EVE Alliance Tournament Discussion

So we have had a good run and got to the last weekend. Something we have faced, especially as a newer team to the tournament, is the VERY tight timing for matches.

Looking at the earlier matches there is a whole week between matches for individual teams, moving to the 3rd weekend that changes to a day. The final weekend that drops down to less than an hour, while we do know this ahead of time, the way the breaks are setup make no sense for the competing teams and seem to be aimed at the studio entirely.

I am talking about matches 123, 124, and particularly 125 and 126 on the final day.

The winner of match 124 and the loser of match 123 face each other, except the winner of match 124 have somewhere in the region of 10 minutes to get bans done, sort out ships/implants/etc and then get moved on field, pre-match tests, then warp in. As we have all seen and some have experienced, not even a 40 minute break is enough to get that done.
There is the same issue between matches 125 and 126, in this case it's 20 minutes but still the same issue of short timing.

My solution to this would be to move match 125a to after the break, and then maybe have another mini break between matches 125 and 126. In this time the studio could go over the teams in the final, how they got there, some predictions on fits, etc. It would also go well in helping viewers in seeing that the Grand Final is a separate set of matches, as it is possible for the same two teams to face each other from the start of the day and again in the Grand Finals.

The biggest issue I can see with this is that it pushes the whole lot back a bit, but then matches on the 6th finished at 2234 (according to KMs) so having the breaks changed shouldn't make that any worse.


*edit*

So the timing was changed to what I mentioned above along with the reasons, much better for all involved, thank you CCP.