Minecraft Championship: Bewitched, the 69th edition of the recurring MCC tournament, ended with a win for the Red Ravens. The team of Feinberg, Graecie, PrinceZam and rendog beat the Green Goblins 3-0 in the Dodgebolt final, finishing with the highest score of the whole event at 22,588 points. The tournament took place on October 10 and ran for just under three hours, with 10 teams, 40 creators in total, competing in a Halloween setting.

How the points race played out

MCC Bewitched used the classic tournament format: eight minigames with a rising point multiplier, after which the top four teams in the standings advance to the Dodgebolt final. The Red Ravens dominated most of the event, winning four of the eight games, including the most valuable one, Grid Runners with its x3.0 multiplier, where they scored 4,935 points.

  • Sky Battle (x1.0) - won by the Red Ravens with 1,855 points
  • Meltdown (x1.5) - Red Ravens, 3,210 points
  • Parkour Tag (x1.5) - Red Ravens, 2,188 points
  • Railroad Rush (x2.0) - won by the Cyan Centipedes with 3,326 points
  • Ace Race (x2.0) - Cyan Centipedes, 2,820 points
  • Sands of Time (x2.5) - Red Ravens, 2,795 points
  • Rocket Spleef Rush (x2.5) - Green Goblins, 3,160 points
  • Grid Runners (x3.0) - Red Ravens, 4,935 points

That lead across the games gave the Red Ravens a safe cushion before the final, though the title and an extra bonus are always decided by Dodgebolt, a minigame with bows and arrows where teams eliminate each other in an enclosed arena. You can look up the rules of this particular game, like those of the other games used in MCC, in the general Minecraft wiki, although the tournament format itself is a community creation, not an official game mode.

The Halloween setting

The event's name was no accident: all the minigames got special Halloween scenery, and for those three hours the organizers brought back a remixed version of the Decision Dome music, along with extra spooky sound effects. Between rounds, players collected magical ingredients that fit the event's theme and added a fun element to the competition, separate from the pure scoring.

This kind of presentation has been a staple of MC Championship for years: every edition has its own theme and set of costumes and skins for participants, and teams are drawn anew before each event. Players often dress up as characters inspired by mobs from the game, which you can get to know better in our dedicated mob list before watching the gameplay recording.

The tournament format and its history

MC Championship is run by a community of YouTube and Twitch creators, not by Mojang or Microsoft, yet the series' popularity has long exceeded the reach of many official events around the game. Every edition, starting from the first one in 2020, brings together ten teams of four players who spend several hours going through a series of minigames designed specially for the tournament and played on private servers prepared by the organizers.

It's worth remembering that tournament servers like these work on entirely different rules than the public community projects players can find on their own by browsing the list of Minecraft servers. MCC is a closed environment built for a specific event, with its own scoring system and cash prizes for the winners, which have long attracted both top creators and new names in the community.

What's next for the competition

The win at MCC Bewitched is yet another title in the careers of some Red Ravens players, who had previously competed successfully in other editions of the tournament. For viewers following the scene, the next event should appear on the schedule in the coming weeks, in line with MC Championship's roughly monthly rhythm so far.

The tournament format has stayed the same for several seasons, but the organizers regularly introduce new minigames and variants of existing ones to keep things fresh. Fans can follow announcements of upcoming team lineups on MC Championship's social media channels, where participants' names are revealed a few days before each event.

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