Minecraft Championships, or MCC for short, is an invite-only Minecraft event organised by Noxcrew. Every month or so, 40 of your favourite (and maybe even least favourite) streamers/YouTubers play against each other in teams of 4 through various minigames. The participants of MCC usually stream long before the event starts, to make sure that they aren’t late and to give their viewers time to join. They then hop into a voice chat in the social app called Discord with their teammates and usually practice until the event. Some participants don’t even practice at all before the event, and just talk with their audience or with their teammates. Some participants watch the MCC update video that Noxcrew posts before every MCC, so that they can get a general gist of what to expect in that particular MCC. Every holiday there is a certain MCC theme (the Christmas MCC is happening on the 11th of December).
Once MCC starts and everyone is on the official MCC server, everyone heads to the Decision Dome. The Decision Dome is basically the place where the participants decide among their teammates which game they want to play. To vote, they throw eggs at a pie-shaped hole with the name of the game they want to play on top of it. Once the eggs reach it, a chicken spawns and it counts as one vote for that game. It’s possible for the chicken to move around and go to other areas, though, so they have to time their throws right. Barriers do pop up between the options, but that’s only when the time for voting runs out. There is a chance your team gets dunked into a big hole by another team though. The ability to dunk another team is given to a random player at a random time. When a team dunks another team, that team won’t be able to vote, since they’ve fallen into a hole. There are many more power-ups that can be given during the Decision Dome that make it slightly more interesting than it already is.
Teams usually vote for the game that they just want to get out of the way, so that they can earn the most points nearing the end of the event. There are only 8 games that can be played out of the 9 games that exist, so there is a small chance that they just don’t vote for a game at all. That could however just make matters worse for them, since the other teams could actually want that game to be played.
Once a game has been chosen, a small introduction video is played. The minigames in MCC are usually self-explanatory, but there are some that require further explanation. For example, we’ve probably heard of Hole In The Wall from other games. It’s basically a giant wall coming at you with holes you have to fit in. If you get knocked off the platform, you lose. Pretty simple, right? Then come games like TGTTOSAWAF, which stands for “To Get To The Other Side And Wack A Fan.” ‘TGTTOSAWAF’ sounds a bit complicated, but all you do is get to the other side of 6 different maps and at the end of each map, wack a fan to get a point. The fans are basically people who sign up before MCC starts to get their Minecraft skin and username featured in the event.
The most confusing game, however, is ‘Sands Of Time.’ In Sands Of Time, teams would be stuck in their own sand dungeon to gather coins and sand. Most teams would appoint one of their team members to be the Sand Keeper. A sand keeper would basically stay by the hourglass and fill it with sand. The reason for this is because once the hourglass runs out of sand, their time runs out. And if that happens, then all of their coins will be lost and they will be teleported into a cage and have tomatoes thrown at them by the other teams. Wilbur Soot, who has been in every MCC and even won MCC 4, is known for being an amazing Sand Keeper. The Sands Of Time map is really huge, and has hidden dungeons within it that hold a lot of coins, but a lot of mobs to balance it out. Once a team collects as many coins as they can, they decide among each other on whether or not they should leave the dungeon. Once they leave, they get teleported to the waiting area , where they can see if any of the other teams have finished, and will be able to throw tomatoes at anyone who’s in the cage.
Once the last game has been played, first and second-finishing teams go head to head in a game called Dodgebolt. Dodgebolt is basically a 3 round game of dodgeball, but with a bow and arrow. All of the other teams can watch them compete from a stadium above the court. Some people in the event root for one of the teams, so they go to that team’s side of the court and grab a hat or a foam finger to support that team. Once a team wins, a banner showing the winning team’s name pops up in the middle of the screen (which is personally my favourite part of MCC). You can see the team that won cheer, and see the other teams cheer for them. There are many compilations of other teams reacting to a certain team’s win on YouTube, if you want to check them out.
A few days after the event, the winning team gets an MCC coin shipped to each of them. These coins are like collectibles. I know some people who would spend their entire life’s savings just to get one of these coins, but obviously the people who have these coins wouldn’t sell them, that’s a bit absurd.
If you don’t have the time to watch MCC live, you can watch a VOD on Twitch (which is the whole livestream, but not live), or you can watch the highlights of MCC on the All Things MCC channel on YouTube. And that was everything that you need to know about MCC!
