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Sunday, November 4, 2012

Level Up! Live 2012 Day 2

Day 2 of the annual Level Up! Live 2012 were highlighted by the Cosplay competition, Ragnarok finals, awarding of the winners from different games and events, and the mini-concert of Kamikazee.

Member of Smart Team Philippines giving details to their RWC 2012 experience

There were three categories for the Cosplay competition – best female character, best male character and best NPC/monster. For the female, I believe it was from Perfect World while the best male character was a Guillotine Cross of Ragnarok Online. The best monster goes to Valkyrie Randgris of Ragnarok Online.

Day 2 of Level Up! Live 2012 were also allotted to acknowledge the 3^rd place rank of the Smart Team Pilipinas who competed in the recent Ragnarok World Championship (RWC) in South Korea.

The finals match of Ragnarok Online between Chromosomes (Valhalla server) and Legion of Doom (New Loki server) also happened on Day 2. The LOD defeated Chromosomes 4-0 in a best-of-7 match. Too bad for us Valhalla server, we won’t have a modified experience week.

This year was also the first time that the 3^rd jobs were used in the Ragnarok Finals and it made a lot of changes on how the game is played. Killing the professor is no longer the main objective since every character right now is a potential killer. In the 4^th round, only the Sura of Chromosomes was left to battle the Rune Knight, Sorcerer and Maestro of Legion of Doom. Unfortunately, the Sura was killed by the RK due to the spam of Dragon’s Breath.

Day 2 ended with Kamikazee’s performance singing popular songs like Martyr Nyebera, Chixilog (theme song of the Ragnarok community), Narda and a duet with a female singer.

Hope to guys see you again next year for Level Up! Live 2013.

A lot of female cosplayers

Naruto and friends

Arch Bishop and Ranger from Ragnarok Online

One of the crowd favorites

The Best Female Cosplayer

Baphomet, a popular Ragnarok MVP (Boss monster)

Kafra holding a Poporing

Valkyrie Randgris of Ragnarok Online – she won the Best Monster category

Kagerou – the male 2nd job of Ninja class, from Ragnarok Online. Soon to be implemented in pRO

High Priest of Ragnarok Online

Baphomet

Royal Guard of Ragnarok Online

Even Boy Pick-up made a cameo appearance

The finals match between Chromosomes (Valhalla server) and Legion of Doom (New Loki server)

GM Aeon with the commentators during the Ragnarok Championship match

Chromosomes versus Legion of Doom

Sura of Ragnarok Online

Royal Guard and Sura of Ragnarok Online

In the end, Legion of Doom (New Loki server) was declared champion of Ragnarok Philippine Championship

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Saturday, November 3, 2012

Level Up! Live 2012 Day 1

I just came home from World Trade Center in Pasay City. I attended the annual Level Up! Live 2012 Day 1. I was there around 3PM and I missed most of the events in the morning but nonetheless, it’s good to see familiar faces (Ragnarok friends) and to see cosplayers, and game enthusiasts.

World Trade Center in Pasay City. The venue of the yearly Level Up! Live event

This year’s Level Up! Live 2012 definitely have more activities since e-Games and Level Up! Games (LUG) merged. Aside from the usual games like Ragnarok, Grand Chase, Flyff, Rohan, and Perfect World, I was able to see events by Brawl Busters, Cabal Online, Ran Online, Eligium and Audition.

Day 1 ended by awarding the very first Ms. Level Up title, which goes to the representative from Grand Chase. Most of the games currently published by Level Up has a representative. Our very own Ms. Ragnarok, as well as Ms. Perfect World, became 2^nd runner up followed by Ms. Cabal (1^st runner up). The title of Ms. Level Up eventually went to Ms. Grand Chase. JC Cuadrado of Studio 23 co-hosted the event along with GM Tristan.

This year was also the first time that Level Up came with an LU Toy Market which is a small version of the Toy Con. A lot of popular toys, action figures and fashion items that are not based on the games of Level Up were sold.

There’s also the LU City wherein guilds from different Level Up games sold items that are game-related. Our very own Ragnarok guild had our own booth called Bubbles and Sweets (booth #1) sold stickers, pins and collectible Poring-family items. Our booth also became a meeting place for players of Ragnarok (Valhalla server) to meet and greet.

This year’s Level Up 2012 coincides with the Ragnarok World Championship (RWC) 2012 being held in South Korea. I’ve heard that Team Pilipinas already defeated Korea and USA. A large screen was allotted to Ragnarok enthusiasts to watch the live telecast of RWC 2012. As of writing this blog article, Team Pilipinas finished 3rd place in the Ragnarok World Championship 2012.

I also saw familiar sponsors like No Fear, PC Express, PLDT myDSL, and first time sponsors Sulit.com and Cobra Energy Drink, TV 5 (promoting The Amazing Race Philippines) and Cebuana Lhuillier were also present.

See you again tomorrow for Day 2 of Level Up! Live 2012.

JC Cuadrado along with the candidates of the first ever Ms. Level Up 2012