EVE Alliance Tournament Discussion

I really enjoyed reading Haartsp's story of his tournament team, so I feel it is appropriate to write ours as well.

First of all, I'll link 2 images, the first being a screenshot of my Hanger coming into the second weekend matches, and the second a photo I just took, of my highly elaborate and efficient system for recording our available setups, and what pilots on my team would fly each ship:

My Hanger! (cambion still alive)

My top secret, spy-proof management system


Ok, now that you have checked out both those fantastic images, gasping in wonder at how crammed and disorganised my hanger is and chortling at how yellow my paper is, I will get on with the story.

Firstly our name. Going into the live auction we were known as Conmen's Internet Crime Fighting Force of Mohawk Induced Goggle Wearing Awesomeness. This name I created to pay tribute to Conmen, who donated 16 PLEX to us, has a Mohawk in real life and fantasises about being a comic book super hero crime fighter (yes, I know how to pick them). We immediately rose to notoriety during the auction. Partially because of our name, and secondly because I actually bid against myself, to the hilarity of all present, just to force CCP Bro to have to read out our name 1 more time! Unfortunately the name was just a little bit too long, so I later shortened it to its current incarnation.

Our first weekend matches were against Perihelion, then if we won, against Nulli who already had a free pass into round 2. After a lot of research from past tournaments, and some intel on their trainings, I deduced that Perihelion were highly likely to bring some form of close range setup. Going into the banning, I had a variety of long range setups ready to go, and I settled on the vargur and machariel setup. The commentators seemed to think our kiting vargur got caught, but in reality that was part of the setup. It was a combined kiting machariel, and bait tank vargur. The idea was, we let them catch the vargur, then the machariel pulls range and murders them. It worked well, sniping frigates at 110km with Barrage is always a joy! My machariel was heavily dampened, but I had 6 remote sensor boosters on my the entire time.

So then we had Nulli. Broadswords anyone? We were not sure what they were going to bring, but during their banning it was immediately apparent they were afraid of long range teams, so I just thought to hell with it! and we ran with the exact same setup as Saturday. When I saw those nightmares it was all over for them. We just simply sniped away their frigates and awaited end of match. When bringing a turtle tanking setup like that, you just have to have the ability to project damage further than 70kms.

Now for the second weekend and our first match: Asine Hitama. We has a lot of respect for this team, Godfathers have consistently performed well in alliance tournaments. From research, it seemed they favoured zero logi, turret based setups. And I had the perfect, crazy setup to beat those. We had a 7 neut, shield tanked, 2km/s bhaalgorn that could insta drain any BS and fully drain 4 commandships in 2 cycles. Coupled with the awesome tank and damage of our golem plus our copious amounts of tracking disrupting we couldn't see any close range turret setup winning. Then they arrived with 3 golems and I nearly ate my keyboard in despair.

The second Sunday was do or die for us. We were now in the losers bracket and every match was knockout. First off: EFS. Crazy fearless Russians who just had a hard-on for gallente blaster boats. I analysed all their banning tactics and all their fits. It was immediately clear to me that they gained EHP on their ships by adding armor buffer, not by increasing resists. So my plan was to trick them into thinking they had the upper hand in the banning and force them to bring their triple BS setup, while I would bring my super high resist, armor phase shifting dual vindi setup. As a great man once said "I love it when a plan comes together" I warped my BS in at 50, partially to confuse them and also to give us time to split them up a little. It all just worked perfectly and was a whitewash.

The next match that day was against the first of the Failheap forum teams: Much crying old experts. They clearly thought they had the upper hand against our vindis with their kronos and tracking disrupting team. Unfortunately they brought fits that were more likely to be seen in tranquillity normal pvp, not the tournament, and our resistance based tanks were vastly superior to their armor plate tanks and we easily bested them. When you have a logistics repping you, you just have to get as much value out of him as possible. After our phased resistance armor hardeners had run a few cycles, the vindis thermal and kinetic resists were close to 90%. That's crazy!

Gasp! We made it to the final 6 teams! If any one is still reading my ramblings after all these paragraphs, I take my goggles off to you sir!

So our first match on the final Saturday: A chance to kill off Fail Heap Challenge forums for good! We faced their final team: The Reputation Cartel. Now, we won this match, but because of the banning, it threw us off our plan for the next match against Asine Hitama. My plan was to bring my golem setup against Repuation Cartel, the loki and vargur rush against Asine Hitama, and then the golem again for the second Asine Hitama match. Had that happened, with the Setup Asine fielded, I am pretty sure we would have been in the final. It was not to be however, the Reputation Cartel for some unknown reason banned Golem and brought a bewilderingly bad arbitrator and Bhaalgorn setup against us. Then it was just downhill from there, after some argument we decided to bring Kronos against Asine, it was a bad decision and cost us a place in the finals.

........onto a reply post to continue my longest forum post ever!

Brought a tear to my eye..

Also, nice rug!
p.s. i'm taking credit for switching all REBOs on to you.. :P claimtofame

In all seriousness though, Seldarine showcased what our alliance can do, and we had a blast, great story!

Good stuff, it's great to get the players' perspectives on the matches.

Lovely story :D

True Story :)

Really good read and impressive performance o>

If anyone is interest, Arydanika recently interviewed myself, Seldarine and Conman on teamspeak about the tournament, our alliance and small-gang PvP warfare. If you are interested, head over to www.voicesfromthevoid.net and listen to #61

They are fantastic podcasts and i'd reccomend to anyone!

PS I apologise for conman the master of the seven seas' behaviour. It was inappropriate.