Hello spacefriends and welcome to the Community Beat!
Has someone checked on brisc?
Overnight the crew at Rampage Inc held a livestream fundraiser in memory of their late friend and EVE Online luminary Innominate who passed away in 2024. In the space of four hours, Merkelchen, Brisc Rubal, Asher Elias and Tombstone along with their community raised over US$21,000 for the Cancer Research Institute - more than doubling the amount they raised in 2025!
As you would expect from this crew the stream was far from sombre, with jokes and anecdotes flowing. At one point Brisc was press ganged enthusiastically volunteered to offer up some of his beloved Warhammer minis to be sacrificed if just one person were to donate $1,000. As you would expect the prospect of causing Brisc emotional damage is highly motivational to many in New Eden, and so several people immediately did just that. Mrs Brisc was then called upon to wield the hammer (and seemed to derive a great deal of satisfaction from doing so).
It's always heartwarming to see the community come together for a good cause. Although capsuleers fight like cats and dogs in-game, one thing we can all agree on is: fuck cancer.
Caroline Aya's Fundraiser
But the giving doesn't end there. There are even more fundraisers coming up for good causes beginning with a LAN party & charity stream being hosted by Caroline Aya from Whooping Snakes. The event will be hosted over on her Twitch channel on the weekend of 29 & 30 August and will raise funds for the Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance. Tune in and donate if you can!
And although it's a few months away (don't worry, we'll give you a reminder) here's an early heads up about another charity event happening on 7 November, where serial-fundraiser Schadsquatch will once again be holding an Extra Life game day to raise funds for a local children's hospital in Alberta.
Don't Sit So Close to the TV
After a long hiatus 3TEARS of Deepwater Hooligans returns with a FRESH PvP video wherein he drifts his Phoenix Navy Issue like he's in a movie franchise with Vin Diesel:
Meanwhile Deimos24 of Honor Point has dropped this super well edited video of small gang filament roam hijinks in his slippery, snakey Nightmare:
And Sven Bauer from Snuffed Out brings another slick video of a dread brawl which escalates into an huge Titan drop:
Phew! That's a lot of epic PvP - maybe too much - we don't want you to be overstimulated. Let's wrap this section up with this stylish Alliance Tournament XXII promo video from Rixx Javix!
Speaking of the Alliance Tournament...
Alliance Tournament XXII Art Contest
Nora Maldoran from WE FORM V0LTA is once again running an Alliance Tournament Art Contest with 5,000 PLEX up for grabs as prizes!
Last year's first place winner was Arian Felou with Ceno Rush. Spoiler: You will not be seeing Cenotaphs in ATXXII.
Nora writes:
Create any new piece of media, may it be a poster, a meme, a video-advert, a song, or something completely different. Submissions are open from Friday, 21st August 2026 00:00 UTC (one week before the pre-elimination start) to Friday, 23rd October 2026 23:59 UTC. (One week before the grand finale.)
Check out Nora's forum thread for more info!
Swampfest 2026
Dark Venture Corporation (who are basically all of perennial wormhole alliance Kitchen Sinkhole) are bringing back their Swampfest event. They write:
It's that time of year, folks. Dark Venture Corporation (DKVC) is once again hosting its annual SwampFest celebration. All of New Eden is invited to come play in our wormhole! Well, you're all invited to come play in our wormhole every day, it's just this time we're gonna make it easier for you all to find us! On August 22, from downtime to downtime, we will be providing public access to our (new) mapper, so you can see all of our connections and come by for some action.
Please enjoy this extremely high quality promotional material:
This is one of the rare public events that take place in wormhole space. As mentioned in this post there will be planned events throughout the day as well as freeported structures with spare ships on contract at Jita prices and a "no podding" policy to keep you in the fight! To find out more drop into Dark Venture Corporation's public in-game chat channel: Banjo Fight Club
EVE IRL
Lots of meetings happening around the world this time of year. We received pictures from some of the recently concluded ones in Seattle, Australia and Poland!
If you want to be like these cool people then keep an eye out for EVE player gatherings happening in your area! Such as...
The Edinburgh Fringe Fleet Roam on 22 August! Meet up with some new spacefriends, wander the Royal Mile and make ample strops for refreshments! Details in this post and you can join the organizer's Discord here.
Or how about EVE Leeds on 29 August! Meeting up at the Boom Battle Bar from 3pm. To find out more head over to their Discord!
And a special shout to scottysg1 who took home a permanent memento of his time at EVE Down Under:
That's all for this edition of the Beat! See you again in a couple weeks. o7