Spirit vs. Letter

Last year was the first time I watched an Alliance Tournament.  I picked the loser in almost every match I tried to guess but I have to admit the competition really sparked my interest in small group warfare.  Not that Eve ever really has combat on such a scale, but it's nice to theorycraft.  I also liked how the smallest details meant success or failure.  Sadly the final battle was a complete letdown, but the rest of the tournament was superb.

This year the Alliance Tournament is already off to a rocky start and the first match has not even happened yet.   The two teams that won last year have been banned for practicing together, against each other, and in the same corp on the test server.   The rules this year were changed to prevent one alliance from entering two teams but Hydra and Outbreak were clearly two alliances working as one team.

Breaking the spirit of the rules if not the letter of the law.

What's in your hangar

So once again I'm following Jester's lead.  This time I'm posting what's in my hangar.  Well, not just my hangar but the hangars of my two alts as well.  Since I fly pretty much all three at once and they are fairly interchangeable on most ships it seems to make sense.  I'm not adding the names because I don't use unique titles.  Instead I use modern day navy designations.  So my battleships are all BB-hull number- name.  Kinda plain but helps me keep track when I start moving stuff around.

5x Badger Mark II -  Mainly used for PI hauling and misc movement

3x Basilisk- All three pilots are Logi 5 and I use these for incursions mainly

3x Blackbird- Armor/shield versions, primary ship when not flying logi for pvp

4x Buzzard- Each toon has at least one scout

6x Caracal- I love the idea of this ship, but rarely fly them, first pvp kill though

3x Celestis- Experiment that never panned out

Charon- the first ship I knew had to have, useful for moving systems, rarely flown

2x Cormorant- haven't tried them out since the buff

Covetor- why not

Crane- for sneaking through low

2x Crow- rarely flown

Dominix- built for BS RR op, flown once

4x Drake- mission and exploration mainly

Falcon- rarely used as I prefer BB for pvp

3x Ferox- another ship I love the idea of, haven't tried it since hybrid buff

Gila- missions

3x Hawk- use them for running around solo, pvp fit

Hulk- cause sometimes you just feel like mining

2x Hurricane- one mission fit, one not fit

Machariel- mission fit

Mackinaw- ice, ice baby

Maelstrom- mission fit

3x Mammoth- cause sometimes a badger just won't do

Manticore- got it before I realized I have better options for scouting

Moa- No clue why I have this

Myrmidon- got it for mission dps, rarely flown

Orca- most versatile ship ever, love it

3x Osprey- RR fit for cheap support

2x Rattlesnake- mission fit

Raven- mission fit, rarely flown

3x Rupture- experiment, rarely flown

Scimitar- PVP fit, I need to get a few more, love this ship

2x Tengu- mission fit

Vexor- experiment

Worm- cause it's just plain fun to have that many drones in a lvl 1 mission