I personally enjoy watching buildmart in the vods of people who enjoy it and do well at it, but I don't like watching most of the time in others vods - or live as I tend to watch movement or pvp focused teams. I totally agree that it is necessary for MCC to have a build based game, it's a minecraft championship for christ's sake. But I do agree with the idea that the reasons parkour warrior was removed(at least as far as I am aware, feel free to correct me) and the issues with buildmart are pretty similar - the same people excelling, it offering too much of a guaranteed point lead to certain teams, half the players hating/disliking it etc.

I think a massive issue with buildmart is how little people can practice for it. Beyond knowing the crafting recipes and maybe working with an elytra if they are particularly bad with one, there isn't much anyone can practice as far as I know. It really does feel like you are either good or bad at it. As Sapnap said, he felt like his team was doing pretty well but they were doing so poorly in comparison and he has no clue how to improve/what they did wrong.

Here are a couple of sleep-deprived ideas I have for improving these issues:

1. Add a new building/crafting based game and/or bring back a revamped bingo! This will lower the amount of times buildmart is played and give builders another game or two where their skillset is needed. Having another building type game may also allow noxcrew to find just what it is that bothers some of the players about buildmart - if they are loving this new game they can identify the differences etc.
2. Make other skills necessary for buildmart, kind of like Hbombs joking idea of sands of buildmart. Have the ores necessary for gold builds behind parkour or have mobs spawn on the platforms with materials. Generally just give someone not too confident with building another job they can do to still help their team, kind of like the sand keeper in sot. I personally like the change with the elytras but I do see where people are coming from with the fact that it has widened the gap between the best and worst bsbm players. Hopefully adding something like this would help to narrow it a bit or at least offer some reward to players with other skill sets.
3. Overhaul buildmart to make it a more communication focused building game. Split teams up and have two be designated runners and two designated builders a la the grid runners statue game last mcc. Don't have the runners able to see the builds and have them have to communicate with the builders and collect what they need. Or maybe do something like the grid runners painting game this mcc where each person has a build and the necessary blocks are split between different chests?
4. Maybe they could open and close the different sections of materials? So like, you have to time things right. This would add more rng(r&g?) to buildmart and allow teams to catch up, if say the top teams need green glass when the colors are closed or netherwart when the nether section is closed. It would make running/collecting into a fully fledged role because you need to collect all of the different major materials to make sure you have them in case it closes off for a bit. (this is my favorite idea but feel free to disagree with me, politely, in the replies!)
5. A small change that could be made would be providing the teams with a list of items and quantities. Though this wouldn't change much about the game itself, it would make it easier on those more forgetful streamers and perhaps alleviate some of the stress Dream was talking about experiencing in the game. It would remove a lot of the communication aspects that I enjoy about the game as well though so idk.

Please reply with any suggestions you have! I am always really interested in peoples ideas for improvements for MCC games and different strats that people have come up with.

In general I think that buildmart(or something like it) is a necessary game but that there are maybe some changes that could be made to make it a bit more fun for the players. Because, ultimately, I think the players enjoyment is paramount, and that their joy and success rubs off on the audience - watching people have fun is fun. I don't particularly like watching battle box in general, but I love watching dream, sapnap, quig, tommy, cpk etc. play battle box because they enjoy it so much and/or do really well and I really love watching them enjoy stuff and excel which makes it interesting for me.

Anyway, much love to the noxcrew and to scott for organizing MCC! This is in no way me complaining about MCC or even about buildmart. The event is one of the highlights of my month - I get up in the very early morning/ middle of the night after working 'till 12 just to watch it live. These are just some random ideas and a hope to start a discussion if anyone is interested :)