only recently started playing and entered my first tourney yesterday. for tournament play builds: after viewing a bunch online it seems that the rebels have an inherent advantage due to th epoint system. I know that a tie swarm won GenCon this year but most past tournaments that i have looked at tend to have an inordinate amount of rebels in the quarter finals/finals. is there a good imperial build or build strategy that works for you all?

You need to ask this question in the general forum. You are in the rules sub-forum and this is not a rules question.