Pandemic Legion crowned EVE Alliance Tournament VII champs
by James Egan 
Sep 20th 2009 at 8:00PM
Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, Events, real-world, Events, in-game, Guilds, MMO industry, PvP, News items
The biggest PvP event of the year in EVE Online is the annual Alliance Tournament, which played out over three weekends in September. The final rounds of EVE Alliance Tournament VII were fought out today and only one alliance earned the right to call themselves the game's top PvPers: Pandemic Legion, tournament champs for the second year in a row.
64 alliance teams entered the tournament 3 weeks ago, and today's finals culminated with Pandemic Legion facing off against Circle-of-Two. It was an entertaining final match but it was decided early on, as Pandemic Legion's stealth bombers unleashed waves of destruction upon Circle-of-Two, ultimately sealing their fate in the tournament. Pandemic Legion proved to be calculating in their tactics and ship setups this year. They successfully varied between speed fitted Minmatar fleets for fast and brutal blitzes, and glass cannon stealth bomber setups for powerful alpha strikes. They remained unpredictable throughout the tournament and it paid off for them.
As the first place team, Pandemic Legion will reap significant rewards: 50 billion ISK in prize money, blueprint copies for a unique "Mímir" cruiser only available to winners of EVE Alliance Tournament VII, a gold medal and an Alliance Tournament Cup.
Circle of Two took second place, and they've earned 30 billion ISK and blueprint copies for a "Freki" frigate that's unique to this tournament, as well as a silver medal.
Beyond Virginity finished in third place among the 64 alliances that entered the tournament, and will be awarded 20 billion ISK and a bronze medal.
This year's event was the first where players fielded Black Ops battleships and the modular Tech III strategic cruisers, plus there were a number of ludicrously expensive pirate faction battleships blown up in Alliance Tournament VII as well. If you missed the live stream today, anyone interested in watching the recorded matches in high-definition will be able to view them on the CCP Games YouTube page, broken down by qualifier rounds and finals. (We highly recommend watching Laconian Syndicate vs. Important Internet Spaceship League.) EVE's volunteer group Interstellar Correspondents provided detailed analysis of the tournament as it played out, and the performance of the various alliance competitors which is definitely worth seeing for more background on each recorded match.
Massively would like to wish Pandemic Legion congratulations on being crowned EVE Alliance Tournament VII champions, a title no one in the game can touch until next year. In fact, Pandemic Legion is already being recognized by the game's playerbase as being the best.
Beyond the carnage in space, what's also great about the annual EVE Alliance Tournament is the scope of player involvement in the event. It's the players themselves who provide commentary on the matches, so our congratulations also go out to those who volunteered their time to entertain us: Crovan, Kil2, Ryas Nia, TeaDaze, and Trzzbk. We're looking forward to seeing you guys back on EVE TV next year as well.
Thanks of course go out to CCP Games for making the EVE Alliance Tournament happen each year.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Grey said on 1:05AM 9-21-2009
Massively.com needs to be renamed "News about Eve Online that most readers don't understand nor care about with the occasional post about a different MMO.com"
hmm that might need to be shortened.
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Accordance said on 2:50AM 9-21-2009
Not quite true. Massively covers a lot. CCP is just more active with their game than most of their peers are with their own games. Excluding the editorials or guides, which I believe are valuable to a lot of people even when they may not always be valuable to me or you, the articles here at Massively aren't contrived and are generally accurate representations of what's going on in the MMO world.
This past few weeks has been a flurry of info streaming out of CCP in regards to their new console MMO, expansion, and PvP tournament. It's no wonder they monopolized the news. Tell me, what other MMO out there presented nearly as much information? What other MMO out there compares in this regard?
Kaamos said on 1:22AM 9-21-2009
Bah, I want to play this game and I dont!
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Jason said on 1:38AM 9-21-2009
Winning the alliance tourney does not make you the best...
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amburgey said on 10:24AM 9-21-2009
That's right, losing the tournament makes you the best, right Jason?
DrewIW said on 1:11PM 9-21-2009
In this case, Pandemic Legion actually is the best. They always bring their A-game no matter the fight.
My corp recently reset them, and we've had some awesome skirmishes. Those guys are definitely on the top of their game.
Benicio said on 2:17AM 9-21-2009
It was a great tournament this year. CCP's coverage and videos of the fights on youtube are first rate too.
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Tyranor said on 4:49AM 9-21-2009
Absolutely awesome tournament. Kudos to CCP for running it so well, and kudos to PL for absolutely owning across the board. The SB setup was scarily dominant.
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Venekor said on 5:45AM 9-21-2009
Was good but I just wish Pilot skill could mean he could take on two of the same types of ships if he's that much better. All the time if you had 2 tengu's vs just one then the one would always lose. Wish the game had like WASD controls or something to dodge fire so more pilot skill comes into it. Would be well kool seeing like a Crow take on a battleship cause he's hitting the weakest part of the ship or whatever.
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deadlock said on 6:27AM 9-21-2009
There is different types of skill than just aiming and dodging. I like eve because I do not have to dogfight. I did not like what I played in the jumpgate evolution beta , but maybe you will like that game better.
1 tengu could win against 2 tengus if the solo one outrange the other 2.
A lot of the matches is won or lost according to the target calling of the fleet commander in the early part of the matches.
Tyranor said on 6:42AM 9-21-2009
EVE ships aren't agile fighters...you meant to be commanding a ship with thousands of crew members, not dogfighting. EVE PvP has always been more about strategy, setup and planning, not reflexes.
Although small ships can do well with manuverability agains larger ships.
Psychotic Storm said on 7:07AM 9-21-2009
You can't possibly expect to dodge is a EVE class ship right?
thay are not fighters they are big ships even the frigates are that frigates not fighters, drones are the only ships in EVE lore that are fighter class ships and could do good high speed manoeuvring.
As is EVE places you in the position of commanding a ship, you are the captain and your role is a management one, direct course, command fire, overseer shields and repair, it actually does quite a good job at giving that feel.
DarkStryke said on 10:29AM 9-21-2009
The tourney is great, unfortunately it resembles nothing of day to day fights, especially from the victors.
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Hank Chinaski said on 2:19PM 9-21-2009
The Eve PvP tournament this year was absolutely amazing. Widescreen SD and HD real-time streamed video. Awesome play by all teams, really shows off how fun Eve is. Great job CCP for taking gaming to the next level for large-scale thinking mans PvP. Undock and we will take yo shiz! >=)
If you are tired of WoW, read this -->
http://www.crazykinux.com/2008/09/eve-online-questions-for-wow-players.html
Less qq moar pew pew!
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Grey said on 2:38PM 9-21-2009
I was referring to Eve Online, not Dust. I think I've counted over 10 posts solely about the alliance tournament alone. There is definitely a need for more variety.
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Rambie said on 4:54PM 9-21-2009
@Grey,
Here's an idea: If you don't want to read about EVE, then don't read the articles about EVE.
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