Hello folks,

What are the Prizes for 2016 Regional Championships?

Surviving countless dogfights is not an easy task. Doing well at an X-Wing Regional Championship is almost just as hard. Each X-Wing Regional Championship will award a variety of exciting prizes meant to reward successful players.

First Place: The winner of each Regional Championship receives a Regional Champion trophy to show off to family and friends, and one card granting the winner a first-round bye at a country’s National Championship .

We will be running a Premier Event soon and we wanted to know if these "reward bye" are supposed to be handled as a bye resulting in one competitor having no opponent for the round (that is a victory with a Margin of Victory of 150), or if these "reward bye" are supposed to award the highest MoV possible (that is 200).

Any official answer to this question ?

Regards,

iirc, MOV is a 150 point win regardless of other factors:

The tournament regulations should help you

https://images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com/filer_public/8a/c5/8ac52fd0-d596-4a37-a0dd-eb4e94c97caf/x-wing_tournament_regulations_v11.pdf

see page 5.

Occasionally, tournaments involve an odd number of competitors,resulting in one competitor having no opponent for the round and immediately being transferred to the following round. This is called“getting a bye.” When a player receives a bye, he or she receives a win with a Margin of Victory of 150.

I don't have a source, but I believe there used to be a 'super'-bye with 200 MoV when you used a bye you won at a lower tier event, but that went away sometime in the last couple seasons.

All byes now, regardless of circumstance, are 150 MoV.

Bye:

Occasionally, tournaments involve an odd number of competitors,resulting in one competitor having no opponent for the round and immediately being transferred to the following round. This is called“getting a bye.” When a player receives a bye, he or she receives a win with a Margin of Victory of 150.

We read the regulation Luke, and that was the point of my question : is the reward bye won in a regional the same value as the one you get by luck when there is an odd number of competitor.

A bye is a bye is a bye now. There is no difference between how you get it.

Shouldn't really have to worry about it now (unless you are going to Worlds and are a national Champion) as this upcoming regional season will not have any tournaments that will provide byes to it.