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Alliance Tournament XI - Day Two Wrap-Up (Loser's Bracket)

Winner: SCUM (?)
Score: 100 - 26
Length: 5:26

Sound Mind bring their Bhaalgorn flagship. They have nothing to lose. Losers in evening matches are out of the tournament. Sound Mind loses its Oneiros right off the bat, then they lose their flagship. It's game over. Scum mop up the rest of the field.

Winner: R.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N. (?)
Score: 100 - 7
Length: 6:07

Castabouts bring their Armageddon flagship. Revolution clears the field of Castabout frigates, then focus fires on the flagship as Castabouts come into range, destroying it. Revolution then trades an Arbitrator for another Armageddon and an Oneiros. Revolution now in firm control.

Winner: Outbreak (?)
Score: 100 - 2
Length: 8:52

GSF lose a Scimitar early to Outbreak's Dominix team. Both are fielding drone teams, but Goons don't have as many drone bonused ships as Outbreak. Outbreak up 28 - 0 early. Match is firmly in Outbreak's control.

Winner: Perihelion Alliance (?)
Score: 100 - 47
Length: 8:35

Perihelion field five battleships and one logistics. Wormhole Holders field an eight person Vindicator set-up. Holders lose a Rook in the first 30 seconds. In a mistake, a Perihelion Armageddon MJDs out of the arena, but Peri remains in the lead after taking down an Oneiros and a Dardevil. A lot of effective MJD work by Perihelion in this match, even given their initial error.

Winner: Rainbow Dash Friends (?)
Score: 100 - 18
Length: 9:15

Rainbow trade a Brutix Navy Issue for a Vargur, Sabre and Merlin. It is already four minutes into the match. The Devil's Scimitar is shown to be repping the Brutix from Rainbow Dash, which results in the loss of Devil's Sleipnir. Accident? Maybe. Rainbow did ask the commentators to relay a message over the stream, something concerning an awox. So perhaps the Devil pilot decided to defect to Rainbow. Devil will have some questions to answer internally, while Rainbow wins handily.

Winner: Sicarius Draconis (?)
Score: 100 - 40
Length: 9:16

Babylon bring a seven ship Dominix set-up, to Draconis' ten ships. Draconis begins by damping down the entire Babylon team. Babylon lose an Oneiros quickly, then a Dominix. Before Babylon can take down Draconis' Bhaalgorn, they lose an Ishtar. Draconis seem firmly in control of the match.

Winner: Surely You're Joking (?)
Score: 100 - 34
Length: 8:12

Joking goes with Navy Ravens, while Moist with Navy Scorpions and nine pilots. Joking goes straight for the logistics, downing a Basilisk in the first fifteen seconds of the match. Moist answers with a Scimitar explosion of their own. It's a bit of horse-trading now, Moist lose a Dramiel and Huginn, Joking lose a Raven. All Moist has left now are their Navy Scorpions, and they're only down nine points. Joking takes down one of those Scorpions to take control of the match.

Winner: Choke Point (?)
Score: 100 - 4
Length: 8:17

Both teams going with triple Dominix set-ups. Choke Point going with more ewar, while Jihad relying on more defense. Choke scores first with four destroyer kills. When Jihad later loses a Guardian their time in the tournament is over.

Winner: HUN Reloaded (?)
Score: 100 - 16
Length: 4:26

Hun with a full team, anchored by Navy Scorpions. Noir with a nine person ECM team, consisting of a Proteus, then Rooks and Blackbirds. Noir loses an Oneiros immediately, then their two Blackbirds. Noir happens to be running an advertisement during the Alliance Tournament. I hope they aren't playing up tournament experience as a reason for people to join, because their time in the Alliance Tournament is now over.

Winner: Angeli Mortis (?)
Score: 93 - 27
Length: 10:00

Quebec fielding some sort of snowflake fleet to Angeli's Navy Scorpion set-up. Quebec does score first, getting up 23-0 before Angeli gets their shit together. The Quebec Machariel dies to a boundary violation. Angeli now up 36-23. All of Quebec's DPS is gone and Angeli start running away with the match.

Winner: Urine Alliance (?)
Score: 100 - 15
Length: 7:54

King of Lowsec favourites, Urine Alliance, come in with a Dominix team, facing a Kill It Navy Scorpion set-up. Urine goes after Mauluses first, then switch to a Navy Scorpion when they get into range. Urine is now up 45-15 and the match is well under their control.

Winner: SOLAR FLEET (?)
Score: 100 - 31
Length: 7:29

Solar with a cruise missile Navy Scorpion set-up facing off against Darkspawn Hurricane Fleet Issues. Dark goes straight for support, downing Solar's Scimitar. Solar trade that for a Hurricane Fleet Issue. Two minutes into the match and tied at 23 points a piece. Darkspawn focusing on frigates, while Solar blows up a Huginn. Solar now up by 14 points. With two Hurricane Fleet Issues down Solar is in control.

Winner: Heretic Initiative (?)
Score: 50 - 18
Length: 10:00

Heretic and Serious with Dominix set-ups. Serious is shield tanked, while Heretic is armor tanked. Heretic destroy the Serious set-up immediately by taking out their Basilisk. Serious is now being picked apart slowly. So very slowly. Six minutes into the match, still no battleships dead, the score 33 - 18 in favour of Heretic. A Serious Dominix is finally downed in the last minute.

Winner: The Obsidian Front (?)
Score: 100 - 28
Length: 4:58

Mildly Sober, the folks that brought the haulers on day one have arrived with an inexpensive Megathron set-up, facing the Brutix Navy Issues for Obsidian. Sober trades a Megathron for a Brutix Navy Issue, then trades another Megathron for a Thorax. Sober is down 34 points after only two and a half minutes, they will at least end their time in the Alliance Tournament honourably.

Winner: Sadistica Alliance (?)
Score: 100 - 30
Length: 7:30

Terrorists bring their flagship Vindicator, the only battleship on their team. They are matched up against a Sadistica Dominix gang. A Terrorist Vexor is first blood, Then a second Terrorist Vexor falls. And then a third. Terrorists down 21-0 at the two and a half minute mark. At three minutes Sadistica loses an Oneiros, which is immediately followed by a Terrorist Oneiros. Terrorists start clawing back with a Dominix kill, but lose their Myrmidon shortly afterwards. The Vindicator is the only Terrorist ship left. It looks like the flagship will die, and it does.

Winner: The Kadeshi (?)
Score: 89 - 21
Length: 10:00

Two brawling fleets. Synthetic loses a Vindicator for nothing, not a good trade. Eventually two Kadeshi Vexors do die. With three additional destroyer kills, the Kadeshi are up 29-14. The Kadeshi whittle Synthetic away.
Source: Alliance Tournament XI - Day Two Wrap-Up (Loser's Bracket)