Gielinor Games



The Gielinor Games are part of a temporary event that began on 24 July 2012, being held in RuneScape to reflect the start of the Olympic Games in real life.

The Gielinor Games consists of six races from all across the globe to compete in one big event. The races participating are:


 * Goblins who represent Bandos under Mudfoot
 * Humans who represent Saradomin under Mikael
 * Vampyres and werewolves who represent Zamorak under Larsa
 * Monkeys who represent Marimbo under Unuki and Emilee
 * Elves who represent Seren under Oluien
 * Fairies and gnomes who represent Guthix under Sunnel (and Oomad Arrow)

During the Gielinor Games one may 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.

Events
There are currently 4 events available to participate in. Head-to-Head, Cheese-wheel rolling, and the Resource race may be accessed by entering the portal in Varrock Square. The Marathon occurs in different worlds at various times. Note that followers may not be taken into any of the events. The total amount of skill experience earned per event each day varies, dependant on skill level, among other factors. As well as the specific skill experience, contribution points are also earned. Once players have reached the maximum contribution points (2500) no more shall be gained playing events until one spends some.

Head-to-Head (m)
Head-to-Head is a race with a difference, which each move is determined by ability cards. The aim of the game is to complete the race in the shortest amount of cards possibly. Agility experience is received upon completion of the race.

Cheese-wheel rolling


There are 8 rails with a wheel of cheese for each rail, the goal in this sport is to reach to the end of the hill, avoiding the obstacles in the way. For this event one will receive Defence experience.

There is currently a glitch where if you fall down you may roll again, bringing up the message You manged to stay upright for __ rounds, You recive ___ contribution points and __ defence experience twice, giving you twice the exp and contribution points.

Resource Race
The Resource Race is a game set on four islands, where the goal is to collect as many resources as possible in five minutes and load them into the starting islands deposit. This sport rewards Woodcutting, Mining, and/or Farming experience (experience received depends on which resources were collected). There are three islands in conjunction with the starting island. The islands are skill specific, with the skills being Woodcutting, Mining and Farming, to collect logs, ore, and herbs, respectively. The resources are colour coded for skill level needed to gather them.

Marathon
The Marathon is set all around Gielinor. The aim is to run through all of the checkpoints and complete the course as quickly as possible. Completing the Marathon rewards the player with Constitution experience. The Marathon does not run all the time on all worlds, but it is announced through the in-game chat box on all servers. There are currently 3 known Marathon courses.

(m) = members only

Note: All progress is lost in case of logging out.

Commentators
Commentating the Gielinor Games' events are: Thok, Tentacle, a troll, a zombie, Mr Mordaut and The Raptor, who throughout their commentary are constantly ridiculing each other with corny, or more relevantly "cheesy" (both literally and figuratively) jokes.

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, which may be spent on emotes, a title, and cosmetic items. A maximum of 2500 contribution points may be kept at a time. Rings from each of the tiers boost the amount of contribution points that you are rewarded with, increasing with each tier. Bronze and silver tier are available to all players, while the gold tier is only available to members.

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 own 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.
 * In the head-to-head race, there is a card called "arrow to the knee", this is a reference to the "arrow to the knee" meme from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The phrase may have been purposely misspelt as the true utterance of many hold guards is 'arrow in the knee'.
 * In either of the events, which take places in floating islands in the sky like clan citadels, you are able to see the top of the Dominion Tower in the southwest direction.
 * The monkeys represent no god in the games, though the monkeys of Ape Atoll are devout followers of Marimbo.
 * Several instances of confusion occurred during Marathon announcements, including a cancellation for the World 1 Varrock Marathon and a sudden world switch from a World 3 (F2P) to World 2 (P2P) Varrock Marathon, leading to rioting among frustrated players.
 * In the Resource Race, the Zombie makes the comment "Gotta collect them all". This is a reference to the lyrics of the introduction song in the Pokemon anime.