Theme: Star Wars · Duration: 25h 39m · Started: 2026-05-04 20:00 UTC · Ended: 2026-05-05 21:39 UTC

🏆 Winner: Purple

A genuine four-way scrap. Every faction crossed 21% of total hold time, and the gap between 1st and 4th was less than 8 percentage points.

Rank Faction Hold % Hold time
🥇 1 Purple 29.41% 7h 32m
🥈 2 Green 25.75% 6h 36m
🥉 3 Blue 23.12% 5h 55m
4 Red 21.70% 5h 34m

🔘 The Button

  • 473 presses from 172 unique players
  • 213 active recruits (faction members) across the season
  • 30 referrals signed up via referral links
  • Median timer at press: 14m 18s (858s)
  • Game duration: 25h 39m 38s

Press distribution

Faction Presses Members Unused presses
Purple 161 59 213
Green 148 56 85
Red 85 45 126
Blue 79 53 157

Purple’s win was carried by sheer participation. The most members and the most presses.

🎬 First & last press

  • First click: stegodon (stegodon.social, 🟪 purple) - 14m 53s left on the clock at 2026-05-04 20:00:07. Less than a second after the gates opened.
  • Last click: livligkinkajou (slrpnk.net, 🟩 green) - 14m 49s left at 2026-05-05 21:24:45, with 15 minutes to spare before the timer ran out for good.

The opening flurry (first 8 presses)

# Player Faction Timer left
1 stegodon 🟪 14:53
2 volore 🟥 14:39
3 wagnast 🟩 14:36
4 elettrona 🟪 14:47
5 winged_hussar 🟥 12:57
6 roydbt 🟩 14:48
7 zloubida 🟪 10:30
8 nusm 🟩 14:54

🔥 Closest calls

Five players took the timer all the way to a single-digit second count:

Player Faction Hold When
livligkinkajou 🟩 0:01 2026-05-04 23:57
comradepupivy 🟥 0:01 2026-05-05 00:51
tigeruppercut 🟩 0:02 2026-05-05 03:59
demigodrick 🟪 0:05 2026-05-05 03:37
squirrel 🟪 0:08 2026-05-05 20:15

livligkinkajou got the badge for closest-to-zero overall.

🥇 Most active pressers

Player Faction Presses Total time held Longest single hold
zedstrian 🟩 15 3h 15m 15:00
squirrel 🟪 15 2h 15m 14:59
dunstabzugshaubitze 🟩 12 2h 45m 14:57
netweirdo 🟪 10 2h 23m 14:58
livligkinkajou 🟩 10 2h 03m 15:00
stegodon 🟪 10 1h 55m 15:00
sebas 🟩 10 1h 53m 14:58
  • The longest holds were by Chancellors!

🏛️ The Galactic Senate

Six elections were held over the course of the game. Five chancellors used their term; the final election ran out the clock with no nominations:

Term Chancellor Faction
1 stegodon 🟪 Purple
2 zedstrian 🟩 Green
3 havatra 🟥 Red
4 corvuscornix 🟦 Blue
5 rajtinka 🟪 Purple
6 (unfilled) —

Notable chancellor moves:

  • stegodon opened with a flurry - three royal decrees, two custom badges (⭐ and 🦾), two bonus presses, and a timer bonus
  • zedstrian and havatra both leaned hard on Galactic Largesse, twice each
  • corvuscornix burned three royal decrees in 20 minutes, a Blue blitz mid-game
  • rajtinka wrapped up with two faction bonus presses for Purple, very likely the deciding shove

Senate Voter Turnout

Election Faction-vote ballots Chancellor-vote ballots
1 (start of game) 30 20
2 (overnight) 9 8 ← lowest turnout, the dead-of-night election
3 (early morning) 20 18
4 (lunchtime) 20 14
5 (final) 19 22 ← highest turnout, peak engagement

Engagement climbed steadily into the final hours.

🧩 The Stranded Jedi puzzle

Master Kellin Vos was waiting in the holocron channel for anyone who could hear him.

  • 2 players completed all 9 steps:
    • 🟦 m_f finished 2026-05-05 12:34 (light/dark final reached first)
    • 🥈 w3dd1e finished 2026-05-05 15:33
  • 2 more reached step 8 havatra and marauderiic (decoded the Vigenère but didn’t speak the mantra)
  • 3 reached step 7 zedstrian, shimozu, corvuscornix
  • 5 broke past step 1 beyond that
  • 246 messages in the hidden #holocron channel

💬 Chat

4,272 messages across all channels:

Channel Messages
#main 2,743
#purple 375
#holocron 🔒 246
#senate 223
#green 211
#red 204
#corvid-chat (pop-up) 144
#blue 126

Top 10 chatters

# Player Faction Messages
1 w3dd1e 🔴 Red 473
2 corvuscornix 🔵 Blue 424
3 squirrel 🟣 Purple 228
4 rajtinka 🟣 Purple 218
5 havatra 🔴 Red 192
6 zedstrian 🟢 Green 153
7 stegodon 🟣 Purple 126
8 demigodrick 🟢 Green 119
9 dmmacniel 🟢 Green 112
10 comradepupivy 🔴 Red 79

Top 5 reaction emojis

Emoji Count
❤️ 200
🐦‍⬛ 182
😂 133
👍 131
💯 117

The crow emoji, added to the picker only hours before the game ended, landed in second place behind the heart. A late-game phenomenon.

🎖️ Final badges

  • 🥇 stegodon - first to press the button
  • 🥈 w3dd1e - runner-up Jedi
  • 🟦 m_f - light-side Jedi master
  • 🛡️ Sentinels - demigodrick, comradepupivy, squirrel, zedstrian, tigeruppercut, havatra
  • 🛡️🏁 livligkinkajou - sentinel + closest-to-zero
  • ⚡ siv9939 - chancellor’s electric custom badge

🔝 Top referrers

Recruitment chain MVPs:

Player Faction Sign-ups brought in
zedstrian 🟩 8
dunstabzugshaubitze 🟩 7
squirrel 🟪 5
livligkinkajou 🟩 3
snoopy 🟩 2

Green ran the strongest referral game (20 sign-ups), but Purple’s existing roster was already big enough to translate into wins on the board.

📊 By the numbers

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  • Most presses by one player: 15 (zedstrian and squirrel, tied)
  • Average press timer remaining: 14:18
  • Unused presses across all factions: 581 (more than were actually used!)

⏰ Hourly Heatmap

Press volume climbed steadily into the final evening (UTC):

Shading legend: 0 · ░ 1–2 · ▒ 3–5 · ▓ 6–9 · █ 10+

Hour (UTC) 🟦 Blue 🟩 Green 🟪 Purple 🟥 Red Total Bar
May 04 20:00 ▒ 4 █ 10 ▓ 9 ▓ 6 29 ███████████████
May 04 21:00 ░ 1 ▒ 4 ▒ 4 ▒ 3 12 ██████
May 04 22:00 ▒ 5 ▒ 5 ▒ 3 ▒ 5 18 █████████
May 04 23:00 ▒ 3 ▒ 5 ░ 2 ░ 2 12 ██████
May 05 00:00 ░ 2 ░ 1 ░ 2 ░ 2 7 ███
May 05 01:00 ▓ 6 ▒ 3 ░ 2 ▒ 3 14 ███████
May 05 02:00 ░ 2 ▒ 3 ░ 2 ▒ 4 11 █████
May 05 03:00 0 ▒ 4 ░ 2 ▒ 3 9 ████
May 05 04:00 ▒ 3 ░ 1 ░ 2 ▒ 3 9 ████
May 05 05:00 0 ░ 1 ░ 1 ░ 1 3 █
May 05 06:00 ▒ 3 ▓ 8 ▒ 3 ▒ 5 19 █████████
May 05 07:00 ░ 2 ░ 2 ▓ 6 ▒ 3 13 ██████
May 05 08:00 0 0 ▓ 7 ░ 2 9 ████
May 05 09:00 ▒ 5 ▒ 3 ░ 2 ░ 2 12 ██████
May 05 10:00 ░ 1 ▒ 4 ▓ 6 ░ 2 13 ██████
May 05 11:00 ▒ 3 ▒ 3 ▓ 6 ▒ 3 15 ███████
May 05 12:00 ▓ 8 █ 14 █ 20 ░ 2 44 ██████████████████████ ← peak
May 05 13:00 ▓ 8 █ 15 █ 15 ▒ 4 42 █████████████████████
May 05 14:00 ▒ 3 ▓ 6 ▒ 5 ▒ 3 17 ████████
May 05 15:00 ▒ 3 ▒ 3 ▒ 3 ▓ 6 15 ███████
May 05 16:00 ░ 1 ▓ 7 ▓ 8 ▒ 4 20 ██████████
May 05 17:00 ░ 1 ░ 1 ▒ 5 ▒ 3 10 █████
May 05 18:00 ░ 2 ▓ 8 ▓ 9 █ 10 29 ██████████████
May 05 19:00 ▒ 5 █ 20 █ 21 ▒ 3 49 ████████████████████████ ← peak
May 05 20:00 ▓ 7 ▓ 9 █ 10 ░ 1 27 █████████████
May 05 21:00 ░ 1 ▓ 8 ▓ 6 0 15 ███████
Total 79 148 161 85 473
Chat volume followed a similar curve, peaking at 323 messages in the 20:00 hour as the season raced toward the finish.

🌐 The Fediverse Showed Up

Players came from 49 different Fediverse instances. Top contributors:

Instance Players
lemmy.zip 65
lemmy.world 32
feddit.org 22
sh.itjust.works 13
piefed.social 7
lemmy.ml 7
discuss.tchncs.de 5
sopuli.xyz 4
startrek.website 3
piefed.zip 3

…plus 39 more instances with 1–2 players each. A genuinely cross-platform crowd.

🐦‍⬛ Honourable Mentions

  • Corvid Chat - the first admin pop-up channel ever spawned. 144 messages in roughly an hour. The crow emoji that arrived in the same patch promptly took silver in the reactions chart.
  • The 8-vote election - election 2 fired at 02:30 UTC and got 8 chancellor votes. The dead-of-night turnout floor.
  • The Light Side Choice - m_f could have hoarded ten bonus presses for themselves. They didn’t. Whoever you are: that’s a Jedi move. 🟦

Bugs!

There were a couple of bugs in this Season, for which I apologise profusely for. One ended up wiping the database mid game. I managed to recover most things, but fastest press is not correct sadly, just an approximation based on chat timestamps :(

Until next season. 🟪

  • Deebster@infosec.pubEnglish
    8·
    10 days ago

    Great fun again, thanks for much for running these. I joined the ever-underperforming red team this time, but the event ended before I woke up and launched my plan of using my stash of presses to swing the result.

    I opened the frequency channel, but couldn’t figure out what was needed for the “Seven forms. Seven stars. One who fell beneath them remembers” + “Seven stars burning” clues. Seven forms is a reference to lightsabre fighting styles, I assume, but I didn’t get much further. Seven stars = a group of seven? The seven dark Jedi?

    I’d be interested to see the stats on which platforms joined in… I noticed a few mastodon instances while playing but the ones in your post are all Lemmy/PieFed.

      • Deebster@infosec.pubEnglish
        4·
        10 days ago

        I think we couldn’t even decide which the first one was, which caused some confusion. Was the morse code button there the whole time?

    • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
      5·
      10 days ago

      I got stuck at the same point as you; my steps were

      1. grabbed the letters from the chat, got OPENCHANNELFREQUENCY
      2. Input /frequency in the open channel, got access
      3. Decoded the morse code, it was “SEVENSTARSBURNING”
      4. Checked the same clue as you, “Seven forms. Seven stars. One who fell beneath them remembers.”
      5. Remembered it was something biblical. Websearched the shit out of “seven stars”, found 1Enoch 18:12 and a bunch of things in Revelations 1. Tried /revelations, /enoch, /apocalypse, /revelations, nope.
      6. Realised I was being a dummy and that Star Wars lore made more sense. Websearched the shit out of `“seven stars” “star wars”. Realised the “fall” was Anakin becoming Darth Vader.
      7. Tried /anakin, /luke (just in case), /skywalker, nope.
      8. Went to bed 14:00 = 2 PM because I worked through the night and morning and kind of gave up. When I woke up the game was over.
    • Demigodrick@lemmy.zipOPM
      5·
      9 days ago

      In terms of other instances, in addition to the ones in the list in the OP, i’ve put them in the tag below.

      instances

      jlai.lu, lemmy.ca, lemmy.dbzer0.com, infosec.pub, lemmy.blahaj.zone, mastodon.uno, feddit.uk, startrek.website, cake.kobel.fyi, slrpnk.net, stegodon.social, lemmy.today, pawb.social, infosec.exchange, lemmy.nz, mander.xyz, mastodon.zip, piefed.world, kbin.earth, hexbear.net, layer8.space, lemmygrad.ml, mastodon.social, peachpie.theatl.social, anarchist.nexus, blahaj.zone, discuss.mschae23.de, dizl.de, dubvee.org, gehirneimer.de, lemmy.radio, lemmy.uhhoh.com, palaver.p3x.de, piefed.ca, reddthat.com, scribe.disroot.org.

    • MarauderIIC@lemmy.zip
      2·
      9 days ago

      The way to use the morse was

      Tap for spoiler

      literally just putting SEVEN STARS BURNING

      in the chat. I only got it when someone told me that. And I sure felt like I was overthinking it too. I also thought it was a clue on its own.

      At some point the holonet message changed to be about morse instead of the lines about Seven

      • Deebster@infosec.pub
        2·
        9 days ago

        Oh, you’re kidding! I definitely thought it was another clue, but I suppose I should have realised that for many, recognising and decoding the morse was puzzle enough. I loaded the sound file into audacity so I could just read the dots and dashes.

      • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
        2·
        8 days ago

        The way to use the morse was [spoiler]

        Now I’m hating myself a wee bit — I tried a lot of shit, but not this one. Even if simpler.