Intergalactic Summit

You either set a very poor or a very good example of your people, either way you do nothing to convince me that there is anything better about the Amarr at all.

Only waiting for the perfect moment to cry "I told you so", as if you've ever been so ambitious.

Taking pride in something you have no understanding of.

You never add anything to a conversation. You are not an interesting person. You are not entertaining or inspiring. You're just an old woman so sure of herself that you've escaped your own restraint.

I urge you to get your hands dirty again, go back a few steps and experience life instead of commenting on how others have failed to appease your own meaningless sense of self-worth.

But you have to admit that all this seems pretty messy from the outside. At least, to me.

Which is not so surprising for a "first time", though.

Roughly that, yes.

The organizers took a few bold steps. They went for transparency and openness from the beginning: They wanted to be inclusive. On a medium like IGS, that always invites the trolls and kids to try and mess with things.

For example, the initial "scandal" was about openly admitting that an obvious and well-known Amarrian spy in the TLF is not going to get the prize for "freedom fighter of the year". That's expected, and no one would assume otherwise. That "scandal" was nothing more than an attempt to troll this prize with "but your original rules said I could do this, trololololo". The main "undoing" of the organizers here was being open about it: First, open about the admission phase, and second, open about the exclusion. The only reason this ever got to a point of "scandal" was a few disgruntled Amarrians playing schoolyard kids.

The second "scandal" was a bit more problematic. The cause was a technical problem: Public, anonymous voting is not secure. A bit of foresight and knowledge about the childish nature of a lot of pilots could have told them that it will be abused, one way or the other. This could have been avoided, and probably should be for future prizes. (If the organizers are interested, I'd be willing to discuss the technical side of a reliable one-vote-per-TLF-pilot system.)

To avoid these problems, it would have been easy to simply copy the PIE prize. They are not open about the selection phase at all (which is their perfect right - it's their prize), so both of the "scandals" in this prize would have been avoided. It was not a direct copy, and the implementation of the changes proved to be troublesome.


The more interesting aspect here are the peanut gallery Amarrians who try to use this as some kind of exercise in reliving their schoolyard times. It must be pretty embarrassing for the Empire (and Kingdom) to be "represented" by such people.

And the winner is Annah Kitheran, with Ava Starfire as the runner-up.

I have a bullet I would like to offer as a consolation prize, but due to its value I would only feel comfortable if Arbane would come to me to collect it.