EVE Alliance Tournament Discussion

I cant help but think it is a real shame that Hydra and Outbreak are banned from the tourney - it`s a bit like Brazil not being at the world cup! I have been really looking forward to the tourney after being less active of late but from what I have seen so far it`s a bit dull, the TV stuff is not as good as previous years and the commentry is bad.

Yeah it sucks we don't have a defending champion, but I think there's been enough posting about that so w/e ;P

I think tourney might be better without ASB, but it's hard to say since we've only seen 6v6 so far.

Quite simply - **** HYDRA, they tried to cheat then shot their remaining credibility in the head by endlessly whining when they got caught then smugposting about how they would just go to another game and win there. If they hadnt inserted their heads firmly into their own rectums at the first opportunity i might have had some sympathy.

On the ASB side i dont think its going hold up once we hit the twelve man matches, the more dpsy six man setups were still able to grind it down so i dont think its going to make enough of a difference to matter that much.

WAit a second, you're telling me Hydra and Outbreak aren't in the tournament this year? how did that happen since they won last year? This must have been an administration error - why in god's name didn't somebody post about it earlier so CCP could take the necessary steps to ensure their participation?!

re: the commentary - as the fights unfold, i've been wishing somebody was giving a play-by-play of some of the more interesting events rather than filling time until something that is blindingly obvious to the viewers watching the stream happens.

"Sacrileges are Amarrian, so normally armour tanked, and will generally use HAMS which have less range than HMLS which.. oh and it looks like a ship just exploded"

Other than that the standard has generally been fine - Ravi and Kil2 have been good, zastrow and telraven have been non-bad. MB3 is wearing his clownshoes and is desperately fumbling with the squirty flower mechanism in his pocket, perspiration beading on his forehead as he realises how far out of his comfort zone he is talking about spaceships.

'squirty flower'.

I still don't know what happened to HYDRA, and i am just looking forward to seeing them next time. For now, we have a tournament to do. It is a shame we dont have a defending champion, but i guess we can still count PL as "the ones to beat" this year, and we've also seen a few alliances come out of the woodworks this time, which has always interested me.
-Buhhd

TBH I wrote that post when i was trying and failing to get to sleep, was way more grumpy than i intended and not at all what i meant to mention. Apologies for confusing things with that.

The point i tried and failed to make was that regardless of the circumstances, like you said theres many different versions of what happened, you lost a lot of peoples sympathy, mine included, with bad forum behaviour and **** posting in the days after ccps initial response. Not all of it was from your members and not all of it was serious, I've been on these forums long enough to know what a cesspool it is at the best of times, but as far as i could see it really eroded what little goodwill you had to the point people didnt give a **** either way any more and just wanted you to shut the hell up.

Were they banned? I must have missed that in the forums. I do know that ccp said due to previous outcome of AT9, there would not be automatic entry, as for banned, that probably came under the affiliated alliance rules did it not?

clearly not enough in the last week, i thought hydra threads were 60% of the tourny