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It was a double bill WoW Factor event this week on Elvine’s home realm. We’ll start off with a summary of the Alliance show.

Click here to read about Part II of the Stormreaver double-event: Horde side!

As Keelhaul was only available for the first hour, we continued our guest judge theme by adding Dibby to the panel, a three-time WoW Factor winner from Earthen Ring. Elvine provided both the live stream and the full 100,000 gold prize fund for the show.
With the team all set we headed to Stormwind Cathedral once again, as the destination for this week’s festivities. We use the diamond pattern on the Cathedral floor to mark out places for participants to line up neatly, but the organisation didn’t last for too long before chaos struck.

Everything started smoothly and it wasn’t long before we had highlighted twenty outfits as winners of our first round of competition. However, part way through round two a sizeable Horde raid came bursting into Stormwind and proceeded to jump around and fire off AoE effects on top of the event participants. At first we were able to continue with minimal disruption, but after a while the intensity of the spell effects was impacting both our ability to identify contestants and the quality of the live stream. In response we took off to Stormwind Keep, seeking the aid of the only one who could protect the show and the only other location with our beloved diamond floor pattern.

There was a moment of bliss upon arriving at the Keep, with each participant quickly finding themselves a place in a ring around the throne room, as shown to the right (click to enlarge).
It was a fantastic opportunity for screenshots, but the peace didn’t last long before the Horde stormed up the ramp after us. It could have been a disaster, but King Varian Wrynn, obviously a fan of the show, stepped up and slaughtered the Horde, leaving the room clear of threats for the remaining duration of the event. Thanks, Varian!

After all of the excitement of the raid, we were eventually able to select our top six outfits of the day and prepare to visit the very Horde who had just raided our event, for the second part of the double WoW Factor show.

A video of the full event, including judges commentary, is available at Elvine’s TwitchTV page.

Competition Outline

The Stormreaver Alliance event consisted of three rounds, starting off with small amounts of gold given to multiple players and ending with just a handful receiving the top gold prizes of the day in the final round.

The total prize fund was 100,000 gold, sponsored by Elvine (pictured to the right).

Read on below for a list of the winners and a screenshot gallery of the top 12 sets!

Top 12 Gallery

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Archiqt

Aiko and Hôpe

Ildesta

Gimpmask

Sliverfoul

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Top 5

Round 3: The five best outfits of the night were selected and awarded 10,000 gold each (50k total):

Archiqt
Gimpmask
Ildesta
Sliverfoul
Aiko / Hôpe (Shared a prize – 5000g each)

Top 10 (8)

Round 2: We initially planned to have 10 winners in this round, but decided to split two of the 3k prizes into six extra 1k prizes for round 1. The following characters, as well as Sliverfoul and Ildesta from the Top 5 category, received 3000 gold each (24k total):

Barretta / Klette / Kü / Morgan / Risna / Sunni

Top 20 (26)

Round 1: The following characters, as well as many in the above categories, received 1000 gold each in Round 1 (26k total):

Akyrra / Aralae / Cathroy / Deakyn / Joline / July / Karaxus / Kelliel / Kohiro Lenwey / Phlora Phonak / Played / Plutoh / Shizzelz / Sockmonkie / Valesira / Verse

Final Words

As always, congratulations to the winners and commiserations to those who didn’t receive a prize, we greatly appreciated seeing every outfit, even if we didn’t select them as finalists.

Thanks to all who participated in the event, and to those who helped keep the show running smoothy by answering questions in-game and on the live stream. A further thanks to Dibby for adding his valuable input as our guest judge for the week.

If you enjoyed the WoW Factor show on Stormreaver Alliance, we’d love to hear some feedback from you over on the US WoW Forums. It’s great to hear from people who’ve had fun at our events, it really keeps our motivation up for future shows.

Keep an eye on The WoW Factor Queue and our WoW Factor Events Page for more on future events!

In the second part of the WoW Factor double bill on Stormreaver, we headed over to the Horde side of Elvine’s home realm.

Click here to read about Part I of the Stormreaver double-event: Alliance side!

The Stormreaver Horde event carried a total prize fund of 300,000 gold, the joint-largest amount we’ve ever given away in a single show, and the audience turnout in Grommash Hold was proportionately enormous. With the largest crowd we’ve ever had at a WoW Factor show, our usual destination was bursting with eager transmoggers. We’ll certainly have to consider a larger location for future events of such a scale.

Ironically, the Horde event was delayed by some thirty minutes due to a Horde raid on our Alliance show, which had started around 2 1/2 hours prior. Delays aside, we quickly got down to our transmog business with our guest judge Dibby, a previous WoW Factor winner who filled in for Keelhaul’s absence.

Our impressive prize pool came from three sponsors, the first of whom was of course Elvine, WoW Factor judge and resident of Stormreaver, who put up 175,000 gold for the Horde event, on top of 100k that he distributed amongst the Alliance earlier in the day. A further 100,000 was added by Accession guild, who showed up in force at the event. To complete the package, 25,000 gold came from Audem Gold, a gold-maker and recent transfer to the realm. Thanks to all of the sponsors for your contributions.

Being that the gold total was so much larger than normal events, we opted to merge our first and second rounds, in the hope of speeding up the time it would take to look around and award prizes to the many participants. Rather than giving increasing amounts of gold, we could choose to award either a small or large sum on the spot, depending on our impression of the outfit. The system worked well and after working our way around the room, we were able to short-list thirteen characters to enter our final round of competition, to compete for the top prizes of the day.

A video of the full event, including judges commentary, is available at Elvine’s TwitchTV page.

Competition Outline

Our normal competition structure was altered due to a last minute changed to the total prize fund. Rounds 1 and 2 were judged simultaneously, with judges awarding either 2000 or 10000 to outfits, if they were deemed worthy of a prize. Participants were given an option to change outfits mid-way through this combined round, so that they may have another chance to win. The total prize fund was 300,000 gold, donated by the following: Elvine – 175,000, Accession guild – 100,000, AudemGold – 25,000.

Read on below for a list of the winners and a screenshot gallery of the top five sets!

Top 5 Gallery

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Abegail

Coffin

Lottidotti

Monroé

Tiny

Top 5

Round 3: The five best outfits of the night were selected and awarded 20,000 gold each (100k total):

Abegail
Coffin
Lottidotti
Monroé
Tiny

The Top 5 can be seen lined up in the image to the right.

Top 15 (13)

Round 2: We initially planned to have fifteen winners in this round, but changed the format so we eventually had thirteen. The following characters, as well as those in the Top 5 category, received 10000 gold each (130k total):

Amalyth / Doomcry / Ectro / Enlil / Goomba / Mewes / Shabombuquay / Solalla

Top 25 (35)

Round 1: We initially planned to have twenty-five winners in this round, but changed the format so we eventually had thirty-five. The following characters received 2000 gold each in Round 1 (70k total):

Alianori / Atoned / Ayrianna / Àzazèl / Bloodward / Créam / Dalton / Dienmyarms / Díva
Doomcry / Excisìon / Fade / Healßillie / Hecttraz / Irrompible / Kai / Kitsala / Kryz / Lurkn Minderaser / Mîsanthrope / Øverload / Pinkpantiez / Shaggey / Shockzya / Spardot / Stormblade Trolytic / Twolivecrew / Varx / Veltric / Vyroxx / Wigglecandy / Zerostar

Final Words

As always, congratulations to the winners and commiserations to those who didn’t receive a prize, we greatly appreciated seeing every outfit, even if we didn’t select them as finalists.

Thanks to all who participated in the event, and to those who helped keep the show running smoothy by answering questions in-game and on the live stream. A further thanks to Dibby for adding his valuable input as our guest judge for the week.

If you enjoyed the WoW Factor show on Stormreaver Horde, we’d love to hear some feedback from you over on the US WoW Forums. It’s great to hear from people who’ve had fun at our events, it really keeps our motivation up for future shows.

Keep an eye on The WoW Factor Queue and our WoW Factor Events Page for more on future events!