UK esports organisation and World of Warcraft raid group Method have announced details around their Race to World First (RWF) broadcast for Nerub’ar Palace.
This is the first raid in the new expansion, The War Within, which recently launched.
Once again, Method will go up against the likes of Liquid, Echo and other raiding teams, and race to be the first to clear the raid and defeat all of its bosses on Mythic difficulty.
Edit: Just after the publication of this article, it was reported that several raiders had been banned for four days over a reputation-gain exploit. They will be unbanned in time for the race.
Method Nerub’ar Palace RWF Race to World First: Start date, location, team and casters listed
Method will be competing live from 1337 Camp in Stuttgart, Germany, from Wednesday September 18th 2024.
The org dropped a teaser video on socials here:
Method has a roster of 43, consisting of 30 players, ten analysts and three support staff.
These are as follows (with the 14 joining live from the 1337 Camp in bold):
- Nate – tank raider
- Tiefpass – tank raider
- Bangerz – healer officer
- Kina – healer officer
- Crystallize – healer raider
- FTM – healer raider
- Skånerost – healer raider
- Cruelladk – DPS raider
- Jaerv – DPS raider
- Kwepp – DPS raider
- Maskin – DPS raider
- Raime – DPS raider
- Huntoper – DPS trial
- Koltra – DPS trial
- Matteo – DPS trial
- Messiah – DPS trial
- Moet – DPS trial
- Munki – DPS trial
- Spen – DPS trial
- Uggz – DPS trial
- Verb – DPS trial
- Wildi – DPS trial
- Danwarr – DPS raider
- Faithy – DPS raider
- Fragnance – DPS raider
- Gotoy – DPS raider
- Insi – DPS raider
- Nezro – DPS raider
- Nurseos – DPS raider
- Sjeletyven – DPS raider
- Cayna – analyst
- Dana – analyst
- Morana – analyst
- Nnoggie – analyst
- Noukky – analyst
- Permok – analyst
- Tom – analyst
- Turttle – analyst
- Biff – raid leader
- Dragnio – healing officer
- Heregellas – support
- Kian – support
- Rinald – support
Casters for Method’s Race to World First RWF broadcast for Nerub’ar Palace are:
- Darkmech
- MrGM
- Ragedarling
- Purke
- Deepshades
- Lorgokz
- Roiben
- Shejkin
Partners for the event include SteelSeries, Arozzi, (Saudi esports district) Qiddiya, Holy, Fateless and RestedXP. There will also be a giveaway featuring a $3,000 PC from Fateless, and more goodies from some of the other partners.
‘Motivation is extremely high’ – Sco on Method’s chances and feelings going into the latest Race to World First
Method founder and CEO Scott ‘Sco’ McMillan also spoke about the Method raiding roster and his aims for this Race to World First in the video below.
On Method’s chances, he said: “Preparation seems to be going really well. To quote one of the offices at the moment, they said we’re blasting at the moment and very excited to see how we perform.
“It’s also been said that in this expansion, we actually feel like the other guilds are chasing us, preparation-wise, rather than the other way round. And if there was a chance for us to compete for the world first, this could actually be the tier.”
Sco, Method
“So I’d say the motivation in the guild right now is extremely high, and everyone is really excited to get into the raid and prove what we can do. So hopefully this is the tier where we can challenge and compete for that world first again, so let’s see how it goes.
“I think everyone is really excited, myself included, and everything seems to be coming together well with the guild, so I’m looking forward to it.”
Sco also said he’s still retired as a player, following his retirement at the end of the Shadowlands expansion, where Method claimed the world second kill of The Jailer, and is now focusing more on building Method as an organisation.
There’s more on the method.gg/rwf website
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