Events and Competitions

Big City Big Build
Blockbuster Build-Off
Game Night
Jump Quests
The Purge
Wiki Contest
World Expo
Zombie Run

Big City Big Build

A series of server build contests held in order to showcase the building ability of the community, as well as expanding Big City (now known as Monarch), the server's main city project. The winners received prizes such as in-game money, items, and codes for Steam games.

History

The first contests were held by _specialk, and took place over a period of 2 or 3 days, generally on weekends. Specific plots were laid out in the then Big City map for contestants to create their entries, leading to large areas of the city being constructed over a short space of time.

During 2013, Ouhai_Ruby took over running the contests, and several were held between 2013 and 2015. These contests were a longer format, with no set area for builds to be completed in. Instead, contestants were instructed to build their entry in the server's Creative map, and include the co-ordinates of their build within their entry post.

Previous Winners

The exact dates and winners for the 1st 2 contests are not known due to forum data loss.

Contest	Date	1st Place	2nd Place	3rd Place
Big City Big Build	2012(?)	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Big City Big Build 2	2012(?)	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Big City Big Build 3	July 2012	Liam599 & Ferfer313	Joint 2nd: LegendofCharks & Sliether	Joint 2nd: ka_52 & Semilaxbeazt
Big City Big Build: Thanksgiving Edition	November 2012	Sacreddeathflame	Saintnizair (Wairoa)	fatso12321
BigCity Build Contest	May 2013	Saintnizair (Wairoa)	Namillo	Tie: Yomigaere & Piehole317
Our Biggest Big Build Yet	June 2013	N/A*
BigCity Build Contest... Again!	September 2013	Namillo	GuiboAllon (Ducky)	Yomigaere
Another BigCity Build Contest	January 2014	N/A*
Big City Big Build is BACK!!	July 2014	vaiovista (Rebzy)	ka_52 & Semilaxbeazt	Plimpsoll
BigCity Big Build Blazes Back!	December 2014	madant79	Anthjmon10	Yomigaere
BigCity Big Build [Dec. 2015]	December 2015	wooly19	JBI & SMOD3	MagmaFlameGirl

* Contest ended inconclusively.

Blockbuster Build-Off

An event in which players attempt to recreate a scene from a movie or TV series, within the confines of a small plot.

2022

Organised by DeadMeat06 and _andy. Ran from September 2nd to October 1st.
Voting was open for a week.

Submissions

1st Place	Patrior_CZ	Sauron Eye
2nd Place	verajasper	Arrival
3rd Place	Buns	Avatar
	Jake_Mu	Tanya The Evil
	DeadMeat06	Star Wars
	PrinceMark	American Horror Story
	Totqlity	The Wizard of Oz: Munchkin

Game Night

PCB Game Nights was an event which that took place weekly on a variety of games outside of Minecraft.

Prop Hunt

Prop Hunt was the first PCB Game Nights event. This took place on a temporary Garry's Mod server.

Location	Garry's Mod Server
Date	4th December 2015 9PM GMT
Organisers	AGx

Cards Against Humanity

Location	Pretend You're Xyzzy
Date	20th December 2015 9PM GMT
Organisers	AGx

Sven Co-op

Location	Sven Server
Date	27th February 2015 9PM GMT
Organisers	AGx, Crassclown

Jackbox Games

Date	12th March 2016 9PM GMT
Organisers	AGx

Jump Quests

Jump quests were puzzles created by staff that could be played at any time by warping to the location. The goal was to get from the start location to the end location by traversing across complex obstacles. These obstacles required the player to move and jump from platform to platform, and failure to successfully land on the subsequent platform would result in falling out of the arena (thus failing the puzzle).

Successful completion of a jump quest rewarded the player with currency/diamonds.

Locations

Jump Quest 1

Jump quest 1 was located under Sandy Point in the Minecraft Survival Beta 1.2_02 map. Completion would reward the player with 30 coins.

Jump Quest 2

Jump quest 2 was only accessible by warp, in the same map as Jump Quest 1.

Anti-Cheating

The first two maps did not have any mechanics to prevent cheating. As some players had access to the /fly command, the system was based around trust and any player spotted cheating would be banned from the server.

The Purge

The Purge was an event that took place prior to the change to the Survival 1.8 map. As part of this event, griefing rules for Survival were suspended, allowing for the complete destruction of the map.

Conception

The Purge was decided upon by a community vote, in which players had the choice between a standard reset and The Purge. The latter option was chosen by a 32-9 vote. Several people objected to The Purge, on the grounds that they did not want to see their hard work destroyed.

Aftermath

The Purge was originally intended to last for 1-3 days, but it only lasted several hours due to the wide-scale destruction. After this, the Survival 1.8 map was introduced.

References

Wiki Contest

The PCB Wiki Contest ran from June 15th to July 15th, 2018, and asked players to create a standout Wiki Page for their city or town for fame, glory, and everlasting bragging rights.

Previous Winners

The winner of this contest, FurtenFur, created a page on her city Reverly, and created not only a fantastically detailed page with images, captions, headings, and tables galore, but an amazing YouTube video as well. Out of 18 points available in the rubric, FurtenFur scored an amazing 25, with extra points from cited sources, and, of course, going above and beyond in several categories.

When put to a staff vote, it was agreed for all posterity, FurtenFur is the illustriously-titled Best Wiki Writer on PCB.

World Expo

World Expo 2015

The PCB World Expo 2015 was the first Creative 1.7 event of its kind. In the event, players formed a team with fellow members and created a set of landmarks and notable moments that has greatly influenced their countries. The event took place in a dedicated area of the creative map. On the forums, a topic was posted on 1 March 2015 by the host of the event, Ducky, to introduce the winners of the World Expo.

Entries

1st Place: United Kingdom

The United Kingdom build a large red telephone box, filled with British objects.

Builders

Sir Ouhai_Ruby
Sir TheOctopus
Dame Penguina
Sir thejoshua79
Sir Petroliam
Hon. Sir Javi

Map

On the West wall of the phone box, a large map of the United Kingdom was built. This map was stylised with the nation's flags. Player's heads were placed in their approximate locations. The bottom of the map showed some of Britain's notable overseas territories, such as the Falkland Islands, Bermuda and the British Indian Ocean Territory

BBC Shrine

One of Britain's greatest institutes is the British Broadcasting Corporation. Underneath the map is a large BBC logo, with a list of programmes the BBC have created. There is also a list of the BBC's many channels and radio stations

The Lion and the Unicorn

This mural shows the national animals of England and Scotland battling in a duel of claws and horns

The Guitar

This guitar built by Petroliam is a replica of Jimmy Page's Gibson Les Paul.

The White Cliffs of Dover

The white cliffs of Dover are some cliffs near Dover, which are white. On top of the cliffs Penguina and Petroliam engage in the UK's rural region's favourite sport, Sheep Copulation.

2nd Place: The Netherlands

The Netherlands built a traditional dutch town.

Builders

Yomigaere
jakoba99

World Expo 2018

The PCB World Expo 2018 was the second Creative 1.12 event of its kind, succeeding the PCB World Expo 2015^[1]. It included eight participating countries (in order of the results): Australia^[2], France^[3], the United States^[4], the United Kingdom^[5], Italy^[6], the Netherlands^[7], Mexico^[8], and Canada^[9]. A leader or builder to each pavilion posted a topic on the forums to introduce the audience of the event to their countries. The host of the first World Expo, Ducky, returned alongside zwinky12 and Penguina to act as the judges for the event. On 12 August 2018, a topic on the forums was posted by zwinky12 to officially announce the event of which commenced three days later.^[10] The building process concluded nearly a month later, on the midnight after 9 September. On the next day, zwinky12 introduced the winners of the World Expo via the forums.^[11] The three winning countries included Australia in 1st, France in 2nd, and the United States in 3rd. All contributors to the event were then granted badges, with the top three teams receiving a gold, silver and bronze tag to represent their position.

Countries

A world map of all the countries and their representatives participating in the PCB World Expo of 2018. The states included are Australia, France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands, Mexico, and Canada.

Australia

Team Australia consisted of Emfitty, Wairoa, Mannriah, Dantosky, Prince_Mark and Insane_Monkey.

France

Team France included one representative, Poctivy_Ani.

The United States

Team America was led by MrFerf and supported by officer A_Good_Shrimp, jmvvana, theminer220, JakeTFS, Lysithea_ciel, acaa, Robot_King, vexnorz and SaltedWolf.

The United Kingdom

Team UK included SwimGirl, Lysithea_ciel (Kyle) and dBdB.

Italy

Team Italy, also known as Squadra Italia, consisted of MattDB, Vir_Caeli, Omgnator, and EstevaoBuilder..

The Netherlands

Team Netherlands was represented by verajasper and JustACornCob.

Mexico

Team Mexico was led by MilesNoKilometer and supported by _happybob.

Canada

Team Canada was headed by Whbilbo and supported by Masterboatman, MxMxTrX, NSXNation, and pierocks.

References

Zombie Run

Zombie Run was a PvE (Player vs Enemy) event in which players were pit against an increasing number of zombies. The player with the most points by the end of the game was crowned the winner. The arena resembled ruins, providing a variety of areas suitable for fighting and defending. Each round was controlled by the server.

Mini-Game Features

Points for each zombie kill
Upgradable armor and weapons
Automated random enemy spawning
Game spectating
Gradual increasing difficulty