In the first week of August, the annual big Stylecheck of World of Warcraft takes place. Theoretically, the outfit that best fits the theme should win in the end. However, reality often looks different.
What kind of event is this? The big Stylecheck of World of Warcraft debuted almost exactly 8 years ago as part of the new mini-holidays introduced during WoW: Legion. In this competition, multiple players compete against each other.
The task: Find the best transmog outfit for a given theme within 2 minutes and present it afterwards – refined with emotes, visual effects, and paid fans cheering in the audience. The ratings of the outfits come from the participants themselves. As a reward, there are brands that can be exchanged for further cosmetics.
He who has achieved everything has nothing left to achieve – as this WoW player had to realize:
“I must have the worst luck in the world”
What does this look like in reality? The player ella posted a picture of a colorfully mixed outfit on Reddit, which is many things but certainly not award-winning. Her comment on it: “Why does this guy win the big Stylecheck every time, no matter what the theme is?”
The over 200 comments and more than 1,700 upvotes show that other WoW players are also familiar with this phenomenon. Additionally, the community discusses possible reasons:
- farris59 writes on Reddit: “Ironically, there is a widespread strategy where everyone votes for the ‘worst’ mog (transmog/outfit) to increase their own chances, but this inadvertently catapults the outfit to first place.”
- Shezarrine comments on Reddit: “It’s so annoying that the people who actually stick to the theme rarely win. I don’t know if people are just voting for ‘lol the funny mog’ or trying to trick the system by voting for the worst [outfit], but it makes the whole event pretty dull.”
- Fullerbay gives an example on Reddit: “I once participated in the purple theme, where the first place wore a green outfit.”
- Ainastrasza reports on Reddit: “The Style competition has been pretty bad for years. Naked Kul Tirans and gnomes in outfits that can only be described as ‘shitpost outfits’ that completely ignore the theme always get the most votes because people are just boring. Not to mention the revealing outfits. It really only happens about every third game I participate in that people actually take the theme seriously. I must have the worst luck in the world.”
What are your experiences with the big Stylecheck? Should Blizzard make changes to make the competition more exciting again? Share it in the comments! Participants certainly have the greatest chances if they own a colorful transmog collection. A WoW player even managed to impress the developers with his wardrobe recently.
