Alliance Tournaments 5-8: What got blown up?

2011-06-18 - By CCP Diagoras - EVE dev-blogs

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 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 this weekend as tournament nine is wrapped up, all broadcast live on EVE TV!

- CCP Diagoras

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