This coming Saturday Athena Games will be streaming an escalation tournament from 10:30 BST (British Summer Time) with your hosts, lead commentator; Elliot Baker, the A-Wing Expert; Andrew 'Hedgehog' Cassely, and the Gold Standard; David Lincoln.
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The tournament is over, but the recorded games are available on Twitch. The third game in particular (starting at 03:01:30) is a thing of beauty 
I caught parts of it here and there, it was a good background video for our morning. Any plan to put them up on YouTube?
Props for the overlay, it's usually missing from livestreams and it adds so much to the experience. I only caught the interview after Bossk was wiped out by scouts, but it was worth it. Looking forward to watching the rest of it!
Came third again today, after I wipe on the opening game again! Man, I need to work on my 60pt lists apparently!
What really surprised me was my MVP of the day...
Omnicron Pilot
Fleet Officer
Electronic Baffle
I was running a 3 Sienar procket miniswarm, and the fleet officer's focus shenanigans really made a difference, allowing the Sienars to boost/barrel roll into R1/arc and still get their prockets off.
It was a bloody great day, lots of fun.
I shared my nightmarish vision of a TLT master race with several people today. Came 4th with a list I cobbled together last night and only practised the 60 point step with! Still don't understand Jumpmasters, did anyone using them actually do well in this tournament? Good fun day for all the family, hope some people enjoyed the twitchstream and I'll have to catch up with it tomorrow to see what shenanigans you kids were up to in the back room.
I shared my nightmarish vision of a TLT master race with several people today. Came 4th with a list I cobbled together last night and only practised the 60 point step with! Still don't understand Jumpmasters, did anyone using them actually do well in this tournament? Good fun day for all the family, hope some people enjoyed the twitchstream and I'll have to catch up with it tomorrow to see what shenanigans you kids were up to in the back room.
I was 5th (3 wins, 1 loss) with double JumpMaster plus other stuff, so they seemed to do pretty well for me.
I want to assure the people of the FFG forums, the clicks from the mouse have been eliminated using something as simple as a towel over the mouse. So your ears will not be assaulted by clicks while the overlay is being prepared.
I want to assure the people of the FFG forums, the clicks from the mouse have been eliminated using something as simple as a towel over the mouse. So your ears will not be assaulted by clicks while the overlay is being prepared.
I think some people just like to moan about stuff for the sake of moaning, mouse clicks for the love of god who moans about that?
I shared my nightmarish vision of a TLT master race with several people today. Came 4th with a list I cobbled together last night and only practised the 60 point step with! Still don't understand Jumpmasters, did anyone using them actually do well in this tournament? Good fun day for all the family, hope some people enjoyed the twitchstream and I'll have to catch up with it tomorrow to see what shenanigans you kids were up to in the back room.
I was 5th (3 wins, 1 loss) with double JumpMaster plus other stuff, so they seemed to do pretty well for me.
I was 4th(3 wins,1 loss) and it was my first outing for the Jumpmaster(Deadeye,Proton Torps,EM,OC-R4,G.Chimps) but was pretty underwhelmed by its overall performance. Lots of folks seemed to be struggling with co-ordinating the large base ships working together and while there were a hell of a lot of Jumpmasters on the field(for any non-local readers this is our first tournament where all the local players have had time to familiarise themselves with Wave 8) I'm not seeing the Guidance Chip/Ordnance builds doing as dramatically well as I would have predicted. First place was Rebel Aces, Second was some kind of Attani mind link sillyness. Roll on the next tournament and we can see how things go.
...Second was some kind of Attani mind link sillyness...
I was in no way predicting the Mind Link list, but I'm really glad it did well.
Enjoyed this stream, good quality, very cool overlay, fun commentary. Kudos!