Minecraft – Selector command in tellraw command does not work

Look at this particular part, which is causing the first error:

Text1:"{"text

1. Minecraft reads Text:, and is expecting a string (surrounded with quotation marks) to follow
2. Minecraft reads ", so starts reading the string to go with Text1 (the key)
3. Minecraft reads { as the string
4. Minecraft reads ", so stops reading the string, and is now expecting a comma to start the next key-value pair, e.g: Text1:"Hello",Text2:"World"
5. Minecraft finds t instead, so throws the unexpected token error

To fix this, you need to escape (put a backslash before) quotation marks that are part of the JSON. \" tells Minecraft to read " just as another character in the string, rather than stopping reading the string, as the " is part of the JSON rather than the top-level NBTData.

Even more confusing is when you have a tellraw command, requiring JSON, within the sign's text JSON. You now need to escape the backslash itself (\\) before the quotation mark (\") so that it's not read as NBTData, nor as the sign's text JSON, but as part of a string within the sign's text JSON.

Fully fixed command:

/give @p sign 1 0 {BlockEntityTag:{Text1:"{\"text\":\"[MF2]\",\"color\":\"gold\",\"clickEvent\":{\"action\":\"run_command\",\"value\":\"tellraw @a [{\\\"text\\\":\\\"[MF2] \\\",\\\"color\\\":\\\"gold\\\"},{\\\"selector\\\":\\\"@p\\\",\\\"color\\\":\\\"dark_aqua\\\"},{\\\"text\\\":\\\" is now an admin of the server!\\\",\\\"color\\\":\\\"white\\\"}]\"}}",Text3:"{\"text\":\"Click to join Admin\",\"color\":\"dark_aqua\",\"clickEvent\":{\"action\":\"run_command\",\"value\":\"scoreboard teams join admin @p\"}}"},display:{Name:"Custom Sign"}}

In the future, use a generator, or use a trigger/scoreboard command to set off the tellraw command, as this can get pretty confusing and annoying to find errors in.

This is caused by scoreboard team formatting. The display names obtained from the selector will be stylized separately if the target is in a team. Since the formatting options of the display names are being set at their own depth, it overwrites formatting inherited from the parent, being color, bold, italic, underlined, obfuscated, and strikethrough (all defaulting to false without a third-party NBT editor to modify the prefix in the scoreboard.dat file and color is defined by the team option).

As well, insertion, hoverEvent, and clickEvent will be overwritten no matter if the target is in a team or not. However, clickEvent will only be overwritten for player display names and not non-player display names.

You will either have to remove the player from the team before running the command or wait before adding them to the team until after the command runs.