The Gatekeeper

The Gatekeeper was a one-day MCM-sanctioned simulated minecraft tournament that took place on Sunday February 19, 2017. It was a single-duel knockout tournament with only 12 participants, most of which were selected for their demonstrated and recognized skill and success in other MCM tournaments. Eight Challengers were randomly seeded in to four knockout duels, the winner of which going on to face one of the four Champions. The winning four from those duels then entered a simple semi-finals and finals knockout.

Wolf won his third MCM-sanctioned event, and second in February, Fresh Seconds Tournament winner Chicane coming second.

Invitees
Invites were sent out on February 13. Invitees were ranked in case any Champions or Challengers did not respond to invitations. Additional invites for the random selectees were sent out on February 17. By early on February 19, all invitations were RSVPed, with the random newb selectee MetroidNut being unable to attend. Tourny took his stead. WeeKiwi and Destroyer accepted but all slots had been filled.

Each invite in rank order (17): In cases where two or more players occupied the same invite and accept, the selectee was to be randomized.

Tournament
Seeding took place early in the day of the tournament.

Each duel had a regulation time of fifteen minutes, but an overtime of 10 minutes was permitted if a the duel ended in a draw. If the tie was not broken after those 25 minutes, each opponent was reduced to minimum health and told to charge at one another with melee weapons only to determine a winner.

Each duel was run in succession one after the other, with a few seconds in between to prepare the next duel and log results. The tournament was scheduled to take a minimum of 2 hours 45 minutes and a maximum of around 5 hours, and ended up taking 3 hours 45 minutes.

Duels
Times in United States Eastern