The tournament to determine who will be the 7-man national team to represent us in this year’s Ragnarok World Championships in

Seoul, Korea is already underway.The World Championships for Ragnarok, an online game published and run here locally by Level Up, will be held in

Seoul, South Korea on July 21-22, 2007 and is the biggest to date as it invites a record number of teams as well as offers a staggering 25,000-30,000 US dollars as prize money for the eventual RO world champions.

But winning that prize money won’t be easy. Aspiring RO teams will have to survive a veritable gauntlet of equally worthy opponents just to get to

Korea. In 2005, Level Up sent 2 Philippine teams, Rebirth and Unholy to

Korea to compete. But our teams did not fare well from advanced tactics and strategy from the other countries. Both our national teams lost to their counterparts in the first round.

Vowing revenge, talk on strategy and better play from the Filipinos are now reaching a fevered pitch on the Ragnarok forums and on blogs.

“With the level of competition we have seen the past few years in the RPC, we can safely say that our Pinoy Ragnarok Players can more than match up to players from other countries. What we lack in international experience, they will make up for in creative and unconventional battle strategies” explained Carlo “Wauks” Ople, Ragnarok Online’s Brand Manager.

“We will be using the Ragnarok Philippine Championships, which is the most prestigious online gaming tournament in the country, to select 8 guilds. Those guilds will then battle it out online and the winner will be the official representative of the Philippines to RWC 2007 in

Korea.”And getting to

Korea is just the first step. Once there, the Pinoy team must then face veteran teams from powerhouse countries like Brazil, France, the host country, Korea and defending champion,

Taipei.

Let’s wish the boys luck!