...Rich Kid Herbert...: Ragnarok World Championship 2012 Results

The Ragnarok World Championship 2012 has commenced last November 3, 2012 in Seoul, South Korea. Eleven teams from 40 countries compete for the title of becoming the champion for RWC2012. Fans all over the world are given the chance to watch the matches and events through streaming at the RWC 2011 official site. The streaming is only active during the event.

pRO had been conducting the selection process for our representative at the beginning of the year through series of events. We have the regular agit lords or our server representatives, regionals to scout teams from selected provinces, wild card from votes and sure slot for the LU Live 2011 winner. Last year is not that good for our team since due to uncontrolled circumstances some of the team members were not able to fly to Korea. But these year they were able to represent our country proudly.

After an intense battle we now have the results. The RWC 2012 champion was bagged by Japan showing a lot of unpredictable strategies. Second place goes to Thailand. And the Third place goes to the Philippines.

Congratulations Team Pilipinas! You made pRO and ex-pRO players proud.

RWC 2012 is the first competion where in teams will now use 3rd job characters in the competition. Same rules apply where in teams will be using 7 characters with no repeating classes are allowed. Usability of characters is strictly defined from the restricted skills and item limitations. Based on my observation of the matches the following classes are the core of the teams: Archbishop, Sorcerer, Royal Guard, Sura and Minstrel. The last two slots to make up the 7 man team are being juggled between the following classes: Warlock, Shadow Chaser, Rune Knight and Mechanic.

There are still unusable classes that are left out on the prestigious competition. Because of item restrictions the following classes are hardly being chosen: Assassin Cross and Genetic. The following classes somehow didn't find any use in competitive teams: Ranger and Wanderer

Since I'm from pRO and I'm biased for our country here are all the matches that I've searched from youtube. Watch them and be the judge on the performance of the team.

Philippines vs Korea

Philippines vs US

Philippines vs Japan

This match is the most controversial among pRO players who watched in live stream because of the lack of Land Protector from the Sorcerer. The pRO team clarified that they were caught by Stasis from Japan's warlock. If you look closely on the match, the main strategy used by team Japan is Stasis from the Warlock followed by Suicide Destruction from their Mechanic. From there they easily created panic to the opponent team.