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The official format and rules of the Alliance Tournament XI have been released. CCP Bro, on behalf of the Tournament Team, has brought you a fancy blog full of numbers and fun facts to get you all acquainted with the way the AT XI will run once it kicks off mid-July. There are a number of changes to the rules both from the previous Alliance Tournament and the New Eden Open so we advise you guys to scan it thoroughly.

Go here to read it.

Any questions you may have for the Tournament Team regarding this blog will be answered here. I hope you will all join us in excitement for this years' Alliance Tournament, because it is going to be a blast!

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[EDIT: We have clarified a bit more on the Cybernetics 3 only rule, you can find it under the Fitting Restrictions section. Also, BunnyVirus's post now has content, which means I don't have to delete it - CCP Gargant]

I am so hoping to make it in this year :)

Not really. People drop to the losers bracket whenever they lose their first match, so the population of each side of the brakcet is constantly changing. The finals are essentially a best of 5 but with the first match already magically played with the team from the winners bracket up one.

This might help clarify: http://www.erasabletournamentbrackets.com/pdf/double-seeded-64-team.pdf

This is going to be epic :O

Yes, but then in each subsequent stage half of the members of the winners bracket move to the losers bracket to partially replace the people getting knocked out of the losers bracket.

So no Mindlinks? Can you confirm that?

The PDF explains the format well, I suggest adding the link to the devblog, because I and probably others weren't familiar with a double elimination format.

I think you shouldn't give the winners' bracket champion the extra point in the final round.

Team A loses their first match, Team B wins their first match. Both teams win every successive match in their respective brackets; B is now the Winners Champion and A is the Losers Champion.
B is 6-0; A is 10-1.

Now the best-of-five final begins, here are the possible scores after this match:

Possible final match scores
A vs B
5....1
4....2
3....3
2....4
1....5
0....6

So A must win four or five out of five games in the final match to win the tournament.
If A wins, A is 11-1 vs B's 6-1. If B wins, A is 10-2 vs B's 7-0.

I don't like gimping A, because IMO the whole point of double elimination is to give ppl a second chance. If A makes it through the whole losers bracket without a loss, they deserve to challenge the winner on fair ground.


EDIT: reading more carefully: there are only four rounds played in 'the best of five final'

A vs B
4....1
3....2
2....3
1....4
0....5

psst they're shooting players not rocks!

sux 2 b u

(this team padding **** is exactly what they were trying to counter)

We announced it on May 15th in another dev blog. A lot of people have been discussing that rule change in the comments thread for that dev blog, the main response I posted there was: