Whilst on my holiday to the wonderful island of Rhodes I read about what had happened in the alliance tournament match between Red Vs Blue (RVB) and CODE. Personally I felt disgusted about what I read, who in their right mind forfeits a fight which has the chance to be a ‘fair’ fight, let alone it being a fight in such a prestigious tournament such as the ‘Alliance Tournament’.
I had read that the alliance known as ‘CODE.’ had decided to forfeit their match against ‘RVB’ for a lump sum of 200 Billion Isk, give or take a bit. If CODE. had shown up to the fight and won they would have gone ahead to the next round of the tournament. Potentially CODE. could have won every match after this and won the tournament, with winning meaning the biggest share of the special edition prize ships. The rarity of these ships means potentially their value is greater than the 200 Billion Isk they forfeited for.
To me this seems a stupid action to take as not many alliances manage to get into the alliance tournament, one reason being there are a limited amount of slots open for the hundreds of alliances in the game. I’m sure there are many alliance leaders out there feeling outraged over not being able to get into the alliance tournament when an alliance such as CODE. can get in to give fights away.
To counteract this from happening in future tournaments I propose a change that CCP could make to future tournaments; introduce a rule where that if a team forfeits there is a list of alliances that can be brought in as ‘reserves’ who then take part in the tournament instead of the original alliance which forfeited. Although this seems unfair to some, it actually could showcase talent which might of otherwise been missed or unseen.
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