Team Liquid Wins World of Warcraft Race to World First After Clearing Dragonflight's Aberrus, The Shadowed Crucible Raid

Although World of Warcraft was released back in 2004, players are still achieving never-before-done feats.

Team Liquid has emerged victorious in the MMORPG’s Race to World First, marking their first win in almost three years. They accomplished this by clearing the Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible raid before any other guild in the world. This triumph breaks rival Echo's three consecutive wins in the previous mythic races.

Team Liquid started progressing through the Mythic difficulty of the raid 48 hours after release and conducted multiple split raids to strengthen their position. They smoothly cleared the initial part of the raid and achieved world-first kills on the final five bosses. Then, Team Liquid gained momentum during the encounter with the Echo of Neltharion and made a strategic decision to progress offline to prevent competitors from gaining an advantage.

Following this plan, they brought the final boss, Scalecommander Sarkareth, below 15 percent health during the offline phase. The next day, Team Liquid woke up ahead of schedule and sealed their Race to World First victory. They will have the opportunity to defend their title in the next Race to World First during the release of the third Dragonflight expansion raid later this year.

🚨 9/9M WE’RE BACK!!! 🚨

MYTHIC SARKARETH GOES DOWN & WE CLAIM THE WORLD FIRST ABERRUS THE SHADOWED CRUCIBLE!!!! pic.twitter.com/5IeghYpd0p

— Liquid Guild (@LiquidGuild) May 15, 2023

Note: Activision Blizzard has been sued by California’s Civil Rights Department, alleging violations of California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act and Equal Pay Act. CEO Bobby Kotick is alleged to have known about the alleged violations within his company. These allegations have all been denied by Activision Blizzard and the company points to additional diversity and inclusion training as past examples of taking the accusations seriously at the time they were made.