Minecraft Speedrun Showdown II
Dec. 20th, 2022 11:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
schneefinkI happened to stumble across a few videos on Minecraft Speedrunning via Tumblr (for example) and thought it was really impressive, with some bonus fun storylines. (Some very impressive detective work to catch cheaters, too.) Then two weeks ago via fruitberries I stumbled upon the Speedrun Showdown II event, a charity tournament with an unusual format: 2v2 speedrun to kill the ender dragon in the same world with PVP enabled. I checked it out on a whim (probably also because I recently felt a bit nostalgic about the Hermes Cup, the Hades speedrunning tournament) and immediately had a lot of fun. The players and teams are really good, the commentators do a good job, and all the matches were very exciting. Spectator mode is very convenient especially when teams are lost or chasing each other – the PVP added so much to the tactics and gameplay! (They were allowed to keep their armor and tools if they died, but still lost the rest of their inventory.)
Last weekend were the finals (Twitch VOD – no idea how long it will be up, sadly, my least favorite part about Twitch), and the grand finale was a best of three. I got so excited about the first of these that I even managed to convince DD to watch the next two with me. It was so close! Purpled and fruitberries, both of whom I know are great players from MCC, versus Antvenom and Feinberg. I only know Feinberg from videos about MC speedrunning but that was enough to know that he is one of the best at the game. Their matches usually played out with Antvenom, who is also a very good player but not top-tier, distracting the other team while Feinberg basically attempts to solo the game. And it worked often enough that they won in the end! That second game of the grand finale was so close, holy shit, if Purpled had managed even one hit he would have killed the dragon instead of the other way around and that would have won them the tournament undefeated. The third, deciding match was unfortunately much less close, Purpled and fruitberries seemed to struggle a lot more and I don't really know what they were planning (I might watch fruit's PoV later for that), while Antvenom kept Purpled distracted and Feinberg looted three bastions and then killed the dragon while everybody else was still in the overworld. What a performance.
Not sure how many previous matches I will manage to go back and watch until they disappear especially considering it is almost Christmas, but hopefully a few, and hopefully there will be a part three of this tournament one day.
In the meantime, while MCC is on break, I might also check out Blockwars... maybe. If I happen to find a time turner.
Last weekend were the finals (Twitch VOD – no idea how long it will be up, sadly, my least favorite part about Twitch), and the grand finale was a best of three. I got so excited about the first of these that I even managed to convince DD to watch the next two with me. It was so close! Purpled and fruitberries, both of whom I know are great players from MCC, versus Antvenom and Feinberg. I only know Feinberg from videos about MC speedrunning but that was enough to know that he is one of the best at the game. Their matches usually played out with Antvenom, who is also a very good player but not top-tier, distracting the other team while Feinberg basically attempts to solo the game. And it worked often enough that they won in the end! That second game of the grand finale was so close, holy shit, if Purpled had managed even one hit he would have killed the dragon instead of the other way around and that would have won them the tournament undefeated. The third, deciding match was unfortunately much less close, Purpled and fruitberries seemed to struggle a lot more and I don't really know what they were planning (I might watch fruit's PoV later for that), while Antvenom kept Purpled distracted and Feinberg looted three bastions and then killed the dragon while everybody else was still in the overworld. What a performance.
Not sure how many previous matches I will manage to go back and watch until they disappear especially considering it is almost Christmas, but hopefully a few, and hopefully there will be a part three of this tournament one day.
In the meantime, while MCC is on break, I might also check out Blockwars... maybe. If I happen to find a time turner.
