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1. Series with many formats
2. Format-focused series
3. See also

Many BotBrs host XHBs with recurrent themes or ideas. After the ability to schedule XHBs in advance was implemented in 2020, they became especially popular, but older series have existed as well. This article hopes to catalog them all, but updating it is quite the process at this point. Each section is sorted alphabetically.

Last updated 2/2/22

Series with many formats

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Several XHB series have occurred where the idea was to have a different format every time, or that utilized many different formats along the way:

Accompany this poem
Multi-format series hosted by roz

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Badge Quest
Hosted by Chip Champion as a part of his badge completionist collecting.

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Blob OHB
Blob (emoji) themed series hosted by kleeder.

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BOTBtober 2017
Hosted by Sinc-X at the end of October. Differs from 2016's edition, which was allgear-focused.

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colours
A graphically focused OHB series hosted by sean.

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From The Past
Series hosted by CastleNes.

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hosting one ohb per day until single-format-major 1 starts
Series hosted by kleeder.

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Multi 100
A series hosted by various BotBrs held for Tilde in the spirit of finishing a "100 songs in 1 year" challenge.

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OHB Advent Calendar 2018
Before Advent Calendar became a major battle, it was a daily OHB series hosted by kleeder.

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OHB Advent Calendar 2019
Before Advent Calendar became a major battle, it was a daily OHB series hosted by kleeder.

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One-OHB-Per-Day-Challenge
Series hosted by kleeder. Though not explicitly designed to have a different format every time, this series was still heavily multiformat.

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Press start button
Series hosted by CastleNes.

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Quest Awaiting
Series hosted by CastleNes.

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Rare Format Sighting
Series for rare formats hosted by Jangler first and other people later.

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Secret Sunday
Former weekly series hosted by Jessica Robo with a different, randomly-rolled format each week.

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structures
Series hosted by sean with a different structure focused upon in the bitpack every time.

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The McDonalds Mix and Match
Series hosted by tree.

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you get what you want
A former weekly series hosted by kleeder in which each week's format was chosen by another BotBr (the setup/scheduling thread was here). The series was set to end upon boonloss, which #8, HTML5 did incur.

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A "sequel" was also briefly hosted by TristEndo and damifortune which continues the original series.

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Format-focused series

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Many XHB series are also focused on particular formats:

2d map
Visuall series hosted by nitrofurano, themed around creating 2D map tiles.
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32 pixels wide, and 32 pixels tall, tile design battle
A tile design pixel art series hosted by ViLXDRYAD.
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5 in 60
"50 songs in 60 minutes" OHB series started by mootbooxle and picked up by other BotBrs.
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6 in 60
"6 songs in 60 minutes" OHB series hosted primarily by mootbooxle. #4 was hosted by someone else and it hasn't been located yet. Mysterious!
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a Kirby Kristmas
A Kirby-themed allgear series by OminPigeonMaster, in which OPM wrote a bunch of Kirby music for a friend's Christmas gift.
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Bonus: NSF spinoff


AC21 Bit Period
A 4HB series hosted by kleeder in preparation for Advent Calendar 2021.
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beepcord Xth interventional BEEPBATTLE
Jummbox 4HB series by kfaraday.
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BotBer arts
Visuall series hosted by CastleNes.
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BOTBtober 2016
A small OHB series hosted by Sinc-X at the end of October. While 2016 was entirely allgear-based, 2017 varied between the formats.
#1 - #2 - #3 - #4 - #5


BotB Rewind
A yearly 4HB series by kleeder that asks participants to reflect upon their year on BotB.
2020 - 2021


breakcore
Allgear series hosted by XFREDDYxDANGERX.
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ch1p5 4 br8k4st
NSF+ series hosted by A64.
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COUNTELPRO
Module series hosted by keffie.

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daily famitrack
Famitracker series hosted by kleeder.
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Darker Than Night
Allgear series hosted by CastleNes.
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Division
S3xmodit series hosted by hqaoqu.
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Drive to Golden MegaRoad
Sega Genesis series hosted by OminPigeonMaster.
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dub techno
Dub techno focused allgear series hosted by tennisers.
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E
NES-based series hosted by kleeder. The overall theme was to only use the note E with barely any effects to reach other frequencies.

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EP in a Week Challenge
An XHB-allgear-series hosted by OminPigeonMaster. Related Challenge Thread can be found here.
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Eye to ear
Series hosted by OminPigeonMaster with the general idea to write music for a gfx entry that was previously submitted to BotB

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F MINOR
ChannelF/fSound series hosted by kleeder. Works as a sequel for F MAJOR.

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Fallgear
The sequel to the Summer Allgear Series, an allgear series hosted by hanna in lieu of a proper autumn-themed allgear major.
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Five Sounds
An MT-32 format counterpart to the MIDI series Six Sounds - both hosted by BubblegumOctopus - in which the bitpack contains five RNG-chosen instruments to which participants are restricted.
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friends battle
Allgear series hosted by XFREDDYxDANGERX.
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Frosty The Snowman's Creativity Workshop
Wintry allgear series hosted by TristEndo.
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Gameboy Marathon
Gameboy series hosted by TristEndo while speedrunning Gameboy badge acquisition with 2a03fox.
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HOMM-Series
Allgear series hosted by kleeder.
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horse
Allgear series hosted by sulkaritari.
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i litsen to REAL musicc
Allgear series hosted by 2a03fox.
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I want battle!
Visuall series hosted by CastleNes.
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journal entry
MSGS MIDI series hosted by mirageofher with journal entries for bitpacks.
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jummbox TOP O' THE MONTH battle (quarter 2)
Jummbox 2HB series hosted by kfaraday.
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jummbox (quarter 2) tiny battle
Jummbox OHB series hosted by kfaraday.
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Karl's Xth Battle!
Wildchip XHB series hosted by kgb525.
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keffie needs a routine!
Module series hosted by charlotte and other keffie accounts.

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klaeddemix
Remix series by mirageofher.
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klangfreudians SECRET meeting
Klangfreude OHB series hosted by charlotte.
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Level Music
An XHB series hosted by OminPigeonMaster with each bitpack prompt describing a level in a video game. It is currently the longest XHB series in existence, with 95 installments and counting across 2 seasons. Though it began as a purely allgear series, several Chipist formats have been incorporated from S01E41 onward.

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OPM started a second season right after the 56th battle of season one was hosted:

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make a song inspired by this image
Allgear series hosted by tree.
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making music for an imaginary soundchip
Mostly module-focused (and fairly self-explanatory) series hosted by kleeder.

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MIDI Monday
A former weekly MSGS MIDI series hosted by Jessica Robo.
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MIDImoji
MSGS MIDI series hosted by damifortune with a different emoji for the bitpack every time. Recently expanded to include XG format battles as well.
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Midweek Module Madness
S3xmodit 2HB series hosted by hanna.
#1 - #2 - #3 - #4 - #5 - #6 - #7.1 - #7.2 - #8 - #9


modnar s3xmodit
S3xmodit series hosted by ASIKWUSpulse.
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Monster Midi
Spooky MIDI series hosted by TristEndo.
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Nice costume!
Halloween-focused visuall series hosted by OminPigeonMaster.
#1 - #2 - #3* - #3 - #4
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one sample only
Module series hosted by kleeder.

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photomash road to somewhere
A photomash series hosted by nitrofurano.
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pre-photomash
Visuall series hosted by nitrofurano where the submissions are intended to be used in a photomash battle afterward, much like sample battles preceding remix battles.
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Resulting photomash battles, hosted by kleeder and damifortune:
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project ridealong
Series hosted by Vav focused on trying to nail the vibe for a commission.
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PXTUNES
PxTone OHB and 2HB series hosted by damifortune which alternates between sample packs and dramatic text prompts (similar to the seasonal Allgear Series).
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Road to Bronze Visuall
Visuall series hosted by tree in pursuit of the bronze visuall badge.
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Road to Golden MIDI
MSGS MIDI series hosted by BubblegumOctopus in pursuit of the golden MIDI badge.
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Road to Golden nsf
NSF series hosted by kleeder in pursuit of the golden NSF badge.
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Road to Golden Sexmodit
S3xmodit series hosted by kleeder in pursuit of the golden badge for the format. A long-runner along with Road to Golden Wildchip, this series is responsible for a greater proliferation of beginning battle and/or series names with "Road to..."
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Road to Golden Wildchip
Wildchip Series hosted by kleeder.
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Road to Mount-32
MT-32 series hosted by mega9man.
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Road to Musescore Badge
A MuseScore series hosted by mirageofher and kleeder.
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Robotnik's Workshop
Visual Series hosted by OminPigeonMaster.
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RPG Soundtrack
An allgear series hosted by Kris in which a couple descriptors are randomly chosen and participants must soundtrack the result in an RPG-like style.
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s3xmodit road to somewhere
S3xmodit series hosted by nitrofurano.
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Sample Pack Series
Hosted by damifortune (with early installments by hanna until badge acquisition happened), this is a series of remix OHBs hosted as a BotB equivalent to the Sample Pack Contest

series hosted by VGMusic.com.
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Sample Spotlight
Remix Series hosted by damifortune.
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Sega Genesis ExMO
A s3xmodit XHB series with YM2612 samples hosted by ASIKWUSpulse.
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Shmup Shmuck
Multi-format Shoot-'Em-Up themed series by OminPigeonMaster.
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Short Circuit
Series hosted by CastleNes.

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Six Sounds
MSGS MIDI series hosted by BubblegumOctopus in which participants are required to only use 6 randomly chosen MIDI patches (+ drums) given in the bitpack.
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Soundtrack Sessions
A small nsf OHB series hosted by ElHuesudoII in 2014.
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Spring Allgear Series
Allgear series hosted by hanna - the final of four seasons' worth of Allgear Series!
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Summer Allgear Series
XHB series hosted by hanna during the season of summer, intended to be the allgear counterpart to Summer Chip. One of the first long-running series of the XHB scheduling era, and was so successful it ran for a full year under new seasonal names. Used very storytelling-focused bitpack prompts.
#1 - #2 - #3 - #4 - #5 - #6 - #7 - #8 - #9 - #10 - #11 - #12 - #13 - #14 - #15 - SEASON ALLGEAR FINALE


Super Sample Pack Series
A 2HB remix series hosted by damifortune. As the title sort of implies, this is the 2HB equivalent to the "Sample Pack Series" of OHBs.
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SMW-Hacking Batol
A Lunar Magic battle series by kleeder.
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Synth City
Allgear series hosted by CastleNes.
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Teletext Badge Grind
Teletext series by mirageofher.
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the extra chips makes it sound more plus
NSF+ series hosted by TristEndo.
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the motto
Allgear series hosted by Sinc-X focused on strong compositional choices.
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THE ELEMENTS...
Allgear 4HB series hosted by kfaraday themed around the four classical elements.
#1 - #2 - #3 - #4 - #5 - #6


The Ultimate Hum
A wildchip 4HB project organized by Maximemoring (who also streamed weekly synclistens for it) and hosted by puke7. For more information read its lyceum page.
- The Ultimate Hum: OST (August 2020 - October 2020)
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Theme Allgear
Allgear series hosted by CastleNes.
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this series will end when castle returns
An alternating allgear-visuall series hosted by mirageofher.
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Three Sounds
MSGS MIDI series hosted by BubblegumOctopus as a variant of the Six Sounds series. Unlike Six Sounds, this series lets you use the given sounds (which are chosen by RNG) on as many channels as you want.
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Time Signature Terror
Allgear series hosted by OminPigeonMaster. Each battle requires the use of one or several odd time signatures.
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Transcendence.
Renoise series hosted by ordinate.
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Vav's Lunch Break
Mostly hosted by Vav, this is a series of allgear/fakebit/wildchip XHBs, done in lieu of XHB activity. Has been on hiatus ever since Vav's work stopped him from being able to make music there.

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videos i took when i was drunk
A vocal series hosted by mirageofher.
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Visufall
A visuall series initially hosted by big lumby alone. In later rounds, a group of interim hosts was formed, including OminPigeonMaster, sean, CastleNes, and mirageofher.
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where breast
Originally AYM-focused, now multi-format series hosted by Zlew.

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Winter Allgear Series
Allgear series hosted by hanna - the third of four Allgear Series seasons.
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Write a theme song for this vegetable.
NSF+ series hosted by roz.
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xenharmonic pogfest
allgear series hosted by 2a03fox.
mav7 - mav9 - 26edo - 7edo - 13edo - 15edo - 56edo


YEA VIDEOGAME
A remix OHB series hosted by damifortune where the bitpack contains the sampleset of a different SNES game every week. In addition to the weekly battle, there are sometimes reruns of previous bitpacks, and more recently, the series has been expanded to include SPC format spinoffs, denoted with a different numbering system.
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Re-Runs:
#5 #2 - #3 #2 - #10 #2 - #6 #2 - #1 #2 - #11 #2 - #23 + 2* - #16 #2 - #12 #2
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.SPC spinoffs:
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You .mid what you want
MSGS MIDI series hosted by BubblegumOctopus designed after kleeder's multi-format series "you get what you want". In this thread, anyone can post a set of 4 MIDI patches, and at some point that set will be chosen as the bitpack: only use those sounds.
beta test - #1 - #2 - #3 - #4 - #5


zlew wildchip batol awooo
A brief wildchip series hosted by mirageofher.
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Zonecore
Zone-Generator-based series hosted by OminPigeonMaster.

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See also

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Advent Calendar (Battle series)
Battle
OHB
2HB
4HB
XHB