I hereby necro this thread to ask the OP if anything ever came of the PvP event sans all the best-known PvPers.
Gaarp's event did happen, or more precisely, is ongoing.
In the unengineered ship division I managed to polish off Necro_Warrior and Blisto_Sombrero, back to back to make it to the final four in that category. The battle against Sombrero was close as I had 11% hull remaining about about 2 minutes left on life support. Good games to Necro and Sombrero. Play-offs this weekend. I'm hoping to take home the trophy in this category.
In the fully engineered Anaconda division I made it to the sweet 16 (out of 300 participants) but was disqualified from further participation when my pet Degu chewed through my ethernet cable and disconnected me. No hard feelings as I was losing anyways - and would have likely been eliminated. I think the rules on disconnects are a bit punitive, but I know why they have to be there.
Anyways, these are a great group of guys (and gals,
wink @ Space_Vixxy), the only difficult part for me is when they start cracking jokes about the people on this forum who weren't invited to the event. Taco_Bob's joke about jasonbarron made me do a spit take - I blew a perfectly blended Cosmopolitan all over my monitor.
Good times.