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Well when someone says "The most important sideshow" what is the first thing that gets on your mind? I am sure that in the world the sentence is bound to soccer, but generally it is about sports. Billions of people every weekend head towards stadiums, arenas or just tv to follow their teams, heroes. In Europe and Africa it is soccer, in USA its American football or baseball. In Australia is rugby and in Asia, well being so big its all kind of sports.

So why not make an universe, EVE universe popular sport? Well guys i got an idea, which with a bit of hard work, can get live easily. Imagine every week being able to follow your teams, discuss of the past or incoming games. Cheering, laughing,cursing or being desperate, or or or participating in that league, to be a star, to be loved and hated.

Imagine what possibilities, what potential it could bring to EVE.
- Professional sport corps
- Training corps
- Some more of shady affairs
- New sources of income like (sponsors, winning prices, betting)
- and everything else your mind can come up with

Oke you will now ask "What sport can it be"?
Well in EVE fashion, what else would be than fireworks, ships exploding all around.

Guys i present you FML as "Frigate mania League"

What is it about?

It is about teams consisted of T1 frigates trying to beat each other just like on the Alliance tournament.
We would have a league which would be led by an Alliance and consisted of corp/teams which would every weekend compete against each other. The winner would be ofc the one that gets the most points at the end of the season (3 for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss).

It surely would bring something new to the game and it would be driven mostly by players.
- organisation
- control
- commentators
- founding

It would be some kind of not instanced battlegrounds.

But being a CCP game, organizer of "Frigate Mania League" would of course work a lot with developers so we could deliver the ultimate experience to the community. The help from CCP would be mostly technical.

The idea is to field T1 frigates with only T2 modules and T2 or faction ammunition. Implants except the on for attributes and boosters would not be allowed. it would be 5v5 matches. This would be for the first season. If we would feel the need to be expanded to 10v10 and T2 frigates also it would be very easy, but for the beginning it is supposed to be 5v5 and T1 frigates. Why?

- Easier to organize
- Almost no cost at all for competitors (every ship will be brought by teams them selves)
- Low margins to enter and participate in the league (new ppl would have easy time to join the competition)
- Frigate gang pvp is always fun

How the league would work?

There would be an Alliance named "Frigate Mania League" that will run the show, with the surveillance of CCP of course.
Teams that would participate, will exist as a Corp in that alliance. People working for the alliance management would run/organize the whole show. On the Corp back would rest the finances to keep alive the teams, to compete every weekend and ofc to follow the rules of the League itself.

For each season Corps/Teams will have to pay a fee to compete and to prove that they can survive it (pay their bills :D). There would be 1 season per one year. It wont be lots of isk to invest. Of course the more wins or successful a team is, it will return that isk and earn lots more.

Every corp should be made of the management which will earn money (by industry, trading, ratting or whatever other way) and the team part, who would have contracts and get paid each month for their competing. Management/team can be an only body also. the prices for winning games and League would go to Corp. Its left to the Corp and team to arrange how that money will be spent.

These are examples of how finances in this sport would work.


Teams to be properly registered will need minimum 7 players, 5 players to compete and 2 to sit on the bench, so they can be changed between matches, because to win a match will be needed to win 2 of 3. The maximum number of players that can be registered for a season in one team will be 10.

As a sport we will try to keep it as much fair as it can be. Alts wont be allowed. Because it could end up tweaking the games. The "Alliance Mania League" will have a tribunal who will constantly be trying to spot iregularities so they can be punished.

Punishments will be like large fee's and expulsion of players and Teams/corps for 1-2 or forever years

How the match will work?

there will be 2 teams opposing each other, it will be a 5v5 match. Teams can bring 2 more players to sit on the bench and change em between the games for whatever reason they think is ok (for more experience or more skills in certain way of flying a frigate). It should look like exactly as it is on the alliance tournament with some minor changes.

- A game will take place in the arena where if u leave it, u get insta popped.
- A game will have its duration limit
- A game ends when the time elapses, or 1 team kills all ships of the opposite team
- Frigates wont have points assigned. So if 3 games finish with both teams having destroyed exact number of ships, the match will end as a draw
- It wont be possible to field 2 same types of ship (Example: 2 Rifters, but u ll be able to field 2 frigates that are focused on damage like a Rifter and a Punisher)
- Won match gives 3 points, a draw 1 point and the loss gives nothing.
- After every match won, the winning team will get an amount of isk. If its finished as a draw both teams will split the winning pot.

My taught is to have an asteroid made exactly for this sport and put in middle of the arena. We might see some not skilled players bump on the asteroids and so lose an advantage gained before. But with this idea we would be more dependent on technical part of this project, which i want to take it to the minimum.

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Well even better if it is already everything in the game, will be easier to deliver than. But it is not everything, we d need the Arenas, smth like the Alliance tournament has. An EVE universe wide sport will add lot more content for ppl to participate, or to follow and build interesting events around it.

You don't need CCP for this. Set up the rules and sponsor it yourself. Offer prizes and try to get some notable people involved. You can even do it in high sec if you know what you're doing.

Host the matches in an empty backwater system and don't announce the location until you start broadcasting. I sincerely doubt a 5v5 t1 frigate brawl is going to last long enough for someone to scan down the match and warp in with a ship suitable to wreck the match.

And if that really isn't enough, there are still plenty of options for mitigating the probability of interference.

Providing regular players the powers required to start a tourney match would be disastrous. And I think we all know that CCP doesn't want to get involved in managing a league-style "sport" that would require regular effort on the part of their staff.

The sandbox is there with all the tools to make your idea happen. You're just opting to not use them, because it would be hard.

Yes it can. Do it in a cynojammed dead-end system your alliance holds, and don't allow anybody other than the competitors to enter.

The easiest way I can think of to run a system like this would be to use WHs. Give the participants a system to meet in and a short warning. Then find a WH within 10j of that system and have people go into the WH for the match. Then you can either just run the match quick or chain-collapse the WH and find a new exit after the match. If you accidentally end up in an occupied WH and the occupants take offense, well, you have two PvP fleets with you already.

This would be relatively simple to run and wouldn't require sov or cynojammers or anything like that. It would be relatively secure too; someone could crash the party if they really wanted too, but it'd be just about impossible without a participant giving away the location, which would immediately disqualify them and give them whatever bad rep you can dream up.

It is possible to run a tournament with the current mechanics, and to mitigate the risks of someone crashing the party. You just have to think a bit outside the box.

Ahm WH are an option yes, i thought about it. But the selection of random WH's is just not possible for the league to function fluently. What i was thinking is to make an agreement with some strong WH Corps/Alliances that have settled strongholds to allow us for 1 day to execute scheduled matches. Every week i d choose different hosts.

This would be benefitial for both. The hosts would get some nice promotion of their Alliances/corps and maybe even some iskies.

Yeah i understand you point. But i was in WHs for some time and especially those with highsec entrances/exits have lots of transitients and also quite few ppl that are after easy preys. And this is not about getting in, have a fight and getting out.

My intention is to have a league of 20 teams, so that is 10 matches every sunday. It really cant be done on the go it wouldnt be fun for the participants nor for the spectators.