Ive been slowly trying to get other people (outside me an my kids) to play the best Star Wars game ever.

Our local game store owner asked me to run a tournament later this month to help generate some interest.

My question is, since I've never been to or participated in a IA skirmish tournament is, how do these look?

I've got the kit, Ive read the stuff on the website, but are there other things that would make this run smoother?

How do you split up the prizes? We'll probably have anywhere from 4-8 players show up. Like any gamestore, there are those that take things way too serious and most of us are just playing for fun or to get some more games in. Any tips or ideas would be useful. How do you balance the way competitive players with the casual, just learning players or does it all come out in the wash after the first round. Does the 65min time limit include setting up the map?

If you reinforce, does the opponent still get the points for that figure he defeated?

You shuffle the missions and draw at random. Everyone plays the same mission each round.

Prizes are usually top 2, top 4, participation.

65 minutes is everything. Printed maps helps alot with that but are technically not legal.

You only score points when you defeat all of the deployment card, not per individual figure.