I have every first place medal except for the slave one. Have every version of the challenge coin. Won first in both imdaar alphas locally. Have 2 extra baggies of light green focus tokens, 1 of evades. I have the range 1 and 2 rulers from Hoth. Have all regional sets of dice. Every alt art and acrylic up to regionals (never got to nationals or worlds). I'm a know quantity for local tournaments.

I think the first few tournaments I didn't place all that well but that was more due to not knowing the game at all. That said, I have also done extremely poorly, finishing below people that drop. That only has happened twice but it was with lists I should never of gone out with, due to no play testing.

I set the bar too high by coming 4th in my first tournament , took me about a year to beat the record set then but even thats in smaller events. I've yet to make the cut in anything large enough to require a cut after 2 years of play. First time for everything though, so hopefully my luck will hold and I'll do well in my first regionals.

I'm the guy the people thinking they can win dont want to face, especially in early rounds, without ever actually winning myself.

In any one game I can beat anyone. Most people i play against i have a maybe 90% win record but only have an OK record against the fee people that win everything locally. Just enough to maybe ruin their shot at going unbeaten and maybe leave them on the bubble later.

Reason being, while I can win a one off against them, they maintain their focus etc better on the later rounds. Half way through a tournament and I'm almost always on the top tables but then I start missing things. A good move here, a trigger there...

I'm basically our local nearly man and perfect sparring partner for before hand!

I always finish in the top third or there abouts. Always 3-3.

Lost two games yesterday when the enemy had jumpmaster 1 left on the table with 1 or 2 hitpoints. Any one of those dying would've put me in the top 16 cut

I started in 2014 and won my first tournamt (SC) after playing for a month, then placed top 4 & top 8 in regionals.

Last year i just couldn't win anything but a couple of spring, summer and winterkits. Placed second in 3 or 4 SCs, messed up a bit in Regional and placed top 8 in National (Nordic).

So far this year it's been 3 SC wins, not been able to attend any Regional yet.

Edit: Main things for me placing in the top is to know your list inside & out, have a plan for all of the more common netlists you might face and keeping my focus even when the dice go cold.

If I remember correct it took me about 3 or 4 months before I won my first tournament. Since then I've typically placed pretty high in most tournaments I've played. Though I must add that the highest level tournament I've played is a Store Championship.

Been playing since wave 3

Have always seem to do well

Except at lay year regional when I bombed

My first game I made real bad choices, second game my dice failed which actually cost me the game (coran had a crit reduce ps0, fel lined up sweet range 1 shot rolled at blanks)

Won store championship this year, and last.

Got second at Imdaar Alpha, won couple season kits. And usually I've been in top 4 of most I've been at. Maybe the odd one I didn't, but don't remember off top of my head

Small events im usually top 4. Store Championships i usually finish just outside cut, larger events I'm midfield.... I run events more than play in them though.

I'll let you know once it happens.

I improved once I learned to fly better . I'm still trying to learn to fly even better ®.

It took me around a year of making really stupid mistakes, at least 1 a tourney, that I would get angry at myself for making for days later. After that, I learned what was stupid in my choices and made higher cuts. Then finally after 2 years of playing, I played a list to death for an entire 6 months and finally won a few higher level tournaments.

Never been on top 8 yet. Gonna get there someday, when I stop sucking and take more dare moves.

Had my first tournament experience yesterday, at a Regionals event (in London). I didn't play brilliantly (far from it), and the dice were also particularly unforgiving, so I think I'm a long way from actually having a good place in the rankings, but I definitely want to go on as much of these as I can. Learned a lot from some of my opponents and from just asking around other players, I've started tweaking bits and pieces of my list and thinking of possible new ones as well. It was a brilliant experience.

My first competitive event was the first event when FFG handed out free ships from the next wave as prizes -- a Falcon and a Firespray. I forget what the event was called; it had a Star War-sy name. This was back in Wave 1. I flew Doug Kinney's WC list and went 2-2. I lost to the winner, a guy named Matt Babiash, and afterwords he and I started scrimmaging at each other's houses. We probably played about twenty games and roughly split the results.

After that was the first big Adepticon X-Wing event in early 2013. 80+ person event, I finished 4th flying a tie swarm. (And beat piqsid's tie swarm in the top 8 -- after telling him that everything I new about swarm flying I learned from his awesome articles.) Matt finished 9th; we had no idea how good we were, but it seemed all that scrimmaging we were doing paid off.

After that I convinced my co-worker Dom to start playing with us, and then me, Matt, Dom and Piqsid (David) starting getting together regularly to play and practice. We eventually (unbeknownst to us!) earned the monicker "The Chicago Four" because between the four of us we'd usually win or place. Since then our results have been pretty good -- multiple world cuts, multiple national cuts, several regional wins, lots of store championships. Sadly real life has done what it does -- babies born, jobs acquired, priorities shifted -- but whenever we play competitively there is always a live IM thread where we share results/news. Good times.

Here's a hint to improve: take notes on your games. I carry a notebook where I've recorded every X-wing game I've played -- what I flew, what I flew against, what worked well, where I made mistakes. It helps me learn faster not to repeat errors, and go back and look at various list matchups to see what's working and what isn't and tweak lists to suit.

Five of us guys got into the game in 2014 and played casually for about 6-7 months before we found out that there were X-Wing tournaments. I absolutely sucked when we started though and it took me about 10-15 games before I finally got my first win. Come time for the first tourney, a spring kit, we have about 10 people and I was able to win there 4-0 as well as the next spring kit, 3-0. I guess I got pretty lucky when I started

I placed in the top half only once so far, thanks to a bye, it doesn't count in my view.

My minimum target is always at least one win, which I've pulled off the 5 (?) tournament I've played. I often get the top players in my first round or so, and my games are often tighter than I'd expect, but getting actual wins is not so frequent.

Except for one tournament, I still had fun every time, so I'll keep going. My refusal to just practice a list is not helping my standings, but I prefer having fun figuring out something new on the fly than winning with a known quantity.

I'm still new to the game and don't have a life that affords competative play focus.

One factor is the extent to which an XW player player other skirmish games in the past. How much time has one had to put into tactical decisions, dice calculations, lines of sight, blocking, distance estimation, etc.

Back in the day I played a ton of WM/H mk1 and older GW skirmish games.

I was able to pick up XW pretty quickly due to those experiences.

Here's a hint to improve: take notes on your games. I carry a notebook where I've recorded every X-wing game I've played -- what I flew, what I flew against, what worked well, where I made mistakes. It helps me learn faster not to repeat errors, and go back and look at various list matchups to see what's working and what isn't and tweak lists to suit.

I like this idea, but I'm too lazy to write every game. I play a lot on Vassal, so I almost always record the log file to view later. The best part about this is that I can try out different maneuvers to see if they would have worked. Fit example, I chose a bank with Horton, that cost me a shot, but I was trying not to land on an asteroid. Reviewing the fire, I found that a straight three, while not closing stress, would have landed me just past the rock and in perfect position to launch my torps at The Inquisitor, who had been locked onto previously. It helps me get a better feel for spatial awareness in various settings.

When I realized that you have to account for overpowered broken **** with your list building instead of just complaining about it and flying squads that autolose to what you're complaining about.

I won the first tournament that I went to.

When I'm not being a numskull, and if I remember to sacrifice acrylics to the dice gods; then I regularly place in the top/win.

When I realized that you have to account for overpowered broken **** with your list building instead of just complaining about it and flying squads that autolose to what you're complaining about.

It's only autolose if you suck.

Been playing about 6 months now. My best placement is 7/24 at a Store Championship.

At Regionals a couple of weeks ago I came I think 38th out of 96 with which I was very pleased. Regionals in Birmingham I'm hoping to do better.

Yavin I'll be chuffed if I make the cut, but in a way, I'm kind of hoping not to, as the Hangar Bay format sounds interesting.

Came in third in my first tournament and 2nd in the next. Then a few mobths later I won a regional champ. I have had some bad tournaments too be sure but I usually place pretty high and won my last two tournaments

For the first year or two in this game I played mostly casual and didn't participate in any tournaments, except the occasional 6-8 player event at my local gaming club. My first store championship was in march this year and I placed 2nd (out of 35). My first regionals was two weeks ago and I placed 3rd (out of 58). Can't complain.

Right now I am doing some playtesting to find out what to bring to the Naboo Open in Copenhagen. I always aim to try a new list for each tournament, mainly because I get bored if I play the same ships over and over.