#EVE_NT Collides opening weekend is upon us with the first match Sunday 11th of October at 19:00 UTC which can be watched via one of the following methods:

The Official #EVE_NT Collides website

The Twitch Streaming website

Or via the EOC.tv website

This month’s opening match will be between Hard Knocks and Shadow Cartel. Let’s take an opportunity to summarize each team’s stats and matches from this year’s alliance tournament.

Hark Knocks Citizens 2015 Score Card

Matches 8 Points Scored 639 Points Against 235 Match Time 0:56:29 Won 6 Lost 2

#EVE_NT Collides Profile: Hard Knocks are a wormhole based alliance who live in high-class wormholes and embrace all aspects of PVP, whether it’s dropping caps on hostile PVE caps, or roaming out through null-sec connections with fast skirmish ships, to brawling up close and dirty with other wormhole entities during evictions and chance wormhole connections.

Not having much tournament experience themselves, for ATXIII they recruited some tournament veterans and mixed them with their best PVPers which catapulted them into the top 8, with many convincing victories along the way. They were only beaten at the end by the eventual 4th place team, Exodus, in a really close mirror-match-up brawl.

Past Matches Hard Knocks Citizens 100 Vs 1 The Explicit Alliance 06:14 Win Hard Knocks Citizens 41 Vs 100 The Godfathers 06:05 Lose Hard Knocks Citizens 100 Vs 4 Confederation of xXPIZZAXx 06:27 Win Hard Knocks Citizens 100 Vs 3 Nihilists Social Club 05:43 Win Hard Knocks Citizens 100 Vs 6 Vox Populi. 08:34 Win Hard Knocks Citizens 100 Vs 15 Phoebe Freeport Republic 06:40 Win Hard Knocks Citizens 56 Vs 6 Triumvirate. 10:00 Win Hard Knocks Citizens 42 Vs 100 EXODUS. 06:46 Lose

Shadow Cartel 2015 Score Card Matches 6 Points Scored 380 Points Against 199 Match Time 00:42:23 Won 4 Lost 2

#EVE_NT Collides Profile: Shadow Cartel are a force to be reckoned with. Not only are they a low-sec powerhouse – fighting large scale low-sec battles on an almost daily basis and more often than not coming out on top, they are also veterans of the Alliance Tournament. In both ATXII and ATXIII they placed top 8 establishing themselves as a top-tier team that will make any opponent take them seriously, being knocked down on a couple of occasions in knife-edge matches against tournament giants such as PL.

Past Matches Shadow Cartel 100 Vs 0 Pandemic Horde 04:46 Win Shadow Cartel 100 Vs 0 Northern Coalition. 03:04 Win Shadow Cartel 100 Vs 4 THE R0NIN 05:35 Win Shadow Cartel 13 Vs 100 Pandemic Legion 08:58 Lose Shadow Cartel 67 Vs 62 The Gorgon Empire And Spawn 10:00 Win Shadow Cartel 0 Vs 33 The Tuskers Co. 10:00 Lose

In a similar format to the Worlds Collide tournament at this years fanfest, each team has to pre-make seven different fleet compositions with which to bring to the matches. Once those set ups have been declared each team can ban two ships. At this time the compositions and bans are as follows:

Hard Knocks Citizens (Bans by Shadow Cartel are scored out)

1 Brutix NI Auguror Vigilant Sentinel Confessor 45 2 Astarte Oneiros Hecate Hecate Coercer 45 3 Harbinger NI Harbinger NI Harpy Harpy Scythe 45 4 Sleipnir Scimitar Svipul Svipul Thrasher 45 5 Hurricane FI Hurricane FI Exequeror Enyo Enyo 45 6 Orthrus Orthrus Cerberus Caracal Keres 45 7 Brutix Brutix Guardian Cruor Punisher 45

Shadow Cartel (Bans by Hard Knocks Citizens are scored out)

1 Nighthawk Cerberus Cerberus Bantam Bantam 45 2 Sleipnir Vagabond Vagabond Burst Burst 45 3 Absolution Auguror Blackbird Confessor Confessor 44 4 Vulture Orthrus Scythe Flycatcher Flycatcher 45 5 Armageddon Guardian Svipul Svipul Heretic 45 6 Typhoon Fleet Issue Typhoon Fleet Issue Hyena Inquisitor Inquisitor 45 7 Rook Scimitar Caracal Jackdaw Jackdaw 44

Who do you think is going to come out on top of this match? Comment Below.