EVE Alliance Tournament Discussion

Hey everyone. We've received a few questions about what is and isn't allowed in AT tournament prep and in the matches themselves.

This post is designed to help clarify the following part of the official rules:



The key point here is of course that every team must be trying to win. Throwing a match to allow your friends to advance is not allowed and as always we will enforce this rule vigorously.

Two points that we would like to clarify are:

Practicing against other teams is allowed.
Scrimming is an expected part of tournament prep and we know that not all teams have large enough alliances to be able to practice against themselves.
We have received questions about practicing against other teams in wormholes, where resupply difficulties encourage people to share logistics responsibilities.
We do allow different teams to practice in wormholes sharing logistics and starbase access as long as teams are legitimately working towards their own victory and compete for themselves in each and every match.

Setting up "house rules" for actual matches in the Alliance Tournament will be considered collusion and is not allowed.
We know that most previous cases of teams agreeing to "house rules" before tournament matches have been harmless and have not represented attempts to break the spirit of the rules. However explicitly banning this kind of activity will make the enforcement of our general collusion rule much clearer and we will no longer be allowing this kind of activity.
For example, if two teams that are facing each other agree together to bring setups that contain certain ships and/or do not contain other ships this will be considered a violation of the AT rules. Thanks in advance for refraining from this activity.

Of course we do not claim that we will be able to catch 100% of situations where people break this rule, but we will use all methods at our disposal to oversee the tournament.
We reserve the right to respond in any way that the referee deems appropriate (including but not limited to disqualification and/or banning).

I understand these statements can be frustratingly vague, but that's the way it has to be. We have quite a bit of experience with these matters and I'll simply advise players to work towards their own victory and have a good time.

CCP can Awox corps in AT12 as easily as anyone else can.

No, Broadswords are allowed.

Would ransoming ships of the enemy team be considered house rules?

I'm thinking that ransoming a flagship would be allowed. But don't quote me on that.

Just cleaned up the OP a little to make it crystal clear that these policies continue to apply for ATXIII and all future ATs unless otherwise stated.

I don't expect we'll have any issues with these rules, but just in case please make sure you are familiar with them.
If there are any questions please let us know.

Would sharing AT ships between teams fall under this rule and if not, where can we report possible breaches of this rule?

Does sharing resources include sharing setups, fittings, Intel, match strategies, bans, etc? It's pretty questionable when teams not only bring the same setups with 100% identical fittings but also identical bans and general strategy.

The way I'm reading it the only thing that isn't allowed is intentially throwing a match or running on personal rules during the match. Unless something blatant happens like the entire enemy team boundary violating with only a single ship left any sort of match fixing is going to be impossible to detect.

These rules leave the door wide wide open for b-teams and quasi b-teams as long as they put on a good show for the spectators.

just noticed this post

basically pl will run 4-6 teams next year seeing how as the only way in trouble for collusion is to throw a match

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