Alliance Tournament

The Alliance Tournament is a three-week-long annual event where the various alliances of New Eden put together teams of pilots and try to defeat each other in combat. The event is organised by CCP, and the prizes include PLEX, ship SKINs, and unique blueprints for otherwise unobtainable ships.

Rules

The rules of the tournament tend to change slightly from year to year. The current set of rules can be found on the EVE Online website. [1] A very brief rundown is given here.

The tournament is a single-stage, double elimination tournament with 64 teams allowed to enter. Each team can field up to 10 pilots, flying ships with a combined point value of 100 or less. Matches end when all of one team's ships are destroyed, or after 10 minutes (in which case the winner is determined by the point value of their ships remaining on the field).

Teams may have no more than 2 of each type of ship, and may not field more than 1 logistics cruiser, 1 tech one support cruiser, or 2 T1/T2 logistics/support frigates. In addition, each ship has a point value that limits how many of them can be fielded by one team; no team can field more than 100 points of ships. The point values range from 2 (tech one frigates) to 21 (marauders and faction battleships).

Various items or modules are not allowed to be used in the tournament, for example:

• Faction, COSMOS, Deadspace, and Officer modules are not allowed.
• Neither Boosters nor Hardwirings giving a bonus of more than 3% are allowed.
• Pirate Faction ammunition is not allowed.
• Only T1 drones are allowed.

The official rules (see above) contains a complete list of restrictions.

Prize Ships

Since the 7th Alliance Tournament in YC 111 (2009), special edition frigates and cruisers have been given out as prizes to the winning teams. Only 50 of each type of frigate or cruiser were ever awarded.

Tournament	Design	Frigate	Cruiser
ATVII	Minmatar Republic	Freki	Mimir
ATVIII	Gallente Federation	Utu	Adrestia
ATIX	Amarr Empire	Malice	Vangel
ATX	Caldari State	Cambion	Etana
ATXI	Angel Cartel	Chremoas	Moracha
ATXII	Guristas Pirates	Whiptail	Chameleon
ATXIII	Sansha's Nation	Imp	Fiend
ATXIV	Blood Raiders	Caedes	Rabisu

Previous Winners

The winners of each tournament are listed on the in-game item Alliance Tournament Cup.

• Band of Brothers
  • Year 107 - 1st Alliance Tournament Winners
• Band of Brothers
  • Year 107 - 2nd Alliance Tournament Winners
• Band of Brothers
  • Year 108 - 3rd Alliance Tournament Winners
• HUN Reloaded
  • Year 109 - 4th Alliance Tournament Winners
• Ev0ke
  • Year 110 - 5th Alliance Tournament Winners
• Pandemic Legion
  • Year 111 - 6th Alliance Tournament Winners
• Pandemic Legion
  • Year 111 - 7th Alliance Tournament Winners
• Pandemic Legion
  • Year 112 - 8th Alliance Tournament Winners
• HYDRA RELOADED
  • Year 113 - 9th Alliance Tournament Winners
• Verge of Collapse
  • Year 114 - 10th Alliance Tournament Winners
• Pandemic Legion
  • Year 115 - 11th Alliance Tournament Winners
• The Camel Empire
  • Year 116 - 12th Alliance Tournament Winners
• Pandemic Legion
  • Year 117 - 13th Alliance Tournament Winners