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What is DeathRun?

DeathRun is a minigame with two teams: Runners and Deaths. The objective of the runners is to make it to the end of the map, avoiding any automatic and death-activated trap along the way. The objective of the deaths is to kill the runners using the various traps that the map provides to them. In a 22 player game (a full game), there are 20 runners and 2 deaths.

Winning

As a runner, you win by making it all the way to the last checkpoint (portal) on the map. For the deaths to win, they must eliminate ALL the runners in the game. Runners have a finite amount of lives: starting with two (2), and going up by two at each checkpoint. Runners that manage to win the game get their remaining lives left as a point-bonus.

Traps

Every map comes with a wide variety of traps: most of them activated by the Deaths. A small selection of our traps:

Block Destroyer: temporarily removes a set or random group of blocks, making the runner fall to his death!
Falling Roof: makes part of the roof falls down, killing runners that get hit by the blocks!
Piston Launcher: activates a set of pistons on the floor, launching the runners on them into the roof, killing them.
Arrow Spawner: shoots a flaming arrow in a set direction, killing any runner hit by it.
And many more! Some maps also have their own custom traps, integrating with the design and surroundings.

Strafes

To turn a almost certain death into a narrow escape, runners receive three strafe items. Using either the Right, Back, or Left strafe will launch the runner into said direction. However, every individual strafe has a 60 second cooldown: a game only lasts a few minutes, so use them wisely!