Meet your Extra Life United 2023 Minecraft Team Captains!

Extra Life is excited to announce the Team Captains and theme for the third annual Extra Life United Minecraft competition. Sign up here!

Minecraft teams will be given from Friday, March 24 at 12:01 AM ET to Friday, March 31 at 11:59 AM ET to complete a Minecraft world based on a CMN Hospitals/Extra Life theme. These teams will compete for bragging rights and part of the $150,000 prize pool offered for Extra Life United games/competitions. Sign up here!

Judging will be on March 31 from 2:00 PM—4:00 PM ET. The builds will be shown during the Extra Life United event, and a video of judging will be released after the conclusion of the event.

Meet your Extra Life United Minecraft Team Captains:

Jack Pattillo is an independent filmmaker, actor, voice actor, on-camera host, content producer, comedian, video game entertainer, gaming journalist and philanthropist best known for his extensive contributions and work towards Rooster Teeth as the co-founder of Achievement Hunter and creator/organizer in charge of Rooster Teeth’s Extra Life Stream and Let’s Play Live.

Fluctra primarily streams Minecraft on Twitch and is a part of XSET, an amazing content & esports organization, focused on shedding light on diversity in gaming.

Joey Graceffa is a leading digital creator, actor, and producer, best known for his scripted and vlog format videos on YouTube. Joey has also competed in two seasons of The Amazing Race. He is the author of the instant #1 New York Times bestselling memoir In Real Life: My Journey to a Pixelated World and the bestselling teen dystopian novels, Children of Eden, Elites of Eden and Rebels of Eden.

KelseyDangerous is a variety streamer and YouTuber who plays mainly Animal Crossing, Sims and whatever is fun. Kelsey formerly helped develop Buzzfeed Multiplayer and was a judge on the reality show The Sims Spark’d.

Mindcrack is an international, diverse group of content creators, YouTubers, and Twitch streamers that play games, create content and raise money for charity together. Since 2014,

Mindcrack has raised over $2 million for Extra Life and local children’s hospitals.

Kendrisite is a full-time, family-friendly content creator who is all about Minecraft, creativity, and community and has been raising funds for Extra Life for over five years.

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JUDGES:

CaptainSparklez is an American YouTuber, Twitch streamer, gamer, and musician, primarily known for playing Minecraft. His 11 YouTube channels have collectively earned over 13.77 million subscribers and 4.48 billion video views, and his main channel is the 281st most-subscribed channel on YouTube with over 11.3 million subscribers.

DeejayKnight is a space/sci-fi focused Twitch streamer who has racked up over 90K subscribers and over 4.5 million views on his streams. He is also a host, Voice Actor, USAF Vet and a former educator. He hosted the first ever “interactive and educational tour inside an Amazon Robotics fulfillment center” to inspire kids to pursue STEM.

Unspeakable started his rise to fame making Minecraft gameplay videos and quickly became one of the top YouTubers in the world. He now has 10 channels and over 13.9 million subscribers. This young social media sensation also runs his own successful Unspeakable merchandise brand.

Judging will be on March 31 from 2:00 PM—4:00 PM ET. The builds will be shown during the Extra Life United event, and a video of judging will be released after the conclusion of the event.

DEETS:

Your goal is to build the most creative space that shows your creative interpretation around: 15 years of Extra Life. Your creative idea can either be an entire world, or a portion of a world and will be judged based on the following criteria:

• Creativity
• Complexity
• Detail
• Originality
• Contest theme
• Usage of the CMN Hospitals Extra Life logo and/or talking points

What can that look like? Extra Life has been around since 2008. Since that time, Extra Lifers have raised over $100M USD for Extra Life’s cause of playing games to change kids’ health. From streaming to tabletop games, to bake sales and DM tip jars, there has been a plethora of ways Extra Lifers have raised money for their local member children’s hospital of CMN Hospitals.

Member children’s hospitals of CMN Hospitals provide the treatments and cures patients desperately need today so that they can fulfill their potential tomorrow, and help families prepare for and cope with some of the hardest moments of their lives.

• Use information about Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals National Champions: INFORMATION HERE

15 years of Extra Life is an amazing accomplishment. What might the next 15 years look like?

Judging for the competition will be based on the most creative world built, with special consideration to designs that include Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals and/or Extra Life logos. The builds will be shown during the Extra Life United live broadcast and a video of judging will be released after the conclusion of the event.  

Extra Life/Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals talking points: 

• 62 kids enter a local member children’s hospital of Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals every minute. 
• More than 10 million children are treated at a member children’s hospital of Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals every year. 
• The impact of children’s hospitals goes far beyond helping individual children and families. 
• Children’s hospitals are best positioned to positively impact children’s health and protect their futures. 
• Donations go to local hospitals to fund critical life-saving treatments and healthcare services, along with innovative research, vital pediatric medical equipment, child life services that put kids’ and families’ minds at ease during difficult hospital stays and financial assistance for families who could not otherwise afford these health services.  
• 100% of donations benefit local members of Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. 
• Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals + Extra Life is unrelenting in their desire to make sure every child has a healthier future by raising critical funds needed by local member children’s hospitals. 
• Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals raises funds for 170 children’s hospitals that support the health of 10 million kids each year across the U.S. and Canada.  
• Every minute, member hospitals of Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals provide $6,500 in charitable care to patients 
• Every year, members of Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals provide about $3.4 billion in charitable care for patients in need 
• You can play games to change kids’ health by registering at extra-life.org or on Tiltify. 
• Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals raises unrestricted funds for 170 children’s hospitals across the U.S. and Canada to help fulfill their most urgent needs. We make all this possible at the local level. When someone donates through a business or fundraiser in their community, the donation goes directly to their local member hospital of Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.  
• Every day, Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals treat:
  • 16,000 kids in the ER 
  • 935 kids for diabetes 2,218 kids for cancer 
  • 925 babies in the newborn ICU 2,329 kids for surgeries  
• Every hour, Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals treat:
  • 675 kids in the ER  
  • 39 kids for diabetes  
  • 92 kids for cancer  
  • 39 babies in the newborn ICU  
  • 97 kids for surgeries 

So, are you in?

You do not have to sign up for Extra Life United to participate, but need to be registered for Extra Life in 2023. Extra Life United registration is reserved for participants that will be participating on-site in Orlando, FL. To participate, use this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfeJbqFeweU5EfX1HU3Lp8ts8o3knkQFTflsTbItrnWZ1y3zQ/viewform

Have additional questions? The Extra Life Discord community is your go-to resource for troubleshooting any issues you may have. You can also find answers on our FAQ page.