Yesterday, a flood of pink gnomes took over World Of Warcraft, racing from the beginning space of Gnomeregan to the pirate harbour of Booty Bay. The Running of the Gnomes has grown over its 9 annual iterations, now seeing hundreds of members log in to have a good time and lift cash for breast most cancers analysis.
The Run started as a small gathering of about 150 gamers, with gnomes chosen each as a result of considered one of their default hair colors is a beautiful shade of pink and due to the symbolism of one thing small including as much as a big effect.
Since final 12 months, Blizzard have additionally hosted their very own official micro-holiday primarily based on the occasion, the Great Gnomeregan Run, and it returned this 12 months too. It formalises the route with checkpoints and NPC spectators, however the authentic Running of the Gnomes solely takes place in a single server, Scarlet Crusade-US, in order that organiser Dravvie can correctly rely the racers. This 12 months there have been someplace between 5 and 6 thousand, although the tally is but to be finalised.
Currently, this 12 months’s fundraising whole is sitting at $8440 (about £6420), however that’s more likely to go up considerably as soon as the gross sales of the very cute shirts are accounted for. Last 12 months the run raised greater than $16,600 (£12,600).
All the cash raised goes in the direction of researching the promising Tuohy vaccine, which targets probably the most lethal types of breast most cancers, and is presently present process human trails. If you need to donate, you are able to do so here.
