The first annual MC Championship (MCC) Pride event aired on June 13, 2020, and the special version of the Minecraft tournament has returned every year since to raise money for the cause. MCC Pride 2023 is the fourth run of the charity-focused event and is bringing 10 teams to the Decision Dome to raise money for the LGBTQIA+ community through The Trevor Project.
In the MCC Pride 2023 update video, Noxcrew and Smajor shared that they have raised over 500,000 in total from all the past MCC Pride events. These events are all non-canon since they shift the focus from the competition itself to raising money for the cause.
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Usually, players scoring and placement in a regular MC event count toward their overall statistics and wins for the Minecraft tournament. But non-canon events like MCC Pride and MCC Scuffed exist outside of the regular scoring so players can focus on the theme or the special cause instead of winning or worrying about how the circumstances of the unique event will affect their overall ranking.
The MCC Pride 2023 event is bringing 10 teams to the Decision Dome to decide the order the games will be played, but the pool of games has already been pre-selected by Noxcrew and Smajor this time. Usually, players have a pool of games to choose from and get to vote on which ones end up being played, but all eight games were chosen ahead of time for MCC Pride 2023.
In this event, all competitors will play Big Sales at Build Mart, TGTTOSAWAF (Remix), Bingo But Fast, Ace Race, Sands of Time (Remix), Battle Box, Meltdown, and Parkour Tag. Players can’t skip any of these games, but the voting in the Decision Dome will determine the order they are played in.
The TGTTOSAWAF Remix is a rerun of last year’s MCC Pride 2022 version of the event and allows players to ride their way to the other side of any map by stacking on top of other participants. But players who don’t want competitors using them to get to the other side can crouch at any point to knock off all players riding their way to the finish line.
The other remix featured in MCC Pride is a brand new one that the Minecraft creator Antfrost, a regular MCC participant and one of the hunters in Dream’s Minecraft Manhunt series, suggested. This is the first-ever remix for Sands of Time, which is generally regarded as one of MCC’s most cryptic and dangerous games.
In this remix, players still need to collect sand to place in the timer at the center of the map while traversing through the many tricky puzzles scattered around the map for coins, but all sand is a different color and comes with a buff of some kind.
When players put the sand into the timer, the entire team will be struck with a special potion effect. Buffs include jump boost, increased speed, and fire resistance, but some sand chunks also have dangerous debuffs. This presents quite a challenge for players as they’ll need to navigate their need to keep the sand timer full, potentially applying many awful debuffs to the whole team.
MCC Pride 2023 is sure to be an action-packed and exciting event with many surprises in store, so viewers can keep up with it as it unfolds here.
All MCC Pride 2023 Scores
Here are the scores for the right minigames in the order players choose to play them in plus the final coin totals and the Dodgebolt finale results. These results will be updated as the event progresses.
Big Sales at Build Mart Scores
The game that kicked off the special MCC Pride 2023 event was Big Sales at Build Mart. This quick-paced game focuses on recreating specific builds as quickly as possible.
Players need to balance gathering the right materials with constructing the builds as fast as they can. All the materials players need are placed around a massive organized hub they can navigate using an Elytra, so competitors must gather assets before returning to their building room to construct the builds waiting for them there.
Big Sales at Build Mart Winner: Red Rabbits
First Place Overall: Red Rabbits
Bingo But Fast Scores
Minecraft meets Bingo in Bingo But Fast, the second game in MCC Pride 2023. This game was first introduced in MCC 6 and later left the roster in MCC 13 before making a grand return in MCC Scuffed.
Bingo But Fast seems to be back in rotation as a playable game since it has appeared twice in season three of MCC. In this game, players are given a Bingo card filled with items they need to find or craft from around an expansive Minecraft map.
Players are rewarded coins for how quickly they can successfully find the items, with all items only awarding points to the first few teams who successfully obtain them.
Bingo But Fast Winner: Red Rabbits
First Place Overall: Red Rabbits
TGTTOSAWAF Scores
The special remix of TGTTOSAWAF ran as the third minigame in MCC Pride 2023. Players need to work their way to the other side of a series of maps, usually six in total, and hit an NPC on the other side.
For the remix, players could stack on top of other players to try and ride their way to the other side. The player could crouch to clear all players stacking on them, though, so competitors had to deal with the possible risks and drawbacks of this system.
TGTTOSAWAF Winner: Aqua Axolotls
First Place Overall: Red Rabbits
Parkour Tag Scores
The Parkour-based game ran as MCC’s fourth minigame. Parkour Tag places every team in a battle against every other opposing team, where one player from each team hunts the three players who act as runners on the opposing team.
Each hunter aims to tag the three opponents as quickly as possible before the other hunter tags their team first. Players get coins for serving against the hunter or successfully hunting other competitors.
Parkour Tag Winner: Purple Pandas
First Place Overall: Red Rabbits
Ace Race Scores
As always, an audience poll on Twitter decided the fifth MCC game. Viewers get to help decide what happens next as the game they vote for the least is the one that ends up being played.
For the MCC Pride 2023 event, the four games viewers got to choose from were Sands of Time, Battle Box, Meltdown, and Ace Race. Ace Race received the fewest votes, so the competitors played it fifth.
In Ace Race, all players take part in a multi-lap race around a map packed with obstacles. Depending on the map, players may either need to complete three laps or four laps. Coins are awarded based on how quickly players can complete each lap.
Ace Race Winner: Purple Pandas
First Place Overall: Red Rabbits
Sands of Time Scores
The sixth game in MCC Pride 2023 was the special remix of Sands of Time. This is already one of the most complex, high-risk, high-reward minigames in all of MCC and the special remix added a new layer for players to manage.
In Sands of Time, all teams are placed in a massive dungeon filled with mobs and puzzles. At the center of this map, there’s a giant sand timer the competitors need to keep filled with sand, otherwise, they’ll lose everything and gain no coins at all.
Players can find sand all throughout the map but also will be faced with dangerous mobs and puzzles. Coins are also scattered around the map, so players must work to gather as many as they can. The remix added special buffs on some sand, but not all of these buffs were good, which made teams balance their need for sand with the deadly debuffs.
Sands of Time Winner: Orange Ocelots
First Place Overall: Orange Ocelots
Meltdown Scores
MCC Pride 2023’s second to last minigame was Meltdown, a battle royale style game where all players work their way inwards as the rooms melt behind them. All competitors are armed with only a frost bow and endless arrows to freeze foes.
Players can only eliminate other competitors by freezing them permanently. There are also coins scattered around the map and a ton at the very center of it. Meltdown takes place over three fast-paced rounds.
Meltdown Winner: Purple Pandas
First Place Overall: Orange Ocelots
Battle Box Scores
The final minigame in MCC Pride 2023 before the Dodgebolt duel was Battle Box. Battle Box is a PvP-centric game that takes place over nine rounds, placing every team in the tournament against every other team.
At the start of each round, every player must choose one of the available kits to enhance their skills. Kits vary with each map but might have potions or enchanted weapons. Players need to work with their team to eliminate the entire opposing team each round while also trying to fill in the center with their team color before the other team does.
Battle Box Winner: Pink Parrots
First Place Overall: Purple Pandas
Coin results
The top two teams that moved on to the Dodgebolt were chosen based on their final coin totals. Here are the full coin results for all 10 participating teams.
Dodgebolt results
The winner of the MCC Pride 2023 event was decided through a final Dodgebolt duel. This battle came down to the Purple Pandas and the Orange Ocelots.
Ultimately, the Purple Pandas claimed victory in the MCC Pride 2023 event with a score of 3-2. The final Dodgebolt duel was followed up with a Megabolt duel, including all 40 competitors for fun, and TapL was the last one standing in this special version of the duel.
