First!

The finals will be a best of five series, with the team entering from the winners bracket starting one win up.

Could you explain further? Does the double elimination split the 64 teams into a 32 player winners bracket and a 32 players losers bracket? Does this mean that, in the final match, the team from the losers bracket can win 3 bouts of 5, and still tie with the team from the winners bracket 3-3?

Also tidi and explicit legality of Gnosis should make matches especially interesting :D

Assuming there are 64 players and no draws... wouldn't exactly 32 teams lose their first match and move to the losers' bracket, after the first 32 matches were complete?

peeew peewwwww

Wait wait wait wait. I don't even remember seeing this May 15th thing posted. Seems idiocy to post a join date before you even post the announcement of the tourney and rules and so forth. If that stands we do not have a legit team and I will be VERY disappointed.

So no Mindlinks? Can you confirm that?

Wait wait wait wait. I don't even remember seeing this May 15th thing posted. Seems idiocy to post a join date before you even post the announcement of the tourney and rules and so forth. If that stands we do not have a legit team and I will be VERY disappointed.

Hey guys. The early cutoff was put in place because we intend the Alliance Tournament to be about people representing their alliances, whatever that alliance may be, instead of the kind of club-team system you see with the NEO or SCL (which help fill that need very well).

In cases where a corp or member are caught by surprise outside of *their* alliance for one reason or another, we can make exceptions to get them back in. What we don't want is people jumping from one alliance to another just for the tournament.

Look at it this way: that Alliance Tournament is essentially the Olympic Games of EVE. People can move from one country to another, but it's intended that you represent the country that you claim as your own the whole year round.

If you have a request for an exception, send a petition to the community queue and we'll take a look. But if you're trying to move from your home alliance to another one just for the tournament, I don't expect we'll grant those requests.

Wait wait wait wait. I don't even remember seeing this May 15th thing posted. Seems idiocy to post a join date before you even post the announcement of the tourney and rules and so forth. If that stands we do not have a legit team and I will be VERY disappointed.

sux 2 b u

(this team padding **** is exactly what they were trying to counter)

May i ask why the stricter rules on implants this year? sad panda :(

Fights are limited to 10 minutes. If a fight reaches time, it will be stopped and whichever team has the higher total points value will be declared winner. See "Victory Conditions", below.

During a match, a team scores points for each enemy ship it kills, equal to the tournament points value of that ship. The team that has scored the most points at the conclusion of the match, or that destroys the entire opposing team, is the winner.

If a team chooses to field less than 100 points, non-fielded points count towards the opponent's score.

If a fight is tied after 10 minutes, time dilation will be used to progressively speed up the tournament solar system and encourage a prompt end to the match.

In the very unlikely case that a fight is tied after 15 minutes, the victory will be awarded to the team that had more collective potential team DPS at the beginning of the match, as measured by the tournament automated GÇ£attack barGÇ¥.

Fights run for up to 10 minutes of normal time, followed by up to 5 minutes of overtime. During overtime, time dilation will be used to progressively speed up the tournament solar system and encourage a prompt end to the match.

During a match, a team scores points for each enemy ship it kills, equal to the tournament points value of that ship. If a team chooses to field less than 100 points, non-fielded points will be added to the opponent's score at the start of the match.

Destroying the entire opposing team is an immediate win.

If there is no clear winner at the end of normal time, the team that has scored the most points will be declared winner. If points are tied, the match will continue non-stop into overtime.

In the very unlikely case that a fight is tied after overtime, the victory will be awarded to the team that had more collective potential team DPS at the beginning of the match, as measured by the tournament automated GÇ£attack barGÇ¥.

instead of moving AT to test server, where you can show just your skill, not your wallet

I mean, we can run with the people we have on board right now but we will be missing a couple of key people and won't be able to field a full setup. I mean the way that blog was worded was terribad. Made it look like it was just about commentator stuff. We can adapt if we have to but we won't be able to give it our all.