EVE Online Kicks Off the Fourth Alliance Player Vs. Player Championship
By Svarthol
Reykjavík, Iceland and London, England – August 30, 2007 – CCP Games, one of the world’s leading independent game developers, and creator of leading sci-fi massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) EVE Online, and MMM Publishing, producer of E-ON magazine and EVE TV, today announced the start of EVE’s Fourth Alliance Player vs. Player (PVP) Championship. The event will take place over two consecutive weekends, beginning August 31, 2007, and will host alliances from all over the EVE Online universe. The championship will be fully covered by EVE TV, which will broadcast the whole event on the Internet free of charge.
The Alliance PVP Championship will take place in a colossal in-game arena where more than 40 teams are expected to compete and demonstrate their elite fighting skills and tactical expertise. As with real-world sporting events, fans can watch the action online and support players.
Sixteen matches per day will be streamed from a studio near CCP’s offices in Reykjavik, Iceland with commentary provided by experienced EVE Online players. In the studio, veteran EVE combat pilots will be joined by the game’s developers, sharing observations and expert knowledge about the ships that are fielded, how they've been equipped and the tactics employed by the commanders of each team.
This is a multi-stage championship with eight brackets, similar to the Soccer World Cup. The 40 teams are divided into eight round-robin groups, with the top two in each progressing to the knockout phase, which involves four single-elimination rounds including the final. The final four alliances earn loyalty points, and the top three alliances receive medals, loyalty points and pilot bonuses.
“The Alliance PVP Championship is a highly anticipated event for the EVE Online community as it is their Olympics in combat and gives new and smaller alliances a chance to earn respect, a very valuable commodity in EVE Online,” said Lína Ingvarsdóttir, a producer at CCP Games. “The championship demonstrates everything that makes EVE what it is: extensive teamwork in preparation and execution, high-level strategy and planning and gut-wrenching PVP. With a new format and revised rules, the championship promises to be even more diverse and exciting than ever before.”
Previous tournaments have attracted close to 20,000 simultaneous viewers from across the world and have led to the creation of a weekly pay-per-view EVE Online show that features news, views, events and discussion from the massive EVE Online universe. The Alliance PVP Championship will be broadcast on EVE TV free of charge from 3:00pm to 9:00pm GMT. Both the weekly show and the Tournament can be enjoyed by logging on to http://eve-online.tv.
About the Alliance PVP Championship
For details of the rules and regulations of the Alliance Tournament, please visit http://myeve.eve-online.com/events/alliances/tournament/rules.asp?t=4.
About EVE Online
Set tens of thousands of years in the future, EVE Online is a breathtaking journey to the stars, to an immersive experience filled with adventure, riches, danger and glory. Supported by a vast player-run economy, EVE offers professions to choose ranging from commodities trader to mercenary, industrial entrepreneur to pirate, mining engineer to battle fleet commander or any combination of these and much more. Your greatest asset is the starship, designed to accommodate your specific needs, skills and ambitions. Complementing its lethal arsenal are thousands of modules and components, allowing for countless customizations. From brokering business deals to waging war, you will have access to a diverse array of sophisticated tools and interfaces to forge your own destiny in EVE.
About CCP Games
CCP Games is an industry-leading independent developer and publisher of EVE Online, a massively-multiplayer online role-playing game. Founded in 1997 and privately held, CCP is recognized internationally as a pioneer of the single-server persistent universe architecture. EVE Online is played in nearly every country in the world with over 200,000 players. The company is headquartered in Reykjavík, Iceland with offices in Atlanta, London and Shanghai. More information is available at www.ccpgames.com.
About MMM Publishing Ltd
MMM Publishing Ltd (www.mmmpublishing.com) produces highly targeted, game-specific media, specializing in the massively multiplayer and online genres. A thriving, independent publishing company based in London, MMM is youthful, yet with more than 120 man-years of media publishing experience and an in-depth knowledge of rich-media publishing at all levels. Editorially astute and commercially aware, it has both game development and publishing experience, as well as a real understanding of the MMO genre, technologies and market. MMM Publishing Ltd produces magazines and on-demand TV shows dedicated to EVE Online and EverQuest II, with more in ongoing production.
Media Contact
CCP Games
Valerie Massey
512-825-5196
vmassey@ccpgames.com
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