Vehement has given The Vipers his blessing for us to continue the Ultimate Wingman Tournament events. When he ran it, it was a fun and popular event. We are glad to be bringing it back.

The Fifth Ultimate Wingman Tournament will be held Saturday 6/27/09 at 7PM GMT (3PM EST). Signup cutoff is a half hour prior. To sign up, see Strat or Ishathis Bessuni in-game or post in this thread including the in-game names of you and your wingman. The winning team will receive a prize, courtesy of The Viper Guild.

Rules:
1. You must enter with a wingman. You may not change wingmen.
2. There are no weapon restrictions, but only four ship chassis are allowed. You may participate in any non faction-specific Centurion, Vulture, Warthog, or Atlas. This means your ship will probably be a mkIII or mkIV.
3. The tournament ladder will be a simple double elimination format.
4. Similar to the nation war, leaving the sector is not permitted, and running for obscene distances will result in disqualification. Interpreting this distance is up to the discretion of your fight's moderator. In previous tournaments, many people did turn their backs, but only to switch targets to their second enemy. This is acceptable. Fleeing to avoid getting shot is not.
5. Lagging out renders you victim to whatever happens to your ship. Matches will only be replayed in the event of a server/system/sector crash. Participants may be disqualified for severe lag.
6. Any players who disrupt any major player-run event and are banned from the event between the time of this post and the tournament will not be permitted to participate in the tournament.

The Deneb Run will not be held on the afternoon of the 27th; I'd rather not make those who would want to participate in both have to pick and choose. Plus, I might want to participate myself... who knows.

--Miharu

I might want to participate myself...

Hahaha . . . whew, that's a good one!

i suppose i am banned from this also

would you behave?

Bah. Sorry Miharu. I forgot about the Deneb Run. We can make this an hour earlier if you want. Let me know.

Really, I don't mind. An hour earlier won't help, it took more than two hours when I participated (in #2, not sure if #3 or #4 were longer or shorter), so you'd have to start really early to accommodate both events.

I told Ishathis last night that I'd cancel the DR for that week. I meant it.

no one does stupid newb run its the dumbest player run event in the game atleast this allows killing people and isn't a test of how fucking boring jumpting through 30 or so sectors can be. fuck deneb run go to uwt

Deneb Run also allows killing people...and you get a reward for doing so...

I'll participate.

Any players who disrupt any major player-run event and become banned from the event between the time of this post and the tournament will not be permitted to participate in the tournament. I updated the top post with the additional rule. This is counted from the time of this post, not the original, so no one is banned yet.

FatStrat85: You are too nice. IMHO i think peypey should be banned but its up to you. If he only disrupted one NW event i would say let him in but it seems that he disrupted a lot more then one NW event.

I think the "become banned" wording might be a little bit unclear, so to clarify: if you are already banned from an event and you disrupt that event again between now and the UWT, you will be banned from the UWT.

I admit I'm not the best combat pilot by far but I have missed all of the UWT up until now and if I can find a wingman I'd like to participate for this one.

Elbryon

As per stated policy, peytros is banned from the fifth UWT for disrupting the 176th Nation War.

oh fuck i totally forgot about that... can we let this one slide?

No, we cannot let it slide, but we plan on hosting this event periodically, so you can participate in the next one.

He should be banned from the next one too for being pathetic enough to ask for this to slide.

He should be banned from everything...just for existing :P

I'm in.