EVE Alliance Tournament Discussion

I was disappointed that my alliance that was made specifically to compete in ATX was not selected on the draw, and I am miffed precisely because many of the rich and large alliances didn't get selected in the draw, and I worry that the bidding for the remaining 32 slots will quickly outpace the small pool that we would be willing to spend. So last year the slots went for about 20Bil each, and I am not sure but maybe this is something we might be able to pay, but if the prices spiral out control to more than that then we will be left out.

Maybe next year they should ban all large alliances that consequentially are filthy rich from the random draw, so as to give smaller alliances a chance of participating, and have these large entities then bid their dozens of billions of isk to participate with their teams. PL or Goons or Solar for example have trillions of isk to burn in such things (and im sure private alliances of big players as well), but most of the smaller alliances cannot hope to have the funds to do such a thing.

Also, the devs said that there were only a total of 77 applicant alliances, so maybe the remaining 77-32=45 won't make it such a heated bidding war for the remaining 32 slots, even if 13 of the alliances won't make it (and unfortunately, the poorer ones, which may not mean the worst pilots).

Which brings me to my point:

If any large alliances here would like to use my corp and the alliance we created to force other alliances from participating by donating money we would appreciate it. If by any chance we manged to get prizes (which is a long shot), we could work out a deal of what percentage of the prizes the sponsor/s would get, which as of now i would think would be proportional to the % of isk that was donated for the auction price slot. Ie, If you donate 15bil and we spend a total of 30Bil for the slot, you would be entitled to 50% of the isk value of the payout (in bpcs or isk).

This is the link to our KB and to BC for our corp so you can peruse our stats:

http://pzza.eve-kill.net/
http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboar...sive+Diplomacy

And the auction was before the random draw so people wanted to ensure they got in.

Hmm, oops. After re-reading the rules maybe that initial 10 Plex can be used to bid with.... I am so bad at this game. My guess is the floor will be 15 PLEX to get in. Could be lower.

Yeah I guess that it is not a huge amount of ISK... If 20 people get together and do some sort of ISK generation activity, then getting together 20B ISK is not terribly difficult. Maybe I am just stuck in the early 90s.