Our community is experimenting with mixing up the formats of casual tournaments. (team, Epic, etc.).

What do you guys think of this format?

Each players brings 100 pt squad, following normal squad building rules.

At the start of the match (after asteroid placement (or before, doesn't matter)), one player rolls a die.

A hit/crit result, the players switch squads.

a blank/focus, the players keep their squads.

Not too dramatic, but could make for some interesting build designs. A lot of opportunity to fly ships that they wouldn't even own. I think it would be fun. Keep in mind, a very casual tournament setting.

Might be neat. I might rather suggest some sort of missions instead.

Nice idea. You'd have to be careful about who's paired with who though. In other words don't give the player in his first tournament an Echo + TIE swarm to fly when they've only ever flown x-wings. Still, a really great idea.

On Saturday my FLGS will be running a variant on the 100 pt dogfight style; Each player builds to 100 points, and must include exactly 1 large based ship. If your large based ship is destroyed in any round, your opponent receives an additional 25 points towards his MoV. It creates some trouble in finding the perfect large ship (the "cargo hauler"), but should be fun to fly around a Dash build in.

Nice idea. You'd have to be careful about who's paired with who though. In other words don't give the player in his first tournament an Echo + TIE swarm to fly when they've only ever flown x-wings. Still, a really great idea.

It would still be a competition so it would be random pairings. If you think that you can fly Echo better than everyone else, that would be a good choice for your list. Our community is small, so others using your ships shouldn't be an issue. We generally don't have players that show up at seasonal tournaments for the first time, but if they did, granted some ships are difficult to master.

Basically a random Reverse the Whip.

Anothet option would be Alternating RtW. Every other round you switch lists.

One of my lgs has done that in December for one of the store kits the past two years.

It's really fun. And somehow I've gotten first both years.

The key is bringing a list you're good with and very familiar with...but also isn't something your opponents normally see/play.

It you bring too good a list it might be used against you. Which is what happened at the one last year. Someone brought a list that had corran with r2d2. His list didn't lose all day. Unfortunately a few of those wins were by his opponent including me in the final round.