From the WoW website:

New, powerful monsters are terrorizing the inhabitants of Azeroth! We’re looking for a few good adventurers to help clear them out and restore peace to the troubled regions. From now until the end of Open Beta, we’ll be running the World of Warcraft Open Beta Raid Contest. The first guilds to successfully defeat one of the new high-level raid boss monsters can reserve their guild name for retail! Click here to learn more!

They are, apparently, serious.

And here’s why that’s funny: Since this week’s mega-patch, WoW has a serious stealth lag problem. You know the kind, where you’re running down a path and, inexplicably, blood is spraying from your body and then, BOOM!, you’re dead.

So unless they plan to address the stealth lag before the contest, it’s really just going to be a race to the graveyard. But good luck with all of that.