CCP has announced details of the sixth Alliance Tournament in EVE Online, filling players in on dates and times, organizational and rules changes, and the live broadcast.

It is with great pleasure that I announce that we are in the initial stages of organizing another Alliance PVP Tournament. There have been a few threads on the forums over the last few weeks while we have been finalizing this, and I have been itching to reply to each one with this news! As with previous tournaments, it's going to have excitement, explosions, extravagant setups, exotic dancers and plenty more (well maybe not exotic dancers; we will see how we go on that one!). This blog is the "early warning blog" to let you all know that it's on so you can plan accordingly.

Fancy a Date?

The tournament will consist of six days of competition - the same as previous tournaments. One key difference is that it will take place over three weekends and not two, which means that there will be no competition on Fridays - only Saturdays and Sundays (something our North American subscribers will appreciate I am sure).

These are the dates we have in mind:

* Tournament Signups - Dec 19th - Jan 9th
* Qualifying Round 1 - Jan 24th, Jan 25th
* Qualifying Round 2 - Jan 31st, Feb 1st
* Finals - Feb 7th, Feb 8th

Read more here.