EVE Alliance Tournament Discussion

I don't or check the forums very often so was surprised alongside the whole was the Tourney fixed by Warlords/Camel threads to find at least 2 other threads regarding Teams cheating by not following the rules whether in fitting or other ways - yet even when such cheating acknowledged/caught nothing is done.

The rules are there and must be applied rigorously otherwise why have such detailed rules. As a pilot who died horribly (and thoroughly enjoyed my AT experience) but did slavishly make all attempt to follow the rules by removing about 100mil in implants to get down to what was allowed. We also had evidence in one of our matches at least one of the opposing team pre-locked one of our members - don't get me wrong we were well beaten and it made no real impact on the result. Things like this and the cheating of using illegal modules was not a one off incident and each time CCP's response when shows up is oh well things happen does not exactly encourage people to follow the rules next year, perhaps I could have survived longer in my eos had I fit it with faction plates and hardeners used T2 Sentries - probably not to be honest as I said we were well beaten.

However to avoid such cheating (and lets be blunt that is what it is) next year perhaps we should consolidate all the allegations/evidence of cheating and CCP's response to it so we can avoid (or if I was being my cynical cheat more creatively) such issues next year.
For the record my own view echoes that of many others regardless of the end result (it is not acceptable to say they lost lets not punish them even though they cheated) should be as immediate as possible - ie if a player is found warping into the arena with illegal mods that should be offlined immediately costing them 1/2 their cap, with an illegal implant - all implants removed and loss of 1/2 cap, anyone onlining mods before they are allowed to has them offlined for the duration and if they lock up or activate mods on another player then ecm burst all their locks and cut their scan resolution to 20% (I guarantee they wont cheat that way twice).
If such things are found out after the match then if they lost and are in the losers bracket they cannot field the points equivalent of the cheating ship - if they are out of the tourney fine them either their winning plexes/prizes. If they won they cannot field equivalent points to cheating ship in next match or if the offence is found to have a material effect on the match they forfeit their victory.

Anyway so here is my consolidated list so far:

All the Warlords/Camel **** to many to list

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=440836&find=unread

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=442623&find=unread

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=440788&find=unread

I am sure there are other that have not made it onto these forums.