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The Minecraft Championship (MCC) is an invite-only tournament hosted monthly by the Noxcrew and Scott Smajor. Ten teams of four Minecraft-streamers and YouTubers are pitted against each other in challenges of survival, combat, parkour, teamwork, and more. It was created after the closure of the infamous Minecraft Monday event, and has the same core concept (teams competing in minigames to get the most points), albeit with much more Minecraft-focused players compared to the influencer-populated Minecraft Monday.

Games

Each tournament consists of eight games, that are part of a rotating roster. At the start of each round, contestants vote in the Decision Dome on which game to play next. After all games have been played, the top two teams are pitted against each other in one final game of Dodgebolt to determine the winner.

Current Games

• Ace Race: The successor to Foot Race, Ace Race is a three-lap race around a big track full of obstacles, shortcuts and pitfalls. Players must use the best of their parkour abilities, as well as Elytras and Riptide tridents to complete the race as fast as possible.
• Battle Box: An epic 4v4 PVP minigame. Each round, two teams are pitted against one another, with as goal to either kill everyone on the other team, or fill in the wool platform in the center of the map with their own team colors.
• Big Sales at Build Mart: A speed-building, resource-management and communication game, the goal of Build Mart is to copy as many builds as possible. Islands with various resources are placed in a ring around the central building hub, and players must use their Elytras to fly over, collect what they need, then return and build as fast as they can.
• Bingo But Fast: Dropped into a regular Minecraft survival world, using only a set of tools and with a few potion effects like speed, players must collect/craft as many items, or complete as many challenges as possible on their bingo card. Teams were given bonus coins if they completes a line of tasks. Also, The reward for an objective decreases every time another team completes it.
  This game was played in Season 1, but did not appear on the roster until Season 3, where it re-appeared in non canon events before finally brought back in MCC34 with major changes.
• Grid Runners: A little bit of everything! Teams are run through ten identical courses, clearing challenge rooms designed to test their speed, communication, and Minecraft skill.
• Hole in the Wall: A fast-paced movement game, where players have to jump, run, or crouch through holes in moving walls made of slime, lest they be knocked off the central platform. Last player standing wins!
• Meltdown: A unique spin on a classic, Meltdown has players armed with freezing bows, heaters and a single pickaxe per team, battling it out in a lab to freeze their opponents, mine coin crates and unfreeze any allies that were frozen by others, all while trying to survive a nuclear meltdown that will make the floor melt away and will lead to rooms being locked down.
• Parkour Tag: The successor to Parkour Warrior. One player of each team is selected as hunter, and has to hunt down the remaining three players of the opposing team in a challenging parkour map.
• Parkour Warrior: A series of parkour challenges. Players have ten minutes (and 30 seconds of overtime) to finish the course. Throughout the course there are bonus paths for players to complete for more rewards, and the final course is now three different sections, with each section having a different difficulty and rewards.
  Originally, Parkour Warrior is a long, challenging parkour map where players have ten minutes to get as far as possible and there are no spilt paths. It was temporally retired after MCC11, when it was blown up by Epic_Landlord after Dream once again finished the entire map with minutes left on the clock (Although the map was supposed to be blown up in the first place) until it was reworked and brought back.
• Rocket Spleef Rush: A rework of Rocket Spleef. Players are dropped onto floating platforms that disintegrate while new platforms that players have to fly towards appear. Players are provided with Elytras to fly with as well as rocket launchers. Each player is also given a single updraft that can be used once per game to send the player straight up, in case one gets into a sticky situation.
• Sands of Time: An old-school dungeon crawler! Teams are dropped into the Crypt, with as goal to gather as many coins as they can by doing puzzles, completing parkour or combat challenges, or finding hidden vaults. However, the hourglass in the middle ticks away slowly, and players must refill it with sand to keep it from reaching zero, and escape the Crypt before time runs out.
• Sky Battle: A team-based PVP game, taking place on floating islands in the sky. Teams must collect resources, build bridges, and kill other teams before they themselves are killed, or get caught in the slowly shrinking border.
• Survival Games: A Minecraft classic, Survival Games is a PVP-oriented resource management game. Teams are dropped into a large map where they have to find chests, collect gear, and battle other teams as the border slowly shrinks. Last team standing wins!
• TGTTOSAWAF: Short for To Get To The Other Side and Whack A Fan. A series of short parkour and Elytra challenges, in which players have to use whatever tools they've been given to make it to the other side and whack a fan. Sabotage is possible, and heavily encouraged.

Finale

• Dodgebolt: The final game to close out MCC! The two teams with the highest scores are pitted against eachother in a best-of-five game of bow and arrow dodgeball. Two arrows are dropped into the arena, get hit and you're out. The last team standing gets a point, and the first team to three points is crowned the winner of MCC.

Retired Games

These games were removed entirely from the event, mostly due to being heavily revamped and re-introduced under a different name.

• Foot Race: A race around a long track with various different challenges, shortcuts and pitfalls. Players can punch one another, encouraging sabotage. This game mode was retired after MCC6, and replaced with Ace Race, which introduced major changes to the rules and the map.
• Lockout Bingo: Dropped into a regular Minecraft world, players must collect as many items as possible on their bingo card. Lockout Bingo was the most universally hated game in the tournament, and was replaced with Bingo But Fast in MCC6, which gave players permanent speed and saturation effects, as well as a set of tools to start with.
• Skyblockle: A mix between Skyblock and Battle Royale, teams start off on their own individual Skyblock island, with as goal to equip themselves, make it to the middle, and be the last team standing. This game mode was retired in MCC9, and replaced with Sky Battle, but returned for MCC Scuffed.
• Rocket Spleef: A game to test your skills with the Elytra. Players are dropped onto a floating map in the sky, and given a rocket launcher with three shots that charges over time. They can use this to either launch themselves upward, or shoot at other players, but the blasts will also destroy the map itself. This game was retired in MCC14, and replaced with Rocket Spleef Rush.

Every contestant streams the event on their own channel, so the audience can pick and choose who to watch compete. There's also the Admin View-stream, where the Noxcrew watches the events and commentates over them.

Notable contestants include Dream, GeorgeNotFound, Sapnap, Technoblade, TommyInnit, Grian, FalseSymmetry, Rendog, cubfan135, Wilbur Soot, Philza, and CaptainSparklez.

MCC has been hosted every month since November 17th, 2019. It was put on hiatus after 13 games, marking the end of Season 1, on December 12th, 2020. Season 2 started on May 29th, 2021, with major overhauls to maps, minigames, and game mechanics, and ended on December 3rd, 2022, with a mid-season break between December 2021 and March 2022.

The website can be found here, and updates on upcoming MCCs are usually posted on the official Twitter-page.

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Tropes pertaining to Minecraft Championship include:

• April Fools' Day: "MCC Scuffed" was a special event that took place on April 1st, 2023. It brought back several retired events (e.g. Skyblockle) and old versions of current events (e.g. the original Build Mart set-up), added twists to otherwise regular games that made them more difficult (e.g. TGTTOSAWAF had fall damage and random effects implemented), and — as the title indicates — the entire event gave off the implication that the organizers hastily put it together at the last minute.
• Call-Back: During Rocket Spleef in MCC4, Tommy kills Katherine Elizabeth, which he celebrates by uttering the memetic phrase, "Just killed a woman, feeling good". Over a year later, in MCC14, Katherine kills Tommy in Battle Box, and celebrates by saying "Just killed a child, feeling good."
• Canon Discontinuity: Any of the special event MCCs (most notably MCC All Stars and the MCC Pride events, but also MCC Scuffed) are "non-canon" MCCs, where the points earned are not added to the overall leaderboards. This is because All Stars's and Pride 2022's teams were created purely for fanservice and without balance in mind (meaning the Dream Team steamrolled the entire event), and Pride 2021 was a sponsored event that could only be streamed on YouTube, meaning those who streamed on Twitch could not stream their perspective, and the event was filled with newcomers who had never played before.
• Christmas Episode: MCC13 was entirely Christmas-themed, with the team names replaced with festive-themed versions, the maps being redecorated to fit the theme, the hub full of gift giving and the jingle sound effect in some of the stages. MCC19 is similarly festive-themed and nicknamed the "Winter Holiday Championship". This was later followed by MCC28 for the 2022 iteration.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: There have been multiple instances of a team "sweeping" the opposing team in Dodgebolt. Between MCC2 and MCC5, there were 4 events in a row that had a team win with a 2-0 score. However, when the best-of-3 format was changed to a best-of-5, sweeps became less common. Still, six teams, those being the MCC11 Fuchsia Frankensteins, MCC15 Red Rabbits, MCC19 Teal Turkeys, MCC20 Aqua Axolotls, MCC24 Yellow Yaks and MCC28 Teal Turkeys have all won 3-0 in Dodgebolt.
• Dark Horse Victory: No one was expecting the Blue Bats team of Fruitberries, HBomb94, FalseSymmetry and Rendog to win MCC9 — not even False and Ren themselves, considering that the Hermits had consistently been placing in 9th place, largely due to the fact that they had never been teamed with a significantly strong teammate until that event. But H's coaching ultimately carried the day, and False went on to win MCC10 as well alongside PeteZahHutt, Smallishbeans and fellow Hermit Cubfan135.
• The Diss Track: Quackity wrote one just prior to MCC15, with a targeted "insult" towards 22 of the 40 competitors in the event... with one of those competitors being himself.
• French Maid Outfit: This Tumblr post chronicles seven instances between MCC12 and MCC Pride 2022 where someone has worn one such outfit in-game. These include HBomb, KingBurren, and Niki Nihachu in MCC12, Captain Sparklez in MCC18, most of the Mint Mistletoes team in MCC19^note InTheLittleWood, Rendog, and SmallishBeans; FalseSymmetry did not wear a maid dress in-game in the event, and Ethan CrankGameplays in MCC Pride 2022.
• Halloween Episode: MCC11 and MCC18 were entirely Halloween-themed, with the team names replaced with horror-themed versions, the maps being redecorated to fit the theme, the Decision Dome music being replaced with a cover of Michael Jackson's Thriller, and all of the contestants are expected to dress up.
• Identical Stranger: In real life, Martyn InTheLittleWood and Philza look very similar to each other and have often been mistaken with each other. In MCC24, this is spoofed by the two swapping Minecraft skins while on the same team (the Pink Parrots) together.
• No Shirt, Long Jacket: In MCC29, GoodTimesWithScar wore one of these alongside with a Fluffy Fashion Feathers boa and pink shades in-game for the Pink Parrots team.
• Obvious Rule Patch: The builds in Build Mart were made more diverse from MCC8 onwards, in an obvious effort to counter the strategy that Technoblade discovered in MCC7.^note In MCC7, Techno reveals that he spent the entire night looking through every previous instance of Build Mart in MCC history and reverse-engineering each build to find out which builds they would encounter and exactly which blocks his team needed. Though it took a while for his team to actually gather the blocks, once they had them they skyrocketed to first place within a minute.
• Overly Long Name: The game mode "To Get To The Other Side" has, over time, gotten such an absurdly long name that the acronym barely fits on the board anymore. From MCC1 to MCC6 it was called TGTTOS, from MCC6 onwards it was called TGTTOSAWAF^note Typically pronounced "tuh-got-sa-waf" (To Get To The Other Side And Whack A Fan), in MCC Rising it was called TGTTOSAWAMCCP (To Get To The Other Side And Whack An MC Championship Participant), and in MCC All Stars, it was given the ridiculously long name of TGTTOSAWAMCCPWHNWAEY (To Get To The Other Side And Whack An MC Championship Participant Who Has Not Won An Event Yet).
• Precision F-Strike: In the last round of TGTTOSAWAF in MCC19, Philza knocked Captain Sparklez (who avoids cursing in Minecraft content) off the course, to which the latter responded by shouting "FUCK YOU, PHILZA" with gritted teeth. Cue his teammates and his chat freaking out.
• Refuge in Audacity: Wilbur's tactic for the 20v20 Dodgebolt in MCCP21? Go up to the border and act as if he's one of the opposing players so he doesn't get shot, and also so he can hog the arrows from that team. It works way too well, with his opponents only wising up when there's less than five players on each side.
• Rivals Team Up: MCC8 has Dream and Technoblade put onto the same team, the Pink Parrots, in perhaps one of the most hyped-up moments of MCC history. They were easily the favorites to win (which they did).
• Running Gag:
  • The elevator in the Decision Dome; when enough players pile into it, it "breaks", revealing a fun little Easter Egg.
  • Starting in MCC16, Wilbur performs a piece of improv acting during every game of Ace Race, starting with a parody of Hamilton and progressing to soap-opera level relationship drama between Wilbur and Ace Race, usually with one of his teammates providing the voice of Ace Race. Wilbur also consistently points out that right before Ace Race, his viewer-count suddenly skyrockets from all the people switching to his POV to hear the rant. invoked
  • Purpled never being on the Purple Pandas team; the only time this streak breaks is MCC Twitch Rivals 2023, which is a non-canon event anyway.
• Sexy Santa Dress: During MCC28, GoodTimesWithScar infamously wore one (alongside a red Rudolph nose) in-game which, according to Philza, "doesn't leave much to the imagination". Ranboo and the entirety of the Sapphire Santas team^note KryticZeuz, Vixella, DrGluon, and James Turner also did so for the event.
• Take That, Audience!: In The Diss Track written by Quackity before MCC15, one line notably calls out the Twitter side of the MCYT fandom.
  There are 10 teams, 40 people
  And we're gonna have some fun
  Oh my God, all Twitter's fighting
  Because they've never seen the sun before
• Trash the Set: Landlord, the builder in charge of building the Parkour Warrior map, kept getting increasingly more frustrated with Dream constantly finishing the map with several minutes left on the clock^note Dream is not the only person to complete Parkour Warrior — PeteZahHutt finished it in MCC6 — but he's the only one to clear it more than once, no matter how challenging it became. During MCC11, the entire map was littered with blocks of TNT, supposedly as Halloween-decoration, but when Dream finished the map again, Landlord became so angry he started igniting the TNT, blowing up the entire map.
• Visual Pun: For MCC Pride 2022, the Ace Race map is redecorated to be pride-themed, with not just rainbows floating in the skies with rainbow balloons, but platforms rebuilt with asexual (or ace) pride flags.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Several of the contestants have attended at least one MCC shirtless in-game. This Tumblr post records Quackity and Jimmy SolidarityGaming having done so in MCC13 and MCC15, respectively, though the former has wrapped himself in fairy lights.

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