A Forums Contest

[KodyXtremeFTW]

I am an old MCSG player. I started playing in July or Augest of 2012, about 1-2 months after the servers had been created. I was a complete noob and sucked at the start of my first game on the map Breeze Island. One of the reasons of the worst gameplay from the start is my old computer. Yes, I had a very laggy computer back then. I used to get 5-15 fps for max. But, on this day, I have a better, faster computer plus more fps that I would imagine to obtain. On this day I get 50-80 fps.

As months passed I started to get better at the Survival Games and get to know the servers, know the rules, Even make friends with other players even the staff. But, near the end of February, I was worried about what happen to my stats and my points. But, I found out it was MCSG's new 2.0 plugin. I was pretty excited and wanted to explore the new features for MCSG v2. I noticed the new features:

• In-Game Sponsors
• Global Leaderboards and Statistics
• 80+ Achievements
• New Maps
• Randomized Chests
• Advanced Statistics
• Game Masters
• Deathmatch Arenas
• Tournaments with real prizes.

Then, I just continued my Survival Games journey in the world of v2. I played almost 1000 games of MCSG. I got 266 wins out of that. I don't have a high chance of winning every game. But, I'm okay sometimes. But sometimes I failed miserably. I would say a 30-43% chances of winning. Not the best I know. And a 70-67 chances of losing. So, yea I'm not the best player on there. But, I'm decent and try the best I can do.

I've got banned 2 times. And both are under the results of Spamming, etc. A while back like 5 or 7 months ago, I was a annoying player and used to spam for people to vote for my maps which is not the correct way of getting attention because before I didn't know the rules that much. But as of this day on 7/8/14, I'm no longer that kind of person.

After a few months, MCSG released their new hub server and map and MCSG was renamed MCGamer (Minecraft Gamer). When I joined the hub server. That's where everything happend. They added new Minigames such as:

• ZedChase
• Team Fortress 2.

Well, obviously, I went to the Survival Games section and it became easier to connect to servers. You can now connect from the Signs! I got used to it more than direct connecting which was a bit difficult if you were not a donator.

Then on February of 2014 we celebrated 1 year of MCSG v2 development. That's the month were we thanks our MCGamer developers who have put a lot of hard work and hard coding into this project. Without them, MCGamer would of never continued running at this point. In fact, I would make this month named "MCSG Appreciation Month".

So, that's were I am today. This is the best community out for me to fit. I even like to learn from other people that shows PvP Tips & Tricks, How to kill hackers, etc. I hope I can make the best I can for this community. I worked long and hard on this. Lots of thinking and remembering the best moments I had with friends or by myself. Looking forward to what may come upon us next in the results. Good Luck to me!

-KodyXtremeFTW

 

[GeckoGoggals]

Hello, and welcome to a highly dramatized story, written and directed by a bovine…


Creeping along the edge of the ravine, I crawled forth on my stomach, peering over the edge. Upon locating my target, I edged backwards and brought myself up to a crouch. Breathing quietly, I jogged across the bridge, and drew my bow. Notching an arrow, I drew the yew bow, lining it up with my right eye. Exhaling quietly, I released the arrow, and closed my eyes. Upon hearing the cannon signaling a tribute’s death, I lightly stepped back, and escaped into the trees.

Seven arrows left. That’s all I had. I would have to go back and retrieve his sword, or else risk facing close combat virtually unarmed. Tethering my rope to a sturdy tree, I sprinted once again to the edge of the ravine, uncoiling the rope behind me. I can’t stay in the open for long, I told myself, keeping an eye out for any abnormal movements around me.

Rappelling into the ravine was fairly straightforward, but required not only too much time, but too much energy. By the time I reached the bottom, my shoulders burned and my hands were blistered from the rope. Glancing upwards to make sure I wasn’t being followed, I jogged over to the remains of my latest victim. Searching through his corpse was gruesome, but quite necessary. Finding no sword, I silently cursed his soul. Upon emptying a pocket, however, I located two things: a diamond, and a pair of sunglasses. Pocketing the sunglasses, I counted my diamonds; two. It would be just enough for a diamond sword.

Pulling myself back up to where the rope ended, I slowly ascended, and eventually was safe within the peaceful forest. Eating a few carrots, I waited for my pangs of hunger to settle, and in turn my injuries to heal. Time to head to a crafting bench, I suppose, I thought to myself, reflecting on what I found within the ravine.

Checking the area ahead using my compass, I made sure to take several arduous yet entirely necessary detours in order to lose any potential hunters; at the cornucopia, I would be out in the open and easy pickings for anyone with ranged capabilities. I silently stalked into the direct center of the map using an underground tunnel, constantly checking my surroundings. Dashing into the center of the cornucopia towards the crafting bench, I hurriedly crafted my diamond sword. Placing the items in the correct slots, I took a precious moment to marvel in the item that was forming before my eyes.

That is, until I felt a searing pain on my legs. The edges of my vision blurred red and I dropped my diamond sword next to the fire. Pushed away from my only melee weapon, I scrambled to eat a golden apple while a specter danced in front of me. Head jerking and arms flailing, I had encountered a Nodus-user. A powerful drug, if taken in excess it could take over one’s mind, giving them abnormal abilities but also an insane thirst for blood. They must have been sponsored… Drawing two arrows at once, I fired them in quick succession, but missed in my haste. Reaching back, I fired my arrows one by one, eventually running out. There were two arrows lodged within my adversary’s shoulder, and another in their thigh, but they continued to steadily limp towards me. Strafing to their left, I used my last flint and steel in the hope that they would catch fire. Much to my disappointment, the Nodus-user instead tried to find a path around it. I sprinted towards my diamond sword, snatched it up from the ground, and stood tall on my feet.

Pulling out my sunglasses, I equipped the shades and drew my new weapon. A surge light struck from the sky, and I was nearly knocked away by the ensuing drumroll of thunder. When my eyes recovered from the visual shock, I looked up. Where there was one fire and one tribute, now stood a bonfire and dozens of pieces of burnt flesh lying around. In the center of the bonfire, a grey form stood out. A large metallic hammer, engraved with a single word: Ban.

Falling to my knees, I took in the sight in front of me. Glancing to my left, I noticed something had been added to the chat.

[MCSG] LeafyGreenTea has been banned. Reason: Hacks.
[MCSG] The games have ended!
[MCSG] Mooclan has won the Survival Games.

(http://imgur.com/iaKURD1 If the image doesn't work)


Please note that this story was not based off of a single game, and I never actually encountered LeafyGreenTea. It was fictional, but I hope that it captured my love for the Survival Games. Also, I'm pretty sure Leafy coded his own hacks, but I called it Nodus in the story for simplicity.
If this story does not qualify, as it is not based off a single memory of MCSG, please let me know before the contest ends so that I can write another one, if possible. I would have written it based off of a fond memory, but they all happened so many months ago that almost all of my games have merged into a blur, and I can't seem to recall any individual game. I don't really play MCSG much nowadays, and most of my recent games haven't been very eventful.

As soon as I read the thread title, I thought: If mooclan writes something, I'm not even trying.

 

[Giggity69Goo]

As soon as I read the thread title, I thought: If mooclan writes something, I'm not even trying.

He may have written something amazing...but I will try my hardest. We all should Never lose hope! This may be an upset like in College Basketball!

 

[John jennings]

As soon as I read the thread title, I thought: If mooclan writes something, I'm not even trying.

I know i finished mine and then 30 min. later i check the thread and see his :'(

 

[Sean]

My journey as a staff member…


My MCSG career began at around March of last year. At this time I was a huge Call Of Duty fanatic, one of my favorite YouTubers FearCrads who was an extremely skilled COD player began the process of making a second channel around this time. Also around this time a few of my Xbox live acquaintances had been telling me about this thrilling game called Minecraft and the Hunger Games on it. At first it did catch my eye and I was curious but I never took action. It was not until FearCrads uploaded his first ever Hunger Games video I decided to purchase Minecraft. I never would've known that one video would change my gaming experience for ever. Myself being a complete Minecraft noob had no idea how to operate the game. It took me a few days before I realized that the Hunger Games was on a server not part of the original game. Once I found out this new bit of intelligence I proceed to google Hunger Games servers for Minecraft. The 1st result was MCSG. After a briefing from one of my friends who showed me how to connect to a server I went onto the server page and looked for an empty slot. I found one! I open up my direct connect tab and enter the address. I am in.

What I entered was the pre-game lobby. If only I knew that back then. I can vividly remember typing in chat “How do we play?”. No one replied. I was alone with no idea what to do. Next thing I know in chat a counter starts to show, 10, 9,8…...3,2,1. I was teleported to a place that I recognized. It was a cornucopia, with my hungry praying eyes I could see the treasure at the centre. The counter reached 0 and I sprinted off my podium, I was confused. Everyone was running faster than me. I did not know how to sprint jump…

Lets just say that game did not go very well. Moments after it began I found myself looking at the server page once again. I quickly had come to the conclusion that I was not very skilled at this game. During the next game I realized you could hold the spacebar which would make you move swiftly. With this newly acquired skill I was sure I was going to obtain some treasure at the cornucopia. I dash to the chests while keeping up the pace with the other tributes. With precision I open the chest and begin clicking on the items. I was too slow, the other tribute had gotten everything so quick. But how? I was to find this out some days later when someone mentioned to me a mysterious tactic named “shift clicking”. I was astonished, I could actually obtain loot. While I was indeed able to get some equipment out of cornucopia and various other chests situated around the map I was still, well lets just say not very good at the whole PvP aspect of MCSG.

Over the next few months I continued to watch FearCrads. As he improved so did myself. While watching his latest video he was doing a dual com with Vikkstar123. I found him interesting and he seemed to have a good knowledge of the game, this is what lead me to watch some of his videos. Over the next few months I slowly improved at the game. Learning new tactics and meeting friends over Skype. I was having a blast!

Now lets fast forward a few months. More precisely to the 25th of August 2013. This is the day that really started my journey to becoming a MCGamer moderator. I signed up for the forums. I remember looking through the map section and my eyes were amazed at these beautiful map submissions. This got me thinking, I would love to make a map. I made a thread asking for an opinion on a idea I had. It got positive feedback and I started the map. Having no clue about any world altering tools I quickly got bored with terraforming using TNT so that plan fell through. Fun fact, almost a year later I have started once again on this idea and it is almost complete. Ok I am getting side tracked, back to the story Sean.

Hmm where was I, oh I joined the forums. So after a few weeks I was really starting to enjoy the forums, I was making intelligent posts which received great feedback. One day while stumbling around the forums I saw a thread that was about to completely change my MCSG life. “Apply for a volunteer staff position”. I opened it, inside was a questionnaire. After a bit of thought I decided I would apply. Lets just say I did not put much effort into it. Unfortunately it was declined the next morning. It was this failure that made me determined to get moderator. I started looking up tips for getting mod. I stumbled across ThatOneTomahawks video. For those of you who are looking to apply I would suggest watching this. Anyway, once again back on topic. This video was extremely informative. The main point that I took from it was that you had to write an essay. This is what I did. I spent the entire night researching all the information I could acquire. After 2 days II was ready to send it in. It was a long nervous wait for a reply. I would wake up each morning, the first thought that came to my mind was to grab my phone and look at the forums. This process repeated for about a week until I received the notification that my application was put through to pending. I was confused, unsure as to what this mysterious place called pending was. It was not until I was in the EU hub later that day and questioned a moderator about it. I was joyful when they told me that this was good and my application was going through an extended review.

After receiving this new I had mixed emotions of joy and nervousness as I knew my application stood a decent chance. It was like deja vu, once again I was waking up in the morning and checking my phone for a reply. Also once again I had to wait roughly a week for a reply. Eventually I received one. As you guessed, it was good news. I was put through to the interview stage and told to hop onto this mysterious program called teamspeak. I proceed to download it and I set it up without any real issues thanks to a well written and descriptive guide on the forums. I poked a Sr Mod with my application and received my waiting rank. I moved up to the waiting room and this is when it really dawned on me that I was one hurdle away from successfully getting mod. But this was a big hurdle that would require mental strength and confidence to overcome. After coming to my senses I noted the amount of people that were waiting and the length they had been waiting. Some of them had 3 months next to there name and there was me with my 1 day. I knew this was going to take a while. I was smart enough to do the good thing and just be patient.

For the first few days I consistently had my microphone muted in the waiting room, I was a bit shy. I eventually started talking to who would eventually become some of my best friends here at MCGamer. As the days passed still no interviews were being held. That did not stop us from enjoying the company of each other. There was a lot of us waiting, we started off by playing a few games with each other. Eventually after some days passed and as we became closer we formed the waiting squad. We would stay up till stupid O’clock dominating the EU servers. Mind you I was still terrible at PvP so I never won a game, but hey everyone loves a trier. This was honestly the greatest time I have had here. The two most notable memories were as follows.

We were playing a game on TSG2, as usual all was going well. We were all alive except for one person. His name was (some inappropriate S word that I am not going to say)FacedRicky. We need to kill him so we could start battling it out amongst ourselves, but like a animal in hibernation he was nowhere to be found. Then I has the bright idea, call a mod and get him banned for his name. Well that is what I did. Bye Ricky, I am sure your 10 games played were memorable. If somehow you are reading this, I am sorry but that name…..

I must admit we all has a bit of a laugh at that guy, the next great memory I had was when we decided to save up all our points and bounty it on the nobbiest guy in the lobby. Everyone welcome DailyBus502 I believe to the story. It was on Valleyside University, we all did /kill and began our storm of bounties. After we all drained our points along with the help of some members of the public we got 25k on his head. We thought he was doomed. That was not to be the case. This once random Steve that would though would get slaughtered turned into a killing machine. Slaying everyone in the game. It reached Deathmatch, he was against a team of 2 that were seeing red for that bounty. Somehow with courage and determination DailyBuss pulled a victory. There was cheers and screams coming from the waiting room. We were ecstatic. In the lobby we began our congratulations, the only reply if I remember correctly we got off him was “ I h8 u guys”. I think we might of put too much pressure on him. Aw the poor guy, If you are out there I am sorry but it was entertainment.

A few days after the DailyBuss guy I hoped on Teamspeak and saw that they were doing interviews. Seeing as there was a lot of people waiting and I was only somewhere in the middle with my waiting time (about 30 days) I was not sure if I was going to get interviewed. So I politely asked a Sr Mod do you think I would be getting one tonight. They replied and said most likely as they wanted to get through a lot of them. Now the nerves really started to kick in. I stayed up until 3 am. I was one interview away. Then to my horror my mother came into my room. As any normal parent would do she told me get off. Thats what I did, after all I did have college in the morning.

Days passed, no interviews.There was not much of us left as they got through the majority interviews that night. All I knew was when they decided to do them again I was 1st in que. Some days later a Sr Mod came down and said we are going to be hosting interviews shortly. Now I really got nervous, I tired to stay as calm as possible. Getting glasses of water etc. Eventually it was time...

I was moved up and met by Antster , KellieBreanne , Tacoface and Cam . I managed to get through my interview and I was moved down to the waiting room while I waited on my result. I was shaking with fear. People were asking me how it went. While in the middle of replying to them saying " I don't think it went that well" I was moved up. CAmadeusA began talking. He said something along the lines of do you want to bad news or the really bad news. I replied asking for the bad news first. The bad news was they were going to have to remove my waiting rank, the really bad news was I am now going to have to sing as I got mod. I refused at first. I eventually gave into the peer pressure and sang Call me maybe. Lets just say that was an awkward few minutes.

After discussing information with the Sr Staff I was moved up to the training room along with Sp3ctrum_Visionz . While we were waiting for our training I was looking through the server groups I could assign and started giving my self all the donor ranks.Kellie moved me back down into the interview room and started giving out to me, then removed my mod rank. I was terrified, thinking that I has just come all this way and I lost it for a stupid decision. Then I heard a little snigger followed by laughter, they trolled my once again...

So later that night I received all my ranks and training. I was on my way to help the community in anyway possible. The next 2 months went by fast, I was enjoying my time as a staff member. That was until after Christmas/ early January I started feeling down on my self. I was spending too much time on MCSG. I decided to resign. I wrote my resignation letter and that was it. I was no longer a mod...

About a week later I realized what a huge mistake I made and should've just went on a leave of absence.

I desperately wanted to be a mod again, but the applications closed. I knew they would reopen soon so I wrote my application in a word document and saved it on my computer until the applications reopened. Within 1 hour of the applications being opened I has applied. Later that night I got pending.

While on Teamspeak the next day I was down in a channel with some friends and KRaidium joined the channel. He said " Frazzli185, Sean and JasonDeBaxter I have good news. "Server group assigned". I was waiting once again. KRaidium then said that they were going to host interviews now. The three of us moved up to the waiting room. Jason was first. He got through his interview and got mod. Then something came up and they were unable to host any more interviews. In 2 days time KRaid poked me asking do I want a interview. I replied yes and I was up in the waiting room. Strangely enough I was more nervous for my second interview than my first. I was moved up and interviewed. It did not go so well as people kept coming into my room which is quite embarrassing and also I went blank a few times. The interview passed and once again I was down in the waiting room awaiting my result.

A few moment later I was moved back up. Then I got trolled like I have never been before. KRaid put on a Oscar winning acting performance and convinced me that I was not going to get mod. It went something along the lines of "Hey Sean, so I am going to be straight up with you and I hate doing this. I know we are good friends and this should of been easy for you seen as you were a mod before. But unfortunately I am going to have to remove your waiting rank and give you mod back". I will still always hate you for that..

So I have mod back, once again I was doing my best to moderate the server and also sent up events such as the Community Games with AmyGlitters . About a month and a half after I returned as a mod I was in the mod meeting channel waiting for the mod meeting to commence when Dave came down and moved myself, JimmerHD , Lively and ChandelleMC up to the admin waiting room. Dave and Col_StaR moved down to us and said that we were all in trouble. I had no clue what was going on and I was trying to think what did I do wrong, when Lively said that we were more than likely getting trial Sr Mod. I was shocked. As expected I was moved up given my rank and after the mod meeting, all the the trials were moved up into Dave's office and we were given our training. My dream had come through. I found the work so fascinating and a challenge. I worked hard during my trial, putting it before things such as my exams for college.

Four weeks on, it was decision time. Before the end of the Sr Staff I along with the rest of the trials were moved up into a Sr Staff chat while the rest of them discussed our trials. I have never felt to terrified in my life, I could barely talk. Then all of a sudden I was moved. I heard Chads voice… It was not good news, I failed my trial. I was given the reasons and I agreed with them. This was the worst moment of my MCGamer life. I felt as if my world just crashed around me. I moved back into a mod chat. All my friends came up and cheered me up. Thanks guys! It was a dark time. I was confused and unsure as of what to do. I tried to get back to normal moderation duties. It was difficult. Two days after failing my trial I decided to resign due to multiple reasons including in real life situations.

Once again I was a friend rank. Even though I was not enjoying doing normal moderation duties I missed it. I need mod back. After two weeks I decided to re-apply. I was very doubtful about me getting accepted. Why would they pick someone who has resigned 2 times. To my surprise my application was accepted. For the 3rd time I was awaiting my interview. After a week of waiting it was time for my interview. Col_Star was going to lead it. I was petrified, he moved me up. I completed my interview and once again I was awaiting my result.

I passed, for the 3rd time I was a mod. Since I got it back I have enjoyed it more than ever. I have been working hard to better myself in certain ways and I can see myself improve on a daily basis.

I never thought that the day I entered that 1st ever server IP it would be like this. I have met some great people and have has some great experiences that honestly I will remember for the rest of my life.

The one thing I want you guys to take from this story is, no matter how hard it is, never quit.
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Thanks for reading, cya around ​

 

[Giggity69Goo]

My journey as a staff member…


My MCSG career began at around March of last year. At this time I was a huge Call Of Duty fanatic, one of my favorite YouTubers FearCrads who was an extremely skilled COD player began the process of making a second channel around this time. Also around this time a few of my Xbox live acquaintances had been telling me about this thrilling game called Minecraft and the Hunger Games on it. At first it did catch my eye and I was curious but I never took action. It was not until FearCrads uploaded his first ever Hunger Games video I decided to purchase Minecraft. I never would've known that one video would change my gaming experience for ever. Myself being a complete Minecraft noob had no idea how to operate the game. It took me a few days before I realized that the Hunger Games was on a server not part of the original game. Once I found out this new bit of intelligence I proceed to google Hunger Games servers for Minecraft. The 1st result was MCSG. After a briefing from one of my friends who showed me how to connect to a server I went onto the server page and looked for an empty slot. I found one! I open up my direct connect tab and enter the address. I am in.
What I entered was the pre-game lobby. If only I knew that back then. I can vividly remember typing in chat “How do we play?”. No one replied. I was alone with no idea what to do. Next thing I know in chat a counter starts to show, 10, 9,8…...3,2,1. I was teleported to a place that I recognized. It was a cornucopia, with my hungry praying eyes I could see the treasure at the centre. The counter reached 0 and I sprinted off my podium, I was confused. Everyone was running faster than me. I did not know how to sprint jump…

Lets just say that game did not go very well. Moments after it began I found myself looking at the server page once again. I quickly had come to the conclusion that I was not very skilled at this game. During the next game I realized you could hold the spacebar which would make you move swiftly. With this newly acquired skill I was sure I was going to obtain some treasure at the cornucopia. I dash to the chests while keeping up the pace with the other tributes. With precision I open the chest and begin clicking on the items. I was too slow, the other tribute had gotten everything so quick. But how? I was to find this out some days later when someone mentioned to me a mysterious tactic named “shift clicking”. I was astonished, I could actually obtain loot. While I was indeed able to get some equipment out of cornucopia and various other chests situated around the map I was still, well lets just say not very good at the whole PvP aspect of MCSG.

Over the next few months I continued to watch FearCrads. As he improved so did myself. While watching his latest video he was doing a dual com with Vikkstar123. I found him interesting and he seemed to have a good knowledge of the game, this is what lead me to watch some of his videos. Over the next few months I slowly improved at the game. Learning new tactics and meeting friends over Skype. I was having a blast!
Now lets fast forward a few months. More precisely to the 25th of August 2013. This is the day that really started my journey to becoming a MCGamer moderator. I signed up for the forums. I remember looking through the map section and my eyes were amazed at these beautiful map submissions. This got me thinking, I would love to make a map. I made a thread asking for an opinion on a idea I had. It got positive feedback and I started the map. Having no clue about any world altering tools I quickly got bored with terraforming using TNT so that plan fell through. Fun fact, almost a year later I have started once again on this idea and it is almost complete. Ok I am getting side tracked, back to the story Sean.

Hmm where was I, oh I joined the forums. So after a few weeks I was really starting to enjoy the forums, I was making intelligent posts which received great feedback. One day while stumbling around the forums I saw a thread that was about to completely change my MCSG life. “Apply for a volunteer staff position”. I opened it, inside was a questionnaire. After a bit of thought I decided I would apply. Lets just say I did not put much effort into it. Unfortunately it was declined the next morning. It was this failure that made me determined to get moderator. I started looking up tips for getting mod. I stumbled across ThatOneTomahawks video. For those of you who are looking to apply I would suggest watching this. Anyway, once again back on topic. This video was extremely informative. The main point that I took from it was that you had to write an essay. This is what I did. I spent the entire night researching all the information I could acquire. After 2 days II was ready to send it in. It was a long nervous wait for a reply. I would wake up each morning, the first thought that came to my mind was to grab my phone and look at the forums. This process repeated for about a week until I received the notification that my application was put through to pending. I was confused, unsure as to what this mysterious place called pending was. It was not until I was in the EU hub later that day and questioned a moderator about it. I was joyful when they told me that this was good and my application was going through an extended review.

After receiving this new I had mixed emotions of joy and nervousness as I knew my application stood a decent chance. It was like deja vu, once again I was waking up in the morning and checking my phone for a reply. Also once again I had to wait roughly a week for a reply. Eventually I received one. As you guessed, it was good news. I was put through to the interview stage and told to hop onto this mysterious program called teamspeak. I proceed to download it and I set it up without any real issues thanks to a well written and descriptive guide on the forums. I poked a Sr Mod with my application and received my waiting rank. I moved up to the waiting room and this is when it really dawned on me that I was one hurdle away from successfully getting mod. But this was a big hurdle that would require mental strength and confidence to overcome. After coming to my senses I noted the amount of people that were waiting and the length they had been waiting. Some of them had 3 months next to there name and there was me with my 1 day. I knew this was going to take a while. I was smart enough to do the good thing and just be patient.

For the first few days I consistently had my microphone muted in the waiting room, I was a bit shy. I eventually started talking to who would eventually become some of my best friends here at MCGamer. As the days passed still no interviews were being held. That did not stop us from enjoying the company of each other. There was a lot of us waiting, we started off by playing a few games with each other. Eventually after some days passed and as we became closer we formed the waiting squad. We would stay up till stupid O’clock dominating the EU servers. Mind you I was still terrible at PvP so I never won a game, but hey everyone loves a trier. This was honestly the greatest time I have had here. The two most notable memories were as follows.
We were playing a game on TSG2, as usual all was going well. We were all alive except for one person. His name was (some inappropriate S word that I am not going to say)FacedRicky. We need to kill him so we could start battling it out amongst ourselves, but like a animal in hibernation he was nowhere to be found. Then I has the bright idea, call a mod and get him banned for his name. Well that is what I did. Bye Ricky, I am sure your 10 games played were memorable. If somehow you are reading this, I am sorry but that name…..
I must admit we all has a bit of a laugh at that guy, the next great memory I had was when we decided to save up all our points and bounty it on the nobbiest guy in the lobby. Everyone welcome DailyBus502 I believe to the story. It was on Valleyside University, we all did /kill and began our storm of bounties. After we all drained our points along with the help of some members of the public we got 25k on his head. We thought he was doomed. That was not to be the case. This once random Steve that would though would get slaughtered turned into a killing machine. Slaying everyone in the game. It reached Deathmatch, he was against a team of 2 that were seeing red for that bounty. Somehow with courage and determination DailyBuss pulled a victory. There was cheers and screams coming from the waiting room. We were ecstatic. In the lobby we began our congratulations, the only reply if I remember correctly we got off him was “ I h8 u guys”. I think we might of put too much pressure on him. Aw the poor guy, If you are out there I am sorry but it was entertainment.

A few days after the DailyBuss guy I hoped on Teamspeak and saw that they were doing interviews. Seeing as there was a lot of people waiting and I was only somewhere in the middle with my waiting time (about 30 days) I was not sure if I was going to get interviewed. So I politely asked a Sr Mod do you think I would be getting one tonight. They replied and said most likely as they wanted to get through a lot of them. Now the nerves really started to kick in. I stayed up until 3 am. I was one interview away. Then to my horror my mother came into my room. As any normal parent would do she told me get off. Thats what I did, after all I did have college in the morning.

Days passed, no interviews.There was not much of us left as they got through the majority interviews that night. All I knew was when they decided to do them again I was 1st in que. Some days later a Sr Mod came down and said we are going to be hosting interviews shortly. Now I really got nervous, I tired to stay as calm as possible. Getting glasses of water etc. Eventually it was time...

I was moved up and met by Antster , KellieBreanne , Tacoface and Cam . I managed to get through my interview and I was moved down to the waiting room while I waited on my result. I was shaking with fear. People were asking me how it went. While in the middle of replying to them saying " I don't think it went that well" I was moved up. CAmadeusA began talking. He said something along the lines of do you want to bad news or the really bad news. I replied asking for the bad news first. The bad news was they were going to have to remove my waiting rank, the really bad news was I am now going to have to sing as I got mod. I refused at first. I eventually gave into the peer pressure and sang Call me maybe. Lets just say that was an awkward few minutes.

After discussing information with the Sr Staff I was moved up to the training room along with Sp3ctrum_Visionz . While we were waiting for our training I was looking through the server groups I could assign and started giving my self all the donor ranks.Kellie moved me back down into the interview room and started giving out to me, then removed my mod rank. I was terrified, thinking that I has just come all this way and I lost it for a stupid decision. Then I heard a little snigger followed by laughter, they trolled my once again...

So later that night I received all my ranks and training. I was on my way to help the community in anyway possible. The next 2 months went by fast, I was enjoying my time as a staff member. That was until after Christmas/ early January I started feeling down on my self. I was spending too much time on MCSG. I decided to resign. I wrote my resignation letter and that was it. I was no longer a mod...

About a week later I realized what a huge mistake I made and should've just went on a leave of absence.

I desperately wanted to be a mod again, but the applications closed. I knew they would reopen soon so I wrote my application in a word document and saved it on my computer until the applications reopened. Within 1 hour of the applications being opened I has applied. Later that night I got pending.

While on Teamspeak the next day I was down in a channel with some friends and KRaidium joined the channel. He said " Frazzli185, Sean and JasonDeBaxter I have good news. "Server group assigned". I was waiting once again. KRaidium then said that they were going to host interviews now. The three of us moved up to the waiting room. Jason was first. He got through his interview and got mod. Then something came up and they were unable to host any more interviews. In 2 days time KRaid poked me asking do I want a interview. I replied yes and I was up in the waiting room. Strangely enough I was more nervous for my second interview than my first. I was moved up and interviewed. It did not go so well as people kept coming into my room which is quite embarrassing and also I went blank a few times. The interview passed and once again I was down in the waiting room awaiting my result.

A few moment later I was moved back up. Then I got trolled like I have never been before. KRaid put on a Oscar winning acting performance and convinced me that I was not going to get mod. It went something along the lines of "Hey Sean, so I am going to be straight up with you and I hate doing this. I know we are good friends and this should of been easy for you seen as you were a mod before. But unfortunately I am going to have to remove your waiting rank and give you mod back". I will still always hate you for that..

So I have mod back, once again I was doing my best to moderate the server and also sent up events such as the Community Games with AmyGlitters . About a month and a half after I returned as a mod I was in the mod meeting channel waiting for the mod meeting to commence when Dave came down and moved myself, JimmerHD , Lively and ChandelleMC up to the admin waiting room. Dave and Col_StaR moved down to us and said that we were all in trouble. I had no clue what was going on and I was trying to think what did I do wrong, when Lively said that we were more than likely getting trial Sr Mod. I was shocked. As expected I was moved up given my rank and after the mod meeting, all the the trials were moved up into Dave's office and we were given our training. My dream had come through. I found the work so fascinating and a challenge. I worked hard during my trial, putting it before things such as my exams for college.
Four weeks on, it was decision time. Before the end of the Sr Staff I along with the rest of the trials were moved up into a Sr Staff chat while the rest of them discussed our trials. I have never felt to terrified in my life, I could barely talk. Then all of a sudden I was moved. I heard Chads voice… It was not good news, I failed my trial. I was given the reasons and I agreed with them. This was the worst moment of my MCGamer life. I felt as if my world just crashed around me. I moved back into a mod chat. All my friends came up and cheered me up. Thanks guys! It was a dark time. I was confused and unsure as of what to do. I tried to get back to normal moderation duties. It was difficult. Two days after failing my trial I decided to resign due to multiple reasons including in real life situations.

Once again I was a friend rank. Even though I was not enjoying doing normal moderation duties I missed it. I need mod back. After two weeks I decided to re-apply. I was very doubtful about me getting accepted. Why would they pick someone who has resigned 2 times. To my surprise my application was accepted. For the 3rd time I was awaiting my interview. After a week of waiting it was time for my interview. Col_Star was going to lead it. I was petrified, he moved me up. I completed my interview and once again I was awaiting my result.

I passed, for the 3rd time I was a mod. Since I got it back I have enjoyed it more than ever. I have been working hard to better myself in certain ways and I can see myself improve on a daily basis.

I never thought that the day I entered that 1st ever server IP it would be like this. I have met some great people and have has some great experiences that honestly I will remember for the rest of my life.

The one thing I want you guys to take from this story is, no matter how hard it is, never quit.

Thanks for reading, cya around ​

GJ Sean

 

[John jennings]

My journey as a staff member…


My MCSG career began at around March of last year. At this time I was a huge Call Of Duty fanatic, one of my favorite YouTubers FearCrads who was an extremely skilled COD player began the process of making a second channel around this time. Also around this time a few of my Xbox live acquaintances had been telling me about this thrilling game called Minecraft and the Hunger Games on it. At first it did catch my eye and I was curious but I never took action. It was not until FearCrads uploaded his first ever Hunger Games video I decided to purchase Minecraft. I never would've known that one video would change my gaming experience for ever. Myself being a complete Minecraft noob had no idea how to operate the game. It took me a few days before I realized that the Hunger Games was on a server not part of the original game. Once I found out this new bit of intelligence I proceed to google Hunger Games servers for Minecraft. The 1st result was MCSG. After a briefing from one of my friends who showed me how to connect to a server I went onto the server page and looked for an empty slot. I found one! I open up my direct connect tab and enter the address. I am in.
What I entered was the pre-game lobby. If only I knew that back then. I can vividly remember typing in chat “How do we play?”. No one replied. I was alone with no idea what to do. Next thing I know in chat a counter starts to show, 10, 9,8…...3,2,1. I was teleported to a place that I recognized. It was a cornucopia, with my hungry praying eyes I could see the treasure at the centre. The counter reached 0 and I sprinted off my podium, I was confused. Everyone was running faster than me. I did not know how to sprint jump…

Lets just say that game did not go very well. Moments after it began I found myself looking at the server page once again. I quickly had come to the conclusion that I was not very skilled at this game. During the next game I realized you could hold the spacebar which would make you move swiftly. With this newly acquired skill I was sure I was going to obtain some treasure at the cornucopia. I dash to the chests while keeping up the pace with the other tributes. With precision I open the chest and begin clicking on the items. I was too slow, the other tribute had gotten everything so quick. But how? I was to find this out some days later when someone mentioned to me a mysterious tactic named “shift clicking”. I was astonished, I could actually obtain loot. While I was indeed able to get some equipment out of cornucopia and various other chests situated around the map I was still, well lets just say not very good at the whole PvP aspect of MCSG.

Over the next few months I continued to watch FearCrads. As he improved so did myself. While watching his latest video he was doing a dual com with Vikkstar123. I found him interesting and he seemed to have a good knowledge of the game, this is what lead me to watch some of his videos. Over the next few months I slowly improved at the game. Learning new tactics and meeting friends over Skype. I was having a blast!
Now lets fast forward a few months. More precisely to the 25th of August 2013. This is the day that really started my journey to becoming a MCGamer moderator. I signed up for the forums. I remember looking through the map section and my eyes were amazed at these beautiful map submissions. This got me thinking, I would love to make a map. I made a thread asking for an opinion on a idea I had. It got positive feedback and I started the map. Having no clue about any world altering tools I quickly got bored with terraforming using TNT so that plan fell through. Fun fact, almost a year later I have started once again on this idea and it is almost complete. Ok I am getting side tracked, back to the story Sean.

Hmm where was I, oh I joined the forums. So after a few weeks I was really starting to enjoy the forums, I was making intelligent posts which received great feedback. One day while stumbling around the forums I saw a thread that was about to completely change my MCSG life. “Apply for a volunteer staff position”. I opened it, inside was a questionnaire. After a bit of thought I decided I would apply. Lets just say I did not put much effort into it. Unfortunately it was declined the next morning. It was this failure that made me determined to get moderator. I started looking up tips for getting mod. I stumbled across ThatOneTomahawks video. For those of you who are looking to apply I would suggest watching this. Anyway, once again back on topic. This video was extremely informative. The main point that I took from it was that you had to write an essay. This is what I did. I spent the entire night researching all the information I could acquire. After 2 days II was ready to send it in. It was a long nervous wait for a reply. I would wake up each morning, the first thought that came to my mind was to grab my phone and look at the forums. This process repeated for about a week until I received the notification that my application was put through to pending. I was confused, unsure as to what this mysterious place called pending was. It was not until I was in the EU hub later that day and questioned a moderator about it. I was joyful when they told me that this was good and my application was going through an extended review.

After receiving this new I had mixed emotions of joy and nervousness as I knew my application stood a decent chance. It was like deja vu, once again I was waking up in the morning and checking my phone for a reply. Also once again I had to wait roughly a week for a reply. Eventually I received one. As you guessed, it was good news. I was put through to the interview stage and told to hop onto this mysterious program called teamspeak. I proceed to download it and I set it up without any real issues thanks to a well written and descriptive guide on the forums. I poked a Sr Mod with my application and received my waiting rank. I moved up to the waiting room and this is when it really dawned on me that I was one hurdle away from successfully getting mod. But this was a big hurdle that would require mental strength and confidence to overcome. After coming to my senses I noted the amount of people that were waiting and the length they had been waiting. Some of them had 3 months next to there name and there was me with my 1 day. I knew this was going to take a while. I was smart enough to do the good thing and just be patient.

For the first few days I consistently had my microphone muted in the waiting room, I was a bit shy. I eventually started talking to who would eventually become some of my best friends here at MCGamer. As the days passed still no interviews were being held. That did not stop us from enjoying the company of each other. There was a lot of us waiting, we started off by playing a few games with each other. Eventually after some days passed and as we became closer we formed the waiting squad. We would stay up till stupid O’clock dominating the EU servers. Mind you I was still terrible at PvP so I never won a game, but hey everyone loves a trier. This was honestly the greatest time I have had here. The two most notable memories were as follows.
We were playing a game on TSG2, as usual all was going well. We were all alive except for one person. His name was (some inappropriate S word that I am not going to say)FacedRicky. We need to kill him so we could start battling it out amongst ourselves, but like a animal in hibernation he was nowhere to be found. Then I has the bright idea, call a mod and get him banned for his name. Well that is what I did. Bye Ricky, I am sure your 10 games played were memorable. If somehow you are reading this, I am sorry but that name…..
I must admit we all has a bit of a laugh at that guy, the next great memory I had was when we decided to save up all our points and bounty it on the nobbiest guy in the lobby. Everyone welcome DailyBus502 I believe to the story. It was on Valleyside University, we all did /kill and began our storm of bounties. After we all drained our points along with the help of some members of the public we got 25k on his head. We thought he was doomed. That was not to be the case. This once random Steve that would though would get slaughtered turned into a killing machine. Slaying everyone in the game. It reached Deathmatch, he was against a team of 2 that were seeing red for that bounty. Somehow with courage and determination DailyBuss pulled a victory. There was cheers and screams coming from the waiting room. We were ecstatic. In the lobby we began our congratulations, the only reply if I remember correctly we got off him was “ I h8 u guys”. I think we might of put too much pressure on him. Aw the poor guy, If you are out there I am sorry but it was entertainment.

A few days after the DailyBuss guy I hoped on Teamspeak and saw that they were doing interviews. Seeing as there was a lot of people waiting and I was only somewhere in the middle with my waiting time (about 30 days) I was not sure if I was going to get interviewed. So I politely asked a Sr Mod do you think I would be getting one tonight. They replied and said most likely as they wanted to get through a lot of them. Now the nerves really started to kick in. I stayed up until 3 am. I was one interview away. Then to my horror my mother came into my room. As any normal parent would do she told me get off. Thats what I did, after all I did have college in the morning.

Days passed, no interviews.There was not much of us left as they got through the majority interviews that night. All I knew was when they decided to do them again I was 1st in que. Some days later a Sr Mod came down and said we are going to be hosting interviews shortly. Now I really got nervous, I tired to stay as calm as possible. Getting glasses of water etc. Eventually it was time...

I was moved up and met by Antster , KellieBreanne , Tacoface and Cam . I managed to get through my interview and I was moved down to the waiting room while I waited on my result. I was shaking with fear. People were asking me how it went. While in the middle of replying to them saying " I don't think it went that well" I was moved up. CAmadeusA began talking. He said something along the lines of do you want to bad news or the really bad news. I replied asking for the bad news first. The bad news was they were going to have to remove my waiting rank, the really bad news was I am now going to have to sing as I got mod. I refused at first. I eventually gave into the peer pressure and sang Call me maybe. Lets just say that was an awkward few minutes.

After discussing information with the Sr Staff I was moved up to the training room along with Sp3ctrum_Visionz . While we were waiting for our training I was looking through the server groups I could assign and started giving my self all the donor ranks.Kellie moved me back down into the interview room and started giving out to me, then removed my mod rank. I was terrified, thinking that I has just come all this way and I lost it for a stupid decision. Then I heard a little snigger followed by laughter, they trolled my once again...

So later that night I received all my ranks and training. I was on my way to help the community in anyway possible. The next 2 months went by fast, I was enjoying my time as a staff member. That was until after Christmas/ early January I started feeling down on my self. I was spending too much time on MCSG. I decided to resign. I wrote my resignation letter and that was it. I was no longer a mod...

About a week later I realized what a huge mistake I made and should've just went on a leave of absence.

I desperately wanted to be a mod again, but the applications closed. I knew they would reopen soon so I wrote my application in a word document and saved it on my computer until the applications reopened. Within 1 hour of the applications being opened I has applied. Later that night I got pending.

While on Teamspeak the next day I was down in a channel with some friends and KRaidium joined the channel. He said " Frazzli185, Sean and JasonDeBaxter I have good news. "Server group assigned". I was waiting once again. KRaidium then said that they were going to host interviews now. The three of us moved up to the waiting room. Jason was first. He got through his interview and got mod. Then something came up and they were unable to host any more interviews. In 2 days time KRaid poked me asking do I want a interview. I replied yes and I was up in the waiting room. Strangely enough I was more nervous for my second interview than my first. I was moved up and interviewed. It did not go so well as people kept coming into my room which is quite embarrassing and also I went blank a few times. The interview passed and once again I was down in the waiting room awaiting my result.

A few moment later I was moved back up. Then I got trolled like I have never been before. KRaid put on a Oscar winning acting performance and convinced me that I was not going to get mod. It went something along the lines of "Hey Sean, so I am going to be straight up with you and I hate doing this. I know we are good friends and this should of been easy for you seen as you were a mod before. But unfortunately I am going to have to remove your waiting rank and give you mod back". I will still always hate you for that..

So I have mod back, once again I was doing my best to moderate the server and also sent up events such as the Community Games with AmyGlitters . About a month and a half after I returned as a mod I was in the mod meeting channel waiting for the mod meeting to commence when Dave came down and moved myself, JimmerHD , Lively and ChandelleMC up to the admin waiting room. Dave and Col_StaR moved down to us and said that we were all in trouble. I had no clue what was going on and I was trying to think what did I do wrong, when Lively said that we were more than likely getting trial Sr Mod. I was shocked. As expected I was moved up given my rank and after the mod meeting, all the the trials were moved up into Dave's office and we were given our training. My dream had come through. I found the work so fascinating and a challenge. I worked hard during my trial, putting it before things such as my exams for college.
Four weeks on, it was decision time. Before the end of the Sr Staff I along with the rest of the trials were moved up into a Sr Staff chat while the rest of them discussed our trials. I have never felt to terrified in my life, I could barely talk. Then all of a sudden I was moved. I heard Chads voice… It was not good news, I failed my trial. I was given the reasons and I agreed with them. This was the worst moment of my MCGamer life. I felt as if my world just crashed around me. I moved back into a mod chat. All my friends came up and cheered me up. Thanks guys! It was a dark time. I was confused and unsure as of what to do. I tried to get back to normal moderation duties. It was difficult. Two days after failing my trial I decided to resign due to multiple reasons including in real life situations.

Once again I was a friend rank. Even though I was not enjoying doing normal moderation duties I missed it. I need mod back. After two weeks I decided to re-apply. I was very doubtful about me getting accepted. Why would they pick someone who has resigned 2 times. To my surprise my application was accepted. For the 3rd time I was awaiting my interview. After a week of waiting it was time for my interview. Col_Star was going to lead it. I was petrified, he moved me up. I completed my interview and once again I was awaiting my result.

I passed, for the 3rd time I was a mod. Since I got it back I have enjoyed it more than ever. I have been working hard to better myself in certain ways and I can see myself improve on a daily basis.

I never thought that the day I entered that 1st ever server IP it would be like this. I have met some great people and have has some great experiences that honestly I will remember for the rest of my life.

The one thing I want you guys to take from this story is, no matter how hard it is, never quit.

Thanks for reading, cya around ​

Quotes on "Short Story" lol XD

 

[Sean]

Quotes on "Short Story" lol XD

I know my story is a bit more of a short novel

 

[Kellie]

6O SECONDS
A Short Story By kelliemeyer

I signed into mcsg expecting to play an average game of hunger games for hours like every other day, maybe gaining some points and loosing some points.
But today was different.
60 seconds until death match as I ran through the forest of trees being chanced by a another player with mainly iron armour and a iron sword, which could easily beat my who just has chain armour and a stone sword, although I knew this wasn't going to be the battle I won, he was getting so close I had to time to do /hub and teleport out. I came across this stone tower with an open door out front, I knew it was my only chance I sprinted in and up the ladder that was right in front of me, not far up the ladder I fell, losing all but half a heart, the "10 seconds until deathmatch" message came up in the chat, one of my opponents (the one chasing me) went a further up the ladder only to find out that I wasn't still above him, he jumped down unknowingly how high up he was, all of his armour, weapons and food scattered across the ground, he had died, my eyes filled with excitement now knowing that I may have a chance. With approximately 5 seconds remaining, I bolted to grab his equipment, and use it all. teleportation to the death match happened quickly and before I knew it we were playing, my only opponent left had a diamond sword with leather armour, he ran around the centre aiming and shooting arrows at me, I knew if I continued to run around I would have no chance of winning due to his very careful aim of shooting, never missing a shot he fired at me. I charged towards him iron sword in hand hitting him quickly and before he had the chance to replace his bow with his sword the fire works started, and I had won the hunger games.

 

[Spaiu]

Sometimes I sit and wonder, About things I wish to change
Like my bans on Minecraft. Such pain I find Quite strange

I wish I could time travel in hopes of righting my wrongs
But such is life, and Mistakes such as life are strong

My Time, although short, was a mystery was it not?
I now know that I had only one shot.. but thou shall know now

IN hopes of recognition, I set my goals so high
Only to be shot down by my friends, now fiends. My sky is now a blank

Over the months, now years. All I have is hope
To gain enough courage to talk to the higher slope

I need to find a hobby, yet all I do is grieve
Over my sorrow struck outer life, I just need to stop to breathe

My story such as fun, was also such as strange
My feelings over playing were the utmost of grange happiness

It all started long ago when I was young, just 12 years old
Back in 2012 when the end of the world was apparently told

I played just so occasionally, that I felt like no one know's
But after playing more and more my friendship's start to grow

From young kids to old adults, I made alsorts of friends and enemies
But atfer foolish acts I was banned and lost a year of memories

It was then, when I made another being to be apart of it all
And let me tell you, I had such a fun time, only then I started to fall

My Identity was let free and everyone knew about who I was
just goes to show how small the world really is, because..

I made more friends, more than ever before
I was one that was liked, as well as adored.

Then grieve and guilt struck me without warning
Everything felt like evil and life became boring

Friendship was lost and enemies were made
it was then when I slipped behind the shades

More friends lost and more enemies were made
Only because of small, silly mistakes I hate

I didn't think one night and was trying to make friends
Only then did I make a mistake of using threats as an end

Causing such pain, I scared many people and so I was removed
From the community of evil

The ban did me good as It gave me reason to confess
Who I really was and my story was a mess

People slowly forgave me and made me feel more human
People slowly spoke to me about choices that I had failed to make

it was only then when I felt like I had finally fixed my name
All of the sorrow and pain slowly faded away

I occasionally get on the forums only to be reminded
About my past experiences that left awaited torment

Appeals were made and names were faded as friends left the community
That was then when I felt that I had found the immunity

I made mistakes in my past, but I have reviewed them
And now I think it's time that I confront my enemy and break the stem

Only to this thread, I'm made clear on what must be done
I will talk to all who's needed, to do what I see fun

I WILL get myself back on MCG so I can continue my story
And help to revive my old, forgoten glory


Thanks to all who actually read to this point! Good luck with your story,

And may the odds be ever in your favour.

As for the platinum if I somehow win, I would like it to be placed on either one of my banned accounts,

Spaiu
Yoyal_Honey Just incase I actually confront my problems and find a solution

 

[smashmaster]

#TOLAZY

 

[Mooclan]

#TOLAZY

Too lazy to spell "Too" right? ok.