The 4 teams are Team Suit Up (gray), Team Why can’t I hold all these limes (lime green), Team Fuego (red) and Team Purple.  Each team will bring 5 of its best players for each match in head to head competition.

Map Trailer (novice recording edition)

http://www.twitch.tv/bekerkozar/b/311195637

Skirmish 2 – Saturday March 10th, 6pm pst.
Adventure Map 2-4 players
Because of the small number of players this won’t really be a team activity. But it should be fun to watch regardless.
We have been gathering suggestions for maps via http://goo.gl/bTlwc and so far it looks like we will be playing Spellbound Caves from Vech’s Super Hostile Map series.  If you have suggestions for other adventure maps we should try let us know.

Skirmish 3 – Sunday March 26th, 3pm pst
Team Small Games Medley
We have 4 teams now, and they are ready to compete. This will be the first time the new teams compete against each other. They will be competing in Spleef, Where’s the Beef, Thunderdome, and the Iron Man Race. We have built an all new area to hold these games in utilizing the new taller ceiling height. Hope you aren’t afraid of heights.

Meet the new teams, choose your favorites.  The new team colors as chosen by them(as of now) are Lime Green, Purple, Gray and Red.  If you fancy yourself a skin maker i’m sure they would appreciate some new skins to wear sporting their team colors.  Keep in mine that skins need to have the team color prominently on the head (at least), and not have any other teams color prominent anywhere on the skin (specks and small highlights are fine).  Email submissions to info@minecraftmarathon.org.

We’re going to try a series of follow-up events throughout the year, designed to keep you entertained, and get even more people interested in Minecraft Marathon. By next year, we’ll have way more followers, and the marathon can be an even bigger event!

We’re calling these mini events Minecraft Skirmishes, and they will also be livestreamed on our Twitch.TV account. Our first event is planned for Saturday, February 4th, at 9:30am PST. We’ll be trying out a Race for the Wool with a bunch of newbies! Please tune in at that time, and keep an eye out for some Minecraft giveaways!

To anyone who won an auction: thank you very much for participating! We’re running a bit slow here, but expect that most of our auctions payments, messages, shipping, etc will be resolved within a week from the end of the marathon (so, Sunday-ish).

During Minecraft Marathon, we:

• streamed 53 hours of Minecraft
• raised over $4,000 via ChipIn
• raised over $7,000 via our auctions
• drank 3 flats of Whoopass and 5 packs of Jones Soda
• drank 2 bottles of Jones’ Tofurky and Gravy soda
• had 60 eBay auctions!
• conducted 5 interviews
• had 3 visits from Mojang employees: Jeb, MinecraftChick, and Patrick

Please keep following us on Twitter, Facebook, and this blog. We have more plans for this year! Once things settle down a bit, we’re going to do some followup auctions to offload some items that fell through the cracks the first time. We would like to livestream events every so often, and totally want to be back for Minecraft Marathon 2 next year.

P.S. The server save files can be found here.

To submit a challenge to our creative team send an email to challenge@minecraftmarathon.org with a suggestion and the dollar amount you’re willing to donate for its completion.

You’ll then be contacted by our creative team on whether or not your submission is accepted. If accepted the challenge will begin as soon as you donate the agreed upon amount!

It’s that easy!

We’re just over one day away from the Minecraft Marathon, and we need our viewerbase to pull together and help us promote this charity event! You can tell people about Minecraft Marathon in many different ways, but one important way is Reddit.

For those unfamiliar with Reddit, it is a website that people can go to in order to share and view content. Reddit has many different sub-Reddits, including one for Minecraft! Our goal is to get enough people to comment and vote on our post that it moves to the top of the Minecraft forum, and maybe even to the front page of Reddit!

Please help us out by clicking here and commenting or upvoting good or helpful comments. The more people that know, the bigger of a success this weekend will be. Thank you!

Our current auction total is $1,170. This is significant is because not even half of our auctions are listed yet! Most of our remaining auctions are scheduled to unlock by 4:00pm PST, today. Because of how eBay works with delayed auctions, anything that we miss will be added on Saturday, so we’ll have a big push to bump those items up!

If you haven’t checked out our auctions yet, please do! We have some incredible prizes you won’t find anywhere else!

At the annual Child’s Play Charity dinner and auction, we ran into Todd again. He had just dropped off some special versions of The Guild-themed bottles, and we asked him about partnering with Jones for the Minecraft Marathon. Todd agreed that this would be a neat opportunity to work together for charity, so we exchanged information, and have been talking off and on this past month.

Today, we’re pleased to announce that Mojang has given its approval to re-use the Minecon labels for Minecraft Marathon! All of the standard flavors that were given out will be available again (there were a few super limited edition bottles that aren’t included, for obvious reasons!). How do you get one? We may raffle a few off, but we’ll definitely auction some packs; these will be listed on our Prizes and Auctions page. Additionally, we will be getting codes for free packs of myJones, allowing you to create your own custom bottles!

We’d like to give a special thanks to Todd and Jones Soda for helping to sponsor us in this charitable endeavor. We’ll see you all back here for the marathon on January 13th!

We asked for 1337 followers by tonight, and with the influx of people from the League of Legends forum, we hit that pretty quickly. In fact, we hit it before we could even finish this post!

So, as promised, here are some League of Legends PAX Sivir codes. Go into your account and redeem one! If they are redeemed before you can get to them, don’t worry, we have many more to give away before and during the Minecraft Marathon.

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We also promised that we’d give away some games, so here’s a full Humble Bundle #4, complete with 12 games and various soundtracks! Click fast!

Thanks to everyone who has followed us from the beginning, or has just now followed us. Please join us in raising money for Child’s Play Charity during our marathon, January 13th-15th. See you there!

P.S. Yes, the website totally crashed while I was trying to update this. We may have to do some stress tests before the actual marathon, when Mojang tweets about us…

We also have a few of the full bundles, which came with two extra games, and the entire Humble Bundle #3, but we’re saving those for later! If you’re one of the first to get here, please click a link below and see if it has been redeemed. If it hasn’t, feel free to enter your information and claim it for yourself. If it has, try the next bundle. If you’re the first, don’t claim all three; it won’t do you any good to have multiple copies of the same game!

Have fun!

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