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Posted - 2009.01.14 19:23:00 -
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 Originally by: Blazde
Originally by: Rajere
If you wanna argue the alliance tournament is drifting further away from "real" alliances, then why aren't you questioning The Five? or Green Alliance from last tourney? Or the 4 spots held for whoever the plex runners deem their champion from FW? Most of those entries are probably place holder alliances and they will be populated by the time the tournament begins, but even if they aren't, <50 member alliances have done well in the past, and with the rules this tourney, they could easily go all the way & win this one.
I totally am questioning phoney shell alliances like The Five and (as JS LiamElms pointed out) Prime Orbital Systems. Those are the worst. The point is entering the alliance tourney should not be a simple case of paying 1 bil + 500m deposit. Just as entering the Olympics isn't as simple as me declaring my back yard a sovereign state.
It should be for real alliances that are relevant politically & militarily all year round. And no I'm not discriminating against small alliances, or empire alliances, let's have lots of them it makes for good fun and it's a very important channel for them to gain recognition. But there needs to be some minimum criteria. Exactly what I don't know but here's food-for-thought:
Alliance logo submission process
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Only logos from alliances that have been in effect for six months or more and have over 150 active members will be accepted.
CONCORD Makes Revolutionary Statement of Recognition For Alliances as Starbase Components Hit SCC Markets
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In a surprise announcement at 12:00 EVT today Irhes Angireh, Head of CONCORD's Inner Circle, declared CONCORD to be in full official support of the outer rim alliances. Further, she stated that official provision had been made for alliances to, for the first time in history, become recorded entities on the level of nation-states.
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What a load of Bollo@# .. Anyone who plays Eve who meets the requirements should be able to enter. There are 1000s of players, who even if they where in a large alliance would never have the chance to be apart of the tourney. If you even bothered to read the thread there where many large 0.0 alliances who did not even apply during the time frame.
And comparing the Olympics to the tourney LOL hahahhaha |