Honestly I think it was for the best that minecraft monday ended. The general atmosphere of both the participants and viewers, whether intentional or not, was pretty toxic. It had a lot of potential and forged many anticipated collabs and even friendships (aka phil, techno, wilbur etc) but the toxicity killed the hype. It's pretty much universally agreed that the best week was the last week when the event got cancelled. When the best week is the week when there wasn't even a tournament you (1/?)
don’t apologise anon, i live for this sorta stuff. but imma be real...i’m probably not the most impartial person when it comes to minecraft monday. i have a lot of nostalgia for it, and tbh it remains my all time favourite minecraft event even today. that’s for three main reasons:
1) the timing and the roster. it happened right after minecraft started getting massive again, and was organised by a dude who (while a dickhead) has a lot of contacts. as a result, the MCM roster was a really weird mashup of creators from dozens of different areas, very few of whom actually knew each other. it was sort of like throwing a ton of comedians who have never met before into a room and telling them to hang out together every week. compare that to MCC; at this point, all the creators mostly know each other and have inside jokes. this makes it a lot more companiable, sure, but in MCM we got to watch them all forge their own inside jokes in real time. seeing everyone go from having no idea who Technoblade was to running from him in terror, everyone’s collective hatred of Find The Button, making fun of Keemstar, Bajan and Jerome in second, Chris beating Techno, Dolan and Grandayy vibing in last place...we really got to watch these guys get to know each other, and that was nice.
plus, the teams were always a surprise: nowadays we’re used to weird crossovers in mcyt, but back then seeing Pewdiepie and James Charlie’s play minecraft together was bloody strange af. remember how weird it was when Pokimane was thrown into the Wilbur Tommy Tubbo dynamic? yeah, that was literally every week of MCM.
2) the vibe. one of the biggest issues with MCM was that it had the format of a Very Serious Competition while having a roster mostly made out of comedians. there was a cash prize, professional commentators, and it was expected to be a serious event similar to its brother, Fortnite Friday. you know that metaphor of shoving a bunch of comedians who’ve never met together in a room and telling them to go wild? now add the fact that the room has Very Serious Rules and a Very Serious Goal, but the comedians are more interested in fucking around with each other and making fun of the dude who runs the room than they are in reaching that goal. so when they broke the game? it was unexpected, and felt like we were breaking the rules, and so it was a lot more funny.
for example, Laake was the main mod for MCM, and in the beginning he was Very Serious. he very rarely spoke in chat, and when he did it was for the progression of the game. over time, though, we got to see him be worn down; the competitors just kept pestering him until he started joking around with them, and eventually his additions in chat were some of the best parts of the event. especially when he made fun of Keem, who was this sort of omniscient figure that hung over everyone and represented the serious event that MCM was supposed to be, but all the competitors just laughed at. compare that again to MCC; all the mods are friends with Scott, who’s a legitimately good guy and very willing for the event to be laid back and chill. as a result, when the mods banter in chat we don’t get that feeling of ‘sticking it to the man’, and we don’t feel like the rules are being bent. that part of the fun is taken away. watching MCM sorta felt like watching the class clowns screw up a big school assembly while the teacher looked away, and that was fantastic
3) bro, mcm was scuffed as hell. i ain’t gonna argue with that; it was poorly made and poorly maintained, run by a narcissist who had no idea how to play the game, and there were some really toxic competitors. but this just added to the charm. go back to the room metaphor; now the comedians in the Very Serious Room have found a ton of loopholes in the room’s Very Serious Rules, and are just exploiting them and laughing about it. hundreds of thousands of people are watching the Very Serious Room, but now all the competitors are stuck underground and can’t actually complete the goal, or some of the competitors have escaped the Room and are sitting on a nearby wall, and seeing it fail so colossally is funny because it’s supposed to be so Serious. it’s like when Techno broke bingo and build mart in MCC, or Dre in the iron doors, but it literally happened every week and felt like some sorta taboo
as for the toxicity, that was definitely an issue ethically, but no one actually ever took it too seriously. every week you watched you didn’t know if it would go smoothly or if it would get hacked halfway through and blown to pieces. you didn’t know if the underdogs would pull through and everyone would be happy, or if it would end with Ninja rage quitting, a6d beefing with Keem on twitter, or XQC telling Techno to suck his “wrinkly, hairy, smelly nutsack”? every week was a surprise, and expanded on the lore, and MCC can’t really compare there
you mentioned the fact that the last week is considered one of the best, and I agree, but consider this; if MCC was hacked and a few of the competitors went to hang out in Hypixel, would it be nearly as memorable? no, because all the players already know each other, and we like the organisers too much to laugh at the fact they messed up bad enough to have their server blown up, and having the server blown up doesn’t feel like something so bizarrely stupid. but in MCM? it was bloody iconic.
if there’s a season 2? it won’t have the same charm. i already know that. but still...i’d like to see them give it a go
tldr; i love MCC but it’s too competent to compare. MCM was a shit show and that was the best part of it. we all hate the gnome
also this is significantly longer than expected, if you made it this far i love you and i’m sorry
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