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With the arrival of the Abyssal Proving Grounds in New Eden and an exciting quadrant full of conflict ahead of us we’re inviting capsuleers to vie for fame and glory by announcing Champions of the Abyss!

Over the course of Quadrant 3 there are nine Proving Grounds events planned. Each event will have its own unique filament which will work only during the period that event is running. Your victories for each event will be tracked on leaderboard and these leaderboards will be reset before the start of the next event. For more details check out the recent dev blog about the new Proving Filaments feature.

THE CONTEST

At the conclusion of the final event of Quadrant 3, the number of victories of the top 100 pilots from each of the Proving Grounds events will be added together, and the top 10 characters who have racked up the most wins across all events will be declared the Champions of the Abyss!

The formats for the first three planned events are as follows but may be subject to change:

July 16 - 28: 2v2 Tech One Combat, Attack, and Disruption Cruisers
Ship Types: Omen, Caracal, Thorax, Stabber, Maller, Moa, Vexor, Rupture, Arbitrator, Blackbird, Celestis, Bellicose

July 31 - August 2: Five Player Destroyer Free-for-All
Ship Types: Coercer, Dragoon, Cormorant, Corax, Catalyst, Algos, Thrasher, Talwar, Sunesis

August 7 - 9: Amarr Foundation Day Special Format: 3v3 Imperial Navy Slicers
Ship Types: Imperial Navy Slicer

The preliminary schedule for the rest of the Proving Ground events in Quadrant 3 are as follows (formats TBA):

• August 14 - 23: Event 4
  
• August 28 - 30: Event 5
  
• September 4 - 6: Event 6
  
• September 11 - 20: Event
  
• September 25 - 27: Event 8
  
• October 2 - 11: Event 9

HOW SCORING WORKS

Each victory in the Proving Grounds counts as a single point on the leaderboard regardless of the format of the event. So a victory in a 3v3 fight during one event will count as a single point for each member of the victorious team, while in an individual contest such as a 5-way free-for-all, only the overall winner of each battle will receive a point.

The final score used to determine the Champions of the Abyss will be the total of all wins recorded by a given character across all events during quadrant 3. The number of draws and losses will have no affect on your final scores.

Your pathway to victory may lay in complete dominance in just some of the events or consistent performances in all events across the entire quadrant. The ongoing leaderboard for Champions of the Abyss will be tracked in this forum post and updated at the conclusion of each event until we have our final winner.

THE REWARDS OF GLORIFICATION

Similar to the Champions of Lowsec event from back in Quadrant 1, there are some cool rewards for the glorification of the combatants who prove their mettle in these abyssal arenas.

The top 10 characters on the final Champions of the Abyss leaderboard will receive:

• 1000 PLEX
  
• A unique medal commemorating their achievement added to their in-game character sheet

The top 5 characters will also receive:

• a US$50 voucher and free postage for a single order from the EVE Online Gear Store
• Their names up in lights on an in-game billboard advertisement celebrating their prowess for all of New Eden to see

In addition to that the top 3 characters will also receive:

• the EVE Online ship model of their choice from our friends at Mixed Dimensions. The stand for your model will be signed by the development team who worked on the Proving Grounds feature.

And finally, the identity of the overall winner will no doubt become a very hot topic amongst the population of New Eden. That capsuleer can probably expect the most prominent news outlet in the cluster to feature them prominently in an episode to air sometime after the conclusion of Champions of the Abyss!

Greetings, music-loving Capsuleers,

We are pleased to say that our second album, EVE Online: Empire Space II has been added to Spotify, in our continued efforts to bring the wonderful music of New Eden to you to listen to wherever you desire!

The music was created by none other than RealX, an audio software engineer and in-house composer who used to work at CCP Games for more than 16 years. The EVE Online: Empire Space II is our second of many more albums to come to Spotify throughout the year. Make sure to follow RealX on Spotify to not miss the next release!

EVE Online: Empire Space II features classics such as “..but Still We Go on”, “Amongst Allies”, “Bonanza Excavation” and many more!

Since Tuesday, pilots have been able to collect Proving Filaments for this first event from loot drops in Abyssal Deadspace and Triglavian Invasion systems. Now you can put them to good use!

As outlined in the dev blog introducing this new feature, the first event - which runs from now until July 28 - will allow for 2v2 tech 1 combat, attack and distruption cruiser match-ups. This means that permitted hulls are the Omen, Caracal, Thorax, Stabber, Maller, Moa, Vexor, Rupture, Arbitrator, Blackbird, Celestis and Bellicose.

The leaderboard feature we mentioned in the dev blog needs a little bit more work, so it won't be available in-game for the first few events. But fear not! We know that participants will be eager to track their progress in the Proving Grounds so in the interim, we will be posting updates of the current leaderboard regularly in this forum thread.

Also, from today and over the weekend, extra Proving Filaments for this event will be available as a daily log-in reward. So grab a friend and a couple of cruisers and glorify yourselves in the arena!

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EVE Online's Quadrant 3 is called "Zenith", and its arrival sees the seismic reshaping of New Eden come to pass! The final chapter of the invasion story arc will come to an end as the Triglavians' plans approach their climactic conclusion, and Capsuleers will have a huge part to play in the star-spanning consequences of that reshaping.

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The Eclipse Quadrant was an incredible journey through events, celebrations, login campaigns, huge visual updates and balance changes, as well as the introduction of new and exciting ships, culminating in the final chapter of the Invasion expansion.

The Zenith Quadrant will now ramp it all up and kick off with a big update to the Abyssal Proving Grounds feature, and the introduction of new Proving Filaments to New Eden. The Proving Filaments will take Capsuleers from any point in space, directly to an Abyssal Proving Ground inside Abyssal Deadspace where they will engage in PvP combat! Different combat formats, specific ship classes, new leaderboards and new Triglavian-themed settings will all ensure an explosive start to the Quadrant!

Keep your eyes peeled for even more news on what's coming during the Zenith Quadrant over the following weeks, including visual updates, meta changes, login campaigns, events and more!

Fly safe!