So what have I been up the past few weeks? Besides work and real life, it was practicing for the Regionals. Held at Gamersaurus Rex, we had a small contingent of Malaysian players who turned up as well.
Unfortunately I could not take many photos as the games were really tight. We had 35 people sign up and 6 qualifier games to play. I brought the following list:
"Echo" — TIE Phantom | 30 |
Veteran Instincts | 1 |
Recon Specialist | 3 |
Advanced Cloaking Device | 4 |
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Bounty Hunter — Firespray-31 | 33 |
Seismic Charges | 2 |
Tactician | 2 |
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Omicron Group Pilot — Lambda-Class Shuttle | 21 |
Tactician | 2 |
Tactician | 2 |
The following pictures are caught before I kicked off each round. Swiss rounds.
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First game against Elliot fielding a Jonus + Bombers x3. He is an old gaming buddy of mine so we had a blast. I did lose this game though. |
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Largest turnout to date. I am glad the community is thriving. |
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So many tables of X Wing going on at the same time. It actually got warm! |
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My second game was against Alex Yeo. Played him for the first time. Friendly chap! His list was a little sub-optimal as he was using Interceptors akin to Tie Fighters with more attacks. Interceptors need Push the Limit. I manage to win this game |
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Unfortunately for Alex as well, I managed to roll really well, one shot killed his Interceptors with my Echo TWICE! |
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My third game was with Isaac. In this picture you can already see his strange deployment. I let it slide a few times that he just shifted his models ahead but after a few rounds I asked him politely to move them one by one due to "turbulence" which can cause collisions. He obliged and I think that moved him out of his comfort zone. I won this game as well. |
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My fourth game was with one of the boys that work at the store. I missed his name (apologies!). He piloted really well missing asteroids and his own ships by a hairs breadth. Amazing. I lost this game. |
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My fifth game saw me fighting Soe, one of the ex-store champions. We danced a little and I managed to pull this game limping on 2 HP on my Shuttle and 1 HP on my Echo. The odds were clearly against Soe in this game but remarkable play. |
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My last qualifier game was with Richard, one of my sparring buddies. A really polite and pleasant guy, I could not have asked for a better 6th game. We had played a few times during our practice sessions and the time he won was when he just went after my two ships. Unfortunately I think the long day got to him and he went after Echo again leaving me with the victory. |
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Just more action going on around me. Richard committing to take out my lone Echo allowing me to flank |
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The table behind me with my sensei, Vick playing |
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Look carefully at that Echo. It's almost invisible! |
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And that modified Carnor Jax |
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Another excellent paintjob - by Jeremy |
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Jonnie vs someone.... |
The dust finally settles at 9PM. The scores calculated and the top 8 were called. I didn't make the cut. Damn...but I managed to get number 10, netting me the Evade tokens and Luke Skywalker.
I wanted the dice too but alas, wasn't good enough.
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Blacked out when the guys collected their tokens and cards |
Here are some photos of the top 8.
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No wave 4 ships...ooooo |
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Table 2 |
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Table 3 |
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Table 4 - Vick with his cloaked Whisper |
It was an excellent day of gaming. While I would have preferred if we had started earlier or shortening it to 5 rounds, I enjoyed myself.
Oh yea, someone needs to repair that AC. Gamer funk at 8PM with an empty stomach makes me grouchy.
Game on fellas!