Minecraft Olympics is both a Build Challenge & special event on Minecraft Awesome that coincided with the real 2012 Olympics. Here multiple arenas were created where different communities competed for medals.
There were multiple fails and disqualifications, soccer riots, streaking, and mass creeper bombings.
For Community-Made Videos for the Olympics, see Minecraft Olympics/Videos The whole episode can be seen at http://videogamesawesome.com/2012/08/17/minecraft-awesome-2012-olympics/
The Participating Communities
- Aperture (Build Team) - 4 athletes
- Atlantis - 2 athletes
- Baconland - 3 athletes
- Dat Der Island - 1 athlete
- The Edge - 14 athletes
- The Empyrean - 3 athletes
- Epsilon Team - 6 athletes
- Equestria - 7 athletes
- Fortress 2 (Players from the TF2 server) - 2 athletes
- The Hermitage (A coalition of hermit dwellers) - 5 athletes
- Neo Japan - 9 athletes
- New Old Port - 4 athletes
- Oasis - 2 athletes
- Pandora - 9 athletes
- Renimar - 5 athletes
- Tortuga - 2 athletes
Events
- Tour of the Olympic Village & Playing of Community Anthems
- Torch-Lighting Ceremony in Historia, running of the torch
- Opening Ceremony, with special appearances by "James Bond" and the drag queen
Olympic Stadium
- 1600m Hurdles
- 4x400m Relay Race
- Field Events: Shotput, Javelin, Discus, Long Jump, High Jump, & Pole Vault
Boating Course
- Boat Race
Diggy Diggy Arena
- Digging Competition
Aquatic Center
- Swimming 200m
- Diving
- Synchronized Swimming
- Water Polo - Free-For-All (non-medaling event)
Soccer Stadium
- Soccer Match (non-medaling event)
"Fencing Arena"
- Fence Building competition (non-medaling event)
Fencing Arena
- Fencing
Survival Stadium
- Hunger Games
The Mountain
- Climbing Race
Turbo Sticks Stadium
Archery Arena
- Archery (non-medaling event)
The Gauntlet
- The Gauntlet (A survival challenge through multiple hazards)
Porkodrome
- Pig Race
The Field
- Building Competiion
Parkour Arena
- Parkour
Rowing Course
- Rowing (non-medaling event)
The Olympic BasketBowl
- Basketball Match
Spleef Stadium
- Spleef
Medal Count
- The Edge - 12 medals (7 Diamond, 4 Gold, 1 Iron)h
- The Hermitage - 8 medals (2 Diamond, 3 Gold, 3 Iron)
- Pandora - 6 medals (2 Diamond, 2 Gold, 2 Iron)
- Epsilon Team - 6 medals (2 Diamond, 1 Gold, 3 Iron)
- Renimar - 6 medals (1 Diamond, 2 Gold, 3 Iron)
- Neo Japan - 5 medals (2 Diamond, 3 Gold)
- New Old Port - 4 medals (1 Diamond, 2 Gold, 1 Iron)
- Atlantis - 3 medals (1 Diamond, 2 Gold)
- Equestria - 3 medals (1 Diamond, 1 Gold, 1 Iron)
- Fortress 2 - 3 medals (1 Diamond, 1 Gold, 1 Iron)
- Oasis - 3 medals (3 Iron)
- Tortuga - 2 medals (2 Iron)
- Baconland - 1 medal (1 Iron)
- The Empyrean - 1 medal (1 Iron)
- Aperture - 0 medals
- Dat Der Island - 0 medals