EVE Alliance Tournament Discussion

First of all, congratulations to the winners and huge respect for everyone who put enormous amount of effort and dedication into this tournament.

Here is the story.

The rest of Hydra wasnt making a team and a few DS friends approached me to make a joint team so we did. The first match against Huns went fine, second match against Ronin was really surprising for us because we didn't expect a turtle setup at all and it knocked us into losers bracket.

We had a pretty tough road ahead of us but we managed to win both elimination matches the next Saturday while fielding Vangels once, then we won both the elmination matches the Sunday after managing to knock out the ATX winners.

The following weekend we knew we had to win 3 straight in one day and we managed to take out Team Liquid and beat Ronin once in matches with a lot of emphasis on kiting, our third match again against Ronin didnt go so well. We felt we made some piloting mistakes that cost us and that we could've won if we flew a bit differently (tackling bcs/vargur with nhs and damping all three and scimi while taking out support to protect our basi) but maybe all the stress got to us and we did it too late after everything was already on top of our logi. Well played to Ronin though you guys are a tough opponent.

Our goal going in was to win first place and when we got knocked into the 3/4 match we weren't as hungry as before and just decided to have fun with the setups and try different things. The vindis were a lot of fun to fly so we kept rolling the dice and used an oracle setup we hadn't really tested and it didn't work out. We went to something conservative for the last match to try to win but it didn't do that well against what the Goggles brought. Congrats to them on their 3rd place finish.

Overall this was a pretty interesting tournament and it was a lot of fun but also very stressful preparing for it. Having to run the gauntlet and try to win 7 matches in a row was really tough and we almost made it but just fell short. The banning rule adds a great dynamic and I expect it will become a staple. Well played to all our opponents and thanks to my team for all the work they put in.

My dream team:
GTusk - Amazing FC and friend, always advised me when I needed it.
Helen Connor - Logistics pilot, the only thing that can stop him from keeping ships alive is the arena boundary.
Pandi - Cold-blooded damage dealer, feels as if he can overload his guns for the entire fight.
BSL - EAF pilot, easily wins damp war solo versus four ships.
Nebula XII - Cool all-around pilot, finally found a place to use large blaster specialization V in the modern Eve. Flew a Vangel right beside me.
Vizirion - Another great EAF pilot and an old guarde pilot I can trust.
Ice Tim - Dedicated tengu pilot, a bit shy :D
VoZzZic - Always helpful with moral support :)
Roger Dodger - Great sense of humor, very reliable pilot.
ThePiratEBay - Probably one of the best frigate pilots in Eve. The only Malice pilot that survived in this tournament.
Quorthon Seth - Great pilot, always advised me when I needed.
xo3e - Out of box theorycrafter, also his sabre is amazing.

And huge thanks to Garmon and Duncan Tanner, who taught me well and always helped when I really needed it.

Thanks CCP for organizing this. I hope in the future the testing process can be streamlined to lower the barrier of entry to these types of events. Hopefully the scheduling and double elimination bracket format will be optimized as well for the future.

This is really a great story to read, giving shivers of awesomeness down the spine.

Thank you for joining in the tournament and giving us all some epic moments! Best wishes to you for your next tournaments.

GF and great job from your side guys.

Any tournament would not be the same without Hydra or Darkside.
As I was monitoring this forum, I noticed your activity so I was happy knowing that you guys will show up.
I was concerned about Darkside not coming, however it turned out well.

I really hope to meet you and your team again in future tournaments.

Seems familiar somehow

Either way, good show this time, and hope to see you around for the next. Hopefully we can offer some competition to you next time too!

Ice Tim is shy ? for real ? That's so cute Had some nice moments in G-0 with him and his alts ( or what I think are his alts)

Anyhow, great games you played there, wished for you to earn the 6000 $ but well maybe next time

Despite getting in our ship bans you guys managed to thoroughly stomp us!

Congrats on your run.

I see what you did there