Burn Jita 3 from the perspective of a random, non-affiliated KM whore

This post is quite late, but I have been very busy with vacationing/working lately.

Despite having religiously avoided the two previous Burn Jitas, mostly due to my aversion to time dilation, I decided to join a public fleet for this year's burnination. Spectre ran a permafleet throughout the weekend, and I joined late Friday night. Most of the CFC activity was during the day, but there was still quite a bit of activity in Jita for the night owls. For those of you unfamiliar with Burn Jita (are there really people who still don't know?), it's typically a weekend event where the Goons try to alpha as many freighters as they can in and around Jita.

I grabbed a dessie and positioned myself around the Perimeter gate, which is probably Jita's most active gate under most circumstances. Some determined freighter pilots attempted to shortcut into Jita through other gates, but they were usually thwarted by the Goons' omnipresent bumpermach squad. This is how it usually works: Clueless freighter pilot enters Jita, sees a huge blob at the gate, realizes something is horribly wrong (or possibly remains clueless/autopilots) and begins to align to 4-4. The the machs bump until a CFC FC can herd enough cats into catalysts and thrashers, then they undock (cue time dilation), warp to their bumpers at close range, and shotgun the freighter, hoping to destroy it before they are concordokken'd.

The epic tragedy of the internet white knight

95% of the time, this strategy worked like a charm, and was rather boring for our fleet as we targeted the reds and whored on as many mails as we could before they disappeared. Well, the whoring was fully my intent - the fleet as a whole may have been attempting to white knight or something. The other 5% was the fun part, and mostly involved rouge CFC pilots or random r-tards doing something to flag them as a suspect/criminal and getting blapped off the field in short order. Take for instance this interestingly fit Drake, who I assume wanted to whore on a jump freighter killmail and was quickly counter-whored. Notice the distinct lack of Concord on the killmail - whore fail.

There were also quite a few opportunistic smartbombers, hoping to score quick podmails. Such sterling pilots include this cheap Maller, an unrigged, six-plated phoon (five plates are just not enough), an abbadon (only four plates, what a pleb), a magnificent seven-plated phoon, a wild nano phoon, and an actual not-horribly-fit phoon, among others. I sadly missed an opportunity to whore on a freighter myself, as a Providence pilot scooped up some loot and went suspect while I was creeping around another gate. The same pilot managed to lose another Providence the very next night.

All told I whored on 100+ kills and had some giggles, and will probably show up for next year's BJ.