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Alliance Tournaments 5-8: What got blown up? (http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=927)
18 June 2011, 3:33 pm

With the ninth alliance tournament drawing to a close this weekend, we in research wanted to take a look at the last four and see exactly how much of what has been blown up over the years. With over 2,400 people taking part in the last four tournaments and over 4,500 kill reports registered with CONCORD, there's quite a lot to dig into!

So, without further ado...

Tournament	5	6	7	8	Total
Assault   Ship	9	87	108	36	240
Battlecruiser	39	99	207	131	476
Battleship	87	131	198	110	526
Black   Ops			12	3	15
Capsule	7	11	23	23	64
Combat   Recon Ship	34	29	121	69	253
Command   Ship	5	86	119	91	301
Cruiser	194	333	123	35	685
Destroyer	4	4	99	46	153
Electronic   Attack Ship	17	62	87	27	193
Force   Recon Ship	3	3	5	2	13
Frigate	171	126	106	126	529
Heavy   Assault Ship	51	144	115	11	321
Heavy   Interdictor			2	1	3
Industrial			11	5	16
Interceptor	6	11	52	30	99
Interdictor	1	1	31	55	88
Logistics	60	3	94	107	264
Marauder	5	19	34	5	63
Stealth   Bomber	35	24	13	74	146
Strategic   Cruiser			46	64	110
Totals	728	1,173	1,606	1,051	4,558

Ships destroyed by ship group for tournaments 5 through 9.

Cruisers were by far the favourite damage dealing component of tournament groups in tournaments five and six, but with changes to the points system (http://www.eveonline.com/events/alliances/tournament/t8/rules.asp) this swapped over to both battlecruisers and battleships for seven and eight. Frigates have consistently been very popular "filler" ships to use up any remaining points and ensure each team has as many pilots as they can field. The substantial spike in tournament seven could be attributed to the rule changes implemented in that tournament, such as the restriction of only allowing a maximum of two of the same ship type in each fight. This made creating strategies much more complex, helping create some additional carnage.

 

Tournament	5	6	7	8	Total
Griffin	119	63	59	7	248
Ishtar	32	98	69	6	205
Drake	23	55	63	44	185
Ishkur	6	75	66	25	172
Rook	16	14	74	41	145
Abaddon	19	43	53	15	130
Kitsune	15	46	55	11	127
Caracal   Navy Issue		91	30		121
Hurricane	4	22	37	47	110
Stabber   Fleet Issue	1	88	16		105

Top ten ship types destroyed throughout the tournaments.

ECM ships have been popular through these tournaments, as can be seen from the Griffin, Rook and Kitsune all being in the top ten. These ships are known for their very powerful ECM bonuses. Which makes sense; if an enemy can't target you their options for inflicting damage become rather restricted.

Tournament	5	6	7	8	Total
Tech 1	502	704	767	476	2,449
Tech 2	226	469	793	511	1,999
Tech 3			46	64	110
Tech 2/3   %	31.0%	40.0%	52.2%	54.7%	0

Ships destroyed by tech level.

There has been a very clear move over time towards higher tech level ships, which can be put down both to rule changes regarding the points required for various ships and the increased sums of ISK people seem to be willing to invest into the tournament

Alliance	Kills		Alliance	Losses
Pandemic   Legion	221		Atlas   Alliance	82
Dead   Terrorists	112		The Star   Fraction	79
Cry   Havoc.	98		Manifest   Destiny.	71
The   Wrong Alliance	93		Unaffiliated	69
Ev0ke	93		HUN   Reloaded	68
Ushra'Khan	91		The   Kadeshi	67
HUN   Reloaded	85		The   Wrong Alliance	67
Unaffiliated	77		Ushra'Khan	66
The   Kadeshi	76		Dead   Terrorists	63
Atlas   Alliance	76		Morsus   Mihi	63

The top ten alliances who have lost and destroyed ships throughout the last four tournaments.

Pandemic Legion, the winners of tournaments six, seven and eight are clearly the highest on the list with just under double the number of kills than Dead Terrorists at number two.

 

Tournament	Ship total	Value of   ships	Average   ship value
5	728	36,745,267,244	50,474,268
6	1,173	97,882,298,992	83,446,120
7	1,606	157,296,529,291	97,943,044
8	1,051	147,515,739,964	140,357,507
Grand Total	4,558	439,439,835,491	96,410,670

Current value of ships lost in the last four tournaments. All values are based on the May 2011 market price of those ships.

Each of the last four tournaments has seen an increase in the average value of the ships destroyed, with losses in tournament eight being over two and a half times the average value of losses in tournament five when the ships are valued at their May 2011 market price and for the purposes of this, "unique" ships (such as the Freki) and capsules are considered to have no value.

Ship group	Total   destroyed	Value
Assault   Ship	240	4,769,181,429
Battlecruiser	476	13,524,132,706
Battleship	526	119,532,489,067
Black Ops	15	7,987,331,627
Capsule	64	0
Combat   Recon Ship	253	26,412,301,687
Command   Ship	301	58,765,768,530
Cruiser	685	33,329,515,719
Destroyer	153	108,032,838
Electronic   Attack Ship	193	3,777,332,125
Force Recon   Ship	13	1,663,143,513
Frigate	529	9,064,252,742
Heavy   Assault Ship	321	37,231,927,176
Heavy   Interdictor	3	528,031,703
Industrial	16	22,375,077
Interceptor	99	1,296,127,101
Interdictor	88	3,482,220,146
Logistics	264	31,694,342,272
Marauder	63	40,970,841,213
Stealth   Bomber	146	3,000,435,293
Strategic   Cruiser	110	42,280,053,527
Grand Total	4,558	439,439,835,491

The ISK value of each of the ship groups destroyed.

Again, these prices are calculated from the average market price of those ships as of May 2011.  This gives a better way of measuring the relative value between tournaments but is not a perfect measurement for the value each year.  However, CPI has not changed drastically since then having been relatively stable since 2008. The bulk of the money lost in the tournaments has been spent on the battleship class vessels; almost 120 billion ISK.

Lastly, our congratulations to the two players who have lost the most ships in these tournaments. Koronos came at the top of the scoreboard with 10 losses and NTRabbit a close second with 9.

Don't forget to follow the action (http://www.eveonline.com/en/tournament) this weekend as tournament nine is wrapped up, all broadcast live on EVE TV! (http://www.eveonline.com/en/tournament/evetv)

 - CCP Diagoras

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