The Great Maple Duck Race 2007!

Oracle guild member MarukoZlnc has been named the grand prize winner for the first ever Maple Duck Race held yesterday at Boat Quay, Singapore. She went home with the grand prize of 50 million mesos and a whole trail of people who were very eager to be her new friends. Agrinomy brings you the detailed report of the festivities at Boat Quay.

It was a sunny afternoon as hundreds of people gathered at Boat Quay, Singapore to participate in the first ever Maple Duck Race. Many Maplers adopted one or more rubber duckies to take part in the race down the Singapore River in the bid of winning the top prize of 50 million mesos. A total of 500,000 duckies were adopted, with all proceeds going to the Save the Octopus Fund.


By noon, the Boat Quay area was packed with Maplers at the carnival area, with a long line queuing up for the free horse rides. The horses from newly set up RentAHorse.com nearly fainted when they saw the long queue waiting for the rides. An unnamed girl was extremely intrigued by one of the horses, that she jumped on his back, started tugging his long black hair and shouted “Giddy-up! Giddy-up! MOVE IT HORSEY!!!!!!!” Eye-witnesses testified that the girl was equivalent to the size of a baby whale. The horse was in total shock that he keeled over and had to be revived with a bucket of cold water to the face. He is currently out-of-action and suffering from an aching back with various Tiger Balm Medicated plasters, Salon Pas and Yoko-yoko stuck to his hairy brown back.



The race started promptly at 2pm, with special guest-of-honour Chief Tatamo of Leafre flagging off the race. A big truckload of yellow rubber duckies was emptied into the Clarke Quay section of the Singapore River, slowly swimming their way to the Boat Quay finishing point. Eager Maplers lined the river banks in the hope of seeing their ducks. Halfway through, race judges spotted random tobi stars whizzing through the air and sinking various race ducks. Upon further investigation, they found that the stars originated from a level 78 hermit, coincidentally the same horsey with the Tiger Balm Medicated plasters, which was later identified as JohnJon. Angry Maplers who found out that John was sinking their duckies that they collectively lifted his hind legs and tipped him into the Singapore River. All ten of John’s adopted duckies were also promptly disqualified from the race.


Results of the race were announced this morning, with Oracle members MarukoZlnc and LovePrz4eveR bagging the first and third prize respectively. “I am so happy!!!!!!!” screamed Maru.”With this money, my dar and I can have our dream overseas Disneyland wedding in Japan! It'll be even better than Amoria!!!” Maru and her dar Kajika are currently awaiting the wedding expenses quotation from JMS.


LovePrz4eveR on the other hand, won the 3rd prize by pure coincidence. Apparently, the second place ducky belonged to JohnJon, but as all his ten duckies had been disqualified, all the winners moved up one place and LovePrz4eveR’s ducky moved from 4th place to 3rd place. “This is too good to be true,” said LovePrz4eveR, with tears glistening in his eyes. “ This ducky was adopted by my dad Thi3f1996 before he deleted himself. It must be by his special blessings that I won the 10 million mesos.”



JohnJon, on the other was kinda fuming mad and refused to be interviewed. He also refused to be photographed with all the medicated plasters stuck to his horsey back. Maplers from other guilds were also less than happy. “This contest is obviously rigged,” said duluken from Wise20s. How can Oracle members win so many of the top prizes? KELONG!!!!” “Ya! KELONG!!!” screamed xBabyRenz from Fantasy. Anyway, the 2007 Maple Duck Race was a success and a total of 5 billion mesos were raised for charity. All prize winners will be notified by a pop up message the next time to log into Maple.