March Madness

2025-03-31T07:37:35Z

Tiggytigo:

[[Category:Lore]]
"'''March Madness'''" refers to a 48-hour period on BetaMC in which a massive wave of bans occurred on notable players.

From ''March 27-29, 2025'', the ban wave started with [[Rat|'''Rat''']]--who was temp-banned for 7 days for griefing [[EternalllZM|'''EternalllZM''']]'s Mall stall. His ban sparked a protest on Discord named "'''#MODPURGE'''", resulting in multiple users calling for his unban. Deliberations were made among the protesters to postpone the protest for a later date.

Following this incident, '''TiggyTigo''' was temp-banned after telling the grief victim, ''EternalllZM'' to kill themselves on discord.

A few hours later, '''KevinDKush''' was initially temp-banned for 7 days--but later perma-banned after ban evading with multiple accounts and IPs after multiple warnings from staff. While everyone was distracted by this, '''Marsht0mp''' built a giant swastika in SquirtVille and asked what kind of slurs he could type in chat. They were promptly perma-banned.

'''CREW1Z''' joined the server for the first time shortly after, and proceeded to grief approximately 300 blocks in SpawnTown. No one had noticed anything until they started typing "I am grief" in chat, effectively self-reporting his crimes to staff; he was perma-banned within minutes.

The next day, '''ZapWax''' was perma-banned for typing a slur in chat and building a swastika.

Shortly after, '''BlackCatKiller43''' was perma-banned for griefing massive sections of the mall with lava on both floors.

The mall was yet again griefed about an hour later by '''MoneyMadeMDoit22''', when he was caught stealing the decorative iron blocks out of the walls.

At this point, the enough time had passed for the "'''#MODPURGE'''" protest to proceed on the server. '''Steve''', '''Villager''', '''Zombie''', and '''Pig''' protested for about half an hour for '''Rat''''s unban, before being muted by staff for using all caps and spamming the chat. They were all told to create a ticket so the issue could be addressed peacefully, and the "'''#MODPURGE'''" protest came to an end--just as quickly as it began.

The sheer amount of bans in such a short time frame will forever be known as "'''March Madness'''".

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