I Ruined a Minecraft Tournament…

– So I ruined a Minecraft tournament, and now everyone hates me. – No, that’s terrible. – Oh my God. – I can’t. – Stop. No. – I’m feeling bad. – No. – What is that? Bro, what is that? – I feel like I’m supposed to understand what this is. – What is this?

– And how’d this happen? Well, during a Minecraft event called Minecraft Saturdays, I teamed up with Failboat to make our mark on the competition, but neither of us can PVP. So, we had to get creative, and for better or worse, that did happen. So, let’s get to the bottom of how one joke,

Put us in the community’s cross hairs, and see some of the blow back while we’re at it. To put it lightly we weren’t exactly the best of the best in the competition. – People got like chainsaws over there. – Oh, you’re getting shot at! You’re getting shot at!

– From where? – I’m getting shot at. – Oh, people with punches. Nevermind. That’s more than a punch. – He has a diamond sword, he has an actual diamond sword. Oh, well, thanks for knocking me away. – I’ll survive as long as I can. No! I… That was not very long.

That was not very long. Warning! I can… I can bring them down from below. Yes! – Dan do you have fa… No! – No. – Dude we’re the first team elim… Ooh. Guys please. Guys please. – The water, get in it. Yes! Dude, the water I placed in my final moments. No!

– Oh no. No, my hubris. – And after getting smoked in every single other mini-game, we needed to make build battle count. Only problem with that is neither of us are exactly building extraordinaires. Which meant we needed to think outside of the box and fast. The theme is video games. – Video games?

– Okay. Let’s build a GameBoy. – Let’s draw a Fortnite dance. – I was gonna go with a GameBoy. – Hold on, no. But like what if we actually build someone Fortnite dancing? I think we need the border… Border the grounds between meme and perfection. – Okay. [Chuckles]

How do we make a Fortnite dance meme? – Okay. We gotta start with the legs, we’re building up. – Okay, what are we building it out of, sandstone? – Um, um, sandstone. We’re going with like a, like a skin tone kinda thing here.

– Build all the way up. – I’m just gonna place some blocks and then we can kind of sculpt this later. – Yeah yeah yeah. Okay, okay. I don’t know what we made, it’s a new type of dinosaur. – This is so gross. [Laughs] – Who is doing this dance, it’s powerful.

– I don’t know how to build a head. Can we give them the yellow headband? Can we give them like Ninja hair? [Weezing Laugh] – It’s coming together dude. We’re in it, we’re so in this! Hold… I need leaves. I need leaves! – Leaves? – I need to cover it up.

– It’s a statue, ask Ninja. [Uncontrollable Laughter] – It’s like Adam and Eve. – I’m a ninja. [Laughing] Oh my God. – There we go, there we go. Okay okay, We can’t have that exposed. Okay okay, what we have to do when it’s our turn

We have to go to the hand and start default dancing. – Okay. [Fast Paced Music Playing] – Ninja, you know what, is okay, it’s just okay. – Ninja?! Video game? – Dude, Ninja gamer! – Dude Ninja gamer. – What is this? Ninja? No, that’s terrible. – Ninja. No.

– It’s just… – What has happened. Why is he in a thong? – But he’s like strangling an invisible person. – Uh, Ninja. What? – Is Ninja video games? That’s actually kind of, you know what? – No Ni… that was literally… Ninja was a theme for a past one.

They just built Ninja again. That’s bad. No. – Okay, that’s something I should touch on. See, Failboat and I joined the fray when the event came back at the beginning of 2020. But there had been some earlier tournaments back in 19. And completely unbeknownst to us, one of those earlier build battles

Literally had a Ninja theme. So without even knowing it we were keeping that dream alive. And that definitely influenced some of the reactions we got from the rest of the bunch. Now, if we’d left it there there wouldn’t have been much to say. But I’m not the kind of person to

Throw away a joke and let it sink. Over here, the captain goes down with the ship. We were just getting ready to hit our iceberg. That next week we got invited back for a second event and I was looking for ways to flip the whole thing on its head.

For one, we took on this event without textures, because I’m kind of a sucker for challenges. And two, before we could even think of a superhero to build, I already let my stupidity take the wheel. Superheroes. Okay. – Superheroes! – Ninja? [Laughing] – Then build the same thing.

– But just with the Cape. – Dude, that… Oh come on, come on. – Let’s do it. Maybe people will respect it. – Yeah. Eventually it’ll give us a “W” I promise. – Can we give him a mixer cape? – If you want to try and color coordinate that

You’re more than welcome to. Is his body coming together? Yeah! – Definitely looking a little bit different than how it usually works. – He’s a little, he’s a little stumpier. – I am building… I’m giving him some, like, lanky arms from the DK rap. – Okay, the arms that you built last time

Were really, really good. I liked how you did it last time. I’m losing my vision dude, I feel like… I feel like I was a better Ninja builder with textures. Oh shoot, I can’t build up Ninjas hair as much this ti… It’s fine. – He’s gonna have a crew cut today.

I’m going to, while you’re focusing on the top, I’m going to build the cape or are you working on that? – Okay, we’re starting to do it with cyan clay right, right here. – Cyan clay? Oh I see you, I see you, I see you. Here, I’m going to wrap around.

– Okay. – Okay. Wait, cyan stained clay? Oh, I see, you made the little neck part. Here I’m going to tie it around his neck. – Oh, like his mommy. [Both Laughing] – Here you go Ninja, awww. Ten seconds, finish up this cape. – We have ten seconds left? Oh my gosh.

– Yeah time goes by. – Wait should we give him like a mask? – Oh the cape! I got him, I got him. – Done. – Okay, here we go. – It’s Ninja, I gave it terrible. – Alright I’m giving it terrible. – I’m sorry. – The Blev? – Wait is this Ninja?

– It’s Ninja? – What is this? Why does he only have one eyeball? – Uh, I mean it looks cool. – It looks cool, I feel like I saw this last week. – Oh what, this is the same thing they did last week. – This is the Blev. – Terrible.

– This is the exact same thing, you’re so right. Someone did this exact same thing. – Yeah, it was the first. – With a cape. Cool. – Oh, this is Ninja fortnight. Bad. Bad mixer, bad. – Oh no, this is karate kid. – It’s Ninja again. – It’s Ninja again.

It’s probably the same guys who built it too. – They did the same thing last week. – Oh my goodness, dude. It really is. – Oh, it’s Ninja. – Oh my God. Stop. No, no. – What is that? – This is okay I guess, I don’t even know. – Bro what is that?

– Is this super Ninja in a, like a hula hoop thing? – What is that? – And again, the meme strategy hadn’t panned out, which honestly made me think it was time to leave it there, call it a day and put that in the books. Until I got this notification on Twitter

And my whole perspective switched. Just watching Minecraft Saturdays and watched Mithzan and YourPalRoss’ reaction to Failboat and Skipthetweets’ build and they said, and I quote, stop doing Ninja. When folks, after hearing those words, there was no way we could back down from the cause.

And when I heard that our third time in the event would also be the last for Minecraft Saturdays, both Dan and I knew exactly what had to be done. Fast forward to that last week, And Dan and I came to play. Not only did we have our blue haired

Blueprints for the build battle, but we also brought our mad lad skills to the other events. You see if the point of hunger games is to be aggressive, we were just going to cower in fear. I lost you again. How are we so bad? – I’m behind a tree.

I’m hiding myself behind a tree, the big tree. Next to a big tree. Hey. – Yeah, I see ya. – Okay. – I should have gone with a more of a camouflage skin. – Yeah right. – Oh no. [Gasp] – Dude, people don’t notice you. People don’t notice you. – Dude, let’s go.

Oh God. – They’re coming from the other side. [Honk] No, no. – And if the point of dual spleef is to stay on top, we were going to fall right to the bottom. Not once, – Some space real quick. – There we go. – Oh no!

– No problem. No problem, okay – No, oh no. It is a big problem. That’s a big problem. – but twice. Oh, we’ve gotten hits on them. – We fell, we fell. I had nothing below me. I had nothing below me the entire way down.

– Because here we don’t play games the right way and that definitely came through in the build battles. Sports! – Sports! – E-sports! Ninja! – I’m sorry, I’m making this… I gave him a very… a very wide gate. Hold on, give me a second. I’m… I’m building it back in.

– This is looking like Ninja, I mean in the… in the times that I’ve studied Ninja Blevins, this is… this is pretty close. – Puts a focus on the legs. A little bit of a slimmer, more compact build. – Yeah, he’s been, he’s been training. I’m so nervous dude, I just, I…

When Mr. Blevins sees this, I want him to be proud. – I’m… I’m… I’m converting into a basketball, something more in my own territory. – Can I just write ball in big letters at the bottom? – Maybe. – Ball. – Dude, why is there a Ninja every time? – Ball. – The Blevin?

– I don’t get it dude. – I’m giving this a bad, I’m sorry. – Are people still doing like Tyler Ninja Blevins? – It’s Ninja. – We’re here again. – With a ball. Angel of Fortnite with ball. – It just says ball. – It’s Ninja. – Is that Ninja? – It’s Ninja.

Ball. It just says ball. – I’ve seen this every week. I’ll give it an okay. – Oh it’s, it’s Ninja. – Is it really? – Yeah, look at the… look at the [Laughing] – Oh, I see, but like what is he wearing? – Ninja! Nothing! – Ninja! Let’s go. – Blevin?

Tyler Blevins is my legendary vote. I liked that. – What I will say is that of all the reactions that we got across every single event, time number three definitely skewed the most positive. – Ball. – Ball. – Oh that… I like that. Oh it’s Ninja as well. – Oh, it’s Ninja?

– I’ve given that legendary. – Admittedly, not exactly everyone was in love with it. – They drew, oh [Honk Noise] off dude. I don’t know what [Honk Noise] morons keep making the same thing each time but… – Who is this? Is this Ninja?

– It’s Ninja. It’s meant to be Ninja playing basketball now. – Oh, I gave it a bad. – But looking back at it, I’m glad we did it. I mean, I’m probably not invited to any future Minecraft meetups but I do have a copy of the Blevin to keep myself company.

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