I know we're all busy being excited for the imminent release of wave 1, but i'll add this to the mix any way.

GenCon released their event catalog for this summer, including the inaugural armada championship.

"Tournament registration closes at 11:50am on Friday, July 31. Round One of the Swiss Pairing will begin promptly at 12:00pm. You must bring a fleet with figures, corresponding ship and squadron cards, command dials, objective cards, a commander, and any other upgrade cards. Your fleet must not exceed 300 points and cannot contain more than 100 points of squadrons. You must also bring two copies of your fleet list to be inspected by our TOs for tournament legality. The times listed for this event include only the first three rounds. The tournament will resume with the fourth round on Saturday, August 1, at 10:00am."

100 players.

I'm looking at it.

The 1st day of armada over laps with the second day of x-wing so I either have to admit there's no way I'll ever make the top 16 cut of a 200 person x-wing tournament or choose between them.

Also an interesting note is that it's a 300 point tournament which means wave 2 won't be out by the beginning of August.

(Though maybe a pre-release sale like xwing wave 5)

Also first three rounds are Friday with round 4 on Saturday then cut

I'm looking at it.

The 1st day of armada over laps with the second day of x-wing so I either have to admit there's no way I'll ever make the top 16 cut of a 200 person x-wing tournament or choose between them.

Also an interesting note is that it's a 300 point tournament which means wave 2 won't be out by the beginning of August.

(Though maybe a pre-release sale like xwing wave 5)

Also first three rounds are Friday with round 4 on Saturday then cut

It doesn't mean it won't be out, it could simply be that even if it is out it will not be included. They obviously don't know with 100% certainty when it will be out.

as someone who ran events similar to this. I really HATED when people dropped out after the first day.

1. they usually didn't let the person running the even know.

2. Many people would show up looking to play, and not have an opponent. So they sit around for a few hours doing nothing buy waiting for no one to show up.

3. The people who stay would get further penalized by getting a bye, instead of actually playing, and often you would have a snow ball effect for the NEXT round.

as an aside, i thought you could only have 1/4 of your points be squadrons? or did i make a mistake and it is 1/3?

There is precedent for them releasing new stuff at gencon but it not being legal for tournament.

as someone who ran events similar to this. I really HATED when people dropped out after the first day.

1. they usually didn't let the person running the even know.

2. Many people would show up looking to play, and not have an opponent. So they sit around for a few hours doing nothing buy waiting for no one to show up.

3. The people who stay would get further penalized by getting a bye, instead of actually playing, and often you would have a snow ball effect for the NEXT round.

as an aside, i thought you could only have 1/4 of your points be squadrons? or did i make a mistake and it is 1/3?

It's under Setup and Fleet-Building on the the first page of the FAQ.

One third. Page 6 of the RRG.

As someone who ran events similar to this. I really HATED when people dropped out after the first day.

1. they usually didn't let the person running the even know.

2. Many people would show up looking to play, and not have an opponent. So they sit around for a few hours doing nothing buy waiting for no one to show up.

3. The people who stay would get further penalized by getting a bye, instead of actually playing, and often you would have a snow ball effect for the NEXT round.

As an aside, i thought you could only have 1/4 of your points be squadrons? or did i make a mistake and it is 1/3?

Just a suggestion if you have a 2-3 day event take the roll each day and if players aren't present at roll call remove them from the event. If they later show up then they get the bye or the wait for someone else to show up.

A tournament system that penalises a player for a bye should be flagged as being in need of improvement, unless they missed roll call. The player who is the lowest seed should be the only player taking a bye and he should get a full win. If a bye removes you from the competition then being the random person in round 1 is terrible.

p6 Rules Reference: "A fleet cannot spend more than one third of its fleet points, rounded up, on squadrons." More X-Wings and Ties for you. Yipee!