Friday, October 9, 2026
By: Matthew Doucette
Matthew Doucette has become a Minecraft Community Champion! What an honour! More information on this role to come!
Here is my profile:
Xonatron's Minecraft Community Champion profile.
(Scroll to bottom of minecraft.net/community-champions.)
What is a Minecraft Community Champion?
"What is a Minecraft Community Champion?
Community Champions help the Minecraft team better understand the diverse experiences, needs, and perspectives of players around the world through ongoing feedback and conversation." - Minecraft Community Champions
Short History
This is the most recent evolution within my roles at Microsoft / Xbox:
- Xbox MVP to...
- Xbox Ambassador Community Champion to...
- Xbox Community Champion and now adding (not replacing with)...
- Minecraft Community Champion
Let me break down each role: The most prestigious role is Xbox MVP, a distinction that only one in a million (literally) Xbox gamers are honoured with. In 2022, Xbox MVP shut down and I was invited to be an Xbox Ambassador Community Champion, which were the chosen elites of Xbox Ambassadors. Many Xbox MVPs were already Xbox Ambassador Community Champions, simultaneously. In 2024, Xbox Ambassador shut down, and Xbox kept their community champions by forming them into Xbox Community Champions. And now, the most recent, Minecraft Community Champions were added to the mix.
- 2026: Matthew Doucette: Minecraft Community Champion -- this article!
- 2024: Matthew Doucette: Xbox Community Champion
- 2023: Matthew Doucette: Xbox Ambassador Community Champion
- 2022: Matthew Doucette: Xbox MVP Program Closes End of 2022
- 2020: Matthew Doucette: Xbox MVP Award
- 2020: Matthew Doucette: Xbox MVP Spotlight
- 2019: Matthew Doucette: Xbox MVP Award
- 2018: Matthew Doucette: Xbox MVP Award
- 2017: Matthew Doucette: Xbox MVP Award
- 2016: Matthew Doucette: Xbox MVP Award
(Note, that not all Xbox MVP Awards were blogged; I won the award annually until it closed in December, 2022.)
So, I am currently both an Xbox Community Champion and Minecraft Community Champion. What a pathway and what an honour.
Thank you, Xbox and everyone within the Xbox teams behind these programs.
That is all.
About the Author: I am Matthew Doucette of Xona Games, an award-winning indie game studio that I founded with my twin brother. We make intensified arcade-style retro games. Our business, our games, our technology, and we as competitive gamers have won prestigious awards and received worldwide press. Our business has won $190,000 in contests. Our games have ranked from #1 in Canada to #1 in Japan, have become #1 best sellers in multiple countries, have won game contests, and have held 3 of the top 5 rated spots in Japan of all Xbox LIVE indie games. Our game engines have been awarded for technical excellence. And we, the developers, have placed #1 in competitive gaming competitions -- relating to the games we make. Read about our story, our awards, our games, and view our blog.