# Proving Grounds again abandonned after deploying two new events and 23 new Reward Skins on SISI (SISI build 2454901) **URL:** \ **Category:** Assembly Hall\ **Created:** [June 28, 2024, 11:46am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/proving-grounds-again-abandonned-after-deploying-two-new-events-and-23-new-reward-skins-on-sisi-sisi-build-2454901/454240 "2024-06-28T11:46:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 20
**Author:** ![Gustav\_Mannfred](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gustav_mannfred/32/392828_2.png) [@Gustav\_Mannfred](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gustav_Mannfred)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2026, 4:49pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/proving-grounds-again-abandonned-after-deploying-two-new-events-and-23-new-reward-skins-on-sisi-sisi-build-2454901/454240/20 "2026-02-16T16:49:27Z")
The current PVP Fest event showcases why CCP needs to bring Proving Grounds back. Its just alt farming. > [@What a BETTER PVP Fest could have been](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-a-better-pvp-fest-could-have-been/506691): > > With the PVP Fest event almost completed, looking at the leaderboard, its mostly people that kill their own alts, which ruins the fun for those that look for “real” PVP. It is also a bit weird that they even encourage the killing of own characters to farm the top spots in the leaderboard and mention this in the official announcement of the event. This makes absolutely no sense. It would have made sense to discourage this behaviour and to exclude people that farm their own alts from the competit… --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/proving-grounds-again-abandonned-after-deploying-two-new-events-and-23-new-reward-skins-on-sisi-sisi-build-2454901/454240)._