The 2018 Regional Championship at Red Castle Games in Portland is live! I'll be attempting to update this thread as the day goes on (that may prove untenable but here's hoping I can put up a few quick pics at least).

First up, we have 24 players here with 4 using their first-round bye from a Store Championship.

Second, here's a breakdown of our Commanders:

REBELS = 11

Admiral Ackbar

Leia Organa

Admiral Raddus

General Cracken

General Rieekan x3

General Dodonna x4

EMPIRE = 13

Admiral Motti

Darth Vader x2

Moff Jerjerrod x3

Grand Admiral Thrawn x3

Admiral Sloane x4

A surprisingly balanced compliment of Rebels and Imperials, with a fairly good mix of Commanders. It was great to see Ackbar and especially Leia in the mix as she's a personal favorite of mine, though the lack of Garm made me sad. I was definitely surprised by the low turnout for Raddus and the high number of Sloane fleets.

And as promised, we have Corellian Cake!

I threw in a few extra prizes to the pool, plus our last place winner will receive the coveted Anakin Skywalker prize 😅

We've got some nicely painted minis here today.

And an 8-ship General Cracken swarm!

What's this madness? Three VSDs on the same table!

Fleets deploying for battle...

Rieekan vs Jerjerrod

Cracken vs Rieekan

Vader vs Sloane

Love all the pics!

Yes - fabulous pictures

1 minute ago, Maturin said:

Love all the pics!

Thanks! I don't have time at the moment to put up all the deck lists or give in-depth commentary on the games, but hopefully the pics will suffice. Speaking of... there are 45 minutes left in round 1 and players are deep in thought.

We've had 1 game wrap up already (8-3 with an MOV of 195). It was Moff Jerjerrod's triple Cymoons vs Rieekan's aces. JJ came out on top — for the Emperor!

That cake looks awesome! Thank you for sharing all the pictures, looks like a blast!

Motti's flagship lines up a huge shot on Jerjerrod's VSD.

"Chopper" the Hammerhead silences a Transport.

Leia Bombers vs Thrawn Bombers.

Another double VSD fleet! It's Thrawn on Thrawn action.

Cracken still hanging in there vs Rieekan, but the damage is piling up.

Round 1 is in the Jedi Archives. Besides our 4 byes at 8 points, we had the following scores:

x3 9-2 (MoVs of 242, 237 and 229 respectively).

x2 8-3

x3 7-4

x2 6-5

Those last 2 games were very close. First there was our Canon Thrawn vs Legacy Thrawn battle separated by only 38 points, and the second we had Cracken edging out Rieekan with a score of 106-102!

Our top fleet so far is a squadronless Jerjerrod list with a pair of Slaved Turrets Arquitens, Demolsiher, ISD Kuat and a Gozanti.

Following closely behind JJ is a Sloane fleet with an Avenger ISD-II, Quasar Fire and Gozanti with a mess of fighters led by Steele and Dengar.

Rounding out the top 3 is another Sloane list. This one also has a Quasar Fire, as well as Demolisher, 2 Gozantis and 4 TIE fighters paired up with Major Rhymer, Steele and Jendon.

After refueling with pizza and caf, everyone is gearing up for round 2!

Jerjerrod Triple Cymoons vs Jerjerrod Arquitens in a Blockade Run! Cymoon JJ is second player.

Leia and Dodonna are battling for control of the Rebel Alliance.

Thrawn's Interdictor grav-shifts a pair of Dust Clouds vs Motti's ISD, VSD, GSD build.

Great posts.

5 minutes ago, Thraug said:

Great posts.

Thanks! I hope you guys are enjoying the pics so far.

Our Blockade Run game is already over. The score was 6-5 with an MoV of 0. JJ Triple Cymoon wins as second player.

Thanks for the updates!

My pleasure. It looks like imgur is putting my uploads on hold for the moment so there my be a break in the action. I have a few other results I can share (without pics):

Leia was tabled by General Dodonna with an MoV of 400 (400-0).

Rieekan vs Vader ended in defeat for the Dark Lord, 520-236.

We had another 10-1 roll in this round. A squadronless Vader list (ISD-II, VSD-II, Demolisher) tabled a Dodonna Yavaris bomber build (Keyan, Luke, Wedge, 3 B-Wings).

Round 2 was a bloodbath. We had x5 10-1 and x2 9-2s out of 12 matches. However, the overall scores remain close. First place has 18 points (MoV 497), followed closely by 2nd with 17 points (MoV 504). Fifth through 15th place are only separated by 4 points (15-11).

Current 1st place fleet is the Rhymer / Admiral Sloane list with a Quasar, Demolisher, x2 Gozantis, 4 TIEs, Dengar, Steele, Jendon and Mauler. It has a 17-point bid.

The 2nd place fleet is a no-squadron Vader Avenger ISD-II, VSD-II, Demolisher and Gozanti fleet. It has no bid.

Round 3 is going to be interesting...