Hiya guys and gals!

As I stated in another thread, My group are looking to start our own thing.(our store is **** sadly) How would we go about running a leauge, Right now I am not worried about prize support and brick and mortar store, Just the basics of what to do's to get one going?

I would like to know too.

Set a regular time and place to meet.

That's the #1 thing you need to do. If your meetings are all over the place (both in location and timing), you'll have a hard time getting more people to attend.

Ideally, try and play somewhere public like a store. This way, people will see you playing, and you might catch a few people and get them to buy into the game! If someone is really curious, offer to have them play a quick game with some of your ships right then and there if possible.

If you find a local store that's happy to have you, try and put up a poster near their X-Wing section or their other event posters.

Here's what I did to start up the one I'm running.

I talked to the store owner and told him what I had in mind.

Then I wrote up a doc listing what the league rules would be...

Things like, when league nights happen, what the list building rules are, that we'd play by the competitive rules, what the entry fee was going to be, how the scoring would work, ect...

Then once I had the store owners approval I started posting on facebook and advertising how ever I could to get players.

It really wasn't that hard. Just have to decide Where, When and How you'll score things and then play some games.

Is there a good resource on how to score a league season?

Set a regular time and place to meet.

That's the #1 thing you need to do. If your meetings are all over the place (both in location and timing), you'll have a hard time getting more people to attend.

Ideally, try and play somewhere public like a store. This way, people will see you playing, and you might catch a few people and get them to buy into the game! If someone is really curious, offer to have them play a quick game with some of your ships right then and there if possible.

If you find a local store that's happy to have you, try and put up a poster near their X-Wing section or their other event posters.

We have that..well sorta...The store we play at has been up and down with support for Prizes. The owner will not get the Tourney packs, He buys them second hand from his 2nd store. So we get all the left over stuff..yet still charges us a entry fee For the same stuff we already have. He will not order Store Championship boxes, And when we do have tournies, He Has Yugio tournies going at the same time, and makes us MOVE out of the way..and Magic drafting as well (Magic takes Priority over everythng in this store) It is so so frustrating..after supporting this store for 5+ years ..and the owner continues to **** on his Miniatures group. Were all fed up and Looking to make our own store to be honest.

Is there a good resource on how to score a league season?

No, I think that's up to you, and how you want to do it. What I did was slightly different I think from others.

What I do is record the MoV from each game played, and put it in a excel file on my tablet, then I use a formula to get the avg and use that to keep score for everyone. 1st and 2nd place at the end of the 3 month season gets a prize.

In case you don't know how MoV works...

Winner gets 100 + (enemy ships destroyed - friendly ships lost) Loser gets enemy ships destroyed.

So lets say I win by destroying everything the other guy has, and he destroys 25 points worth of my ships.

I get 100+(100-25)=175 points, the other person gets 25 points. Then I just avg the points over the 12 games I've played for the league and get what I called the Force Rating. Seems like a nice and fair way to keep track of scores without having it penalize someone who can't make it every game.

We talked about this in one of our early episodes, episode 3 I believe, but the big thing is to start picking a night to play and your store and do it. When we started, it was just four of us while everyone was doing 40K around us. Slowly but surely, we started drawing folks over, and now we have a vibrant X-Wing community locally. It took months to establish and a lot of game day with just a few players. But we started a league, we are about to start our battle board, and hold regular tournaments now.

Keep at it and don't loose faith man!

Arrathon, I run our local league and would be happy to share with you the Scoring Google document that I use with you. we have over the last year gone from having 4 people per event to now having an average of 8-12 people per event. I have seen other x-wing groups in our area falter for any number of reasons and would be happy to discuss those with you via phone or email. Shoot me a PM and we can connect that way.

What's a battle board?

I wrote this article a few months back for TheMetalBikini about how we took a dead X-Wing scene and transformed it into a networked group of over 200 who play across various venues in our area:

http://www.themetalbikini.com/2014/11/community-spotlight-south-jersey-x-wing.html

I would recommend trying to play at a retail location. Maybe if your FLGS isn't supporting you guys, you might be able to find a comic book/collectible store that's looking to branch out?

Set a regular time and place to meet.

That's the #1 thing you need to do. If your meetings are all over the place (both in location and timing), you'll have a hard time getting more people to attend.

Ideally, try and play somewhere public like a store. This way, people will see you playing, and you might catch a few people and get them to buy into the game! If someone is really curious, offer to have them play a quick game with some of your ships right then and there if possible.

If you find a local store that's happy to have you, try and put up a poster near their X-Wing section or their other event posters.

We have that..well sorta...The store we play at has been up and down with support for Prizes. The owner will not get the Tourney packs, He buys them second hand from his 2nd store. So we get all the left over stuff..yet still charges us a entry fee For the same stuff we already have. He will not order Store Championship boxes, And when we do have tournies, He Has Yugio tournies going at the same time, and makes us MOVE out of the way..and Magic drafting as well (Magic takes Priority over everythng in this store) It is so so frustrating..after supporting this store for 5+ years ..and the owner continues to **** on his Miniatures group. Were all fed up and Looking to make our own store to be honest.

The store is chasing the money! Those card games bring in the cash! (Unfortunately, for us mini guys!)

A battle board is a challenge based system, where the goal is to reach the top spot and defend it for 6 games. Player can challenge players on their level or above. In order to rise up the ranks you need to win either a game against someone of your own level (if there are open spots above you) or defeat someone in a spot above you. For ours its a $1 a game per player and the king of the battle board takes the pot if he defends it.

along similar lines what if you had places to play and people to play with but no local store? can you still get tournament kits somehow? example is that i used to be in the Airforce and we/I have access to the Airforce base..(duh) they usually have rec-centers/dayrooms and libraries/education centers that allow us to play games in... some are actually very very nice much nicer then most game stores btw... just think it would be cool if folks overseas could still run their own tournaments or even stateside if there were no local game store. Figure the players could chip in together for the OP kit..

along similar lines what if you had places to play and people to play with but no local store? can you still get tournament kits somehow?

Only stores can order the tournament kits from FFG or their distributor. .