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, as 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/gnomes. 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. Note that followers may not be taken into any of the events. The total amount of skill experience earned per event each day varies. 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
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.

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.

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.

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 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.

(m) = members only

Commentators
Commentating the Gielinor Games' events are: Thok, Tentacle, a troll, a zombie, Mr Mordaut and The Raptor.

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.

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 goddess 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 Armadyl's followers, the aviansie, or what is left of them, are trapped in the God Wars Dungeon, while elves are more "available".
 * This may also be a hint to the possibility of the release of a new Elf quest later this year. The Elves involvement may be to raise awareness of their presence in RuneScape.
 * 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).
 * There 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.
 * 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.