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Hey internet,

Ryan Farmer here to bring you something really special. 99% of the time I don't spam our podcast outside of the Fly Better Group on Facebook, but this one is really worth listening too. We managed to interview every member of the Top 16 at Worlds and it's well worth your time if you're looking to improve. Enjoy!

Day 2 Lists: https://listfortress.com/tournaments/1193

Top 16
[00:02:00] Jesper Winstrom
[00:07:24] David Kelly
[00:12:00] Nicholas God-Nilsson
[00:17:10] Pierre Buffiere
[00:23:20] Justin Gerring
[00:28:49] Paul La Rue
[00:34:37] Michal Nowak
[00:42:30] Duncan Howard

Top 8
[00:58:00] Calen Wong
[01:08:20] Paul Olson
[01:15:20] Jonathan Kok
[01:20:20] Bartosz Wójcicki

Top 4
[01:30:30] Alex Farley
[01:38:24] Mitch Raab

Finalist
[01:55:30] Dan Taylor

World Champion
[02:00:00] Oliver Pocknell

Fly Better!

You should spam more often.

I would like this but don't want to break up this magic number:

Half way through, the jist I got was “well I hoped I didn’t run into nantex” and .... that’s all. Not a lot of pointers here so far.

Great stuff.

Thanks @Rytackle

5 hours ago, ScummyRebel said:

Half way through, the jist I got was “well I hoped I didn’t run into nantex” and .... that’s all. Not a lot of pointers here so far.

Actually I did have a plan, I just didn't run into any of them.

I put more time into practicing against CIS than most things running up to the weekend yet didn't play a single one, including the Hanger Bays. In some ways I felt like I wasted my time but that's just how it goes sometimes. Obviously I should have tested out how to fly the Torkil swarm.

Against a single Nantext, I felt pretty good from testing. It was more than one I wasn't thrilled about. Most people didn't know what Plo's ability (I had to explain it a lot) and it does really help against them. Paul Heaver said he would have gone after Plo first, but not sure everyone else would have identified that correctly.

Granted, I still didn't want to see them or CIS swarms. I been about 66% against them but against Worlds players I would adjust that down to 50% at best.

If I had to do it again, I'd probably drop in Foresight on Plo as it was my best friend in testing against a lot of things but large/medium bases and swarms particularly. I thought I'd be up against more Imperial and Jedi more than I did.

Otherwise, I brought gas clouds for these matchups. I really rather fly with big rocks but given how good struts are I didn't want to give them that advantage.

After that it is a lot about positioning with Ric, Plo and Obie in order to whittle down the droids' #s. I don't feel a good Sear player lets you get close early to him. I could be wrong but that's been my experience.

Keep in mind I was out of it when they interviewed me. I was still processing everything that happened but I'm more than happy to answer any questions now if you have any thing specific to ask.

JG

Does someone want to provide a summary for those non-audio types?

People are, quite correctly, pretty happy about the meta. The guys who made top 16 were all running a specific lot for specific reasons and had a good plan for most stuff.

Great stuff!

Enjoyed listening to this, good content from most of the guys, and thanks to you for the effort in getting the interviews

Loved the "be nicer to each other" sentiment at the end. Oli is already a hero by having to look after other people's kids as his job, so his attempt to get others to play nice makes him seem like a great candidate as champ.

Great interviews! Thanks!