Competition Alliance Tournament 8

[taB]

Well, seeing as I pestered Messrs. TdC & Jupitus into updating the forum name in honour of the terrible new expansion, I thought I'd better post about something.

Hope all Freddies Eveing it up at the mo are having a grief stricken, miserable time as everyone should in Eve .

The 8th Alliance tournament starts tomorrow with the advantage that all matches will be televised. I understand there will be commentry on all fights but that the mildly annoying "shoe-on-head" crew will only be televised from the studio on the final weekend.

Hey there, it's your friendly neighborhood StevieSG,

We, the mighty at CCP, have been working hard to bring you the eighth Alliance Tournament which kicks off its qualifiers this weekend. Over the next three weeks, sixty-four of EVE's brightest and best alliance teams will battle it out to the final weekend on June 19 and 20 to claim the title of Alliance Tournament Champions.

Tournament Streaming

I am delighted to announce that this year we will broadcast not only the finals but all three weeks of matches LIVE via EVE TV from 14:50 GMT until 21:00 GMT each day in glorious High Definition. You can tune in here to watch those matches.

Our regular "studio show" returns on the final weekend, complete with guest dev team members, a chance for viewers to win some awesome prizes from NVIDIA and more!

Tournament Prizes

It's not only the spectators who stand to benefit from this awesome event; EVE's content team are delighted to announce that along with a pile of ISK, a mountain of respect and a fountain of kudos from the EVE community, the winners of the tournament will receive these beautiful rare ships designed by CCP Nozh:

There will only be fifty (50) of each ship in the EVE universe, 50 Adrestia's belonging to the winning team and 50 Utu's to those in second place. Adrestia means "wargoddess," "the sister of Deimos and Phobos" and "she whom none can escape" in Greek mythology, and Utu means the "god of Sun and Justice, brother of Ishkur."

The winning team receives:

* 50x Adrestia Heavy Assault Cruiser
* Gold Medal for each participant
* 50 Billion ISK

The second place team receives:

* 50x Utu Assault Frigate
* Silver Medal for each participant
* 25 Billion ISK

The third place team receives:

* Bronze Medal for each participant
* 25 Billion ISK

The fourth place team receives:

* 10 Billion ISK

How To Tune In

If you want to see who ends up winning these stunning ships, connect to our live video feed on those weekends, stay tuned for news Items on upcoming matches and especially tune in to our Finals Studio Show on the 19th and 20th where you can watch special dev guests, bask in the glory of our glorious host CCP Soundwave and take a look at some never before seen featurettes including a special on the CCP video team behind the Tyrannis trailer. Not something you want to miss!

WARP DRIVE ACTIVE PODCAST

If you can't wait for the weekend, Warp Drive Active is proud to bring you our first Alliance Tournament Podcast. You can tune in right now to listen to CCP Claw, CCP Soundwave, CCP Charlie and myself talk about the tournament with host Winterblink as well as get a chance to meet some of our expert commentators: KIL2, Verone, AngelHUN and Darius JOHNSON.

For the first weekend of matches, team rankings and more - see the Alliance Tournament 8 Mini-Site.

Forums and IRC Chat on Coldfront.net

If you want to chat with fellow viewers while listening and watching the shows, we'll be invading the #eve-online IRC channel on Coldfront for the three weekends. Check the Coldfront website for information on using IRC or to use their built in chat interface. You can also go straight to our Tournament Forum to find rules, discussion threads and community run events around the tournament.

For Those Of You Who Can't Tune In...

All match replays will be available on CCP's YouTube Channel within a couple of days of broadcast. CCP Charlie will have a thread in the Alliance Tournament forum with information and links to individual playlists. As with last year, the Interstellar Correspondents will be providing their own coverage of the whole event, you can check out their site from last year here. You can also join us on Tournament Twitter and keep an eye on the Official EVE Online Facebook page to keep up to date with everything.

Eve Voice and Radio Shows

If you just want to listen to the matches, you can tune in direct to our EVE Voice feed in channel Alliance Tournament in game. We also have several awesome community radio stations that may be providing talk shows or coverage and adding their own thoughts, analysis and a few songs here and there to fill in the gaps. Make sure you check the forums for announcements from these stations on the coverage they are planning for you! These stations are Eve Radio - Complete Gamer Split Infinity Radio - Split Infinity Radio - Get Loud, Get Mental! and New Eden Radio - Welcome to New Eden Radio

Hope you enjoy watching it!

I'm hoping for some fun fights and always enjoy watching this even if I don't play the game anymore.

For discussions about each individual fight, you might be best having a look at the Scrappy Heap Challenge AT subforum

taB.

 

[Ctuchik]

i never really understood the point with those tournaments.

small gang duels isn't what this game is about.

 

[LordjOX]

It's a tournament event to entertain the players dummy, it's a game after all

 

[Ctuchik]

it's a game after all

not according to most of the forums that deal with this.

ppl treat this like anything but a game

 

[Marc]

lol@Hydra

Got their opponents down to one ship with no losses and then blew themselves up

 

[`mongoose]

The ROL match was pretty epic tbh. I felt sorry for the team against them.

M

 

[Ctuchik]

lol@Hydra

Got their opponents down to one ship with no losses and then blew themselves up

would be fun if they lost round 2 tho.

they probably wont but it would be fun and really ironic if they did.

 

[`mongoose]

i never really understood the point with those tournaments.

small gang duels isn't what this game is about.

One thing about this. Small gang duels are dead but small gang roaming isn't.

I'm in a huge alliance with massive space and there's a couple of small alliances who regularly camp entry systems or choke points and gank solos and small gangs sent to clear them out using tactics that are in essence derived from Alliance tournement. Granted they're thriving from feeding off the weakest players in a large alliance or by ganking anything unlucky enough to jump into them but it is successful pvp and it does bring them iskies from loot and entertainment... If they brought a slow "conventional" gang they'd get outnumbered, trapped and annhilated.

If you want to see what works well in sub cap pvp watch some of the alliance tournements - particularly watch the likes of hydra (genos are very good pvpers) ROL, Cry havoc & Pandemic Legion. You will see setups that are innovative on occasion and you will see some exceptional piloting on occasion.

Unfortunately you can also see what's fotm atm. Machariels, Sleipnirs, Cynabals and Dramiels will be very popular for the shooty gun crowd and Drakes/Tengus will be incredibly popular for the Missile Spammy crowd.

It's all about max DPS with max ehp (effective hit points) For this reason alone I love watching Alliance Tournement. I also love it when an alliance talks big on forums then get's smacked down by some unheralded tiny alliance that have been practicing their build and team setup for months in private. That always makes me giggle.

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