I very much like the events hosted by 62nd and we had a few enquires in our Corp about rules on this event to participate. Upon reading your post, rules apart from bring T1 fittings where not clear, as of yet.
We wanted to push your event on our website as well, for more puplicity, so I asked If you had a defined set of rules to this event, or even better, an article for promoting incl. screenshots etc... However, after speaking to Baglodush (is the name spelled right?) it was made clear, that this event is basically only interessting for high ep veteran players. Which is a shame, for all the work you spend on it.
For new players, its just a matter of being canonfodder, correct me if I am wrong.
The main objective should be the fun, however, as a new player wanting to participate in the tournament, there is no chance of winning at all, trying to compete against someone who has an old account, with i.e already basic robotics at lvl 9-10, weapon skills, Mechanics etc.... Its more of a situation if one can alpha hit his opponent or not. It´s not even a matter of, well its fun and you can try your fittings against others.
I was under the impression, that there would be for instance, different "EP classes" to compete in. So newbie players can have fun, competing within their EP range and therefore have a realistic chance, of a successfull effort.
But looking at the players competing, this doesnt seem to be possible. Sure, give it another year or so, the EP gap for the players who have started now, will become unrelevant. But for know, unfortunatly I can not encourage our Corp troopers, with lets say a month old account, to participate in this event.
As sad as I find it myself, but the NIC is rather spend into common open pvp. As even a T1 fitted Yagel will probably still be around 400.000 - 1.000 000 NIC, depending of the choice of fitting. A lot, for a new player and for a sure loss. And demotivating, if their is no realistic chance anyway.
Maybe you will consider the thought of introducing competing "classes", to gain more participation of interessted new players.
Thanks for your good work,
MoBIoS