Mike James is running a new tournament format at Gamex in Los Angeles

By Zebulon3, in X-Wing

Announcing the first Strategicon X-Wing Open Tournament!
This open format tournament will be played using Fantasy Flight's current tournament rules with a neat twist: You can play as often as you want. There will be three 4 hour sessions, and you are able to play as many games as you like, with your highest score going on the leaderboard Top three scores will finish in the dealer dollars. FF's rules can be found here. We also welcome new players and can teach you how to play and loan you a squadron to compete.
Tourney Specifics:
1. All matches will use the 100 point dogfight setup with 1 set of asteroids on a 3'x3' play area.
2. All matches will be 60 minutes.
3. You can play any other player as often as you want, and you do not need to use the same list every time.
4. Both players must fill out a game record sheet to be turned in upon completion of the game.
5. Currently available ships only.
6. Standings will be determined by the highest VP total you can get in a single game. The number of points that list is below 100 will be added as a bonus in the event of a tie as the first tiebreaker Fewest games is tiebreaker 2, and 1 game playoff would be tiebreaker 3.
7. The TO reserves the right to make changes if he deems necessary or missed some minor detail to keep things fair. This is the first run after all, and comments are always welcome at the Mini HQ.

Well does the part with: "you can play anyone as often as you want" not make it possible for 2 friends to play against each other over and over just to give one of them lots of victories so he wins the tournament or qualifies for next round?

Not saying anyone will do this but it would be possible right?

I don't think number of wins matters, as they are only using the highest single game score to determine placement.

RULE #6: Shouldn't the "bonus" be the number of points YOUR list is under 100….if your opponent has less than 100…why would you get a bonus for defeating an "inferior" squad? Did I read it wrong or is it a typo?~Ron

Zoso said:

I don't think number of wins matters, as they are only using the highest single game score to determine placement.

Ah, so i play agaist a friend until i beat him without losing a ship, or vice-versa if we wanna cheat XD