What does it mean to be cursed?
For some players in MCC, it seems that no matter what they do, things are destined to go wrong.
But are they actually cursed, and if these curses do exist, can any of them be broken?
Today, we’ll find out.
The first cursed player we’ll be talking about is Dream, and his team skin curse.
This curse is relatively simple. If Dream is using a team skin,
his individual placement will be worse than if he uses his regular skin.
Dream has used his normal skin in these 8 MCCs getting these 8 placements.
From all of these events, his average individual placement is 4.25, certainly a very respectable number!
In contrast, Dream has used a team skin in six events,
MCC9, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 18.
Though these team skin events include the one time that Dream came first individually, back in MCC11,
his average placement when using a team skin is 8.33, more than 4 placements lower than when he uses his normal skin!
In fact, both times that Dream has dropped out of the Top 10, he used a team skin!
So the stats have confirmed it! Dream should not use team skins until this curse finally breaks.
However, some curses can be broken, and no one proves that more than Seapeekay’s 17th
place curse! From MCC2 to MCC14, Seapeekay was considered to be one of the most consistent
players in the event, placing between 11th and 20th every single event bar one,
no matter how his team performed. This led to his infamous 17th place curse, where in MCC8,
9 and 14, he placed 17th place individually.
After MCC14 in particular, it seemed like Seapeekay would be stuck forever
in these fated teen placements, but MCC15 and 16 changed that!
Both events, Seapeekay broke into the Top 10, placing 8th and 5th, finally proving that he
wasn’t damned to place 17th once again! For now, this curse has been broken, though all it
could take is a few more 17th places for him to drop back into a cursed 17th place spiral.
Before we get to the next MCC curse, we have to mention a curse that affects you!
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to remove it! On with the video, and a whole team colour that is cursed!
The Cyan team, whether it’s been called the Cyan Creepers or the Cyan Coyotes,
is a team which has only made dodgebolt once in MCC history, all the way back in MCC2. However,
that team didn’t win a single round, making Cyan the only team to have never won a single
round of dodgebolt. Some people would say that MCC19 proves this curse false,
as the Teal Turkeys, the colour of the Cyan team, won all three rounds of dodgebolt. However,
no team with the colour Cyan in their name Cyan has ever won dodgebolt, and so until the
Cyan Coyotes manage to defeat another team in the final game, this curse remains in the event.
Many of the curses that we’ve talked about so far have been around since the beginning of the event,
but what about a newer curse that applies to a newer player? Despite only being in the event
since MCC15, Ranboo has already acquired his own curse, the Survival Games curse. Every
single Survival Games that Ranboo has competed in, something has gone wrong, often stopping him
from making it to dodgebolt. Within both MCC15 and 16, Ranboo was one of the first ten people to die,
not getting a single kill, with MCC15 Survival Games knocking his team from 1st place to 3rd.
In MCC17, 18 and 19, Ranboo survived late, but every single time the Survival Games finale
has brought him close to dodgebolt, but never close enough to make it in,
with his team placing 3rd in MCC17 and MCC18, and 4th in the most recent MCC.
So, will this curse continue? Probably not. Ranboo’s already proven his ability to succeed in SG in MCC18, so
it’s only a matter of time until a Survival Games blesses him, and brings him to dodgebolt.
Our penultimate curse is once again a relatively new one, applying to our favorite S tier, Quig,
throughout all of Season 2. Every single canon event this season where he’s gone
into the finale with a chance at making it into dodgebolt, something has gone wrong in that final game.
MCC15’s Survival Games, MCC16’s SoT and MCC17’s Survival Games have all knocked Quig’s
team from either 2nd or 3rd place to 4th, or even lower. Hopefully we see Quig break this
curse in an event soon, but until he makes dodgebolt, this curse continues onward.
And the final curse, the one that you’ve all been waiting for is finally here. The Captain’s Curse.
CaptainSparklez is one of the OG MCC players, competing in every single event since MCC1.
However, from MCC4 to MCC14, the Captain was never able to make it to dodgebolt.
This on its own is not unusual, but what is certainly unusual is how close the
Captain was to making dodgebolt in so many events. In MCC4, 7, 8, 9, 13 and 18,
the Captain placed 3rd, often less than 1,000 coins away from Dodgebolt.
Even when he made it to dodgebolt, in MCC2, 3 and 15, his team didn’t win a round,
making him the only player to have been in more than one dodgebolt and never win a single round.
However, alongside the Captain’s Curse, is the opposite, the Captain’s Blessing. After teaming
with CaptainSparklez, one player who teamed with him in MCC9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15 and
18 went on to win the next event that they participated in.
To quote Avengers Endgame, “I guide those to a treasure I cannot possess”.
So, how does this curse get broken? Pretty simply,
in the event that Captain manages to win a round of Dodgebolt, or even just get his first ever win
will finally break the curse, and let him be free. Only then, will the Captain’s Curse be no more.