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 6 races from all across the globe to compete in one big event. The 6 races participating are:


 * Goblins who represent Bandos,


 * Humans who represent Saradomin,


 * Vampyres/Werewolves who represent Zamorak,


 * Monkeys who represent Marimbo,


 * Elves who represent Seren, and


 * Fairies/Gnomes who represent Guthix.

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.

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. Aswell 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, with each move determined by ability cards. The aim of the game is to complete the race in the shortest amount of cards possible. Altogether there are 90 abilities available, one may use 1 ability each turn. Each card is coloured either red, blue, green, gold, or black, each colour specific to a different race, hover over each card to see what effect it has. Cards relating to oneself are black. Agility experience is received upon completion of the race.

A good tactic to use, if possible, is get as many of your opponents "struggling" as you can. Then if the "Cramp" ability is used twice, it removes them from the race and lowers the amount competitors you need to beat.

There is currently a glitch where if the player uses the players "Taunt" card as the first card played it makes duplicates of all the characters. The duplicate characters stay at the starting line. Another graphical glich can be preformed when one starts the race by clicking one ability card and then clicking the "Return to Varrock Portal." The player appears to be running backwards.

Cheese-wheel rolling


There are 8 rails with a piece 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.

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.



There are three islands in conjunction with the starting island. The islands are skill specific, with the skills being Woodcutting, Mining and Farming. The resources are colour coded for skill level needed to gather them.

The resources that can be obtained by mining are blue ore, gold ore, black ore, green ore, and red ore.

Note: the additional ores feature of Varrock Armour does work here. Use it to your advantage! Also, there are three red ore rocks clustered relatively closely together on the right side - one can go between them with little to no time spent waiting for respawn, gathering a green ore if necessary for maximum points.

The resources that can be obtained by woodcutting are blue logs, gold logs, black logs, green logs, and red logs.

The resources that can be obtained by farming (m) are blue herbs, gold herbs, black herbs, green herbs, and red herbs.

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. 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.

Many players expressed confusion about the Marathon, expecting Jagex Moderators to host the event. In actuality, the event commences itself without any action by Jagex Moderators.

(m) = members only

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" 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 that may be spent on various emotes, titles, 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 for all players. The gold tier is for members only.

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 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.