Worlds kicks off today, thought it would be a neat idea to create a thread about it that we can all follow and comment in. Maybe people who are at the event can use this to report how things are going or the kinds of lists they have seen. Then tomorrow we have some streamed coverage we can comment on that I highlight below.

Coverage:

Top 16 Elimination - Friday, May 5th - 2:00 to 8:30 CST via https://www.twitch.tv/ffglive

Full streaming schedule for all events:

https://images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com/filer_public/d4/16/d4169772-c260-46c9-92bc-513008e92bcb/2017a_worlds_streaming_schedule.pdf

Imperial Assault Schedule:

Who all is here? I'd love to match a face with a user name. My actual name is Ryan Stripling. Say hi if you see me!

-ryanjamal

I'm around as well.

108 players in the field is what I think it shook out to?

What is list is Paul running?

Is there any stream today?

3 hours ago, FixB said:

Is there any stream today?

No today is just the swiss rounds, tomorrow the elimination round streaming starts in the afternoon at 2 CST.

The Vaders finest guys have posted some updates on their facebook page from todays events, looks like one of them is running:

8 Bossk
6 Jabba
10 Rancor
7 E. Weequays
8 R. HK
1 point card

And the other one is running a similar list but with Vinto in it, and they got paired against each other in round 2.

From what I can tell one of his opponents is running:

12 Jedi Luke
7 Obi-Wan
3 Gideon
2 C-3PO
12 E. Alliance Rangers
2 Alliance Smuggler
2 Alliance Smuggler

I've got a lot of experience with this list through play tests and casual tournaments, very strong list but I much prefer the RHC over the 2nd smuggler. Getting your hunters and force users their cards (particularly SOS) is game changing.

Another opponent is running some sort of Jet, Officer mix with a Probe Droid

So far from those pictures we see what we expected, three factions built around 3 archetypes.. AND A RANCCOOORRR!!! Thanks to the VF guys for actually posting some pictures, haven't seen much coverage elsewhere although I am sure after the swiss rounds finish there will be more people sharing. I'll catch up tomorrow during work hours

Thanks!

Thread needs moar Rancors with hats.

I'm rather curious how many people actually attended the official 4-player warmup event.

Those are some **** fine looking rancors too. I wish more players painted their teams because it just looks so good in the photos

Robert -Paul is playing bantha, beast tamer, jabba, set of e weequays, Onar, vinto, Gideon, 3PO. Played him in the fourth round. Was a fun game even though I lost in the end 40-35.

And here's the results end of day one. Day two starts in just a bit.

And I'm Micah Crosley for anyone else here at worlds

https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=991130455152&id=69103638&set=gm.1826656260991285&source=57&ref=bookmarks

He! 5th position after day 1: congrats!

It's a shame there's been no stream yesterday

One hour till stream goes live.

Stream is up.

https://www.twitch.tv/ffglive

And its back down, 2:30 it is back up.

The final match has just finished. It was Paul Heaver vs Daniel Taylor.

Mission: Jabba's Palace B: New Ownership.

Final Score: 39-31.

Daniel Taylor is the REPEAT World Champion! Two years in a row!

It looked like he played

• 8 Shyla Varad
• 7 eWeequay Pirate
• 7 eWeequay Pirate
• 6 Onar Koma
• 4 Greedo
• 3 Gideon Argus
• 2 C-3P0
• 1 Temp Alliance
• 1 Black Market
• 1 Devious Scheme

And I also want to give big kudos to Paul, who managed to really make it close, even when he had just 2 main attacking pieces left, vs Daniel's 4 or 5 attackers at the time. It was a really good match to watch, and very well-played by both guys.

Grats to Dan on the win! Back to back wins are no fluke that's for sure.

I didn't get to watch all the games yet, bits and pieces of most, but when I was in the stream the chat was complaining about how boring Dan's strategy was, lol. From what I saw he barely left his deployment zone, I can't talk though my rangers rarely do either.

I saw something really funny and I hope Dan can take it as a joke but they were referreing to him as Dan "Nyquill" Taylor because his strategy puts his opponents to sleep, I thought that was a riot. Hopefully it sticks as his new nickname

Looks like it was a great event, hopefully next year we see more variety in the lists though. 15/16 lists were Merc

Thanks everybody!

Lol at the nyquill joke. But seriously though, you want to just run out there vs the bantha? Or when you have initiative in round 1 regarding the other games? That's a good way to lose quick.

Worlds was a great time, and there were some super close games Props to all my opponents for making some of these games down to the wire.

My buddy @Matsu Robun and I were sitting ringside watching DT and Brett play and then DT and Paul. And Matt played both of them during the tourney and beat them - and I lost to Paul end of day one in a nice comeback (I'm convinced he doesn't care too much if his bantha dies ) and then Brett in the first round of 16.

And say what you will about the slower strategy but with the pigs/shyla/Onar, we realized watching them play each other (and comparing to what we experienced) they did a really good job of making their opponent do more of the engaging and then picking the right times to strike. Or whipping with shyla. Or Onar shenanigans with a huge bullet to the face. The patience is strong with them. And that's a skill in and of itself. Our versions of the list were built more around speed and quick hard hits. But if we lost momentum or overextended (especially against high hp lists) the razor edge could turn quick. And we thought the game between DT and Brett was really exciting to watch because it was so tense with the expectation of each move. But I'll chock the difference up to not watching it online and with friends in person making our own comments

Congrats DT and everyone who played! Was an awesome tourney experience!

Congrats DT! I really enjoyed watching the streams. The combination of Negation and squad swarm beginning of round 2 was brutal! Great game!

Edit: and please, please, next year, find someone you can borrow painted fig from. The stream would look way cooler with painted minis!

Ya no I'm definitely not arguing that it is an effective strategy, just not very entertaining to watch. I feel like that it was worse because of Jabba's map, I rarely saw any figures leave their deployment zone on that map, just a balled up camp fest.

One thing that sucked that I noticed on the parts of the streams I did watch is that people were complaining about how boring the game looked. These were people that popped in' just to check it out' and the common complaints were "Why is every list only one faction?" and "Why aren't they leaving their deployment zone?". I turned the chat off after a while because there was quite a bit of negativity in there, but it did really suck to see potential new players (for a game that is struggling player base wise) turned off by what most are agreeing was 4x4 lite.

We had such a great diversity of lists last year, and then just took a step back this year. Looks like these next few waves though should bring balance back to the force. BIG props to Paul for jumping somewhat outside of the mold and playing a bold figure like the Bantha, I don't think that any other opponent but him could have got that far taking a big exciting risk like that in such a cookie cutter meta. I'm glad it paid off somewhat, but also somewhat glad to see him lose, he controls X-Wing he doesn't need to control this game to

However, with that being said, now don't take this the wrong way, but the winner gets to design a card.. does that mean the card that is going to be designed will support and influence this type of slow, anti climatic, new player base culling play style? I can't help but think Paul would have been making a card that rewarded bold plays.. I wouldn't have minded that.

I saw the lists from the two finalists posted up on the Facebook group but haven't seen much else from worlds. Will there be a report of what everyone ran in top 16 or even 8?

Oh, I absolutely hate super campy gameplay. The triple focus lists in particular drive me nuts.

But there's just no way I'm going to run my guys out to die, and that's what happens when you move out on some of these maps. You saw what happened to Shyla vs Paul, right? I would have been better off just leaving her somewhere safer than getting those 4 objective points.

Vs Brett, since he was going last in round 1, I couldn't do anything or he could just go smoke someone with his Shyla for no benefit to myself.

5 hours ago, DTDanix said:

Oh, I absolutely hate super campy gameplay. The triple focus lists in particular drive me nuts.

But there's just no way I'm going to run my guys out to die, and that's what happens when you move out on some of these maps. You saw what happened to Shyla vs Paul, right? I would have been better off just leaving her somewhere safer than getting those 4 objective points.

Vs Brett, since he was going last in round 1, I couldn't do anything or he could just go smoke someone with his Shyla for no benefit to myself.

Ive found that on the Jabba palace map heaps, you cant' setup/advance safely behind a door like on the other two maps in the current rotation. Its a case of if you open that door you'd better be ready for the laser to fly...

Those top games were great to watch, maybe one year I'll make it there myself!

Yeah, I've played DT on Vassal a few times, and he is definitely not a campy player.

Rather, I think that this style of play was forced upon him by at least 2 things:

1. How wide open the Jabba map is (the Finals was the one game of his that I watched)...to open your door and venture outside of your deployment zone near the Rancor pit chutes is to virtually guarantee death on that map.

2. The way that Initiative is handled. If you start the game with Initiative, it's really not safe to extend your figures until the end of the 2nd round. I think that starting to use bigger maps with fewer options for long ranged attacks would really help to solve this problem; it would enable you to advance your units and do some things, without having to virtually guarantee their deaths.