2023 Premier City Challenge

The 2023 Premier City Challenge is a speedrun event organised by SimonScholar requiring players to visit all Premier cities on the new world in the shortest possible time. This event is the successor to the Premier City Challenge and 2021 Premier City Challenge created by chiefbozx. Since 2021, three new Premier cities have been added to the list of cities, Chan Bay, Itokani and Porton.

The challenge is split into four classes with increasing difficulty. Class C allows all forms of transport, while Class S requires participants to complete the challenge in survival mode and while using limited transport methods.

Leaderboard

Runner	Date	Starting city	Ending city	Time
Class S
Kingsnake	11 August 2023	Itokani	Porton	01:19:22
Ada_Virus	02 August 2023	Itokani	Porton	01:25:04
Kr4ka	12 August 2023	Itokani	Porton	01:50:05
Class A
Kingsnake	16 July 2023	Itokani	Porton	01:36:52
OnyxCrow22	12 August 2023	Sunshine Coast	Porton	07:36:05
Class B
Kr4ka	12 August 2023	Oparia	Itokani	00:22:45
notshort925	24 July 2023	Itokani	Quiris	00:40:01
Awesome_Marbles	16 July 2023	Porton	Chan Bay	00:46:05
Kingsnake	18 August 2023	Itokani	Porton	01:19:44
Class C
Kr4ka	18 August 2023	Porton	Itokani	00:15:04
Kingsnake	18 August 2023	Porton	Segville	00:28:26

Prizes for the fastest runs

The fastest times on the leaderboard in each class as of 23:59 UTC on Friday 18 August will receive a prize:

• Class C: Winner $100, runner-up $50, third place $25. All other entrants $5.
• Class B: Winner $200, runner-up $100, third place $50. All other entrants $10.
• Class A: Winner $500, runner-up $250, third place $125. All other entrants $25.
• Class S: Winner $1,000, runner-up $500, third place $250. All other entrants $50.

Everyone is allowed to submit for multiple classes and eligible to win a prize in each class.

Classes and restrictions

The four classes and their differing restrictions can be summarized in the following table.

	Class C	Class B	Class A	Class S
Foot	✅	✅	✅	✅
Pig	✅	✅	✅	✅
Fastboi (4th generation)	✅	✅	✅	✅
Wooden boat	✅	✅	✅	✅
Minecart	✅	✅	✅	✅
Bed respawns*	✅	✅	✅	✅
Flight (creative mode)	✅	✅	✅	❌
Elytra	✅	✅	✅	❌
Vehicles Plugin	✅	✅	✅	❌
Tridents	✅	✅	✅	❌
Warp rail	✅	✅	❌	❌
Warp ferries and waterbuses	✅	✅	❌	❌
Buses	✅	✅	❌	❌
Seaplanes	✅	❌	❌	❌
Helicopters and blimps	✅	❌	❌	❌
Planes	✅	❌	❌	❌
Dragons (Kessler only)	✅	❌	❌	❌
Rocket ships	❌	❌	❌	❌

* Bed respawns are only permitted using beds pre-existing before the challenge starting on 13 July 2023. Bed respawns must be set during the race, dying during the race before a respawn is set invalidates a run.

In addition to the above, Class S requires the challenger to complete the challenge while in survival mode (the only items allowed are those from /kit race, which may be spawned at any time.) Classes A, B, and C all allow creative mode.

When running in Class A, B, or C, fireworks are allowed when using elytra so long as standard server rules are followed (meaning they cannot cause debilitating lag). If you're using an enchanted trident or fireworks, you must submit a video proof of your run and launch a firework in daylight conditions or show the enchantment tooltip on your trident.

When running in Class B or C, you are responsible for the cost of taking warps.

Common rules

The following rules apply regardless of which class of challenge is being attempted.

Objective: You must visit each Premier-ranked city on the New World at least once in the shortest time possible. You do not need to visit the Old World city of Arisa. The full list of cities is as follows (though it's up to you to determine the best order): Achowalogen Takachsin, Airchester, Chan Bay, the City of Evella, Deadbush, Elecna Bay, Espil, Itokani, Kenthurst, Kessler, Kolpino City, Laclede, Lanark, Larkspur, Oparia, Porton, Quiris, Redwood, Segville, Sunshine Coast, Utopia, Venceslo, and Whitechapel.

1. You must use flight and walking speed 1.
2. A city counts as visited once you have visited the town hall and pressed the marked 2023 Premier City Challenge button, to record coreprotect data.
3. Speed and Jump Boost potions, or anything (besides beacons you happen to find along your route) that provides those effects, are not allowed.
4. If you are attempting a challenge class that permits you to use warp-based transportation, you are responsible for the cost of taking those warps.
5. Dynmap and the wiki may be used before and during your run. Other tools such as MRT RapidRoute may be used before and during your run, so long as they are publicly accessible.
6. You may not receive assistance from any other players during your run (for example you may not ask someone to stand at a landmark location to make it easy for you to spot), though they may assist you in the planning process.
7. You may not use staff powers, the /tpa command, homes, /spawn, or /mv tp. Using any of these requires you to start over.
8. You many not use any of the spawn warps located within Central Park during a challenge.
9. Dying and respawning at a bed is permitted, but this must be a bed in place before 13 July 2023, and the respawn must be set within the run. Dying before a respawn has been set (including respawning at Spawn) invalidates the run.
10. Start your stopwatch when you press the marked button in the town hall within your starting city, and stop it when you press the marked button in the town hall within your destination city. You may pause your stopwatch if you disconnect from the server, resuming it as soon as you resume movement or take a warp.
11. If you disconnect from the server in a Class S run, you must switch back into survival before you resume running again.
12. You may livestream or record your run. If you are using tridents or fireworks (not applicable in class S), you must record or livestream your run.
13. Time penalties may be issued for violations of the rules. Skipping a town results in an invalidation of the challenge attempt.
14. Travel is only allowed between the Old and New Worlds. Travel is not allowed to any other worlds, including the Space World.

List of cities and locations

The following coordinates are the location of the town hall in the following cities, where a marked button is placed that you must press:

City	Location
Achowalogen Takachsin	(4000, 71, -1534)
Airchester	(8097, 64, 11)
Chan Bay	(-17942, 67, 4974)
City of Evella	(-3630, 83, 1081)
Deadbush	(-8041, 74, 8590)
Elecna Bay	(1973, 69, 8561)
Espil	(-6038, 72, 2377)
Itokani	(20020, 63, -18730)
Kenthurst	(-2996, 63, -413)
Kessler	(-5594, 69, -4284)
Kolpino City	(-4311, 74, 3787)
Laclede	(-1823, 70, -3700)
Lanark	(-2726, 73, -6222)
Larkspur	(-8406, 68, -8925)
Oparia	(1121, 69, -20386)
Porton	(-25784, 64, 25086)
Quiris	(914, 72, -7197)
Redwood	(3025, 66, 15893)
Segville	(-550, 76, 2739)
Sunshine Coast	(15802, 65, 17631)
Utopia	(-1937 71 3444)
Venceslo	(-999, 75, 6896)
Whitechapel	(-3551, 71, -2086)

How to submit

Submissions will open at 13 July at 00:01 UTC, and will continue till 23:59 UTC on Fri 18 August.

If you have attempted this challenge and wish to submit an entry to the leaderboard, please send the following information directly to SimonScholar via Discord DM or email:

• Your Minecraft username (if it's not obvious by your Discord name)
• Date & time of challenge attempt
• Your full route, including which locations you visit in each city and the transport methods you took between them plus the location of any bed respawns used and when in the run this was.
• Time elapsed from departure of first city to arrival at last city
• If you live-streamed or recorded your run, a link to the archive footage. If it’s private, contact Simon for details on how to share it.

You may send your route to Simon in advance and follow up with your time if you manage to complete a run.

Simon is the arbiter of this competition and has final say over a run's validity.