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CCP Guard
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2012.05.10 15:52:00 -
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In his new blog, CCP Navigator has news on who the commentators will be for Alliance Tournament X, when and how it will take place, and how your alliance can sign up for glory!
May the best group of merciless space warriors win! CCP Guard | EVE Community Developer |-á@ccp_guard |
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CCP Soundwave
C C P C C P Alliance
933
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Posted - 2012.05.10 16:11:00 -
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Last year was amazing.
Since this is our 10th anniversary, I expect it to be 10 times as awesome. |
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CCP Guard
C C P C C P Alliance
2323
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Posted - 2012.05.10 16:42:00 -
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Raivi wrote:Second!
I'm excited! Are you excited?
Yeah buddy! CCP Guard | EVE Community Developer |-á@ccp_guard |
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CCP Navigator
C C P C C P Alliance
1221
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Posted - 2012.05.10 17:18:00 -
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Akrasjel Lanate wrote:Tell us about the prizes.
These will be announced in the final Dev Blog once we have all teams.
CCP Navigator -Community Manager |
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CCP Soundwave
C C P C C P Alliance
936
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Posted - 2012.05.10 17:19:00 -
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Zastrow wrote:Shadoo didnt apply this year, he couldnt get away for all the time it takes to do this. Im gonna miss him, but I still cant wait to talk about spaceships.
Me too. You and him were a really cute couple. |
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CCP Navigator
C C P C C P Alliance
1221
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Posted - 2012.05.10 17:19:00 -
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sevyn nine wrote:In years past, the top four teams from the previous year's tournament are automatically in, and in some years, they bypass the qualifiers. Is any of that happening this year?
No, this year we are having 32 teams in a random draw and 32 teams from auction.
CCP Navigator -Community Manager |
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CCP Navigator
C C P C C P Alliance
1221
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Posted - 2012.05.10 17:34:00 -
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Two step wrote:Questions:
1) How many spots will be auctioned in each auction? 2) Does the auction bidder need to have the PLEX they want to bid already reverse redeemed?
A1) At this stage I am not 100% sure. Soundwave will make the final decision on this but I would imagine something like 11, 11 and 10.
A2) Once the winning CEO or Team Captain is confirmed they will need to reverse redeem the PLEX immediately. As the auction is happening in game this should not be an issue.
CCP Navigator -Community Manager |
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CCP Loxy
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2012.05.10 17:35:00 -
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Two step wrote:Questions:
1) How many spots will be auctioned in each auction? 2) Does the auction bidder need to have the PLEX they want to bid already reverse redeemed?
Thursday, May 24th @ 19:00 UTC - 8 slots Friday, May 25th @ 17:00 UTC - 8 slots Saturday, May 26th @ 16:00 UTC -16 slots
Auction plex will be paid using contracts, you'll need to be ready to pay immediately.
Will get this clarified on the tournament site soon.
Video Producer |
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CCP Loxy
C C P C C P Alliance
88
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Posted - 2012.05.10 17:53:00 -
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Duncan Tanner wrote:CCP Loxy wrote:Raivi wrote:
Would other teams with similar specific concerns be able to contact you via some official channel to discuss it?
Yes you can contact us at [email protected] if anyone would like to discuss an alliance entry ahead of time. We sent an inquiry to this e-mail and haven't received a response for over a week now. Has anyone else received a response?
Sorry we've had a few of these and I should have gotten back to you but we're going to investigate these issues after sign ups and then take action. Video Producer |
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CCP Navigator
C C P C C P Alliance
1221
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Posted - 2012.05.10 17:58:00 -
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Addrake wrote:1) The 10 plex for the random draw. Is that payable only if you are selected in the random draw, or is that to purchase an entry into the random draw itself?
it is to purchase an entry into the random draw. The CEO of your executor corporation will need to have 10 PLEX in the redeeming system to qualify for the random draw. If you are not successful in the draw, you can use these 10 PLEX for the auction slots. If you are still not successful, the PLEX will be contracted back to the CEO of the executor corporation. CCP Navigator -Community Manager |
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CCP Navigator
C C P C C P Alliance
1221
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Posted - 2012.05.10 18:06:00 -
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Addrake wrote:How about this.. Plex is not actually easier for us, the players to work with.
How about we give you isk (very easy to work with and transfer) and then you can go ahead and buy plex to take off the market once you actually have the isk in your hands.
You make an interesting counter offer. Unfortunately this is how the tournament will run this year. If you wish to be included in the random draw you will be unable to do so unless there are 10 PLEX in the redeeming system. CCP Navigator -Community Manager |
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CCP Loxy
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2012.05.11 09:26:00 -
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Ok to be clear, you can reverse redeem plex using this simple guide here, that means you don't have to spend any real life money if you don't want to and continue to fund your tournament team purely with isk.
For reference the current cost into the random draw at 10 PLEX is (rough number) 5 billion, this is up from 2 billion in previous years and should be no issue for any team taking the tournament seriously. Video Producer |
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CCP Soundwave
C C P C C P Alliance
946
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Posted - 2012.05.11 16:25:00 -
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Hey guys!
Let me quickly delve into the PLEX issue:
The alliance tournament started out as something the community ran, with backing from CCP. Over the years, it became a very expensive project that was eventually shut down for financial reasons. Seeing that a lot of the early crew had started working for CCP somewhere along the road, a group of us picked it up again.
The first "new" tournament was really bare-bones, limited coverage just to prove we could do it at a smaller budget. Since then, we've wanted to scale up; multiple weekends, broadcasting the entire time, flying experts out to cover etc. The truth is that unless we find ways of funding the tournament ourselves, it just won't happen and certainly not at the same standard we've been going towards. The idea of using PLEX came up because it allows us to generate money going directly into the show/tournaments production, letting us do what we want while also letting players chose to pay their entry fee with ISK, by buying PLEX off the market.
That's the short version of it |
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CCP Guard
C C P C C P Alliance
2337
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Posted - 2012.05.13 15:14:00 -
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Thread cleaned of off topic posts. CCP Guard | EVE Community Developer |-á@ccp_guard |
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