Minecraft wiki entry for Spleef, associated text: Spleef was started on a server before June 23, 2009 soon after the Classic Multiplayer Creative Mode release. The rules and name were created by Greenslimy, Pentaclam and Maulrus.[citation needed] It first gained popularity after Notch blogged about this article on his Tumblr.[2] Soon after, a plethora of spleef servers and variations sprung up. Spleef instantly caught on in Minecraft Classic, while slowly also gaining popularity in Alpha, which soon became Beta. It is considerably popular in the latest version of Minecraft today, with almost every major public server having some sort of Spleef arena.