Death is coming....Alliance Tournament IX

Alliance Tournament IX is starting today, and many alliances are screaming "it's a good day to day."  All major alliances in EVE are trying to be ranked #1. CCP is also live streaming the fights on their twitch channel which is embedded here. 

On thing that set EVE apart from other games is meaningful PVP.  In a game where if you lose your ship its goon and you now have spend a few hours grinding isk to get it back, it means a lot more in say LoL or WoW where you just respawn. It is also what sets Alliance Tournament apart from the rest of PVP in EVE, is that is the closest to a "normal" PvP experience from another game. Except in true EVE fashion there are no respawns. One ship per pilot.  

The Alliance Tournament breds a different culture in EVE. Alliances like Pandemic Legion, Rote Kapelle, and Hydra Reloaded all have a strong tournament culture. Every year these alliances put up strong fleets. These alliance don't just fight for bragging rights, they also want the sweet sweet faction ships that go with winning an alliance tournament, new Alienware computers, and Razor Headsets.  

Never Pheed the Troll will follow the matches as they take place and I'll try to make sure that get a bit of a blurb about the matches that is see. Day one matches are post under the feed. 

Watch live video from twitchernest on www.twitch.tv
First round of Fight on Saturday, July 20th

Who we want to win Day One.

SCUM.

The R0NIN

Verge of Collapse

Rote Kapelle

The Fourth District

Late Night Alliance

Sicarius Draconis (Gallente FacWar)

Exodus. 
Noir. Mercenary Group
Hun Reloaded
Urine Alliance
RvB (purple fleet)
Pandemic Legion
Drunk 'n' Disorderly (Former Gallente Federation FacWar)

All other alliances I could care less about. Personally I want Goonswarm Federation to lose but I also hate Sleeper Social Club. Over all I want DnD to when the whole thing, cause I know pilots there and have flown with them too. So go DnD.  I hope that you all enjoy the matches.