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This tournament has nothing to do with alliances whatsoever. What we do have is a cost of entry in order to ensure that those who are stating they wish to compete have enough skin in the game to take it seriously. Over the long term we would definitely like to have alternative methods of doing so but we simply don't have any other option at this time.

you cant get $400 together? between 32 people?

thats like $12.5 per person you cheep bastard!

So presumably team names could be sponsored by Eve related entities as a form of advertising?

I understand the need to cut down the amount of people who want to be in the tournament, but I agree that an alternative would be nice, as many groups of PvPers don't really stock up on ISK or plexes, and spend most ISK on acquiring stuff to fly. Perhaps an alternative method of getting in such as "if your group doesn't have the ISK, we have 5-10 auction entries that will be given as a prize in contest X" (for example a contest to make a video promoting your group of PvPers)

or something community based. The amount of slots given as a prize would have to be fairly small though.

generally, I just feel a tournament should be "Oh, we are good PvPers, lets enter!", not "Oh, we are good PvPers, lets farm PvE for 2 months to save up the ISK to enter!" :P

it's just the feeling that a lot of PvPers have that they want to PvP whenever on Eve, not be forced to PvE for some reason other than the normal ones (paying for accounts, being able to afford the ship you are flying, etc.)

as well... a team acuiring 300 dollars to potentially spend on PLEX entering a tournament that is "for fun" is not all that appealing either, especially when you think of it like "oh, i can win 1000 dollars for third place!" but its actually 700 after the fact.

I guess as eve as an esport gets more popular tournaments will grow in size and thus not need to constrict the amount of people entering with fees, it's good CCP is trying to do more tournaments, regardless of the entry requirements

was just about to point out that it's a base-20-plex from the *whole team*

if you get everyone on the team to front two plex (@17USD, iirc), then you have a really good chance of being able to bid up to a spot on the tournament

not too shabby, imho, and no giant alliance tech-fueled-bank-rolls required

For instance that could be a selling point for a team looking for funding to join this tournament.

Clarification request on the Player/character thing:



Is that minimum 8, maximum 24 characters, or RL people? Extremities either way could be one person 8-boxing, or 24 people with the option to use any of their characters.

I'm presuming it's referring to player characters.

A person may have multiple characters on the same team. A person MAY NOT have ANY characters in more than one team.

That was not my question. I was asking whether the 8-24 "player" limit per team refers to RL people or ingame characters.

edit: thanks Navigator.