Zabarah Wars · 2026
Champions
Sab3a Sab3atayn led by 2 going into the final game. Beauties & The Beast won it — and the tournament by 3.
Sara
Shaima
Gasem
Sofia
LaraThe margin
The championship was built from four things. Two of them — the vault power-ups and the Mission — were banked before the last game was played. Here is how the other two, the games themselves, actually went.
Stage one — points won in the fourteen scored games
Dead level. Across fourteen games, three teams won exactly the same number of points on the field. They had been level once before too, on 30 apiece after the Lake Chariot.
Stage two — add the vault power-ups and the Mission
Both of those were settled before the finale — the vaults in the pre-season, the Mission over the six days. Added on, they gave Sab3a Sab3atayn a two-point lead going into the very last event.
Stage three — The Sunken Code, worth 10 / 7 / 5
Beauties & The Beast won the finale by 1:08. Ten points to them, five to Sab3a Sab3atayn — a five-point swing that turned a two-point deficit into a three-point championship. That one event is the only thing on this whole page that changes who lifted it.
Points won in the games only, running total. Sab3a Sab3atayn held or shared the lead from the first game to the fourteenth; Beauties & The Beast never led outright at any point until the very last one.
Every game, every team
Position in the big number, points earned underneath. A green dot means that team’s captain took the hard punishment and won a point back.
Fourteen games scored. The Liar’s Table was disqualified — the lies were too detailed to separate from the truths.
Four sources, one total
The fourteen scored games left them level. What separated the three teams was everything around them — the punishments they were willing to take, the vaults they cracked in the pre-season, and the Mission board.
Never once led outright until the finale, and won it by 1:08. Six vault points and twelve from the Mission did the rest — Gasem and Lara both finished joint top of the board.
The best pre-season of the three — eight vault points — plus twelve from the Mission. Three short at the end.
Five captains took the hard punishment, more than either other team. But one vault point and four from the Mission left far too much to make up.
Only one thing changes the winner
Take the vault points away and Beauties & The Beast still win, by five. Take the punishments away and they still win, by four. Take the Mission away and they still win, by three. Take away The Sunken Code and Sab3a Sab3atayn are champions by two. Of everything on this page, the finale is the only thing that changes who lifted it.
Before anybody reached the cottage
Six missions went out on WhatsApp, each hiding a code. Crack the code, open the vault, collect a secret phrase and a power-up. First team in took two, second took one, third took nothing. Five of the six were opened. Not one power-up was ever spent — so every single one was converted straight into championship points.
Eighteen points sat across the six vaults. Fifteen were won and all fifteen were banked. Because nobody cashed one in during the three days, the pre-season carried its full weight all the way to the final table — and it is the only reason Sab3a Sab3atayn were within three points at the end.
Never opened. The code was never cracked and the phrase inside is still sealed.
Six days, sixteen people, ninety-six missions
Everybody carried a sealed card with six secret missions, one a day, to be carried out in front of the family without anybody noticing. Claim it for five. Call a Double before you went and it was worth ten — or nothing. Sixty-eight were claimed clean, ten Doubles landed, one Double collapsed, and seventeen days were quietly let go.
What the board paid each team
A three-way tie at the top and a five-way tie behind it, so eight people shared the payout. Malik finished ninth, outside it — and with no team of his own, his points would have gone nowhere regardless.
Where it turned
Shaima called a Double on day two and it collapsed. Had she simply claimed it she would have finished on thirty; had it landed she would have been joint first on thirty-five. Amyra and Addy both closed with a Double on the final day. Vinny let three days go and finished last on the board — which makes what happened in the Superstar vote all the sweeter.
Event by event
Tap any game to open the placings, the split times and what actually happened.
Result
Captains
Najwa · Sara · Sala
The punishment
Najwa came last as captain and took the hard version — survived it, and won the point back for The GOATs.
Result
Two GOATs legs were never put on the clock, so their splits below are only part of the story.
Captains
Saif · Shaima · Moe
Splits
The punishment
Saif came last as captain and took the hard version — survived it, and won the point back for The GOATs.
Result
Sab3a Sab3atayn carried a 20-second penalty into the result.
Captains
Hala · Gasem · Addy
Splits
The punishment
Addy came last as captain and took the easy version, and left the point where it fell.
Result
Sab3a Sab3atayn carried a 10-second penalty, and one GOATs leg never made it onto the clock.
Captains
Vinny · Sofia · Nora
Splits
The punishment
Sofia came last as captain and took the hard version — survived it, and won the point back for Beauties & The Beast.
Result
Captains
Jenna · Lara · Amyra
The room scored the performances
Gasem and Saif were the two that stopped the room.
The punishment
Amyra came last as captain and took the hard version — survived it, and won the point back for Sab3a Sab3atayn.
Result
Captains
Najwa · Sofia · Sala
Five tiers, five prompts, one clock
Total 1:22
Total 2:40
Total 4:27
The awkward card in the deck that night: “Singing in the shower”. Beauties & The Beast cleared all five tiers in 1:22. It took The GOATs 1:46 just to convey “waiting for a very slow lift”.
The punishment
Najwa came last as captain and took the hard version — survived it, and won the point back for The GOATs.
Result
Captains
Jenna · Lara · Moe
Out with the team, back alone
Only The GOATs had a solo return put on the clock — Jenna brought it back in 0:31.
The punishment
Lara came last as captain and took the hard version — survived it, and won the point back for Beauties & The Beast.
Result
Captains
Hala · Sara · Amyra
Twelve items down the line
The GOATs dropped one and never recovered it, and their captain’s course was never put on the clock — a slow line and a twenty-second penalty on top.
The punishment
Hala came last as captain and took the hard version — survived it, and won the point back for The GOATs.
Result
Captains
Vinny · Gasem · Addy
One swim each, then the captain finishes
Grid clock 4:45
Grid clock 4:49
Grid clock 5:01
Seventeen seconds covered all three teams. The closest game of the week that nobody noticed at the time.
The punishment
Vinny came last as captain and took the hard version — survived it, and won the point back for The GOATs.
Result
Disqualified. The lies came back so detailed that there was no fair way to tell them from the truths, so the game was thrown out and no points were awarded.
Captains
Saif · Shaima · Nora
Who was lying — and who spotted it
1 of 3 guessed it.
1 of 3 guessed it.
0 of 3 guessed it.
The round was voided before any placings were given. Across the three stories the voters got two of nine right, which was rather the point — Malik went nought for three.
Result
Captains
Hala · Gasem · Addy
Splits
The punishment
Addy came last as captain and took the hard version — survived it, and won the point back for Sab3a Sab3atayn.
Result
Captains
Saif · Shaima · Nora
Splits
The punishment
Nora came last as captain and took the hard version — survived it, and won the point back for Sab3a Sab3atayn.
Result
Captains
Najwa · Lara · Amyra
Five votes decided it
The GOATs took three of the five. Beauties & The Beast did not get a single vote.
The punishment
Lara came last as captain and took the hard version — survived it, and won the point back for Beauties & The Beast.
Result
Captains
Vinny · Sofia · Sala
Splits
The punishment
Sala came last as captain and took the hard version — survived it, and won the point back for Sab3a Sab3atayn.
The finale — 10 / 7 / 5
Splits
Five stages, one person each, no captain and no way to help. Beauties & The Beast came through in 9:01 and won the tournament with it. The clock has Vinny clearing the opening stage in four tenths of a second, which either makes him the quickest Zabarah alive or means somebody’s thumb went early. At the other end Sala spent 11:54 on hers — the longest single leg anyone ran all week.
Sixteen contenders
Mission points are individual. Captaincies, legs run and time on the clock are what each person carried for their team across the three days.
8:34 on the clock across every timed leg. One Double landed. Paid +2 into The GOATs.
9:21 on the clock across every timed leg. One Double landed. Paid +2 into The GOATs.
8:15 on the clock across every timed leg. Finished outside the payout.
9:36 on the clock across every timed leg. One Double landed. Finished outside the payout.
3:35 on the clock across every timed leg. Finished outside the payout.
7:16 on the clock across every timed leg. One Double landed. Paid +6 into Beauties & The Beast.
6:56 on the clock across every timed leg. One Double landed. Paid +6 into Beauties & The Beast.
4:51 on the clock across every timed leg. One Double collapsed. Finished outside the payout.
7:57 on the clock across every timed leg. Finished outside the payout.
9:45 on the clock across every timed leg. Finished outside the payout.
14:09 on the clock across every timed leg. One Double landed. Paid +6 into Sab3a Sab3atayn.
11:42 on the clock across every timed leg. One Double landed. Paid +2 into Sab3a Sab3atayn.
8:43 on the clock across every timed leg. One Double landed. Paid +2 into Sab3a Sab3atayn.
10:55 on the clock across every timed leg. One Double landed. Paid +2 into Sab3a Sab3atayn.
6:30 on the clock across every timed leg. One Double landed. Finished outside the payout.
Finished outside the payout.
Seventeen ballots, one each
Every player, the Judge of Chaos and the Game Master voted, nobody could vote for themselves, and nobody saw the running count. The ballots were secret and they stay secret — only the totals are here.
Zabarah Wars Superstar
The GOATs
Last on the Mission board. First in the room.
Every vote cast
Six people independently landed on the same name — more than the next two finishers combined. Who voted for whom stays in the room.
For the record
Points won in the games: all three teams took exactly the same number across the fourteen that counted. They were level on 30 apiece after the Lake Chariot too.
Second place in the Frozen Laundry Relay came down to 246 milliseconds — The GOATs 5:39.9, Sab3a Sab3atayn 5:40.2.
Remove the vaults, the punishments or the Mission and Beauties & The Beast still win. Remove the finale and they do not.
Vinny on the opening stage of The Sunken Code. Either the quickest reaction of the week or the earliest thumb — the clock is not saying.
Sala on her stage of the finale. Sab3a Sab3atayn finished it in 19:12; the other two were under eleven minutes.
Sala — more timed minutes than anyone, across 5 legs and 3 captaincies.
Gasem, Lara and Sala never let a single day go. Thirty-five points each, tied at the top of the board.
Shaima’s Double collapsed. Ten on the table, nothing collected, and a share of first place lost by five points.
The Liar’s Table was disqualified. The lies were so detailed that nobody could separate them from the truths — the voters got two of nine.
Every vault point won in the pre-season went unused for three days and turned straight into championship points.
Fifteen games, fourteen of them scored. Ninety-six secret missions. Six vaults, five of them cracked. Thirteen punishments, twelve taken the hard way. Seventeen secret ballots. Three points in it at the end.
Beauties & The Beast — Champions, 2026