A few days ago, CCP Falcon released a Dev Blog announcing the final approved candidates for this years Council of Stellar Management, a full 3 days earlier than anticipated.
In his post he explains:
In total we have 77 (edit now 76) approved candidates that are viewable here for your consideration when voting. In total, we had an even 100 apllications for candidacy, with two failing to meet the requirements of the security check, and twenty one failing to send in a copy of their verified identity by the time candidacy closed. They were therefore not included in the final list of candidates.
77 candidates is a lot to pick from, so we suggest that you use Vote-Match, produced by former CSM member Diedra Vaal if you are not sure which candidates your interests align with. Vote-Match can be found here, and should be active with a full, updated list of candidates on February 24th.
Voting for CSM X begins on Wednesday, February 25th, so be sure to check out the list of candidates and make your selection. For further information on how to vote, and key dates surrounding the CSM X elections, see this blog by CCP Leeloo.
The original 77 approved applicants is probably one of the highest, if not the highest number of candidates approved for the election process, but this does however mean there is an overwhelming range of choices.
As mentioned in CCP Falcon’s post – Eve Vote Match is one of the best tools around to quickly work out who’s views and opinions most closely align with your own and is a service that has been dutifully updated every year without fail to help people who are not up on their space politics who they should be voting for. For the time being the sites Matching facility is not up and running to give all the candidates time to enter their responses of which there are still (at the time of writing) 20 candidates yet to submit their information. Using the Candidate Overview you can quickly see who has and has not submitted their information yet. As per the following example:-
The Candidate on the left is greyed out as information is still to be submitted, the candidate on the right however has completed their submission.
However, for those of you who prefer to do your own research, the list below provides a full compilation of the candidates with links to (if they have been provided):
Names link to the candidates profile on the official CSM Candidate Page Entry (also viewable here)
It would be wrong of a news website to ‘recommend’ potential candidates, but as communication is a crucial part of the CSM Term as the members of the CSM will be required to collect and disseminate information both from CCP to the player base, and (more importantly) from the Playerbase to CCP. To that end, in order to help people work through which candidates may be worth looking at first I have provided a simple ranking system based on the activity of the candidate across various forms of media. This system is ranked in the same way the Eve Mastery system works and can be summarized as follows
This candidate has provided little to no information either via the official forums or via the vote match website at time of publishing this article.
This candidate has provided what can be considered the bare minimum but the candidate has published some form of platform via the forums.
This candidate has published their platform, also has additional methods of communication such as social media or a website or blog.
This candidate has published their platform via the forums and has been interviewed on CapStable as part of their campaign.
This candidate has a fully published platform, uses various methods of communication such as social media and blogs and has been interviewed by cap stable and is generally very active in the Eve Community.
Disclaimer – These rankings are not in anyway meant to be construed as any form of recommendation on the suitability of any of the candidates and should not be taken as any form of endorsement from Eve News 24.
With that over and done with here is the final list of all 76 candidates for this years Council of Stellar Management.
Aeon Boirelle – Nulli Tertius – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Twitter
Aiwha – DeepSpace. – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page
Alyxportur – The Kadeshi – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Website – Twitter – Listen To CapStable Interview
Angrod Losshelin – Half Massed – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Twitter – Listen to CapStable Interview Ashterothi – The Order of Thelemic Ascension – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Listen to CapStable Interview
Ardus Gunnell – Tactical Entertainment Network – Eve Vote Match Page Arlete – Social Sleeper Club – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Twitter – Listen to CapStable Interview Bait’er De’Outlier – Trans-Aerospace Industries – Eve Vote Match Page Bam Stroker – Pandemic Legion – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Twitter – Listen to CapStable Interview Bane Cortex – You Are Being Monitored – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page Bobmon – Pandemic Legion – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Twitter – Listen to CapStable Interview Borat Guereen – Chao3 Alliance – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Twitter – Listen to CapStable Interview Cagali Cagali – Brave Collective – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Listen to CapStable Interview CatanaFleet Red – Red Vs Blue – Eve Vote Match Page Chance Ravinne – WiNGSPAN Delivery Services – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – You Tube Page – Twitter – Listen to CapStable Interview Citricioni – Dead Terrorists – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Website – Twitter – Listen to CapStable Interview corbexx (CSM IX) – No Holes Barred – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Listen to CapStable Interview commander aze – The Serenity Initiative – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Twitter – Listen to CapStable Interview corebloodbrothers (CSM IX) – The Volition Cult- Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Twitter Crante -Royal Unity of Crantie – Eve Vote Match Page Cycule – The Kadeshi – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Twitter Dadrom – RAZOR – Eve Vote Match Page Decimat Draconia – Advent of Fate – Eve Vote Match Page DomanarK – Black Legion. – Eve Vote Match Page Endie von Posts – Goonswarm Federation – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Twitter – Blog – Listen to CapStable Interview Erika Mizune – DeepSpace. – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Eve Radio Page – Twitter – Listen to CapStable Interview Erweb Maken – Infinity Space. – Eve Vote Match Page Gorga – Nulli Secunda – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Twitter Gorski Car – AQUILA INC – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Twitter – Listen to CapStable Interview Harek – Delusions Empire – Eve Vote Match Page – Twitter Harry Saq – Get Off My Lawn – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Jayne Fillon -Sancturary of Shadows – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Website – Twitter – Listen to CapStable Interview Janwa Resh – Center for Advanced Studies (NPC) – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page Jenshae Chiroptera – The Volition Cult – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Blog – Listen to CapStable Interview June Ting – Of Sound Mind – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Twitter – Listen to CapStable Interview Justin Amalastoner – Industrial Combat Mercenaries – Eve Vote Match Page Kasken – Diplomatic Immunity. – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Website KaziKai – Seraphim Alliance – Eve Vote Match Page – Twitter Klapen – Ravens’ Nest – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Website – Listen to CapStable Interview Khador Vess – Red Vs Blue – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Twitter – Listen to CapStable Interview Leeloo dallasmultipas -Important Internet Spaceship League – Eve Vote Match Page Lorelei Ierendi – Lorelei for CSM – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Listen to CapStable Interview Lyonic – Appetite 4 Destruction – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page Manfred Sideous – Pandemic Legion – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Twitter – Listen to CapStable Interview Malis Caretia – Odin’s Call – Eve Vote Page Michael Laloush – Bad Intention – Eve Vote Match Page Mike Azariah (CSM VIII & IX)– The Scope (NPC) – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Twitter – Listen to CapStable Interview Miralissa Issa – GALAXY ALLIANCE – Eve Vote Match Page – Twitter Migui X’hyrrn – Test Alliance Please Ignore – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Listen to CapStable Interview My name IsJeff – Imperial Academy (NPC) – Eve Vote Match Page – Twitter Norjia Blacksteel – Renaissance Federation – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page NSA Bivas – Northern Coalition. – Eve Vote Match Page – Twitch – Twitter Nervon – HaveItYourWay Corp – Eve Vote Match Page Perosteck Neuchatel – Centre for Advanced Studies (NPC) – Eve Vote Match Page – Twitter PsychoBitch – Dark Taboo – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Website Purinpu – Bloodline. – Eve Vote Match Page – Facebook – Twitter Psianh Auvyander – No Not Believing – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Twitter – Blog – Listen to CapStable Interview Radu Lupescu – Push Interstellar Network – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page Raiealatar – Royal Amarr Institute (NPC) – Eve Vote Match Page Roban Crause – Center for Advanced Studies (NPC) – Eve Vote Match Page Ryan Farmern – Eve Vote Match Page – Twitter – Website Sabriz Adoudel – CODE. – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Listen to CapStable Interview Sion Kumitomo – Goonswarm Federation – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Twitter – Listen to CapStable Interview Soelent – Fidelas Constans – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page Sort Dragon (CSM VIII) – DARKNESS. – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page Soul Crusher – Cartman’s Big Wheel Deputies – Eve Vote Match Thread Steve Ronuken (CSM IX) – Fuzzwork Enterprises – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Website – Twitter – Listen to CapStable Interview Sugar Kyle (CSM IX) – Snuffed Out – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Twitter – Blog – Listen to CapStable Interview Suzy RC Mudstone – Goonswarm Federation – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – You Tube Video – Twitter – Listen to CapStable Interview Tora Bushido – The Marmite Collective – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Twitter – Listen to CapStable Interview Thoric Frosthammer – Get Off My Lawn – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Listen to CapStable Interview UAxDEATH – Legion of xXDEATHXx – Eve Vote Match Page Vaari – Silent Infinity – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Website Vic Jefferson – Goonswarm Federation – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Listen to CapStable Interview Xander Phoena (CSM IX) – Pandemic Legion – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Website – Twitter – Listen to CapStable Interview Xenuria – Marcabian 5th Invasion Fleet – Read Candidacy Thread – Eve Vote Match Page – Listen to CapStable Interview
