The event is known
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It was originally planned to be a part of the year 2008 Summer Olympic games in the original Version of the Burning Crusade expansion, it appeared that Blizzard believed it was fitting to bring it back to this year's delayed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. It's not clear at present how long this Spirit of Competition event will run. In addition, the Spirit of Competition event coincides with the every year's Midsummer Fire Festival in-game event that includes the new mission, new cosmetic reward and dungeon bosses.
Horde players are likely to want to make use of this week's similar-faction Battleground test to score the exclusive Olympic-themed cosmetics. Prior to Blizzard permitting same-faction Battleground matchmaking Horde participants had to wait up to an hour to take part in matches due to the faction's much larger number of
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