
Malar
HUN Corp. HUN Reloaded
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Posted - 2009.01.13 14:57:00 -
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Originally by: QwaarJet We did sign up, we missed out on payment because the rules require one person and one person only to send the fee in time, which means if that person is out of action for a couple of days due to RL stuff then an entire alliance screwed.
The rules need to be changed for signups so that at least the team captain can send the fee or another CEO.
There are too many Mickey Mouse teams in this year's tournament and not enough top tier players. I honestly expect Pandemic Legion to waltz to victory unless they get hit by a piece of bad luck. I can only see HUN, CAIN or maybe Evoke challenging them.
I will say the same thing that was suggested after last year's farcical organization : Player Council. We have the CSM for general EVE issues, why not a Player Council for the tournament?
Come on now.. theres lots of mickey mouse teams for sure, but if you compare this lineup to the AT5/AT4 lineup, you will see that only few of the major players are missing, but instead of them you got 40-50 jokers..
The difference between well known alliances and these jokers is crucial: you know what to expect from the known entities, but you have no clue what the jokers will do. Need i remind you to a joker team from AT4, nah.. if anything, then the random mickey mouse teams only make me sweat more, i certainly do not feel safer because of them.
I think this will be the hardest AT yet.. not only do we have twice the participants, but also a set of rules which makes it hard to preserve your forces and go for safe victories. You will have to pick tactics for every match, that are risky and kind of a rock-paper-scissor(ish).
The last two tournaments were mainly won by out of the box thinking.. This one will be won by in game and out of game skills and coordination. Then again, even with the best plans and skills you will see teams running into the exact opposite of their lineup and suffering epic losses they have no way to avoid. Luck will be a much bigger factor this time around.
We will see what this tournament bring. For now theres only one thing we can be farily certain of: there will be lots of ships... and lots of wrecks as well. --------------------------------------------- *Comments in this post are mine and mine only* |