Metaverse Champions

Metaverse Champions was a Roblox event that started on April 15, 2021, and ended on May 20, 2021. It was the year's "Spring Hunt" as a rebrand of the annual egg hunt. The event was spread into four weeks, with up to 48 games a week and 10-12 for each champion.

Players could win Rthro bundle items, mystery boxes, and an egg. Mystery boxes would open into different items starting on May 17, 2021, until the event concluded, along with a grand prize which was obtainable in the Hub, themed around the winning champion: Sparks Kilowatt.

This was the first "Spring Hunt" to only feature one egg, being the Tiny Egg of Nonexistence.

Week 1
These crates could have been obtained from April 14, 2021, to April 22, 2021, and have opened on May 17, 2021.

Week 2
These crates could have been obtained from April 22, 2021, to April 30, 2021, and have opened on May 18, 2021.

Week 3
These crates could have been obtained from April 29, 2021, to May 7, 2021, and have opened on May 19, 2021.

Week 4
These crates could have been obtained from May 6, 2021, to May 14, 2021, and have opened on May 20, 2021.

Valkyrie Shards
These hatched out of the launcher boxes on May 21, 2021. When combined, they form a valkyrie helm, but since the hat limit is 3, you can't get the full valk without owning the Launcher Pro badge, or by advanced mode in the Avatar Editor. The only way the Metaverse Valkyrie Shards was obtainable was to get the 4 boxes from Mvps, Roblox Admin, Developers, Video Star's crate in order to combine them together.

Criticism

 * The event had received heavy criticism from users for a paid access game, Emergency Response: Liberty County, being included in Week 1 for AJ Striker. Initially, the game could have been purchased for 95 Robux until its price was decreased to 50 Robux. As the developers refused to make the game free for the week, this has led many users to believe AJ Striker's team is at a disadvantage. Later on April 19th, Emergency Response: Liberty County was removed from the game selection pool, however the badge still counted towards the total Badge count in the Hub until May 14th.
 * Tank Warfare was criticized for having a pay to win gamepass, even thought the player could easily get AJ Striker's Crate without buying the gamepass.
 * Field Trip Z had been criticized for giving players on the Fey Yoshida team a Badge by simply joining the game, giving players on Fey Yoshida's team a substantial advantage above all other teams. The developers said that Roblox forced them to be in the event, and they did not choose otherwise. This claim was supported by another developer of another game for the event. The developer also encouraged players on Twitter for the game to be the most obtained in the event, saying he would donate $1000 to charity. Shoot Out! and Speed Run Simulator were also criticized for the same reason, which slightly boosted AJ Striker/Fey Yoshida.
 * Most of the games has no theme of the metaverse like Field Trip Z and Obby Run.
 * This Game is Pain has been criticized for being too hard for most of the players. Nearly 5,000 users received the Badge there, making it the hardest Badge in the event (however, this was assumed because of an announcement and the title).
 * Many games were criticized for having extremely 'grindy' quests - quests that required many repetitive and/or time-consuming objectives.
 * The following are some games that contained the 'grindy' quests:
 * This Game is Pain (Very hard; hence the name)
 * Teddi (Objective was to complete every chapter (14 hours)
 * Car Crushers 2 (Objective was to get a specific addon and car. The cost of the trowel was too high, and the car took long to unlock. Those who already had played the game had an easier time, since they had already unlocked the car and could get the addon, those who were only there for the crate had to grind a lot.)
 * Ant Colony Simulator
 * Power Simulator 2 (Players had to go all around the large map, and there were lots of tasks that required you to go all over the map.)
 * Originally, before the event started, people complained that this was replacing the Egg Hunt 2021. This was later compensated with the arrival of the Tiny Egg of Nonexistence quest, giving the player an egg and paying a tribute to the Egg Hunts' past, by showcasing every egg in the Hall of Eggs.

Trivia

 * This event was first mentioned in the description for the Roblox Google Play Store app: * LIMITED TIME ONLY (April 15 – May 20): The Metaverse Champions community event is live! Rally behind your favorite champions and set out on a quest to collect dozens of exclusive items across over 180 unique experiences on Roblox. Whose champion will reign supreme? *
 * This event officially became the event featuring the most games, with 185 total planned games.
 * This beats Egg Hunt 2020: Agents of E.G.G., which had 49 games.
 * Only one of these games was paid access, and two were removed.
 * This is the eleventh time Roblox has offered a way for Administrators to hand out unique items.
 * The previous being: Hallow's Eve 2014, Roblox Easter Egg Hunt 2015, Egg Hunt 2016: Eggcellent Adventure (x2), Egg Hunt 2017: The Lost Eggs, Egg Hunt 2018: The Great Yolktales, Pizza Party, Egg Hunt 2019: Scrambled in Time and Egg Hunt 2020: Agents of E.G.G.
 * This is the fourth time Roblox has offered a way for members of the Roblox Video Stars Program to hand out unique items.
 * The previous being: Pizza Party, Egg Hunt 2019: Scrambled in Time and Egg Hunt 2020: Agents of E.G.G.
 * This is the third time Roblox has offered a way for developers of participating games to hand out unique items.
 * The previous being: Pizza Party and Egg Hunt 2020: Agents of E.G.G.
 * The hub map contains multiple Easter eggs.
 * Hidden below the map in a crevice towards the left-most side, a tiny eg can be seen as a tribute to.
 * An eg similar to that can also be seen at the bottom of the Ready Player Two event hub.
 * On one of the pillars, the face of can be seen.
 * This face also appeared in the Ready Player Two and 8th Annual Bloxy Awards event hubs.
 * At the bottom of the map, a modified Super Computer from Miner's Haven can be found. This has been theorized to be 1x1x1x1's Computer.
 * On the wall which was hidden by bushes there used to be a phrase "1x1x1x1 will be here".
 * The outline of a Valkyrie Helm can be seen in the "Bring Home the Win" part of the Metaverse Champions event page.
 * This led some players to believe a Valkyrie Helm prize was achievable if a certain champion reigned supreme (ultimately speculated as Sparks Kilowatt), but this turned out to be false, debunked by DeeterPlays.
 * On May 21, 2021, a valkyrie helm was released, but it was obtainable through a different way.
 * As a player gets closer to 12 badges for a single champion, their name tag in the Hub slowly turns gold.
 * Launcher Boxes will launch toward the nearest player who does not have the box based off the direction the launcher is facing.
 * Each champion's column will increase in height from the amount of points they have received from crates.
 * During Week 3, AJ Striker originally had a 12th game, Bloxtopia, but was removed a day later on April 30, 2021.
 * It is speculated the reason for this is due to the game featuring game icons and thumbnails which break Roblox Terms and Conditions, as well as featuring stolen thumbnails and IP from various creators and studios.
 * During Week 4, Wren Brightblade originally had an 11th game, Escape Room 2, but was removed a day prior on May 5, 2021.
 * This is because the creator,, felt like the game was not ready for release and thus requested it to be removed.
 * Advertisements featuring all champions were ran for the event hub.
 * For unknown reasons, the Rthro prizes are not awarded as bundles but instead part by part.
 * Excluding the head, all Rthro bundles render as the default body when using them with an R6 character just like Kenneth.
 * It is possible for players to get more than one copy of a crate due to problems with games giving out badges. For example, has two copies of AJ's Blaster, the Bahemoth and TheRar_3 has three copies of Sparks' Wand of Wonder  while Fairblower459 has two copies of Sparks' Wand of Wonder
 * In the Metaverse Champions Hub, if you jump down into the forest below, you can explore the place without being teleported back up.
 * Super Striker League, Ronald and RB Battles are the only games in the event who also participated in the RB Battles Season 2.
 * Robloxian High School and Sharkbite are the only games in the event who also participated in the Ready Player Two.
 * This is the 10th time Epic Minigames has been featured in an official Roblox event. Before this event, it was featured in ROBLOX Holiday 2015, ROBLOX Summer Camp 2016, Legends of the Hidden Temple, Smurfs: The Lost Village, DuckTales, Space Battle, Kids' Choice Awards 2018, Egg Hunt 2019: Scrambled in Time, and Egg Hunt 2020: Agents of E.G.G.