[EVE Online] Second Capsuleer Alliance Tournament

[Gar]

"Full production is going on right now. Eve-Radio will be broadcasting from the CCP offices and bringing you over thirty hours' video material, absolutely free of charge. You have a chance to see every single match (95 of them) live, with commentary from the DJs of Eve radio. Knockout rounds are scheduled for 14/15/16/21/22 July from 15:00 Game Time with the FINALS taking place on the 23rd July.

Streaming has been taken care of, and you will have a choice of both high (500kbps) and low (250kbps) quality streams. There will also be an audio-only stream provided through Eve-Radio for those with an audio-only preference. Expertise will then be provided by Stavros and Ifni, with Hinik and several Eve-Radio DJs (DJ Xod, DJ Xman, JusJack and spiraljunkie) commentating on events as they happen. Urban Mongral is producing and Xyliana directing."

Yeah it's that time of the year again, EVE Online is having it's second alliance capsuleer tournament but this time with EVE-TV network showing up ever match. Idea of capsuleer tournament is pretty simple in generic MMORPG terms. You take BWL + AQ40 geared team with legendary items and make them fight other highend teams, but the trick is if you die, you lose the gear. Billions (2000 hours worth of generic mmorpg farm time in preparation for single team money wise) of ingame currency will be turned into spacedust in this event by the highend teams.

If someone is interested to watch EVE PVP at its finest, now is a very good chance to watch it live with DJ and commentator coverage.

Here is the tournament schedule:

http://myeve.eve-online.com/events/a...matches=bydate

Here is the two video stream links:

UK: http://www.eve.is/evetv/EveTV_uk.asx
USA: http://www.eve.is/evetv/EveTV_us.asx
World: http://www.eve.is/evetv/EveTV.asx

Eve Online site is heavily hammered ATM to prepare for the full television broadcast of the event. So prepare to be patient with the video streams. It's not everyday they make a full TV broadcast of very popular event for 100k+ subscriber base.

Here is todays fights, all times in GMT.

1 14/07/2006 15:00:00 The Five vs Dusk and Dawn
2 14/07/2006 15:20:00 Pure. vs Serenus Letum
3 14/07/2006 15:40:00 OPUS Alliance vs Fate Weavers
4 14/07/2006 16:00:00 Veritas Immortalis vs Band of Brothers
5 14/07/2006 16:20:00 Interstellar Starbase Syndicate vs Stain- Alliance
6 14/07/2006 16:40:00 Ushra'Khan vs Mercenary Coalition
7 14/07/2006 17:00:00 3rd Front Alliance vs New Outer Ring Allied Democracy
8 14/07/2006 17:20:00 Lotka Volterra vs GoonSwarm
9 14/07/2006 18:00:00 Morsus Mihi vs Prime Orbital Systems
10 14/07/2006 18:20:00 The Red Skull vs Fountain Alliance
11 14/07/2006 18:40:00 SMASH Alliance vs Aegis Militia
12 14/07/2006 19:00:00 Coalition of Carebear Killers vs Electus Matari
13 14/07/2006 19:20:00 Gemini Federation vs Axiom Empire
14 14/07/2006 19:40:00 Exuro Mortis vs Free Space Alliance
15 14/07/2006 20:00:00 Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate vs Black Reign Syndicate
16 14/07/2006 20:20:00 Vox Imperium vs T R U S T

Tournament will go on from 14.7 until 23.7 when the final matches will be held. Prices for winners are very impressive and like in last tournament billions worth of rare or even almost unique ships will go pop. Rumours say certain Apocalypse class battleship will be put into action this year. Shall see. :-)

Todays highlight matches will be for sure:

4 14/07/2006 16:00:00 Veritas Immortalis vs Band of Brothers

Two top teams at very beginning. Can Light Darkness and his minions win against BNC / Reikoku? My money is on BoB's team but VI can surprise here. Both alliances have bottomless funds so it's going to be crystal implant fight, expecting to see CNR's or Rattlesnakes in this fight.

1 14/07/2006 15:00:00 The Five vs Dusk and Dawn

Ex-ATUK aka. BOB's B-team against D2 posse - also very intresting match. I think D2 will win this one, but if ATUK team is same as last years tournament, we are going to see some very neat Rattlesnake action here.

Those are the two matches I will be very interested to watch tonight.

[Deris]

If WoW had *anything* like this (i.e a server wide ladder WSG Tourney) it'd be fucking great.


But nooooooooooooo.

[Khorum]

If WoW had anything like this the realm Forums would crash daily from the whining, Blizzard would have to hire hundreds of new GMs to fill every shift--who would be locked into a perpetual cycle of cheating/hacking investigations, the secondary market would explode, millions of subscribers would quit once they confront the reality that yes it's true, they're exactly the short of shitty players the hardcore have been telling them they are, and finally, the last deluded casual players would line up in front of Blizzard's Irvine office, douse themselves in gasoline, then immolate themselves in protest.

[Deris]

Simple way to implement it.

Have a Ladder System between the realms on your "Cluster" that you cross-queue with for BGs.

You can purchase a "team charter" for 100g. Your team can have up to 20 people.

Every match you win or lose goes into a ladder rank system for your cluster, once stuff gets sorted out - have those top teams from each cluster battle it out, then select the top 10 from each cluster to participate in some closed server WSG event. Televise (web broadcast) this.

Winners get titles or something else. Do this every 3 months. Omg.

[Bizanich]

5 vs 5 this time round, right? One of almost every ship class?

Well, the main ship classes, no Carriers or Dreads.

[Dynalisia]

Please don't fill another thread comparing two wildly diffirent games, made by two wildly diffirent companies, based on wildly diffirent technology and catering to wildly diffirent kinds of people? Discuss just EVE and leave WoW out of it. Please?

[Gar]

Originally Posted by Bizanich

5 vs 5 this time round, right? One of almost every ship class?

Well, the main ship classes, no Carriers or Dreads.

Yeah, one ship from these baseclasses:

Battleship
Battlecruiser
Cruiser
Destroyer
Frigate

This year T2 ammo/missiles are not allowed, but the T2 unit itself is legal. Faction ammo & missiles are also legal.

I'd expect the most common ships will be:

Battleship: Rattlesnake, Caldari Navy Raven, Vindicator.
Battlecruiser: Any of them, EOS most likely beign most popular.
Cruiser: Vagabond, Eagle, Deimos, Ishtar are prolly the top choises.
Destroyer: Sabre and Flycatcher
Frigate: Wolf and Claw are going to be popular.

[Khorum]

Simple way to implement it.

Have a Ladder System between the realms on your "Cluster" that you cross-queue with for BGs.

You can purchase a "team charter" for 100g. Your team can have up to 20 people.

Every match you win or lose goes into a ladder rank system for your cluster, once stuff gets sorted out - have those top teams from each cluster battle it out, then select the top 10 from each cluster to participate in some closed server WSG event. Televise (web broadcast) this.

Winners get titles or something else. Do this every 3 months. Omg.

That WOULD rock, and similar tourney concepts have been tabled before. Hell, just plain and simple TM/SS PVP in WoW (pre-BGs and pre-Honor) _DID_ rock, and there weren't any incentives for winning, or even fighting.

The biggest difference would be the type of players, though. The EVE event barely mentions nor dwells on the awards for winning. It's clear that the players are staking real value for their participation, not just time lost or some raid skipped. Those ships at stake represent MONTHS of real /played time that just evaporates when the ship is lost, permanent unrecoverable losses that would easily exceed the winnings. A better example would be a WoW cross-server tournament where characters who die lose ALL their equipped gear permanently.

[Gar]

Five vs Dusk and Dawn just ended, Five won. D2 sucked arse. Picture is very good but dark, I had to turn up gamma quite alot form Microsoft Media player, but then it started to look good. I think they are fixing the recording levels.

This year seems that the commentator actually knows about PVP.

(btw, fuck you all, this is about EVE, start a new thread for WoW)

[Gurgeh]

Well that was a one sided match, D² got raped. Vindicator is no match for the CNR. about 2B worth ship destroyed, considering the number of match in this tournament that's quite a LOT of money going down the drain on this tournament.

[Bizanich]

Originally Posted by Gurgeh

Well that was a one sided match, D² got raped. Vindicator is no match for the CNR.

CNR's/Rattlesnakes aren't going to dominate again, are they?

[Gar]

Depends, CNR isn't I win button in this tournament, since it can be countered. D2's tactic was just arse.

Awesome that they are brining ingame politics into the commentary also - looks like ok commentary team.

[Gurgeh]

Originally Posted by Bizanich

CNR's/Rattlesnakes aren't going to dominate again, are they?

Well, it's the CALDARI tournament, what would you expect ? But yeah as the commantor just said, there's little a vindicator or megathron can do vs CNR (especialy with crystal implants) + Curse, the curse won't go down without the damage output of the battleship, and the Curse will have no problem staying out of blaster range. Getting 350mm Navy Megathron would not make much sense compared to a cruise / siege CNR.
I wonder what was the gang mods loaded on the Claymore, I would guess Siege Warfare, that's an interesting choice, I had expected people to bring Vulture.
Anyway CNR + Curse + Fleet Command was a nice team.

[Dokomo]

Doesn't BoB have the only Titan in the universe right now? When is someone going to make an attempt on that thing?

[Gurgeh]

Well that was cheap of Light Darkness to use a regular BS. Flawless victory for BoB.