Okay so this is my first guide ever so bear with me .v.

In Team Festival Mode, you have to pick four seperate characters to play as for the entire mode, out of the 20 different ones. This leads to 116280 different combinations of characters (trust me I did the math). Today I will be talking about the different characters that should/could be chosen in a speedrun of the mode to get the fastest possible time.

First of all, I would like to point out that Skill type and All-Around type characters are basically useless in comparison to Power and Speed types. Speed types for obvious reasons, and also Power types because they help increase overall speed and mobility during Bobsleigh and other frequent events. Including all the 'important' characters this still leads for a total of 5040 team combinations, so I guess I should look at the characters individually too.

I'm going to place the characters in a priority order, meaning that if you have gaps in your team that are unfilled, you should look at the top of the list first.

Speed:

1. Sonic
2. Shadow
3. Metal Sonic
4. Daisy
5. Yoshi

Power:

1. Bowser
2. Vector
3. Donkey Kong
4. Knuckles
5. Wario

There we go. Bye.

... What? You want an explaination? Ughhhhhhh fine.

Speed:

1. Sonic Pretty obvious. This should be the character you pick to play as yourself. Sonic is fast. That's all.

2. Shadow The second fastest character in the game with maximum acceleration too for an extra boost. Good for if you can't quite handle Sonic's speed.

3. Metal Sonic Also the second fastest character, but has the highest Power stat of all Speed types, so he can fill in for a missing Power type if you would prefer to use 3 Speed types.

4. Daisy/Yoshi I sometimes group these together, sometimes put one in front of another, I usually can't decide. Other than speed, they have no other definitive stats. Yoshi has higher acceleration, Daisy has higher skill, it's up to you who's better really.

Power:

1. Bowser Maximum Power, high speed, high skill. Overall great Power type.

2. Vector It's hard to choose between Vector and Donkey Kong, but I prefer using Vector because of the higher Skill stat, even if his acceleration is slower.

3. Donkey Kong See above.

4. Knuckles Wario and Knuckles are the only two Power characters without maximum power, so I pick Knuckles because Wario has overall decent stats and may as well be classed as All-Around.

5. Wario See above.

So that's the characters. Can I leave now? No? Why? You want to know how the teams should be set out? Okay...

There are three main strategies thatcan be used:

2-Power Strategy

1-Power Strategy

All Speed Strategy

In the 2 and 1 Power strategies, you choose, well, 2 and 1 Power type characters. The other slots are filled by Speed types. The All Speed Strategy is where you choose 4 Speed types to make up your team with no Power types at all. This isn't recommended as it makes sports like Bobsleigh hell. But do whatever you please.

Example Teams:

Sonic Shadow Bowser Vector

Sonic Shadow Metal Sonic Bowser

Sonic Shadow Metal Sonic Yoshi

And that's it! Thanks for reading, and I hope you'll enjoy this category more now. Bye!