# PVP Fest is coming! **URL:** \ **Category:** Dev Blogs\ **Created:** [February 6, 2026, 8:00pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pvp-fest-is-coming/506188 "2026-02-06T20:00:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Dyver\_Phycad](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/dyver_phycad/32/358575_2.png) [@Dyver\_Phycad](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Dyver_Phycad)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2026, 9:26am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pvp-fest-is-coming/506188/237 "2026-02-18T09:26:45Z")
I am looking forward to CCP and Squizz padding themselves on the shoulders over this fantastic event. I hid the PVP Fest red flag on Zkill early on with UBlock and stuff like that is just one more reason to keep using UBlock. ---
**Author:** ![Uriel\_the\_Flame](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/uriel_the_flame/32/490165_2.png) [@Uriel\_the\_Flame](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Uriel_the_Flame)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2026, 10:07am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pvp-fest-is-coming/506188/238 "2026-02-18T10:07:55Z")
> [@Dyver\_Phycad](#): > > `padding` šŸ¤” :psyccp: šŸ˜ ---
**Author:** ![Fury\_Greannmhar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/fury_greannmhar/32/491534_2.png) [@Fury\_Greannmhar](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Fury_Greannmhar)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2026, 11:26am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pvp-fest-is-coming/506188/239 "2026-02-18T11:26:17Z")
@CCP_Zelus Should we expect any information about the event, or should this be seen as irresponsibility on the part of CCP? I understand that CCP made many mistakes with this event, but completely ignoring the event and the players who, one way or another, invested their time and resources into participating isnā€™t entirely right for such a company. However, if you look at it that way, the event felt like a joke from the very beginning. When it started, there was absolutely no information or tools for tracking rankings (except for a third-party one, [PvP Fest Leaderboards | zKillboard](https://zkillboard.com/pvpfest/) ), neither on the official game resources nor in the game client itself. There was also no information about how exactly players would receive their rewards for participation. And in-game, it felt like many people werenā€™t even aware of the event. Naturally, everything could have been done much better, and I hope next time everything will be more carefully thought out to ensure the event is truly engaging and that there wonā€™t be such a disregard for players. ---
**Author:** ![Phunky\_Quake](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/phunky_quake/32/491543_2.png) [@Phunky\_Quake](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Phunky_Quake)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2026, 11:41am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pvp-fest-is-coming/506188/240 "2026-02-18T11:41:24Z")
> Edit: > Thank you to everyone who participated, the event concluded at downtime/11 UTC on 17 Feb! We should have the final list in from the data team early next week and once weā€™ve had an opportunity to process and format it suitably weā€™ll be able to share it here! Thanks for this update [CCP Zelus](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/ccp_zelus), is there any way to get the results faster? ā€˜Early next weekā€™ seems like a long time for a professional data team. Itā€™ll certainly be interesting to see who (if anyone) was playing the event but not linked to zKillboard, some people who think theyā€™ve won stuff will probably be disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![Fury\_Greannmhar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/fury_greannmhar/32/491534_2.png) [@Fury\_Greannmhar](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Fury_Greannmhar)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2026, 12:06pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pvp-fest-is-coming/506188/241 "2026-02-18T12:06:52Z")
> [@CCP\_Zelus](#): > > Edit: > Thank you to everyone who participated, the event concluded at downtime/11 UTC on 17 Feb! We should have the final list in from the data team early next week and once weā€™ve had an opportunity to process and format it suitably weā€™ll be able to share it here! Finally, some newsā€¦ thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Fury\_Greannmhar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/fury_greannmhar/32/491534_2.png) [@Fury\_Greannmhar](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Fury_Greannmhar)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2026, 12:09pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pvp-fest-is-coming/506188/242 "2026-02-18T12:09:18Z")
> [@Phunky\_Quake](#): > > Itā€™ll certainly be interesting to see who (if anyone) was playing the event but not linked to zKillboard, some people who think theyā€™ve won stuff will probably be disappointed. Thatā€™s a possibility, but even if you disable tracking, thereā€™s a chance it will turn back on, but I donā€™t know how that works. ---
**Author:** ![Phunky\_Quake](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/phunky_quake/32/491543_2.png) [@Phunky\_Quake](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Phunky_Quake)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2026, 12:45pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pvp-fest-is-coming/506188/243 "2026-02-18T12:45:03Z")
Probably if you log back in to zKillboard, you can end up connecting again, but Iā€™m thinking more about people who never connected to it in the first place and only shot alts who had never connected - they would be completely leaderboard-invisible so far. I also think that the zKillboard ranking code isnā€™t respecting the tie-break that CCP specified (whoever got those points first has preference) and there are a few prize-boundary tie-breaks showing up right now. Thereā€™s another counting glitch I suspect, but canā€™t prove, but I sent Squizz an in-game mail about it. Edit: the tie break might be more complicated than this, see my next post, 3 below this one. ---
**Author:** ![Aiko\_Danuja](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/aiko_danuja/32/481237_2.png) [@Aiko\_Danuja](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Aiko_Danuja)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2026, 1:02pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pvp-fest-is-coming/506188/244 "2026-02-18T13:02:44Z")
> [@Phunky\_Quake](#): > > We should have the final list in from the data team early next week Thatā€™s confusing. Some people are claiming they were already paid, but CCP is saying the results have not been determined? ---
**Author:** ![Komi\_Valentine](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/komi_valentine/32/502956_2.png) [@Komi\_Valentine](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Komi_Valentine)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2026, 1:23pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pvp-fest-is-coming/506188/245 "2026-02-18T13:23:11Z")
![200_d](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/1/1/3/113a35d98a283d5dc6cb2d3d7f291474f276ee0d.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Phunky\_Quake](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/phunky_quake/32/491543_2.png) [@Phunky\_Quake](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Phunky_Quake)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2026, 2:14pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pvp-fest-is-coming/506188/246 "2026-02-18T14:14:36Z")
> Thatā€™s confusing. Some people are claiming they were already paid, but CCP is saying the results have not been determined? The original annoucement said : > While weā€™ll have our own internal tools for tracking the final scores, youā€™ll find a PvP Fest section on your individual pilot page on zKillboard, indicating what youā€™ve killed and where. which I take to mean that the zKillboard event page is not the final word on the results. So weā€™re waiting on CCP to calculate and post them. I strongly doubt that any prizes will be awarded until the results are published. After going back to that original announcement, I found : > **How do you determine the finishing position if two people end up with the same score?** > > Whoever achieves that position first will hold it, in the case of a tie. I had originally mis-interpreted this as ā€œwhoever gets that number of points firstā€, but what they actually said was concerning the ranking position, not the number of points. Working out which position was held first is computationally a lot tougher than working out which points total was held first (because you need to compile the rankings for every single server-tick\* of the event instead of just checking who got their last kill earlier) .. so now Iā€™m understanding why the data team have said ā€œcome back next weekā€. \*technically only the ticks where a killmail was issued, but itā€™s Eve, so thatā€™s most of them. ---
**Author:** ![Eloken\_Toralen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/eloken_toralen/32/401714_2.png) [@Eloken\_Toralen](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Eloken_Toralen)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2026, 10:16am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pvp-fest-is-coming/506188/247 "2026-02-19T10:16:29Z")
Who is the more foolish, the fool or he who follows him ? ---
**Author:** ![Molea\_Enjoyer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/molea_enjoyer/32/449451_2.png) [@Molea\_Enjoyer](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Molea_Enjoyer)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2026, 3:54pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pvp-fest-is-coming/506188/248 "2026-02-19T15:54:03Z")
@CCP_Zelus Please tell Sven the Intern to hurry up pasting the zkill table in excell and sending us the plex. thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Bingham\_McSnuggles](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/bingham_mcsnuggles/32/491707_2.png) [@Bingham\_McSnuggles](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Bingham_McSnuggles)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2026, 6:57pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pvp-fest-is-coming/506188/249 "2026-02-19T18:57:49Z")
i still have hope, ccp will sort guys like you out of that pvp fest competition. they might have stated that u sure can use your time and create alts and shoot those, but they also never clarified that this behaviour will be rewarded with plex šŸ˜ƒ ( semantics, ccp loves that type of ā– ā– ā– ā– ) ---
**Author:** ![Molea\_Enjoyer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/molea_enjoyer/32/449451_2.png) [@Molea\_Enjoyer](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Molea_Enjoyer)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2026, 7:10pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pvp-fest-is-coming/506188/250 "2026-02-19T19:10:49Z")
no Plex for you? ---
**Author:** ![Aiko\_Danuja](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/aiko_danuja/32/481237_2.png) [@Aiko\_Danuja](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Aiko_Danuja)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2026, 7:12pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pvp-fest-is-coming/506188/251 "2026-02-19T19:12:58Z")
The follower is more foolish because they are able to recognize the problem but fail to take reasonable action to address the issue. Mistakes happen, but willfully blundering into inevitable situations is by definition foolish. ---
**Author:** ![Meridan\_Night](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/meridan_night/32/488304_2.png) [@Meridan\_Night](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Meridan_Night)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2026, 8:52pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pvp-fest-is-coming/506188/252 "2026-02-19T20:52:13Z")
> [@Bingham\_McSnuggles](#): > > they might have stated that u sure can use your time and create alts and shoot those, but they also never clarified that this behaviour will be rewarded with plex That would be hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Uriel\_the\_Flame](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/uriel_the_flame/32/490165_2.png) [@Uriel\_the\_Flame](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Uriel_the_Flame)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2026, 9:24pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pvp-fest-is-coming/506188/253 "2026-02-19T21:24:03Z")
> [@Molea\_Enjoyer](#): > > Sven the Intern to hurry up pasting the zkill table in excell and sending us the plex Inb4 Sven only sends you 1 (one) PLEX by mistake and when asked about it CCP tells you `our logs show nothing`. šŸ¤” šŸ¤­ :psyccp: šŸ˜ ---
**Author:** ![Meridan\_Night](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/meridan_night/32/488304_2.png) [@Meridan\_Night](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Meridan_Night)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2026, 12:18am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pvp-fest-is-coming/506188/254 "2026-02-20T00:18:56Z")
> [@Uriel\_the\_Flame](#): > > sends you 1 (one) PLEX by mistake and when asked about it CCP tells you `our logs show nothing`. šŸ¤” > [@Version 23.02 - Catalyst - Known Issues](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/version-23-02-catalyst-known-issues/500576/472): > > PLEX transaction history is stuck in endless loading since yesterday. (Edit) Hereā€™s the LogLite error: Formatted exception info: TypeError: \_\_str\_\_ returned non-string (type NoneType) Common path prefix = c:/buildagent/work/4e00ffe7f5d454f0/eve/release/v23.02 Caught at: \/packages/bluepy/\_\_init\_\_.py(63) CallWrapper Thrown at: \/packages/bluepy/\_\_init\_\_.py(54) CallWrapper \/packages/uthread2/bluepyimpl.py(31) inner \/eveā€¦ Coincidence? ---
**Author:** ![Triglavian\_Ship\_Builder](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/triglavian_ship_builder/32/482850_2.png) [@Triglavian\_Ship\_Builder](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Triglavian_Ship_Builder)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2026, 8:09am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pvp-fest-is-coming/506188/255 "2026-02-20T08:09:26Z")
Just bring back the Proving Grounds. Better than this Paddingfest. ---
**Author:** ![Lugburz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/lugburz/32/486230_2.png) [@Lugburz](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Lugburz)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2026, 10:07am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pvp-fest-is-coming/506188/256 "2026-02-21T10:07:18Z")
so who were the people that had too much time on their hands and created an army of alpha alts just to kill for this .. event? [Previous page](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pvp-fest-is-coming/506188.md?page=11) [Next page](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pvp-fest-is-coming/506188.md?page=13)