How I Make The Teams For MC Championship!

Hi guys and welcome back to the next video and today’s video is actually a little bit different and that it’s a bit more of an informational video so as you can tell by the title this video is about mcc and how i create the teams and the

Process that i sort of go through to do that now if you don’t know what mcc is mcc stands for mc championships and that is a large 40 player creator event that i organize and run alongside knox crew every month so the event is made up

Of a bunch of different mini games with 10 teams of four and my job is to decide when we do the event and who makes up those 10 teams of four if you want any more information a link to the mcc website is in the description below so you can check

Out see who is playing in this event and check out a sort of description of all the different mini games we have available obviously these mini games are currently private and they are for the event only so unfortunately although they look really cool you can’t play them

Unless of course you’re one of the people who are in the event watching this video then yes you can so the way the teaming sort of works has changed quite a lot since mcc one as we’re now on our eighth event back in the very first time cc it was

Kind of a mix of putting people together with people that kind of knew just for fun because at its core mcc is a for fun event there is no prize money involved the only thing the winners get is this cool commemorative coin which as you can see has nc championship

Winner on the front and then the other little zombie and a crown on the back currently you only get one coin for winning the event it doesn’t matter if you win three times it doesn’t matter if you win once you only get one coin but we are maybe looking at something

Special if winners happen to win more than like five events or something so like keep an eye out for that but we do still have quite a while there’s only a handful of people who have ever won the event twice and i’m one of them it’s not rigged going at me

So to actually get into the part of the video that you’re all here for teaming so the way the event works is back in the very first mcc i struggled to get 40 people wanting to play a minecraft event mainly because it was just another minecraft event in the sea of minecraft events

And also i don’t know 40 people i’m friends with really online so it was a struggle compared to now where i have so many people wanting in the event and we only have 40 slots it’s completely different situations in the few days following the event

I will post a sign up form to the private discord which basically anyone in there can sign up to take part in the event and it sort of gauges an interest of who’s actually available because obviously some of you might be busy on the day that we happen to pick for mcc

Some people maybe want to miss one there’s tons of different reasons as to why people might not want to participate each event so if i put in a sign-up form it kind of means that they fill out rather than me chasing people up and for a bit more clarity

I’m going to show you what the farm looks like so as you can see here we have a google form that says mc championships and it’s let us know if you want to take part in the next mcc we will pair people up then put those teams with people who share a similar

Goal for the event now i’ll explain later down what that means so we just basically asked for the basic information like an email and then whether you are available to play in that mcc event for this farm it says 15th of august because that is the most recent event

And the two options are yeah i’m hype or i’m interested but i’m not 100 sure the reason we have that option was sometimes people maybe aren’t sure if they’re going to be available but they still are interested in playing if they are which means that i can put

Them either onto the reserves list or i can sort of chase them up and make sure like are you actually able to play or not they maybe didn’t know exactly at the time of filling out but they wanted to get their name in because the forms do fill up fast

And then just ask for your name or your alias so i could put scott or i could put s major or dang that’s a long name i am a branding nightmare your discord username your minecraft ign and the main reason you choose to take part in mcc

Now this has changed a lot of people if you look at sort of the first three mcc’s the teams weren’t the most diverse or balanced because back then we were doing it purely on a buddy system and my sort of intuition of who already kind of knew each other and who i

Thought would mesh well and that often led to issues where you would have a team with maybe two people who were playing to really want to try and win and get that top spot mixed with two people who were there purely for the enjoyment of the event

And had no intention of try harding and obviously when you put those two together they don’t mesh so with this new thing it gives me a lot more clarity into what different people are playing for so the three options are i’m competitive and here to win

I just play to have fun or i’m happy to play more competitively but i also don’t care if i play slow with that information i know that i don’t put people who want to play competitively with people who just play for fun now the majority of the event

Do put that i’m here to play more competitively but i also don’t care if i play slow which does make my job much easier because and they’re not getting worried about people being upset or getting mad if their teammates maybe don’t do well because again at the end of the day

It is all for fun the next question is asking if their stream is strictly pg so you can either answer yes all my content is only pg my content is far from pg or i can be pg if i need to this is just to

Help me not get into a situation where i maybe put someone who is family friendly on stream with someone who is not and obviously that being sort of clash in their dynamics when maybe one is more open to like sweating and chatting about more adult themes compared to someone who

Isn’t and then i ask where they’re planning on streaming either twitch youtube or other as we do have a few creators who stream on like facebook and d live and just other platforms and lastly we asked for the alias of one person you would want to play with

This used to be how we did the system completely it was a buddy system if you put someone down and they also put you down you would definitely be together obviously with the popularity of the event that is maybe getting a little bit harder for us to do just because

There are so many people that want to play and a lot of the time the people who are very good in the event are friends with people who are very good in the event and i can’t have every week being them together all the time a perfect example of that

Is vic and pete used to play together in every event but as the event got more competitively it became less feasible to keep them as a pair so now you have seen the sign up form i can explain to you what i do with that information so when someone signs up the form

Funnels it all into a nice google doc that i am then able to kind of see all the different reasons that they play who who is signed up and who they want to play with i then have my own system where basically i look at the previous events

Scoring and where they placed in that and give them a color based on if they placed in the 1 to 10 11 to 20 21 to 30 or 31 to 40. i also have started taking a note of each person’s individual scores from that last event

And kind of adding them together when i put them in a team so that each team kind of has an average base score now i choose to do it based on the last event rather than an event average as a whole for a few reasons one minecraft championships has changed a lot

We have brand new game modes we have changed game modes the amount of coins awarded for different game modes has changed and also players who have been in it for the first one know how to play the games a lot more so you could do really badly and one

Week where we added a brand new game mode and maybe changed a few but that would reflect on your average because it would bring it all down i prefer to do it based on the last event that people took part in because yes people will have bad days and good

Days and if people maybe have really really bad weeks i will kind of take that into consideration that it was just a one-off if someone is consistently top like 20 places but then in one event gets in the bottom section i will take that into consideration when i’m teaming them

Because it probably was just an off week i think it’s a better gauge off the player rather than sort of taking an average as a whole especially since people are generally improving each event so it is making my job even more difficult another element i have to manage

When i’m making the teams is that a i try not to put teams completely of people who have won before so a team of four that have one won’t play as a four again i will split that up they will not plays before again until way way way down the line when

There’s a possibility of it happening there are also people who maybe don’t mesh well with other creatures as is common and anywhere and they maybe have restrictions or limitations of certain people that they would prefer not to team with and that’s completely fine and then on top of that you’re probably

Wondering how do new people get invited well that is where my job gets even more difficult like i said earlier when i did the first time cc i struggled to get 40 people to want to do the event and it was very much a scraping together at the last minute to get people

Compared to now where i have so many people constantly dming me or emailing me or getting tweeted at me asking to be part of it and although that support and interest in the event is amazing it is very difficult for me to decide who gets to play and who doesn’t

Because for each new person we add to the event one of the people who are part of the roster already have to miss out so to try and make it fair i do tend to limit adding about three new people each event that has fluctuated to be maybe less than certain

Events or more than others but that does tend to be my standard is about three people new each time with mcc we have never tried to make the event focused on sub numbers or view counts or anything like that which does make getting into the event both fair

And unfair it’s fair in that we’re not giving people a limit to try and get into or to hold a certain view count otherwise they’re out it’s also unfair because i can’t give people a set goal to aim towards to take part in the event mcc has always had creators of varying

Sizes some with tens of thousands of viewers and some with tens of yours and that’s what makes mcc really important and special is the sort of mixing of these communities and channel sizes and that it can sort of be an open area to basically anyone but because of the popularity and

Exclusivity of the event i do need to do on an invite-only basis now i have a list privately and it pulls through that way of creators who have maybe emailed me or reached out or creators that i have hired have been interested in the event through previous contestants and i work my way

Through that list sort of adding people here and there also different people who are friends of creators that maybe come in and play with them that’s also in the mix as well and also with teaming we have the other dynamic of set teams maybe you haven’t realized

What those are or you’re maybe new to the event but a prime example of that is the blue bats team which is normally consisting of the simmers the simmers are people who want to play the event but only to play as a four which is fine but it does mean that i

Can’t allow them to take part in every single event which is why they sort of do every second one now similar to how for this mcc the team of shovel strawberry 17 joey gurcepha and mika came in as a team of four but they wouldn’t get to play as a team

Before every single event so when it comes to making the teams like i mentioned before i use the sign up form to kind of gather information and i use the color grading system to put the teams together and to kind of give you a visual representation of what that looks like

Here is the team spreadsheet that i used for mcc 7 the last event so as you can tell we have the red rabbits team orange ocelots team yellow yaks team lime llamas green gardens cyan creepers aqua horses blue bats purple pandas and pink palettes so looking at it you can see that certain

Players have either a green which means in the last event they placed in the top ten a blue which means then they placed in the ten to twenty yellow which means he plays into 20 to 30 and orange which means he placed in 30 to 40. or they have the pink which

Means they’re unknown as in they are new to the event which in that one it was only sat nap that was new you will also notice under each team are individual scores which is me taking the scores from each player in that team from the last event

They took part and adding them together and giving them a team score and when you look at those the variation between sort of the top teams isn’t actually that much it’s a few hundred coins now there are a few outliers like the blue bats who on a point system looks severely unbalanced

But again they play purely for fun and as a team so that is always going to be the case now my goal when i do the teams is to maybe have about four to five strong teams who are up for the top two spots mainly because there’s some people who

Take part just for fun mixed in there like the hermits now this is a fun thing to look at knowing that the winners of m67 were in fact green guardians whose team score was only 8007. they were completely out ranked by almost every other team in the event but

Still come out on top which is a prime example of how mcc really can be anyone’s game although there might seem like some really strong teams and automatic you’re like oh well they’ve won the way the event works with the multipliers and the order of the games that get packed each night

You don’t know who’s gonna win i hope this has kind of given you a little bit of clarity into the process in which i do the teams obviously is a hard thing to kind of explain in full detail as there’s so many things that get involved

In the team making process i quite often will change the teams several times over the course of like three days like i’ve had it before where one day i’ve been like right the teams are done and then two days later they are completely different because new people have signed up

Other people have asked to be with certain people or vice versa and it sort of changes the mechanics and the way i do it now once i kind of have this team finalized and the layout sorted of who’s going to be in what teams i will then let the players know and the

Discord i will add the new people who are playing that event to the discord and then we keep it private until we tweet from the mcc twitter announcing the teams for you all which is normally about two weeks a week before the event if there was anything in this video that i

Maybe didn’t answer that you were curious about to do with the teaming process please let me know in the comment section down below but i do hope that this has sort of added a little bit of clarity to it and sort of gives you an idea of how i do the event

Unfortunately i can’t just do a random name picker or number selection or pulling names or a hat because there’s so many different elements that go into the event and make it harder same as it’s not super fair to just attach player average scores to people there’s

So many elements that go into the event and i think doing this will hopefully give you all a bit of clarity of how complex the team making process actually is so if in the future maybe you see your faves aren’t on a team together or they are in a team together

Just remember the amount of work that’s kind of gone in the background to hopefully get a good interesting event but if you enjoyed the video remember to leave a like comment down below with any questions you have that i didn’t have to answer and

If there is any that i can i will answer down there or on my twitter at s major 195. remember to leave a like subscribe if you’re new to the channel and hit the notification bell so you do not miss a video and i will see you all next time Bye [Applause] is