You Drive hundreds of miles for a match. Bonus points if you FLY!!

You Play in EVERY Store Championship within a 500 mile radius

you Have the FAQ AND email responses from FFG saved on your phone/I-pad AND you have a printed version before every game.

You use Coins for Shield Tokens!!

You Complain about Byes unless you get one,

You Proxy every new combo MONTHS before release so on day one you can bust out the new Meta!!! (Then complain about the new meta when everybody else starts doing it)

You Go to Gencon every year.. Bonus point if you Fly, even more Bonus points if you never leave the FFG area!!

Has Paul as a FB friend..

Answers rules questions in the rules forum at 3 AM!!

Your X-wing collection is worth more than your Car. AND you have the obligatory star-wars family decals on the back window... Or at the very least a Bounty Hunter symbol...

You have acrylic EVERYTHING!!! cause nothing screams amateur more than somebody showing up to play and they got CARDBOARD templates!!!

You have stock in Battlefoam... Semi-pros have stock in Plano..lol

You have one of the NEW "Imperial white" battlefoam cases on preorder!!!

"Your Xwing collection is worth more than your car"...

I think I just cried a little. I can say that about both of my cars. :-/

Only problem is I think professional means you get paid for the activity

I get the goal of the post...

I can't get over the flagrant misuse of the word "Professional".

To the point I feel I need to post to point it out.

I am shocked at the number of these I fall into... lol!

Colloquially, "professional" has shifted to mean "really good at" a long time ago.

I am more annoyed by "irregardless."

You may have have regard for the danger or carry on regardlesss of it.

so many people today choose to not-not regard something that I fear we are stuck with the word.

None the less, I laughed at this post.

Well done.

Your X-Wing collection is valuable enough that you have started researching what it would take to get them insured. Bonus points if your collection already IS insured.

You never fly any ships that come with the "stock" paint job. Everything you put on the table has been repainted in a unique color scheme of your own design. This includes asteroids, debris clouds, and dials.

I think the word "professional" may be synomous for "hopelessly addicted" (meant in a positive sense) in this post☺️

Uh...I have far too many of these boxes checked.....

You wake up sweating from a dream/nightmare about playing x-wing in your sleep.

The other day I used the phrase 'fly off the board' to describe something falling out of a bowl, without even thinking about it.

That's ******* scary man.

It's the life of any gamer in a nutshell. We have a passion for the games we play. Even the novice gamer will venture out once or twice to a large event. I think that you have become an addict when you start trolling these forms for the best builds.I think at that point you have lost some of what makes this game fun.

When your significant other looks at you and asks, "What we're you thinting about just now," and you desperately dig for a romantic way to tell them they reminded you of a new list you want to try.

I have more ships than all of you... combined prolly.

Answers rules questions in the rules forum at 3 AM!!

I DON'T EVEN PLAY X-WING!

Only problem is I think professional means you get paid for the activity

I couldn't agree more.

You're a "professional X-Wing player" only if you can make a significant portion of your income due to playing X-Wing. Now I'd say this income could come from prizes earned, or selling said prizes considering the direct monetary rewards are lacking, and sponsorships for you to play which could tie into advertising income you could make because of X-Wing. I guess you could have no income in which case playing X-Wing certainly could provide a significant portion of your income which is non existant.

Buying and selling X-Wing does NOT make you a professional X-Wing player.

Note that you wouldn't even need to be good or travel much to be a professional player provides you have a way to monetize your gameplay.

There are some pretty big steps to take between professional and various enthusiast levels. Although a professional may hate to hear it much less admit it there are likely to be people who are BETTER THAN THEY ARE at something yet who would never call themselves a professional or even make any money from it. I've often get asked if I'm a professional photographer (which really doesn't have any requirements) and while I believe my photos are as good as many and my equipment is probably more valuable than some who'd call themselves pro I don't even try to make money off my pictures which clearly means I'm no professional.

So I'm guessing that every time I run Vader I dream of the un-Millennium Falcon incumbered trench run and fly these guys always flanking Vader even when it makes no sense...makes me very unprofessional right??

Woo Hoo. Im a semi-pro.

I drive 50 miles once in a while to play a seasonal kit tourney

Read the rules forum at 3am.

Can barely fit my collection in my car.

Know who Paul is but never met him

Watch the YouTube reports from GenCon

and I have so much Plano ( we sell it where I work so I get a discount.)

You wake up sweating from a dream/nightmare about playing x-wing in your sleep.

You wake up sweating from a dream/nightmare about blanking your 5 evade dice

You wake up sweating from a dream/nightmare about playing x-wing in your sleep.

Yeah, last night I had a nightmare I used a 3-bank instead of a 2-bank. Worst nightmare I've ever had.

I think the word "professional" may be synomous for "hopelessly addicted" (meant in a positive sense) in this post☺️

Just because a word has been abused for ages doesn't make it ok.

The fact that "literally" can now mean "figuratively" according to the Oxford English dictionary boils my blood...

Insofar as stupid pedantic semantics can boil ones blood...

The fact that "literally" can now mean "figuratively" according to the Oxford English dictionary boils my blood...

I thought you were joking, but holy ****.

"Literally" can now literally be the opposite of "literally"

I have more ships than all of you... combined prolly.

If your sig is correct. i got you beat by a mile..lol

BTW you do get paid.. in plastic tokens, alt art cards, and over-sized coins...

If you paid a tourney fee and win Swag by placing.... That is monitizing and therefore "Professional" right?? That would be my first tournament and I don't consider myself a professional.