I'm headed to Kansas City on Saturday to compete at the Regionals event held at Game Cafe. I have no idea which list I want to run:

• A very slight update of my Store Championship standby?
• Something I've never even played before*, just because it sounds like fun?
• A list that takes advantage of Wave 8's new toys for ordnance?
• Or maybe even a near-throwback to the bad old days?

Frankly, I can't decide. And it occurred to me that I don't have to! Instead I can do what every sensible person does, and trust the Internet to tell me the truth.

So, if you don't mind, visit the link below to tell me your top two choices. It'll be quick, I promise!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3DX9V2S

If you want to look at the lists in detail, they're linked above and you can also find links in the survey itself. I'll leave this open until tomorrow afternoon, at which point I have to gather up my stuff and get on the road. (EDIT: I didn't expect to have any need to bring this up, but my free SurveyMonkey account will automatically close when it reaches 100 responses.)

And thanks in advance!

(*A tip of the hat to CBMarkham, who had the idea for this list.)

At 11:15 am CDT on 4/22, here's where we are.

There are now 85 total responses in less than 24 hours. No, seriously: I wish people were this interested in every survey I run.

Looking just at first choices, there's a clear leader:

The most common pairing, by a substantial margin, is to pick either the Palpatine Aces list or the Dash list as the first choice and the other as the second choice.

If we do instant-runoff voting to get it down to just two choices, we get the following picture. (That is, here's what it looks like if we eliminate the last-place choice and "promote" the second choices of anyone who had the last-place choice.) The Scum list goes away, and we have a nearly even split between the Dash list (38%) and Lothal Rebel/Nera/Stressbot (34%), with the Palpatine Aces list in last place with 29%.

Nobody has a majority yet, so we can do the same step again (drop Palpatine Aces, then assign anyone who voted for Palp Aces their second choice, removing anyone who voted for both Scum and Palp Aces), we finally have a clear winner: Dash/Lothal has 61% of the 72 remaining votes, and Lothal/Nera/Stressbot has 39%.

What, no Sycks?

I vote Dash and Lothal. I've had a lot of success with that combo.

My one suggestion would be to swap out Kanan crew for Kyle. Kanan's great, but paired up with that particular VCX100 build I've found Kyle to be more useful.

Voted Dash Lothal too. This seems like a solid list. I'd love to see the Nera-Lothal-Hog in play though! It has all sorts of interesting tricks to deal with just about anything your opponents might throw at you .

The Whisper-OL build is pretty solid too but I'd change Sensor Jammer to FCS and upgrade Omicron to Yorr for K-turning whisper.

You should definitely play the not so good currently legal version of the list I'm going to be playing post veterans. Your lists don't have enough defender in them

I'm probably 95% for making that tournment. Maybe I'll see you there.

I'm probably 95% for making that tournment. Maybe I'll see you there.

It would be great to meet you in person! I'll be the moderately overweight bearded guy wearing the geeky T-shirt.

(Brown hair, brown eyes, 6 feet tall, wearing jeans and a navy blue Fly Casual t-shirt. Apparently I'll be running a Dash/Lothal Rebel list, unless the voting changes a lot overnight. )

I'm a member of the church of Kanan on Lothal, Kyle on Dash.

I can do what every sensible person does, and trust the Internet to tell me the truth.

I didn't click any of the list links before I voted.

I'm a big fan of Ghost + Dash. Though, last time, I took Mangler, because I feared the donut hole. But, that might not be the best option.

I'm probably 95% for making that tournment. Maybe I'll see you there.

It would be great to meet you in person! I'll be the moderately overweight bearded guy wearing the geeky T-shirt.

(Brown hair, brown eyes, 6 feet tall, wearing jeans and a navy blue Fly Casual t-shirt. Apparently I'll be running a Dash/Lothal Rebel list, unless the voting changes a lot overnight. )

Blue eyes, but otherwise pretty similar. Wardrobe not determined.

I'd have to say your first list for a few reasons.

1) I won a store championship with the same ships ( I had fcs on whisper, and yorr, no baffles) so I know how good those ships are

2) You sound as though your pretty familiar with that build, and I always say go with what your familiar with

3) Your going to a regional, best to bring what you feel your best / most comfortable with and sounds like the first list is just that. I'd leave the unfamiliar lists or ships you maybe haven't flown much for a lower tier tournament, such as Store Championship, or spring kit

4) Again it really is a potent list, and hard to kill

As for the other lists, I'm not overly a fan of two ship builds. I regret taking one to regional last year and didn't go with what I used at the store championship last year.

Not going to make a regional this year, but if I was:

http://geordanr.github.io/xwing/?f=Rebel%20Alliance&d=v4!s!157:36,135,-1,-1,164,165:-1:19:;75:18,43,-1,3:-1:3:&sn=Unnamed%20Squadron

It takes a few games to understand the choices made, but I really think it's solid if you can fly those ships. Your dash/Lothal is doing pretty well on vassal right now.

I voted the Palpatine aces list, that's the exact same list I took to Hoth and I think it could do MUCH better than what I did (63/271)

Plus, WHISPER!

I voted Atanni Mindlink squad next, that just seems all kinds of shenanigany.

I voted Dash Lothal cause I dont fly scum, and have no experience with Whisper Dash and Lothal are solid. First list I ran when I got my ghost. Tears **** up!

Your Palp Aces looks like the ones I've been grappling with. I didn't like the Baffle. Kallus is so good but trying to fill that remaining 30 points has driven me to distraction. It's the ultimate 101pt list

Dash Lothal is very good indeed. The only problem could be U-Boats. But it handles the rest of the meta pretty well. Imp Aces can have an extremely hard time with it too!

Palpmobile as second vote, as it's solid!

Anything other than Palp-Phantom. I think the Manaroo list looks hillarious, but the Lothal Reb & Dash is more likely to do well.

There must be something wrong.

No shuttles to be seen. I call shenanigans and/or sabotage!

Voted Mind Link list purely because I want to see someone at least attempt it. Helps that it does look good!

I voted for the Whisper list, mostly because I was able to defeat the Dash/ Lothal Rebel build 100-0 during my Regional last weekend. It is really not as good as most think it is. My second choice was the Scum list, but only if you are only playing for fun.

My suggestion for the Whisper list is to drop the Baffle from the Palp shuttle and just go for Initiative.

(Stats updated!)

I will be at the tournament tomorrow as well! Look forward to meeting you in person and I picked VCX/Dash list! I certainly didn't want to play against any more Whispers!

As I'm also gonna be at the Game Cafe tomorrow, yes, tell me your list so I can build secretly against it MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! also shameless self promotion Should you keep your list secret?

I've been running a pancake and ghost and was not that big of a fan. It was the mid tier 3 scum lists that were giving me the most trouble. Having to take out three ships with tons of hit points was a grind and tough.

Personally, I say pick something that will lose to Y-wings and Chewie. But I might be of a biased opinion.