Every pilot, whose fights were featured in the video, received 1.5 bil ISK + PLEX.

The 4 pilots, who were chosen for the special awards (see below), received 3 bil ISK + PLEX + Pirate Battleship.

1) The "Kickass Moves" award.
For example: picking up drones on field after yours are destroyed.
Offlining mods during fight to win on that last %s, etc...

2) The "Creative Setup" award.
Original fit. Out of the box thinking behind the ship/situation.

3) The "Balls Deep" award.
Includes things such as: fighting heavily outnumbered. Fighting outclassed ship-wise.
ECM-wise, or just generally being brave as hell against the odds.

4) The "Motivational for New Pilots" award.
Fight that gives hope, like winning with a simple ship that a new pilot would see and smile "I could do that"

And the pilot, who was chosen for the best unlinked solo fight of the video, will receive 10 bil ISK.

The pilot who made best use of links would receive the Links of Destiny award granting 2 Bil ISK + HG (Slave or Crystal) implant set.

DHB_Wildcat (one of the judges) decided to donate a pirate Battleship for any pilot that made it into the video with any Battleship hull. Thanks Wildcat :-)

Additional prizes were handed out. Check the thread with the winner announcement for details.

OH MY GOD FIRST. WILL EDIT ONCE IVE WATCHED

nnnnnoooo I can't watch this at school...

maybe i can ditch.

\o/ miz!

Oh wow its finally done!

Kins stabber, the Navy Mega, gods coldbloods Vargur and Skyflyers Kronos were the standouts IMO.


Added a link to the vid in Bringing Solo Back.

Dieses Video ist nicht verf++gbar.
Das tut uns leid.

Really good video some nice fights there enjoyed The Dunk Pheonix, Big Miker's Navy mega and Skyflyers Kronos the most (biased because he is my bro).

Makes me want to go out and start solo pvping again which I have not done for best part of 6months plus.

Linking this video to the original Skyflyer owner as he has left the game great video

Myrmidon VS 4 AFs? Why it even made to contest? Is there any skill in tanking 4 frigs in that ship? Especially when they don't even bother take down drones...

Only 3 fights are worth watching:
1. Naga
2. Nano mega
3. Kronos

Phoenix part is also entertaining. Rest are just waste of time...

Clearly impatient and didnt watch it all. gj.

I'm rather dissapointed with average quality of fights in this one. Only a couple from fiveteen presented top notch piloting, namely big miker and Pytorion of course.

Thorax winning newbie award is a little less impressive once you realize that Loki had Nullifier and Covert Ops subsystems.

Ferox while ballsy warping into 4 Thoraxes somehow managed to burn out almost every single med slot which is quite a mistake.

Grand Prize was also massively underwhelming for what should have been the best of the fights. A frigate, Ishtar who got eaten up by gate guns and a Stabber well off his gang. I was really suprized when the clip ended with only those on kill counter.

Vargur was meh. Three-way kinda made it less exciting to watch when they stopped paying attention to the Marauder.

I'm also very dissapointed by the editing. While audio being out of sync a few times is a minor slip, there were at least a few rendering artifacts left in the movie with frames dropping or freezing up. While I understand those blue-ish holographs took time to render, I'm still puzzled why video took so long to edit. I mean, numerous times here on forums have we been told that every fight has different UI and requires special approach, but pilot name and rotating ship were always in the same place on the screen. Only the soundwaves were moving a little bit in the same general area. Intro wasn't anything mindblowing either. Did you seriously put half a year into it and that's the best achieveable result?


On the other hand it's still worth watching for at least a few fights in it. Earlier mentioned Naga and Navy Mega were awesome. Liked God's Apples Eagle, kinda reminded me of Garmonation except I think this fight was better than Garmons.
Lord's Servant doesn't fail to deliver with Dunk Phoenix and Skyflyer getting super lucky finding incompetent campers and moonwalking from them is also quite enjoyable.

Underwhelming.

Great fights.

Even I am not proud to be part of the vid as a receiving pilot :D You guys only can imagine the rage on our comms, when we lost 4 more ceppies to the vexor after myself even I yelled at the lads "he got scram and web, dont go close". They did.

Many people are complaining the quality of the fights. I am not. I think that one reason people are complaining is the very long wait that has buildt the anticipation so high, that its merely impossible to fullfill anymore.

I personally enjoyed the fights, I can see why they were picked there for the most and I enjoyed the editing. GJ erryone o7o7o7

Myrmidon VS 4 AFs? Why it even made to contest? Is there any skill in tanking 4 frigs in that ship? Especially when they don't even bother take down drones...

Only 3 fights are worth watching:
1. Naga
2. Nano mega
3. Kronos

Phoenix part is also entertaining. Rest are just waste of time...

But still, the most important thing is that even though it burned out and crippled his ship (Ferox) he still kept on fighting with a cool head instead of panicing.

The grand prize has been a headache for me, because it is really hard to present the important aspects about it. He fight is all about the setup of the fight and baiting the enemies into attacking you while they are in a weak position. And remember that Aldap's success relies a lot on tricking people into taking gateguns in a situation where they think it is an easy kill. And how often do you see a t1 cruiser kill a hac, a t1 cruiser and a faction frig while other ships are still on grid?

The middle part of the vargur fight was indeed mehh, but the MJD kill was still an excellent manouvre and overall the fight shows some good piloting. Also don't forget that the Vargur and Kronos was picked over your vargur fight because we simply considered them better. So be careful when bashing it.

Regarding the editing. I challenge you to go that much into details that I have done. It is really hard to sync stuff up that well. It takes much work and is one of the things that took most time. Some of the rendering artifacts were because the input footage was bad. We had to deal with different resolutions with different quality so it's hard to make it look great in 1080p when you also have to apply much editing to present the fight well. The intro was cut down on because I didn't want to delay any further. I don't remember any of your intros to be noticeable aside from the comedy value of the police video.

What's with the shield Ferox using slaves?

I find that argument funny. If you're scrambled, webbed and can't even use half of your modules because you've burned them out by needlessly overheating afterburner when your target is orbiting you at ~800m, when you could've used that heat to get more out of asb charges, how is it you're 'cool headed' staying on field when you have no other choice. Well, unless he was triple stabbed and we just don't see it on the video. I'm sure you had more 'balls deep' clip sent your way and even if you didn't that brave Vexor or even Hyperion jumping back into oblivion are more worthy of the prize.

Yeah now that you've said it yourself I can say that this clip indeed reeks of Aldap. I was never a fan of his videos, mainly because of his setups having a narrow engagement profile and heavily relying on gate guns to kill his opponents. Propably I shouldn't be suprised then that contest with his name on it would have that engagement as the 'best fight'. I honestly think that the Myrmidon should have taken that, as you've mentioned in a reply to Cyraon wars he did use the gate in a nice way and did good Drone Juggling. That's imho the best fight of all unlinked ones in this video.

I'm going to burst your bubble by saing that I'm not bashing this out of spite, as I wouldn't use the fight I've submitted myself. It's been rushed and I did too many mistakes to even compete with Skyflyer. I consider myself lucky it got included in Honorable Mentions. I've just stated that it is kinda underwhelming, as he never even broke a sweat and MJD is nothing out of the box years after being added to the game.

While different source material might indeed be hard to edit so that it all fits together, after say seven months of development, I for one, expected that I'm gonna get blown away by the visuals. When I saw static Mega, Vexor and Stabber threated with chroma key instead of 'WOAH' I was like 'eh?' Gods Coldblood, Don Peyote in Nanofiber Internal Structure or even Mr Hyde and Starfleetcommander have way better effects. I will even say that this is a downgrade to your RR Vexors and I'm sure those people and those videos didn't take months to edit.
As far as my videos go, I've been limited to Sony Vegas only and my video making process closes in six hours maximum. It took me six hours to do Perfect Insanity, mainly because I had to spend like an hour and a half watching tutorials for After Effects and getting to know the program and then render some simple intro and soundwaves.

I hope this won't turn into another NightmareX-like thread

Yeah you got me on that Thorax one. I haven't considered it was a fight 'by newbie for newbies' so I'll have to agree on this one.
I find that argument funny. If you're scrambled, webbed and can't even use half of your modules because you've burned them out by needlessly overheating afterburner when your target is orbiting you at ~800m, when you could've used that heat to get more out of asb charges, how is it you're 'cool headed' staying on field when you have no other choice. Well, unless he was triple stabbed and we just don't see it on the video. I'm sure you had more 'balls deep' clip sent your way and even if you didn't that brave Vexor or even Hyperion jumping back into oblivion are more worthy of the prize.

Yeah now that you've said it yourself I can say that this clip indeed reeks of Aldap. I was never a fan of his videos, mainly because of his setups having a narrow engagement profile and heavily relying on gate guns to kill his opponents. Propably I shouldn't be suprised then that contest with his name on it would have that engagement as the 'best fight'. I honestly think that the Myrmidon should have taken that, as you've mentioned in a reply to Cyraon wars he did use the gate in a nice way and did good Drone Juggling. That's imho the best fight of all unlinked ones in this video.

I'm going to burst your bubble by saing that I'm not bashing this out of spite, as I wouldn't use the fight I've submitted myself. It's been rushed and I did too many mistakes to even compete with Skyflyer. I consider myself lucky it got included in Honorable Mentions. I've just stated that it is kinda underwhelming, as he never even broke a sweat and MJD is nothing out of the box years after being added to the game.

While different source material might indeed be hard to edit so that it all fits together, after say seven months of development, I for one, expected that I'm gonna get blown away by the visuals. When I saw static Mega, Vexor and Stabber threated with chroma key instead of 'WOAH' I was like 'eh?' Gods Coldblood, Don Peyote in Nanofiber Internal Structure or even Mr Hyde and Starfleetcommander have way better effects. I will even say that this is a downgrade to your RR Vexors and I'm sure those people and those videos didn't take months to edit.
As far as my videos go, I've been limited to Sony Vegas only and my video making process closes in six hours maximum. It took me six hours to do Perfect Insanity, mainly because I had to spend like an hour and a half watching tutorials for After Effects and getting to know the program and then render some simple intro and soundwaves.

I hope this won't turn into another NightmareX-like thread

Btw, am curious, was the majority of clips submitted gallente ships flown?

On the other hand it's still worth watching for at least a few fights in it. Earlier mentioned Naga and Navy Mega were awesome. Liked God's Apples Eagle, kinda reminded me of Garmonation except I think this fight was better than Garmons.

A breakdown of ships submitted is in the contest thread somewhere.

Overall I think the video was decent. The pacing is really, really slow. I understand you were trying to match the speed with the tempo of the music, but it made some fights that could have easily been at 2.5x speed drag on forever and ever. If you or someone else wants to ever do a project like this again, remember: the fun part is getting people to go out an get the fights. If you put less stress on getting all the editing and whatever right, then you could make this a a bi- or tri-annual event where all of eve gets to submit their best solo fight they have during a certain period of a couple months, then you and some other people judge the fights, and after a weekend editing the whole thing it's out. Less stress, less overhype, more community involvement. A win-win imo.

Run the video at 3x speed so we can sort out the casuals!

There is no better tribute to aldap then the stabber fight where gateguns do all the job

The only thing that was missing was a good frigate fight, would have been nice to see a frigate destroying everything.

They didn't take frigate submissions. Frig pvp vids are already a diamond dozen







Also frig PVP is boring

I see people complaining about not good fights here.. but i dont recognise any names here other than a couple as quality soloers. If you think u can do better. GO AND DO IT. If this helps inspire solo pvp, then our job is done :)

As someone stated, video uses lots of clips that we could already seen, however it's still an awesome compilation of solo fights.
Nicely edited, not really my type of music but oh well. Anyhow, good job!

I would have loved to use a bit more metal for it, but there are 2 main problems.

First of all, I find it hard to make it match the fights. The guitar solo should be synced up with the best part of the fight, otherwise it just feels like a mismatch.

And then there are the copyright issues. It is really hard to find some good metal tracks that aren't heavily influenced by copyrights. I thought I had avoided it, but the Manowar track has caused the video to be blocked in Germany, Switzerland and other countries.

Finally had a chance to sit down and watch this - basically I thought you did a great job with the material given, that is to say I expected perhaps something more from the fights that were presented. There was a couple/few genuinely good, and unique fights there but overall they were pretty.... ummm... ho hum? Still hats off to you for making it a fun watch anyway.

Which fights do you think were ho hum?

I just noticed there was not a single Amarrian solo ship in this video.

This saddens me :(