Ever
Since I joined eve and saw the EvE Alliance tournament 6 I wanted to
participate in the AT some day. I have in my Corp history been in a few
alliances that could have or did participate in the AT, but not while i was in
them, and at my skill lvl I would have not been chosen to fly anyway. I have
been flying with CP off and on for close to two years, and while being a small
fun alaince they have always had their sights on having fun in the AT and
making a name for pirates everywhere. They had participated in a few
previous ATs, #6or7 and #9. Doing ok in the far past one, but getting
rickrolled last year in the prelims. (I was off on my honeymoon so didnt get to
participate or even watch live)
So
this year we are just as enthused about getting in, got our spot trough the
auction at a very reasonable price to ensure our entrance, and started makign
plans. We practiced allot of 6v6 fleet ideas and waited for the tournament to
come.
Our
first Match was against Suddenly Spaceships. Likewise low/0.0 pirates, but with
past AT torny experience in other alliances. We brought In a close to standard
Talos brawler set up, but where simply out brawled by SSs terifying Vindi dps.
The
Vindis+Kronos 90% web ends up being a great set up that won the marjority of
matches. The one thig we could have done differently is to load Null into all
our Talos and wear a few of their ships down at range. Maybe kill a few smaller
ships, giving us more points to make it into the 3rd round easyer.
Our
Second Match was against Veyr Colective. I know little about them but I assume
they just wanted to have some fun in the AT, alittle liek us but way less
experianced in ship fittings. We end up bringing a Cyclone/AF brawler setup
that is way under points so we can even have a chance of getting into the 3rd
round. To our luck Veyr brought all 50pts in a Vargur/AF setup, not even tryign
to get to round 3, givign us full points if we defeated them.
It
ends up the Veyr Collectives Vargurs where subpar fit and we where able to get
a flawless victory over them, not lossign a single ship, getting us enough
points to get into the 3rd round, about 3 above the cut off. (We where acused
of payign Veyr off to throw the match but as we pointed out, why would they
bring 2 expensive marauders to justt throw a match, BCs would ahve dose it just
as well.)
Our
third match, or the first match of the group stages, was against Verge of
Colapse. (the alaince winner in the end mind you) I also know little about
Verge but know they had done well so far in tory and have a decent rep. So we
feild a Slep/Cyclone/merlin set up including 1 Macharial, which in retrospect
looks allot like our normal roaming gangs. I actualy got to participate in this
fight, my dream finaly come true, even tho i was in a merlin lol. Verge brought
a HAM-tengu/AF set up.
We
end up having a very decisive victory vs verge even tho 95% of people in eve
voted against us for the win. In my opinion I think their battle plan was poor
against us, and our AFs where able to wolf gang against their frigs and take
them down unaposed, while Verge was focused on our first Slep. only losign it
and one frig. (Once again we where slighty acused of dirty dealings but thats
just laughable considerign we were the ONLY team to deafeat Verge in the AT)
Our
forth match was against FEARLESS. We where extreamly determined to win this
match so we could get into the semi finals, so we brought our Flag ship in a
high dps armor set up, FEARLESS bringing dule vindis in a similar armor set up.
We
may have had a Flagship, but their fleet was just better well rounded with way
more dps, and they defeated us with ease.
Our
fifth and final match was against Goonswarm. We had to win against Goonswarm
and then pray that FARLESS beat Verge for us to go onto the Semi finals, but we
where confident and hopeful. I once again participated in this round flying a
Harpy, in our Slep/AF fleet. Goon brought a high ECM team with a couple Sleps
tossed in to get some dps.
Goon
swarms ECm ended up being to effective and most of us reported after never
getting a single lock. But, bringing a ECM set up in the critical part of the
AT was more of a stupid dick move than a winning set up, because we where able
to keep a few of our ships alliance and deny them full points because of their
terrible tackling and dps power. Goons even offered us 5bil to suicide our
ships, which we refused. So in my opinion Goons knocked themselves out of the
torny simply by not bringing a set up that could actually win with full points
like they needed.
Over
all We where of course extremely disappointed to be out of the AT, especially
to Goons in an ECM team, but we got much farther this year than previous ones,
and we will be back next year. I got to participate in an AT and have fun with
my alliance and that’s all that matters to me. Also I hope it haunts Verge and
everyone else that the underdogs of CP where the only ones able to defeat
them.
If
you have any questions or comments about us and or the AT feel free to ask,
also we have reopened recruitment lol
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