Spirit of Competition

My niece, who introduced me to WoW, got one of these. Years later, her parents insisted she share her account with her sister, "since you don't even play anymore", not understanding the lull between expansions. Sister deleted the character with the pet. 

This pet is one of the first I remember owning.  Unfortunately, my son and I shared an account back in 2008, and I moved my main toon to a new account so he and I could play together.  Now this pet is on his account (my original) and I am without it.  He is playing Classic and could not care less about collecting pets.  I tried to get Blizzard to move the pet, but they won't help.  It is a source of deep regret.

Been playing since 2nd week of Vanilla. All I did was PVP (was a Blood Guard back in Vanilla even though I had school and after school activities). I played and played and played and never got the mail for this pet even though the sole thing I did was PVP. I got the ugly tabard. This pet will forever depress me.

I still regret never getting this pet, I figured that I wouldnt allow myself to get stressed trying to get it since it would be a pet that would return in the future, since that no longer holds true - evidently so - guess I was sorely mistaken to make such an assured assumption. One day maybe.

I've had my Spirit for a long time...great for battles and always have him out during PVP on my shammy...people still ask where/when I got him...

I played like 3 battles in pvp long ago, just on a whim and I got this and a tabard in my mail. Put it in my bank and left it there. Was very happy when I could battle with this lil guy!

I got this one on a twink rogue I had at that time. Since then it was not learnable or account wide I lost my claim on it. I deleted that twink years ago to make something I did actually played.

Now I hate myself for having done that.

https://twitter.com/CM_Zarhym/status/228574859167404034

Zarhym(26 Jul 2012): "There's no Spirit of Competition reward this year. The expansion's kept us busy and contains MANY pets (handle them)...

http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/14979-08-08-new-event-the-spirit-of-competition/

Wryxian(08 Aug 2008): Every two years, the Spirits of Competition grow especially fervent and draw close to the mortal realm. During such times, members of both the Alliance and Horde can...

This is a great pet if you get the chance to get one. I have mine always in my battles as my backup while I'm leveling other pets. Haven't figured out a name for him but he looks a lot like Mushu from Mulan :)

Have this pet! Its a good one and not to metion its powerful. But if you have the Celestial Dragon its a toss up both have great HP and self healing.

@Thetaxman, You can absolutely prove it. Look in your achievements under Feats of Strength. There are 2 achievements that are tied to the 2008 Olympics. One is the Competitor's Tabard. A rather ugly tabard IMO, that is white with the 5 olympic circles on it. And  Spirit of Competition - Proud owner of a Spirit of Competition Pet from the 2008 Spirit of Competition. Having received this on any character on your account will show it as an achievement on all of your characters.

Great battler.... take this guy to so7s and level any pet from 1 to 25 with 30-40 pet battles.  He can handle any aquatic and flying mob solo, just let your leacher have one whack and let SoC do the rest....  Also Onyx Spawn works well also

Love this pet.  Was the pet that helped me through leveling my first set of pets to 25.  If you have this, I highly recommend this for battles.

Easily the best pet to battle with.  Huge heal and very large damage spells to combine with.

I use this as my Anchor, as it has always been the strongest in my groups.

Sigh, I wish I could have this pet.  :(  I missed the event because of a vacation.