Do you love building? Do you build on anything from a solo-to-six man team? If so, Multiplay has something that may be your cup of tea - their annual Minecraft Xmas Creative Build competition! They are running two separate types of contest - Creative Build and Speed Build - each with some pretty sweet prizes on offer!
Creative Build Prizes:
- 1st: $1000 and Mojang Signed Minecraft T-Shirts (One T-Shirt per player in the team)
- 2nd: $500
- 3rd: $250
- 4th: $125
- 5th: $75
- 6th: $50
Speed Build Prizes:
- 1st: $500 and Mojang Signed Minecraft T-Shirts (One T-Shirt per player in the team)
- 2nd: $250
- 3rd: $125
- 4th: $60
- 5th: $40
- 6th: $25
Multiplay also lists Game Server vouchers among the prizes to be won, as well as sponsor-donated gifts. You can head over here for sign-up details, including team limits, deadlines for the contest, and more. Entrants with questions or concerns regarding the contest can log in right over here, and submit a ticket to Minecraft Tournament Inquiries. Good luck, guys!
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There is the weird ability to join any team without other team member approval. While I can't agree this is a good plan, you could always join a random team with 1-2 people on it (which is the vast majority of the 512).
Oh, I fully agree with you. I find it slightly ridiculous that you're able to join without permission. Another thing we noticed, there's one team that has 39 people registered right now. Last I checked, 39 is more than 6.
I was too late and didn't get in.
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Good to hear these issues are being addressed!
Rather than the current setup of having to submit a support ticket to add people to your team (which is how I interpreted what the site says at least), would it be possible to allow people to ask to join your team, email you about it, and then let the team creator accept/deny? This would be much more user friendly.
Ah, I'm not sure if we're on the same page. What I was suggested was some sort of system where people could apply to team leaders to be put on a team, rather than having to contact them elsewhere.
I have full confidence that your ticket system is well watched!
EDIT: A few more questions about specifics.
[A] What are the plots going to be like? We've heard 100x100, but that could be varied. Will they be vanilla terrain? Flatgrass? Custom? If one of the last two, will we have the ability to request a certain height?
[B] Can we assume that the contest will be completely vanilla mechanics? As in, no special building-assistance tools? And, judged in default texture pack?
off-topic: Xmas is an abbreviation of Christmas, the X comes from the greek letter chi, its used because its the first letter in the greek word Χριστός which translates to Christ(or at least that what i found on wikipedia, wikipedia also states that a common misconception is that "Xmas is a secular attempt to remove the religious traditions from Christmas by taking the christ out of Christmas") got bored so i googled Xmas found a wikipedia article and felt like posting an exposition
tl:dr its an abbreviation of Christ, not a removal
on-topic: the contest sounds more interesting to watch personally(something i think alot of the sign-ups probably intend to do instead of participate) and like a poster before me said i wasn't aware time did game reviews(though i don't live close enough to care nor read it anyways)
You go here: http://iseries.multiplay.co.uk/i45/tournaments/online/minecraft-xmas-creative-competition/
Then, click "Plot Assignments" at the top.