Dogcraft Hunger Games

Dogcraft Hunger Games
Dogcraft Hunger Games
Survival 4
	Group screenshot of players after the event had concluded
Event
Type	PvP Event
Date	23rd August, 2020, 6pm UTC
Organizers	ElliotTheRedd, LazyNine, Montenator, N1cM4tth3w63
Attendance	32 fighters
World	Survival 4

The Dogcraft Hunger Games was an event on the Dogcraft Server that took place on the 23^rd of August 2020 at 6pm UTC. The Hunger Games were modeled after the popular mulitplayer minigame featured on many servers, Minecraft Survival Games. The event had a large, built-from-scratch map for all the players to explore, find chests, and fight in.

The map and event were organized and built by ElliotTheRedd, LazyNine, Montenator, and N1cM4tth3w63, in association with the Events Team. 32 players participated in the event and a considerable number of other people streamed or recorded it, including coverage by the Cyberdog News Network.

The Event

In the games, 32 players fought to the death, using only the materials and items they were able to find in chests that were scattered around the map. The Hunger Games were hosted inside a massive arena built by the organisers.

A point-based system was used to score the games and determine the winner after three rounds of play. Each participant got 1 point per every 5 placements they survived, with additional points for getting third, second, or first in the round. Each player was also awarded 1 point for every player they killed. This made the event a little more balanced toward non-PvP-ers as you could hide out the whole round, but not get any kills, or you could play aggressively but risk dying in fights early on. After 20 minutes, or when the players were all hiding and no fights were happening, the remaining players were brought to the nearby deathmatch arena to fight it out in a smaller setting, with nowhere to hide!

Battle Arena

Video: Full Hunger Games Arena Tour

A birds-eye view of the entire arena

The Dogcraft Hunger Games featured a big map that was divided into 5 different sections: Moon, Graveyard, Western, Candyland, and the center cornucopia area where all of the players started. Each section, bar the cornucopia, had loads of different Points of Interest that ranged from a giant Hell chapel (Graveyard), to a train station (Western), to the planet Saturn (Moon), or to even a huge Toblerone chocolate bar (Candyland)!

Each section had lots of different unmentioned spots with chests or places to hide. Each section featured their own theme of underground caves, ranging from cookie caves (Candyland), to a gold mine (Western)! These underground areas winded through every section and were all connected. It can be a great spot to hide and be secluded, but it's easy to get cornered in the caves.

Results & Prizes

1st place - _phnx_Miacik_ - 30k DCD + Full Iron Beacon
2nd place - legowar1508 - 20k DCD
3rd place - Marbou9 - 10k DCD

Highlights

There were some notable highlights from the event:

An intense tiebreaker fistfight match between marbou9 and momsapplesauce in the deathmatch arena for 3rd place
BarlBacon starting his book company and signing autographs after the event!
The 10k DCD ultra-rare commemorative Leather Chestplates being sold out before the first round started! How exclusive!
The massive hot tub battle royale in between rounds while the organizers restocked all of the chests

Trivia

Famous shop Yellow 21 sponsored the event and had a booth to sell things there!
jmsvvr made his own secret prize for the event - 5k DCD to the player with the first kill, and 5k DCD to the player with the first death
LAK3RS generously donated a lot of resources that were later used for all the items in the chests!
A sneaky little dwarf can be found in the Gold Mine part of the Western section, courtesy of StenLLuk!
The arena took about 2 months of work to build, with each builder working on it almost every day! Time to take a break!