Running of the Gnomes is Back for itâs 8th Year!
The âsmallâ run will be held again October 14th, 2017 at 7pm EST(New York Time for overseas friends) /4pm PST on Scarlet Crusade-US.
7pm is race start time, so show up early, get a guild invite to one of our several guilds to help us headcount gnomes and meet all your fellow Gnomies! Be sure to bring your S.E.L.F.I.E camera!
http://ccf.convio.net/site/TR/DIY/CCFTeamRaiser?team_id=6214&pg=team&fr_id=1580
Running of the Gnomes will benefit the Cleveland Clinic and the creators of the Tuohy Vaccine that is currently in the early stages of human clinical trials. If the drug is successful, it could be the end of breast cancer.
Not only do we want to benefit a charity that we love; but we want to encourage the members of our community (no matter their gender) get screened for Breast Cancer. We also want to take the chance to show a whole lot of love to the people in the community who are currently sick, or who have family members who are sick or who have lost someone to the disease.
Last alone year we had 2,860+ Gnomes, and raised $5,500. This year our starting goal is $4,000!
The whole idea was to raise money for breast cancer, and Gnomes were one of the few races with pink hair making it easy for everyone to rock the pink look on a low level character, and the idea of small change and a small gnomes doing big things was appealing.
This sounds like fun, how do I participate?
Easy! Roll a Gnome on Scarlet Crusade, give it pink hair, give it a cute or funny name. Just not something youâll get reported for!
On the day of the event for the few hours before the event starts, myself, and friends will give you an invite to one of our few âRacing Guildsâ Show up early,, and hang out with people waiting for the event! Weâll put out announcements on our social media to let you guys know when weâre Inviting.
Gnomies are too low to participate in raids, so this is our work around to getting a headcount. There will not be raids, or parties. Thereâs too many of you for me to even think about setting this up!
Thereâs also a Micro-Holiday!
This year, an in game Micro-Holiday in World of Warcraft, The Great Gnomeregan Run will be something that you can access from any server. It is also on October 14th! Â While the Micro-Holiday was inspired by our event and follows our race course, the Micro-Holiday in World of Warcraft isnât exactly about our charity, the spirit is there. However, our actual charity event will still only be on Scarlet Crusade.
They used our race course, and weâll be following it exactly! You can preview it here, it itâs incomplete PTR state thanks to Wowheadâs hard work! https://youtu.be/aqqwlJOl9DA
Whatâs this about an after party?
Every year once the run is done, we release the Gnomes and theyâll take a trip across the sea to run up from Ratchet to Orgrimmar, and go give kisses or lick Saurfang.
Whatâs this about small change?
The very first year when we expected it to be only friends and guildies we asked guild members and other participants to donate based upon the number of Gnomes who showed up, in small change amounts. For example, people would pledge that for every Gnome that attended they would donate a penny, nickle, or dime.
Some people now donate whatever they can, but some people still donate this way, and itâs fun to see just how many Gnomes we have! A few hours after the run, Iâll let you know how many Gnomes and escorts ran with us, and post it online.
You donât have to donate if you participate, but youâre free to donate if youâd like! Plus, coming does help raise the amount that some people will chip in!
Why Breast Cancer? Thereâs so many charities that do this.
October is breast cancer awareness month. We understand weâre sugar coating something devastating for people with cute gnomes to open up a conversation, but for a good reason. Everyoneâs been affected by cancer of some form. Plus, we really realize that breast cancer isnât just a womanâs issue. It affects our moms, our sisters, but also our dads, our brothers, our friends, guildies, coworkers, and many other people in our lives. Itâs affected people that we really love in our community.
One of the worst parts is that all around us there are so many people playing the game who are so young who donât even think about checking themselves or being right age to be going to go get their regular mammograms or are even putting them off for whatever reason.
We feel even if the pink hair and cute outfits or all these Gnomes remind just one single person to check themselves to get a mammogram or encourage that family member who hears to go in to the doctor whoâs been putting it off weâve done our job for the year.
Plus itâs really hard to miss around thousands Gnomes doing anything, let alone thousands Gnomes with the same colored hair stampeding through half a continent. Hopefully we do start discussions that save lives.
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