EVE Alliance Tournament Discussion

Banning two of the strongest teams will only serve to reduce the quality of the tournament and make for less interesting viewing. Tell them not to train together, sure, but banning them is silly and outright harmful to the tourney as a spectacle/showcase.

Hydra and Outbreak are being removed because they're testing together in the same wormhole, they will draw from the same pool of theory, they are in essence one team attempting to get first and second place.


PL and YOUR VOTES DON'T COUNT do not share information, pilots, resources or anything else. Testing is being done in completely different locations, waffes are sourcing all their own materials and all their information is private.

That is the difference in their outcomes and choices.

You think people aren't testing against their own out-of-corp highsec/w-space carebear alt accounts? Or that people don't have accounts in multiple valid alliances? Which would mean officially-opposing TQ pilots are colluding.

Again, Syndicate had a 5-or-more-way-tourne on TQ, what's different about those teams being allowed rather than those that test on Sisi for free?

poor waffles :(

I think Hydra and Outbreak do deserve to be banned (for what they did last year; not merely for practicing together), but I also think the tournament would have been better and more interesting with one of them participating.

So two alliances create "alt teams".

Pandemic Legion - Pandemic Legion/YOUR VOTES DONT COUNT

HYDRA RELOADED - HYDRA-RELOADED/Outbreak.


Yet you ban both HYDRA teams, but only one Pandemic Legion team, meaning all the "A" rank players from both of their teams will just join up into one team.

I personally hold no "beef" with Pandemic Legion, but it appears that CCP is applying different punishments for the same offense.

That will surely provide a more competitive Alliance Tournament, where you ban all the competition to one of the highest ranked teams who is guilty of the very same things you punished the other teams for.

Wow.

I'm rather speechless.


P.S. My condolences to the HYDRA team(s), you guys are a step above the rest, too bad you don't have Dev alts in your alliance.

In the interest of fairness shouldn't the punishment for both Hydra and Pandemic Legion be equal?

I'm not saying I agree or disagree with what's happening, but if teams are being banned because of A-B team scenario then the punishment should be the same for all.

If you're going to ban one team then ban one team from both alliances. If you're going to ban two teams then ban two teams from both alliances. Doing otherwise smacks of favoritism and doesn't leave CCP looking impartial or fair.

Just my 0.02 Isk

Kinda mad about waffles not being able to compete, but the reasoning is understandable. However both of HYRDA and Outbreak being banned is ridiculous.

Sort it out CCP.

If you asked CCP and they did not respond, all blame is on them.

If they do believe this should not be allowed, the rule should be put in place for NEXT years Alliance Tournament, and not enforced after teams have been practicing in such a manner with "NO WRITTEN RULE STATING THIS IS A DIS-QUALIFIER", only to be enacted and enforced in a very short time prior to the event.

This is Bollocks.

:cripes: