My answer is. The hallway of the mall. I felt weird. everyone walking by staring.

The overhang above a MARTA station. A cop yelled at me and my friend to get down and "stop playing Pokemon."

She didn't read the cards.

I hate awkward situations and avoid them as much as possible, so no where.

I thoroughly enjoy watching others in an awkward situation though.

My most awkward X-Wing game was playing at home with a friend who was considering going to a tournament. He insisted on flying Han and a Ghost, but didn't really know how to fly them. I flew a four ship Rebel list that I was planning on taking (not Fairship, just four ships) and utterly destroyed him twice in a row. He killed one of my ships in the second game. He's a very "in-the-moment" type of guy, so I wanted him to know what it was like to lose bad before he went to tournament. I was afraid he'd go to a tournament for five hours and lose bad and get grumpy. Well, he got grumpy at my house and decided he didn't want to go to a tournament and that he wanted to go home and destroy all his ships and said that he never liked X-Wing to begin with.

Anyways, that was awkward, but I'm glad it happened.

The LGS with half the space required for three parallel games...

In the hallway outside the gaming store, which was in a very small shopping centre. Fortunately it was an evening tournament and all the other shops in the centre were closed, but it was pretty cold out there in December.

On the sidewalk outside a tiny game-store that purported to have room for 20 players ... but actually had room for maybe 12. I look back on it fondly, though, since that was my first Store Champ win.

work break room table. Which was/is too small. Lots of co workers coming and going wanting to know what we were doing and had to explain it every 5 min.

On the floor of the hotel room the night before the SOS. I played my brother a practice game with our lists for the next day, which I won.

Guess who my first round opponent was the next morning.......? Yip, and when I approached the TO table and inquired about switching they said the re-matched a few times and it kept coming up - so I got to play my brother, whom I'd just driven 6+ hours with to get there and had the exact same match the night before. I played differently, but still won, as I was concerned he'd have the inside scoop on my plan. Thankfully we both still made Round 2, but not the final cut. The next morning, before the Hyperspace Qualifier, I approached the TO table and let them know that if I had to play my brother again in the first round that I was going to have a fit - like they would probably have to call security kind of a fit. We all had a good laugh lol, and thankfully I didn't have to play him at all that day.

Probably a gaming store in Bournemouth with a damp, mouldy, stale basement that has bits of plaster falling on peoples heads and concrete dust all over the floor.

The mess deck of an ice breaker on the Great Lakes.

Table of a restaurant at a family dinner after a funeral. Found out a distant cousin played X-wing and so we decided to try to have a game using the FFG dice app and sub-ins like salt and pepper shakers for the ships, utensils for the maneuver templates and just did X-wings against TIE fighters stats.

Hilarious, totally fun game and his pepper TIEs popped my poor salt shaker X-wing with some hot electronic dice hahaha.

A store with broken air conditioning in early summer in the south. Had some great games, but oh nelly was it hot.

Insert Hot in Herre by Nelly.

Don't have a bad place that I've played, but the most odd was out in the woods in a tree stand that my nephew and his friends built.

The table where you do your folding of a laundromat. It was my roommate and i's second game. The table was 2x6 feet long. Lots of questions being asked while we did laundry.

4 hours ago, Fuzzywookie said:

My answer is. The hallway of the mall. I felt weird. everyone walking by staring.

Uncle's games in Tacoma Mall? I won't play there for that reason.

A local magic store that just pushed two plastic tables together to get the width. A whole store championship with a bump in the middle of each mat. It wasn't anything special, but everything was wobbly and I was under the weather, making it all that much worse.

At a friend's who forgot to tell me to bring my map. We had to play on a tiny glass(!!!) table. Was like "X-Wing meets Holiday On Ice"...

4 hours ago, Fuzzywookie said:

My answer is. The hallway of the mall. I felt weird. everyone walking by staring.

39 minutes ago, DraakRyuu said:

Uncle's games in Tacoma Mall? I won't play there for that reason.

I've won a tourney there, but they certainly can not hold many with the fact that you are playing RIGHT in concourse of a major shopping mall. You certainly have to watch your stuff. It's cool to get the exposure for xwing but sometimes I feel like ,"dude, take two steps back."

In the parking lot behind the store.

In the beating sun in August, 93 degrees Fahrenheit.

In a Store Championship that oversold the space.

In case it wasn't clear, all of those occurred at the same time.

5 hours ago, GILLIES291 said:

Table of a restaurant at a family dinner after a funeral. Found out a distant cousin played X-wing and so we decided to try to have a game using the FFG dice app and sub-ins like salt and pepper shakers for the ships, utensils for the maneuver templates and just did X-wings against TIE fighters stats.

Hilarious, totally fun game and his pepper TIEs popped my poor salt shaker X-wing with some hot electronic dice hahaha.

The image of what this game looked like just warms my heart. That is the spirit of the game right there.

Screw You FFG, we got HARDWARE WARS!!!!

Loving this thread.

Mine would be in a Denny's. Me and my friend were getting breakfast before the start of trying to hit back to back Imdaar Alpha events and decided to play a practice game on the (far too small) table with no mat. My TIE Interceptors carried the day vs. his Biggs Walks the Dogs list.

We ended up playing each other at the final table of the first event, he got his E-wing and I got my TIE Phantom so we were basically just playing for fun and to try out the new ships. At the second event (which we had to race over to) I made it to the final table and got a TIE Defender.

I wish FFG did more of those special pre-release tournaments

Small table, with roads on it, in train. We went on Czech Nationals by train in 5 am so my mate booked us tickets in the "play-vagon" for kids.

It was a blast! We were only able to have one ship each (because the moving train environment) so he wanted to try ARC-170 which came out about that time and I took HWK-290 with Autoblaster Turret.

Australia gets hot. Really hot. My family and I went on a trip to our great-great-grandparents home town for a funeral a few generations down the line. We stayed in one of our family homes there, and since every table was occupied by nostalgic adults, my cousins and I played on a 100+ year old wooden floor in a bedroom. The cracks were large enough for ships to fall through (though we caught them in time), and we certainly lost a good deal of tracking tokens from the core set we were playing with (boo hoo), all while playing in 40+ Celsius weather (104+ Fahrenheit).

We had absolutely no back support for six hours, sitting on a wood floor in that kind of heat, crammed into a small bedroom with only a loose understanding of the rules; yet those core set games were some of the best we'd ever played.

I've played at a regional where every game was played out on (to ordinary height people) thigh height fragile trestle tables, upon which were placed MDf board for the necessary width. I'm 6'6", and I spent 8 hours that day bent almost double trying to reach ships. Of course, I was playing Unkar and went on to a 4-2 record due to some BS dice in my favour, so it was totally worth it.

2' circular table in an office meeting room. Had to move the cards a number of times as ships swooped through space we had put them. Also had to take a pause to discuss with a client who walked by and noticed us...

16 hours ago, GILLIES291 said:

Table of a restaurant at a family dinner after a funeral. Found out a distant cousin played X-wing and so we decided to try to have a game using the FFG dice app and sub-ins like salt and pepper shakers for the ships, utensils for the maneuver templates and just did X-wings against TIE fighters stats.

Hilarious, totally fun game and his pepper TIEs popped my poor salt shaker X-wing with some hot electronic dice hahaha.

Off topic: Does pepper need a nurf? Or is the current Hot Sauce meta enough to balance things out?

A store championship at a dungeon-like store. The T.O. of a tournament unilaterally decided that the final would be played on a 6x6 map with 3-D terrain from another table top war game. You can't make that s#it up. The top 2 players decided to shake on it and not play.