User:Pikalin38/Fictional Ben and Toad's Contest 8

Season 8 of Ben and Toad's Contest will start on February 6, 2016. 84 contestants will participate with a 31-week airing. Notable events that will happen include Euro 2016, the 2016 Indy 500: The 100th Anniversary and the 2016 Summer Olympics.

2016 IndyCar season
The season will be extended to BATC season 9, BATC fans said.

Schedule
Germany: Can we move Fontana from June to maybe... October, September, March or November? To avoid all this hot weather in June? (Lee Sang-Hwa after finishing 23rd at MAVTV 500). Fontana should be the ending instead of Boston, German fans said; but BATC suggested the ending to be in California, either Sonoma, Fontana or Laguna Seca. The Germans decided to keep St Petersburg as the opener and the last race to be after Boston; the venue for the season 8 BATC finals. The experienced Germany IndyCar squad will have Birdo and Yoshi again named to the squad for the fourth consecutive IndyCar season. Lee Sang-Hwa and Nicolien Sauerbreij will also be named for the Germany squad driving for Will Power. Germany's national team will not have Helio Castroneves named for the first time since the 2012 season.

Czech Republic: Cancel the NOLA race and also cancel Barber Motorsports Park for the 2016 season. The Czech squad, mostly containing of Ueli Kestenholz and Garbine Muguruza, will say Fontana as the season ending in September. The team captain Ueli Kestenholz, turning 41 on May 10, has confirmed to cheer for Charlie Kimball; the driver they had been cheering since the season in 2011.

Italy: Move the Grand Prix of NOLA to March as it was inclement weather last year, and move Detroit to July for some better weather. Italia liked Germany's predicted schedule, as St Petersburg is the opener for the fifth consecutive year. Italy and Russia will drive together full time for the first time since the 2013 season.

Russia: Have all the IndyCar rounds stay in the United States. We want no Toronto round. Confirmed before the death of Bianchi, Italy and Russia will drive together full time for the first time since the 2013 season. Russia, along with Poland, cannot qualify for May 10 birthdays if host nation Honduras qualifies. Russia suggested postponing the Grand Prix of St Pete from March 20 to March 21 for inclement weather.

Honduras: We're 41 on the 10th of May that year. And if we can qualify for Today's Birthdays May 10 we can play Germany, whose driver is Will Power in 2016. Honduras would like St Petersburg as their opener and Fontana should be moved to better weather, Germany said. Honduras is set to race IndyCar full time for the first time since 2013.

Sweden: The Swedes confirmed that St Petersburg is cancelled for 2016 as less money was the reason. No Sepang PLEASE, Germany! But if Germany decided to keep the St Pete race, that was the reason why Phoenix will not return in 2016.

Colombia: The IndyCar points leader after Fontana suggested postponing the Grand Prix of Indianapolis to May 15. Colombia will enter the Indianapolis 500 as the defending champion. During the Women's World Cup final, Colombia decided to have the opener not Phoenix, but... St Petersburg again!

Indy 500
The defending champions are Colombia, who won the Indy 500 in 2015. This will be the first Indy 500 without Justin Wilson as he died in August 2015.

Germany is the defending champion for the 2016 Pit Stop Challenge. The Germans will not defend their title with Helio Castroneves as Honduras chose him instead. The Germans will instead participate for Will Power.

2016

 * No Cleveland.....

Host countries:
 * The BATC announced that the race at NOLA will be moved to Switzerland.
 * St Pete is moved back two weeks from March 27 to March 13, to clash with the Italy-Russia birthday round.
 * Germany will move Auto Club original date to Sweden, because Auto Club's not returning to the 2016 IndyCar season. Germany will also not be present for the NASCAR race there in 2016; replaced by Estonia.
 * Auto Club Speedway won't come back in 2016 due to poor sales and not finding a date.
 * Toronto is moved to July back in 2016, before the 2016 Summer Olympics; this time becoming a doubleheader instead of a single race; but BATC said it's single header instead.
 * AS NOLA is not returning to the 2016 schedule, BATC suggested having comebacks of other NASCAR ovals.
 * Sonoma will happen two days before Juan Pablo Montoya's 41st birthday.
 * The Germany national IndyCar team announced that the race in Mexico will be cancelled.
 * Road America's BACK!!!!!!!!!
 * The return of Phoenix is known to be on April 2, 2016. BATC is still unsure about it.
 * Due to Justin Wilson's death, Germany reported a no-return to Miami International Speedway.
 * The Netherlands suggested having Sonoma and not Boston as the 2016 season finale. Might be on BATC season 9 early weeks.
 * Sonoma will be the 2016 season finale.
 * If IndyCar doesn't have a race on the 24 Hours of Le Mans weekend, the Netherlands will accept a wildcard for the event.
 * The BATC event in Italy will replace the race scheduled to be held in Mexico.
 * After the NASCAR Chase race was postponed, Bulgaria suggested postponing St Pete to March 14.
 * Season 1 contestant Helio Castroneves cried after Mexico wasn't on the 2016 schedule. After that, Honduras won 2-0 against 2016 IndyCar underdogs Bulgaria.
 * For the first time since the 2010 FIFA World Cup, there isn't Milwaukee Mile on the schedule.
 * Without Milwaukee, Marshtomp, Combusken and Grovyle are set to enter the IndyCar Series season for the first time since 2012.
 * Serbia, Poland, South Korea and Japan will host the Indy 500 qualifying on May 22 since Aleshin and Djokovic will turn 29 and Ohno will turn 34.


 * March 13: 🇮🇹/🇷🇺
 * April 2: 🇪🇸
 * April 17: 🇫🇷
 * April 24: 🇧🇬
 * May 14: /
 * May 29:


 * June 4: 🇪🇸
 * June 5: 🇪🇸
 * June 11: 🇫🇷
 * June 26: 🇫🇷
 * July 10: 🇫🇷
 * July 17: 🇨🇦


 * July 31: 🇧🇾/🇹🇷
 * August 21: 🇧🇷
 * September 4: 🇺🇸
 * September 18: 🇨🇴

Drivers participating

 * will have to participate with a different driver as their usual one died. In 2016, Switzerland chose Max Chilton.
 * James Hinchcliffe will return from injury.
 * The season six champion, Juan Pablo Montoya, will continue his racing career.
 * Bulgaria returns to the series for the first time since replacing Honduras at St Pete in 2009; the team was in legal trouble and was about to lose against the Swedish team.
 * Despite the Euro 2016 failure, Netherlands returns to full time racing for the first time since Honduras/Paraguay were eliminated from DWTS season 15 in week 3.
 * Denmark returns for the first time in motorsports since Jiroemon Kimura's death.
 * Sweden returns to full time for the first time since 2012.
 * Honduras returns for the first time since 2013.
 * Poland returns to full time racing for the first time since Portugal/Paraguay (Helio Castroneves) won DWTS season 5. The Rolex 24 2016 pole-sitters chose Aleshin as their driver since it borders Russia.
 * After the Turkey national football team qualified for Euro 2016, Turkey returns to full time IndyCar racing for the first time since 2013.
 * Serbia will drive full time for the first time since 2013.
 * For the first time since 2008, Belgium will race full time after the Belgium national football team topped the FIFA Rankings as of November 2015.
 * All Eeveelutions expect Sylveon return to playing for Romania for the first time since 2013.
 * The wildcard entrants for all of the 16 races will be the Netherlands and Greece, because both sides made the 2014 World Cup round of 16 but failed to qualify for Euro 2016. Surprisingly, one of the Kalos starters, Froakie, is in the Dutch team.
 * Serbia is also entering all 16 races as a wildcard despite failing to qualify for Euro 2012, 2014 World Cup and Euro 2016.

24 Hours of Le Mans
The Netherlands, who failed to qualify for Euro 2016, will accept a wildcard into the event. Iceland and Albania will compete if either Will Power, Helio Castroneves or Juan Montoya are entered.

All 24 Euro 2016 qualified countries are scheduled to participate. Floatzel returns for the first time since the 2010 FIFA World Cup while Buizel will return for the first time since Euro 2012.

Mudkip qualifies if:
 * Helio Castroneves is entered.
 * Will Power is entered.
 * Scott Dixon is entered.
 * Sebastien Bourdais (BIH) is in the race.

Contestants
42 contestants are scheduled to participate; and have at least two contestants from the host country of the 2016 Summer Olympics that have not competed on the show yet; a couple contestants represented Brazil between season one and season seven. There will be at least 20 DWTS contestants on the American version that have not competed on BATC yet, but it was announced after the death of Justin Wilson at the age of 37. Due to Juan Montoya not competing at the 2016 Rolex 24, it was shortened from 84 to 42 contestants (which is the same number of BATC season 1 contestants).

Eugenie Bouchard will not compete in season 8, as her ranking was slipped from seventh to out of the top 40 in 2015. Other tennis players scheduled to not compete are Roberta Vinci and Flavia Pennetta. Irina Begu is scheduled to not compete either. 2015 IndyCar rookies Gabby Chaves and Stefano Coletti aren't scheduled to compete either.

Despite losing in the votes to be a DWTS season 15 contestant to Sabrina Bryan, Kressley is scheduled to compete in season 8.

User:Pikalin38/Fictional Ben and Toad's Contest 9 will air at Sonoma on September 17, 2016.

Week 1: Opening Ceremony

 * Air date: February 6, 2016
 * Task Scope: For the sixth consecutive season, the opening ceremony will be hosted by a different country in a season. In season 8, Romania will host it.
 * Winning team: Poison
 * Cause of win: The women discussed about Will Power for sports cars with the season 1 contestants. As the list went through, they had suggested him for the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans. Because of IndyCar not clashing, Salamence's guys are allowed to travel to the event.
 * Losing team: Steel
 * Cause of loss: The men didn't discuss very well, and chose Dragonite to be off the Phoenix IndyCar testing list.
 * Fired: Rubens Barrichello - for not participating in Romania and sent off the Stock Car Brasil list.
 * Notes:
 * Multiple contestants died before the season 8 ceremony, so all of them will be held in funerals, including Justin Wilson. This also includes David Bowie, who died on the weekend of the Roar Before the Rolex 24.
 * BATC reported that season 1 chose to participate in the opening ceremony in Romania, then fly to Phoenix for their testing the day after the results show.
 * Due to Pokemon's 20th anniversary, teams had to be one of the 18 Pokemon types.

Week 2

 * Air date: February 13, 2016
 * Task Scope: Teams will travel to Italy instead of Mexico to pursue BATC a season 1 dialog.
 * Winning team: Poison
 * Losing team: Steel
 * Fired: Maneesh Gupta
 * Notes:
 * Due to the task for the weekend, season 1 decided to stay in the USA for IndyCar testing.
 * All 42 season 1 contestants all got the "What type is Volcarona?" question wrong. They all guessed Bug/Dark.

Week 3: Daytona 500

 * Air date: February 20, 2016
 * Task Scope: BATC will head to Daytona for preparations for the 500. Season 1 decided to participate in Phoenix instead.
 * Winning team: Poison
 * Cause of win: All of them decided to play at Indianapolis. The women were quiet, as the season 1 side were entirely there.
 * Losing team: Steel
 * Cause of loss: For the third consecutive week, the men were struggling to win a task. They didn't do well, as they all decided to go to the Daytona 500 automatically instead of seeing the Pennzoil livery run by the Honduras national team.
 * Fired: Jon Lovitz - for not doing well in the Daytona 500 with his country.
 * Notes:
 * Honduras announced a livery for the 2016 Indy 500.
 * Skiddo changed the title from "Yelio Submarine" to "Larvesta Submarine". This was because Skiddo wants to name it from the "Helio Castroneves' Submarine" to the "Pokemon Submarine".
 * This was the third consecutive BATC task the men failed to win.

Week 4: Phoenix Test and Arm Melter 25

 * Air date: February 27, 2016
 * Task Scope: Season ones all opted not to participate at Arm Melter 25 expect Iran's Allen Ford. Ford will be representing a different country since Iran is banned from the event.
 * Winning team:
 * Losing team:
 * Fired:
 * Notes:
 * All BATC season 1 42 contestants expect Allen Ford declined to participate in Arm Melter 25.
 * Due to Pokémon celebrating it's 20th anniversary, BATC officials banned all released Pokemon in Shuffle (including the Snivy, Oshawott, Piplup, Turtwig lines and Metagross) from attending.

Week 6: St Pete Week

 * Air date: March 12, 2016
 * Task Scope: Teams will head to St Petersburg, Florida for the first race of the 2016 IndyCar Series season.
 * Winning team:
 * Cause of win:
 * Losing team:
 * Cause of loss:
 * Fired:
 * Notes:
 * Honduras, with a squad containing Pokemon, will enter IndyCars for the first time since 2013.
 * This is one of the scheduled races out of three for Team Peru, for Indy Lights champion Spencer Pigot.
 * This will be Poland's second race back from Aleshin's IndyCar crash in season four's finale.
 * This will be the first race back for Helio Castroneves and Honduras' IndyCar team after a near-death report at the Race of the Stars.
 * Salamence reported that season 1 contestants (expect Allen Ford) aren't allowed to travel to any other location than the IndyCar location.
 * The field will include two BATC champions, Simon Pagenaud and Juan Pablo Montoya, both of Team Penske.
 * Wildcard entrants Netherlands, Serbia and Greece will also compete in St. Petersburg.