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DCStyles: Perfect, that'll be enough mats for everyone then!

Rogue: Awesome thanks!  The laptop will be great .. I'm in the process of trying to fix my brothers laptop so I have something to use for tourneys

Yeah, we will fill out the lists at the beginning of tournament again.  So no need to have it submitted ahead of time.  if you have any questions feel free to pm me or post here.  Also, I'm bringing my 3 mats, but depending on numbers we may need at most 2 more.

This sounds great.  I'm hoping to be able to make it out to it .. Ill know for sure after this weekend as to how harvest is going.

There was a pretty solid mixture of squads it seemed.  I ran a fairly basic Soontir Fel with Valen Rudor and just the adv. prototype title for the first round .. Coming in at 53 points.  I played short for the first round to save room for Vessery in a defender for the second.  I brought the Tie/D title and tractor beam with Vessery. For the third round I brought in the inquisitor with title and then added stealth device and auto thrusters to Soontir Fel to make him a bit more of an ace.  Final round I just added upgrades to the last 3 ships.  I added assault missles and guidance chips to both adv. prototypes and the defender for some ae damage assuming I'd come up against some sort of swarm.  And then last upgrade in that round I brought ruthlessness for more ae damage shenanigans from vessery.

After flying escalation id bring a little different stuff.  I wouldn't have focused so much on ae damage and brought another ship or two instead.  And I would have tried to stay as close to max points as possible for each tier .. I definitely felt like holding out points for a next round more expensive ship ended up making my first squad seem underpowered.

I'd like to give a bit thanks to comic readers for hosting this tournament and bringing in the kit!  It was a pretty good turn out, 7 of us able to make it.  I think everyone had a good time, and pretty competitive.  Everyone ended up 2-2!

I'm hoping to make more of these again after Summer's over ... End of September ish.  A lot of us post in the xwing Regina Facebook group prior to going to see if anyone else is able to make it out before heading down.

I haven't built for escalation either ... So this may not be the best advice. 
Personally after trying to find a squad starting with 60 points and going up was tough.  I ended up making what I thought would be good at 150 points, and then seperate what I thought would give me the best chance to win first game from that list.  From there it was easy to add pilots / upgrades from the 150 point list as I went to fill the 90 and 120 sizes.

I think I'll do a poll here and on the Facebook group and see what works best for people.  I'd say we would be looking at August 20, 27 or sept 10 as the best options. Do any of those dates not work for Comic Readers?  And also, do you want me to set an entry cost to cover the kit?

I can run something for us.  How's an escalation tournament sound?

I'll bring my mat as well