The Great Gnome Race - July 12th 10 PM EST

[ewjax]

What is the rule change story?

[Sarkhan]

Suppose to be get to cindreela and get killed by her. 1st and 2nd did that. 3rd place didn't go to 3rd person killed, but instead they awarded it to Gibletsgooo . They said he got to cindreela first but didn't get killed by her, was a good 4 or 5 other gnomes fighting for the death by her.

[cd288]

Originally Posted by Sarkhan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Suppose to be get to cindreela and get killed by her. 1st and 2nd did that. 3rd place didn't go to 3rd person killed, but instead they awarded it to Gibletsgooo . They said he got to cindreela first but didn't get killed by her, was a good 4 or 5 other gnomes fighting for the death by her.

Guessing that Giblet person was a guildy of theirs. Only explanation for why they would suddenly change the rules like that.

[Convict]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Guessing that Giblet person was a guildy of theirs. Only explanation for why they would suddenly change the rules like that.

Originally Posted by Convict [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

the explanation was given, there was interference from people at the portal causing 3rd place guy to not be able to be killed by cyndreela due to someone charming her, allowing more people to show up when 3rd place guy otherwise would of already taken 3rd place naturally by dying to her

[Sarkhan]

From what I saw Cyndreela was agroed on Pinetop, their own "protector" that's in Seal Team.
There's interference throughout the entire race from people creating lvl1 trolls to the difference of people killing spectres. First few racers in spectre were down, others they were up

If that's the case what bothers me is they didn't call it earlier, instead they let people fight cyndreela with the hope and excitement that the game was still in play and never declared a winner until after 3rd death to cyndreela that wasn't giblets.

[cd288]

Originally Posted by Sarkhan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

From what I saw Cyndreela was agroed on Pinetop, their own "protector" that's in Seal Team.
There's interference throughout the entire race from people creating lvl1 trolls to the difference of people killing spectres. First few racers in spectre were down, others they were up

If that's the case what bothers me is they didn't call it earlier, instead they let people fight cyndreela with the hope and excitement that the game was still in play and never declared a winner until after 3rd death to cyndreela that wasn't giblets.

Yeah definitely some suspect stuff.

Also called the spectre situation being an issue before the race began

[zags]

The first two racers made it to Cyndreela fine and got aggro and died. At that point one of the bards who was there protecting the raid from other pvpers (of which there were many in the swamp/feerrott) inadvertently got aggro. At this point Giblit ran into the room and was the first gnome to Cyndreela, then a swarm of gnomes ran in. Cyndreela got charmed or feared or something and went walking off. Rather then making the third winner an RNG fest we discussed it and ruled to give it to Giblit, who would've been killed had the bard not gotten aggro.

I personally gave away over 30k of my own currency and a lot of my time to organize this event and put it on. Obviously things weren't perfect, the zone crashes really caused some headaches and delays and in the future the race will have a clearer requirement for winning. The first time we did this race being killed by Cyndreela worked because we didnt have tons of people in the room spectating and interfering. This time the race ended up much bigger then expected.

If anyone would like to see video of the ending to the race to see how far ahead Giblit was, I can get it uploaded.

[zags]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah definitely some suspect stuff.

Also called the spectre situation being an issue before the race began

As far as the spectre situation, it was always known this was going to be some RNG. This wasn't some super serious race, it was a goofy gnome race where I wanted to give away some stuff and let people have fun.

[Bigsham]

You cant honestly expect no one to interfere, all the pictures of the piles of gnomes were ruined by a stupid elf bard anyways

[pirate23]

Sounds like Steal Team