Just updated the Arena Brawl with a bunch of features and the rating has been reset to 1000 for everyone.
As for now you can play and report bugs, the top 3 beta players before release will receive Creeper Pets!


Magical Chest

You can now get unique Hats and Skills from the Magical Chest! However you will need keys that only the Arena Challenger can provide in exchange for win streaks or coins.


Updated Shop

Now featuring the new Ultimate Skill, Runes and Hats.

Rune System

Runes are applied to your weapon and only one rune at a time can be activated. They are expensive as they are meant to be slowly upgraded over time.

Ultimate Skills

To add more diversity and customization to Arena Brawl, we added the Ultimate Skill that can only be used once per game. For now there's only 2 skills available but we plan to add a lot more.

Hats

If you are lucky enough with the Magical Chest, you will receive cool unique hats that will say random things to your enemies in the Arena Brawl games! Collect them all, just like Pokemons!

Armors

The higher your rating will be, better looking your character will be!

New Skills
Some new skills have been released and we will keep adding some of them this week!

Achievements
Achievements are in the next update.

Release
We are aiming to release Arena Brawl this upcoming weekend.

The first Mega Walls tournament just ended after 36 hours!
Here is the list of the top 100 players and some more information.

#1 monsterlol with 1309 points
#2 badraven1169 with 1241 points
#3 viberaider with 1233 points
#4 awesome_koala123 with 1174 points
#5 yoyo_mind with 1145 points
#6 midgetm with 1124 points
#7 extremes1 with 1096 points
#8 carlldh with 1081 points
#9 beastfromdaaeast with 1009 points
#10 njstgha with 969 points
#11 hostageee with 893 points
#12 nickftw25 with 870 points
#13 hyperbeam567 with 856 points
#14 barbershop666 with 852 points
#15 xmatteo2008x with 850 points
#16 kevos with 845 points
#17 jayavarmen with 820 points
#18 originalstrafe with 820 points
#19 amokahd with 800 points
#20 fluttermine with 793 points
#21 nordyalex with 773 points
#22 jammerxero with 749 points
#23 ryoko69780 with 707 points
#24 technoblade with 705 points
#25 akagamikun with 698 points
#26 glitchyshell with 681 points
#27 coolstudioshd with 678 points
#28 krazy8888 with 667 points
#29 nukewarhead with 665 points
#30 wiitarted with 660 points
#31 totocraft91 with 646 points
#32 momo199 with 644 points
#33 willy_zee123 with 631 points
#34 jrop619 with 611 points
#35 12281760 with 602 points
#36 eruvala with 596 points
#37 legendff with 580 points
#38 bretonuts with 576 points
#39 turtlemonstah with 571 points
#40 toochik with 567 points
#41 r7n with 561 points
#42 zachattack490 with 554 points
#43 minecus6244 with 552 points
#44 chris_j_97654321 with 550 points
#45 dragon93210 with 550 points
#46 rosian123 with 547 points
#47 roelie333 with 528 points
#48 empire87 with 527 points
#49 judegsmith with 516 points
#50 sarauh with 514 points
#51 relenter with 510 points
#52 hellbreath2 with 509 points
#53 lmassari with 506 points
#54 soy_fueda with 499 points
#55 opb543 with 496 points
#56 ofkik1 with 494 points
#57 cookie1799 with 493 points
#58 precise_ with 481 points
#59 maitriix with 479 points
#60 storm974 with 478 points
#61 scandalous2117 with 472 points
#62 ignisfatuus_ with 468 points
#63 lxlfr0z3nlxl with 465 points
#64 leo_chan with 461 points
#65 yamihammer with 460 points
#66 alvinscookie with 460 points
#67 sapphire1 with 458 points
#68 jhop27 with 451 points
#69 ven377 with 445 points
#70 jksoccer with 444 points
#71 2x3iwal6 with 444 points
#72 sgtvault with 440 points
#73 ninja_skillits with 435 points
#74 tazordu63 with 435 points
#75 darkent57 with 434 points
#76 bluepants312 with 433 points
#77 asone with 433 points
#78 bacontrees with 425 points
#79 staven88 with 409 points
#80 pix_64 with 407 points
#81 meep888 with 404 points
#82 noerdy with 397 points
#83 aloha64 with 390 points
#84 mightytank with 389 points
#85 bonchalupas with 388 points
#86 scottgoodyounot with 383 points
#87 tmorgan7 with 377 points
#88 magnific2000 with 376 points
#89 omnavious with 375 points
#90 icanhazlp1 with 373 points
#91 petworker with 373 points
#92 9kyll9 with 372 points
#93 georgesblaser123 with 367 points
#94 mariarts12 with 364 points
#95 antypantyplays with 362 points
#96 mrbrenots with 359 points
#97 pyeminister with 358 points
#98 afluffyflamingo with 357 points
#99 captainplaymc with 356 points
#100 supapwnage with 356 points

Store Credits
I will be giving over a grand total of around $2000 worth of credits on the Hypixel store shared amongst the top 20 players.
1st place: 600$
2nd place: 250$
3rd place: 200$
4th place: 100$
5th place: 100$
Top 20: 50$

Extra Tokens
The top 100 players will receive extra Tournament Tokens that can be exchanged for unique perks/kits and more on the Hypixel Network in any games.
1st place: 100 extra
2nd place: 75 extra
3rd place: 60 extra
Top 5: 50 extra
Top 20: 35 extra
Top 100: 15 extra

Pets
1st place: Blaze and Creepers
Top 5: Creepers

Guild Finals
The top guilds (2 or more guilds) will be facing each other in the next few days/weeks. We will be taking into account all players that participated in the current tournament to determinate the best guilds that would give us a good tournament and the guild members will be contacted in game to organize private games.
The winners of the tournament will have to face the admin team for an extra prize!

If you are in the top 20, please make sure you have an account on the website so I can contact you with your store credits. It will not be possible to give it a friend, the redeem code will only work for your own username.
If you are in the top 3, feel free to give a speech and it will be quoted in this post.
Thank you everyone for participating, we have gathered a lot of data and feedback to improve the next tournament!

Please note that the next Mega Walls tournament will have team selection disabled.

PRIZES WILL TAKE UP TO 2 DAYS TO WORK!
(May take more time with the store credit stuff)

Here's some information about the upcoming first Mega Walls Tournament that will be occurring the next weekend.

When?
The tournament will last around 36 hours on March 15-16.
Starting at 9:00 am US EST saturday and ending 36 hours later at 9:00 pm US EST sunday.

How do I enter?
Just by playing Mega Walls on that weekend when the Tournament happens, you will be automatically participating gaining rating and acquiring tournament tokens.

How does it work?
There will be a stats called "Tournament Rating" that will act like a ladder system to sort out the top players. Wins and final kills will reward rating. Losing, leaving and dying will subtract rating. You can't go below 0 rating, don't worry about that. You will be able to see your Tournament Rating on the scoreboard in the Mega Walls lobby. Leaving before the game ends means you have to stay till the game end to get your rating if your team wins, otherwise it counts as a loss for you.
Example (Not the official numbers)
Wins a game: +10 Tournament Rating
Final Kill a player: +1 Tournament Rating (Maximum of 10 per games)
Lose or leave game before it ends: -6 Tournament Rating
Final Death: -1 Tournament Rating
What we might do if we have time before weekend: The higher your rating is, the rating gain/lose changes, making it harder as you go up and easier for new players to climb to the top.

This will sort out the top 20 players and the top guilds.


What are the prizes?
We will be giving over a grand total of $2000 worth of credits on the Hypixel store shared amongst the top 20 players.
The top 20 players will also receive extra Tournament Tokens that can be exchanged for unique perks/kits and more on the Hypixel Network in any games. The Mega Walls tournament perks will be added in the next few days in the Mega Walls shop.
Creeper pets for the top 5 and an extra pet Blaze for the number 1.
More prizes will be added in the next few days.
Note that the top 5 will get a large % of the store credits.

Guild Finals
We figured we could have an extra tournament for the top guilds. We will take the 2 best guilds and make them versus each other in a private 10v10 Mega Walls game on March 23.
The event will be recorded and the winners will receive 100,000 guild coins.

Tournament Tokens
Every time there is a tournament going, you will be able to earn a maximum of 20 Tournament Tokens by playing games. The top players of a tournament will receive additional Tournament Tokens of course, making them a step ahead on kool unique perks, but still making those perks available in the future for participants that were not fortunate enough to win.

Tournament Tokens will be global, which means you could earn yours in Mega Walls but use them in the Quakecraft shop. You can spend to unlock unique perks, items, kits and much more.

Tournament Tokens will not and never be in the online store.

PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING
This tournament system is not perfect but will allow everyone to participate and get some tokens. Because in the end, not everyone can win.

We can't do organized matches with over 400,000 participants, we need to find out who are the best players in ladders, just like League of Legends, World of Warcraft or any other games. They didn't do organized tournament before they knew who were their top players and then organize professional tournament with them. World of Warcraft for example had this place called Arena Tournament where you would fight your way up with rating, then the top teams would get to participate in the championships.

I want to have public ladder tournament, not private where only a selected 100 people get to play over 400,000. Now we are going to have a weekend full of people playing Mega Walls. Even solo players can have fun this weekend, however I suggest playing with friends to make your journey easier!


Official Sponsors
Thanks to our sponsors MCProHosting for giving us the stability and opportunity to host the tournament!

What will be your class of choice for this tournament ?
Have fun

New host, EU Servers, New Minigame, Mega Walls Tournament and more!

EUROPEAN HYPIXEL SERVER!
FINALLY! I’m happy to announce that we are now working on setting up servers for EU players within the next few weeks/months for top quality ping!
It will use the same stats/kills/ranks so don’t need to worry about that, keep playing on US servers in the meantime and grind some kills!
More details will be revealed in the next few days.

We will be using a new technology allowing US and EU players to play on the same network.


MEGA WALLS TOURNAMENT!
The first MEGA WALLS tournament will happen on the 15th of March and everyone will be able to participate, no registration required!
You will be able to collect Tournament Tokens to unlock unique items in all games! The top players/guilds will share over $2,000 in Hypixel Store / Physical prices along with extra Tournament Tokens.

Tournament Tokens are usable in all shops! (New Blitz Kits, Quakecraft Trigger, etc)
More info will be released in the following days.

Arena Brawl BETA
Edit: Beta Released to VIP's and up!
The version you will be playing is far from the complete version of the game, but we need a lot of testing since it’s a competitive game.

Herobrine III
Herobrine III is coming too! We are currently in testing phase, adding NPCs for storyline and such. There is over 24500 command blocks, it is our biggest and most intense adventure map.
We are planning to release a few days after 1.8.

The Arcade Games
After we are done with the Arena Brawl in a few weeks, we will be working on The Arcade Games and trust me, this is gonna be a lot of fun! The Arcade Coins will be exchangeable for other games.


Why did we change hosts?
A few months ago we changed hosts, but we all underestimated the scale at which the Hypixel Network is growing resulting in some issues.
In the past few days the old server was getting DDoS over 15 times a day and the old data center couldn’t fulfill our needs. They couldn’t handle our internal network and we couldn’t install DDoS protection meaning it was vulnerable to attacks and network crashes.
We had more than 6 hours of downtime in the last week of usage, players were slowly leaving because of lag, disconnections and instability of the server.
For us it was a nightmare; instead of working on new features/games/maps we had to stay up all night to do system administration to make sure everything was working, it was horrible.

Most of you should have similar, if not better, ping. If you notice higher ping it’s because we moved to Central US based servers and our DDoS protection systems may cause a slight increase in ping, this is because all traffic has to be filtered before it gets to us. To counter that we upgraded all our hardware to more powerful machines and we are going to make even more improvements. All this, coupled with our newly announced EU servers, and you should have an excellent experience with us! As a competitive player myself, I know it is very important on a PvP server to have good ping and I’ll make sure I deliver the best options I can. Keep in mind that we can’t get rid of DDoS as we wish; the Hypixel Network is probably one of the biggest target of DDoS attacks for Minecraft. If you experience lag or disconnections sometimes, it’s most likely our DDoS protection provider having issues, so far our new servers have 100% uptime.

Now that we are stable, we can get work on bringing you new content! I'll do my best to post more news and patch notes on the website now that we have some more time.

Have fun and get ready for Arena Brawl!

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Hey guys,

I just want to sit down and talk about what's happening here. First of all we are aware of the disconnection/lag issues that has been happening this week and actually this is caused by the current datacenter(host) having issues, so it's not within our control and very frustrating for us all.

This is their reply;


I decided it was time for us to move, to a better place where we can finally play with no issues and also I'll take this "opportunity" to upgrade all hardware to better speed and reliability. All of this will be very expensive but I feel like the Hypixel community deserves a stable and lag-free server.

We already have decided where we are going to move and it's going to be awesome, trust me. It will be an expensive trip but I have a future partner that will sponsor us and all of us will be very happy.

When we have moved over to the new host, I'll giveaway some boosters to everyone.

You know it's so annoying for me to work with those network issues, because instead of putting new content we are dealing with network interruptions and moving files over to the future datacenter(host). I'm aware of almost all current issues on the Hypixel Network, but really all that's stopping us is time, and that time is consumed by poor datacenter(host) quality.

Until we are moved, you might get disconnected from time to time like it's been happening for the past 7 days, however we are already almost done moving to the new host and should be ready in 1 to 3 days.


Hopefully this is the last time I have to write something like this.
Thanks for reading,
Hypixel


EDIT: We are moved over to the new datacenter, we will do a big news post tomorrow about it.
For now you can get free booster here: http://store.hypixel.net/category/93850