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Sunny Cape Corinth made a perfect backdrop for the WoF Ceremony. Romania finally got their hard-earned prizes, a leather jacket with the golden WoF logo; outshining the sun itself.
WoF veterans and curious bystanders alike gathered around FPC representatives and holders of the prize goodies, Emma and Simon. The top three nations in WoF 2009, Romania, USA and Sweden, were handed prizes and diplomas for their effords in the largest event in Entropia Universe, rallying hundreds of players every year.
Starting at third and working up to the champions, Simon handed out prizes to Team Sweden and Team USA. While Sweden gathered their prizes, USA's Star declared the kiddie pool open, and Da, Skippie, Crazy Bacon and Kydde went wild, splashing water on the armored Swedes. It didn't seem to bother them though, one could assume it was refreshing under the glowing sun. All armored up in the heat, they could easily have ended up as canned soup.
But no matter the splashing; what everyone wanted to know was what the color of the new WoF jackets would be. Previous WoF winner jackets have been green (USA 2007) and blue (UK 2008). This year it came in a leathery brown, but most importantly, radiating Romanian national pride.
National Pride
The win might have been extra sweet this year, since nothing seems to have ever come easy to Romanians. The country has in the past given other players a sour taste in the mouth, labelling them as scammers or thieves. This, in turn, sparked the national feeling within the Romanians.
"Even tho most Romanians are not scammers and thieves, those managed to make us all look bad. We wanted to show that our community has good examples in it. We always did our best to win, and we were close in the first edition. So I would say that the desire to win was there for all people. We also made use of all willing to help in any way. Even with Opalo." Romania's proud captain BlackHawk shares. The jacket is a symbol of the progress the Romanian nation has made; for themselves and for the representation of their country.
In the beginning, they didn't even want to participate.
"Mostly because of what happened previous years. But some people really wanted to participate, and the most important of all was Christian Chris ChrisPope. He was really persistent about joining the event and called me from Canada insisting that we should be there." BlackHawk shares, "Even tho most people in the beginning did not want to participate, we decided to do our best to win," And so they did.
Building of a community
Friendship and pride have been the glue holding the team together, while strategy helped them to reach their ultimate goal.
"I would say most part is strategy. There is some luck factor, but most of it is made by the strategy. I would say that we were unlucky during the event and our loot mostly sucked, and we had heavy loses in most stages. And one other 'luck factor' was that some of our opponents disregarded our team and did not do the best they could have done to win against us."
The tight Romanian bonds extend from the virtual world into the real one. ROUA's saracutu greuceanu zidul has been a great driving force in the building of those bonds.
"He always does something to bring us all from Bucharest in a place for few beers and some chat, and this keeps the community together. Some people were not in main team, but they did more for winning than if they would have been shooting in main."
"Greatest pleasure was to see so many people willing to help for a common goal. We saw how many friends we have. The win feels great. It was what we all wanted." he ends, and thanks everyone.
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