#midoffs 3

[radishearts]

My speedrunning champion 🏃‍♀️‍➡️‼️

The mid offs were such an amazing watch ! My sleep schedule is cooked but my art block is gone so absolute W :D Excited to see False do more mcsr in the future ^^

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[everyfree]

Oh Fruitberries my beloved, I am so so happy he's coaching Scar this midoffs. He just excudes warmth and whimsy and gets Scar's genuine excitement for the small things in a minecraft world.

I really really love how he reframes the most intimidating parts of speedrunning. Before we start routing the scary bastions, let's have a fly around first. You want an elytra in inventory for emotional support? 100% understandable let's do that. Say, do you want to learn how to leap across the bridge bastion gap between ramparts? It's a funny little parkour jump! It's not hard, it's a cool thing that 'might scare you', but not inherently difficult.

Midoffs treats itself as a competition to see who's the best coach, but realistically the best coach is different for each student. Couri excels at the actual coaching and acts as a great mentor / friend to an equally competitive and excitable student, while Silverr and his mentee is like a veteran battlefield commander and their well-trained soldier, unflappable and unstoppable. While I don't necessarily believe in Fruit & Scar winning the whole thing, I can't really imagine Scar meshing as well with anyone else while cramming so much in so little time. And ultimately, isn't that the point of midoffs?

Also, we as a community should endeavor to adopt Scar Tower into our lexicon. It might not see much use, but Scar just seems so happy to hear it. It's always nice when an unlikely collision of worlds leave little marks of its existence.

[pol4r-b34r]

Back in midoffs 2 we used to pray for days like that. Absolute cinema, shoutout team fruitberries and all the other teams too

[ant-is-living]

we're all remembering to be kind and respectful to midoffs players, coaches, and organizers, right?

right?

right?

[timelysilverrruns]

day 37: go go team silverr!

[one-and-only-ms-juniper]

had to make Nerdi fanart cause those calls were crazyyy. best assistant coach fr 🙏

[ynde]

So just because I haven't seen a clip of it anywhere yet, and I found it funny, here is what happened on Couriway's stream when he realized what led to Ludwig needing to go down to bottom treasure for more gold.

Context for anyone who didn't watch the match below (will also include an explanation for anyone who isn't familiar with minecraft speed running, or with "graveling trades" and why Ludwig shouldn't have done that, just in case anyone who needs the explanation cares enough to read any of this. no promises that I will explain WELL, I'm new to this whole scene).

Basic context for the clip:

This is during Midoffs. Couriway and K4yfour's student, Juicy, has just won a match against Ludwig, who has both much more experience and a significantly faster best time than Juicy. You can hear the winner interview in the background.

At this point, I believe, Couri (who was helping coach Juicy through his run, so of course he wasn't watching Ludwig) only really knows that Ludwig died near the end of the bastion split, losing a significant amount of time. This is when chat informs him WHY Ludwig went down to bottom treasure (where he died) in the first place. Resulting in the twitch clip.

Detailed explanation:

In Minecraft speedrunning, after entering the nether, runners usually go directly to the nearest bastion and trade gold to piglins for resources they will need. The most common way to safely and quickly do this is to lure as many piglins as possible into a two-tall-by-one-wide hole, give them gold, and collect the items they drop in exchange. Often runners will drop a single gravel into this trading hole to make the trade items move up a block so they can be collected more easily. In a Treasure type bastion specifically, it is sometimes the case that there will be a block missing next to the trading hole, so that there is a gap to one side next to the piglins' feet. If this is the case, and you drop gravel on the piglins' feet, many of the traded items will move sideways, into that hole, rather than upward to be collected. This is what happened to Ludwig, and as a result, despite trade rng being identical between Ludwig and Juicy's games, Ludwig didn't have everything he needed to leave the bastion after trading all the easily and safely accessible gold--but Juicy did. So Juicy left without going to the bottom (and much more dangerous) part of the treasure bastion, while Ludwig, not realizing the items he needed were hiding under a block, right next to his piglins' feet, was forced to go down to collect more gold.

[heraheroina]

If fruitberries doesnt draft False for Midoffs i’m gonna cry my blue bats heart out