15 years it has taken me to finally get this pet! Spirit of Competition on Trader Post this month

Share pet collecting news and advice.
Post Reply
Whatever
Posts:12
Joined:December 28th, 2020
Pet Score:12150
Realm:Emerald Dream-us
Contact:
15 years it has taken me to finally get this pet! Spirit of Competition on Trader Post this month

Post by Whatever » August 1st, 2023, 11:18 am

Image

Spirit of Competition was available during summer of 2008 and it never dropped for me. Supposedly there was a 1 in 8 chance of getting it in the mail but sometimes RNG can suck badly. I think I did about 100 tries and nada.

Checked the trader post today, what do I see? Spirit of Competition! For the next 31 days you got time to buy this pet before it becomes unavailable again.

User avatar
Rickstaman05
MVP
Posts:33
Joined:July 29th, 2008
Pet Score:12800
BattleTag®:pukanini#1597
Realm:Illidan-us
Contact:

Re: 15 years it has taken me to finally get this pet! Spirit of Competition on Trader Post this month

Post by Rickstaman05 » August 1st, 2023, 2:52 pm

Now for the Tiny Green Dragon and Tiny Red Dragon! I'm glad I got The Spirit back in the day. Congrats!

User avatar
Digem
MVP
Posts:565
Joined:August 1st, 2013
Pet Score:13800
Realm:Fizzcrank-us
Contact:

Re: 15 years it has taken me to finally get this pet! Spirit of Competition on Trader Post this month

Post by Digem » August 2nd, 2023, 2:48 pm

Whatever wrote:
August 1st, 2023, 11:18 am
Image

Spirit of Competition was available during summer of 2008 and it never dropped for me. Supposedly there was a 1 in 8 chance of getting it in the mail but sometimes RNG can suck badly. I think I did about 100 tries and nada.

Checked the trader post today, what do I see? Spirit of Competition! For the next 31 days you got time to buy this pet before it becomes unavailable again.
me too i tried in 2008 and failed . i kept hoping it would come back as it said every 4 years but it never did till now

User avatar
FuxieDK
Posts:878
Joined:July 27th, 2009
Pet Score:13645
BattleTag®:FuxieDK#2678
Realm:Draenor-eu
Contact:

Re: 15 years it has taken me to finally get this pet! Spirit of Competition on Trader Post this month

Post by FuxieDK » August 9th, 2023, 7:19 pm

I refused to do any kind of PvP back in 2008, so naturally I didn't get it..

It was rumored it would be a pet that would be available at every olympic, so I looked for it in the winter of 2010, summer of 2012 etc etc, but was sorely disappointed, when it never reappeared..

I was on vacation from 31/7 to 7/8 this years, but the first thing I did when I logged in at 8/8 when I got home, was to go to Orgrimmar as fast as possible and bought this baby... It's now MINE FOREVER!!!

User avatar
Shadowdreamer
Posts:5
Joined:March 26th, 2023
Pet Score:9792
Realm:Executus-us
Contact:

Re: 15 years it has taken me to finally get this pet! Spirit of Competition on Trader Post this month

Post by Shadowdreamer » August 28th, 2023, 7:31 pm

Tell me about it!

I was annoyed for years because I actually *did* get the pet fair & square when the event was happening but it was one of many that I deleted for space (y'know, back then space was actually pretty scarce especially if you didn't have a lot of gold and had a bunch of collectables like I did) my rationale was that they said pets obtained through quests and what not would all be reclaimable and I thought even if there was a mistake, at least the event would be coming back in 2012...

For some reason when we got the collection tab my Spirit of Competition was NOT there. I sent in tickets and showed that I had achievements which proved I was (a) active back then, (b) doing PvP back then, and (c) had some PvP achievements that were clearly gotten from winning matches and none of them could help me. I was super annoyed.

Luckily, they finally made it available again.

User avatar
Lornaa
Top Rater
Posts:24
Joined:February 16th, 2009
Pet Score:13864
BattleTag®:Rhadeyaz#2207
Realm:Aggramar-eu
Contact:

Re: 15 years it has taken me to finally get this pet! Spirit of Competition on Trader Post this month

Post by Lornaa » August 29th, 2023, 7:35 am

As I was never doing PVP, I never knew about this until collections came in and I saw it on the "wanted" tab on here. I'm sooooo glad we've got it :D

User avatar
Lukinator1
Posts:2
Joined:December 6th, 2017
Realm:Draka-us
Contact:

Re: 15 years it has taken me to finally get this pet! Spirit of Competition on Trader Post this month

Post by Lukinator1 » September 9th, 2023, 6:57 pm

it was actually available in wow classic TBC during the olympics, I felt the same and thought they would never make it available again but they ended up doing that, i think they also made the drop guaranteed after one bg instead of a 1/8 chance

Studmuffyn
Posts:53
Joined:June 14th, 2013
Pet Score:13347
Realm:Vek'nilash-us
Contact:

Re: 15 years it has taken me to finally get this pet! Spirit of Competition on Trader Post this month

Post by Studmuffyn » September 18th, 2023, 6:45 pm

Im feeling Murky may come at some point *crosses fingers

Post Reply