The Rise, Fall, and End of Minecraft Monday - A Documentary about Keemstar's Minecraft Tournament

Minecraft Monday was one of the most influential weekly esports events of all time, sparking widespread memes across the internet and causing channels to reach one million subscribers. Hosted by a

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, host of the Internet news show Dramaalert, the event brought together some of the Internet's biggest personalities to compete. cash mr. beast James Charles PewDiePie big ninja from and TDM CaptainSparklez, whatever, the event caused a lot of drama at the time, but it also brought a lot of people together after 14 weeks of competition, the event has practically come to an end, it will be a crime to forget about this

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and its impact, so today I will talk about the history of Minecraft.

Monday 20-19 has been a pretty interesting year to say the least, it started in a sort of strange state, big means our big dodgy arena. mafia city, the most popular game is fortnight, most of the internet's attention was focused on the most influential internet war to date, the Beauty Pie vs T series, if you never heard of it, you had to live under a rock, this was a widespread internet campaign to ensure that the most subscribed youtuber is not surpassed in subscribers by the indian record company t-series. Every YouTube data analyst expected the t-series to surpass PewDiePie at the end of October 2018, but then something unexpected happened, Mr.

Beast uploaded a video on October 26, 2018 where he bought many ads in his hometown, all of these ads were to promote PewDiePie, although these ads themselves probably didn't have much of an impact on the people who encountered them in real life, they served to a major. purpose for mr. beast to encourage fans to subscribe to PewDiePie like crazy, this trend occurred and inspired many of the biggest content creators of the time to have their fans come out and support PewDiePie content creators like Markiplier Logan Paul and many more, however, there is no trend. can last forever every internet trend must at some point come to an end by February it was becoming increasingly clear that the end was near PewDiePie needed to do something and quickly that's when he decided to live stream the holy trinity of children's games Roblox biweekly then Minecraft, this helped PewDiePie stay afloat for a short period of time in the short term race.

PewDiePie's livestream was just another livestream, it only put a dent in Minecraft's popularity, but this event was also the first wave of one of the biggest 20 19s. Minecraft nostalgia phenomenon, people who haven't cared about Minecraft for years were suddenly reintroduced to the game, even if during the short period of time of PewDiePie's livestream, this first wave was very minuscule in comparison. with what would come in April 2019, the great crab war. was eventually captured, there were many reasons for this, one of the biggest being Felix's unwanted association with the March shooting in New Zealand, the internet's obsession with war came to an end while all this was going on, Minecraft returning in the background and one The man seemed to take note.

Keemstar announced the creation of a weekly bi-weekly

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on March 7, 2018. This was a massive event in collaboration with umj studio where big YouTubers and streamers would come together and compete for a cash prize on May 6. He made an announcement on Twitter. About when everyone can find out the details of the events not before a long time passed, Friday Fortnight became a staple event not only in the Fortnight community but also throughout the Internet when the event went into full swing Teamster dropped a fake event prank on July 12, 2018. What was this fake prank event called Minecraft Monday?

In the Commons tweets there were people who really wanted this to become a real event. Keemstar noticed and made an announcement that if his tweet reached 5,000 retweets, Minecraft Monday would become a real event in the Over the course of 3 hours, the tweet reached over 6,000 retweets, however, it doesn't seem like anything really came out of this and Minecraft Monday remained a fake event made up as a joke, some of the truckers followers kept telling him to actually make money with Minecraft. something real: in fact he responded in a tweet on April 3 of this year. Keemstar said: I don't know why you keep asking me to do Minecraft on Mondays, but I know if I did a Hunger Games tournament it wouldn't work much anymore. grew out of this, but eventually attracted the attention of some YouTubers.

On June 11,

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posted a tweet to get an idea of ​​how many people really wanted Minecraft Monday to be a thing this week, and it became hugely popular and racked up over 23,000 retweets just one day later. announced that Minecraft on Monday was finally going to be a real event. Keemstar was now looking for who to invite to his Minecraft home gaming tournament. He reached out to numerous top YouTubers that he had contact with and even tried to find YouTubers that were popular. Five years ago, while a few decent-sized YouTube channels expressed interest in hopes of being invited to the first Minecraft Monday that would begin on June 24, just 13 days after it was declared a real event, Keemstar continued to look for participants who They will need 10 more. players four days early due to interest, it wasn't long before he decided to expand the number of participants.

Teamster had some trouble finding a sponsor, a Minecraft server scanned it, but then G Fuel stepped in and sponsored $10,000, which meant the people on the winning team had the ability to win $5,000 each, a huge sum of money. for playing Minecraft. The list at that time was released on June 22. Later that day, the star of the game made a big announcement that Ninja, the big streamer fortnight, would be participating. Who would be part of the team? with Mister Beast an hour before the event, the full list was released to the public, the event was being promoted, millions of people were eager to see it and many big youtubers and streamers were ready to play, nothing could spoil the moment, right wrong, not only was it a the start was delayed but the first round was broken that's to keep our sky in alcohol on the left there go right what's good the problem was solved but it also showed that the Team Stars event was far from being perfect yet everyone was interested in the idea of ​​an event where sky do MINECRAFT goes head to head against mr. beast while running away from Skippy the first week was a success, not everything was perfect with the ninja Midway but there were no major complaints of drama, in fact, if anything, this event drew attention to a certain pig from Minecraft II throughout the first During the week, people and streamers Jets warned participants about techno blade at the beginning, players didn't really seem to take this too seriously, jeff, we should, we should, we should be careful with Lee, who do you know what a great Do you know about the Hunger Games?

I feel like a lot of people say scat be inside no blade well literally everyone says techno yeah techno or big. I'm afraid, yes, no, this is our plan to be fair. techno blade wasn't the greatest, for example, by any means. He had around 600,000 subscribers, a far cry from the numbers others had, like Vic, star of skydoes

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techno blade, was well known within the PDP and high pixel communities, but didn't have much name recognition beyond PvP for those. players against unknown players or known players. fighting each other and High Pixel is the biggest Minecraft by dominating the first week, the viewers of all the other streamers suddenly became interested in technical searches for technical peaks, while in the first week Techno Blade had an audience of about 10,000 on any moment.

By the time its audience skyrocketed to over 60,000 in the weeks that followed, Minecraft Monday was a perfect storm for technically gaining attention, not only that, but this week it also produced a meme that quickly spread across the internet. Call me Carson from SMP Live went to open a chest, but it ended up being a trap call me Carson's reaction spread across the Internet with the addition of Joe from Family Guy added to the background at the end, the winning team was technically and shotgun raids in At this point, Keemstar announced that an official public server was going to be released on July 1st.

One of the main complaints about the event was that the team's rebounding wasn't really fair. Some teams had two very experienced people, while others had people who had just downloaded the game. Keemstar decided to separate. top five teams of the first week these people now had to find new teammates techno blades shows his friend tap to play however keemstar kicked out apple for being a

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player and gave techno an hour to find a new techno teammate then chose iballisticsquid which was a bit of a controversial choice after all, Squid, although not a full Minecraft channel at the time, had a lot of experience in Minecraft, but even more controversy was allowed to come from Pizza Hut , another of the players who had to find a new teammate.

The first week was Minecraft Monday's honeymoon period, where everyone was excited that a group of big YouTubers were competing against each other, however, everyone also ignored the fact that the host was Keemstar, a figure who received a lot of backlash in the past for things he did and said Pizza Hut didn't want to win at an event associated with him. He also decided to publish a video describing his thoughts. I will not be participating in any future My Craft Monday tournaments and have also removed my viewpoint from my Minecraft Monday tournament. of YouTube and twitch, the mistake that I am referring to something that I broke, would you call it responsibility on YouTube as a social media influencer?

I have always said from the beginning that I will only accept deals from people I trust and have to have. some kind of mutual trust and respect for the person, as well as knowing that his intentions are the best for my viewers and that's something I don't think the organizer of my Monday craft is keemstar. I don't think keemstar has good intentions for his audience or mine. I don't think keemstar is a good role model or influencer on any social media platform he's a part of, and frankly, I don't believe in almost anything he does. Our points of view are completely contradictory.

I've done a lot in the past and it was my fault for entering a tournament without realizing who I was promoting. I think I was in a kind of romance period, a kind of butterfly phase where everything seemed peaches and rainbows that I was invited to. this wonderful deal that seemed like the epitome of my career, but as an excuse my actions audited my responsibility to recognize my mistake, so again I'm sorry, needless to say, the star of the game was not happy that the two of them got into a back. Over and over again on Twitter, where Keemstar insisted that Pete was kicked out for not finding a teammate and was angry that this drama didn't persist for that long, but it also served as a reminder that the host isn't the most beloved.

On a more positive note, the big news of the week was that a certain team of big YouTubers, PewDiePie, with James Charles, all went after them in hopes of using him as clickbait to get views. James Charles would continue to play in the event every week, while PDP never played. again, the winning team was iballisticsquid and technically again people were very upset that they were allowed to team up, so from that point on, Techno Blades' teammates were always scrutinized to make sure they didn't even know how jump in minecraft. That's aya purply, but you get the point that balanced teams techno blade paired with chris for mr.

Beast in the next week, move on, remember how I talked about the public servant earlier. I guess the enthusiastic gentleman announced that there will be ranks soon. People who purchase these ranks on the server will have the opportunity to join the event as fans, this announcement was. It wasn't a big deal right away, but it would have an impact on the tournament. Week 3 saw perhaps the biggest change in Minecraft Monday history. There would now be multiple different minigames. There were viewers who were upset that by having 10 rounds of the hunger games, people good at PvP like Techno Blade and Vic Star would always dominate the entire event now that there were games like bingo and find the button, this didn't stop Techno Lead from dominating the event, but having Chris as a Minecraft player as a teammate meant that he would have a difficult time leading his team to first place in the end, the winners were soup CS and super trebs.

Week 4 is perhaps best described.for the great controversy of the week. Minecraft Monday has been trying a bit to balance the teams, but they never quite got it right. He looked at the players so much that it became obvious when he touched and he was sent off just an hour before Week 2. That's when that big star pitched an idea. You see a big Minecraft YouTuber who hasn't played in the event up to this point and was pushed into his place. While Preston tended to focus solely on Minecraft videos of late, E branched out into a fortnight of Roblox and real-life videos within the Minecraft community.

Preston has a reputation for being good at the game, but people outside of it don't really know that at least until they see it. In this video, Nick Start told the people in charge to add Preston as his teammate, calling him rusty and insisting that Preston used to be good at the game, but not anymore. This upset all the serious contestants, they didn't get angry because it's just a game, as expected, the Nick and Preston star. won as expected, the idiots are impressed and we are divided next, in week five, there was a new kid on the block, you see, as I mentioned above, people who bought ranks on the Minecraft Monday server got the chance to compete in the real world.

This week, the team of randoms, as they are known, consisted of a player and a man with fire breath. The fire-breathing man took everyone by surp

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and people referred to him as the new one. Technically, he was the hands-down dominant player of all the random players I've participated in, he is by far the most memorable wildfire breath man. He was dominating. There was a certain team that was finally in a good position to beat Skippy and Bad Boy Halo for the past few weeks they have been chasing first place, now it was their time to shine as long as they could overcome randoms after a very close week.

The winners ended up being asked for epi and bad boy halo, as is usual in this tournament, the week was not without controversy, you see, the techno blades teammate called me Carson, call me. Carson was trying to make a joke that he would team-kill techno blade for the greater good of all the other competitors, but the joke wasn't that well executed and people actually believed it. He tried it too, where he just talked technically to the soundboard, but a lot of techno blades fans don't like it either. that joke don't give them any reason hello are you ready to win TNT run yeah I'm ready to win video games they're fine they changed they changed TNT run in week four I don't know how but those blocks disappear?

It was before, so hold down space fire all the time, never let go, okay, never let go, sure, I'm glad we can come to an understanding, yeah, this is a good word, no, no, hey , techno blade, oh god, the second boards have been set up, no, these are all of them. easy answers to stop you from calling me embarrassing excellent, this is how i record my word videos. I only have like eight memes that I can't think of new jokes for, so I just repeat them. It's all soundboard chat. Everything is a sounding board. It sure sounds good.

Sure Carson, this is really awkward, all my viewers are going to leave, these are all easy answers, hard question, you have to choose the content, please, it sounds good. I'm just going to go deaf. and after tea and tea I can't, I can't do this, welcome guys to another solo comment. I do not know what is happening. Man Sect Weed continued playing the tournament in a solo commentary. Carson was hanging around another voice chat and received a lot of negative reactions from another streamer's viewers at the tournament xqc Carson received a lot of hate and finally decided to leave mid-tournament after chatting afterwards, techno blades said that Carson didn't really seem to care, still, it was a great conversation among fans of Minecraft Monday in other news of the week captive Wade won all three rounds of TNT starting a winning streak that many people would pay attention to, many non-technical fans were upset that Techno Blades was too much good at all the minigames, although Mr.

Enthusiast decided to add construction battle the following week, construction battle is not necessarily the most competitive game, but technically enthusiast was told that he wasn't good at building, so yeah, that's how They decided to balance everything out, week six saw the one-time appearance of another notable integrator, Jaden Animations who partnered with AI, has an earthquake in the cup, other than that the week was relatively uneventful. Techno Blade continued his winning streak on TNT, expanding it to six wins in a row, not only that, but Tech won. again team up with SMP's Jay slap live while week six was most disconcerting a week of Minecraft on Monday at a time week seven eliminated all other controversies of the water bill battle broke which meant that most teams could have built keemstar declared for the bill battle points were removed but they weren't TNT run was changed to have decaying blocks to prevent Techno Blade from winning, however this also ruined everyone's experience others in the process.

Skippy died in a Hunger Games battle because a healing soup broke down too much. of players were experiencing lag, the fast-growing youtuber Dream made a video suggesting that many of the problems are possible because a hacker destroyed everything on the public server, causing the people in charge of the week were too distracted to spot some problems in The actual event note that it was when the lead developer, the late B, was on vacation. He could go on describing every little detail of what went wrong, but in the end no one knew who the rightful winners were in the official rankings.

Skippy and the bad boy. halo 1, if Teamsters announcement that building battle points would be removed was put into action techno blade and junky jenker wood for me it was a huge disaster so in the end the prize money ended up going to charities in Week 8, there were some strong ones. teams like Skippy and the bad boy Yellow CaptainSparklez and beige and Canadian Tecna blade and dantdm and the random plays of TMC Morgan and the XD needle in the end, the winners for the first time were the random ones, this got them into a lot of controversy, you see.

The first few rounds were played using the bad line client, while none of the contestants were ready or even had any objection to this, many of the viewers became furious and sent them hate. Which other players have used to lie to the customer in the past and were declared legitimate winners, but that didn't stop them from being bombed. Still, a live week nine went relatively smoothly. A new game mode added this week was Sky Wars, which wasn't very well received due to it still having a large map. This was an intense competition. He was also able to see the first person to participate who had previously made a video about the dream event.

In the end, the victory went to Skippy. He teamed up with a big star, making it his third and second wins respectively. Week 10 fixed the sky wars man, which looked remarkably similar to a map on the hypixel server network, fills the ax and sword Tecna. Not only did Amon win all three rounds of sky wars, he also won the entire event. Minecraft Monday had already earned a reputation as the must-have joint event for any Minecraft game however you love kotas, they didn't deliver. Keemstar had made a rule that all participants had to have at least 2,000 concurrent viewers per lane or team up with someone who got a ton of concurrent viewers, like 10,000, but these rules were not enforced. applies just like with Apple, keemstar made some adjustments hours before the event started kicking people out, including the ex story time deal and a 60, some people had no idea if they were allowed to participate, like the guy bad halo a 60 found out that Kingdom wants him in anything else organized by him, so a60 rebelled and played in the event anyway, keemstar acted like he never kicked a 16, causing a surp

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60 , which led to a back-and-forth on Twitter between a 60 and keemstar.

Keemstar kept insisting that a 16 was never kicked, while a 60 kept providing his evidence that we had been kicked, this led to anyone who had strong connections with a 60 deciding that he would never participate in Minecraft again. Monday included his Skippy, a 60, same bad boy, hello, shotgun raids. spy pee and dream a 60 also made a very watched video, but not as much as two hours before, when everyone saw it they were already excited about it. He just ruined all of Evans at that point. I was kicked out of the group and never had any. conversation in private or public with keemstar everyone starts the broadcast except me, but I really don't know why it occurred to me to sneak in since it was still there, why it existed.

I don't appear anywhere, not even on the UM G team list in the stream below. Then something funny happens. I get a message that says: Are you really going to play? They told me that you had nothing related to him, that made me want to start my stream and confront this guy who is Kim, so I started streaming. I came back today on um G even VOD and then I saw in the chat something about him sixty and Skippy are teaming up. I didn't know it at the time because it was on the transmission on my side.

I got up to 4k Hoover on the I started and saw the message in my GD viewer team chat. I don't know if you actually tried to pretend like nothing happened and say, "Oh, he got the viewers." I never kicked him out, but that kind of me at the time, even if I wanted to hide it in my stream as if he had literally two faces, like the youtuber pika clicks who organizes an event called winner takes all, decided to start a new event called minecraft on sunday, it was eventually changed to minecraft on saturday, but the important thing to note is that its goal was to be like minecraft

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, but better with staff that are actually paid and can put in a ton of time.

This event would take a while to start and there were mixed thoughts about it at the time. At the end of week 11, the winners were German streamers bas DG HD and aqua the cheater, however the event would never be the same. Week 12 is better organized with keemstar announcing the participants during the week, in particular Previous to the finale the winners were xqc and Moxie a team that has improved significantly since the first time they competed week 13 was different from all other weeks due to one person mr. beast Hello guys, I just spoke on the phone with mr. beast and today he is making a video about Minecraft Monday, so if you are lucky enough to participate in today's Minecraft Monday, mr.

Beast is going to jump into the discord by presenting individual challenges to some of the players to win thousands and thousands of dollars in donations, so I'm very excited about this, I just want to let you know that Minecraft Monday starts in two hours, sir. Beast announced that Tecna Bleed would be a reward of $15,000, a larger amount of money than the actual prize. Whoever killed techno in the last round of The Hunger Games would get that money; However, if techno won, he himself would get the money after an intense fight against the The winners of the reward ended up being Beige and Canadian and Jerome ASF too just like last week xqc and Moxie won the event, no one knew , but that marked the last full week of Minecraft.

On Monday, the following week was canceled by keemstar due to twitchcon. keemstar realized that twitchcon was actually the following week, so the following week was also canceled during this time, lead developer Lake had to do other things with the developer for pretty much the entire history of the events . Now the new person would have big shoes to fill this brings us to week 14, the week of the disaster, each team entered the first round which was split, they didn't really like the map which was redesigned to avoid exploits with which some of the competitors played last time, not to mention the ice on the ground melted, causing the game to become a stalemate with people hiding in the water just when no one thought anything could get worse.

The same hacker from week 7 came in and banned everyone in an ironic turn of events. James Charles noticed that the hacker showed his own IP during the stream, so the hacker ended up getting D-dust. The participants played on hypixel, which viewers seemed to enjoy not long after this all went down. The team started in Minecraft. On Monday it would be on pause until November. There is this misconception. TRUE,I'm making billions of dollars doing these tournaments no bro I'm putting in hours and hours and hours every week like people don't understand the amount of work to put something like this together it's crazy so why ?

Would I do a ton of work and not want to get paid? Basically, I would do anything because it's fun because I love it, but I like putting on a show for the community. I like that you guys like this and you know, I just love it, but frankly. like we've been cutting so many corners in Minecraft on Monday like the money should be spent here and there and the same with Friday for tonight and the reason we don't spend the money and we don't put it in is because we're not winning. Basically what's happening now is that I have two companies, maybe three companies that are fighting to take over my tournaments and replace UMG, that are offering a lot of money and, like last Friday and Minecraft Monday today, everything could have been so much better if I had money, so I feel like it's stupid to keep doing these events on a shoestring budget when in a couple of months I'll have a lot of money.

I'll be able to raise my prices and maybe they'll pay me. putting in all this work and doing these tournaments, so I'm thinking that the return of Minecraft on Monday and Friday fortnight will be in November. Some of the Minecraft Monday players decided to play an organized game of Battle Dome to replace the event they even invited. Lego Meister, a Minecraft mod, a news channel after the Battle Dome, they hit the Hypixel server and essentially had a repeat of the previous week since all of this happened, people have been pretty quiet. Minecraft Monday Lake Oh master continue the tradition of Minecraft Monday hello. pixel with big youtubers, although all the real Minecraft Monday players pretty much stopped doing it at this point, a couple of weeks ago Minecraft Saturday took this attention and the events I talked about a little earlier had many of the same participants as Minecraft .

On Monday not only that, but another event called Minecraft Championship also appeared. Stay tuned for news on that and that event also attracts many of the same people. Needless to say, the golden days of Minecraft Monday are over. Keemstar was recently asked when the event will take place. returned and responded by stating that he wants more people to apply for it, although many people were hoping that Minecraft money would return this month, it seems that it will not return anytime soon now that the community's attention is fixed on other events that are better organized and are not associated with controversial hosts, it is technically possible for the event to return, but only if everyone comes together for the cause, even then, the event is again the same, no trend can last forever, every trend on the internet must at some point moment The point came to an end, it was only a matter of time before we saw the end of Minecraft Monday without Minecraft Monday, the internet would certainly be different, some channels would not have seen massive subscriber growth, a great meme would not have existed.

Minecraft tournaments today as we know, wouldn't exist even more than that without such big names coming together under the same Minecraft event, Minecraft would never have seen as big a resurgence in popularity as we saw happen, so what do you think Should I return Minecraft money? Let me know in the comments anyway. For this video, if you want to see more documentaries like this, make sure to subscribe if you hated it, don't forget to leave it. Follow me on Twitter at scythe on YT and join my discord linked in the description. Besides all that, be sure to check out some of my other videos.

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