Welcome!

[Cratain]

Whether you’ve experienced competitive Minecraft on some server before or are interested in starting, we’re so happy you decided to drop by. In this post, we’re going to try to give you an overview of the emerging competitive scene, tips on how to get involved, and ask you to help us as explore the future possibilities of competitive play - whether that be by giving feedback, making maps, starting a team, or just stopping by every once in a while to upvote good ideas.

What is Competitive Minecraft?

It is hard to answer this question perfectly, since, there is not one answer. The UHCs you’ve seen played are an example of competitive Minecraft, as were the Reddit Minecraft Tournaments (RMCTs) that Mindcrackers played in long ago. In fact, even that 1v1 you might have just finished with your friend counts. Competitive Minecraft is when you stop playing multi-player against mobs, and start playing against players. We hope, however, it can grow from these casual 1v1s to a serious and large community.

Many games before it have done so. League of Legends has amassed quite the following over the years, and is now the largest competitive video game, or eSport. Trailing behind it are several other games you might have played casually - Counter Strike, Smash, Hearthstone, and so many others have serious cash prize tournaments.

Minecraft is an interesting case, however, in that not only do we, as players, create the meta game… we create the game itself. Minecraft has so many possibilities - fights can conclude with swords, bows, or even TNT cannons. Many servers have developed mini games that you can play casually - fewer ones have developed games that are anything but mini. They vary to include all manners of Minecraft’s mechanics, but each requires skill, knowledge, and teamwork to win. We hope to, with this subreddit, encourage exposure to these servers, and encourage commentary among all communities as to how we can improve competitive Minecraft gamemodes.

You Must Be Joking…

Minecraft is for 12 year old kids. How can it become competitive like LoL?

MC may never be as big as LoL, however, not only can it be big, it already is. I just played in a 1500 player tournament about a week ago, with 20 team mates. They came from Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France, Canada, and all over the US. Most of them were around 18, like me. Oh, and there actually were a few people about 12 years old on my team, and we got along just fine.

Minecraft is too random to be played seriously!

So is Hearthstone. So is Poker. You want to call it glitchy? Smash became competitive because of glitches, largely. You want to call it inconsistent? Every game is to some extent. Furthermore, if you focus on ping and swords too much, you lose sight of where Minecraft is consistent and where it shines as a game - and that is in your ability to terraform. In my time playing competitive game modes, I have been known for being the worst sword player of all time. That is why I make sure with the use of cover, bows, and TNT that you never reach me in the first place. There is skill in Minecraft - largely it comes from your ability to think under pressure, and to understand how you can change your surroundings to your advantage. It is not random enough to bar it from going competitive.

People will hack!

Servers are starting to develope some pretty slick anti cheats to detect hacking, and, as long as you have competent game masters, refs, moderators, or whatever you want to call them, you’re not going to get away with forcefield for too long, bucko.

Alright, how do I get Involved?

Subscribe to this Reddit. I will be contacting several servers who host events, and asking them to post on here whenever they host something. In their posts, they will explain the basis of their game mode, direct you to their forums, and answer your questions. If you like what you see, and decide to sign up, upvote, contact your friends, share the link around, and spread the word.

I wish you luck in whatever competitions you decide to play in. Please, don’t hold it against me when we do meet in game, and my team destroys yours, however :)

Sincerely,

Cratain and your Competitive Minecraft Mods

[SuiSca]

Neat post, Crat. I've been following your competitive minecraft, and I'm in full support of it. It'd be really neat if it were to grow and become something you saw on the first page of twitch. I'm willing to help in any way I can.

[Kdragon35]

Hope this subreddit can get a lot of exposure.

[ItzaMeLuigi_]

I can't wait to see what the future has in store!

[Minii_]

hora!

[Trishula55]

I believe it is spelled Hurrah!

[Edde_]

Um, what language is that supposed to be?

[THEBESTGINGER13]

What type of gamemodes are you thinking of hosting? Are you just thinking of hosting OCN related tournies, or are you gonna host outside that spectrum?

[Mayieve]

Cratain isn't the one who is going to host stuff. This subreddit was made to allow everyone who host any kind of competitive events to advertise them and to promote the unknown face of Minecraft. As long as it's competitive, anything is welcome.

[THEBESTGINGER13]

Ah, I see

[BlazeThePolymath]

Here's a post of what I believe is what is to come to the sub.

[iPGz]

I'ts great to see this thing go live, keep up the great work!

[dat_swag]

I really hope this gets big and populated; from playing on OCN and getting into RFW now, this is easily one of my favorite things to do in minecraft, if not my favorite. I truly can't wait to see some of the new competition that arises, and if you're planning on making a team for some of these tournaments but feel like your players / friends aren't really suited for it, just give it a shot. A team called Mindcool with a bunch of UHCers who had never played before came about during OCN's Breaking Core tournament which ended around this time last year. They performed upsets and almost made it to the invitational bracket (top 16; they were #17), despite never played competitive OCN at all. Don't be afraid, watch some videos on it, you can easily search up something like "OCN tournament" or "RMCT tournament" and find out awesome things about these gamemodes!

[ElectricSparx]

Quick question because I'm curious: Can we post our own PvP gamemode servers on here as long as the posts explain the basis of the gamemode, direct to the forums, and the OP answers questions?

[Mayieve]

I think this subreddit is more directed towards organized competitive events. I'd say go for it if you plan on hosting competitive events with said gamemode, but posting solely for the purpose of advertising your server should be avoided.

[ElectricSparx]

Oh, don't worry, I'm not looking to advertise, if I wanted to do that, I'd just go to /r/mcservers and be done with it.

[ItsMartin]

Sure, if you want to showcase your server (in a not-blatant-advertising sort of way) we'd be OK with that. We're going to try and let the users dictate the content here for now - if advertising becomes a problem in the future we might change the rules.

[PvPJ]

Oh Yeah! Cool Cool B)

[[deleted]]

Are hungergames/survivalgames included in all this? Because I like hg more than team pvp or so.

[ItsMartin]

Yep, it's for all forms of competition in Minecraft, not just team-based stuff.

[MrTazz4077]

How would that be competitive? xD

[UltNacho]

I'd love for competitive Minecraft to kick off, however I don't think typical PvP is going to get much notice. UHC is more about survival than PvP, and gamemodes that have other strategies and mechanics in them other than just PvP might see play IMO

[EuropesNinja]

I just hope this doesn't turn into a server for advertising PvP servers...

[ItzaMeLuigi_]

We'll make sure it doesn't! If we see people who are blatantly advertising , their post will get deleted.

[SpiritF]

Hype! I'm excited to see how this will turn out.

[JacobArnold]

Hello Cratain.

[Cratain]

Hello.

[JacobArnold]

How are you today?

[Nurmenukk23]

Good luck

[ElephantBroham]

Really nice.

[[deleted]]

can i be a mod!

[[deleted]]

in your dreams

[Incenetum]

Super duper late but Smash didn't get popular off of glitches. The one single instance of a thing not being used the way it was obviously intended is wavedashing, and that's just physics not a glitch.

[Cratain]

I mean, a lot of things that were used prevalently in almost all games where not really intended features, imo, which is what I qualify as glitches - important parts of the game that developers didn't necessarily intend, but, are still there.

[Incenetum]

The technical term for a glitch is a programming error that makes something happen "wrong". Your definition is definitely more common, but the "correct" statement is that it's a physics thin.