On behalf of Ushra Khan I would like to open invitations to all the Matari Tribes, Minmatar Militia, Their friends and Allies to the Tribal Tournament YC120. A celebration of our people, our culture and our spirit if you will. Among our number, we have a great many artists, poets, engineers, scientist, farmers and warriors. However, as a people are defined by our fighting spirit, but we are so much more…
But Warriors at heart the Matari people are…
So the call is out! on the 21st of December 2018 a Tournament will be run to find a warrior among our People, who can overcome members of their Tribes to be called our Champion. Call it a Gathering? a Stramash? a Powwaw? It is in its essence a celebration of the Matari People.
Join Channel: Tribal Tournament for more information
General Information
Date: Friday 21st December 2018
Location/Time: System: Dal Gather at 19:00(Eve time) first round 20:00
Entry: Free (open to ALL who support the Matari people and their fight for freedom)
System will be in place to negate pilots losing sec status
Ship Rules
You can use only the “Rifter” ship
No Microrpdrives
No Smartbombs
Generic Rifters will be on contract T1 and T2 fit but recommend bringing your own
You will need a least 3 Rifters, 4 if you want to win!
Fight Rules
Tournament will consist of 3 Death Match rounds with one Warrior left in each
The Final is a 3-way fight between the Winners of the 3 Death Matches
Last Rifter pilot alive in Final is the Winner
No activating offensive modules until round starts(autocannons,rockets,webs etc.)
Once round starts it will not stop for any reason until one Rifter pilot is left
Warping out of combat area during the fight will disqualify you from the Tournament
Rifters entering after Round has begun will not Qualify to win
Any non Rifter ships entering arena will be asked to leave in true Matari fashion
The fights will take place within 30km of a beacon, pilots moving outside the 30km range will get one warning to return if ignored they will be disqualified.
*No retunring to Arena after dying untilnext round.
Do not deliberately kills pods, Deliberate pod killing will mean disqualification
1st place: Faction fit Rifter, 1 Billion isk, Rare Nefantar Rifter skin and the adulation of the Tribes 2nd place: 500 million isk and Rare Nefantar Rifter skin 3rd place: 250 Million isk and a Rare Nefantar Rifter Skin
It looks like an interesting event, but these two rules seem to go against the spirit of the ship. High speed microwarpdrive maneuvering combined with great mobility have been hallmarks of the design almost since the advent of the Empyrean age. While these rules seem aimed at keeping the action close at hand, they seem to favor one specific doctrine (afterburner autocannon Rifters with rocket launchers) over all else (light missile/artillery kiting Rifters, close range Rifters using high speed and sensor dampers to break target locks in between fast passes, etc).
It strikes me that you could change these rules to allow microwarp drives and restrict the ships to within, say, 100km of the beacon and still have an extremely dynamic event.
Totaly understand your point Shintoko. However I ran an event like this before and we had several issues with mixed props, MWDs had clear advantage if they manged to pull range, this led to exciting but long drawn out fights… too long tbh. I imagine the amount of 400mm plates fitted will give an a clear speed advantage to a correctly fit AB kitey Rifter also with the spare midslot (as no scram is necessary) this could open it up to some very interesting fits. But I will have a chat in Alliance about your suggestion. Maybe increasing the range to 40km will give some room for Kitey fits?
If you are doing death match rounds and 3-way fights I would advice against allowing MWDs as some people may be inclined to win those by chickening out of the fighting.
Well during the days of the Rifter’s popularity it was most common to see afterburner fit Rifters in lowsec, brawling it out. Despite the speed of the Rifter it really shined when getting in close with the opponent. Which Wensley’s Rifter Manual (although outdated for modern use) also reflected ((link)).
Looking forward to this! While it may have been surpassed by the Breacher, the Rifter maintains a warm place in my heart. A pair of them ran the Kahah aerial defenses during rescue operations! I think I’l use one of those heroic hulls in the tournament.
I hope to see all brothers and sisters at the tournament. Even those I don’t always get along with.
Let us celebrate our warrior spirit, and pay homage to one of the old faithfulls of the fleet. The brawler, the tackler, the newbie ship, and even the troop transport on occasion.
