Last week, our own Rob Lashley and Ripper X took part in the Planetside 2 Ultimate Empire Showdown. Rob as reporter, and Ripper as contestant. Today, we're recapping what came out of the event, including the future of PS2 as an eSport with MLG.

Sony Online Entertainment held their first ever PlanetSide 2 Ultimate Empire Showdown last week, January 25th, 2013, at the Book Bindery in Culver City, California. The UES was a competition between the three factions of PS2 led by a designer and celebrity YouTube personalities. The UES was open to the public and allowed fans of PS2 to interact with SOE developers as well as the internet personalities. Fans at home could also play along and help their favorite faction across the live servers. Jace Hall co-hosted the event with PS2 Creative Director Matthew Higby. Jace and Matt were joined by Adrianne Curry who roamed the floor as their analyst in the trenches. There were also two important announcements made concerning the future of PS2.

Read the rest of Rob's PS2 UES Recap.

Vanu conquered in most servers all based on skill but this event wasn't about skill it was an act so they did not get the spotlight.

Terran Republic got the spotlight and a trophy for the clicks they got on facebook and Twiter.

Conclusion : Skill doesn't matter facebook and Twiter votes do.

Worst game event I have ever seen.

Originally posted by eric_w66
Vanu conquered because their have their OP gear lol. I can't mention what my squad calls the Magrider.... :).

Yeah, its hilarious that people think Vanu players are just "that" much better and more coordinated.  Their guns have NO bullet drop, less recoil, and shoot three times as fast.  And the even funnier part is they try to argue that because their bullets do less dmg per bullet that makes it ok.  Hrmm, basic math, 3 hits at 30dmg per hit = 90.  1 hit at 50dmg per hit = 50...

I'm just going to leave this tweet from Matt Higby right here regarding Magmowers

https://twitter.com/mhigby/status/295992349031530496

Not sure if you're responding to me, but its a well known issue on the official forums.  They're already plannin a lot of fixes for some of the extra OP stupid stuff that vanu has.  For example their tanks can move in any direction almost instantly.  Whereas the other 2 parties have to turn their vehicles to move, and its very slow and arduous.

The vanu air ships are faster, more agile, MUCH more controllable, and once again have WAY better weapons then the counterparts.

The second event was to hold the Bastion on Amerish (all events were on Amerish) not the Crown on Indar.

This was also a BS event as the default map has the Vanu holding the Bastion to begin with.  As one of the most defensible bases on Amerish, all they had to do was sit and camp people streaming in to die for 40 minutes.  Glossed over were also the horrible rendering issues and lag that people encountered.  It is kind of hard to take over a base when you can't see your enemy until you are within 10m (if at all).  No enemies on screen and you suddenly die to 3 grenades that pop out of nowhere, awesome fun.

TR won the final event which was the most representative of the actual game, gaining and holding the most territory.

Vanu rule :P

Vanu isn't OP... they are just better than you. NC are the ones with the stronger weapon damage, and TR have faster rate of fire and zerg like no tomorrow. 

P.S. Thanks for crying about the Magriders and getting them nerfed TR/NC crybabies... Vanu will still kick your ass. We will adapt. We will conquer. FOR VANU!