Posted 11 September 2014 - 10:08 AM

On the weekend of October 25th and 26th, RvB will be holding a tournament as part of our 5th Birthday celebrations.

As with the RvB Spring Cup held earlier this year (Videos are here here ), this tournament will focus on 5 man teams, flying no ships larger than battle-cruisers.

A tournament that will play to the strengths of RvB and is entertaining to all of you, and all of the people who will watch this amazing event live on twitch

The victors - and there will be many - will take home a share of around 35 BILLION ISK in prizes including ISK, Ships and in game medals.

The details:

The tournament will be a double elimination format much like the NEO II & the SCL. This means that to get knocked out a team needs to lose two matches in the early stages rather than one, and makes for a more interesting format indeed. And like those tournaments will use a points system as detailed below.

The tournament will be managed by me using challonge.com.

The finals will feature a best of 3 matches with the involved teams alternating bans.

You can x up as either a pilot or a team captain in this thread. The deadline for sign ups is 20.00 UTC September 29th 2014. Following this I will assign pilots to a team, no later than 6th October. Once this is done, teams have the remaining time to practice for the real thing.

Those who have signed up as Captains elsewhere need not x-up again.

Yes, you have to be in RvB to take part.

Schedule & Bracket:

Spoiler Bracket is on Challonge: http://challonge.com/TyrianTrophy Matches will be held in a new "arena" I shall create in the system of TBA (No for reals, I am working on that ASAP).

Teams:

Spoiler Can be found here. The teams with spaces NEED pilots: https://docs.google....#gid=1427376844

Signups:

Spoiler Current Captains: TGL3 Catalyst XI Jibberingloon Dae Thiesant Yngvarr Captain Unstable Corniel Azizora Arjar Ammar Joe Ionan Buzzing Alarmclock Korthan Lotta Vageena Paul Panala Vanhellin Krovchenko Scyleth Samuel Vokan Current Pilots: YeuxVerts / Lady Damsel Fal 'Ngeestra (Moving at start of October, may have ISP issues). Bob Mississippi Lishanna Jasper Sinclair Luna Lockhearts Shecky THCFan Master Broski DestroyRoid Zemo Walden Djihn Meisuko Liang Jiny Marcus Parks Gundumseed Mirandin Blue Caloria KossUkr Logan Ladart Fiona Erinies (Possible Captain) Llewellyn Fawr - needs to check with wifey Slaiphon Vasecho Vash Aideron Panda101 (Possible Captain) 7th Seth (if work allows) Berndarmin Mactabilis Maero Mason Datar Rose Valora (Possible Captain) Gomlee Mandelbrot Fracture Dark Calmness (Stand by Pilot) Bigbird09 Birkdale Delling Kessel Glival Viliana Kelsar Hemah Aeron Ormand Pant Alones Baji Core (high SP, mostly available week day nights for practice) Ruhe Morder Dr Evil Reborn Yosafbridge Ikkala Xexiom William VanGo Mylah MinderBinder Sharrow Vatuiel Tommy Ork Yank Cratais Cmdr Flipflop Gorski Car Velosim / Lord Sorin DrPies Peter Sibiro (Stand by) Gereinah

The Nitty Gritty:

Spoiler

Points: We will be using a points as with the AT, SCL & NEO. This will make for more interesting matches as the points & rules do not allow you to just bring 5 mallers!!! Teams are responsible for providing their own ships and fittings. Teams have a maximum of 33 points to invest in the following ships: T2 Logistics Cruiser – 13

Battlecruiser (None Faction) - 12

Faction Cruisers (Not Pirate) - 10

T1 Logistics Cruiser (Augoror, Exequror, Osprey, Scythe) - 9

EWAR Bonused Cruiser (Blackbird, Celestis, Bellicose, Arbitrator) - 8

T1 Cruiser – 7

Electronic Attack Frigate – 5

Interdictors - 4

Pirate Frigate – 4

Assault Frigate – 4

Faction Frigate -3

EWAR Frigate - 3 (Griffin, Crucifier, Maulus, Vigil)

Interceptor – 3

Destroyer – 3

Tech 1 Industrial Ships (aka Haulers) – 3

T1 Logistics Frigate (Bantam, Burst, Inquisitor, Navitas) - 3

Tech 1 Frigate – 2 (Except EWAR Frigates) Ships not mentioned in this list are not allowed. Fittings: Tech 1 & 2 modules are allowed

Faction and officer modules are not allowed

Tech 1 Rigs are allowed

NO T2 Rigs

Only one local repair module per ship

Only a logistics cruiser or logistics frigate may use remote repair or capacitor transfer modules or RR drones

No Pirate Implants are allowed. EVEBoard will be used to check this.

All boosters (drugs) are allowed

Faction ammo is fine

Pirate ammo is not allowed

Faction drones are fine

Augmented drones are not allowed

ECM Modules are allowed ONLY on a hull bonused for ECM.

ECM target jammer drones are not allowed

No smartbombs

No links in any way

NO Deployables. Only the Referee will have one out, and thats an MTU. Rules: Teams will field a maximum of 5 pilots.

A MAXIMUM of 2 of the same ship types are allowed per setup. Ie 2 caracals, or 2 moas or 2 harpies (Skinned ships count towards these totals) etc etc etc

of the same ship types are allowed per setup. Ie 2 caracals, or 2 moas or 2 harpies (Skinned ships count towards these totals) etc etc etc Only one T2 logistics cruiser OR T1 logistics cruiser per team OR 2x T1 logistics frigate per team.

One (1) EWAR Bonused Cruiser or Frigate Hull is allowed.

The arena will be have a diameter of 200km (so a radius of 100km). Leaving this arena bubble will mean disqualification if you do not rectify this within 30 seconds.

Teams will be allowed to warp to the arena before the match starts. However only at a range between 0km & 50km.

NO podding - do so and your team will be disqualified.

NO warping in the arena.

NO prelocking the other team. Only lock them once the match countdown has started.

Matches to last 10 minutes. No more. (In the event of a points tie, an extra 3 minutes sudden death combat will be added and the arena will reduce by 50km. First side to kill a ship wins the match).

If a team is more than 2 minutes late to a match, it automatically forfeits that match.

Team that goes into the Finals as the Victor of the Winners Bracket, will be allowed to issue 1 ship ban in the 1st and 3rd "Best of 3" matches.

Team that goes into the Finals as the Victor of the Losers Bracket will be allowed 1 ship ban in the 2nd "Best of 3" match.

Location: Will be held on TQ. Will be held in an as yet unannounced system. We will use arenas that I will setup. Spectators will be allowed, however they will have to show up in shuttles, so as not to clutter the overviews of the participants.

Streams: Commentators to include Sir Squeebles, Mizhir, Dracoth Simertet and Thecla Elarik Streams to be run by Tyrendian Biohazard, and other additional parties. Show to be hosted by Mangala Solaris

Prizes:

First Place Team: 1 BILLION ISK per pilot 1 Pirate BS per pilot (of pilots choice) In game medal Second Place Team: 750 Million ISK per pilot 1 Navy BS per pilot (of pilots choice) In game medal Third Place Team: 500 Million ISK per pilot 1 Pirate Cruiser per pilot (of pilots choice) In game medal In keeping with the awarding of prizes to more teams in the AT, I am doing a similar thing here. Teams placing 4th through 8th: 250 Million ISK per pilot. 2 Police Pursuit Comet skills per pilot. Other prizes are as follows: Team of the Day: Day One (Voted by the spectators using strawpoll) 1 Navy Cruiser per pilot Team of the Day: Day Two (Voted by the spectators using strawpoll) 1 Navy Cruiser per pilot Bottom of the barrel (Team that is knocked out with least points earned overall): 1 Pirate newbship per pilot Thanks to Jiny we have the following Prizes: Out of the Box (Awarded to the Team Captain of the team with the most out of the box/well flown/interesting setup of the first round of matches) Caracal Navy Issue My Wallet got Bled Dry (Most expensive Loss) Cruor x2 I never signed up and all I got was this lousy (First RvB pilot grabbed on the day to fly in matches. get one (my choice) of the following) Fed Navy Comet Imperial Navy Slicer Apocalypto (Pilot with highest damage across the Tournament) Apocalypse Navy Issue Thanks to FU2 we have the following Prizes: I am Number Four (Team placing 4th gets a bonus) 200m ISK per pilot T2 or Pirate frig of choice Fury (Pilot who TANKs the most - geddit) Tash Murkon Abaddon Thanks to Sambo Inkura we have the following Prize: Shut Up Mangala (Awarded as a spot prize by me during the weekend and I get to talk it up on Stream) T2 Fitted Caracal Participation medals for all pilots who fly in the tournament will also be awarded.

I am open to further donations from anyone who wants their name in lights or just wants to help make this the biggest internal RvB event of 2014.