MCSR Pride Parade is a charity speedrunning tournament happening this June, aiming to raise money for Rainbow Railroad and uplift LGBTQ+ players in the MCSR community. The event will be structured like Couriway’s Free 4 All tournament, so that LGBTQ+ runners of all skill levels will be able to play.
MCSR Pride Parade will be supporting the human rights organisation Rainbow Railroad. “They help get queer people to safety, and help them escape things like state-sponsored violence,” Sivianox explains. “We decided that was a really good cause. We’ve been in contact with the charity, and they’re super down to help us with anything that we want, which is really awesome.”
MCSR Pride Parade is being produced by some of the most new and exciting names in MCSR event organisation. Sivianox (the brains behind the Lewis Fulham Invitational LAN event and co-producer of MCSR x Bedwars), Rosebeams (the other creator of MCSR x Bedwars), and Mollyyxy (the organiser of Girloffs) are all working together to create MCSR Pride Parade.
“Rose and I decided that we wanted to do more events,” Sivianox tells us. “We like how we work together. This was also around the time that the second Girloffs was going on, so we thought we could do a Pride event in June, and get Molly on the team with us, and raise some money for a good cause. I’ll be sad once it’s over, because I’ve enjoyed spending time working on it with them.”
“I’m kinda glad that I did LFI first, because now I feel a lot more confident.” Sivianox explains that running an event in person is way more challenging than online events, but that the experience from both LFI and MCSR x Bedwars has made him more comfortable organising MCSR Pride Parade, which will be held digitally. “I think I’ve kind of found my niche, in the sense that I know that I like organising events now, and I like being able to put on something that other people will enjoy,” he says.
Much like Free 4 All, the event will be a best-of-one single elimination bracket for most of the tournament. Players will compete against randomly assigned opponents. The first round will be split into two groups and staggered, so that data about the matches is easier to manage.
Originally there were worries that the format would be too stressful or difficult to execute. The team reached out to R0hkx, who has worked on production for several major MCSR events, including Free 4 All. R0hkx and Rosebeams worked together to ensure the format was something the production team would be able to handle.
The organisers’ goal is to include as many people as possible in the tournament, which is why they chose to model the tournament after Free 4 All, rather than doing qualifiers of inviting specific players. “The goal of a lot of events in Pride Month is to try and bring together the LGBT community as much as possible,” Sivianox says. “Doing it in a way that invites as many people as possible to play just felt like a better way to build community.”
“I know there are a lot of queer people in the community, but I couldn’t really think of that many that play on a high level, and I’m not super familiar with people who are lower in ELO,” Sivianox explains. The MCSR census in 2025 found that a majority of the MCSR community identified as queer, but that statistic does not differentiate between community members and runners. Speedrun.com and Ranked leaderboards lend themselves to anonymity, so it can be hard to see how diverse the community really is.
MCSR Pride Parade provides a way to highlight queer runners and celebrate that part of the community. “I think that’s another good thing about this event – it highlights to some people that there are other people in the community that identify as queer, and that for the most part this is a very accepting community,” Sivianox says. “I think being able to highlight that is super cool.”
MCSR Pride Parade will take place on Sunday 28th June at 3pm BST / 10am EDT, and be streamed on Mollyyxy’s Twitch.
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