February Best Of

The  was an MCM-sanctioned simulated Minecraft tournament that took place at the beginning of February 2017. The tournament was designed as a small, quick 5-day tournament in the large break between the MCM Cup and the MCM Royale. The Royale was originally planned for Christmas 2016 but was postponed until at least Summer 2017, so the February Best Of acts as a small replacement.

The tournament pitted 16 invited competitors against each other in a randomly-seeded knockout format, though each matchup was a best-of-three. Wolf won, again. Pfft.

Invitees
Invites were sent out to all those invited to the MCM Royale, though to keep the tournament small only 16 can participate. As there were anticipated to be more respondents than 16, some invitees were put in to "priority groups", which gave them priority over lower groups or any other invitees for entry to the tournament. Each priority group had a maximum amount of places in the tournament. If more were to respond to the invite than this number, a random draw was to take place to determine who was picked from the group. Those who responded but were not picked got placed in the Priority 5 group, which consists of all players, which was also to have a random draw if needed.

Of the 108 invited, 62 accepted. A random draw was needed for all Priority Groups except Champions. Padawan and Shepp were the players from Priority 5 (All players) to be selected for the tournament.

Knockout
Each matchup consists of a minimum of two and a maximum of three duels, each of fifteen minutes. Whoever wins the most duels is crowned the victor of a matchup. If the first to duels are won by the same player, they are considered to have won the matchup without a third duel having to be played. If the third duel would end the matchup in a draw, an overtime of 10 minutes is played. If there is still no victor, the simulation enters lancer mode (each player charges at each other with minimum health), the winner of the lancer mode being declared the winner of the matchup.

Round 1 and 2 took place over two days each, and the Semi-Finals and Final took place on Sunday, the 5th of February 2017.

Seeding took place on January 31, 2017.