, and an extra 1 second penalty for subsequent pausing within 25 seconds.
- Added Refresh button to race leaderboard
- Free Race attempts now prevent Race Passes from being used
- Option to review race results added (also added to normal games)
Bug Fixes and Other Changes[]
- 24.1
- Fixed wrong Trophy Count value displaying upon first time viewing race section
- 25.0
- Resolved a crash with entering Races or Daily Challenges too fast
- Added [X] close button to race pass pop-up in addition to them closing when tapping out of the menu
- 28.0
- Round-send flag and comparison timer fixed in Race mode
- Resolved some issues with not receiving mini race rewards
Sounds[]
When a round is sent in the queue:
- [race fanfare]
Gallery[]
Official artwork[]
Promotional artwork[]
Trivia[]
- Increased lag via Bluestacks app or a lower-end device lowers the speed of the game, making it easier to sell-and-rebuy fast, thus indirectly improving the race time. It is unlikely that this was ever intended.
- Besides allowing for as many race attempts as you wish with a Race Pass, they are also useful for quickly quitting a run and re-entering if you get bad luck.
Race History[]
- During Race 1, which occurred in Version 7.0, the event was removed within the first few hours due to iPhone X, iPhone XS, iPhone XR and other widescreen devices users exploiting the use of Powers when other mobile device models cannot access Powers. The Race Event was re-released on Version 7.1 after the maintenence fixes.
- Race 83 is only available for Version 19.1 and not Version 19.0, mostly due to issues with Race Event medals and a possible Pre-Game Prep stacking exploit. It was also delayed from 20:00 NZST 17th July 2020 until around about 13:00 NZST 18th July 2020.
- Race 129 was slightly delayed by around 12 hours due to Ninja Kiwi sorting out the Version 26.0 update.
- Race 136 has ended one day early and before the official release of Version 27.0. The early ending was announced on Ninja Kiwi's 23rd July 2021 blog.
- Race 143 caused 100+ players to receive all the same first place, but it was reported that Ninja Kiwi failed to receive first place badges for those who didn't make the cut in the Top 100 despite making a tie. This was not the case on Race 107, where Ninja Kiwi manually accounted for tie-breaking. When asked in the Ninja Kiwi blog when the following race's results were announced, Ninja Kiwi made a vague response with how they dealt with the many tie-breakers on Race 143, stating that they did not want to bother with distinguishing hackers from non-hackers and additionally told a vague promise that they won't let those types of situations occur again. (ISAB video 1, ISAB video 2)
- Race 209 was originally another race called "Treet yourself" and had 50 players reach the minimum possible time for that race (1:43.61) within 80 minutes, on December 23 2022, 21:20 NZST, as the race launched during the typical 20:00 NZST bracket. Because of the sheer amount of players reaching minimum time, and maybe the potential to farm tier 0-2 insta monkeys really quickly along with potential to earn upwards of 7 million exp per hour if one has enough monkey money/a race pass, this race was replaced on December 24 2022, 6:45 NZST with "Fightyard", the race originally intended for #210.
- Players were able to farm enough cash to afford the Goliath Doomship, the most expensive Paragon in the game at the time, while still getting the lowest time possible.[1] For similar reasons, players often would end up with so much cash that the Anti-Cheat would flag them because the anti-cheat checks for how much cash a player has remaining.
- Race ??? was supposed to arrive on 10th November 2023, a New Zealand Friday, but is apparantly not released. It also doesn't appear in NK API.