The Ender Cup

The Ender Cup
Date	July 27, 2024
Duration	3:28:28
Winners	Purple Pandas
Runners-up	Pink Parrots
Previous	MCC TRE
Next	MCC R3

The Ender Cup promotional picture and logo

The teams in The Ender Cup (July 18-19, 2024)

The Ender Cup was the forty-ninth event of MC Championship. It took place on July 27, 2024 at 6 PM BST. This event was a part of a collaboration between the tournament and Minecraft, as part of Minecraft's 15th Anniversary.

An unofficial transcript of this event can be found here. This was made by u/OrcaDood and others on Reddit.

Bedrock Server Event

The MCC Cape, obtained from completing all challenges in the bedrock server event

In conjunction with the event, a two-week server event for Minecraft Bedrock was introduced, running from Monday, July 22, 2024 at 6 PM BST to Sunday, August 4, 2024 at 11 PM BST.

• The server event featured four MCC games, Ace Race, Grid Runners, Sands of Time, and Meltdown. Each of the game is modified to be played individually. However, you can see other players in the same server. The format for each game was as follows:
  • Ace Race: Players race to get the best time in a course. In contrast to the event's version, the Launch Pad auto deploys in the direction a player looks at. Trident sections are also not included in the course. Players can also earn medals for completing the course in a certain time, ranging from Copper to Netherite.
  • Grid Runners: Each player in a game session completes objectives as many times as possible. There are three objectives: killing waves of mobs, replicating paintings using paint and paintbrushes, and baking cakes. The more these objectives are completed, the more coins each player would earn. Each room lasts for 60 seconds.
  • Meltdown: Each player in a game session tries to kill mobs spawning around a melting facility, using freeze bows, as many as possible, while surviving a melting facility. Mobs can be killed by freezing and punching them, earning coins when killed. Coin piles can also spawn around the facility as well. Each room lasts for 105 seconds (except the first room lasting for 90 seconds), and would starting melting down at around 30 seconds left, with 5 seconds per melting state of the room.
  • Sands of Time: Players try to gather as much coins as possible via coin piles, mobs, and chests scattered around the map. Chests would require keys to unlock them, which would also give a large amount of coins when unlocked. Players can top up time with sand blocks scattered around the map. However, players are not required to go back to spawn and top up the timer with sand blocks.
• Each game would reward players with an in-game currency, to be used to purchase cosmetics and gadgets.
• An official MC Championship Cape could be unlocked from this event. To earn this cape, players must complete 15 different challenges over the course of the event.
  • Ten challenges were "mascot" challenges, where players must wear a beanie of a certain faction (cost 250 each) and complete the objective associated with that beanie.
  • Four challenges were "game" challenges, where players must complete the objective associated to that game.
  • The last challenge was a cryptic challenge, where daily clues are given in the first seven days of the event. The goal of this is to decipher and figure what to do to complete the challenge.
  • This cape was exclusive for Bedrock Edition, until July 20, when Avondale and Mojang announced that the cape would be ported to Java Edition on August 5.

Changes

MCC x Minecraft- The Ender Cup!

Some of the changes were revealed on the website released on the same date of the event's announcement.

General Changes

• Some cutscenes are added before and during the event. This includes the obelisks ignitions, the introductions, and the Minecraft timeline cutscene.
• When using Noxesium, off-hand maps can now be displayed elsewhere other than the player's hand. This is prominently shown in Meltdown.
• The music for the game ending, the Final Duel and Dodgebolt were remixed.
• The build plots for the team introductions were slightly smaller than usual for this event.

Game Changes and Maps Featured

• Introduced a remix for Parkour Warrior, Parkour Warrior Survivor
  • To find out more about the remix and its scoring, visit the Game Remixes page.
• The Main Hub as well as all the games have received new maps and decorations, keeping with the "Ender Cup" theme. Each of the games are also themed around various Minecraft updates and/or locations:
  • Ace Race: Dark Descent - Caves and Cliffs Update (1.17 and 1.18)
  • Grid Runners: The Update that Changed the World (1.7)
  • Hole in the Wall: Ocean Monument - Bountiful Update (1.8)
  • Meltdown: Bastion - Nether Update (1.16)
  • Parkour Warrior: Alpha and Beta Updates
  • Sky Battle: Coral - Update Aquatic (1.13) and Village & Pillage (1.14)
  • Survival Games: Biomefield - Adventure Update (1.0)
  • TGTTOS: Combat Update (1.9), Exploration Update (1.11) and World of Color Update (1.12)
• Ace Race received a brand new mechanic of fans, where players would propel forward when they are in within the range of the fan.
• Grid Runners got some minor changes in addition to new rooms:
  • Objective titles were added back in.
  • Completed rooms would now have a border of the team colour on top, instead of a flag.
  • Row numbers are added to each row of rooms.

Games

• Detailed game picture for Ace Race
• Detailed game picture for Grid Runners
• Detailed game picture for Hole in the Wall
• Detailed game picture for Meltdown
• Detailed game picture for Parkour Warrior
• Detailed game picture for Sky Battle
• Detailed game picture for Survival Games
• Detailed game picture for TGTTOS

1/8

The games were announced on the same date of the event's announcement. There are a total of 8 games that were played in this event.

This event introduces MCC Island's Parkour Warrior Survivor to Parkour Warrior as a remix.

Game 1: Sky Battle

Best Performing Team:  Green Geckos (1439)

Top 5 players:

1.  fruitberries - 913
2.  Purpled - 742
3.  FireBreathMan - 577
4.  Ph1LzA - 441
5.  Tubbo - 401

Game 2: Survival Games (x1.5)

Best Performing Team:  Red Rabbits (2673)

Top 5 players:

1.  HBomb94 - 1063 (709 unmultiplied)
2.  fruitberries - 1003 (669 unmultiplied)
3.  CaptainSparklez - 673 (449 unmultiplied)
4.  bekyamon - 645 (430 unmultiplied)
5.  hannahxxrose - 637 (425 unmultiplied)

Game 3: Parkour Warrior (x1.5)

Best Performing Team:  Purple Pandas (1747)

Top 5 players:

1.  Purpled - 1102 (735 unmultiplied)
2.  fruitberries - 780 (520 unmultiplied)
3.  hannahxxrose - 720 (480 unmultiplied)
4.  FireBreathMan - 712 (475 unmultiplied)
5.  Seapeekay - 577 (385 unmultiplied)

Game 4: Ace Race (x2.0)

Best Performing Team:  Cyan Coyotes (2570)

Top 5 Fastest Runs:

1.  Purpled - 05:59.05
2.  fruitberries - 06:06.10
3.  hannahxxrose - 06:14.15
4.  FireBreathMan - 06:16.95
5.  jojosolos - 06:17.60

Top 5 Fastest Laps:

1.  Purpled - 01:57.85
2.  Purpled - 01:58:00
3.  FireBreathMan - 01:59.50
4.  hannahxxrose - 02:00.45
5.  fruitberries - 02:00.60

Game 5: Meltdown (x2.0)

Best Performing Team:  Cyan Coyotes (3250)

Top 5 players:

1.  Ph1LzA - 1100 (550 unmultiplied)
2.  Seapeekay - 1000 (500 unmultiplied)
3.  Purpled - 932 (446 unmultiplied)
4.  bekyamon - 864 (432 unmultiplied)
5.  hannahxxrose - 840 (420 unmultiplied)

Game 6: Hole in the Wall (x2.5)

Best Performing Team:  Cyan Coyotes (3515)

Top 5 players:

1.  fruitberries - 1620 (648 unmultiplied)
2.  Purpled - 1320 (528 unmultiplied)
3.  Ph1LzA - 1265 (506 unmultiplied)
4.  FireBreathMan - 1225 (490 unmultiplied)
5.  Smallishbeans - 1045 (418 unmultiplied)

Game 7: TGTTOS (x2.5)

Best Performing Team:  Orange Ocelots (3492)

Top 5 players:

1.  Purpled - 1567 (627 unmultiplied)
2.  hannahxxrose - 1305 (522 unmultiplied)
3.  fruitberries - 1210 (484 unmultiplied)
4.  jojosolos - 1190 (476 unmultiplied)
5.  FireBreathMan - 1077 (431 unmultiplied)

Game 8: Grid Runners (x3.0)

Best Performing Team:  Yellow Yaks (4527)

Top 5 teams:

1.  Yellow Yaks - 4527
2.  Lime Llamas - 3921
3.  Purple Pandas - 3528
4.  Aqua Axolotls - 3486
5.  Pink Parrots - 3219

Dodgebolt

 Purple Pandas vs.  Pink Parrots

Round 1:  Purple Pandas win.

Round 2:  Pink Parrots win.

Round 3:  Purple Pandas win.

Round 4:  Pink Parrots win.

Round 5:  Purple Pandas win.

Result:  Purple Pandas 3–2  Pink Parrots

Winners

The Ender Cup
Purple Pandas
Smajor1995 7th	PearlescentMoon 2nd	fWhip 3rd	bekyamon 1st

Final Team Standings

Standing	Teams	Coins Total
1	Purple Pandas	18,919
2	Pink Parrots	17,757
3	Yellow Yaks	17,003
4	Cyan Coyotes	16,811
5	Orange Ocelots	16,503
6	Red Rabbits	15,534
7	Lime Llamas	14,730
8	Green Geckos	14,535
9	Blue Bats	14,495
10	Aqua Axolotls	12,607

Final Individual Standings

Standing	Teams	Coins Total
1	fruitberries	4,403
2	Purpled	4,385
3	FireBreathMan	3,324
4	hannahxxrose	3,192
5	Ph1LzA	2,853
6	HBomb94	2,823
7	bekyamon	2,733
8	CaptainSparklez	2,726
9	Seapeekay	2,635
10	jojosolos	2,526
11	SolidarityGaming	2,281
12	TommyInnit	2,267
13	ItzMasayoshi	2,240
14	fWhip	2,228
15	PearlescentMoon	2,215
16	Smajor1995	2,176
17	Smallishbeans	2,119
18	Tubbo	2,090
19	aimsey	1,870
20	GeminiTay	1,815
21	CaptainPuffy	1,781
22	Grian	1,691
23	ElainaExe	1,641
24	DanTDM	1,603
25	DarkEyebrows	1,579
26	falsesymmetry	1,566
	Piso	1,566
28	GoodTimesWithScar	1,472
29	Shubble	1,384
30	Sykkuno	1,353
31	impulseSV	1,351
32	LDShadowLady	1,309
33	soupforeloise	1,259
34	TeanaKitten	1,200
35	guqqie	1,135
36	DisguisedToast	1,118
37	blaustoise	1,088
38	katherineeliz	1,084
39	xChocoBars	857
40	Aphmau	844

Trivia

• This is the first event to be held at 6 PM UK Time.
• This is the first event to have its own dedicated homepage.
• This is also the third event with a central stream, with the previous two being Twitch Rivals events.
• This event is one of the events where Smajor1995 did not make the teams.
• All the players, including the reserves, received a jersey (similar to Twitch Rivals events) as part of being involved in the event.
• Prior to the event, most of the players (including the reserves) made a short video advertising the event.
• This is the third event after the previous two events (MCC TR and MCC TRE) from the Twitch Rivals series, where the winning team gets a physical prize for each winning players, this time being the Ender Cup itself.
• This is the 6th event to have no update video (the others being MCC 1, MCC 2, MCC 3, MCC 5 and MCC JJ). Instead, a short video with clips from the games was posted to the Noxcrew YouTube channel.
• Most of the music from the main stream would later be featured on MCC Island as the hub music and the fishing game music in its fishing update.

Participation

• This event featured:
  • 2 newcomers - Aphmau and Blaustoise.
  • 2 returnees from MCC 27 and MCC TR respectively - DisguisedToast and ItzMasayoshi.
  • 4 returnees from their recent Pride series events - Piso, soupforeloise, Sykkuno, and xChocoBars.
• This event introduced DanTDM, Katherine Elizabeth, and LDShadowLady back to the tournament since their time in MCC 27, MCC 14, and MCC AF respectively.
  • This event also introduced Ph1LzA back to the tournament, after leaving the main roster after MCC PARTY.
• This event is the third event to feature a concrete reserves pool, in the case that anyone from the original roster has to sub out. The reserves are as follows:
  • From the regular roster - OwengeJuice.
  • From MCC R2 - 4CVIT, Legundo, Lynrose, Midmysticx, Millkberry, PhazeRay (part of the original Aqua Axolotls team), and WadeBox.
  • From MCC JJ, MCC R2, and MCC P24 - Hrry.
  • From MCC TRE - SandwichLord (also part of the original MCC R2 Aqua Axolotls).

Statistics

• With her event win in this event, PearlescentMoon is the seventh player to win two events back-to-back, in terms of her participation (MCC P24 and MCC EC).
• This is the fourth time that the winning team didn't have any players placing top 5 individually, the others were MCC 14, MCC 28 and MCC 29.
• fruitberries broke the record for the highest amount of coins earned in a single event by one individual, getting 4,403 coins, a record set by Technoblade all the way back in MCC 4.
  • Purpled also broke the record by getting 4,385 coins.
• fruitberries is the second player to survive and won all 3 rounds of Sky Battle.

References

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