#the whole Red King thing came about after Blue9's win

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can’t wait to see how this win gets integrated into Hermitcraft/Empires lore

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Purple15 propaganda essay incoming!!

Purple15, in my opinion, is one of those teams that have excellent overall team chemistry. Not just between a duo, or two duos, or a trio, but as a whole TEAM. And for Purple15, that is quite the feat considering we already have two strongly established duos with good chemistry. Yet, no single dynamic dominated. They were a team, played as a team, communicated as a team, and I genuinely think they are one of the best examples of a hermit team having overall great synergy.

Let’s talk about spring-summer 2021. Third Life started in April, MCC14 came back in May, and by that time, people were obsessed with Ren and Martyn. Dogwarts. Red Winter. King and Hand. And they were both MCC participants! Yet they haven’t teamed together yet. Naturally, a whole bunch of people were wishing for a Renchanting team, given that their only public interactions are in the Life series and on MCC, and the status quo unsurprisingly remains the same up till now.

Blue9 and its successors (notably the many Fruit Lime teams) have given people the exciting idea that the hermits should team with more S tiers. And since the hermit fans loved Fruit, surely they would love his bestie Illumina, and people were waiting for the first Illumina-hermit team.

False and Ren, self explanatory. MCC besties. Bonus pic of them because I’m biased.

So in the midst of the Renchanting fans manifesting and begging for a team, Purple Pandas dropped. And tumblr, naturally, went insane. So many posts were made. Dogwarts lore or whatever. Everyone was crying about the reunion of the Hand and his King. (I was really embarrassing about this team back then, please forget everything I said before MCC15 T-T)

Predictably, Ren + Martyn was the most anticipated duo. But in the actual event, they did not dominate the team dynamic. Same with Ren + False (although they usually tend not to dominate in team dynamics anyway). And while False-Martyn-Ren could be regarded as being in the same circle while Illumina has his own circle, they meshed together really well.

Illumina muted himself in HITW, and one might be worried the other three would falter without a “leader” (since the best player was usually the designated leader, although HITW doesn’t require much leading). However, the trio communicated with each other smoothly and got through HITW with no issue.

Battle Box was fun. Imo none of them actually “led” in the traditional sense, but they all contributed nonetheless. They were so excited by False’s surprise clutch.

And of course, Sands of Time featuring a classic Ren sandkeeper. I think that was the first time SOT was played in the new season and it had some changes which confused the team a little bit. Did you know that Purple15 was the first team to open three vaults? Yeah. They did that. Ren in particular was an excellent sandkeeper, kept track of sand, time, keys, revived players (Illumina), and in general was quite smooth.

And the whole “Ren forgetting to mute during break”, with Illumina just quietly listening lmao. That was cute.

I think in general they had good comms, great vibes, morale was high, and they were just happy to be there :D

Bonus mention for False-Illumina as they would go on to team in various other e-sports tourneys, such as MCC20 Yellow which got first in coins, which eventually paved their way to win the irl (!!) Twitch Rivals Craftmaster in July 2022, with False leading her other team members Illumina, OwengeJuice and Tapl. Yes, they met up irl and WON.

This is the end of my TED talk. Purple Pandas 15– amazing beautiful spectacular smooth never done before. Also, it’s Ren being the sandkeeper, this team won in SoT and broke a record. False and Illumina’s first MCC team. Ren and Martyn’s first MCC team. Yet, none of these duos overpowered the other. It was balanced, as all things should be 💜💜💜

PS: Here is my more specific post I wrote after MCC15 (with more details)