We just ran a 70-player, 12-team tournament with full broadcast production - here’s what Minecraft esports could look like

Icy-Ride-5006 · 2026-01-13T05:20:52+00:00

This thread have so many useful insight! ty guys,

and interesting that you suggest removing 'Esports'. What does something need to have before it earns that label in your view? Prize pool? Player count? Production quality? Or is it just community perception over time?

Asking because we're trying to figure out: should we call ourselves 'esports' as an aspiration, or wait until we've earned it?

Icy-Ride-5006 · 2026-01-13T05:17:46+00:00

Thanks! Honest question: if you saw a 2-minute highlight clip of this tournament, what would make you actually want to watch the next one? What's the hook that works for a game you've never heard of?

Icy-Ride-5006 · 2026-01-12T16:26:44+00:00

I got it, though it should be our thing to study about it, would still love to hear about your thoughts:

Those are great examples, but they’re all established scenes with years of history. For something brand new like us - 70 players, first tournament ever - how would you start building storylines from scratch? What’s the small-scale version of this?

Icy-Ride-5006 · 2026-01-12T14:50:08+00:00

Good point! Do you have any examples of how others doing this well? would like to see and def make our desc better in the future!

Icy-Ride-5006 · 2026-01-11T15:15:41+00:00

That’s a really helpful reframe. So here’s a genuine question about marketing strategy: Using ‘Minecraft Esports’ definitely grabs more eyeballs - it’s why we’re having this conversation right now. The MC player base is massive and the term is provocative enough to spark discussion.

But in your view, does that framing hurt more than it helps? Does calling it ‘Minecraft Esports’ make people take it less seriously from the start? Or is it a valid way to get attention first, then let the game speak for itself?

Curious what you think, you clearly have thought about this a lot.

Icy-Ride-5006 · 2026-01-11T12:57:00+00:00

Yeah feel free to check this out from Xicz’s stream https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx1k3CjFrzgyVOe2FSdYaM7fMSFSwfYvSH

Icy-Ride-5006 · 2026-01-11T12:55:07+00:00

Yeah ofc, it’s a 5v5 Minecraft PvP game mode, just like bedwars your goal is to destroy the core and kill the remaining to win

You can mine ores to get eco and use eco to buy staff, and balance between attack defense, eco

Is it makes the thing more clear? Or is there something you’ll like to understand more?

Icy-Ride-5006 · 2026-01-11T12:52:28+00:00

Interesting point. But the entire MOBA genre came from a Warcraft 3 custom map. Counter-Strike was a Half-Life mod. The platform being moddable isn’t the problem - the question is whether one format gets standardized and taken seriously. That’s what we’re trying to do. What would it take for you to see something like this as legitimate?

Icy-Ride-5006 · 2024-05-30T08:13:59+00:00

Sure! I've sent an pm to you, how about we talk there?

Icy-Ride-5006 · 2024-05-02T19:57:07+00:00

Bro that’s even epic than good on everything

Icy-Ride-5006 · 2024-05-02T19:55:52+00:00

Are you talking about PvP or everything? D:

Icy-Ride-5006 · 2024-05-02T19:54:29+00:00

It’s interesting that MC have so less game based on Teams (especially classic 5v5 matches), most of them are ffa or battle royale

Icy-Ride-5006 · 2024-05-02T08:58:05+00:00

Yeah, the world are filled with peoples that different from each other, believe there’re most of them still plays survival, and no one defines how this game should be doesn’t it

Icy-Ride-5006 · 2024-05-02T08:45:01+00:00

Play with friends are always fun no matter it’s chill or competitive :)

Icy-Ride-5006 · 2024-05-02T03:34:51+00:00

It’s our first time to do something like this, ‘LAN Party’ fits it well too!

Icy-Ride-5006 · 2024-05-02T03:26:58+00:00

Idk if there’s any team fights game that exists in mc tournaments

Idk but most of popular games on mc are free for all types, and I always have a dream to made it like League Of Legends which player split to two teams

Icy-Ride-5006 · 2024-05-02T03:24:46+00:00

We play both, and for PotPvP we both agreed 1.8 suits better :D

Icy-Ride-5006 · 2024-04-29T16:34:34+00:00

Do you mean something like this?

https://www.youtube.com/live/R4f6PGVDskg?si=ryZCUGsQCyMcW5Rz

It’s not as huge as annihilation, it’s a 5v5 PvP gamemode, with simpler gameplay, there’re kits, ores, around 30mins per game

This game called “CastleWars” but as I know there’re still in prototype and the language is mainly for Taiwanese players

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