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Just released a new video explaining the updated prize pool.
Includes two kickass fights as well, by Logan Durandal and Syss7 :-)

Listen to Aldap and I being interviewed by The Daily Roam podcast here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/1rdi99/the_daily_roam_episode_14_one_man_crew_aldap/

Now we are also on The Mittani Dot Com: http://themittani.com/features/one-man-crew-solo-pvp-contest

Once again, thanks for the support everyone.

We are only interested in the raw format (maybe compress it)

All the editing will be done by us.

Jayne, I can try give you a few thoughts that spring to mind after watching the few minutes of your stream around that time-mark.

Micromanagement-wise, indeed you might just want a little more practice in that ship, in how large the cap injection is compared to base cap, the reload & cycle time of it, in always having an AAR pre-heated due to the unique bonuses it has, and in things like taking drugs.
I'd not run active hardeners until there is actually something shooting/bombing you that you're likely to actually take armour damage in that second. That ~200 cap could be what you need on such a ship in such a fight.
I'd not fly an active-tanked armour fit Gal hull without a damage control. There's the RAH to consider.

As for shooting an SFI, I'd have looked to see if you could see an invuln or sebo effect, because dual prop armour ones are so small and fast they're like insanely tanky frigs that track almost as well too(I think I'd always use faction AM against them when up close, also take extra care of your drones against such targets). If you had a hint he wouldn't have an AB, it'd be much better for you. Also, did you try cycle your mwd to see if he has a scram or long point?
If you saw an armour rep effect, or his armour recover, then the neuting is probably a good call, else I think you'd want to save that cap cost for your dps & tank.

IDK about aggroing a SFI at 0km on a null-null gate if you don't know what's on the other side. TBH if it's a blob, you haven't kited the SFI away, so they can be right on you if you aggro and they jump through anyway, so why not look and leave the SFI behind for a minute with aggro. The cane landing right on you is your cue to lay into it with void & OH at ~1km(whatever just inside optimal is). You should have range dictation over it, unlike vs the SFI which was tanking you, and can probably be expected to.

IDK why you tried to shoot the drones, initially you seemed to do a decent volley or 2 to the SFI's armour, it looked promising that you could break it, and you learnt you could tank him on ~1 rep, and his drones aren't much of his dps, nor of the overall should the cane join the combat soon after.

Interesting that Miz would put your medium drones on his drones, whereas I'd value how well they hit a scram+webbed small target like the SFI

SFI and frigate targets makes me think way back to this fight when I'd just rejoined the game and tried some solo Brutix for the first time. http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=11929522
My injector was not auto-reloading, and I was TDed by the Sentinel, but the frigates were caught out by how well hammerheads hit when scram+web is applied.
The POS is on the mail because I was actually straight-up copying Kil2's SEVEN vid and splitting the gang by warping celestials until I had 2 or 3 on grid and the others somewhat scattered. Edit: http://oldforums.eveonline.com/?a=topic&threadID=1065858 the second fight, there's a commentary mp3, or vid version with 2 audio tracks.
IDK if that can even be done thanks to the warp changes.

You make it sound like you assume it's a 1v1 active tanked drawn out fight. How would the SFI ever kill anything by aggroing someone at 0km on a gate, unless he has friends the other side, or thought you'd jumped into him/isn't thinking such things through. And I didn't look if the cane was the same ticker/obviously friendly to the SFI, but I'd assume he's likely to come over & get involved.

A medium smartbomb (smalls are bad iirc) can chase off/kill dps drones as well as EC ones. And a nos can help, especially with the mechanics changes so if you can expect your absolute cap level to be run down, it'll help you and hurt the other guy.

Thanks for the tips guys! I'll give it another shot tonight.

Oh, and basically never warp to 0km on an unknown nullsec gate in a brawler. Try find a celestial in dscan range to take a peek from. If you'd hit a stop/drag bubble you could be miles off gate and longpointed by kiters. Sure if there's an interdictor & some decloak cans you might want to end up on a bubble edge with them trying to scram you so you have a chance at a shiny kill, but they shouldn't got for a brutix, more likely they'll cloak or kite you too.

Else, you could try the old: go somewhere safe, run reps & warp-cancel to non-aligned things to burn your cap down, then try & fail to warp the whole way to the gate to make a dscan spot. BM it, and let your cap regen before possibly getting into combat. It's a tedious process.
When you get to know an area, the locals, and make BMs you'll have to do this much less. Roaming it in an interceptor first could help a lot, even if you don't feel confident in a frig & avoid fights.

Nice initiative from our solo pvp ambassadors.

I'd like to ask two questions to them :

-Do i really smoke too much or the jury composition already changed ? i thought i have readen Darknesss into them, i don't see him anymore. Well, nevermind.

-it looks like you thought seriously to how you're gonna score the fights, with a lot of criterias. There is still one, that a mate of mine noticed smartly, which is determinant in solo fights : your opponents' level.

Let's take the extem opposites, for example. Fighting the Matari Exodus gang will be way more hard than fighting a lambda home defense gang in the depth of 0.0. Fighting the Ivy League 40 Beginners fleet, has nothing to see with fighting 40 RnK's.

Did you get the point ?

I'd be happy to know your position about this concept.


Some players of my corp are really interested in this contest. We just hope that Buhhdust Princess won't send us his cyno tengu dropping 30 black ops on our active tanked ships every time we'll undock them ;) . i doubt it would make an interesting video.