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Monday, 25 August 2014

Australian X-Wing National Championship Results



What a weekend! After powering through the drive on Friday night, we all arrived down in Canberra for a weekend of X-Wing! Our national tournament drew 53 players (WOW) from all corners of Australia. We met a great group of guys, and all had a blast. The full results haven’t been released yet, but they are coming soon for sure. 

Here are some pics from the day:


The top placing lists after the cut were as follows:
1st Place
Blue Squad - Adv Sensors
Blue Squad - Adv Sensors
Blue Squad - Adv Sensors
Bandit
Bandit

2nd Place
Whisper - Vet Int, Fire Control, Rebel Captive, Advanced Cloak
Howlrunner - Swarm Tactics
Academy
Academy
Academy

3rd Place
Whisper - Vet Int, Fire Control, Advanced Cloak
Omicron - Darth Vader
Sontir Fel - PTL, Hull Upgrade, Shield Upgrade, Royal Guard

4th Place
Etahn- Swarm Tactics
Roark - Ion Cannon
Rookie
Rookie

5th Place
Dagger Squad - Heavy Laser, Fire Control
Dagger Squad - Heavy Laser, Fire Control
Dagger Squad - Heavy Laser, Fire Control

6th Place
Chewbacca - Engine, Falcon, C-3PO, Gunner, PTL
Ibitsam - Engine, Heavy Laser, PTL

7th Place
Wedge
Rookie
Blue Squad - Ion Cannon
Blue Squad - Ion Cannon

8th Place
Chewbacca - Predator, Gunner, Falcon
Bandit
Bandit
Bandit
Bandit

These 8 went through a further three rounds of elimination until a winner was decided. Congratulations to Morgan Reid! Our Australian National Champion for 2014.

Morgan played the following list:

Whisper - Vet Int, Fire Control, Rebel Captive, Advanced Cloak
Howlrunner - Swarm Tactics
Academy
Academy
Academy

Great stuff, pretty scary.

Anyway, a breakdown of the whole day will come over the next week or so as full results are released.

3 comments:

  1. Wow. That's a really awesome variety of builds in the top 8. One of the things I love about this game.

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    1. I played the 4th place list in the fourth round and got absolutely SLAMMED by it. I was dead by turn five.

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    2. So great to see a competitive HWK. I really them but I can never think of a list that works.

      Same with my beloved Y-wing. :p

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