I wonder what faction this creator prefers. Rather hard to spot..

Good looking video. -1 for the exaggerated pro faction mood.

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Hot Diggity. Very nice. Quite a production.

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Wow, For a pvp Machinima, it was really good.
Well worth the watch.

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good video, enjoyed the first one also, but man...some of these guys just really suck at pvp.

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Reading the writeup on Crocolisk, I can't believe some people got upset when the winner of the beauty contest was beaten up, stripped down, and promised as spoils to the victor of the final match. What clods.

Seriously though, that vignette wrecked the movie for me. It was stomach-turning, and cast a misogynist pall over the rest of the production. Yvanka's shameful defense on the Crocolisk blog of, "It wasn't rape! Don't take it so seriously." is almost worse. It doesn't matter that Adelah says she was comfortable with the event (and the attention!). The only time women show up in the movie, and it's to be degraded, defeated, and shown as literal sex objects.

I find it hard to believe that I'm the only one who was put off by this.

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Very well made machinima, worth watching!


...And LOL @ Matt's comment.

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This was such a fun event, even if Kung did keep us waiting for weeks on the video. There was even a picture from the stands as the Screenshot of the Day, but it was taken down when Blizz realized it takes an exploit to get to the Arena floor.

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Great to see this on WoW Insider, and thanks for taking the time to link to my write-up, too. It's wonderful that this project has gotten so much attention, especially since Malvagio, Kung, and Toxicant worked hard on organizing the event.

Kung made a fantastic video of this. We're very proud of his efforts.

As for Matt, well, some of the humor in my writing may have been lost on you since I'm assuming you're neither from Maelstrom, nor a regular of our Maelstrom forums. My comment about "rape" was directed at another individual's mini-tirade whenever he, too, misunderstood Adelah's purpose in the ring. I'm sorry you view the whole thing as being terribly misogynistic. As a female participant, I can tell you I didn't mind being both a sexy semi-naked dancer and a sexy rat-equipped gnome. I was even the female Stormwind Guard that tried to take Malvagio down. Plenty of women helped out behind the scenes, and Adelah was even a victorious duelist in the first Ring of Valor. Our contributions were important. I hope that helps to change your mind a little bit. We (the ladies) had SO much fun with everything. Try to enjoy the video and event for what it is.

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I would love to see a write up on the making of this video. I know why Blizz doesn't want to make the Ring of Valor an openly-accesible environment, but doing so would certainly create fantastic opportunities for player-organized PVP and RP events.

@Matt
I'm a bit disappointed that he was the only commenter to have a view on the final scene. I agree with him that it was totally unnecessary and disturbing. Those of you who countered with the age-old "It's just a game" or "men can't speak against misogyny", please come back with some real and meaningful arguments.

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Great job Kung, you make us Maelstromites proud.

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To Matt@

Malvagio here (the ringmaster) - The use of Adelah as a trophy wench was actually inspired by concept art by blizzard. See link:

http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/3474/tothevictorgi1.jpg

I thank you all for your compliments, and for leaving comments in general, about the show/video. For those who had trouble with the one-sided faction elements and the trophy event (in that order:)

The Ring of Valor is the only place an event like this could really be done, with the center being shielded off from the viewing stands. Being located in Orgrimmar, the capital city of the Horde, it's sort of difficult to make a fitting "faction neutral" show. It's a Horde arena in a Horde city put on by the Horde.

Off that, the nature of the show is Hordish. That is to say, brutal, savage and prejudice. If you don't believe that a human trophy is not beffiting of a Genghis khan-like barbarian bloodmatch, then I'm sorry. We don't think it's right, but it is fitting of the nature. Again, the idea was inspired by Blizzard.

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Excellent video - I only wish that every realm would organise similar events.

At least one capital city per faction should have a coliseum that uses the same mechanics as Gurubashi - it would be a lot more attractive than dueling outside Ogrimmar or Ironforge.

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Extremely well done, if entirely too long even given strong plotting. The generic deep-growly announcer's voice was the only bit that bugged me, though it fit well with WoW's baddies. "You are not prepared. I have a voice filter! I'm scary! Really!"

Misogynist? Sure, I suppose so. Worked in context however. Having the defeated guy rezzed and being "the prize" would've been cleverer by far.

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