My EVE

Almost. Still one fight that needs some editing and overall some details that needs some adjusting.

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Alright everyone. The release will either be tonight or tomorrow depending on how long it takes to render, compress and upload it and how many issues will arise. Stay tuned.

may St. Revedhort bless this holy day

http://i.imgur.com/5YtxGdE.gif?1?3136

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i can't wait to see all these dank historical frags

I'd like to clear up a few things:

The original plan was a 3month window for fight capture.
The judges were only asked to judge, with no obligation to assist the subsequent edit process. This was proposed as simply being the short duration following the original 3month window. Yes, many judges are known for their vids, but this was chiefly Aldap & Miz's production.
Issues with submissions & Eve-files extended the capture window to 4months.
120 fights were submitted.
Thousands of man-hours of free time were required from the judges to compare these to get a final 15.
Yet more comparison was required for the final prize awarding.

Then we have 15 very different fight PoVs, with different UIs, different tempo engagements, different kinds of details to highlight. Both to explain why they were judged for being good examples of solo pvp, and also for entertainment of watching. Each fight needs to have a playback rate or rates found to make it more watchable than in realtime, and then music to be found to match each clip.

This leads to 15 fights that need to be put in a sequence that also flows, to give consistency to the added UI, and non-jarring transitions.

All this while Aldap had to leave Eve completely for RL events, Miz had focus on his RL education (Spring & Summer being disproportionately critical), and everyone in general struggles to sustain motivation & interest as it takes time, and non-helpful people complain about it taking time. AFAIK it also took some extra, experienced people and some learning on Miz's part to achieve some of the editing results he strived for.

Prizes were awarded once we realised the vid would be very delayed, so as to not inconvenience the winners any longer. Many billions of isk handed out, with no issues, no scam.

So finally it's done, for free, instead of Miz & others choosing to just undock and have their own fights & fun so many times over the past year.

That is the true context of it all, as far as I'm aware. Hopefully it will serve the ambitious triple purpose of being entertaining, justifying the awarding of the prizes, and most of all: of inspiring players new & old to try & find out how well they can succeed at solo pvp in Eve.

Not empty quoting. Youtube over here sucks a little.

I am extremely excited for this. A big thank you to all involved, you make the Eve universe a better place for everyone.

The runners up video was really good and I can't even begin to imagine how good the OMC video will be. Can't wait to see it!

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