# Is Alliance Tournament happening this year? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [April 19, 2020, 11:13pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-alliance-tournament-happening-this-year/234091 "2020-04-19T23:13:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jared\_Danton](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/jared_danton/32/199237_2.png) [@Jared\_Danton](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Jared_Danton)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2020, 11:13pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-alliance-tournament-happening-this-year/234091/1 "2020-04-19T23:13:13Z")
I am wondering if the Alliance Tournament is happening this year. I would really like to be able to watch it as I am new to playing and it seems like a really cool idea to have these tournaments. I bet CCP gains lots of attention during the event. ---
**Author:** ![Xeux](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/xeux/32/428022_2.png) [@Xeux](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Xeux)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2020, 11:26pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-alliance-tournament-happening-this-year/234091/2 "2020-04-19T23:26:49Z")
That’s a negative. ---
**Author:** ![Jared\_Danton](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/jared_danton/32/199237_2.png) [@Jared\_Danton](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Jared_Danton)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2020, 11:49pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-alliance-tournament-happening-this-year/234091/3 "2020-04-19T23:49:58Z")
Why not, there hasnt been any announcements? ---
**Author:** ![Xeux](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/xeux/32/428022_2.png) [@Xeux](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Xeux)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2020, 11:56pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-alliance-tournament-happening-this-year/234091/4 "2020-04-19T23:56:37Z")
Is there going to be a new season of MASH this year? No announcement means no tournament. They don’t do that anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Shipwreck\_Jones](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/shipwreck_jones/32/274382_2.png) [@Shipwreck\_Jones](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Shipwreck_Jones)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 12:36am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-alliance-tournament-happening-this-year/234091/5 "2020-04-20T00:36:26Z")
I’m pretty sure that we will see a return of the AT, but the outlook is starting to look bad for it returning this year. ---
**Author:** ![Ghengis\_Tia](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ghengis_tia/32/176767_2.png) [@Ghengis\_Tia](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ghengis_Tia)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 1:16pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-alliance-tournament-happening-this-year/234091/6 "2020-04-20T13:16:44Z")
The AT was the best yearly event ever in EVE. You look at a fight someone posted on YouTube and it is colored specks on the screen with an FC yakking away. The AT was extraordinary, an intricate look into fits, ship types, strategies, tactics, and just plain fun to watch. The commentary and blow by blow descriptions provided live excitement as to how piloting and decisions made by FCs are crucial in an evenly matched battle. Its a damn shame the premier showcase of PvP in EVE is no longer. ---
**Author:** ![Derath\_Ellecon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/derath_ellecon/32/289725_2.png) [@Derath\_Ellecon](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Derath_Ellecon)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 2:10pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-alliance-tournament-happening-this-year/234091/7 "2020-04-20T14:10:07Z")
It would be nice given all of the IRL being cancelled, if they could put the efforts into an AT this year. ---
**Author:** ![Darlo\_Kubika](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/darlo_kubika/32/178136_2.png) [@Darlo\_Kubika](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Darlo_Kubika)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-alliance-tournament-happening-this-year/234091/8 "2020-04-20T17:29:28Z")
It was said last year that it is cancelled permanently and will ‘maybe’ replaced by something else. Never heard of anything that should take its place though. ---
**Author:** ![Nicolai\_Serkanner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/nicolai_serkanner/32/358049_2.png) [@Nicolai\_Serkanner](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Nicolai_Serkanner)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 6:11pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-alliance-tournament-happening-this-year/234091/9 "2020-04-20T18:11:05Z")
> [@Jared\_Danton](#): > > I am wondering if the Alliance Tournament is happening this year. Probably not unfortunately. ---
**Author:** ![Xeux](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/xeux/32/428022_2.png) [@Xeux](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Xeux)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 8:39pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-alliance-tournament-happening-this-year/234091/10 "2020-04-20T20:39:11Z")
So what form would an Alliance Tournament take? Would it be a rorqual mining op under a supercap umbrella? Or would it be carrier ratting? Or would they just gather on a private discord channel and negotiate a deal beforehand? ---
**Author:** ![Darlo\_Kubika](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/darlo_kubika/32/178136_2.png) [@Darlo\_Kubika](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Darlo_Kubika)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 6:49am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-alliance-tournament-happening-this-year/234091/11 "2020-04-21T06:49:00Z")
Ask CCP… They are in charge,we only can speculate… But i fear,as they have fired most of their competent staff and replaced them by cheaper ones,they lack the ability to create something new,or even see the long term consequences of their ‘good ideas’,as seen in the actual patch. The actual guys only can create skins,and that is not good for the game 😛 ---
**Author:** ![JuuR\_Zibaoo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/juur_zibaoo/32/375053_2.png) [@JuuR\_Zibaoo](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/JuuR_Zibaoo)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 11:56am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-alliance-tournament-happening-this-year/234091/12 "2020-04-21T11:56:50Z")
@Jarvin_Estemaire the answer is: NO! details: none … there was no clear NO last year on the events but there was no YES at any time he AT has no real benefit for EVE as a game … its a tournament for some elite guys … a nice to have only … sure … there was a community waiting for it and sure there were a lot of guys waiting to watch but in the ende … EVE can life without it … it was work … it was weekend work … many of the guys in background made it for free / in there free time (i heard that … not sure about it) so … i dont know if EVE needs the AT … i will never be part of a team so i dont care … guess i have watched like 3 or 4 matches … and yea its bad for the guys who wanted to play JuuR ---
**Author:** ![Xeux](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/xeux/32/428022_2.png) [@Xeux](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Xeux)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 1:27pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-alliance-tournament-happening-this-year/234091/13 "2020-04-21T13:27:50Z")
The AT was a great publicity tool for Eve/CCP, but it embodied something that doesn’t otherwise exist in the game. It always seemed contrived to me. ---
**Author:** ![Scipio\_Artelius](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/scipio_artelius/32/408264_2.png) [@Scipio\_Artelius](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Scipio_Artelius)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 1:34pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-alliance-tournament-happening-this-year/234091/14 "2020-04-21T13:34:29Z")
From the CSM Minutes: > [@](#): > > CCP want to bring tournaments back to the game and are committed to overcoming any obstacles that the tools are presenting, taking the time to do it correctly. What shape future tournament play will take is still under discussion, and all options are on the table Since Logibro left, CCP haven’t had anyone who could maintain the tooling he developed, so until they invest effort into that, we aren’t likely to see the AT. So unless a dev is using their current social distancing time to develop something, it’s a big no for this year already, even without any announcement so far. ---
**Author:** ![Jared\_Danton](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/jared_danton/32/199237_2.png) [@Jared\_Danton](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Jared_Danton)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2020, 2:46pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-alliance-tournament-happening-this-year/234091/15 "2020-04-24T14:46:59Z")
Can you supply a link to where it said it was being cancelled permanently? I haven’t heard of that yet. I could only find the post where they say they were taking a hiatus and that was in 2019. ---
**Author:** ![Darlo\_Kubika](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/darlo_kubika/32/178136_2.png) [@Darlo\_Kubika](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Darlo_Kubika)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2020, 3:02pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-alliance-tournament-happening-this-year/234091/16 "2020-04-24T15:02:10Z")
Ever heard of taxes taken back by your goverment,even if said they would be just ‘temporary’? 🙂 If your answer is ‘no’ than you should know that the alliance tournament will never come back… It’s history and every hope of a return is ridiculous ---
**Author:** ![Nicolai\_Serkanner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/nicolai_serkanner/32/358049_2.png) [@Nicolai\_Serkanner](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Nicolai_Serkanner)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2020, 3:59pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-alliance-tournament-happening-this-year/234091/18 "2020-04-24T15:59:29Z")
> [@Jared\_Danton](#): > > Can you supply a link to where it said it was being cancelled permanently? It was not cancelled permanently. As usual Balos is (a) talking bollocks. ---
**Author:** ![Rekindle](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/rekindle/32/382332_2.png) [@Rekindle](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Rekindle)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2020, 6:56pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-alliance-tournament-happening-this-year/234091/19 "2020-04-24T18:56:07Z")
no modern pvp meta is not the e-sport that was showcased by alliance tourny - instead its making miner hulls more ganky. ---
**Author:** ![Darlo\_Kubika](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/darlo_kubika/32/178136_2.png) [@Darlo\_Kubika](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Darlo_Kubika)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2020, 7:29pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-alliance-tournament-happening-this-year/234091/20 "2020-04-24T19:29:23Z")
> [@Nicolai\_Serkanner](#): > > It was cancelled permanently. As usual Balos is (a) talking bollocks. As always you have no clue what you are posting… You are literally confirming what i just said by trying to turn it against me in a try to attack and devalue me… So sad you are not ‘using the full brain capacity of a normal human beeing’. Otherwise your post would be more…hm…taunting. ---
**Author:** ![Darlo\_Kubika](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/darlo_kubika/32/178136_2.png) [@Darlo\_Kubika](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Darlo_Kubika)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2020, 7:30pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-alliance-tournament-happening-this-year/234091/21 "2020-04-24T19:30:40Z")
> [@Rekindle](#): > > no modern pvp meta is not the e-sport that was showcased by alliance tourny - instead its making miner hulls more ganky. Don’t forget the awesomeness of every new created skin…people always forget skins… [Next page](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-alliance-tournament-happening-this-year/234091.md?page=2)