Name: The Percy Jackson cast drafts the ultimate capture-the-flag teams
Uploaded: 2025-12-23T04:05:08.052Z
Duration: 5 min 32 s
Description: Things get HEATED in this Camp Half-Blood showdown.

Things get HEATED in this Camp Half-Blood showdown.

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The cast of 'Percy Jackson' engaged in a playful draft, choosing characters from the first two seasons to form the ultimate capture-the-flag teams. Participants followed a snake draft format and could not select themselves, with each pick becoming unavailable to others.

Key choices included powerful gods like Poseidon, Zeus, and Hades, as well as strategic selections such as Athena for wisdom and Medusa for defense. The cast discussed creative strategies, leveraging each character's unique abilities, and concluded with consensus on some particularly strong team combinations.

The 'Percy Jackson' cast drafts the ultimate capture-the-flag teams

No, you have the best draft plan of all time. The idea is that you three are competing against one another in a big game of Capture the Flag, and you need to draft teammates from the world of the first two seasons of Percy Jackson to help you win. You can't choose yourself, as tempting as it may be, and once you choose a character, they are out of commission for anyone else. So... Oh, that's my go first. Well, how about this? We'll do snake draft. So we'll go down the line one way, next pick, we'll go the other way. Okay, I like that. Okay, well, I'm gonna start us off with my dad. I'm gonna go with Poseidon. Gotta have a family connection, and he's super, super strong. I'm gonna have to go with Athena. You know, I need that wisdom and stuff. Even though I might be smart, I need more smartness. Okay, so now I can draft two characters, right? I'm in trouble. Yes, and then Leah, you're next. So I'm going for Zeus and Hades. Oh, no! Hades, Helm of Invisibility. The other gods can't even detect that. So it doesn't matter who you have on your team. I'm just gonna surround myself with a whole bunch of water. Are you gonna go through that? I wouldn't choose a gopher, so let me tell you that. No, I'm joking. I'd choose Percy. Ah, ha, ha! Oh, you're gonna do the whole family. Yeah. Okay, so don't breathe underwater. No! Oh, and just surround it. Just surround it with water. Yeah. I'd choose Percy because there is a lot of, isn't the world part of like 75% of the world or something? So like, you know, I would be able to use so much of the water with using Percy. And yeah, he's there for emotional support as well. I was gonna go with Ares, but I think I'm gonna go with Medusa. I'm gonna hide her behind a sheet of water. Have her, have her eye like reflection scattered through the water. Exactly. Oh, wait, that's kind of a- Get all the noobs. I love this. And for my third one, if we're going back around that way, I'm gonna go with Tyson. Wait, you can't choose yourself though. Oh, you can't choose yourself? Yeah. Dang it. No. You have the best draft plan of all time. Oh, we're gonna go with Thalia and she's gonna shock her. Dude, this is looking good. I like this game. Wait, okay. I think I can beat that. I think I can beat that. All right, Aaliyah, your last pick. What in the world? Okay, so I have Athena for wisdom, right? Yes, and you also have Percy. And I have Percy for the water. Wisdom and water, the two most powerful elements. I'd like to see the chaos of them working together. They took all the people who were like, who, wait, is Hermes been picked? Hermes has not been picked. Wait, but he doesn't get like, just ship a box of water? That's not it, that's not it. If you get Tyson, then we have the brotherly duo and you have Athena to help give us better instructions than what we would come up with on our own. Wisdom is not gonna help me. He's gonna help so much. Okay, but if he has a field of water, Tyson gets it. Grover. I'd use Grover because he can use his pan flute to help me in the wilderness. Forest. You know? Love that, love that. All right. Are you welcome? God, you did not pick Hermes. That's my last draft pick. Imagine this. Hermes, flying shoes. Strap those bad boys on. Give him the helm of invisibility. Chuck him in the air. Zeus helps him with the wind currents. You have a flying, oh wait, no. He gets Hades. Picks Hades up by the arms. And then he flies over top of your weird little water. But only one of them can wear the helm of invisibility. No, and then he just drops Hades in the middle. Helm of invisibility. Don't even see it. In the middle of what? Middle of like your field of water. What do you mean? Your field of water. It's like, it's going to be like 30 feet tall. He just drowns. Oh, Charlie, take it away. Who's your first pick? I feel like I have to go with Zeus. Of course. He's kind of the almighty, the top dog. I don't know. I have to go Poseidon. My first pick, Athena. I see a really godly strategy taking shape. Oh yeah. Who's your second pick? I could go with Hermes because half strategy and to be a little sneaky could be good. But I don't think they'd work well together. So I feel like I'm going to go with Thalia because she's basically Zeus and Clarice and Thalia wind up having like a bit of, I feel like we'd work well together. If we put our like insecurities aside, I feel like we'd work really well together. Love that. I know what I'm doing. I'm taking Hades. Poseidon and Hades. There's like, I'm basically just one. Yeah. Yeah. I think I'm going to go Medusa. I'm going to go Medusa. I think having her, she could just guard the flag. Exactly. Oh, you're so right. Like she could just stand there and all she has to do is just use her eyes and that's it. Boom. I love that. I just wish I could take Percy. I'm sorry. It would be like too, too powerful. And then for round three, we'll reverse again. So Charlie, you'll be up. I think I got to go with Ares, you know, God of War. I mean. Dang it, Charlie. I got to go with Ares. It's catch the flag. This is the, he'll know what to do. I know what I'm doing. Luke. My team's like, I think I won. I think I. You have two of the big three gods. And then Luke. And then Luke, of course, is basically, you know, he's up there on that kind of same level as well. Yeah, totally. If they have like a set goal, then I feel like these three people can work together super well. And then Dior, final pick of the game. You know what? No one's done it. I'm Percy. Oh, you might've won. I think she won. I think she won.

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