Announcing the 216 2025 Co-op Crosskeys Tournament

**Fear Agent** (0:15)
Welcome to Two Sixteen, A Link to the Past Randomizer Podcast. I am your host, Fear Agent. Today with a special guest, Clear Mouse. How are you today?

**ClearMouse** (0:25)
Oh, Fear, doing spectacularly. How are you? Yes, thank you. I feel so great to be back on here.

**Fear Agent** (0:32)
Yeah, you know, I think I told you this before, but you have one of the top, I want to say three downloaded episodes of in the history of Two Sixteen.

**ClearMouse** (0:43)
Oh my gosh. Yeah, I think you mentioned that before. Oh my gosh. And I, my face didn't change from the shade of red as best smells for a very, very long time.

**Fear Agent** (0:56)
Everyone loves Claremouse. And yeah, I'm excited to have you on. We're not doing a full episode. We're doing an announcement. Today, we are here to announce the return of Co-op Crosskeys for 2025 That's right. Claremouse and I are running the Two Sixteen Co-op Crosskeys Tournament. Last year, we did, what was that? It was, it was something new. We tried something different. It was, I ran it with the Tournament Bot. I think it went well. I think everyone had fun.

**ClearMouse** (1:29)
Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I think we actually, I should have looked this up before we started. But yeah, we had a pretty decent turnout. Like, I want to say like 30 teams, maybe. Like, yeah, it was a lot of people. Yeah. And I think the only like real thing. Yeah, people had tons of fun. It was really exciting. Like Final Four, like obviously super talented, you know, runners percolating all the way to the top. But I think overall, everybody had a really good time. And yeah, I think the only real maybe like quote unquote complaint was that maybe like the people weren't like kind of like less thrilled about it. I think we just didn't realize it was like some sort of like the the seating for the Swiss or something.

**Fear Agent** (2:09)
Right.

**ClearMouse** (2:10)
Or randomized.
That's really it. Like, OK, yeah, so you got slightly like maybe more predictable opponents, which, you know, again, it was probably like definitely like their feedback. But like like like you said, everybody just had fun playing Coop Crosskeys, right? Obviously, everybody likes Coop and Crosskeys seems to be like the mode of, I don't know, like the year, but like everyone's into like entrance. You see so many interest pinks nowadays, right? For in race time and I was already in TARC and all. And of course, everyone's looking forward, I think, to, you know, the regular single solo Crosskeys tournament coming up. On addition, of course, I believe Co-op Crosskeys in League was like one of like the most like popular picks, right?

**Fear Agent** (2:52)
So it's just, it's just the best mode to play. Like honestly, like Co-op is all I want to play. If I, if I do play, I don't know if anyone listened to the last episode, I ranted about losing and not wanting to play anymore. Oh, that is Co-op is just undeniable. Like I love Co-op so much. And then Cross, Co-op Crosskeys is, I think, the best mode. I think I used to think Co-op 80 was the best mode. I think it's too simple. I think Co-op Crosskeys adds just enough. It's just a better mode than open.

**ClearMouse** (3:26)
So, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think that's also kind of shows maybe like the, like the general, like how long people from kind of playing Rando, like, you know, I think if we kind of maybe pitch this like a little bit earlier, when people are kind of less familiar with, with Rando, right? The whole co-op plus insurance, plus all these keys tracking was actually like, it can be pretty overwhelming, right? But I think now when people got like, yeah, it had a lot more experience playing just like regular Crosskeys, of course, people have tons of fun playing to begin with. Now, because you can play with a buddy, right? So yeah, I think you're very spot on and say this in a very nice, like balance that people are having right now. So it just makes it even more fun, right? You're kind of at that level of comfort where you're like, okay, I can, I believe I can tackle this like confidently and I get to play with a friend.
And now you're ready for the challenge, right? It's like, okay, I'm ready. I believe I can compete and I believe I can do better. Right. That's just going to have a lot of fun. So yeah, I'm definitely looking forward to it.