Team picture
Crab 1 intro image (uploaded by Splagnet)
The inaugural tournament. The Dark Souls of art jams.
Crab 1 was the first edition of CRAB: 20 contestants, 4 teams, 3 rounds.
Summary
Crab 1 consisted of 20 artists in 4 teams competing in a league-styled tournament. In three rounds, contestants are randomly assigned against each other - the first two rounds being dancing and cooking, with the final round being a one-on-one fight in the esteemed Bucket. The team with the most points after Round 3 wins the tournament. The winning team will receive a prize - a wish to whatever they desire. The losing teams will, along with dying themselves, have their worlds destroyed. The winning team’s world is safe from destruction by the Gamemaster.
Rounds
Round 1: Dance (Space Palace Gardens)
Crabs face each other in a dancing competition in the Space Palace Gardens.
- C1 R1 - No’e and Larkspur vs Linda and Terriful (Linda and Terriful won)
- C1 R1 - Janitor vs Pikralida (Pikralida won)
- C1 R1 - Susumu vs Conqueror (Susumu won)
- C1 R1 - Bodycount vs Kif (Bodycount won)
- C1 R1 - Asha vs Nova (Asha won)
- C1 R1 - Emily and Incel vs Justin and Ditron (Justin and Ditron won)
- C1 R1 - Kathrine vs Taya (Taya won)
- C1 R1 - Super J vs Joseph (Super J won)
Round 2: Cooking (Ormon Jango)
Crabs are transported to the world of Ormon Jango, where they must fight the fauna and flora and gather ingredients in order to prepare scrumptious meals.
- C1 R2 - Justin and No’e vs Joseph and Conqueror (Joseph and Conqueror won)
- C1 R2 - Janitor vs Linda (Linda won)
- C1 R2 - Susumu and Pikralida vs Emily and Super J (Emily and Super J won)
- C1 R2 - Larkspur vs Kathrine (Kathrine won)
- C1 R2 - Bodycount vs Nova (Bodycount won)
- C1 R2 - Asha vs Taya (Taya won)
- C1 R2 - Kif vs Terriful (no winner recorded)
- C1 R2 - Incel vs Ditron (Ditron won)
Round 3: Fight (The Bucket)
The Crabs fight each other in The Bucket - killing is prohibited.
- C1 R3 - No’e vs Emily (Emily won)
- C1 R3 - Janitor vs Super J (Janitor won)
- C1 R3 - Susumu vs Justin (Justin won)
- C1 R3 - Larkspur vs Conqueror (no winner recorded)
- C1 R3 - Bodycount vs Joseph (Bodycount won)
- C1 R3 - Asha vs Pikralida (Asha won)
- C1 R3 - Kif vs Taya (Taya won)
- C1 R3 - Incel vs Nova (no winner recorded)
- C1 R3 - Kathrine vs Terriful (no winner recorded)
- C1 R3 - Ditron vs Linda (Linda won)
Hosts
- The Gamemaster: A mysterious and almighty wizard who captured characters from different worlds to make them participate in the Tournament.
- Old Wietse: A grumpy old man from Friesland working as commentator.
- Berbie: A Canadian landlord bird working as commentator.
- Lavenza (Franken-Girl): The announcer, a Frankenstein-like monster girl.
Teams
The Cleanup Crew
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A team composed mostly of cleaners, or assassins of some kind, led by the young yet courageous No’e.
- No’e: A spunky spear wielder girl guarding her island in a water world.
- Janitor: A ubiquitous and skilled cynical Janitor.
- Susumu: A middle-aged polite man who works as an assassin for a fatalistic institution.
- Larkspur: A tall shy albino telekinetic.
- Bodycount: A creepy doll holding undead at the service of the Gamemaster.
Team Powerhouse
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A team composed of capable fighters with low social skills. This was considered a broken team back then LMFAOOOOOO.
- Asha: A sociopathic rebel warrior girl.
- Conqueror: An ambitious and overly motivated dictator.
- Kif: A strong but scaredly royal bodyguard with fear-fueled growth powers.
- Emily: A cheerful armed robot girl blogger.
- Incel: A shy young man who cannot find love but is talented at battle.
Sunshine Over the Farm
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A team composed mostly of farmers or young legacy people.
- Justin Franciscus Willemsma: A young and upbeat farmer boy.
- Kathrine Durdan: A dog woman who works as a military angel defending her world.
- Nova: A silent alien boy working as a cowboy/farmer.
- Ditron: A cyborg mutant shock trooper experiment with a chill personality.
- Super J: A legacy superhero that watches over multiversal stories.
The Pryde Doughboys
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A team composed of very determined people who like pizza.
- Linda May Lieu: A dissenter and fighter for freedom in a dystopian future with the resolution to return everyone home.
- Taya “Rómendil” Miantos: A young girl guard in training and adventurer with a confident disposition.
- Joseph Pryde: A nice pizza guy and cook kidnapped into the tournament.
- Terriful: A cocky cat man hero who protects his world from the multiverse.
- Pikralida: A war veteran butcher gnome who hates humans.
NPCs
- Berlo: A purple thing that refuses to die coming to spectate.
- Mooma: A guest judge, an old lady goddess mother of the gods of war.
- Pomao: Pomao.
Ending
After the many battles, deaths and happenings, the wish ended up in the hands of team Pryde Doughboys, and its members left things in Linda’s hands. As she had promised then, she used it to safely return every Crab back to their worlds, where they continued their lives. However, the few Crabs who had died did not return.
Threads
The original discussion threads on 4chan’s /co/ board, archived on desuarchive.org:
- 29 April 2022: “/crab/ Comic and Random Art Battles”, 406 replies
- 15 May 2022: “/crab/ Comic and Random Art Battles”, 310 replies
- 27 May 2022: “/crab/ Comic and Random Art Battles”, 29 replies
- 8 June 2022: “/crab/ Comic and Random Art Battles”, 358 replies
- 1 July 2022: “/crab/ Comic and Random Art Battles”, 298 replies
Source
Text: CRAB WIKI, Crab 1 (revision 2493, 2026-05-25; by ArkAngal, Splagnet, BrianPillman, Fresbi, TheBrianPillman)
Pictures: uploaded to the wiki by Splagnet (2 Crabs intro copy.jpg); Fresbi (Fvev.png, 6h55y5h.jpg, Pryde.png); TheBrianPillman (One last sunshine.png)
Also: Spelling and grammar of the wiki text corrected by G (9 Oct 2026)
Also: Recurring terms written in one form by G (9 Oct 2026)
Licence: text CC BY-SA 4.0; characters, comics and art belong to their creators
