By Alexander Villafania
MAKATI CITY, METRO MANILA - Team “Naked Nanaman” beat seven other teams to earn the top spot in the recently held Philippine leg of the Ragnarok World Championship 2011 at the SM North EDSA Skydome.
The team is composed of veteran Ragnarok Online players Bernabe Orbeso, Marion Louise Carlos, Ron Aldwin Silvestre, Cris Elmar Barroquiña, Von Ryan Castillo, Lorenzo Canlas, and Mark Edizon Clemente.
They will represent the Philippines in the global finals of the Ragnarok World Championship to be held on October 14 to 16 in Seoul, South Korea.
For the final game, Orbeso and his team mates faced off with the “Suspects” in a very close best-of-five match. After a protracted fight, Team Naked Nanaman beat the Suspects, 3-2, to emerged the winner.
Apart from being the representative of the Philippines in the global RWC finals, Naked Nanaman also won P120,000 in cash prize.
The Philippines has been participating in the global RWC since 2007. The closest the Philippines ever got to the top spot was in 2009 when the Philippine team ended first runner-up against the Ragnarok team in Japan.
Ragnarok Online, developed by Korean firm Gravity Co., is currently the oldest online game in the Philippines when it was first introduced in 2002.
