Compilation of alternative tournament formats?

By comatose, in Star Wars: Armada Organized Play

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Does anyone have a compilation of alternative tournament formats? There's the FFG one plus generic team format, but I'm looking for more that people have actually run or played.

Standard Formats

  • Standard
  • Fleet Patrol

Semi-Standard Formats

  • Team - 600 points total in faction, 300 points per player, uniques are across whole team

The ideas I'm considering for an upcoming tournament are these:

Escalation

  • 200/300/400 - 200 points might be too small, format requires three separate MoV tables
  • CC-style - first round is one upgrade per ship, no unique squadrons, second round allows multiple ship upgrades, third round is normal
  • 300/400/team - First two rounds are solo, third round is 600-point teams. Requires multiples of 4 players, team players together by standing after first two rounds, don't worry about duplicative uniques

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I think take the station adapts to a fun tournament. Have never played it in an official capacity, but ran a casual game night tournament for me and some friends that used the format and it was fun and worked well.

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Naked tournament:

400 points, commander is the only upgrade allowed, no unique/named squadrons.

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Generic tourney: no unique upgrades or squadrons, only unique card allowed is commander.

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12 hours ago, ManInTheBox said:

Naked tournament:

Everyone is naked. Only one man tool on the table at a time.

Where is the “DISLIKE” button when you need it? ? LOL

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On 11/3/2017 at 5:34 AM, WGNF911 said:

Where is the “DISLIKE” button when you need it? ? LOL

Eh, I reported it. Hopefully that's enough.

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Shameless plug for my tournament idea

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Here's what I did with the CC-style format that utilized additional prizes from past tournaments. I think the escalation part could be irrelevant, so this is more about prize distribution. The players said they really enjoyed this format, so I think it's worth doing.

Map Setup

Using the CC map, choose one planet from each of the following pairs and add one "+3 Objectives" location until you have locations equal to the number of matches in the round. (You should have a minimum of one "+3 Objectives" location though). So if you have 8 players, you would have 3 of these planets plus 1 more standard game format planet on the CC map for them to play. In future rounds, add the second planet for any pairs where a planet was played and maintain the number of available standard game format planets. The reason for selecting these pairs is because they have interesting objectives without making them an annoyance.

  1. Talfaglio & Centerpoint
  2. Plympto & Forvand
  3. Saberhing & Sileria
Donated Prizes
For players that donate alternate art or acrylic prizes from past tournaments, they receive their choice of Skilled Spacers and Spynet, up to a maximum of three, that they could use over the course of the tournament.
Prize Assignment
I placed premium prizes on the planets listed. For prizes from the current tournament kit, I started adding those in the second and third rounds. On standard game format planets, I did not place premium prizes. I supplemented all of those with the back inventory of prizes from previous tournaments, typically three total prizes per location. The winner of the match got first pick of those prizes, the loser second pick, etc. If no game took place at a planet in the previous round, I added another prize to it.
Pairings
Decide first round initiative for the tournament based on fleet sizes. Future rounds are based on tournament standings. The person with initiative declares their target planet, and you go down the initiative order until someone declares that they will defend that location. Once a pairing is done, you go to the next available player in initiative and have them declare a target. The attacker is always player one. If someone received a bye, I let them choose a single prize from any location that was not being contested that round. As TO, I volunteered to take on anyone who did not get an opponent after going through the whole initiative order. All of this means that two players could play each more than once, but I think that's okay.

Store Credit
Since the store always gives us store credit as additional prizes, this was the only prize for the top players in the final standings.