I took part in a 20 person tournament today, and came second out of 20 players!

There were 16 rebel squads, and 4 imperial.

I flew Turrs bounty.

Turr, ptl, royal guard upgrade, stealth, hull upgrade

Bounty hunter

Bounty hunter

First game was vs.

Han, gunner, marksman

Ps4 x wing

Ps4 x wing

I managed to whittle down Han while suffering quite a bit of damage to 1 of my firesprays. I managed to get a reduced fire power crit on Han then mop up the squad, but lost the wounded firespray. 100-33

Second game was vs outer rim smuggler with apl, navigator and Intelligence agent

Ps2 Y wing with ion cannon

ps2 b wing

Ps2 x wing

Once again I sent my firesprays at the main force and flanked with Turr, ultimately trading a firespray for damaging his outer rim smuggler and x and b. Turr helped finish him off while he was chasing the remaining firespray, he had his x wing remaining at the end. 78-33

Third game was vs Kyle katarn, recon specialist, hwk total, blaster turret.

Ibitsam, fire control system

Ten numb, fire control system, advanced proton torpedoes

I deserved to lose this game, I took ages to engage, letting him stack focus tokens. I was getting out flown and suffered serious damage, but after a accidental bump o caused his 2 b wings to bump a firespray that only had 1 hull point left, and I managed to destroy both b wings while he recovered from this error. The 1 hull point firespray had the minus 1 agility crit, yet survived 3-4 3 dice attacks which had focus thanks to his poor dice rolling. 100-0

Fourth game was vs wedge with swarm tactics.

Biggs

Ps 2 x wing

Ps 2 y wing with ion cannon.

I Managed to survive a joust with 1 of my firesprays, while jumping over his ps 2 ships then ramming Biggs and causing him and wedge to bump. I then took out Biggs and had split up his force. He managed to kill turr with his wounded y wing, but that ws all that was left. I then killed it with my 2 remaining ships. 100-34

My fifth game was vs.

Ps2 b wing hlc

Ps2 b wing hlc

Ps2 hwk ion cannon

Ps2 hwk ion cannon

On my first turn I foolishly declared a barrel roll with Turr towards my board. Having declared it, I had to do it according to the rules, as you can only not barrel roll if you land on an obstacle or ship, not the edge of the board (i didn't agree and wasn't aware, but rules are rules...)

After this I had given up, but pretty much got out flown and gunned down, causing 3shields worth of damage before getting wiped out. 0-100.

All in all a great tournament. I was rather annoyed at the ruling in the last game, as you can imagine, but finishing 2nd in my 3rd tournament was quite satisfying, and I've managed to convince myself that Turr, upon hearing the power of the enemy fleet decided discretion is the better part of valor and left the bounty scum to their fate.

I won a x wing UK and Ireland patch and a boba fett boblehead, while also being immortalized in the stop motion filming of my last game...

Bwings with HLC do murder to firesprays, even moreso if they have FCS.

I think the thing that helped you most was you faced a ton of PS1 & PS2 ships making your BH's top dogs.

Rules are rules and, yes, you shouldn't have declared that barrel roll BUT at the same time, I can't imagine being a sufficiently harsh opponent as to enforce that rule on turn 1. It's one thing if you're deep into the actual game and you misjudge distance/etc, but it's another thing entirely to be strict about it on turn 1 during the initial moves. Just my two cents, I wouldn't feel like I'd won the tournament if I had relied on a rule like that to destory a third of my opposition on the first set of moves.

Ultimately, I made the mistake, and the faq and rules support his calling me out on it. Yes it ruined the last game for me, but that was my own stupid fault.

I'll add some pictures from the event at some point

All in all, I'm happy I got second place, and considering I made a few silly bad decisions in my first few games that cost me about 100 points worth of ships, I was lucky to get second.

I should be heading to a regional in a few weeks, and hopefully I will be able to up my game for then

Here is the video of the last game. And my stupidity

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SGMHEdKSzuQ

It's a hard lesson to learn, but it'll make you a better player in the long run.

Pictures from my second game, forgot to take any pictures in the first.

didnt take many pictures of my third game, so heres pictures from my fourth