Information about the first contest to get into the Mindcrack server!
The contest started/was announced on December 25th, and Nebris had downloaded the map, found all the signs, wrote down their coordinates, answered the insanely hard questions which definitely required watching the entirety of season 1 at least once (he probably also had to do this to find some of the signs. We already know he used an x-ray texture pack to locate one of them), and then sent a PM to Guude with the answers, all in 7 days. It doesn’t mention when Espie got on the server, just that it was after Nebris sometime in January.
And I knew that Arkas entered this contest, but what I didn’t know was that Pakratt and Just_D3fy also entered, or at least were going to, not sure if they submitted their answers but they were in the comments of the contest announcement video along with Stennet10, which has only been viewed by just over 9000 people! Remember when Mindcrack was small? Yeah, me neither.
And I can’t believe there were only 10 members back in early 2011! I’m not sure if Mhykol, Avidya, LowlanderHD, or it3fergie had been on the server at that point or not. Mhykol didn’t officially join until later, but I know he took a tour of the season 2 Mindcrack server as part of his “Mhykol Invades” series, and Avidya was a member briefly before retiring from YouTube and going on hiatus from Minecraft and then rejoining the server later in season 3, but I’m not sure how those events fit into the timeline. LowlanderHD is apparently a personal irl friend of Guude’s but was never seen in a Mindcrack video, although he was in one of Guude’s other Minecraft videos (not sure which one). I have no idea how it3fergie fits into the picture at all, but they’ve never been in a Mindcrack video either.
Wow, only 38 entries! And the votes were actually tallied manually, I can’t imagine how much time that would have taken during the height of Mindcrack’s fame. I wish I could find the full list, or at least the top ten of those who entered. And wow, Just_D3fy was in this contest AGAIN and lost AGAIN! Poor guy got fourth place and still wasn’t one of the five people who were chosen lol.
I actually never knew what this contest was about until now. I thought it was just another video contest, I had no idea it was building the arena! Now I need to see all of their designs. I think it was only right for JD, Pakratt, and Arkas to win. They all entered the first contest, and at least Just Defy entered the second contest as well. Definitely longterm dedicated fans, and now longtime dedicated friends! :D
(except for Just Defy rip)
