EVE Alliance Tournament Discussion

I want our AT coverage to be the best its every been this year, of course without Shadoo its going to be hard, but I think you guys can help.

If you have any information that you feel comfortable sharing about your team which can help us be more accurate during commentary, please get that information to us! Post in this thread or send me in-game mails and I'll make sure the commentary team has access to it during your matches, that way we won't say dumb/false/ignorant stuff about your alliance!

Some good examples:

What do you do on TQ?
What was your budget for the AT?
How much did you practice?
Did you engage in any spying?
What teams are you scared of?
Do you have any particular rivals that are also in the tournament?
Anything about setups you can share?
Do you have a B-team? (just kidding dont answer this)
Do you have past AT experience?
What do you think of the rules?

Anything else you can think of is great! We might not use everything but the more we have the better.

Thanks, Good luck to all of you =)

Let me be the first to actually answer seriously ;)

What do you do on TQ?
We're a small (200man-ish) spaceholding alliance living in the outskirts of Providence, using our systems as a base for small gang warfare (around 10-30 man gangs) into the surrounding regions and through wormholes. We've done this kind of pvp as well as major wars in different groups and coalitions since 2006.

What was your budget for the AT?
Won't say how much we have in our budget at the moment due to the classified nature, but we had over 25 billion put away for the auction alone.

How much did you practice?
Not as much as some, but we have definitely practiced. Some roughly 30 fights and countless hours theorycrafting.

Did you engage in any spying?
Not as an alliance, but we have partaken in information given to us. This kind of intel is always a doubleedged sword.

What teams are you scared of?
We wouldn't be in this tournament if we didn't believe there was a single team we cannot beat. There are plenty of teams which has previously proven themselves very good though and it would be a pain to land in a group qualification group with like Ev0ke, PL and Hun Reloaded in the group with us.

Do you have any particular rivals that are also in the tournament?
Anyone that has beaten us before? Not really any rivals per se. My corp and the core membership of Stimulus (Rote Kapelle) go back a long time and they managed to eliminate us in AT8 though. Mostly we're just happy some of the bigger alliances can't bring in titans to save them.

Anything about setups you can share?
The new rules have been good. 6 and 12 man setups shake things up a bit which is fun. We can't share anything else at the moment.

Do you have past AT experience?
We have members who have flown in up to 5 alliance tournaments previously. The last 4 appearances have ended in reaching the elimination rounds.

What do you think of the rules?
As one of the main theorycrafters I've been happy with them. Some things could have done with a bit of tweak maybe, but overall the addition of pilots allowed in teams have shaken up things nicely. Glad the XL asb rule was added or this would have been a very boring year. Will be interesting to see how many tier3s are used this year.

What do you do on TQ?
Run around like a headless chicken

What was your budget for the AT?
45 isk i built my own ship

How much did you practice?
8 seconds

Did you engage in any spying?
Yes, no hmm maybe

What teams are you scared of?
PL if they cheat again but thats about it

Do you have any particular rivals that are also in the tournament?
Yes the commentary team cos they always screw up

Anything about setups you can share?
TBH if I did everyone would use it

Do you have a B-team? (just kidding dont answer this)
depends on if the isk I gave you works

Do you have past AT experience?
came 4th in AT7

What do you think of the rules?
Rules can be bent isnt that right Pandemic

What do you do on TQ?

Nothing atm. We disbanded as Soundwave stated on random hat draw.

What was your budget for the AT?

We have nothing as we handed all our tech to our bffs Evoke and NC. before disbanding.

How much did you practice?

Umm we disbanded.

Did you engage in any spying?

Disbanded alliances don't spy.

What teams are you scared of?

Disbanded ie dead alliances dont have to be afraid of anyone.

Do you have any particular rivals that are also in the tournament?

Hydra Reloaded and Outbreak id say. So no.

Anything about setups you can share?

We will show up on matches if we are done with roaming gang of this little afk ppl who haven't left yet. Roaming setups. Nano.

Do you have a B-team? (just kidding dont answer this)

Band of Brothers and IT. But sadly they didn't made it in this year.

Do you have past AT experience?

This is our second take on AT. First time around Chris did amazing job and we will strive to outdo his achievements from last year.

What do you think of the rules?

Rules are amazing. Props to guys who spend hours to put them together. Btw is there anything in rules that states where team captains need to be in before matches? Some channel with CCP or something so we know who to be in touch with for move and etc? Thanks.

Hi there, Larkonis Trassler, Space Commander here. I am the CEO of FEARLESS. and I'm happy to answer your questions.

What do you do on TQ?

We are an alliance of some very bitter vets. We mostly play off TQ engaging in Post Vs Post combat on various fora throughout the world. When we can be bothered to log in we hang about in various Lowsec pockets, bouncing around looking for proles to curbstomp but we usually get owned because despite mostly being in the 100mil SP club we're pretty terrible at this game.

What was your budget for the AT?

Um, we didn't have one. Looking at the prices for this years tourney we decided not to bother. One of my guys was hanging around in the auction channel and got the second to last slot for 10 plex on a whim. I was pretty anal hurt at first because it meant I'd have to organise it all but I slowly came to the conclusion that it wouldn't be too bad.

How much did you practice?

We were fantastically keen initially. Then we realised that logging in to play fake spaceships (as opposed to real fake spaceships) was actually pretty dull.

Did you engage in any spying?

Well, this is where we've taken our gloves off. One of the benefits of flying with FEARLESS. is we are an intellectual elite. We have constructed a number of mathematical models to predict the outcomes of various matches. This, coupled with some very dedicated wormholers has given us some insight. And the little matter of throwing bribes about here there and everywhere. Let's just say we know who we'll be facing and what we'll be facing at least until the end of the group stages.

What teams are you scared of?

Mate, we are FEARLESS.!

Do you have any particular rivals that are also in the tournament?

No

Anything about setups you can share?

Marauders with the new XL ASBs are sick. Looking forward to fielding them in a few matches.

Do you have a B-team?

Pandemic Legion

Do you have past AT experience?

Personally, no. Several members of the team have fought and flown before.

What do you think of the rules?

I think he's a pretty cool guy who doesn't afraid of anything.

Hey, it's hard work being a joker. Cut them some slack.

http://eveopportunist.blogspot.com/2012/06/atx-alliance-reintroductions.html has stuff from a number of corps



What do you do on TQ?
We mostly mine in ec-pr8. We mine a large amount of really good stuff, mostly 1400mm arty and sebos. Recently we have relocated to Heild, but the eve uni ore only refines into garbage.

What was your budget for the AT?
Each member has to fund himself, since our corp wallet is empty. (When we got kicked from FA, we gave them our entire wallet to allow us to stay, but it wasnt enough.)


How much did you practice?
We figure the tournament is pretty much the same as TQ tbh. Fighting is fighting.

Did you engage in any spying?
Anyone who knows of the Hatchery knows we hate metagaming in all its forms. Just ask our mentors, Gen Eve and Satene of Mordus Angels.

What teams are you scared of?
Since we have been poaching members from club bear, we obviously fear nobody.


Do you have any particular rivals that are also in the tournament?
Well, shadow cartel still owes me a bit of money for a titan kill....

Hi Kil2! Here is a rundown on The Kadeshi!

What do you do on TQ?
We kill people.. or at least we try to.. and sometimes we die in a big fireball of death..

What was your budget for the AT?
Well.. good question :)

How much did you practice?
We been hanging on SiSi for a while now..many late nights..

Did you engage in any spying?
We don't need to spy. We are that good.. at least that's what we tell our self's

What teams are you scared of?
Dude.. we are vikings.. we don't get scared.. it might be mostly because the guys are drunk.. but still..

Do you have any particular rivals that are also in the tournament?
5n4keyes team from ROL.. his primary...and Skilo!

Anything about setups you can share?
Battle badgers.. that's the the latest.. good stuff!

Do you have a B-team? (just kidding dont answer this)
They are called RED.OverLord.... haha.. just kidding :P No we have no B-team..

Do you have past AT experience?
When we sat around the campfire one of our elders that has been around for ages.. told us that The Kadeshi alliance was created for the purpose of taking part in the alliance tournament ages ago.. to my knowledge..The Kadeshi has been taking part of the alliance tournament for the last 4 years.. this would be the fifth year. So we have some dudes that has been taking part of the alliance tournament a couple of times..

What do you think of the rules?
To be totally honest.. i haven't spent to much time reading them...

Post 17 and Tyrrax hasn't answered Yet ! aiks i think we may have lost our leader... until he gets his head out of whatever it is stuck in this time I'll go ahead and answer to your predefined questions.

What do you do on TQ?
We all have our own businesses to attend and personal friends all over the universe. Every one of us is an unique and outstanding eve player and good at whatever it is he douse. We are a small group of players but some people would be very surprised to find out who is amusing us. tho we are all so very different, there is a very weird bound between us, a strong connection, a special set of mined. It is hard to fined the right "gh-sc material"
I got carried away.
The last few years were fun, I think everyone gotten a bit more mature buy taking everything even less serious. chasing they're own objectives, talking about what bastardish things they did secretly. now days we aren't waving our flag as much anymore, a small 10b isk heist is ok for some individual but buy the public considered pitiful for an ghsc member. The bar is higher now days and we are working on braking the imaginable once again.
As Galileo said in Brecht's book "I despise those whose mined is not capable of filling their stomach" but as we are gh-sc, just staying alive is not our objective, Style over Profit also put in some fun and don't forget good common sense in you're equation.


What was your budget for the AT?
Shai is paying the bill this year. :)

How much did you practice?
You learn Swimming when you're drowning they say.

Did you engage in any spying?
no

What teams are you scared of?
If we happen to win, I'd like it to be a convincing win. so bring on the best

Do you have any particular rivals that are also in the tournament?
The first match will likely be the match of the tournament for us. PL has always bin a special opponent and facing them in the first 6v6, that might just be the the end of the tournament for one of us.

Anything about setups you can share?
Tir3 BC are cheap for a reason.

Do you have a B-team? (just kidding don't answer this)
Some smart-asses consider us an a/b-team, if we can get threw to be considered an a/b team of all those alliances that meet mr. smart-asses connection criteria and we all together get baned, I'd be ROFL and pizza team would win :)

Do you have past AT experience?
gh-sc has bin in every tournament except AT9 >_>

What do you think of the rules?
As someone who likes abusing every rule stipulation in a creative way, the undefined referee match calling powers are yet to be explored, so i will keep an close eye on where the boarder between a brilliant stroke and off the line is.
I also dislike the formate and think it might need an overhaul, also some new tournament tools should be invented to help host it.

Something sweet would be if you could watch a replay of the matches (possibly even live) threw a button on you're CQ TV and look at whatever ship you want. Would be less data then a hd stream. that development effort could also be used to watch you're friends fight on TQ threw you're CQ TV (in full screen)

I'm sad to say I'm deadly serious.