Minecraft Esports Going to Make History in 2025?
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Minecraft Speed running Ranked, which has been making sound this week as the Season 7 playoffs run from May 3rd to 11th, 2025.
During the time, the series has attracted strong viewership, indicating that perhaps 2025 is the year when Minecraft esports is going to be on centre stage.
Speed running is a popular Minecraft and MCSR, which brings it into a competitive tournament format. The top speed runner goes straight into the race to defeat the Ender Dragon as quickly as possible.
The MCSR mod has evolved into the tournament today and was developed around 2023 and gained traction over time with some less time around the speed running community.
The tournament is owned by Redline and Olivermcsr, and it is hosted by creators such as Matthew Feinberg and Anthony Salzarulo, who posted online about the success.
Anthony stated that Minecraft esports is the future, and this is everything.
The current prize pool of MCSR Season 7 playoffs is:
- 1st -$3,000
- 2nd-$1,500
- 3rd-$500
The matches begin with a round of 16, well before the winners of eight matches move to the quarterfinals, semi-finals, and lastly the Grand finals.
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MCSR Season 7 Showing the Promising Viewership
The official MCSR YouTube channel, the Season 7 Playoffs Day 2 livestream was over 28,000 views, and during day 1 it was around 13,000 views, a huge difference.
Well, people shared their thoughts about this were one user stated that, Shoutout mods, design, production, backers, commentators, and developers who have made the event possible. Mean while others commented that this has been the most cinema ranked of all time, and he did not think that ranked could get any better, but the event has given a better season after season.
While looking at Twitch viewership, it was also impressive. Matches were streamed on the official channel of Feinberg, where they gained 40,000 views on day 1 and 75,000 views on day 2.
When we looked at the Esports charts, Minecraft was a successful esports scene in 2024, where it was recorded that the total prize pool of nearly $ 2 M. It had viewership of 510,000 during the Twitch Rivals, which was the peak viewership.
MCSR has been showing no signs of slowing down. The tournament is still live at the time of writing, and we may think this time it might beat the older viewership too, as the grand finals are around the corner, the battle is going to be legendary.
