EVE Alliance Tournament Discussion

If you were a member of the Hydramel team I'd call that :backpeddling: Instead it's just bad spin.

When you kill off your multi-trillion annual income, that's pretty much guaranteed, it's very difficult, even if you were the offspring of Goebbels and the Iraqi Information minister, to spin this as something positive.

Did you name yourself Bad Bobby? or did CCP add the prefix once they saw you post?

Bad spin on what?

If it was a massive troll, then it was a massive troll and you are one of it's many victims.

If it wasn't a massive troll, then it's up to CCP to try to salvage what they can from the PR disaster that will follow.

I'd rather it be the former than the later, tbh.

I too want it to be the former, trolling themselves out of trillions of ISK with 1st and 2nd prizes year in, year out is hillarious.

Let's face the facts, Hydramel isn't just better than it's closest rivals, it's way better. I can't speak for teams like Nulli, but in the last 2 years in 7 matches, PL is 1-6 down to Hydramel - that's curbstompingly better than PL is.

So yeah, I don't call losing out on your ability to take 1st and 2nd places every year a ~massive troll~

I'm not certain that's the way it would turn out, if this is a troll.

It really depends on how CCP react to the whole episode. That's where the real issue is: the unpredictable element that is CCP.

Troll or not, it only works because there's plenty of scope for this to *maybe* have happened, which means CCP are almost certainly going to have to tighten up on collusion and team sharing rules because it jeopardises the integrity of the tournament.

Even if found not guilty, which in the absence of verifiable evidence is a certainty, CCP can't ignore the fact the rules do need to change

So the days of taking 1st and 2nd places are over. 50 Ships instead of 75.

If it's a troll then it cost them at least 2.5 tril to do and that's best case scenario.

I really am struggling to see the problem here.

They were the two best teams it doesn't even matter. Seems like a bunch of jealous babies crying about it.

I am an outsider though this is just my perspective looking from outside in and these posts.

No it isn't. If it was, this thread wouldn't exist.

Because they had a 65% chance of finishing better than everyone else by running two teams, which is forbidden, to have A team and B team.

This is all daft. I dont care whether the accusations are true or not. It makes no difference to the tournament in the future. Everyone knows what went on. Everyone knows something unethical went on. What matters is the rules get changed for next year so all of this stupid behaviour and using the tournament as a profit machine gets blocked out. Someone or some people did something which damaged the tournament to make a quick buck. It doesnt matter what that thing is, what matters is they knew they were doing it, they knew it was wrong, and they didnt care about the consequences for the tournament. If there is proof, they need to be banned from ever participating again, because they have done it before and you bet your ass they will try and do it again, they dont care. If there is no concrete evidence for CCP to use, then the people resnponsible need to have it as difficult as possible for them to break the rules again.

If neither of these things happen, next year is going to be a farce, and there will be no point in continuing the alliance tournament at all. Instead of treating it as a bit of fun, and as a tool for prestige, you can bet more alliances will make the tournament into a profit machine, it will be part of their yearly income, just like moon mining used to be.

I do NOT want to be a part in a tournament where this is the case.