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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?

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.

Just to clarify, before over 9000 people ask about this: once a team fails the random draw, they have the choice of making a bid (presumably minimum bid is 5 plex), and then submit a further {number of plex bid - 5} to the redeeming system if they win?

Genolution "CA-" implants are NOT allowed.

With the exception of leadership Mindlinks, only Hardwirings that have a name ending in "1", "2" or "3" are allowed.

Leadership Mindlinks are allowed.

Will you allow CONCORD 4% implants? They require cybernetics 3. You really need to be more thorough with these rules.

It would have been entertaining had mindlinks been "removed" from the tourney... they are very potent tools, but are also limited in the ships that can utilize them! And damn it! I still have some +6% implants I was hoping to unload this tourney cycle!





A note: while the pilots that fly in the tourney are obviously in alliance (so submitting things via corp there is easy), many pilots we use in practices are OOC alts, especially when setting up logistics for practicing in a WH, spying on other corps (not something agony does, but something many alliances do), and even as surrogate boosters alts and the like.

When do we need to get the names to you, and are there any limits on this?

Part of the AT spirit is spying on your opponents, is the new test server setup to limit this? Also, it would be pretty awesome if we could freely attack anyone that entered our staging system (you can't attack people without their consent on the current practice server, and this is prohibitive to self-policing roaming spies).

How will stations be seeded (fully seeded universe?), and when will the mirror happen?

More information about the Duality Practice Server will be coming soon.

Because of the change to a full double-elimination bracket this rule is redundant as the total points earned is no longer a factor because there are no more qualification rounds. It does however force a few changes into fleet setups to make it as tight a fit as possible, I think this rule should be changed personally.

i notice their is no mention of support frigates for points but there is for cruisers .. intentional???
And also no rookie ship points??

"The names of flagships do not to be disclosed"

dat wording

Test text
What new site?

Does this mean that flagships are able to fit more than 1x Energy Transfer module?