Watching Wilbur appear in the Yellow Yaks call during Ace Race is so funny to see from different perspectives. I mean one one hand you’ve got Scott and Owen, who muted right before Wilbur even showed up and didn’t know he was there until Scott saw a message in chat and was like “Oh, Wilbur’s here. Okay.” Then by the time he’s back in call and can actually hear Wilbur he doesn’t even acknowledge the obvious stream crashing, just kinda goes “Oh hey Wilbur.” and carries on with his day.
Then there’s Gem, who’s been casually talking to Grian about the course, and when Wilbur appears she’s like “H-Hello? Hello???” and when he says “It’s Ace Race time” she just “O-Oh….?” like this is the most baffling thing to have happened today but she’s mostly chill with it. She doesn’t talk much during his monologuing and it’s like she’s STILL PROCESSING what’s happening until the very end of the race.
And then Grian - the man can’t figure out WHO it is at first, asking “Scott…???” and getting QUITE confused. And then Wilbur mentions Ace Race and “I heard it’s Ace Race time” and it’s like INSTANT recognition and Grian just “Oh! Wilbur?” like of course it’s Wilbur, who else would it be? And he sounds almost scared at first, NO idea how to handle what’s happening, until he kinda catches on and starts just going with it and just shrugs like “Eh, not my usual kind of shenanigans but I’m down for it”. He starts up banter, laughs at the chaos, and says “Why have we not played in MCC together sooner???” There’s promises of a potential future Wilbur and Grian MCC team-up and he doesn’t even bat an eye about what just happened when all is said and done.
And finally there’s Shubble, whose stream Wilbur crashed in the first place. Shubble’s just chanting like “Ace Race! Ace Race! ACE RACE!” and then we hear the door get kicked in and she screams and there’s SILENCE and then a voice goes “What was that sound?” and Shubble’s like “It’s…Ace Race?” and Wilbur s l o w l y descends into frame, ominous and dramatic as ever, and basically shoved Shubble’s rolling chair away amidst her laughter so he can take over. And NOBODY ELSE HAS HEARD THIS HAPPEN because she’s been muted the whole damn time. So when Wilbur makes his grand entrance NOBODY sees it coming and it’s probably the best thing that happened at MCC Pride this time around.
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MCC 22 Cyan Coyotes moments i wanted to write down before i forgot
the miku costume and dye job prestream
wisp pissing on stream
“bike chicken”
weird adhesive
whatever the victorian child bit before parkour tag was
wisp killing ranboo in RSR and immediately being so apologetic about it
“i’m gonna get 40th, i can see the light”
wisp not knowing how any of the games work at all because he missed 3 events
“it reminds me of… buildings”
“who the fuck just joined this VC?” -wilbur, the moment wisp started doing impressions
fr what the fuck happened to wisp after HITW?
JUMP IT
the stewie griffin to kermit Taken monologue pipeline
kit wisp is the voice of ace race, take that as you will
“he’s not out yet?” “he’s gay?!” “out of the birth canal”
winning battle box with the penises
hoping for 4th just so they didn’t come third
wilbur playing “mary had a little lamb” through voicemail
ranboo and wilbur crying and shaking over the 3rd place curse being passed onto them
wilbur and shelby’s extreme petting competition
i haven’t been able to watch an event live since all stars and i’m so happy to be able to do one of these again
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So, Ace Race...what happened?
To give everyone a clearer, more objective view of the situation, I present: the spreadsheet. It contains a list of every player's two times and placements and who disconnected (Keep in mind there could be more, these are just the names I saw in chat join/leave).
I calculated how many places players went up or down and how their time improved. They are color coded by team, and for your convenience I put three lists next to each other: The original placements, the new placements, and what the placements would look like if the only new times you counted were the players that disconnected. (This took seven hours).
Analysis under the cut
For the record, when the first player logged off (Captain Sparklez), there was 4:30 left, when the last player rejoined (Scar) there was 4:01 left, the first person (Dream) placed with 3:28 seconds left. they stopped the game with 1:20 left. And 5up, as far as I know, didn't even rejoin until after the race was over.
Fruit brought up the issue in chat at 2:29 left (after he finished), a few others agreed with him. Oli brought up redoing it with 2:07 left. I don't know whether the admins didn't notice or didn't realize how many people actually dc'd or figured teams were equally affected, but they announced a redo at 1:44. It was tight, they made a decision in 2 minutes and 17 seconds if they noticed everyone disconnecting. Or in less than a minute if they only noticed when people talked in chat, and they did stop the game 14 seconds later.
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Now for some analysis, many players dropped a few placements and felt upset about it, thinking they did worse. This leads to them becoming more frustrated with the reset. I suspected they likely didn't, it was just there were quite a few really good ace race players that got discontented (Illumina, Fruitberries, HBomb).
The vast majority of players improved their time, often by a lot. The only ones that didn't were: Dream, Sapnap, InTheLittleWood, Smallishbeans, FoolishG, Badboyhalo, and AntVenom.
To my knowledge: Dream tried and failed to copy Purpled's skip several times, Martyn had a really good run the first time/tried skips, and Ant's trident didn't work/he tried skips. Joel, Sap, and Bad's were 0-2 seconds worse. I don't know what happened to Foolish (lack of morale ?)
As to be expected, everyone who disconnected improved majorly from 45 seconds to over 1 minute and 30 seconds. Most also rose quite a few placements, but not all. And not enough to account for all the upset in the new placements, so what else?
Well, those who practiced for ace race a lot, vod reviewed, and had experience was now void of those advantages. Now, people had a fresh run, they are familiar with the movements needed, and they saw other people do skips that they can try.
Bad originally had a massive advantage because he has a unique way he practices it that familiarizes the movements to him, but that's now gone, though he only lost one second, he dropped 14 places. Hannah, on the other hand, had never played ace race in an event before. But with the reset, she did and thus performed much better, gaining 6 places.
Almost everyone got faster times, but certain people with certain circumstances were more affected by it. So players, rest assured, you probably did improve the second time around, others just improved more (others being players that were previously handicapped).
(Also Dream, yes it was at least 10 people that were dc'd, Skeppy has not played in 14 months and it was Fruit and Illumina.)
Here's the link if anyone was having trouble accessing it: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TnIGRBftyOJUFE0IDK-cffCyTHVMVeQjeJ8nz-4egY4/edit?usp=sharing
I really hope this doesn't need to be said, but DO NOT use this as a basis to harass Scott or Noxite or any of the Noxcrew. I really hope this clears up some misunderstandings and make some people feel better, not make things worse. It was a tough decision, but I think it was by far the right one. You can see for yourself how much of a difference the disconnects made. Noxcrew does a lot every month to bring us the wonderful event that is MCC, Scott made the teams we're all so fond of, they just released the closed beta of MCC Island. No, things weren't perfect or ideal, but it was out of their control. Besides, we've only had 2 MCCs out of 24 that was this level of scuffed and I think that's a pretty damn good track record.
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Sorry I'm thinking about the preparation Wilbur must've done for the Ace Race finale. Did he sit down, was like "I need to come up with an ending for this ace race thing it's getting a little predictable" and then proceeded to photoshop an image of a tombstone to replace his webcam and have Call Me Maybe, Shake it Off, and California Girls ready to go
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Ace Race is always so funny to watch, because no matter what perspective you choose, there's always someone on the team going "GOD WHY! NO— OH NO WHY DID I DO T— AUGH— WHAT DO— HOW— I HATE THIS GAME!"
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