Dates and Times

Signups opened at 20:00 GMT on Friday, 19th June

Ticks started at 20:00 GMT on Friday, 26th June

Ticks finished at 20:00 GMT on Friday, 12th August

Round Summary

Round 32 saw a decrease in tag limit size down to 70 in an attempt to stimulate the game. Three alliances were viewed as the primary contenders for this round, Conspiracy Theory and two new alliances, p3nguins and Apprime. Apprime, with what was considered by many to be the best contending group of players in the round, initially accumulated a value lead over their rivals and began to pull away. At this point a block of CT, p3nguins, Ascendancy, Newdawn, EC and at times Violent Realm joined forces and attacked Apprime. Up against extremely unfavourable odds, and despite a brief interval in the block's working together and the help of ROCK, Apprime were unable to hold their own and their planets were slowly roided. p3nguins and CT both accumulated a roid lead over Apprime and CT were able to move into the #1 spot while p3nguins closed in behind Apprime as well. As Apprime dropped to #2 and moved further behind CT, with a significantly lower roid count than the other alliances, Ascendancy left the block and positioned themselves alongside Apprime.

This reduction in firepower weakened the block and following Ascendancy's depature Violent Realm and then ND also left, deciding that their round goals no longer involved targeting Apprime. CT and p3nguins were steadily caught up to by Apprime in this period, assisted in their targeting by Ascendancy. Finding it difficult to fully focus on Apprime, and hampered by planets crashing p3nguins and CT were passed out by Apprime and despite some end of round closures Apprime were able to maintain their position as the #1 alliance for Round 32.