MCYT exciting things

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There's a new Minecraft speedrunning world record (random seed glitchless) by Zylenox and it's 7:45. Under eight minutes. What the hell. I'm glad I've learned enough about MCSR by now to know what most of the tactics he's using even are, otherwise it'd look like magic. Okay it still basically looks like magic. (Here is a reaction vid by Couriway with some explanations of what Zylenox is doing.)

In other MCYT news, I'm really invested in the currently ongoing MCYT Tumblr Sexyman Tournament over at mcytblrsexymen, currently in round three of seven: current bracket. It features 96 characters - or, well, sort of characters: it's explicitly about characters and not creators, but they also combined all of each creators' characters under one name so it's kind of a borderline case (as so often with MCYT.) There's a lot of campaign art and other fanworks already, aand unsurprisingly MCYT creators have discovered it and many are now actively campaigning for themselves, including attempted bribery and trash-talking their opponents. It's very silly but also very exciting, it's very well run, and it also worked to promote some less popular creators that made it into early rounds. (By now I think the only one still in the running who's not from either Hermitcraft, DSMP, or Empires is CaptainSparklez.)

It's a seeded competition, to make it as fair as possible, but it does mean that there were some very difficult match-ups already. GTWScar is the big favorite after nominations, but he does go up against Techno next round (I assume - CaptainSparklez probably could have made it much farther from a different corner.) Nobody seems to be able to agree on criteria anyway so it's a popularity contest to a significant degree, but I don't care, I'm having fun :D

Comments

[nonesensed]

Under eight minutes is crazy impressive O_o

Since Tumblr gave its people polls, things have been delightfully vote-y over there XD Glad to hear it is/was a fun tournament!

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It is! Here is a reaction vid by Couriway with some explanations of what Zylenox is doing.

So many polls! :D The mcytblrsexymen tournament is still going, currently quarterfinal polls are up, and in the last round one guy who was behind 40-60 for most of it overtook his opponent in the last three minutes of the 24 hour poll and won by 130 votes, very exciting stuff.

[nonesensed]

Thank you for the link! I have very little first-hand knowledge of how Minecraft actually works (e.g. commands and possible actions, I'm familiar with the general gameplay/"goals" of the game) so explanations are very welcome :)

Dramatic! Just as a poll should be :D I wish you much future enjoyment from the race!

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For the longest time I had no idea there even was a "winning" condition in Minecraft so when I first came across the concept of Minecraft speedrunning I was confused xD

[nonesensed]

Oh yeah, I was barely aware of that myself XD I have only vague memories of the news where I am talking about the creator of the ending poem retaining rights to it and then releasing it for use by all at some point in the past, which clued me in to there being some form of ending, but I'm very hazy on the actual details. Most people I know tend to play it more as an infinite sandbox game than aim for the ending, so there being Minecraft speedruns is fun news to me :D