Alliance Tournament Eight: How To Tune In
June 27th, 2010to watch those matches.
Our regular “studio show” returns on the final weekend, complete with guest dev team members, a chance for viewers to win some awesome prizes from NVIDIA and more!
Tournament Prizes
It’s not only the spectators who stand to benefit from this awesome event; EVE’s content team are delighted to announce that along with a pile of ISK, a mountain of respect and a fountain of kudos from the EVE community, the winners of the tournament will receive these beautiful rare ships designed by CCP Nozh:
There will only be fifty (50) of each ship in the EVE universe, 50 Adrestia’s belonging to the winning team and 50 Utu’s to those in second place. Adrestia means “wargoddess,” “the sister of Deimos and Phobos” and “she whom none can escape” in Greek mythology, and Utu means the “god of Sun and Justice, brother of Ishkur.”
The winning team receives:
- 50x Adrestia Heavy Assault Cruiser
- Gold Medal for each participant
- 50 Billion ISK
The second place team receives:
- 50x Utu Assault Frigate
- Silver Medal for each participant
- 25 Billion ISK
The third place team receives:
- Bronze Medal for each participant
- 25 Billion ISK
The fourth place team receives:
- 10 Billion ISK
How To Tune In
If you want to see who ends up winning these stunning ships, connect to our live video feed on those weekends, stay tuned for news Items on upcoming matches and especially tune in to our Finals Studio Show on the 19th and 20th where you can watch special dev guests, bask in the glory of our glorious host CCP Soundwave and take a look at some never before seen featurettes including a special on the CCP video team behind the Tyrannis trailer. Not something you want to miss!
WARP DRIVE ACTIVE PODCAST
If you can’t wait for the weekend, Warp Drive Active is proud to bring you our first Alliance Tournament Podcast. You can tune in right now to listen to CCP Claw, CCP Soundwave, CCP Charlie and myself talk about the tournament with host Winterblink as well as get a chance to meet some of our expert commentators: KIL2, Verone, AngelHUN and Darius JOHNSON.
For the first weekend of matches, team rankings and more – see the Alliance Tournament 8 Mini-Site.
Forums and IRC Chat on Coldfront.net
If you want to chat with fellow viewers while listening and watching the shows, we’ll be invading the #eve-online IRC channel on Coldfront for the three weekends. Check the Coldfront website for information on using IRC or to use their built in chat interface. You can also go straight to our Tournament Forum to find rules, discussion threads and community run events around the tournament.
For Those Of You Who Can’t Tune In…
All match replays will be available on CCP’s YouTube Channel within a couple of days of broadcast. CCP Charlie will have a thread in the Alliance Tournament forum with information and links to individual playlists. As with last year, the Interstellar Correspondents will be providing their own coverage of the whole event, you can check out their site from last year here. You can also join us on Tournament Twitter and keep an eye on the Official EVE Online Facebook page to keep up to date with everything.
Eve Voice and Radio Shows
If you just want to listen to the matches, you can tune in direct to our EVE Voice feed in channel Alliance Tournament in game. We also have several awesome community radio stations that may be providing talk shows or coverage and adding their own thoughts, analysis and a few songs here and there to fill in the gaps. Make sure you check the forums for announcements from these stations on the coverage they are planning for you! These stations are Eve Radio – www.eve-radio.com Split Infinity Radio – www.siradio.fm and New Eden Radio – www.newedenradio.com
Hope you enjoy watching it!
Source: www.eveonline.com
Consequences, Yes Yours
The EVE Online team has put together a fantastic video chronicling how each player can have an effect on the entire game.It’s about the ripple…
Source: evevault.ign.com
This weekend: The Alliance Tournament Finals
Hello ESports fans it’s CCP StevieSG!
It’s finally here, 64 of EVE Online’s best Alliance teams have spent endless amounts of time practicing, tons of ISK and two whole weekends battling it out to make it to this weekend’s Universe Cup: The EVE Alliance Tournament. The qualifiers kicked off to an incredible start; not only did we witness comedy setups, metagaming and some seriously talented FC’s we also reached a new milestone in EVE Online when 60,453 pilots logged in during the second day of matches shattering EVE’s PCU.
The finale will be broadcast LIVE via EVE TV on June 19 and 20 from 14:50 UTC. Throughout the weekend, you can join CCP Soundwave, special developer guests and a host of PvP experts in the studio, and watch the matches each day in glorious High Definition. You can Tune In Here to catch all the action!
Must view matches for Saturday include the #1 ranked Alliance Rote Kapelle fighting at 15:00 GMT, a rematch of last weekend’s slugfest between Circle of Two and Red Overlord at 16:20 and defending champions Pandemic Legion at 20:00. The elimination schedule is available here. Will they take it again this year? Tune in to find out…
The Studio Show
Not only will we be showing every match complete with commentary, post-match analysis and up-to-the-minute statistics provided by ISD, alongside our studio show we have flown five EVE Players to our studio in Reykjavik, Iceland, to commentate on the event. We will also have several of CCP’s key developers in studio to talk about their projects, including Lead Game Designer CCP Hammer and the Creative Director of EVE Online, CCP t0rfifrans. We will also be showing some exclusive featurettes including a sneak peak at CCP’s incredibly talented Video Production team.
But wait, there’s more!
For the participants, a lot is at stake, with CCP giving away 50 unique ships to the first and second place teams, as well as 50 Billion ISK for the winners. Check out this dev blog for more information!
To celebrate the Alliance Tournament and for a limited time only CCP is also waiving the $5/5 Euro activation on new Buy EVE Now accounts (this does not apply to current trial accounts). You can get all the benefits of having a full EVE online account, such as all skills being available for training, whilst saving money to spend on snacks to eat during the finals broadcast. We will also be giving away two beautiful NVIDIA GTX 280 graphics cards to two lucky viewers who tune into the stream and a full set of EONS issues 1-20.
For those of you who can’t tune in…
The match replays will be available on CCP’s YouTube Channel within a couple of days of broadcast and you can see some of Winterblink’s incredible pictures of the events here.
For those who want to discuss the upcoming matches, head on over to our Alliance Tournament Discussion channel. You can also join us on Tournament Twitter and keep an eye on the Official EVE Online Facebook page. You can also join us in the #eve-online IRC channel on irc.coldfront.net. Check the Coldfront website for information on using IRC and how to use their built in chat interface.
Who will fight for the glory and honor of their Alliance, and take home the Golden Adrestias?
Find out, this weekend.
Images courtesy of Winterblink. For more amazing images, check out Winterblink’s Alliance Tournament 8 Flickr set!
Source: www.eveonline.com