Gielinor Games



The Gielinor Games are an event held in RuneScape reflecting the Olympic Games. It is being held in honour of the Olympic Games being held in London for the first time in many years, since Jagex is a British company. The Gielinor Games consists of 6 races from all across the globe to compete in one big event. The 6 races participating are the goblins, humans, vampyres/werewolves, monkeys, elves, and fairies. During the Gielinor Games one will be able to compete in a multitude of events and earn various rewards such as costumes and medals.

Preparation
As of 11 July 2012, Jagex released an update where you could help prepare for the Gielinor Games, by doing several tasks for Oomad Arrow, such as cooking, mining, smelting, and constructing. Preparation for the Gielinor Games could be done once a day.

Cheese-wheel rolling
'''There are 8 rails with a piece of cheese for each rail, for this " sport " you will receive Defence XP. The goal in this sport is to reach to the end of the hill. It's impossible to reach the hill as you will always fall, you need to skip everything you see by running side to side, but you will always fall.'''

Rewards
Oomad has a shop interface that sells equipment in three tiers: bronze, silver and gold. The currency of the rewards shop are contribution points that may be spent on various emotes, titles, and cosmetic items.

RuneFest 2011 Announcement
Before releasing a statement on RuneScape website about the event, Mod Mark released a statement at Runefest 2011 that Jagex would be hosting their over version of the Olympics in London.

Trivia

 * The logo for the Gielinor Games are depicting the symbols of five gods: Guthix, Zamorak, Saradomin, Bandos and Seren. This closely resembles the five Olympic rings.
 * The choice of gods is slightly odd, specifically the inclusion of Seren (a much more obscure god than the other four) and exclusion of Armadyl (who is generally included in a traditional god line-up).
 * It might be due to the fact that the most representative of Armdayl's followers, the aviansie, or what is left of them, are trapped in the God Wars Dungeon, while elves are more "available".
 * The order is also strange as Saradomin is usually portrayed as the counterpart of Zamorak with Guthix in between, as seen in the portals of Castle Wars, the statues near Mage Arena, the effect of god bows, and many, many more. Another reason why this representation can be considered as odd is, because this seems to less well represent the actual Olympic rings. A more similar order may be: Saradomin, Seren, Bandos, Guthix, Zamorak, as their colours line up better with the original rings (Blue, Yellow, Black, Green, Red).
 * The banner carriers are followers of the respective gods. It is still unknown what god (if any) the fairies follow. The fairy holding the Guthix banner is not an indication of this, as the fairy represents not only the fairies, but the Guthix-following gnomes as well.
 * These is a glitch where, ex members on f2p worlds seem to be unable to enter the portal because they have a follower, when no follower is present