Spin for six contestants, post them, let people vote, eliminate whoever loses, repeat tomorrow. A fan running exactly that described spinning six of the seventy six each day.
A BFB wheel spins across the contestants and lands on one. Use it for daily elimination games, team draws, art prompts, or deciding who goes first.
The wheel is above with the roster loaded. Below you will find how to run a daily elimination series, the rejoin rule nobody sets in advance, and the team draw setup.
What is a BFB wheel?
A BFB wheel is a free random picker holding Battle for BFDI contestants. Spin it and it lands on one, which decides an elimination, a team slot, or a drawing subject. Filter or edit the pool before you spin.
The contestant list is the whole product here. Seventy plus characters is more than anyone holds in their head, which is why the wheel gets used rather than someone just picking.
Every contestant has the same chance, which matters when the result decides who goes out.
How do you use the BFB wheel?
Click to spin and the wheel lands on one contestant. Turn on remove after pick to draw a group without duplicates, which is what a daily elimination round needs before anyone votes. Every result is logged in the spin history.
Three steps:
- Edit the pool if you want a narrower list
- Turn on remove after pick for a multi contestant round
- Spin once per slot you need
The daily elimination format
| Setting | What to choose | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Contestants per round | A consistent number, often six | The format only makes sense if it stays the same |
| Removal | Remove after pick, on | Nobody goes up twice in the same round |
| Rejoin | Decided before you start | The rule people argue about later |
| Pool | Contestants only, no hosts | Hosts are not eliminated |
How do you set a rejoin rule?
Decide it before the first round and say it publicly. A rejoin turns eliminated contestants back into the pool, which changes the odds for everyone still in, so people need to know the rule exists before they start voting.
The fan who ran a daily BFB elimination had a separate rejoin rule built into the format from the start, which is the right way round.
Two workable versions:
- A fixed rejoin round, where everyone eliminated so far goes back in once
- No rejoin at all, which is simpler and needs no explanation mid series
The mistake is introducing a rejoin halfway through because the wrong character went out. That reads as fixing the result even when it is not.
Can you draw teams with it?
Yes. Turn on remove after pick and spin once per team slot, so no contestant lands on two teams. For even teams from a full list, a group splitter does the job in one action instead.
Team draws and elimination draws use the same setting for the same reason. Each contestant belongs in exactly one place.
For splitting the whole cast into balanced groups at once, use random team generator .
Is the BFB wheel random?
Yes. Every contestant left in the pool has exactly the same chance on every spin. The result comes from your browser's own random number generator, and the animation reflects that draw rather than deciding it.
If the same contestant comes up in consecutive rounds, that is a normal streak rather than bias. Remove after pick prevents it inside a single round.
More at how our randomness works .
What other character wheels are there?
Character wheels work the same way across every fandom, with the roster already loaded so you skip building the list yourself. Pick the series you want and the cast is already sitting there on the wheel ready to spin.
- BFDI wheel for the earlier seasons
- Total Drama character wheel for another elimination series
- Dandy's World wheel
- Wheel of names for a blank wheel you fill yourself