EVE Alliance Tournament Discussion

I have competed in the Alliance Tournament since AT2 and the general tournament game rules have been pretty much the same for the past 4 or 5 tournaments. The tournament format has been changed, some novelty gimmicks have been added such as flagships and there have been some minor point adjustments over the years, but each tournament has basically been the same.

Along with many other tournament veterans I am hoping that in ATX there is a massive mix up in the tournament, something that results in the theory crafting being done again from scratch. A big problem in these past tournaments has been the lack of variety in setups. It is all setups we have seen before, resulting in a basic rock, paper, scissors and meta-gaming. It became harder and harder to field a truly unique setup that didn’t frankly fail epically. Now, I hope that ATX is something spectacularly original and new, but in the more likely event that it isn’t, here is my suggestion to freshen things up and have a new take on the old format.

My idea on how to improve the tournament for ATX:

In essence what I propose is to split the tournament rule sets according to the stage. As an example I will split it into 4 stages. Pre-quals, group stage, knock out rounds and the final day.

My idea is that in some or all stages, a certain size of ship is made overpowered by a point reduction.

For example; in the pre-quals, make all cruiser hulls a lot cheaper than they normally are(excluding recons). Then for the group stage do the same for BC hulls and in the knock-out rounds make Battleships very cheap to field. It may be best to keep the final day with traditional, balanced ship points.

How I see this benefiting the tournament:

I believe that if these changes were implemented it would grant needed variety to the tournament. Teams cannot recycle other teams setups between rounds and it will give the theory crafters something to really get stuck into again. For the viewer it will make the tournament a lot more exciting to watch, since each match, each round will be totally different and there will be possibilities for some crazy setups again.

+1 to this concept. Sounds sort of fresh.

And as a moan, total hell death to a complete line up of blues vs blues in the final 2 stages.

That completely killed all interest I had in the last tournament (and game for 6 months).

As someone who has also been taking part since AT2, certainly things need to change, although A complete overhaul would result in something far worse out the other end I fear.

I agree with making the theorycrafters start over again would be useful, but beyond that I'm still not sure. It's a tough call exactly what to do for the next tourney.

+1 great idea will be much much more interesting not only luck who show in what setup.

I like the notion of giving different point discounts based on the day to keep things spicy, but I'm not sure if that makes things too complicated for the teams competing or not.

I think that reworking the point system is a little bit more important.
Right now two T1 Cruisers have a higher point value then a T2 BattleCruiser, which doesn't really feel accurate to me.

Naturally the point value of destroyers vs frigates needs to change in light of the destroyer buff.

Flagships as they existed previously are dumb. They either need to lower the point cost of all battleships and flagships, or allow any ship class to be submitted as the flagship.

OP is at least doing it right even if I do not agree with all points made.

Props.

CCP can you flood SISI with a bunch of faction ammo for those of us attempting to fail at practices all ready?
(pretty please)