Game | Minecraft |
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Founded | 2019 |
First season | Season 1 (2019–2020) |
Administrator | Scott Major |
Organising body | Noxcrew |
No. of teams | 10 |
Competitors | 40 (per event) |
Most titles | Sapnap (7 wins) |
Official website | mcchampionship |
MC Championship (MCC) is a monthly Minecraft tournament organised by Scott Major (known online as Smajor1995) and Noxcrew (a community that creates Minecraft-related events and maps). Ten teams of four compete in a series of Minecraft minigames. The tournament began its first season on November 17, 2019, and finished its third season in December 2023.
The event features ten teams of four players, each composed of a rotating cast of established content creators, competing in each iteration of the tournament. [1] [2] They face off in eight minigames that test a variety of core skills in Minecraft, such as combat, parkour, survival, and teamwork. [1] Teams win coins for their performance in each minigame. [3]
At the end of the event, the two teams with the most coins duel in Dodgebolt, a best-of-five archery game that determines the winner of the event. [3] [4]
Game | Type | Span | Description |
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Ace Race | Movement | MCC 7– | Players run laps through a race course scattered with special powerups. |
Battle Box | PVP | MCC 2– | Teams compete head to head to fill a central area with wool and/or trying to eliminate all the opposing players. [5] |
Big Sales at Build Mart | Team | MCC 3– | Players recreate a series of builds block for block. [6] |
Bingo but Fast | Team | MCC 6–13, 34– | Teams gather items and complete tasks on a bingo card. |
Dodgebolt | — | MCC 1– | The top two teams duel it out with bows and arrows for the championship. [4] |
Foot Race | Movement | MCC 1–6 | Players run through a race course while trying to sabotage opponents and avoid obstcales. |
Grid Runners | Team | MCC 16– | Teams complete challenges to progress through a series of rooms. [7] |
Hole in the Wall | Movement | MCC 1– | Players avoid getting knocked off a shrinking platform by moving walls. [5] |
Lockout Bingo | Team | MCC 1–5 | Player complete tasks on a bingo board while being able to attack opponents. |
Meltdown | PVP | MCC 22– | Teams use bows to freeze opposing players and collect coins from crates around the map; teams are eliminated when all of their players are frozen, but players can be revived when melters are placed nearby. [8] |
Parkour Tag | Movement | MCC 12– | Teams play 1v3 elimination tag on a circular parkour course. |
Parkour Warrior | Movement | MCC 1–11, 26– | Players try to complete an obstacle course within a time limit, with progressive difficulty and optional parkour challenges. Inspired by the game show Ninja Warrior . [4] |
Rocket Spleef | Movement | MCC 1–13 | Players try to eliminate opponents off the arena while trying to survive with a pair of elytras and a special rocket launcher. |
Rocket Spleef Rush | Movement | MCC 20– | Players try to survive using a pair of elytras and a custom rocket launcher while platforms gradually appear and disappear. |
Sands of Time | Team | MCC 5– | Teams explore a procedurally-generated dungeon, while trying to keep track and top up their time in the dungeon. Noxcrew's lead game designer, Isaac "Epic Landlord" Wilkins, came up with the idea while sitting for his GCSE in religious studies. [4] |
Sky Battle | PVP | MCC 9– | Teams fight each other on floating structures as the map border shrinks. [5] |
Skyblockle | PVP | MCC 1–8 | Teams gather items (Much like in the classic map "Skyblock") to fight each other. The last team standing wins. |
Survival Games | PVP | MCC 1– | Teams open chests and find loot to fight each other while the border shrinks as the game progresses. |
TGTTOSAWAF | Movement | MCC 1– | Players race across a series of maps. Short for "To Get to the Other Side and Whack a Fan". One of the maps was inspired by the game show Takeshi's Castle . [4] [5] |
Noxcrew, the creative team behind MC Championship, was founded in 2011 by Stefan "Noxite" Panić. [4] Noxcrew first organized on the sandbox game Garry's Mod , where members collaborated on various creative projects. [4] They soon turned to Minecraft, another sandbox game, and their creative projects there became popular on Minecraft forums. [4] The Noxcrew Gameshow, a spiritual ancestor to MCC in which content creators play classic game shows recreated in Minecraft, ran from 2012 to 2015. [4] Noxcrew incorporated in 2017 and grew over time to include about 50 volunteer members. [4]
Scott Major, a Scottish YouTuber also known as Smajor1995 or Dangthatsalongname, said he got the idea for MCC after playing in Minecraft Monday, a Minecraft team competition hosted by Keemstar. [9] He said he liked the general format but found Keemstar hard to work with. [9] When Minecraft Monday ended in late 2019, there was an opening for a new personality-driven Minecraft esports competition. [1] [10] Major said he approached Panić of Noxcrew for advice, and Panić volunteered to collaborate to produce a new event. [9]
MC Championship was announced on Twitter and YouTube on 8 November 2019. [11] [12] The first event was held the next week on 17 November 2019. [4] Events continue to be held about once a month. [1] Most participants livestream their points of view on YouTube or Twitch. [2] An estimated 500,000 concurrent viewers (including 100,000 for Dream) watched MCC 9 in September 2020, [13] and MCC 15 peaked at 913,000 viewers in July 2021. [14] MCC was "the biggest competitive Minecraft event" by early 2022; [4] Major said earlier that was it was the world's "largest Minecraft streaming event". [15] Viewership declined to an average of over 100,000 by the end of 2022. [14]
MCC has evolved over the years with new maps, designs, and players. [2] [16] Development of new maps begins with a stage of prototyping called greyboxing in which key elements are laid out without consideration for décor. [4] Existing games have occasionally been "remixed" to be played with different mechanics. [14] Team composition is shuffled by Major each event for the sake of competitive balance as well as player preferences for profanity use and requests for one teammate. [4] About three new players are admitted each event. [4] A score-tracking website, MCC Live, launched in May 2021. [17]
Several special non-canon MCC events have taken place. A Pride-themed event in June 2021 raised more than US$300,000 for the nonprofit the Trevor Project. [2] [7] MCC Rising events have featured less established Minecraft content creators, [18] [19] while MCC All-Stars featured lineups of only past MCC winners. [20]
MCC has invited fans to participate in several ways. Fans comprised two of the teams competing in MCC 10 in September 2020. [3] A public Minecraft server called MCC Island, featuring a selection of MCC minigames, was announced on 29 May 2021. [21] The server opened in closed beta on 20 August 2022. [21] The server also gives MCC competitors a chance to practice the minigames between events. [22] Noxcrew crowdsourced builds for the Big Sales at Build Mart minigame in April 2022. [6]
Date | Event | Winner | Team members |
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Season 1 [23] | |||
17 November 2019 | 1 | Purple Pandas | Michaelmcchill, Kara Corvus, Krtzyy, King_Burren |
9 February 2020 | 2 | Aqua Horses [lower-alpha 1] | Quig, HBomb94, Ryguyrocky, MiniMukaYT |
14 March 2020 | 3 | Orange Ocelots | Vikkstar123, PeteZahHutt, Smajor1995, Shubble |
18 April 2020 | 4 | Purple Pandas | Wilbur Soot, Technoblade, TommyInnit, Ph1LzA |
16 May 2020 | 5 | Yellow Yaks | Smajor1995 (2), Shubble (2), Quig (2), Seapeekay |
13 June 2020 | 6 | Blue Bats | Fruitberries, Fundy, CaptainPuffy, Bitzel |
18 July 2020 | 7 | Green Guardians [lower-alpha 2] | PeteZahHutt (2), fWhip, Eret, HBomb94 (2) |
15 August 2020 | 8 | Pink Parrots | Dream, Technoblade (2), King_Burren (2), Michaelmcchill (2) |
12 September 2020 | 9 | Blue Bats | HBomb94 (3), Fruitberries (2), FalseSymmetry, Rendog |
26 September 2020 | 10 | Orange Ocelots | PeteZahHutt (3), SmallishBeans, FalseSymmetry (2), Cubfan135 |
24 October 2020 | 11 | Fuchsia Frankensteins [lower-alpha 3] | Dream (2), GeorgeNotFound, Sapnap, Karl Jacobs |
14 November 2020 | 12 | Green Guardians [lower-alpha 4] | GeorgeNotFound (2), Ph1LzA (2), TapL, Wilbur Soot (2) |
5 December 2020 | Jingle Jam [lower-alpha 5] | Simon's Angels [lower-alpha 6] | InTheLittleWood, Lewis Brindley, Simon Lane, SolidarityGaming |
12 December 2020 | 13 | Teal Turkeys [lower-alpha 7] | Eret (2), Illumina, Krinios, Punz |
Season 2 [23] | |||
29 May 2021 | 14 | Aqua Axolotls | HBomb94 (4), Smajor1995 (3), SolidarityGaming, Wisp |
26 June 2021 | Pride 21 [lower-alpha 5] | Aqua Axolotls | Illumina, Gizzy Gazza, KreekCraft, Ryguyrocky |
24 July 2021 | 15 | Red Rabbits | Dream (3), Sapnap (2), Michaelmcchill (3), Quackity |
28 August 2021 | 16 | Pink Parrots | Dream (4), F1NN5TER, BadBoyHalo, Seapeekay (2) |
18 September 2021 | 17 | Orange Ocelots | FalseSymmetry (3), Grian, PeteZahHutt (4), SB737 |
2 October 2021 | Rising [lower-alpha 5] | Pink Parrots | jojosolos, SpeedSilver, xNestorio, Blushi |
23 October 2021 | 18 | Mustard Mummies [lower-alpha 8] | Sylvee, Tubbo, Sapnap (3), Smajor1995 (4) |
13 November 2021 | All-Stars [lower-alpha 5] | Red Rabbits | Sapnap, BadBoyHalo, Dream, GeorgeNotFound |
11 December 2021 | 19 | Teal Turkeys [lower-alpha 9] | Ph1LzA (3), Sneegsnag, TommyInnit (2), Sapnap (4) |
26 March 2022 | 20 | Aqua Axolotls | HBomb94 (5), 5up, GeminiTay, Antfrost |
30 April 2022 | 21 | Cyan Coyotes | Sapnap (5), Seapeekay (3), Snifferish, KryticZeuz |
28 May 2022 | 22 | Pink Parrots | Purpled, TommyInnit (3), CaptainSparklez, TheOrionSound |
18 June 2022 | Pride 22 [lower-alpha 5] | Red Rabbits | Dream, GeorgeNotFound, Karl Jacobs, Foolish Gamers |
23 July 2022 | 23 | Orange Ocelots | Quig (3), InTheLittleWood, Eret (3), F1NN5TER (2) |
22 August 2022 | 24 | Yellow Yaks | Dream (5), BadBoyHalo (2), Skeppy, GeorgeNotFound (3) |
24 September 2022 | 25 | Green Geckos | SmallishBeans (2), jojosolos, GoodTimesWithScar, Seapeekay (4) |
3 October 2022 | 26 | Violet Vampires [lower-alpha 10] | Fruitberries (3), Ph1LzA (4), Shubble (3), TheOrionSound (2) |
12 November 2022 | 27 [lower-alpha 11] | Purple Pandas | Blushi, FireBreathMan, BdoubleO100, impulseSV |
3 December 2022 | 28 | Teal Turkeys [lower-alpha 9] | Punz (2), Sneegsnag (2), SolidarityGaming (2), CaptainSparklez (2) |
Season 3 [23] | |||
18 March 2023 | 29 | Aqua Axolotls | HBomb94 (6), Krtzyy (2), Cubfan135 (2), FalseSymmetry (4) |
1 April 2023 | Scuffed [lower-alpha 5] | Blue Bats | GeminiTay, fWhip, SmallishBeans, Smajor1995 |
Lime Llamas | Skeppy, awesamdude, BadBoyHalo, Ponk | ||
29 April 2023 | 30 | Purple Pandas | SolidarityGaming (3), FireBreathMan (2), InTheLittleWood (2), Smajor1995 (5) |
20 May 2023 | 31 | Red Rabbits | jojosolos (2), Shadoune666, OllieGamerz, CapitanGatoYT |
10 June 2023 | Pride 23 [lower-alpha 5] | Purple Pandas | Krtzyy, Mysticat, Elaina_Exe, Gizzy Gazza |
15 July 2023 | 32 | Red Rabbits | Antfrost (2), Ranboo, Aimsey, GoodTimesWithScar (2) |
5 August 2023 | 33 | Red Rabbits | Sapnap (6), Ponk, Punz (3), vGumiho |
26 August 2023 | Rising 2 [lower-alpha 5] | Lime Llamas | Nominalgravy, WadeBox, NomadOfTheWorld, KhaosKorps |
16 September 2023 | 34 | Cyan Coyotes | OllieGamerz (2), Sapnap (7), Shadoune666 (2), RedVelvetCake |
20 October 2023 | Twitch Rivals [lower-alpha 5] | Yellow Yaks | Antfrost, awesamdude, Cubfan135, CaptainSparklez |
11 November 2023 | Party [lower-alpha 5] | Cyan Coyotes | Elaina_Exe, Fruitberries, Hannahxxrose, vGumiho |
9 December 2023 | 35 | Pink Presents [lower-alpha 12] | Wallibear, Shubble (4), Hannahxxrose, Krtzyy (3) |
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