The Ragnarok World Championship, or RWC for short, is a grand final tournament deciding who are the best players among all Ragnarok Online users in 77 countries around the world, one of the biggest scaled competition in the global game business.[1]
History
Grandyoukan's illustration of RO's job classes for a RWC 2004 poster.
The first tournament was held in 2004, approximately 2 years after RO's official launch in 2002. The RWC has since then been held annually without fail, garnering much fame within the RO global community.
RWC was cancelled for the very first time in 2014 following lack of funds for all official servers to participate in the finals in 2013. It remains to be seen what will become of this RO tradition.
Rules of Engagement
- RWC teams can only consist of 5-7 players. (In 2010, jRO proposed a change to allow RWC teams to be formed with 10 players.[2] It didn't last long.)
- Each server can only have one team to represent them. (Later changed when several RO servers shut down.)
- Teams cannot have repeating job classes, i.e. can't have 2 Knights, 3 Priests, etc.
Preliminary Tournaments
Each official RO server hosts its own tournament to determine which 7-player team will represent them at RWC. The following lists the pre-RWC competitions held in each server.
- USRC - United States Ragnarok Championship (iRO)
- REC - Ragnarok European Championship (euRO)
- RBC - Ragnarok Brazil Championship (bRO)
- RPC - Ragnarok Philippine Championship (pRO)
- RJC - Ragnarok Japan Championship (jRO)
- RTC - Ragnarok Thailand Championship (thRO)
RMSC - Ragnarok Malaysia/Singapore Championship (mRO)- RIC - Ragnarok Indonesia Championship (idRO)
- RTC - Ragnarok Taiwan Championship (twRO)
- RKC - Ragnarok Korea Championship (kRO)
After each server's teams have been decided, the players will physically be flown to the predetermined location of the actual RWC where they will take on other teams using unmodified computers in order to prevent hacking and cheating.
Championship Winners
| RWC Logo | Date/Location of Tournament | Winning Team/Server of Origin |
|---|---|---|
 |
2004 July 17[3] Seoul, Korea |
Unforeseeable twRO (Taiwan-Hong Kong)[4][5] |
| 2005 June 26 Pasay, Philippines[6] |
?? ?? | |
| ?? ?? |
?? ?? | |
 |
2007 July 21 Seoul, Korea[7] |
Destruction thRO (Thailand)[8] |
 |
2008 October 18 Pasay, Philippines[9] |
?? thRO (Thailand)[10] |
 |
2009 November 01 Yokohama, Japan[11] |
?? jRO (Japan)[12] |
 |
2010 October 02 Jakarta, Indonesia |
?? thRO (Thailand)[13] |
 |
2011 October 15 Seoul, Korea |
?? thRO (Thailand)[14] |
 |
2012 November 02 Seoul, Korea |
?? jRO (Japan)[15] |
 |
2013 November 24 Tokyo, Japan |
?? thRO (Thailand)[16] |
| cancelled | cancelled | cancelled |
| cancelled | cancelled | cancelled |
| cancelled | cancelled | cancelled |
| cancelled | cancelled | cancelled |
| ?? ?? |
?? ? |
Videos
References
- ↑ RWC Facebook 2014 Mar. 17
- ↑ Ragnarok World Championship Website 2010 Feb. 23
- ↑ GRAVITY Website 2004 Aug. 24
- ↑ kRO Website 2017 Aug. 09
- ↑ MMORPG.com 2004 Aug. 12
- ↑ The DMKAEL Experience 2013 Sept. 12
- ↑ GM Tristan.com 2007 May 25
- ↑ The Pearl of the Orient Seas 2007 Aug. 05
- ↑ MMO Site 2008 Oct. 21
- ↑ Ragnarok World Championship Website 2010 Jan. 21
- ↑ Joey Alarilla 2014 Mar. 17
- ↑ Ragnarok World Championship Website 2010 Jan. 21
- ↑ Rich Kid Herbert 2010 Oct. 04
- ↑ Rich Kid Herbert 2011 Oct. 25
- ↑ Rich Kid Herbert 2012 Nov. 08
- ↑ RWC Facebook 2014 Mar. 17
- ↑ WarpPortal Forums 2014 Sept.
External Links
- Ragnarok World Championship Official Website (Korean)
- Ragnarok World Championship Official Website (English)
- Ragnarok World Championship Facebook Group (old)
- Ragnarok World Championship Facebook Page (current)