PvP Fest 2026
Competitive capsuleers,
PvP Fest 2026 is coming! From downtime (11:00 UTC) on 9 February to downtime on 17 February, pilots across New Eden can engage in 1v1 battles with a twist.
It’s February. A time of year where special connections are sought and found, leaps of faith are taken into the unknown, people look at others and engage them. In brutal PvP, obviously.
Killing is just a means of communication, after all, and while the best ship in EVE might be friendship, you know what’s a close second?
Championship!
What Is PvP Fest?
This event gives you an opportunity to flex your PvP muscles in a new and fun way. The goal is to score as many kills as you can, provided they fulfill the following criteria:
Solo: Defined with the same consistency as zKillboard – scoring a solo kill (with NPCs or sentry guns on the killmail is acceptable.)
Uniquely Piloted: Meaning that if you kill “player A” in a ship once, more kills against Player A will not count as additional kills.
Individual Ship Kills: Meaning that destroying a specific ship type in a given area of space counts once toward your kill count. For example, if you destroy a Rifter in lowsec, more Rifters in lowsec won’t count. However, if you destroy a Rifter in a different area, such as nullsec, that does count as a new kill. The same applies to all ship types across different areas of space.
Each kill is counted the same way. Meaning a shuttle and a freighter count as 1 kill each.
Prizes:
Speaking of leaderboards, there are two different ones:
Overall leaderboard: featuring the top 100 pilots in all of New Eden, based on their total accumulated kills.
Local leaderboards: featuring the top 20 pilots in each area of space, as listed above.
Overall Leaderboard:
Finishing position | PLEX Prize |
|---|---|
1 | 12,000 |
2 | 8,000 |
3 | 6,000 |
4-10 | 3,000 (each) |
11-50 | 1,000 (each) |
51-100 | 500 (each) |
Local leaderboards (one each for highsec, lowsec, nullsec, wormholes, and Pochven)
Finishing position | PLEX Prize |
|---|---|
1 | 6,000 |
2 | 4,000 |
3 | 3,000 |
4-10 | 1,500 (each) |
11-20 | 500 (each) |
Here are some examples of how this might all play out:
I kill a Rifter owned by “Joe” in highsec = 1 kill awarded
I kill a Rifter owned by “Joe” in lowsec = no kill awarded as I’ve already killed “Joe”
I kill a Rifter owned by “Roger” in lowsec = 1 kill awarded
I kill a Catalyst owned by “Roger” in highsec = no kill awarded as I’ve already killed “Roger”
I kill a Catalyst owned by “John” in highsec = 1 kill awarded
I kill a Catalyst owned by “Mary” in highsec = no kill awarded, as I’ve already killed a Catalyst in highsec
After six kills I now have:
3 kills awarded on the overall leaderboard
2 kills awarded on the highsec leaderboard
1 kill awarded on the lowsec leaderboard
I can still get awarded for killing three more Rifters, one each in Pochven, nullsec, and wormhole space, plus four more Catalysts, in lowsec, nullsec, Pochven and wormhole space.
Additionally, the highest value solo kill per area (at zKill rates) will be awarded a 1,000 PLEX bonus.
Frequently Asked Questions
What’s stopping me from making alts and killing them to increase my score?
Nothing is stopping you (or anyone else) from doing that. If you want to spend time, invest in, and then kill 1,500 alts in different ships in different areas of space, that’s up to you.
I’m an unstoppable killing machine. Can you help me keep track of all the spacefriends I massacre?
Good news, everyone! Squizz will set up a new section on zKillboard for this event! While we’ll have our own internal tools for tracking the final scores, you’ll find a PvP Fest section on your individual pilot page on zKillboard, indicating what you’ve killed and where. Don’t forget to post your kills to zKillboard or sync your EVE account to keep score.
How do you expect me to solo an Avatar in lowsec or a Python in highsec?
We don’t! It’s just easier to include rare scenarios through the event and let them shine as standout things that someone may find a way to achieve, rather than retroactively accommodating them if someone pulls off the impossible.
Isn’t CCP just encouraging ganking in highsec with this challenge?
There are plenty of ways to get kills in highsec besides ganking. Declaring war on others, Factional Warfare kills, or duels are all valid methods. Additionally, if a highsec system in an insurgency warzone reaches corruption 5, it still counts as highsec for the purpose of this event, despite its lawless state. The same applies for lowsec systems becoming lawless nullsec systems.
How do you determine the finishing position if two people end up with the same score?
Whoever achieves that position first will hold it, in the case of a tie.
A section of the EVE forums has been set up to answer any other questions that may pop up, supply a few PvP resources, and post the final scores.
We look forward to watching you kill and be killed!
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