Oozora Subaru Goes From 1.53 Million Yen to Nothing at Hololive’s Minecraft Racing Event

HOLOLIVE — Oozora Subaru’s balance at the Holo One Grand Prix (ホロワングランプリ) went from about 1.53 million yen after the third race to nothing after the fourth. The Hololive racing day was held Sunday under the hashtag #ホロ1GP on a racecourse built in Minecraft with help from Dozle, and Subaru’s stream of it ran about four hours and 15 minutes.

The program called for four races, two on turf and two on dirt. Each participant was given 100,000 yen in game money and could buy tickets of six types, from a single win to a trifecta, and whoever held the most money at the end would be named overall winner. Odds were set by a viewer vote, newspapers were on sale, and a paddock let players judge each horse’s condition before betting. A professional racing announcer called the races, and talents took turns offering picks for the first three.

Subaru said early on that she would win, and leaned on what she knew from the game Uma Musume Pretty Derby (ウマ娘 プリティーダービー), arguing that stamina would matter. The first race, over 1,200 meters, went to No. 6 by a wide margin; a long-shot pick of 5 from Mio’s fortune-telling did not place. In the second, over 3,000 meters, a horse named Ashi ga Shibireta no da (“My Legs Have Gone Numb”), which had won its last three starts, ran away with it. Subaru said she had left it out of her tickets, and chat filled with “I told you so.” She later said the long race had been decided on speed, since a horse with almost no stamina won.

A mid-event mini-game followed, Doki Doki Carrots (ドキドキニンジン), in which players hit moving carrots in the paddock for money while red ones exploded. Chat reached 763 messages in a single minute during the third race, a 1,200-meter sprint and the busiest minute of the stream. Afterward Subaru said she had won big and was holding 1.53 million yen.

In the final race she backed a trio ticket and a win bet and missed; No. 1, Gamble Alive (ギャンブルアライブ), won. Asked how she had done, she said she had dreamed a little too much and ended at zero. The overall prize went to the participant who described buying place tickets on six horses at a time, reasoning that one of them would always come in. Special prizes for prediction accuracy, the largest payout from a single ticket and the carrot mini-game followed, and the cast posed for a group photo.

The official event closed there, but Subaru stayed for an optional second round after a 10-minute break. Money was reset to 100,000 yen per race, the viewer poll and predictors were dropped, and the odds were fixed by the organizers in advance. Subaru said she does not bet on real races and would put no more than 1,000 yen on the year-end Arima Kinen (有馬記念). She closed the night with a ticket combining horses 3, 2 and 5 in a 1,200-meter race, the result went another way, and the stream ended soon after.