Last year, Tarik watch partied almost every challengers game. The DSG / moist watch parties were so fun.

Even though it was obvious that m80 and Guard were the top 2 contenders for Ascension, there were intriguing storylines (TTR beating G2, Moist and Oxygen’s rise, Yay)

This year, no one is really watching the games except Sean Gares on occasion. It feels like the hype has definitely decreased… but the actual matches are juicy because it’s not obvious who the top 2 are.

QoR beat Oxygen. TTR beat MxS today. TTR beat m80. Who is winning??

Hannahxxrose and Sylvee Present: MCC Participants in House of Nightmares Day 3

Concept:

In Maplewood town on September 13th of the year 1984 a series of reporters have gone missing after investigating the mysterious House of Horrors. Inside ghosts, apparitions and monsters too horrifying to detail run rampant, intent on stealing the souls of any mere mortals who dare to step foot inside

Over the course of 5 days 150 Journalists (Participants) compete in a serious of spooky elimination based nightmares/games and tests within the House of Horrors with the last one standing being allowed to leave with their life still intact. The rest will have their souls haunt the House of Horrors for eternity. 1st receives 70k from the prize pool, 2nd getting 12k and 3rd - 20th getting 1k. As is currently stands there are 110 participants coming into Day 2

Surviving MCC Participants coming into the event for Day 2: Hannahxxrose, Sylvee, Sapnap, BadBoyHalo, Shadoune, PeteZahHutt, 5up, Fruitberries, Sneegsnag, FalseSymmetry, Rendog, Feinberg, Antfrost, RedVelvetIsCake, FireBreathMan, Apokuna, SpeedSilver, Gumiho, Seapeekay, CapitanGato, Wallibear, Awesamdude, Bekyamon, Iskall85, OwengeJuice, Acho, BaboAbe, Fulham, Couriway, OllieGamerz, Wolfeei, AntVenom and Purpled

Deceased MCC Participants from the previous days: Kratzy, JackManifold, DarkEyeBrows, Vixella, DrGluon, Cubfan135, LexieMarie and Tubbo

Twitch Rivals also has their own separate broadcasts with Jojosolos and Kara Corvus as commentators throughout the event which you can find on the twitch rivals channel

Game 5: Doll, Doll, Curse

Objective: Choose a doll from a selection of coloured sectors and get chased by an evil creepy doll. Each doll has a unique ability such as speed or fireballs depending on what is chosen. Participants will have to keep away from the dolls for 5 minutes by running through the house or hiding in items but these can only be used once. This happens until one person is eliminated or 5 minutes has passed and each participants have 2 hearts with the dolls dealing half a heart's worth of damage per hit. Every round the dolls get slightly faster faster

As there are many rounds I'll give you a general overview - a meta slowly emerges as one group consisting of FireBreathMan, Hannahxxrose, Sapnap, CapitanGato, Bekyamon, Feinberg, Shadoune, Rendog, OwengeJuice, BadBoyHalo and SpeedSilver (and another 10 or so participants) stay together. Together they work out essentially the best strategy which is to run to a corner down a corridor that gives a long view of both paths - Hannahxxrose deduces that as long as they don't pick the colour next to their pathway into the House the doll will never spawn next to them and they wont get chased off of spawn. When the rest of the participants arrive in the form of a big crowd they blend in to lower the chance of getting hit. It's a clever strategy and FireBreathMan works out that the participant mob tends to just follow Sapnap's direction and so tells him to call out loudly when they need to move and it works for the entire round as all of the MCC participants from that group survive

The other group consists of the rest of the tournament participants who run aimlessly in small separate groups together and essentially are always chased off of spawn by a doll. Purpled leads a group of FalseSymmetry, Sylvee, OllieGamerz, Apokuna and Fruitberries whilst Seapeekay, Antfrost, AntVenom, Iskall85, 5up, RedVelvet and Fulham all stick together for the most part. The remaining MCC participants are scattered over the House. Very early on there's a lot of screaming, crying, singing and panic as no one knows what is going on. RedVelvetCake gets an extremely unlucky spawn and gets tagged by the doll immedaitely in one of the beginning rounds and is eliminated. More chaos ensues and unfortunately BaboAbe gets disconnected from the server - as this technically counts as a death he isn't allowed to return - however Abe takes this very well and is good natured about it which is respectable. I'm unsure if there's a possibility for him to return but if so I'll update this paragraph if we find out. The rest of the rounds are as follows - one group gets caught up to by a doll and starts to rotate round the map and each group rotates with them accordingly. No more MCC participants are eliminated thankfully and all live to fight another fight

Comparisons with MCC:

Doll, Doll, Curse - I actually enjoyed, obviously the RNG elements of the spawning were somewhat underwhelming however the fright and panic that ensures with the problem solving from Hannah's group was really entertaining. It's kind of like PKT but PvE - I'm not sure this is directly translatable into MCC however (as I've said a couple of times now) it could be a great remix idea. Have something horrifying chase a big group of people down creates so much panic it's great even though it's probably not practicable. I will quickly add for Transform and Run is essentially prop hunt, for anyone who remembers the good ol' Gary's Mod days, and while I do think back to those days with a fondness it wouldn't really offer much more than PKT does nowadays

Game 6: Transform and Run

Objective: Over the course of 4 10 minute rounds players are divided into hunters and props - hunters have to catch the props and can choose from abilities that give either speed, extra damage or transformation into a prop and props cannot hide in the same position for more than 60s without becoming visible to the hunters. Each round the players are divided at random. Hunters gain 5 points for killing the props and lose 2 points (and hp) for hitting non props whereas props gain 2 points for surviving every 5 minutes and 5 points for completing puzzles around the house. Props can also gain abilities like speed and teleporting and will respawn as hunter when caught. The bottom 30 players at the end of the game will be eliminated

Sigh. Here we go

As I'm sure nearly everyone reading this knows pretty much everything that could go wrong in a major event did go wrong. Initially the participants had to wait for long periods of time to allow contestants to join the lobby and then to acclimate to the rules as they were large and extensive to understand which meant long waiting times. Instead of giving you lengthy a play by play I'll just give you a list of the facts of what happened in the game that are provable (a lot can be found on 5up's VOD review of the game):

• Everyone was given access to the same information going into the game to read and understand in discord

• Nearly all of the other games leading up to this have also had elements of RNG when it comes to eliminations

• Hunting points were way more rewarding than prop points and in Round 1 several people suicided giving whoever was randomly selected to hunt a boost whilst this wasn't the case in the remaining 3 rounds

• As there are only 8 hunters chosen at the beginning of every round, and there are only 4 rounds, only 32 (presuming no one got chosen twice) of the 70 participants get the chance to start out as a hunter

• Despite hunting points being stronger there were several participants who didn't hunt at all and still got a high amount of points (Hannah + FBM) from being only a prop meaning it was technically possible to still do well without hunting

• Chests didn't work as intended as the slots didn't spin to open for certain players - some players were able to work around this eventually but a lot of other players weren't able to and this wasn't an intentional mechanic in the game (this happened to 5up, Sapnap and FalseSymmetry) Some other chests would not open with keys either

• Miss clicks on wrong props didn't always deal damage to the hunter

• Survival points were not consistently counted properly as a prop (this happened to Fruitberries)

• There was a cooldown for getting a kill as a hunter which you wouldn't have known had you not been hunter in R1 as it wasn't explained in the rules apparently

• The respawn time for each round was different per round meaning that there was uneven amounts of time comparatively between rounds which was accentuated by the random hunter selection (first round for example was 2 minutes respawn time whereas last round was 60 seconds)

• Certain streamers were writing down coordinates of the chests and there seemed to be some disagreement about whether or not this was allowed or considered meta gaming (Hannah said this wasn't allowed)

• Twitch Rival admins elected to restart the game and notified the contestants in the middle of R4 causing a lot of the remaining participants to troll and protest both vocally and in discord

• Nearly everyone who DIDN'T WANT to restart had made top 40 and nearly everyone who WANTED to restart was in the bottom 30

• Twitch Rivals admins then elect to cancel the game and have no eliminations today and do the doll game again tomorrow with some minor improvements to lessen RNG in that game in which 30 people will be eliminated

At this point the whole tournament descends into chaos. The general consensus is that if the game was going to be redone it should've been restarted after round 1 OR an announcement at the end of the game stating that the game will be investigated due to the number of issues instead of the middle of round 4. Additionally the reason for restarting was stated due to "More clarification to everyone for the sake of fair play and restart the game with more clarified rules and help on how to complete the puzzles" which seemed to annoy a lot of people as everyone was given the same rule set therefore no one should've been disadvantaged by that. There are lots of opinions being wafted around, too many to explain in detail, but it takes a while for all the information to come out about what went wrong in the game. There is no general consensus for agreeing what the next step is however as everyone who won doesn't want to redo and everyone who would've been eliminated does. It's a shame that it came to this as the event was going so well but there's little else to be done at this point.

Player Shoutouts: I think this clearly needs to go to Hannah and Sylvee who kept there composure and did their very best to help everyone in the event through game 6. It's a tough situation to navigate with so many emotionally charged voices giving their opinion and they both did well in spite of that

I'd also like to give 5up, Antfrost and BadBoyHalo shoutouts for their calm and fair communication following Game 6 - so many people lost their minds and just blindly raged but I respect them so much for taking the time to explain their own thoughts on the matter as well as listening and understanding other peoples perspective too. 5up in particular actually made top 40 but was one of the only people arguing for the bottom 30 which I think speaks to his character. This also extends to every other participant who called out the fighting in discord and just how insanely seriously some people were taking it

As of current information Doll, Doll, Curse will be played again tomorrow and eliminate 30 additional participants to account for Game 6 not counting towards any eliminations. This means that 70 remain going into Day 4 instead of 40 and there will be 3 tasks this day instead of 2. Every MCC participant from today except for RedVelvet and BaboAbe will be playing

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The tournament should be about different parts of the MC community and others in the streaming world coming together to play in an event. Just because you do not like someone for their personality or whatever reason it does not justify spreading hate within the community and instigating something that could be considered verbally attacking someone. With that in mind I will not be including Couriway in any further posts due to their poor attitude and actions immediately following the end of Game 6. People in the comments have stated that this is potentially not the correct course of action for the summary given there may be multiple people at fault so I'll reconsider for Day 4

I'm aware Sapnap and Fulham behaved poorly too with Sapnap constantly playing DMCA music (he was not the only one to do this), spamming in discord and beefing with Fulham, and Fulham pulling up Sapnap's stream to ridicule him, his words, his mods and the viewers for 30 minutes - I'm also aware that several participants were clearly unobjective when it came to calling out poor behaviour based on who they did and did not like - the whole situation has caused participants in the tournament to state they're not sure they even want to be involved anymore and that is so sad to hear. I sincerely hope that everyone calms down and this doesn't prevent anyone from returning tomorrow or signing up in the future

Ultimately I hope that moving forward both streamers and viewers go into the rest of the event with an open mind - something Antfrost said which I felt worth mentioning was "No matter what happens someone will be unhappy, there's nothing anyone can do now except just accept it the decision and move on"

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Please be respectful in the comments (as they will get removed if not) and continue to support Hannah and Sylvee as I can only imagine how stressful it was having to deal with that situation. Go into tomorrow with a positive mindset and have fun!

Moist x Shopify 0-2 Turtle Troop

vlr.gg

BIND: 11-13

SUNSET: 10-13

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Moist x Shopify | VLR

Turtle Troop | VLR

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Map 1: BIND

Team	ATK	DEF	Total
Moist x Shopify	9	2	11
	DEF	ATK
Turtle Troop	3	10	13

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Moist x Shopify	ACS	K	D	A
v1c BRIMSTONE	229	18	13	9
brawk GEKKO	224	18	15	3
mada RAZE	197	15	18	5
oderus VIPER	177	16	16	5
flyuh SKYE	165	13	17	6
Turtle Troop	ACS	K	D	A
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corey RAZE	231	19	17	4
wedid BRIMSTONE	212	15	20	11
stellar FADE	207	20	11	3
bdog SAGE	194	16	17	4
Add3r GEKKO	109	9	15	7

Detailed BIND Statistics

Map 2: SUNSET

| Team | DEF | ATK | Total | | Moist x Shopify | 8 | 2 | 10 | | ATK | DEF | | Turtle Troop | 4 | 9 | 13

Moist x Shopify	ACS	K	D	A
mada RAZE	317	26	16	4
brawk GEKKO	286	22	17	9
oderus CYPHER	170	15	18	3
flyuh KAYO	151	11	18	18
v1c OMEN	140	10	20	7
Turtle Troop	ACS	K	D	A
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Add3r CYPHER	269	21	18	4
wedid OMEN	258	22	19	7
corey RAZE	226	18	18	5
bdog GEKKO	181	15	16	5
stellar BREACH	150	13	13	7

Detailed SUNSET Statistics