The tournament will be fought in a best-of-five series with a very unique set of rules that I will touch on later.
Representing Tranquility are the winners of the 12th alliance tournament The Camel Empire. The team from The Camel Empire beat out some great other PvP teams including Pandemic Legion, Nulli Secunda, HYDRA Reloaded, The Tuskers, Pasta Syndicate and 26 others.
This earned them the title of Alliance Tournament XII Champions as well as two unique prize ships: the Chameleon cruiser and the Whiptail frigate. However this does not make them the current champions of Eve Online, ignoring the fact that this topic is subjective, there is another whole server for Eve, the Chinese Serenity.
Serenity’s meta is a lot different to that of Tranquility. Large capital battles are infrequent but The SLaughterhouse of 49-U6U is an exception. A server-wide tournament was held and the City of Angels alliance emerged victorious.
At Fanfest this year these two champions will be pitted against each other to decide which server will emerge the victor, and claim the reward.
The prize for the server that wins this best-of-five match will be the Victorieux Luxury Yacht, and it will not just be given to a select few who take part in the fights, it will be given to every person logged on to the winning server at the time of the matches.
This ship is a re-skin of the Opux Luxury Yacht, that has only been given out three times. While all this is interesting what about what we’re really here for, the PvP?
You can find some notable rules below:
Each team must submit seven complete team setups to CCP by midnight GMT on the evening of March 6th. These team setups must consist of the following:
Five legal ships which will be flown by the team members during a match.
All modules that shall be fit to those ships.
All drones, ammo and charges that the ships shall be loaded with.
Any legal implants that the pilots of those ships will inject.
Each of the seven team setups must be legal according to the rest of these tournament rules including but not limited to keeping each setup’s combined point values to 45 points or below.No individual ship type may be used in more than one team setup submitted by a team. Each of the seven setups must use a completely different set of ship types as the other team setups.
This means that teams will be forced to use new compositions. As each ship type can only be used once this means that teams will be able to field a maximum of 35 different ships. In addition to locking in compositions before the matches start, CCP will allow each team to ban two of the opponents compositions, not allowing them to be flown at all and if a team wins with that composition it cannot be used again.
As if all this wasn’t enough only Tech 1 Drones will be allowed. The difference between T1 and T2 Drones can be small in some cases, 30 paper DPS difference between Garde I’s and Garde II’s, larger in other cases, 90 DPS between Hammerhead I’s and Hammerhead II’s, this is exactly the edge that is needed in tournaments and is why teams can lose well over a billion ISK per match.
This tournament will take place on a test server, running a version of EVE Online updated to the Proteus release.
Each team will be provided with characters that have all skills maximized, and all of the ships required for their previously submitted team setups will be provided pre-fit.
This is the first time that CCP will be providing maxed out characters for tournament use and is something you should be excited to see as that will ensure the playing field is as level as can be.
Also the server will not be running the Tiamat release which includes the new Minmatar Svipul Destroyer as well as various Tiericide changes. This means only the Amarr Confessor will be a choice for Tactical Destroyers.
These unique rules certainly will make for interesting combat. What tactics do you expect to see? Who do you expect to win?
Good Luck to The Camel Empire. “Aaaaaaahhh”
