Arena Junkies hosts Arena Olympics
by Michael Gray 
Aug 12th 2008 at 5:00PM
If you haven't heard, Arena Junkies is hosting their own Arena Junkies Olympic Contest. So while many of us are working on getting our own Spirit of Competition from the Azeroth Olympics, the Arena minded can compete to win a key to the Wrath of the Lich King beta.
Basically, you start a team with the phrase "AJOlympics" included in its name. Then, you go play in the Arena. The better you do, the more chances you get to win a key in the final drawing. You have to get at least a 2k Rating to even get one chance, so finally a 2000 rating will mean something again.
They'll keep updating their leaderboards until the end of the contest, so you can see how many people you'll be facing off against in the final drawing. I think it's a pretty cool contest, and I wouldn't mind seeing one of our readers win it. Not that I'm hinting at y'all or anything.
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, News items, Contests
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Supertanker Aug 12th 2008 5:21PM
If I was Arena Junkies, I would expect a Cease & Desist letter from the USOC pretty soon. Federal law gives the USOC the exclusive right to the word "Olympics." They've sued lots of groups about it,
See:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode36/usc_sec_36_00220506----000-.html
Alu Aug 12th 2008 5:26PM
Wow, those guys need to loosen up. Damn!
Ben Aug 14th 2008 7:29PM
Why would federal law have anything to do with it, because Olympics are international and weren't even started in US, World of Warcraft was started in US, but is international now....US law can not touch corporations in other countries =-\
twh Aug 12th 2008 5:56PM
I consider this very foolish considering the horrid imbalance against certain classes, paladins, having so many things against, have little to no hope of competing on a level like this and until blizzard addresses this, you're only going to be seeing rogue/priest/mage teams and little else.
Eric Aug 12th 2008 6:02PM
Who is going to want to bail off their awesome arena team to start over again just for a Beta key? Titles and armored drakes are way cooler.
Tychon Aug 12th 2008 6:15PM
let the QQ begin for why arena sucks.
/sigh
j Aug 12th 2008 6:21PM
in before cripple:class analogies
wowpanda Aug 12th 2008 6:55PM
Just call it Wolympics, that will stay out of legal trouble.
wowpanda Aug 12th 2008 6:55PM
Just call it Wolympics, that will stay out of legal trouble.
wowpanda Aug 12th 2008 6:56PM
Sorry for the double posting, I just got my password and want to try it out.
papermoonshine Aug 12th 2008 7:17PM
"let the QQ begin for why arena sucks.
/sigh"
But it applies. PvP in WoW isn't even PvP. It's a game of 'who can CC the other person first'. PvP in WoW is a joke. No need to mention the horrible class imbalance.