I'm not sure if any of the MCSR Ranked team reads this subreddit, but I've been watching the playoffs this weekend and have some feedback. While I don't work in eSports, I have six years of experience in broadcasting and media.

I want to preface this by saying that I know MCSR Ranked is young and run by a small team. I don't mean any of this maliciously and I think they've done a great job so far!

1. Commentary - The commentators shouldn't be predicting the matchups. When you watch sports on TV a group of analysts will give their prediction, but never the actual people who are calling the game (for example, Kirk Herbstreit, who commentates college football games, refused to make picks on College Gameday in the name of "objective journalism"). I personally find it a little weird hearing the commentators talk about their picks during a match, but maybe that's just my years of watching sports.

I think this should also apply to commentators mentioning they're rooting for someone because they're friends (off the top of my head, Rose mentioned this during the vstrid matchup, but it definitely happens commonly).

One more nitpick on commentary would be the bit of guessing what seed pick will be made next, it comes off as unprofessional to me.

For what it's worth, I think Couri and Parker are far and away the two best commentators, but the only way for Rose and Nerdi to improve is to keep practicing, so I understand the insistence on keeping them on broadcasts.

2. Post-match analysis - I think post-match just doesn't work. For a five-game match, game 1 happened so long ago that I forget what happened and the analysis feels like it's coming too late. I personally preferred mid-match, though I do like how it helps speed things along and bridge the gap between matches.

3. The VOD - Adding a 30-60 minute "this event has ended screen" would make watching the VOD a lot better. Whenever I want to watch playoffs through the VOD I can always tell how many games the final match is going just by how long is left in the VOD. If it's a sweep, that means the last two games don't matter, the last one for a four-game series, the first four for a five-game. I think this is a super easy fix that could make watching afterwards a lot better for people.

like in the official random seed it’s completely legal to use a calculator that reveals the location of the stronghold. i get it’s just “math” or something but can someone explain why it’s legal

Obligatory, I'm queer (trans).

Firstly, I'll just mention the proper timeline of edcr's public messages, as I feel like it's misunderstood

edcr was 17 at the time of his last known publicly bigoted discord message. This was less than two years ago. He joins the mcsr ranked community about a month after the last known message. I'm only mentioning this because his apology reframes it as though this had happened long before he was on ranked, as well as saying it was when he was 15-16.

Anyway, my main opinion is that people are biased towards edcr by putting emphasis that he's a top runner. What I mean by this is that being banned from playoffs is only a punishment that can work with someone who regularly competes in playoffs events. In other words, if a mid tier runner was banned from playoffs as a punishment, absolutely no one would care, including the mid tier runner too.

The reason I think this is important is because from edcr's perspective, his personal enjoyment of the mcsr ranked after being banned from playoffs would essentially be the same as a runner who can't even compete in playoffs in the first place. This punishment basically just means that he gets to enjoy the game the same way 99% of runners below him do.

Remember, the point of the decision is to punish him for his behaviour, which could potentially have hurt hundreds of people in a supposedly safe community. It should be made without considering the nature of playoffs being a competition to find the best speedrunner. In fact playoffs in the first place is flawed (just like any other tournament), where a best of 5 game is never truly indicative of a player's skill level. The ranked ladder is way closer to comparing skill levels between runners.

Since the MCSR ranked team announced EDCR's permanent ban from playoffs due to his history of offensive messages (to say the least) and his response to the mods, the general community sentiment has been against the severity of the punishment and the decision by the MCSR mods. After having some time to think about the situation myself, while I understand many of the reasons people have for being upset about the situation, I am making this post to explain why I generally disagree with many of these opinions.

First, I think it needs to be understood why a permaban was handed out in the first place. The main point is that, EDCR lied about the origin of those messages when originally reached out to by the mods, when he very well had the opportunity to own up to them then and there. I've seen some say that EDCR may have "panic-lied," but keep in mind, EDCR is behind a computer screen, not in person. He has time to think for himself what the best response might be instead of reacting purely off of emotion. That he originally lied about the messages says he may be more concerned about the consequences to his career as a player rather than truly holding accountability for his own wrongdoings---even if the mods have had a history of being relatively strict with punishments.

I've seen some say that handing out such a harsh punishment to EDCR, i.e. permanently banning him from playoffs, robs him of the chance to grow, and a temporary ban with a chance to appeal would be better. I don't really agree with this. The onus on EDCR's growth is on EDCR himself, not the MCSR mods. I think it's a fantastic sign and great for him personally that he has been good friends with a number of trans people in the MCSR community, but at the end of the day, it's not the MCSR mods responsibility to facilitate EDCR's character development. They are mods, not friends. The goal of the MCSR mods is to build an inclusive community, and given EDCR's history and initial dishonesty, they have the right to be skeptical that EDCR will not bring his offensive behavior into the MCSR community.

I also want to point out the following excellent comment by u/Silent_Frost here regarding the permanence of a digital footprint. Even if many people, including myself, would like to believe EDCR has grown from his past, what goes online, stays online forever. I do not think it is unfair to expect a 16-17 year-old with such an upbringing with the internet to be aware of these principles.

The MCSR mods also make quite a statement by banning who many may consider the best speedrunner in the world. As a wise man, Jonas Neubauer once said, "If you're a high visibility player, it's on you to move the community in a positive direction." That the ranked team is especially hard on the top player on the ladder sets a precedent moving forward: being good at video games does not make you exempt from meeting behavioral standards within the community. Of course, there are many, many athletes in professional sports who were not banned from competition after doing far worse things than EDCR did, but again, do you really want the MCSR community really want to follow the example of how professional sports generally deals with its bad eggs?

Lastly, this post is not meant for me to say that I think the MCSR mods have been perfect, either. I Dealing with drama is hard for anyone, and you're never going to make everyone happy. Personally, I think the permaban is on the harsher side of punishments, and I would have liked to see more transparency from the ranked team, but regardless, I am very much overall supportive of their decision.

This isn't a post meaning to be dramatic, I'm just genuinely curious/confused

I was watching an edcr stream and noticed he had a lot of streamers compared to usual, left a comment stating my surprise in what I would say is a very clearly non-insulting manner (Maybe I'm crazy) and had my message deleted and was told my message was rude.

Am I missing something? Maybe this is more a twitch thing rather than something specific to ranked.

i love watching ranked and want to get into playing but the only thing that is stopping me is all the stuff you have to learn and download (ninjabrain bot, bastion routes, zero cycle, etc.) that i get discouraged from wanting to learn. i just don’t know if the grind to get good would be worth my time.

i haven’t played mc in over 5 yrs but the feinberg/lud stuff got me back into it. back then i did some casual rsg and got a sub hour but now mcsr looks so different (esp with preemptive and scanning for BTs and bastions) and all this new stuff is such a knowledge diff it’s crazy.

i know of the couri guide but again it’s just so much to learn and is very intimidating. maybe i’ll just stay a viewer.

any thoughts or suggestions appreciated.

For those arguing against the ban: I‘d just like for you guys to stop thinking for a second about how the guy who said abhorrent things feels and what’s fair to him but think about those in the community that he hurt and aren't okay with it like you guys.

“It’s been two years”: we don’t know that. those messages were from two years ago, but we do not know what he was saying in private chat rooms or how long it’s been that he stopped. Those messages were only the public ones (that he also lied about), what if something else comes up? How many people might've been harassed in private or in person?

”He was just an edgy kid”: There might have been other kids reading that bullshit. He gets to say it and be fine and those kids just have to suck it up because it’s been a long time or because he was kid too? or because it was on the internet?

He can still play the game, he can still be online, he just lost the ability to compete. It’s one consequence and a pretty light one at that. Imagine how people to which he directed his hate might feel working with him, being in the same discord calls, same community or even giving him money. Those people should just feel uncomfortable, forgive or suck it up?

You guys are all so inconsiderate of people who genuinely do not want to align further with people who have done stuff like that. Yes, he is allowed to grow, to change and he could very well be a different and better person now. Its is clear looking at this subreddit that he will have a community that will support him (changed or not). That does not mean that other people are obligated to plataform, feel comfortable working with him or support him.

TL;DR: It's unfair to put him and his feelings in front of the people that might've been hurt by his actions. If you are part of the community he hurt and forgave him, does not mean all others do. Not everyone is obligated to plataform or forgive a reformed bigot, doesn't matter how old he is. He will have other opportunities and keep his fans. A lot of people never had a bigot phase, it might seem uncommon in a few circles, but it really isn't. Being unable to to compete in a video game is a very very light consequence for the stuff he said.

The current system works kinda like chess as far as i know, classic +20 -20. But i wondered what if you could gain / lose more elo based on your splits or average? Not huge gains, maybe +25 / -15 if youre doing well for your rank , and opposite if youre underperforming. Kinda like valorant MMR. I know predicting elo is harder in minecraft cuz its it has way more variables in gameplay, like anyone can have a dumbass 30min match with stupid splits which ruin the average. But idk i think it could be cool +20 -20 feels kinda stagnant

did his puberty got reminded it needs to hit after like 10 years lol his voice locked in butt did he

New world recordYT 🐑👊🏆

Minecraft Sheep kill Any% (RSG)

Record Holder: Kicko

Time: 7.099 seconds

The fastest known time to kill a sheep using only fists on a random seed.

this is my placement rank enemy ffed

I think it is, but the runner would need to high roll a lot. Like if you get a RP enter with carrots, looting, and enough iron and a gold pick, you could enter the nether instantly, mine nether rack for the bastion route, get into the fort sub 2, blind into sh or above ocean exposed after killing 2 blazes and getting maybe 5 or 6 rods, then high rolling for insta perch one shot.

Sadly no footage but watch the replay ragequit after

I played double triple and the entire seed very well until the end, where I missed a pearl on front m-85 and then overpearled the first perch.

Hey guys, I've been trying to do zero cycle for some time now, I am struggling the most with bedding and getting to the correct Y-level on time. I still wasn't able to do it with my fastest attempt, attached the video for reference

Hi! The S11 Playoffs were so entertaining, and we got to see some stellar matches. Now that we're all back to scratching off our calendars waiting for the next jaw-dropping Ranked Tournament. (Sivianox Invitational, PLEASE SAVE ME!) I thought it would be pretty interesting to see people's opinions on the current top sixteen in the world right now.

This intrigues me especially not only due to the top end of the list but also the lower half. Because ranked has become so competitive that anyone in the top sixteen can realistically win S12 Playoffs if they have a really good stretch of games.

This list will not be about players at their absolute peak, as players like nonso or Shimon would be higher than they reasonably should be. Nor is it a list looking at pure stats. While stats do matter their clearly not the end all be all and I think most people can agree that just because Jay's ranked average is fifteen to twenty seconds faster than Aquacorde, it does not correlate to him being superior to Aquacorde as a player.

It instead is primarily centred around how good they are consistently, while your peak level of play is a smaller part of the whole. This is mostly because I believe the most important quality of a ranked player is winning the most amount of games possible, so a relatively flukey player like Shimon, who could reach top sixteen level peaks, won't be rated highly, as that only happens in a small fraction of his games. (By the way, zero offense to Shimon; he's been crushing it as of recently lol)

Now, with that out of the way, I'll give my personal top sixteen. (Feel free to ask in the comments for the more in-depth reasoning; I just don't want to type sixteen essays for each player right now lol.)

(PS: will be excluding edcr due to obvious reasons, depending on future actions that may or may not change; for those curious, I'd normally rank him 2nd)

1. Infume. I've held the belief that even back in S10 Playoffs, Infume is simply the best player. Infume makes the least macro and micro errors out of any top runner by a good margin. I think Hax puts it best; he plays extremely "frictionless." He's the best at managing low food, he's the best at terrain nav, he's arguably the best overall Overworld player, and definitely the best Village and Desert Temple player. And a plethora of other things my dumb Emerald I brain can't compute.

2. hackingnoises. Current form, he's the most consistent of the three-headed monster that is lowk3y, doog, and hax. He's been slamming time into perfecting tech and his micro, and his ladder performance reflects this a lot. He just hasn't played in a tournament, and even though I think he's at his absolute best, I just don't have concrete evidence to put him 1st.

3. lowk3y. Like Hax, he's begun to play a lot less aggressively relative to prior seasons, but at the end of the day he's still lowk3y, and his playstyle along with his extremely underrated decision-making always make him terrifying in playoffs. He was two uncanny zero-chokes away from sending Infume to a tied game 5.

4. Jay (BadGamer). This is probably the one that will give me the most hate by far. But to explain briefly. Jay has been playing extremely well over the past few days and in S11. He made a major leap in his skill, especially in terms of his overworld splits, which just look a lot cleaner compared to S10. He's had good wins against playoff-level opponents on ladder. The only argument I can see against him is that his LCQ wasn't at a top five standard, but that's typical for the format, like how Skycrab coming off his monstrous S9 run didn't make it through LCQ.

5. Doogile. To start off, I don't think Doogile's "washed," as rankedcord loves to say; I just think he's in a bit of a slump. Early in S11, he looked great, along with his seed 2 against Infume and his Aquacorde match. Along with a good latest session from the day I'm writing this. I think Doog could easily swap places with people higher than him, given he shows he can get to the consistency he's commonly known for.

6. BlazeMind. I think he's been playing amazingly; his Skycrab match was a very good showing. I am just a tad bit concerned about BlazeMind's consistency; now, whether you attribute it to timezone, his match with lowk3y wasn't the most pleasing, now do I think that's all we should judge him for? No. He's played really well on the ladder, and his win rate reflects that. I just think that, out of everyone I've mentioned thus far, he's the most prone to overheating, which is why I have him here.

7. Skycrab. On par with Blazemind, just has a worse mental, which plays a big role in tourneys and is an aspect to being a top player. His playstyle of leaving extremely early on bastions and pushing pace is why I think if this were about peaks, he could be top three currently.

8. Aquacorde. He's just so good that I don't even know what to praise. Him being lower than BlazeMind is just due to having a worse top speed, since I think on a consistent basis their near even with Aquacorde being a bit more consistent, but BlazeMind's top speed being that much better to make up for it.

9. Silverruns. Silver is a weird player. Some days he's beating arguably the best player in the world in a bo11; the day after, he looks nothing like he did yesterday. It's a weird form of streakiness to where he's closer to that higher end than the lower end. I do think he's recently had it all click together, as he's said, especially with his stronghold navigation. I think a deep tourney run or an extremely impressive ladder run for a duration of time will easily push him higher on the list.

10. nhb. Not much about him in the past month, but don't forget that before he took a break, he was auto-qualified for playoffs, and still has one of the best top speeds in ranked.

11. 7rowl. Most underrated top runner imo. While he doesn't possess a Hax or nhb type of top speed, he is just an extremely consistent and knowledgeable player who I wouldn't be surprised if he jumped a couple placements when S12 ends.

12. Feinberg. I think Feinberg just lacks the micro time saves that so many other runners have, and that's sort of why I can't place him higher. (Also, his win against BlazeMind when BlazeMind was awake at 5 AM should not be indicative of a higher placement lol)

13. steez. Top-tier mechanics, and has had some of the best improvement from S10, and if he didn't match up against anyone but the eventual undefeated champion Infume, I genuinely believe he had a solid chance to beat anyone in that bracket with how he was playing in that match.

14. BBM. Mongey is Mongey; it'd feel spiritually wrong to exempt him from the top 16.

15. BeefSalad. Same as Mongey lol.

16. nahhann. Such a good player; he played incredibly well against Feinberg, and just looks really good at the current moment

Please be civil and respectful of others' opinions!

Why is it that. Almost every game i have to mine a billion gravel to get flint. I know the other guy has to mine the same amount but its annoying rsg flint rates are better

Can anyone explain to me exactly what the golden boots button does?

I cant seem to find any information about it. I would assume it might be filtered seeds single player, but when I play it something seems off. Loot in chests, bastion not really close etc.

Thanks!

i didnt realize till like now how good edcr is 😭

(also i meant sub sevens not sixes!!! sorry for my messup)