that sounds better haha

Lvl 5 troll SKs, rusty 2 handers, go

Advance registration required

At the start of the competition, each registrant is PM'd a name to use for the competition. (racera, racerb, racerc.....raceraa, racerbb, racercc etc) You can have multiple people PM'ing a "list" of registrants so this is simultaneous. Obviously you can't use race. You would be creative here to insure no one already has used the character name.

This prevents advanced creation.

I like a triathlon that requires leveling to 3, swimming, and travel.

Swimming could be just from one end of the Freeport docks to the other.

I don't know how you prevent buffs, unless you allow all contestants to have the same buffs and provide druids to do buffing.

If you WERE to do a race... why not a race with a buddy system?

Everyone who wants to participate makes a level 1 of whatever race you choose, gathers at a certain point, and then gets randomly matched up with a buddy. The first pair to finish whatever race is selected wins. Helps reduce the odds of cheating, since two people who probably don't know each other would both have to consent to the cheating?

bob i've always had a vision of having everyone start near gfay on a new toon, you provide fine steel, get a few people to PL them to lvl 10, lets say an hour maybe? if you have enough people to help. Then we clear out the ent to Crushbone, pull EMP to zone in and the mass zerg of folks have to kill him... with the killing blow winning a prize along with first to engage. of course this would need like 30 folks id guess but would be fun imo.

dwarf chess

I do like this!!

Is it a real chess board size?

Bearded women could be pawns
Each face/gender type could be assigned to a different piece.

You get a bunch of scarab bp's (green) to differentiate white / black.

Two people take turns moving the "pieces". They also have to keep their pieces alive when the chess board spawns.

great idea, my guild on live did this once for laughs we had 25-30 noobs with 3-4 high lvl buffs classes to keep them going, emp cb can 1 shot noobs until lvl 10 or so =p

Dwarf chess is another great idea and gets me thinking what other geographical oddities could we use. One of the arms in Everfrost? gnome race from akanon to everfrost. set a time limit and its not first to arrive its which gnome can reach the highest when they believe they have reached their max height we record and whoever gets the highest wins.

Here's my idea I'm gonna try and do Qeynos to Freeport Drunkard Race Must be Human Monk turn in your Book to turn red. No buffs, No ports, No boat,No Rathe M, No clickies No cheating allowed! Must drink 10 elven wine ( or such and such heavy drink) @ certain zone in's... Big pay off for 1st to finish. Something like that... Still thinking of details and prize etc. I'm gonna be putting on some events eventually that will just get everyone outta the grind of lvling

Female Highelf = Queen
Male Highelf = King
pawns = gnome war
knights = erud pally

etc etc...

a live game of chess with people being the actual pieces would be funny.