EVE Alliance Tournament Discussion

Are amarr ships banned in this tournament? Because I haven't seen a single amarr ship this far in the tournament.

This is normal - Amarr are susceptible to neuting, TDing, and aren't optimal in other categories like sensor strength, speed, etc.

The result is that most setups tend to be Caldari or Minmatar, some Gallente, and then the rare Amarr-heavy team that banks on the fact people bias racial jammers to counter the other more common races. One of the final teams last year did it with great success.

The exceptions to this general rule are the Curse, Guardian, Bhaalgorn (albeit its Blood Raider).

You must have missed the Oracle team yesterday

it wasn't pretty

Do you expect that more Amarr ships will be fielded in the 100 points phase of the tournament? Like... Amarr being better than others for fleet comps, but worse for gank comps.

http://at.eve-ic.net/10/?view=statistics&tab=ships&sortby=race&range=all

several amarr ships actually.. what yes still the least used.

it is almost as if they were.. cursed

Yeah, the big thing your comp has to counter (unless you have a meta advantage with spies, etc.) is Minmatar Rush. It's actually worse this year, because last year Sabres were the hotness and those have pretty **** resists vs. lasers, whereas now the Jaguar is fielded instead and it has awesome laser resists.

Speaking as a theorycrafter there is one thing missing from the vast majority of Amarr ships. DPS.

Amarr has some fantastic ships but it has a supporting cast of some very slow very tanky low DPS ships.

Oh and damage types.

bah