Awesome / Yogscast Minecraft Series

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Adventure maps

• In part 4 of the Gloria map, Lewis kills about fifteen zombies pretty much singlehandedly.
  • He tops this in episode 3 of The Swarm, where he kills at least forty monsters on his own.
• Lewis and Simon in the Zombie Apocalypse map are pretty awesome, managing to go through hordes of monsters more or less single handedly.
  • On that note, the map itself is done entirely in vanilla Minecraft with a few command blocks and a good texture pack.
• The Herobrine's Return map was freaking amazing in of itself, but the fact that instead of Simon doing the voices, Lewis actually did most of them. Special note should be made to his "Death Metal Voice."
• The Lost Potato map features a pig called Porkins by the two. Porkins is set on fire by lava, and is thrown off a cliff and is still alive.

Mod spotlights

• The TV Mod spotlight. Simon is an epic troll.
  Simon: I was never here!
• The Weeping Angels mod. An Angel gets into the house Simon is hiding in. He tricks it into a hole and buries it alive. Steven Moffat would be proud.
• The Battlegear mod, which sees Lewis going all Leeroy Jenkins on a group of zombies, then methodically picking off the rest. At least 20 zombies lie dead, while he actually survives the battle. Single-handedly
  • Bonus points; the battle was in fact from a previous adventure map, and had taken him and Simon working together several attempts to manage
• The helicopter mod has Simon completely owning Lewis the first time they try the helicopters.

PvP maps (The Walls, Survival Games, Crown Conquest, etc.)

• In the Survival Games map, Sjin manages to seem like a total badass to all the other competitors—despite having lost his partner and really spending most of the time running from random mobs.
• The usually incompetent Simon and Lewis own at The Walls, especially the simple TNT trap that gets the fully armed Hanna and Duncan. This is then followed by them cornering Sips and Sjin and utterly kicking the crap out of them with arrows and an iron sword.
  • What makes the TNT trap even better is that Lewis dismantled the trap created originally by Sips and Sjin, and used it against Duncan and Hannah. What makes their rush against Sips and Sjin even better is the fact that Sjin had ultimately expected for them to come in with swords, not with bows, thus rendering their arrow trap useless.
  • Duncan and Hannah later get one when they rush Gamechap and Bertie. Curb-Stomp Battle is putting it politely.
• In round one of Crown Conquest, Lewis has a LITERAL Awesome Moment of Crowning, as he manages to defeat Duncan and Hybridpanda 45 with no weapons whilst they have a wizard's staff and a voodoo doll respectively. Lewis then proceeds to use said voodoo doll on another player and grab one of the crowns. By the end of the round, Lewis is the only player to not have his crown stolen, is one of three players remaining (out of the original 26) and is the first to reach the final mountain. CMOA indeed.
  • GameChap gets one for being the second player to earn a crown.
    • Hey, give him more credit, he was able to win by waiting out with almost no items. Then when he finally moved he had to sneak through the sewers and made it through several mobs while only having ninja stars and a zombie leg as weapons.
    • More credit to Gamechap saving himself from starvation by doing some long-distance fishing.
  • The victory podium's design makes things look more awesome. Anyone arriving there carrying a crown is slow and fireproof, and just walked through lava. When they emerge onto the platform, they are slow and on fire, making the whole thing look like an unflinching walk.
  • Even though Hannah doesn't get a crown, she was able to kill several players before finally dying, including the map's creator.
  • Rythian's partner Zoey earns herself an incredible CMOA in Round 2. Despite several other players remaining alive at sunset, she's the only one to actually go for a crown. All of the others, including Captain Sparklez himself, opt instead to camp on the mountain and kill her on the way up. With the odds stacked against her, what does Zoey do? She dives into the lava-fall and swims up the entire mountain from base to peak, bypassing everyone. Her obvious happiness when she succeeds brings the whole thing into Heartwarming Moment territory, as well.
  • The HAT Films guys ambushing and pulling a Zerg Rush on Lewis in round 3.
  • Sjin and Sips manage to win in episode 3, even though Sjin created the map (Ridgedog put the traps, mind you) not because they knew of any sort of tactic - simply because they switched the crowns from head to head in order to allow one to fight and the other to hold the crown. The tactic was so effective, they would be both with crowns if one of them hadn't despawned. Teamwork at its best.
• The Walls Part 2 has a couple for Simon and Lewis. Firstly, they demolish Sips and later Sjin after their attempt to Leeroy Jenkins backfires horribly. Lewis then gets another moment when he kills Hannah with a lava bucket, then eventually duels with Duncan and beats him to death with a sword.
  • Some credit has to be given to Duncan here. With some effective archery (admittedly with a firecharged bow) and skilled swordsmanship he was able to hold his own against both of them for about a minute, almost killing Simon if not for Lewis' intervention.
  • Martyn and Toby eventually fighting Lewis and Simon is a CMOA largely for them, with Martyn taking out Simon, Lewis taking out Martyn and then Toby winning the game for their team.
• "Terminator". The entire thing is an episode of awesome for Duncan, who eliminates every survivor on the map and legitimately wins before one of the dead players cheats and causes the map to technically acknowledge him as the loser. Mention must go to his strategy to stop the others winning- rather than pursue the others and risk leaving the levers undefended, he goes to the last one and camps there, easily dispatching Lewis and Turps in spite of their efforts to distract him.
• "Skyblock Wars" part 1 is one for Hybridpanda of all people, as he wins.
• "Skyblock Wars" part 2. Duncan and Turps win handily, letting some of the others kill themselves through their stupidity, then sniping Lewis off a bridge he was building and hunting down Sips before killing him.
  • While he still loses, Sips gets a moment where he does Rythian in by knocking him into a large group of monsters.
• "Race for the Wool" Version 2. Lewis, Sips, Sjin and Duncan all do pretty well in their first, though Sjin gets a moment where he becomes a One-Man Army with a bow and starts shooting down several of the other team before he himself is killed. After he loses his bow, Sips goes all Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass and does the exact same.
• Tunnel vision has it's moments. Hat Films rack up a huge number of kills against the Yogscast team at the start. Sips and later Sjin become pretty badass snipers, and rack up a huge number of kills. Finally we have the ascent to the moon monument at the end, with the entire Yogscast team humming the Jurassic park theme and Hat Films attempt to finish them off by taking out the monument with TNT.
• In the Calamity battle against Hat Films, after Duncan loses his power bow, while Hat Films starts to gain ground against the yogscast team, Lewis finds a tunnel under the islands. With everyone else fighting the long way round, he opts to instead bridge into the Hat Films base, attacking them from behind and activates their machine. The team then maanages to hold the machine room, stopping Hat Films aborting it. And then this left their own machine unguarded, resulting in both machines powering up at the same time. After panicking for a moment, Yogscast find they have a head start, and stay put, winning the game by just over a second.
• Team HAT films in Race for the Wool Tangled come back from two blocks down, getting all three wool in the time it take the Yogscast team to find the last one.
  • Special mention actually goes to Strippin, who had never played before, and yet ranks up enough kills to single-handedly stop team Yogs from getting at the wool.
  • Sips, meanwhile, once again reveals his hidden badass side, taking out hordes of mobs from a position of weakness, and also coming up with a water elevator shortcut to get Team Hat past the third dungeon quickly. He is also the final survivor of the three man team running the wool back to the monument at the end.

Sunshine of Israpony

• In the My Little Pony mod, the way they fix up an entire town. first by cleaning up all the oil they spilt then turning the desert back into a forest area, complete with naturally grown flowers, saplings, and grass.

Dirt Factory (Sips and Sjin's series)

• In the original series, their secret base was pretty impressive, and their original compound was nothing to sniff at either.
• The "Instant roof" Sjin builds over platform Heisenberg. He was out of view for less than a minute, and was nevertheless finished when Sips looked back. Even he was impressed. Doubles as a moment of Funny.
• Their new base deserves mention.

Sjin's Farm

• This series in general really shows how good Sjin is as a Minecraft player. In the first episode he's setting off with not much apart from a boat and crafting table. By episode 50 he's got a mansion, dozens of buildings, grand orchards, a plane and an apprentice, leaving him with quite possibly the biggest base of operations in the server's history.
• Sjin saving Kim from Strawfingers.
• Sjin versus Strawfingers in the Twilight Forest. The fight initially starts in the latter's favour, but then Sjin decides to charge him- at which point Jake the dog reappears randomly and starts mauling his foe, allowing Sjin to get the killing blow. His death probably won't stick, but damn.
• Sjin's rematch against the Lich. It initially goes badly as Sjin realises that the Lich is immune to his guns, but eventually deflects the Lich's energy blasts back at his shields, takes them down and starts shooting him to pieces. The only reason he dies is because the game crashes and therefore it's not his fault at all. He eventually returns to finish the job, hacking the Lich to pieces.
• In episode #62, Sjin takes on the Hydra boss, and manages, through determination, to eventually bring it down. This is in part owing to him killing the Hydra by causing it to decapitate itself so often that its own heads start doing damage to themselves.

Yoglabs

• Lewis and Simon breaking out the gun mods and breaking into the shut down Yoglabs.
• Dr. Testificate solidifying his status as a Badass Bookworm.
• The Space program finally succeeds with Simon and Lewis flying to other planets.
• Nyan Tornado And everything that happens in it. The Nyan pig launcher also counts as a Funny Moment.
• The simulation map that Simon and Lewis test their power armour in during the Iron Dwarf video is just awesome to behold. What it is exactly is of course up for debate.
• The unveiling and activation of the Stargate in "Raiders of the Lost Archives."
  • The following episode has them fighting off a giant bug invasion.
• Mechs Vs Mobzilla upstages everything so far. Lewis and Simon once again fight off a bug invasion, this time in a testificate town, and using Giant mecha. And then Kaiju start turning up...
  • Mobzilla at the end stands out for being a Curb Stomp Cushion after Lewis and Simon were wiping out everything with little effort. Not only that, but it becomes a serious threat, destroying Lewis's Titan, and then proving resistant to just about everything they tried to do to it, escaping to top everything off. And for added points, even compared to the Kaiju and the Mecha, it is utterly huge.
• Soul Absorbers and Clone Lab. Two Yoglab employees betray Lewis and Simon and plan to make death permanent. Simon is killed, permanently, but is able to be replaced by a clone—at the cost of his own memories. All Simon from now on are clones of the selfless clone.
  • The episodes are definitely Awesome moments for Lewis and Simon (and all the others who went into the creative process) IRL. Major props to the Yogscast for creating and pulling off something so amazing.
• The guys demonstrating the Metaworlds mod, even if it didn't quite work out as hoped.

Galacticraft

Sips and Sjin's series

• _Zips kicks off the second series by blowing up Slime Island.
• Sjin is completely undeterred by the incident, vowing to create a new compound and save Sips.

Kim and Duncan's series

• On Duncan's lead, the first thing the pair do after gearing up is climb all the way up the incredibly high crags biome on foot, cutting a staircase all the way. and then once they get over the top Duncan decides against climbing down the other side, in favor of building a diving board and taking a running jump off the cliffs!. There was a river below, and he had slept to set his spawn point, but still, that took some nerve.
  • Kim arguably one upped him; she followed him down after picking up both beds. She didn't have a second chance to fall back on when she jumped.
• The hang gliders Kim made on a whim led to all kinds of awesomeness. The best would be episode 35, when, after gliding all the way to the Baked Bean Fort to get some essential supplies, they decide to use Duncan's slime island as the launch for the journey home. The nerdpole they make goes right up to world height, and they subsequently glide all the way back to their home in a single jump. The sheer celebration when they manage to land on their roof just sells the entire moment.
• And two episodes later they top it yet again. With their rocket ready and fully fueled, Duncan suggests that Kim takes up the link book. She succeeds on her first attempt, becoming the fourth Yogscast member to travel by rocket, and the first to pull off a perfect landing on the moon. Her sheer delight when she touches down sends also makes this a heartwarming moment.
  • Notably, Duncan used team Jaffa's approach; send up one rocket with a Linking Book. Unlike team Jaffa though, they executed it flawlessly, and after just one launch now have a permanent moon link.

Other

• While Ridge has stopped playing, he arguably has the most impressive base out of everyone to date, with multiple farms, animal pens and science facilities, all in one small area.

Yogscast Complete Pack

Evicted (Hannah and Nilesy)

• The thunderstorm created by their first use of circle magic.
• In episode 30, the duo stumble across a sealed room full of Blazes in the Nether. Despite Hannah's wariness, they decide to attack, and Nilesy subsequently tears through all five more or less single handed, coming out with barely a scratch.
  • Several episodes later it's revealed Nilesy's haste-enchanted armor allows him to run on water.

Flux Buddies (Duncan and Kim)

• Kim and Duncan's method of flight, combining Jetpacks and hang gliders, is a joint awesome achievement for the duo. They came up with it between them, with Kim making the gliders in Galacticraft, and Duncan having the idea to boost them with the jetpacks later on. The result is easily the fastest method of travel yet seen on the server, as well as allowing for decent manouverability in the air when needed, and to top it off makes far more efficient use of hydrogen than a jet pack alone ever could.
• Episode 20, a Brick Joke from The Apprentice lands - while exploring the moon in their buggy, Kim finds her old tower and the portal gun that sent it there. Cue epic music and much Squeeing.
• Kim's great blood heist overlaps with a funny moment. In short, she decides to collect Taglocks for Poppets, and breaks into Sjin's farm and Hat Film's base to steal them. She gets several copies of Sjin and Trot from their beds, but then, upon running into Lewis, somehow manages to distract him and tag him from behind in person!. The funniest bit is that she literally did it just by typing "What's that over there" prompting Lewis to look around.
  Lewis: What was that pinging sound?
• While losing Duncan's castle just before Galacticraft was a tear jerker, it gets a proper send off here when Duncan and Kim blow up the ruins with a huge barrage of missiles, opting to move on rather than try to reclaim it.
• Duncan's holiday to Disneyland. Kim is left running Panda Labs herself, and just about everything she does while he's away is awesome.
  • Kim's attempt at a peace treaty with HAT films. It went about as well as anybody expected it to, but while she was still trying to be friendly Kim managed to get their coordinates without being noticed, just in case it came to missiles. Then when things turned heated she went straight for their force field generator, and when Trot tried to stop her she utterly curbstomped him with a rocket launcher. Finally, she defended Duncan's missile silo from all three Hatters, taking them out without much difficulty, and chases them off while declaring nuclear war. She's certainly come a long way from being an apprentice.
  Kim: Dear Duncan. Whole you were on holiday in Disney land, I did something bloody spectacular.
  • And the very next episode she upstages herself by killing death singlehandedly. She didn't intend to fight when she summoned him, so she didn't have half her weapons ready to use, or any potions. So she just hacked at him with her sword for two days until she won. By the time Duncan gets back, she's already made herself better weapons to make the rematch go quicker and smoother.
• The war against HAT films at the conclusion of the series is a long chain of awesome moments, for both sides. Kim and Duncan's various preparations give them a serious edge and they consistently seem to take the upper hand, culminating in Kim Becoming Death in the final showdown. However, the Hatters also come out swinging by completely destroying Panda Labs with a few decisive attacks, including a rejuvenation missile. Basically, the entire sequence involves both sides cutting loose and fighting with their full potential, and it makes for an epic finale.

Magic Police (Duncan and Sjin)

• Episodes 29 to 31 have Duncan and Sjin trying to fight an air guardian, which proves to be harder than they anticipated. After they defeat it, they imediately go back for round two and summon another one.
• Episode 32, after all the difficulty they had with the first one, reveals that Sjin has been farming them on his own offscreen, and beat nearly twenty of them single handedly.
• Not long after we see their efforts to fight a water guardian. After nearly drowning a few times due to it's gimmick, they get a clean shot at it resulting in a Curbstomp Battle. And despite all their panicking, looking closely at the damage indicators during the battle seems to suggest Sjin and Duncan weren't in nearly as much trouble as they thought at the start.
  • Again, Sjin slaughters a huge number of them off screen later.

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Trials of Derpulies

• After twenty episodes of trolling each other, Teams Sjipos, Flux Buddies, and Hat Films all work together magnificently in the finale to bring down Derpulies himself after he reveals his plan for world domination. They win. Can also double as the most Heartwarming Moment.

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