Keemstar and UMG are continuing Minecraft Monday for another week.
The event went in a different direction in Week 3 as gamers participated in different minigames rather than just Hunger Games (last man standing). The change up in gaming led to Technoblade not winning the event for the first time (he and his partners won the first two weeks). Instead, Traves and Cscoop won Week 3.
Week 4 will follow a similar format as Week 3 by playing minigames, but the type of games have been changed. Those can be viewed below.
Will Technoblade get back to dominating the event? We’ll find out later today. Below is everything you need to know about Week 4 of Minecraft Monday.
When does Minecraft Monday start?
Date: July 15th
Time: 4 p.m. EST, 1 p.m. PT
How to stream Minecraft Monday Week 4
UMG will be streaming the event live above.
You can also watch live from individual streamers on their respective platforms (some stream on Twitch, others stream on YouTube, a rare few choose other outlets).
Minecraft Monday Week 4 teams, rosters
Week 4
Player 1
Player 2
Team 1
James Charles
Technothepig
Team 2
Grandayy
DolanDark
Team 3
ChandlerHallow
ChrisO2_
Team 4
Skeppy
BadBoyHalo
Team 5
Bajan_Canadian
NetNobody
Team 6
Yammy
LaurenzSide
Team 7
Mongraal
Mitr0
Team 8
JeromeASF
Ph1LzA
Team 9
JackSucksAtLife
DoniBobes
Team 10
GoodGuyFitz
Kryoz
Team 11
DanTDM
Thinknoodles
Team 12
KYR_SP33DY
Albi_SideArms
Team 13
CaptainSparklez
AntVenom
Team 14
jschlatt
ConnorEatsPants
Team 15
Nick28T
NepentheZ
Team 16
Vikkstar123
Preston
Team 17
heyimbee
Grapeapplesauce
Minecraft Monday rules, scoring system
Eliminations: +10 Score
Victory: +30 Score
Top 2 Teams: +20 Score
Top 3 Teams: +10 Score
Surviving: +2 Score (Whenever a team is eliminated all other remaining teams earn +2 Score)
An added note, scoring for placements, surviving and victories are split between teammates if both are alive. But if one member of the team gets eliminated, the score is awarded to the surviving teammate.
There’s no cheating allowed. Cheating includes no cross-teaming, no “feeding” to help another team no mods or resource packs that grant unfair advantages. Trash talk is allowed, but toxic trash talk could result in a ban.
UMG lists the games played as followed:
1. Hunger Games (MAP)
2. TNT Run
3. Dropper
4. Spleef
5. Battle Arena
6. Find The Button
7. Run From The Lava
8. Bingo Hunt
9. Hunger Games (MAP)
Minecraft Monday Week 4 results
The leaderboard above should update throughout the tournament.
London and Seattle are the first two markets in the beta test, but it will steadily expand to other cities across the globe, Thomas Wiborgh, head of communications of Microsoft-owned Mojang wrote in a blog post Tuesday. Players can sign up hereto participate in the test.
Microsoft expects the test to eventually roll out to “hundreds of thousands of players,” according to an FAQ. The game requires a mobile device running iOS 10 and Android 7 or newer. As long as they are signed into the same Microsoft account, users can bounce between phones and tablets and bring their creations with them.
Beta users must log on at least once a week, or risk losing their spot. Don’t be surprised if the game is reset and progress gets wiped away, that is pretty standard among beta tests as the teams update the game.
LONDON and SEATTLE, you’re up! As the first two cities to go live in the Minecraft Earth closed beta, all eyes are on you and your life-sized minetacular (specblockular?) creations!
The game takes Minecraft off the computer screen and brings the game into the real world — through the lens of a smartphone. Players collect items, go on quests and use their inventories to put together impressive structures that can be captured and shared. There’s important elements of cooperation in defeating bad guys in missions and collaborating on tabletop Buildplate structures that can be ballooned up to life-size scale.
While players will be able to transport “skins” over from traditional Minecraft, the team is setting up the game to stand its own. The game will be familiar to long-time Minecraft player, but the goal is for every item and creature in Minecraft Earth to come from that game.
Microsoft first teased the game at its Build developer conference in May and shared details a few weeks later. Minecraft has yet to give a release date for the full game.
The game is free to play, and executives in the past have demurred when asked about in-app purchases. However, we do know that Minecraft Earth won’t have loot boxes, a popular trend in the gaming world of grab bags full of items that users have to buy with either real money or in-game currency.
Minecraft Earth is part of rising trend of smartphone games layered over the real world. The immediate name that comes to mind when talking about games like this is Pokémon Go. And the company behind Pokémon Go, Niantic, just put out a brand new Harry Potter-themed augmented reality game based on the real world. Speaking with GeekWire when it first unveiled Minecraft Earth, the team behind it said “we don’t see ourselves as a clone” of anything that’s out there today, which they referred to mostly as “geocaching games.”
“It’s not just a geocaching game with like 2 percent of it in augmented reality,” Torfi Olafsson, game director for Minecraft, told GeekWire in May. “We decided to go head-first and build the game from the ground up as an experience that you play both in your immediate environment — when you’re home — and out in the world, like in parks, in cities.”
Microsoft Pokémon Go-alike Minecraft Earth has begun rolling out to its first group of beta testers – those who previously signed up and live in either London or Seattle.
Anyone with early access is free to post gameplay videos and impressions – and from these we have a good idea what’s in the game currently.
The Map screen looks very familiar to Pokémon Go, with things (“Tappables”) to click on in a radius around your avatar. It’s here you’ll find blocks, items and mobs.
One nice touch is that, when playing in a car, your avatar is shown riding in a minecart.
Then there’s the Buildplate screen, where you use your collected Tappables to create Minecraft builds. Different sized Buildplates are available as you level up, with varying biomes.
Here’s the best footage I’ve found of more advanced builds available in Minecraft Earth. YouTuber SethBling demonstrates a couple of redstone creations such as a TNT cannon and a life-size human speedometer which reminds me of something I’d probably have to do in PE.
It’s worth noting, as SethBling does in the video, Microsoft provided him with extra redstone parts to complete his creations. Otherwise, they’re only available as a rare drop, he said.
The closed beta for Minecraft Earth is opening in two cities.
The game is available in Seattle and London.
Anyone living in those two cities who has signed up for the closed beta could get an invite.
You can still sign up for the closed beta right now.
Minecraft Earth is an upcoming augmented reality (AR) game that aims to bring the world of Minecraft to your phones, in the vein of something like Pokémon Go. While it’s still early, the team at Mojang has shared some great news: the Minecraft Earth closed beta is beginning in Seattle and London right now!
If you live in Seattle or London and you’ve signed up for the closed beta, go check your email because there’s a decent chance you’ve been invited. “Thousands” of invites have already been sent out and more are no doubt coming. If you don’t live in either Seattle or London, keep in mind that the closed beta is just now rolling out, it’ll expand to other cities in the future.
If you haven’t signed up yet, don’t worry: you can still register for the closed beta right now. If there’s anything else you want to know about Minecraft Earth, our Xbox Senior Editor, Jez Corden, has a cohesive wrap-up right here. How does monetization work? Just what are players allowed to do? Do you have to walk around everywhere like in other AR games? The questions to all these and much, much more are covered.
If you’ve been waiting to check out Minecraft Earth (Mojang’s Pokémon GO-style augmented reality reimagining of its hugely popular game, Minecraft), good news: it’s starting to roll out to some people now.
The catch? It’s only available to a slice-of-a-slice of the world, at first.
After opening a registration system for its closed beta just a few days ago, the company says that it sent out the first batch of beta invites this afternoon.
The beta is being rolled out on a region-by-region basis, with randomly picked players in Seattle and London getting access at first. Mojang says more cities should go live in “the next few days,” but doesn’t get any more specific than that.
It’s also worth noting that the beta is iOS only for now; Android support is on the way, but it won’t land until later this summer.
Our own Devin Coldewey went hands-on with an early build of Minecraft Earth a few months ago — check out his first impressions here.
WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for The Lion King, in theaters Friday nationwide.
Disney’s live-action adaptation of The Lion King doesn’t make a lot of changes to the overarching narrative of the 1994 animated classic. Although somewhat understated, its few alterations are to character motivations. A handful of the supporting players are tweaked here and there, contributing new layers.
And no one receives as much of an update as Shenzi (Florence Kasumba), the leader of the hyena pack. The original movie featured her more as a just another goofy member of the comically inept henchmen for Scar. But in the new film, Shenzi is a much more intimidating and serious character. None of her dialogue is played for laughs, and she’s given a lot more imposing moments to make herself a true threat to the lion pride.
