EVE Alliance Tournament Discussion

Seeing as how TEST blatantly purchased their win from that last keres pilot, when can we expect an official announcement about their punishment?

You mean the last 45 seconds of the match?

So you dont see an issue with teams paying for points, which could be the difference between advancing and not advancing?

tyrax explains why its ok. it wasn't a team intentionally taking a dive for isk. The match was already over it was simply test buying a few more points. if the other side had payed test to loose instead now that would have probably annoyed ccp.

If the whole thing was paid for, Test would have brought less points. The only time I think it is possible that a team was paid to take a dive today, is there were a few teams with zero points from last week that brought a full 50 points. It is possible that those 50 points teams were paid by someone else to ensure that their opponent never makes it to groups, and in return they walk away with a win but would also never make groups themselves. However, I think it's far more likely that they are just bad at math or didn't understand the rules.

Almost all of these teams have put in a lot of man power into the tournament, practicing and seeing what fits work. Very few teams are going to take cash to lose this year. In the Test vs. No Holes Barred match none of the people who know the very most about the tournament detected any sort of foul play. These teams really care about the work they put in, and I can understand them paying some cash to get an extra 2 points on an already sealed victory.

I think that you might be misinterpreting the motivations of some of the big money teams. The teams who have a ton of cash are mostly playing in the tournament for something to do. They want to play because they like testing their piloting and meta gaming ability, much more then actually wanting the prize ships. You'll see intel games, spying, and all sorts of meta-gaming from these teams, but I would be flat out shocked to hear that the teams I recognize as big money teams had flat out paid for a match ahead of time. I would almost certainly hear about it as well, I talk to and chill with most of the head guys in those alliances.

Welcome to EVE online you ****

I find this thread amusing, since I'm pretty sure that one of the teams paid 5b to win last year. I think it was one of the Hydra matches, where they self-destructed all their ships (2nd round I think). And I'm fairly certain there was no uproar about that.

You would be right that telling MBIII would mean it would get broadcasted to the entire world if it would improve his opinion polls.



Goons != TEST. TEST is like the 80% of the 1%. We are not poor but we are not goons/pl/nc. Obviously to an outsider this makes no difference at all and figure we can just pay-to-win. But considering that the 2B came out of my own pocket (hope I get it back sometime) I think you need to change who you put under the microscope.



This level of metagaming is what I would call "metagaming light". It is nothing compared to the point fixing and conga lines. Being the team captain and flying in that match, the only metagaming happened at the end when we had no frigates left and wanted to kill that Keres.

Here is your $0.02 cents change.

Thanks for thinking I'm bigtime !
Personally I consider myself a has-been, you're wrong tho I don't always defend metagaming, f.i. when goons exploited the FW game mechanics to make 5 trillion I was quite vocal in my support of CCP's reversing their profits.

But enough about me, how you doin Baske?