I killed with normal weapons for the first 50 minutes to hour. Generally skilled MF for this boring hour.
Once the first mob reached the pedestal I switched to pure rockets and started running for my life, with the occasion look + fire in the direction of the pedestal to aggro new things. I probably killed some things with the rocket, but not many. I could've killed more with high dmg/sec gear.... but why?
Annihilation was about brute force dmg/sec. Defense seemed to be about tactics - I tried to maximize my tactics.
I'm guessing Cat 2 Anniliation's winner got a 5K special point thing. If that's true (Gratz to him!) I would have placed 1st in the Cat 2 Annihilation except for his lucky 5K .... even with only killing for 16.5 hours. After using the same dmg/sec gear, and placing well below 10th, I looked for other tactics to exponentially increase my score.
I don't see why using non-standard, non-exploitative, tactics to get an exceptional score would result in a disqualification for this and other events. My goal was to get top 3; non-standard results usually require a non-standard approach. Most people totally ignore rockets. There was no rule about mob training (Other wise very few would've beat my pure dmg/sec score), and I don't think I exploited any bugs.
p.s. I did use some acceleration pills for the last run -which I forgot about in earlier post
p.p.s. Before people complain about being over equipped for this event, for the first 8 years I was a non-depositor, who did OK by; making good decisions, not hunting when I expected a loss, and selling skills. (only sweated a very short time) I did depo for about 2K ped for this event to have ammo / slack room. I am used to making extremely non-standard choices in EU. That isn't the same as cheating.