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Let me tell you a little story. (Attention! Following paragraphs include a lot of bragging. You have been warned!)

It was about a year ago when I started messing around in creative on Meepcraft. I was doing lil' redstone projects, but my ultimate goal was to make something, that would profit you folk. Events you might say.
I was inspired by "Death by Anvil", probably the first activity of it's kind.

Not sure how, but I ended up doing Flowers parkour... close enough I guess. Anyways, getting off topic.

I started googling "popular kids games". Couldn't find anything suitable for a Minecraft redstone project. I was really frustrated. I brainstormed a few ideas, but they all turned out to not work as expected or not at all. Then I remembered a cool game I played in kindergarten. 'twas called Musical Chairs.

It was quite a difficult project, the RS took me a fair bit of time and it still had to be operated with commands and a complicated routine each round. So poor Sjoe had a "control-room" set up in the middle of the arena and was pulling levers like a madman.

It worked, people enjoyed it, but it was a pain in the butt to operate. Couldn't really help it, there is only that much you can do with redstone without command blocks.



A year later I found out Meepcraft is hosting Musical Chairs again. I rush to /warp event and see a familiar area. Just the central room missing and basically all the redstone. I think to myself, "cool, they probably made a plugin for this! I wonder how it works now".

So lucky me, exactly at that time, Andrew decides to host it. Me, really excited, all the nostalgia, heart in the throat feelings. First round, only about 20 people join for a 50k Reward. I am giving it a try.



*Yay* Still got the moves I think to myself. Alright, alright, I'll spare you the read.
Round 2:

Round 3: DAMN YOU NEILS, you win this time. Have your 300k Meebles. (Seriously, gratz man )
Round 4:


So... what lesson are you supposed to learn here? All the hard work pays off? No. Lucky noobs are lucky? Nah...

Make a Minigame, include a secret mechanism which gives you a massive advantage and make everyone think how good you are! - Profit.

Honorary mention to mah boy VKL, you did good.

 

Many young people see going to school as a chore and only go because they absolutely have to, while some will even skip school because they see it as boring and unnecessary. However, going to school is incredibly important for your career, future education you may wish to pursue, and social and communication skills.
Teenagers are forever being told that they need a good education so that their can have the career they want, but many do not listen. However, it is important to remember that your schooling, no matter how long it may feel, lasts for a just a few short years compared to the rest of your life ahead of you. Therefore, it is better to sacrifice a little bit of fun now so that you can find happiness in later life, as you will be happier if you can do a job that you enjoy and afford to do the things you want.
Integrally linked to your career is the fact that you will only be able to achieve a higher level of education later on if you work hard in school now. Although at the age of fourteen and fifteen many young people may not think they want to go to college or university, you don’t know how this may change as you get older. And with unemployment among young people in the USA at its highest since the early 1960’s, you may find that you need a college degree to secure a good job because there is so much competition for so few jobs. Many people also decide that they want to study further when they get a bit older, perhaps after they have got married and had children, sometimes because they want a career change as they are not happy, or just to prove to themselves and others that they can do it. Those that don’t succeed in compulsory education will not have the opportunity to even start many courses because there will be plenty of better-qualified candidates that also want a place.
Finally, school is the place where you learn a great deal of very important life skills. From communicating and empathizing with people of both genders and different ages, to listening to instructions and following orders, and developing leadership skills. It is not a coincidence that there is a negative correlation between criminal offences and level of education, in all races, ages and genders all over the world, and one of the main reasons for this is that the lessons that are learnt in school are so much more than just academic. So, although most of us only consider our career when we think about what school may do for us, the life skills we learn are equally important.


Thank you for reading.

 

I did that once and my leg bones snapped under the weight of my huge man muscles™ on my upper body.