Cody

Cody, also known as codyvt2012 and most commingly Cody Smart; was one of the eight newcomers to compete on Bowser Party's first era on Discord in Season 2, and also returned for Season 4. He joined the first All-Stars season before taking a break and returning for Season 8.5. He also joined Season 11B & Season 12.

Prior to the Series
Remembering how Cody and I met is hard to say really. I want to assume it might have been on Skype. But regardless of how we met, he ended up participating in this series.

Bowser Party
Season 2:

Cody's first appearance in the franchise was in Season 2, being placed onto Team Fire Blazing Sharks. However, Cody's time was extremely short as when his team lost the second episode, they opted to vote him out, resulting in him getting 13th place.

Season 4:

Cody took a short break but was invited back for Season 4 alongside the other veterans, this time being apart of the Killer Koopas. Cody seemed to want to make more of an improvement for his poor gameplay last time, but it ended up making him start to become more disliked by people. However, he still managed to merge and due to Niky quitting, he was eliminated in a tie for 7th/8th place after just barely being spared in the previous episode.

Season 5 :

With how much of an antagonizing force he was last season, Cody was invited back for Season 5 as a member of the Evil Elephants. Cody's gameplay didn't change much from last season, which likely resulted in him making the bottom two in Episode 5, and in the bottom three for Episode 8. He ended up making merge in any case and was almost eliminated again in Episode 9, but was spared by ANOTHER non-elimination. However, that luck ran out as he was eliminated in Episode 10, giving him 9th place as the first merge boot that season.

Season 8.5:

After another, much longer break. Cody returned for Season 8.5. However, he did not last that long due to people wanting to target him, resulting in him being the first boot that season in 14th place.

Season 11B:

Cody took another break, albeit a shorter one this time and was placed on Team B. Cody's team did pretty bad in the season, as did he when he made bottom two in the only ceremony they had. In Episode 5, he and Ari were placed onto new teams, where Cody joined Team C. However, none of them wanted Cody to be there and thus he was immediately booted, resulting in him getting 8th place.

Season 12:

Cody then returned to Season 12, being placed on an unknown team during the early half of the game. He was then placed onto Team Pixelated Piranhas, and like in the past; He was eliminated early on from that team because nobody wanted him. However, he returned alongside Marcus in the merge. Winning at least one challenge before being immediately booted off, taking 8th place once again.

Current Status and Overall Thoughts
Cody stopped being invited to the series shortly after this season, and it's unlikely he will return due to lack of contact.

Cody Smart is a meme here for a reason. The main thing I give Cody props for is acting as a legit antagonistic person in these games. Albeit, he always took it way too far and never ended off on a really good note. Is he bad? Not really but he's far from great to say the least.

Controversy surrounding Season 9
Cody was originally apart of Season 9, as one of the original contestants. However drama exploded between himself and Mo, which resulted in the phrase "Cody is Going Home", brought on by Lee Crimson; and due to this and a prior warning that if anything happened, he would be pulled. He was immediately disqualified from the season. Marcus ultimately took his place, and he was removed from the boot order.

Trivia

 * Cody is the only contestant to compete in a season yet not be counted for it.
 * Cody received 8th place three times.
 * Despite only competing in five seasons with teams, Cody had a total of seven teams.