Method Wins the Race To World First

The headline says it all, the race to world first is over with Method taking down Heroic Ra-Den yesterday.  Blatty posted on his facebook page:

It's over. We'd predicted that we would get him this week, and after two pulls it was done. We are now the only people in the world to have killed the last boss of tier 15.

Congratulations, it was a hell of a race!!  Patch 5.2 dropped March 5th and the passed few raids the world first race seemed to only last a week.  If this was something you followed, did you find it to be much more exciting having it play out for a month or do you prefer it to be short and sweet?  

I loved how long this took, it was suspenseful especially with the "secret" boss, Ra-Den, at the end.  

Things took a small twist April 8th when a Chinese guild, 七 煌, took Ra-Den down (I say small twist because Asian Guilds are part of a completely different World First race due to how there gear works and so on).  They announced that this was not a legitimate kill, as there were tons of bugs and glitches in the fight and they reported all this to Blizzard.  From the way it sounded, they were able to tune the fight down to the 10 man version, but were still able to use their 25 players.  On top of that, they found that if they did not kill two of Ra-Den's adds and just kited the boss away from them he did not soak up his special abilities and ended up being extremely easy to kill.

A day or so later, a Paragon member, Devai, had his account banned mid battle for "exploiting the economy."  His ban was quickly lifted once he began his inquirers.  

So, tell me what you think, was this an epic World First Race??  Did you care??  Let me know in the comments below and as always stayed tuned for new articles, reviews, and my super awesome new project I'm working on.  Follow me on twitter @akadarcee, facebook, and twitch.  Catch you all later.