EVE Alliance Tournament Discussion

Not worth the time, NM this thread.

If you don't like drama why are you posting that?
Or even open a new topic

if you had read the other posts you would see what i was talking about

i know i also don't liked it but that doesn't mean to everyone that read that news should open a new threat

They could and probably should have just banned them from this year's tourney, but I think they wanted to do their best to give them a second chance. Because these are professional metagamers and will find a hole in any tightly defined rule they had to keep it vague and go with the spirit of it.

They did explain comprehensively, reply to queries politely and issue I think two detailed clarifications. The kids either couldn't bring their tantrums under control or deliberately wanted to make as much noise as possible so as to try to deflect the blame for their screw up from alliance leadership onto ccp so have been waging a spam war on the tourney forums. This has included repeated serious accusations made against ccp staff and constant slight rephasing of the question to justify further demands for responses. Eventually, in the face of this, and waaaaay after stating that the matter was closed and no further forum spam / abuse would be tolerated, they started giving one or two glib answers. Very restrained of them if you ask me. I think you've dropped into the conversation around the glib answer point, reading right from the start you can see how restrained they've been in the face of what they've had to put up with.

The rest of us just wish they'd pack it in so we can use the tourney forums for the tourney. I hate to say it, and it's a bloody shame if it has to be done but I'm starting to think the only way to prevent the continued spam attack is to set it so only members of alliances in the competition can post :(

The whole issue is about timely and appropriate communications to avert anything that might compromise the quality of the tournament. Something the ATX team vowed to do this year with the new rules.

Outbreak and Hydra have shown that they tried to get clarification on what they thought were vague. And after reading those mails I cant see how they were anything short of wanting to be fully co-operative. The ATX team did not act on those to avert anything for whatever reasons they may have had. Then without warning or appropriatley recognised communications between the 3 parties ban them both. Fair enough this sets the bar rather high for further rulings, they mean buisness this time!!

This now brings up the question of why weren't RVB allowed to, in a similar fashion, just be ignored and allowed to fall foul and be removed from the torunament. Why initiate a special dispensation for one group and not another? They would have fallen foul of two rules, Possible colluding and stacking the dec.

PL without a doubt were the Main Alliance of their two entries and fell foul of the stacking the dec rule yet the Main alliance was not removed. As stated in the same rule set which on one hand with one group they want to enforce vigorously and yet with others are so lenient.

PL command alot of respect for what they have achieved in pervious AT's and bring alot of interest to the table and rightfully so. So I have to agree with this special dispensation.

Other teams are still seeking clarifications for fear of the same fete as Hydra/Break. The ATX team have since admitted that the rules were vague on purpose.

It seems you need a super natural ability to communicate with or comprehend the ATX team this year and their "feelings" is what seems to be the main theme in this years rules.

wait let me react to the general consensus of npc alts who are certainly not alts of hydra/outbreak

...After issuing final bans. They replied to nothing when the time for replying would have been.

Edit: this whole post. You cannot deny anythin in it, Soundwave.

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I am sorry to report I am not a Hydra not an Outbreak alt.

Just a concerned player who doesn't buy into the smokescreen.