Minecraft Speed Build is Now Open!
Its time! Begin building Minecrafters! Click here to find out which plot, and the IP address for your build! Just add the server into your Minecraft server page, and join!
If you are not listed then we are sorry, but you signed up after the cut of time Wednesday and missed out this time.
A further note – if you are entering into the Video competition – do not feel pressured into filming your plot over the weekend – we will reopen them next week after the close time (Monday 9:30am GMT) for you to enter and film – but building will be disabled to prevent naughty last minute edits!
Good luck everyone!
Edit: There was an error with the map creation on the servers – so the plots are not down to bedrock as originally planned. If you would like your plot knocked down to bedrock, then it can be done on request. Just send a ticket this evening before its too late, and we will organise it for you!
Minecraft Xmas Creative Competition: Outside the top 10
We hosted our biggest ever game competition during December/January with over 520 teams of hopefuls looking to win a share of $2000 over the Christmas period. On Tuesday we revealed the top 20 short list. People are biting at the bit to find out the winner, but since we are cruel and like to torture our community, we are not telling you just yet! Today we reveal to you the plots that our judges considered 20th-11th places – amazing builds that were in the top 4% but did not quite make the top lineup.
Before you read below, you should read about our LAN festivals. Gaming events (the biggest in the UK!) where you can come and meet like-minded people, all playing PC games together for an entire weekend! We also host a live Minecraft competition – where you get the weekend to impress our judges in the usual fashion, and the top entries get shown live on our grand finals arena stage, along with our high intensity professional gaming tournaments. If you want to know more, read about the event and the Minecraft competitions here.
Click read more below to see how these teams finished!
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i46 - insomnia46 tickets now on sale!
That’s right! We have opened up ticket sales for insomnia46, which is being held on 24th – 27th August at the Telford International Centre.
We know that many of our customers can only attend one insomnia event a year and have enquired about purchasing these tickets earlier. With the extra strain of the Olympics on travel and accommodation this year, especially in the summer months, we wanted to give our customers ample time to make arrangements.
The earlier you book, the cheaper things are, that also applies to insomnia. We are releasing the first 500 tickets for insomnia46 at the earlier bird discount of 30%, that’s only £64.40!
Head over to the tickets page to book today.
Minecraft Xmas Creative Competition – Top 20 Entries Shortlist
Hello there Minecrafters!
Our judges have spent many an hour flying around the wonderful creations our expert builders have completed, they have flicked switches and received bacon/muffins/boats, they have ridden huge rides, and been down magical tunnels deep underground, and have come up with a short list of 20 builds. The top 6 of which will win awesome prizes!
Here we have a preview list of these awesome builds. Bear in mind that these are the top 20 builds from a competition where we had over 520 teams take part! So everyone mentioned here has done something awesome enough to get noticed by our judges.
Hungarian Parliment by Team xXdubaBuilderXx
In Alphabetical order so not to give anything away, the names of the teams are as follows:
| Team Name | Build Description |
|---|---|
| Aeries Freebuild | Japanese Temple |
| AsdjkeisChilly | Guess Who |
| BlueBudgies | Adventure Land |
| Hello Galaxy | Castle Mazes |
| MapzCraft | Ice Castle in Valley |
| McLegends | Incredible Journey Pathway |
| Men of the Hat | Swamp & City |
| Mithrintia | Dragon castle |
| N-Z-E | Santa’s Workshop and Village |
| neonphosphorus | Tree Village |
| Sov_Sage | Xmas Town |
| Summa Crossroads | Interactive Theme Park |
| Sunflower | Water Temple |
| The Ardent Forge | Village w/ Landscape |
| The Islanders (Parksville) | Victoria Parliment |
| THN | Hogwarts |
| Vandelay Industries | Castle |
| VCGaming | Xmas Cube Town |
| Victorious Street | Wooden Sky Village |
| xXdubaBuilderXx | Hungarian Parliment |
If you are not one of these gifted few, then unfortunately you have not got a chance at the prizes this time, but you should consider entering our Speed Build this weekend! Signups close Wednesday so hurry! In the coming 2 weeks we shall slowly be revealing the top 10 plots, and revealing in more detail what was constructed! Watch this space!
i45 - Want to win an IPad2?
Well just head over to our Facebook Page, like and share the competition photo/post and be in with a chance to win an IPad2!
What are you waiting for? Go now!
No really go! 
