Czech World of Warcraft followers donned costumes on Saturday to convey the massively standard on-line recreation to life, pushing forward with a scaled-back competition after the coronavirus pandemic postponed the annual occasion earlier this yr. Dressed as shamans, elves and knights, the gaming followers took half in video games and competitions in a forest in Kamyk nad Vltavou, south of Prague, however the normal live-action battle was scrapped on account of a low turnout.
The annual spring competition normally attracts as much as 200 followers however organisers mentioned turnout was solely about 60 this yr after the delay attributable to coronavirus lockdowns in Europe.
“We’re simply glad that this yr (the competition) is occurring,” mentioned Eliska Pabl Kaplanova, one of many organisers. “So this yr it is a smaller stage.”
The web role-playing recreation has develop into a cultural phenomenon since launching in 2004, with hundreds of thousands of gamers worldwide.
Jaroslav Racek, a policeman by day, mentioned he was making his seventh go to to the Czech occasion and that for him it was an opportunity to be immersed in one thing completely different.
“There’s a nice group of individuals right here,” he mentioned, dressed as a “Burning Legion” demon. “An individual can take pleasure in himself on this world and never simply sit at a pc.”
© Thomson Reuters 2020
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