420 Blaze It Leaderboard
A running scoreboard of "420 blaze it" utterances, maintained almost single-handedly by [[Evan Bbbender]] across **19 published editions** spanning **2021-11-15 → 2026-02-08**. The chat's longest-running statistical project and the only canonical census in which all seven members are named.
420 Blaze It Leaderboard
A running scoreboard of "420 blaze it" utterances, maintained almost single-handedly by Evan Bbbender across 19 published editions spanning 2021-11-15 → 2026-02-08. The chat's longest-running statistical project and the only canonical census in which all seven members are named.
The 420 Blaze It Leaderboard is the longest-running internal statistics project in the Newfound Glory Hole. It was inaugurated by Evan Bbbender on 2021-11-15 in response to a brief flurry of "420 blaze it" posts the prior fortnight, and was maintained as a cumulative running count — by Evan, single-handedly — across 19 distinct published editions over the following 4+ years. The most recent edition, posted on 2026-02-08, is the only one that names all seven active members; it is in this sense the chat's de facto founding census.
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Origin
The phrase "420 blaze it" first appears in the corpus on 2020-10-13 (Cullen Conway: "420 blaze it") and recurs intermittently until 2021-11-04, when Evan Bbbender first floats the idea of a count:
"Kyle would have the leaderboard with 1 420 blaze it" — Evan Bbbender, 2021-11-04
The first formal leaderboard was published eleven days later:
"420 blaze it leaderboard: Kyle - 2 Matt - 1 Evan - 1" — Evan Bbbender, 2021-11-15
The full series
Evan Bbbender published 19 leaderboards over the next 4+ years. Each is a cumulative count of how many times each member has said "420 blaze it" in the chat:
| # | Date | Kyle | Evan | Cullen | Matt | Dan | Max | Brian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2021-11-15 | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — |
| 2 | 2023-01-11 | 80 | 63 | 61 | 19 | 1 | — | — |
| 3 | 2023-02-07 | 86 | 69 | 66 | 20 | 1 | — | — |
| 4 | 2023-05-13 | 116 | 79 | 105 | 25 | 1 | — | — |
| 5 | 2023-05-31 | 119 | 82 | 108 | 26 | 1 | — | — |
| 6 | 2023-09-04 | 138 | 93 | 119 | 36 | 1 | 1 | — |
| 7 | 2023-11-17 | 156 | 114 | 126 | 36 | 1 | 1 | — |
| 8 | 2024-01-01 | 166 | 127 | 127 | 38 | 1 | 1 | — |
| 9 | 2024-01-16 | 168 | 129 | 131 | 38 | 2 | 1 | — |
| 10 | 2024-03-27 | 176 | 142 | 131 | 40 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 11 | 2024-04-20 | 180 | 150 | 142 | 40 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 12 | 2024-05-20 | 183 | 153 | 142 | 49 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | 2024-06-11 | 184 | 156 | 147 | 52 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| 14 | 2024-08-04 | 194 | 166 | 149 | 58 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| 15 | 2024-08-26 | 196 | 167 | 149 | 64 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| 16 | 2024-09-27 | 210 | 174 | 154 | 68 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| 17 | 2024-11-25 | 220 | 190 | 162 | 69 | 3 | 2 | 8 |
| 18 | 2026-02-08 | 275 | 221 | 198 | 69 | 5 | 2 | 23 |
(Edition 18, 2026-02-08, is treated by the encyclopedia as the canonical final tally; an earlier 2022-12-25 message in which Evan reported tying Cullen at 60 has been omitted from the table because no full standings were published with it.)
Standings as of 2026-02-08
The final, all-seven-members edition is:
"420 blaze it leaderboard Evan: 221 Kyle: 275 Matt: 69 Cullen: 198 Dan: 5 Max: 2 Brian: 23" — Evan Bbbender, 2026-02-08
Kyle Derrick is, after 4+ years of competition, the all-time leader. Matt's 69 is the highest stable value the chat has ever produced and has, the encyclopedia notes, not changed across the final three editions — confirming both the joke and Matt's apparent commitment to preserving it.
Reception
The leaderboard received no formal acknowledgment from any other member at any point in its run. It is the only message-sequence in the corpus in which all seven active members are named in one place, and as such serves as the chat's de facto founding census. The phrase "420 blaze it" itself recurs only briefly after edition 18, with Daniel Miller posting it alone on 2026-04-29 to receive a love-tapback from Evan. The encyclopedia interprets this as an intentional anniversary observance and an acknowledgement of the leaderboard's institutional weight.