Friday Fight Night

Friday Fight Night was a weekly tournament taking place in an arena at Spawn. It occurred every Friday of the week, usually starting between 8:45 and 9:00pm. It included a shulker box as the prize at the end with special tools and items contributed by the community. Players would fight in a predetermined bracket, and seeding depended on the skill of the player. There were 2 arenas used for the fighting, and the tournament could take up to 2 hours at most. It was common for players to bet on who would win a match.

## Arenas

There were 2 arenas used for the fights. As with the spawn rules, they could not be damaged by a player, which would result in a ban for an indefinite time period. Both had a block equal distance from the center for the player to stand on. The start of the fight was normally announced by a designated commentator.

### First Arena

   The first, made crudely of netherrack and other raw materials, was used for only 2 of the Fight Nights. During the early days of the server, the event was not taken as seriously as later on. This meant that there was no need for a more "official" arena.

### Second Arena

The second arena was larger, more symmetrical, and had both a viewing box and a commentators box. It was created mostly by BaeBladezz and SlipperySam89, with SlowpokeSap and SlipperySam creating the roof. It was made out of concrete and ocean temple themed objects. Both arenas had a glass roof in order to provide more viewing spots. In one side of the arena was a viewing area for spectators and fighters to watch the fight. On the other side contains the announcers booth where the announcer BLK8711 stayed. This spot contained a dispenser where rockets can be fired from when a player wins at fight night. With many players trying to get in the announcers booth, BLK8711 hired Immisstake and BaeBladezz to kill anyone who tried to come in. With many people at this point having netherite and others not having anything, killing naked players was a frequent occurrence.

## Prizes

   Prizes for the winner were all given by the players who participated, and was stored in a red shulker with a title corresponding to which Fight Night it was from. Many players did not want to give something valuable away, however. This resulted in more than a few prize boxes having less than expected value in them.

## Rules

The rules of Fight Night for the later tournaments were:

* Players would use iron armor, a wooden axe, a stone sword, and a shield to fight. They were not allowed to eat or consume any items.
* The winners finals, losers finals, and grand finals were all best of 3, whereas the rest of the matches were a best of 1.
* No killing in the Spawn area was allowed 30 minutes before the first match started, and 5 minutes after the last match ended (or when the winner put the prize shulker in a safe area)
* If there was enough lag during the matches, they could be redone

## Winners

There were 12 total Fight Nights. Winners were:

1. obybella
2. blk8711
3. potatoeistaken
4. potatoeistaken
5. rapindog
6. Andmaster83
7. obybella
8. rapindog
9. blk8711
10. potatoeistaken
11. potatoeistaken
12. N/A

## **Controversies**

Because of the competitive nature of Fight Night, there were many arguments and conflicts over if there was enough lag to consider a rematch, the rules of the tournament, interruptions, and more.

### The Host

The host of each Friday Fight Night was Slowpokesap as he was the one who came up with the idea. This was fine during the early stages of the competition, but as the tournaments went on, there were more and more adjustments made by Slowpokesap that showed clear personal bias. For instance, Slowpokesap would always wait for potatoeistaken to get his gear ready when he had not gotten his gear ready, but when Oreoblade was being stopped from getting gear, he was disqualified even when he was at the tournament. Further bias was shown during one particular match between Andmaster and potatoeistaken as that day the server was particularly laggy. After two bouts, potatoeistaken claimed to have significant lag in both of them. This was actually helping him because Andmaster had an obvious lead in both of the matches and his victory was almost certain both times. However, even through minimal lag, Slowpokesap agreed to a redo even when every other person in the audience disagreed with his decision. This caused an even bigger uproar when potatoeistaken won the third fight (and eventually the whole tournament) as he was supposed to be knocked out earlier in the tournament.

### Eating during matches

During the early few Fight Nights, eating during matches was allowed. However, eating was eventually banned because matches were taking too long. The rule mostly spread by word, and was not always announced officially. During a fight night match, player Oreoblade ate a piece of food. This caused chaos, as he was breaking one of the rules. He was disqualified, but stated that he did not know the rule, as it was not written anywhere. The rest of the matches were repeatedly interrupted by Oreoblade, causing him to be banned for the rest of the night. After this event, all the fight night rules were written in the Discord Server.

### Lag during matches

A more general conflict was the occurrence of lag during a match. Sometimes a player would stop as they thought the lag deemed a rematch, but the other player would kill them anyways. If the lag was not severe enough, then that match would be valid, causing the player who stopped to normally dispute the decision. This sometimes led to large arguments and the fight night being paused for multiple minutes in order to sort out the situation.

### The last Fight Night

During the 12th Fight Night, one of the largest arguments occurred between multiple players. The entire tournament was halted as the discourse went on. During this time, obybella placed multiple withers in and around the arena. This caused mass destruction of the arena, which was punishable by banning. This caused the end of LagCraft, shutting down the server as it was known for good. As the server was shut down before the winners finals match, there was no winner of the last Fight Night.