WH PVP Tournament

It's been a long time since Taggart has conducted a pvp tournament. We do them for fun, camaraderie, and to test fits and sharpen skills. We also do them for prizes - in this case first prize was a fully rigged and fitted faction frig.

This was a small tournament, made up of the pilots from just one WH crew. But a great time was had by all. The rules were as follows:

- This is a t1 frigate tournament. Everything must be t1. No meta, no rigs, no t2.

- Limit one entry per player.

- This will be a single elimination, one on one tournament. Brackets will be randomized before the tournament.

- Targeting of pods is not allowed. If you lose a match, warp out immediately. No smartbombs are permitted because of the danger they pose to pods.

- All fights are to ship asplosion.

- Killmails from this tournament are not to be posted anywhere.

- I am not eligible for prizes, but I will compete.

- There will be no fleet boosting from my leadership skills.

First prize as mentioned before was a fitted faction frig. Second prize was some faction mods I had lying around. I also threw in some kicker prizes if all of the invited pilots showed up (sadly this did not happen - one pilot was not interested in participating). There was also

a 100m bounty for asploding the CEO, which is a longstanding Taggart tradition for tournaments.

As you can see in the above pic, most of the pilots flew Punishers, as they have good laser and armor skills. Niama and I flew Caldari frigs instead (I prefer missiles and shields to guns and armor). The first round was Niama vs. eventurer. Even started to microwarpdrive to Niama but Niama seemed confused for a moment and then started flying away. Once even got into laser range, he opened fire. Then Niama brought out his secret weapon: ECM. Even's lasers were no match for his EWAR and he was quickly smoked after barely getting Niama into armor.

The second round was Stealthgogi vs myself. I had fitted a tracking disruptor to my Kestrel and put that on Gogi as soon as he got into range, but it didn't seem to do me any good. We were pretty evenly matched but he managed to asplode me as his own hull was hurting. 100m for Gogi!

The next round was Coop vs Niama. Again, the laser Punisher was no match for Niama's ECM. Coop fared little better than even in the previous round. The last round was Niama vs Gogi. While Gogi had a Punisher with probably a similar fitting as the previous two, he fared better against Niama. Niama dominated the first part of the fight, but as Gogi got into hull, his jammers started to miss. Gogi made up the difference quickly and got Niama into hull himself before he was asploded and Niama was declared the victor.

Niama hasn't chosen his prize yet but it seems to be a toss-up between a Daredevil and a Dramiel, unsurprisingly. For second place, Gogi got some faction mods, including some Dread Guristas jammers I had lying around from an old orca kill - fitting because he lost the tourney because of ECM. Everyone had a great time and we're planning a cruiser tournament very soon.