{"id":7477,"date":"2020-08-25T17:20:15","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T00:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/race-in-the-ice-grand-prix-and-see-virtual-long-beach-in-our-minecraft-finale"},"modified":"2020-10-05T20:03:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T03:03:03","slug":"race-in-the-ice-grand-prix-and-see-virtual-long-beach-in-our-minecraft-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/news\/race-in-the-ice-grand-prix-and-see-virtual-long-beach-in-our-minecraft-finale","title":{"rendered":"Race in the (ice) Grand Prix and see virtual Long Beach in our Minecraft finale!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The time has come: As the weirdest summer we’ve all ever collectively experienced comes to an end, so does our Virtual Office Hours, where our reporters live-streamed playing video games<\/a> and our readers built Downtown Long Beach together in Minecraft.<\/p>\n

We laughed, we cried (when I broke stuff on accident) and we built something cool<\/a> when we had to be apart because of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

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A view of Ocean Boulevard at night.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Post launched a Minecraft server because we wanted to continue a virtual version of our Office Hours<\/a>, where we met with readers face-to-face to answer questions and chat. We had to figure out a way to make it more fun than yet another Zoom meeting and still keep it productive.<\/p>\n

Since late May, nearly 400 people have signed up to join the server and build. With that sign up came a weekly newsletter where you got a summary of the latest news from the week as we highlighted the newest builds<\/p>\n

We got to see the Convention Center and historic buildings come to life, our favorite burger and taco joints get built, crazy creations like rollercoasters and waterslides inside buildings, beautiful murals<\/a> and (FINALLY) see the Queen Mary finished.<\/p>\n

Now we’re going to go out with a bang! Minecrafter RobThePiMaster built a Grand Prix race track in our server out of ice and we’re going to race boats on it!<\/p>\n

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Part of the Grand Prix racetrack made out of ice. Grab a wooden boat and let’s race!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We’re also going to see some old friends we had on the show together (we’re even breaking out special sound effects). So join us Wednesday at 4:30 p.m.<\/strong> for our series finale show!<\/p>\n

As for our server, don’t fret, it’ll still be up for the foreseeable future! You can even sign up and start building:<\/p>\n