Your lack of awareness combined with the astonishing amount of whinging from Tyrrax last topic only serves to reinforce the notion that your "tightly-knit" team is actually just one of convenience. There are still outlets for teams like that: the SCL, as well as the NEO if CCP choose to run that again.

Shouldn't you be upvoting Mittani's story some more?

Oh wait, let me guess. Still bitter from when we executed a flawless victory on the #1 seeded Goonswarm team from AT 7.

Something tells me I should not open this file while at work. Can someone guinea pig it for me?

It's a picture of the 'The More You Know' star animation, but instead of 'The More You Know' it says 'Ad Hominem Alert'.

Entry for the random draw will be 5 PLEX per alliance. Each alliance who wishes to enter the draw must submit 5 PLEX, in the redeeming system of the CEO of the executor corporation, which will be withdrawn before the draw. All PLEX will be retained by CCP and teams who are not successful in the random draw can use these PLEX to bid for a spot through the auction. If you are not successful in either the random draw or auction, your 5 PLEX will be refunded to the CEO character of the alliance executor corporation.

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.

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

Also can we plz have a DEV team entered? :P we need more drama and conspiracy theorys when the DEV team beats a player one




Um.. shouldnt the team with the least DPS win that one? as they obv did better applying their less DPS as to still be level on points? lol

Mindlinks were an oversight on my end, wasn't thinking of them as hardwirings :oops:

We also ran into another problem with the automatic enforcement of the hardwirings so we've solved both issues with a change to the rules that is now up on the blog.

We've added or edited the following lines (first one isn't a rule change it's just a clarification):

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

The team with the most DPS at the start of the match will win because they wish to discourage teams dedicated to uber tanking. It makes for a very boring match.

So if it comes down to it the team that went totally defensive is not likely to win in the event of a tie.

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.

The 4%s actually don't have any fully consistent skill requirement. That's part of the reason we changed the rule.

4%s are NOT allowed this year.

We will be providing a dedicated tournament practice server for competing teams.

Practice Server
This year we will be dedicating the Duality test server as a dedicated Alliance Tournament practice server. This will allow us to more easily tailor our updates and mirrors to the needs of tournament teams. Access to this server will be restricted to a list of pilots and/or corporations provided by each team captain or alliance executor CEO.

We expect this server will significantly streamline the tournament practice process and allow more alliances to take advantage of team practices in the lead up to the tournament. It will run the same version of EVE that will be used for the live tournament, it will not be mirrored during practice season, and it will have no daily downtime.

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

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.

All points not used will be added to the opponents score.

All Remote Armor Repair modules and Remote Shield Transfer modules are NOT allowed, EXCEPT on ONE of: a Logistics Ship, a Strategic Cruiser, a Tech 1 Support Cruiser, or a Tech 1 Support Frigate

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??

I remember one ATX match Exodus vs Agony Empire. Agony brought a trick setup, and played mind games with a bait Logistics Cruiser. It took 4.5 minutes for the commentators to figure it out. I don't remember the rest of the tournament other than high dps ships blowing each other up. It seems like CCP and most other people concur that dps is the most entertaining for them, and I will see fewer of these tricks and tanks. Oh well, I suppose I will watch if I have a chance.

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¥.

The only criticism I have is that, like the fanfest tournament, teams should be moved to a station with all the items seeded at jita market price and teams had to buy and speed fit their ships. I can see a few issues with that but it seems like a fun idea.