What you need to do to compete in the 2020 NASEF Minecraft Masters Global Competition:

• Each team is required to have an Adult Sponsor. The Adult Sponsor is responsible for registering a team (up to 4 members and two alternates will be accepted). 
• Review the eligibility requirements. Each team member must be between 13-18 years old and live in one of our partner countries to compete.
• Review the technical requirements. Each participating team member will be provided with account access to Minecraft Education Edition and will be required to compete in Minecraft Education Edition throughout the entire competition.
• Check our timeline. Make sure your team can commit to the competition schedule, particularly if your team advances to the Live Challenges.
• Review our Team Guide for Team Members and Adult Sponsors. We stress the importance of our code of conduct for all esports athletes competing in our competitions. 
• Use Minecraft Education Edition to design the Challenge.
• Preliminary Round:
  • Review the Challenge.
  • Create the design build with your team.
  • Submit your completed video in Flipgrid. One one video per team should be submitted.
  • The Team’s name must be used as the display name for the Flipgrid video submission. 
  • Share your video on Twitter, using the hashtag #MinecraftMasters
• Four teams will advance to the Live Challenge Rounds and get a chance to compete in exciting head-to-head design challenges in our live stream.
• Two teams will advance to the Final Event and compete in an incredibly planned challenge where their skills will be tested.
• ALL teams that do not advance to the Live Challenge Rounds and Final Event can compete through our @Home Challenge Rounds and Finals. @Home Challenges will be announced during the live events and teams will create their designs and upload video uploads to our Flipgrid.

What you need to do to compete in the 2020 NASEF Minecraft Masters Global Competition:

• Each team is required to have an Adult Sponsor. The Adult Sponsor is responsible for registering a team (up to 4 members and two alternates will be accepted). 
• Review the eligibility requirements. Each team member must be between 13-18 years old and live in one of our partner countries to compete.
• Review the technical requirements. Each participating team member will be provided with account access to Minecraft Education Edition and will be required to compete in Minecraft Education Edition throughout the entire competition. But, you can create your design in any version of Minecraft.
• There will be five challenges to compete in:
  • Preliminary Round: [Closed] Wednesday, July 22, 2020
  • Round 1: Saturday, July 25 - Wednesday, July 29, 2020
  • Round 2: Sunday, July 26 - Wednesday, July 29, 2020
  • Round 3: Saturday, August 1 - Wednesday, August 1, 2020
  • Finals: Saturday, August 8, 2020 - Wednesday, August 12, 2020
• Tune into each stream of the Live Challenge Rounds and Final Event to hear us reveal the next Challenge details. We will update the website and our Flipgrid at the end of each live stream. Once the Challenge is announced, the team will have until 5:00pm PDT | 8:00pm EDT | 11:59pm UTC/GMT on the following Wednesday to create their design and upload their video to Flipgrid. 
    
  • Share your video on Twitter, using the hashtag #MinecraftMasters

The Minecraft Juniors @Home Challenges provide Minecraft Masters-in-Training to compete along side the Masters Global Competition. There will be five challenges to compete in:

• Preliminary Round: Closed Wednesday, July 22, 2020
• Round 1: Saturday, July 25 - Wednesday, July 29, 2020
• Round 2: Sunday, July 26 - Wednesday, July 29, 2020
• Round 3: Saturday, August 1 - Wednesday, August 1, 2020
• Finals: Saturday, August 8, 2020 - Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Tune into each stream of the Live Challenge Rounds and Final Event to hear us reveal the next Challenge details. We will update the website and our Flipgrid at the end of each live stream. Once the Challenge is announced, the team will have until 5:00pm PDT | 8:00pm EDT | 11:59pm UTC/GMT on the following Wednesday to create their design and upload their video to Flipgrid. 

Teams from across the globe will compete for the top four spots in the Live Challenge Rounds & Final Event. The competition will test your team's Minecraft skills and push your limits!

Teams of up to 4 players and 2 alternates will work together on a Minecraft Design Challenge. Teams will then record a video of their design build and upload/record to our Flipgrid. Teams will have until Friday, July 17, 2020 at 5:00pm PDT | 8:00pm EDT | 0:00 AM UTC on Saturday, July 18, 2020.

What is Challenge? Register your Team to find out!

Four teams will compete LIVE on our stream. Throughout each Live Challenge Round, expert judges will encourage our teams of Minecraft builders through unbelievable challenges. There will be three rounds and final event will test our team's mastery in Design, Redstone, Commands/Command Blocks, and Code Builder. 

All streams will be hosted by our partner Participate.

If your team wasn't selected to advance to the Live Challenge Rounds and Final Event, you still have a chance to compete with your team and earn prizes! Join each into each Live Challenge and Final Event and continue to compete with your team at home! You will have four days to complete your design, make your video and upload it to our Flipgrid. We will release the new Flipgrid and update our webpage with the Challenge details following each Live Stream. 

Teams can use any version of Minecraft to compete at the Minecraft Masters @Home Challenges but registration is still required.

Through a partnership with HyperX, the top 10 teams will receive HyperX headsets.

For each Live Challenge Round, NASEF will award each member (player and alternates) of the winning team:

• Minecraft LEGO® Creation Sets
• Special Mentorship Experience with Minecraft Education Edition Creative Experts

At the conclusion of the Final Event, NASEF will award each member (player and alternates) based on their placement:

• 1st Place
  • Xbox One S and Minecraft: Master Collection Game and Minecraft Story Mode: The Complete Adventure
  • Windows Kano
  • Special Mentorship Experience with Minecraft Education Edition Creative Experts
• 2nd Place
  • Windows Kano
  • Special Mentorship Experience with Minecraft Education Edition Creative Experts
• 3rd Place
  • Minecraft: Guide Collection 4-Book Boxed Set: Exploration; Creative; Redstone; The Nether & the End
  • Minecraft LEGO® Creation Set
  • Special Mentorship Experience with Minecraft Education Edition Creative Experts
• 4th Place
  • Minecraft LEGO® Creation Set
  • Special Mentorship Experience with Minecraft Education Edition Creative Experts

At the conclusion of each @Home Challenge Round and Finals, NASEF will award each member (player and alternates):

• International winners representing each of partnering countries will be selected via raffle:
  • Minecraft LEGO® Set
  • Minecraft Dungeons Standard Edition
• US winner will be selected via raffle:
  • Minecraft LEGO® Set
  • Minecraft Dungeons Standard Edition

We're looking for teams! This is a team competition. Each team member must be between 13-18 years old at the time of registration AND each team member must reside in the following countries: Canada, France, Israel, Japan, Mexico, United Kingdom, United States, United States Territories, and South Africa.

Explore infinite worlds and build everything from the simplest of homes to the grandest of castles. Play in creative mode with unlimited resources or mine deep into the world in survival mode, crafting weapons and armor to fend off dangerous mobs. Create, explore and survive alone or with friends on Windows 10, Mac, Chromebook or IPad. Learn more about how to install Minecraft Education Edition. As part of the competition, NASEF will provide all registered team members access to Minecraft Education Edition. Once registered, all eligible team members will be sent credentials to log into Minecraft Education Edition.

Read the 2020 NASEF Minecraft Masters eligibility requirements. All teams must be registered by an Adult Sponsor through the NASEF website in order to compete or be considered for the competition. For the four teams that advance to the Live Challenge Rounds and Final Event, a parent permission slip will be required for participation.

Unfortunately, for this competition all teams will be required to create their designs in Minecraft Education Edition. We will be looking for teams with skills across all categories!

The Preliminary Round of the 2020 NASEF Minecraft Masters opens on Monday, June 29, 2020 and closes on July 17, 2020. The Live Rounds and Final Event begin on Saturday, July 25, 2020 and concludes with Final Event on Saturday, August 8, 2020. The @Home Challenge will begin on Saturday, July 25, 2020 and concludes with Final Event on Saturday, August 8, 2020.

Unfortunately, only teams with members that reside in our partnering countries may compete in this competition. But, we encourage you to check back as we will be introducing a new Minecraft competition at the end of the summer.

Submit your completed video in our Flipgrid. Please include your team name with your video, so we can match your registration and submission. A team only needs to submit one video.

Preferred methods of video creation include using the screen capture tool in Flipgrid or screen recording play session and upload. For more information on screen capture tools.

You will be sent the link to our Flipgrid after you register for the competition.

Yes! Grab some friends, classmates or your brother and sister to join your team. Our competition will crown a team of Minecraft Masters, but we will also award Masters in Training through our @Home Challenge Rounds and Finals. Even if you don't make the Live Challenge Rounds, you can still compete.

Your team can still compete in our Minecraft Masters @Home Challenge Rounds. Make sure to register your team and follow the @Home Challenge rules to compete.

Your team can still compete in our Minecraft Juniors @Home Challenges! All teams must have an adult sponsor register them. Make sure to register your team today. See information above.