PVP Fest is coming!

Hey everyone!

We recently posted an article about PVP fest - this is the companion post for that article.

Any extra questions about the event you’re free to ask here and we’ll routinely check back across the course of the weekdays and keep you updated. The final results from the event will be posted here as well!

For those interested in PvP the Faction Warfare Yearbook is a really good source of litrature on 1v1 combat that we would highly reccomend. There are also a bunch of different Youtube videos out there too, like this one from EVE Partner Loru! :

We look forward to seeing how you all do!

Edit @ 2026-02-26 19:00 UTC:

Hey everyone, it’s time for an update on the final results. If you want to skip to the final results, the reward tables are below.

To expand on a few details on the final results, I wanted to also do a short explainer outlining the parameters that were decided on and why. In the final results:

Alts are not excluded.

  • The reality is that there’s no good way to do this that doesn’t involve some element of social gaming. That is, even if characters owned by the same person are removed, the problem extends to killing alts of your corp mates/alliance mates or any other social group, and you end up back at square one; you still have alts, just less obvious ones.

Empty ships are also not excluded.

  • So the other side of this problem is: “If unfit isn’t valid, then what fit is valid?” There are examples of this already, where people are still “padding” on zKill but circumventing detection by placing 1 unit of ammo in the cargo. So, even if it’s “properly” fit, it then comes down to the problem of identifying “whats a meta fit vs off-meta fit?”. Trying to do something like value based as well, it just takes someone putting PLEX or items in the cargo hold to circumvent this as well.

However, the rules do explicitly state Uniquely Piloted, with emphasis being placed on the word “Piloted” here. Killmails attributes a ship’s “owner” as the person the ship belongs to at the time of death, so relevant insurance can be paid out to that person. If a ship is “owned” by someone, it doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re being “piloted” by the person, so ships that have been killed when the owner was not piloting the ship have been excluded from the final data. As this information isn’t exposed in the API when a killmail is pulled and shown on zKill, there is no way for zKill to know that the owner isn’t piloting the ship.

Thank you once again to all who participated and provided feedback - it has been vast, and it’s provided CCP with a lot of information to reflect back on when looking at doing events like this again in the future. Also, a final massive thank you to Squizz Caphinator for his collabrative work on zKill during this event as well!

Rewards will be issued potentially tomorrow or by the end of Monday at the latest, but the breakdown is as follows:

Overall Leaderboard:

Player Name PLEX Prize
Mes Cal Ran 12000
Rigged All Along 8000
Luko Melis 6000
Patrick Anninen 3000
Tom Azwel 3000
PuwPuw 3000
1yammm 3000
Mr Ludvig 3000
Call Me FC 3000
Lyammm 3000
Bojeck hoursman 1000
Reinhard schulz 1000
TheEmperor Of War 1000
killlian 1000
Antonek Mileghere 1000
6ypatuno 1000
WAULO 1000
leonardika 1000
CHUKY LO 1000
NAROTI 1000
Aiko Danuja 1000
Market Tycoon 1000
Viola Terra 1000
milla rich 1000
Sathil X 1000
reizera 1000
Ramesen Illat 1000
Andrius Uhad 1000
Grey Veil 1000
Pherric Quake 1000
Mefc Ipret 1000
Phlighty Quake 1000
Actionable Threat 1000
0wl 1000
Ololosha Jouhinen 1000
Pheklass Quake 1000
psilon2000 1000
poputero 1000
Shikanoko n0konok0 k0shitantan 1000
Shikanoko n0konok0 koshitantan 1000
winter ayes 1000
Eredrius 1000
Shikanoko nokonok0 k0shitantan 1000
Shikanoko nokonok0 koshitantan 1000
Shikanoko nokon0ko koshitantan 1000
Shikanoko nokon0k0 koshitantan 1000
Shikanoko nok0nok0 k0shitantan 1000
Shikanoko nok0nok0 koshitantan 1000
Shikanoko nok0noko koshitantan 1000
Shikanoko nok0n0k0 k0shitantan 1000
Shikanoko n0konoko koshitantan 500
Shikanoko nok0n0k0 koshitantan 500
Shikanoko nokonoko k0shitantan 500
Speaklike Achild 500
MushroomSamba 500
BlackDog Serenade 500
My FunnyValentine 500
Ganymede Elegy 500
Waltzfor Venus 500
Toysin theAttic 500
BohemianRhapsody 500
Straydog Strut 500
Shikanoko nokon0k0 k0shitantan 500
Shikanoko nokon0ko k0shitantan 500
Shikanoko nok0n0ko k0shitantan 500
Shikanoko nok0noko k0shitantan 500
Asteroid Blues 500
WildHorses 500
Jammingwith Edward 500
JupiterJazz pt1 500
JupiterJazz pt2 500
Balladof FallenAngels 500
Honkytonk Woman 500
Phunky Quake 500
Shikanoko n0konoko k0shitantan 500
Empowered BlackWoman 500
GatewayShuffle 500
Heavy MetaIQueen 500
DEGRADOR 500
Shikanoko nok0n0ko koshitantan 500
Phearless Quake 500
Krutor Mordorr 500
Roomero 500
Sympathyfor TheDevil 500
lena lina a 500
Blinding Ikitursa 500
Shikanoko nokonoko koshitantan 500
namtjoR 500
Kami Inari 500
Fury Greannmhar 500
Eva Deal 500
Kelon Darklight 500
Redeovg 500
PlutoniuM86 500
Christina Losail 500
Roman Ostanin 500
AsunaZX 500
Lucian Lockard 500
Daughter of Ares 500
MAHATADE 500

Nullsec Leaderboard:

Player Name PLEX Prize
Mr Ludvig 6000
Call Me FC 4000
TheEmperor Of War 3000
Eredrius 1500
Krutor Mordorr 1500
Roomero 1500
Mes Cal Ran 1500
Rigged All Along 1500
Christina Losail 1500
AsunaZX 1500
Pherric Quake 500
Luko Melis 500
Tarkis 500
Orangutan Alland 500
Phlighty Quake 500
Pheklass Quake 500
Phunky Quake 500
Phearless Quake 500
Cosmo Blink 500
Ash Torp 500

Highest Value Solo Kill 1000 PLEX Bonus Prize: Cusano

Lowsec Leaderboard:

Player Name PLEX
Rigged All Along 6000
Luko Melis 4000
6ypatuno 3000
psilon2000 1500
Redeovg 1500
Mes Cal Ran 1500
PlutoniuM86 1500
Lucian Lockard 1500
Daughter of Ares 1500
namtjoR 1500
Patrick Anninen 500
1yammm 500
Aiko Danuja 500
DEATH ALMARANDO 500
Chicatrain 500
Reinhard schulz 500
Lerq Staw 500
Kelon Darklight 500
GroZZZa 500
Thermal Damage 500

Highest Value Solo Kill 1000 PLEX Bonus Prize: NON-STOP AGRESSION

Highsec Leaderboard:

Player Name PLEX Prize
Mes Cal Ran 6000
PuwPuw 4000
Bojeck hoursman 3000
Market Tycoon 1500
Tom Azwel 1500
Actionable Threat 1500
Patrick Anninen 1500
Shikanoko n0konok0 k0shitantan 1500
Shikanoko n0konok0 koshitantan 1500
Shikanoko nokonok0 k0shitantan 1500
Shikanoko nokonok0 koshitantan 500
Shikanoko nokon0ko koshitantan 500
Shikanoko nokon0k0 koshitantan 500
Shikanoko nok0nok0 k0shitantan 500
Shikanoko nok0nok0 koshitantan 500
Shikanoko nok0noko koshitantan 500
Shikanoko nok0n0k0 k0shitantan 500
Shikanoko n0konoko koshitantan 500
Shikanoko nok0n0k0 koshitantan 500
Shikanoko nokonoko k0shitantan 500

Highest Value Solo Kill 1000 PLEX Bonus Prize: Ivicek

Wormhole Leaderboard:

Player Name PLEX Prize
Mes Cal Ran 6000
Patrick Anninen 4000
Tom Azwel 3000
Rigged All Along 1500
Fury Greannmhar 1500
killlian 1500
Lyammm 1500
Hyleus Tyrannos ???
Luko Melis 1500
1yammm 1500
Antonek Mileghere 1500
Reinhard schulz 500
Gemato Sedly 500
Ramesen Illat 500
Avalon Lyons 500
Sathil X 500
0wl 500
Chilu12543 500
PuwPuw 500
6ypatuno 500
Blinding Ikitursa 500

Highest Value Solo Kill 1000 PLEX Bonus Prize: Falcon 701

Pochven Leaderboard:

Player Name PLEX Prize
Rigged All Along 6000
poputero 4000
winter ayes 3000
Luko Melis 1500
DEGRADOR 1500
lena lina a 1500
Sathil X 1500
Ololosha Jouhinen 1500
Roman Ostanin 1500
MAHATADE 1500
Call Me FC 500
EmperorVeles 500
Blinding Ikitursa 500
0wl 500
Starving Ikitursa 500
WAULO 500
CHUKY LO 500
Mr Ludvig 500
mark twel 500
woRt HoG 500

Highest Value Solo Kill 1000 PLEX Bonus Prize: L0SER18q

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Good idea! Done :folded_hands:

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What’s stopping me from making alts and killing them to increase my score?

Nothing is stopping you (or anyone else) from doing that. If you want to spend time, invest in, and then kill 1,500 alts in different ships in different areas of space, that’s up to you.

Can we get absolute clarification as to the validity of kills for the purpose of competing in this challenge? That is to say, ‘gaming the system’ is acknowledged and accepted by CCP and that CCP will not arbitrarily disqualify some kills from counting towards the competition? Any kill on a unique character in a unique ship in a unique area of space will count as a point, regardless of anything else?

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I am excited to be showing off leaderboards on zKillboard for this event. As mentioned, your character overview page will have a new tab “PVP Fest” for this event so that you can see exactly how well (or badly) you’re doing!

Have fun, and fly dangerously!

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Pretty cool initiative, but I think alliances will be able to game this very easily. 2 or 3 of them can just kill line members then split the 26k+ PLEX between them. Line members would probably be happy just to get included since they typically fleet up for far less.

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Now did you really have to plan it for the only week i go on vacation a year….I fly out on the 9th and fly back on the 17th…..

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Cool event, although Proving Grounds would be great for the 1v1 combat. Finding 1v1 with anything bigger than a cruiser is hard

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Looking forward to see the creative ways for players to game these rules!

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Yeap, as it says on the first FAQ point, this is acknowledged and accepted, everyone has the same ability to “game” the event. The data will be pulled at the end of the event within the constraints above. zKill will give individuals a “running total” of where they’re at as they go.

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You’re a rockstar! Thank you again for your support with this! :sign_of_the_horns:

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in fact many ns player can produce 1b/h

So does this mean CCP will be using zKill’s metrics to determine validity for the competition? ie. will kills marked by zKill’s algorithm as ‘padding’ count towards this competition?

Damn that really sucks

only ship or buildings also?

Ships only

So the point of the event is to find the most effective way to game the system. The point is not PvP. Got it.

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Or they realize eve players will be eve players and find a way to game the kills etc.

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Bring back Arenas CCPlease!

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This is going to be totally rigged by someone for that kind of PLEX.

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Ding Ding Ding - Winner Winner Chicken Dinner! you are correct

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