It's not that bad. ... It was a little bad.

Listen to Jeff.

Have a look at the X-Wing Tournament Rules; you'll find tables of recommended rounds of Swiss and top cuts for a given number of participants. (A quick rule of thumb is that you do about log2(n) rounds of Swiss for n players, e.g. for 16 players you'd do 4 rounds.) Each round takes up to 75 minutes, and then there's usually 15 or so minutes between each round for the organizers to figure out who's paired up for the next round. If the tournament is large enough, there may be a food break in the middle. After the Swiss rounds are done, a cut (if any) to single elimination happens. Up to 16 players there is no cut, so that's your best bet if you want to be done in 6 hours. Above that and you're looking at 8 rounds or more, if you make it all the way to the final table.

That wasn't directed at you. You actually provided numbers, which is great! I apologize for not acknowledging the List Juggler numbers. I didn't say anything because I looked at it, went "aha" and continued. So I accept that point. (But I'll come back to that in a second.) But I could say likewise regarding the Interceptor, which got Royal Guard TIE in Imperial Aces and Autothrusters in Most Wanted Wave 6 (it also helps A-wings, but boy did it help Fel more than anyone else -- Chiraneau/Fel dominated Regionals for a good long time). Y-wings and Interceptors both got boosts in the meta, and I don't think one was stronger than the other, looking at the tail end of Regionals and going into Nationals. All we both have at this point is conjecture. I don't know what goes on behind closed doors at FFG when they decide what to release next. (I mean, c'mon, no Assault Gunboat or Missile Boat?) I expect you don't either. I go with the simplest explanation: FFG comes up with something cool to put into the game, be it Rebel, Imperial, or Scum. I really don't think there's a Rebel-tilted agenda going on. What we can do is make a prediction, which is what you sort of did in your hypothetical -- and we see that FFG doesn't always put the Rebel version of an expansion out first. I was trying to make a funny (And honestly, Scum really could use an Aces pack.) Regarding using List Juggler data: I was thinking about this one some more, and I don't think it conclusively tells us what the market wants in terms of factions. What we do know is: of the lists that were entered into tournaments that were entered into List Juggler, 46% were Rebel, 36% were Imperial, etc. The problem is that tournament play differs from casual play; I posit that in tournaments, people are more likely to fly a list that they think will win, and not necessarily of the faction they have a preference for. And if there is a prevailing perception that Rebels are stronger/more likely to do well in tournaments, you'll see more of them (the groupthink effect). I'm not saying this is the only reason for the numbers. I'm saying that they're not conclusive enough for us to deduce what player preference really is. We have basically no data on casual/kitchen table games. Edit: Most Wanted is not the name of Wave 6, yo

Okay. I guess you have way more invested in this than I do. But you seem to be making the point that FFG would, on balance, release a Rebel expansion before its Imperial counterpart. However, FFG just announced Imperial Veterans which is not in response to a Rebel expansion; by your hypothesis, FFG would have released Rebel Veterans first.

I don't even know what this means [ Um, okay. https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/110928-2014-nationals-results/ 2014 Nationals Rebels: 6 Empire: 7 Scum: Did not exist Don't think we have 2013 nationals results. If you're going to try to argue "facts" please back them up with, uh, facts. I think they'd pick whatever ship would be cool. (Actually, scratch that. Just to make your question invalid, I'm going to vote Scum!) Where do you get the market's preference for Rebels? If anything, reading these forums makes me think the preference is largely (and quite vocally) for Imperials. I think that was the joke.

I think that's looking for bias (or however you wish to word it) where there is none. The most likely reason is not some FFG execs twirling their mustaches at the thought of Imperial players crying, but rather the lack of canon Imperial ships in the 300 meter range. And X-wings were largely obsoleted with the release of the B-wing, so an X-wing pack-in with the transport probably seemed like a good idea at the time. Should they have fixed an Imperial ship back then? Maybe. But I actually think the experience they've gained since then has actually paid off in the more recent expansions; consider that no one actually flies the X-wing pilots in Rebel Transport (really, the only card you see is R3-A2). Compare that to the pack-in TIE Advanced fixes in Raider, which brought back TIE Advanced in a huge way.

What do you mean by "prioritized releases"?

Really? Here's Major Juggler's stats for nationals: https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/178660-2015-nationals-results Here are the winner counts: Rebels: 3 Empire: 4 Scum: 6 Please check your definitions for one or more of the following words: "fact," "clear," and "win." (I don't know why I keep getting into these discussions over and over)

Crabbok pls

Folks, we're all focusing on the wrong thing. Let's cut to the meat of this post. I used to use the Plano 1354, but after the YV-666 came out it just wasn't able to fit all my stuff. I'm currently using a KR Multicase for ships and a zip binder to carry cards, but I still use the Plano 5231 to carry just my tournament stuff. What's everyone using for their storage and transport?

Come to think of it, Garven Dreis (Red Leader) is only PS6, lower than his squadmates Porkins, Luke, and Wedge.

Is that so? Well then! *rubs hands* Let's take Keyan Farlander Equip B-Wing/E2, granting a Crew slot Equip Ezra crew I changed my mind, I didn't want B-Wing/E2 (but Ezra crew stays) No, wait, I want to equip B-Wing/E2 after all Equip C-3PO crew I changed my mind, I didn't want B-Wing/E2 (but C-3PO crew stays) No, wait, I want to equip B-Wing/E2 after all Equip Chewbacca crew I changed my mind... ad nauseam

Hold up. Four days ago you said Kanan crew was overpowered and potentially game breaking. This fixes that?

But seriously, let's get back on the topic of FFG always favoring Rebels. https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2015/12/14/rule-the-skies/

Now that you bring it up: 2012 Worlds Champion: TIE swarm 2013 Worlds 2nd: TIE swarm 2014 Worlds 2nd: Whisper/Howlswarm

Statements like this obliterate any credibility you may have had. UK Nationals Champion: Brobots German / Austrian / Swiss Nationals Champion: Brobots Slovakia/Czech Republic Nationals Champion: Brobots Dutch Nationals Champion: Soontir Fel + Obsidian swarm French Nationals Champion: 4 AP + 4 Obsidians Australian Nationals Champion: Brobots Polish Nationals Champion: Thug Life Spanish Nationals Champion: Thug Life NZ Nationals Champion: Whisper/Vader/Colzet

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Youngster /shrug

Gonna stop you right there. You measure closest point to closest point (in arc for non-turreted ships), not corner to corner. Sometimes that means the shortest line between two bases is from one base's corner to the side of the other base. (And because of geometry, if the shortest line touches the side of the base, that line must be perpendicular to the side.)

I keep all card text here: https://github.com/geordanr/xwing/blob/master/coffeescripts/cards-en.coffee Not immediately machine parseable but can be with some light editing. For manual searching it should be sufficient.

I'll get to it tonight. Except for Ordnance Tubes; that one reveals a significant design flaw in my builder, in that it doesn't properly track two halves of a huge ship together. That may take some time, if I can coax it in at all.

Not so much. https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/192577-2015-worlds-results/page-41#entry1891448

When I grow up I want to be mediocre like you, Jeff.

The aftermath of the assault missile and HLC volley (so long, shields!):

I for sure thought there was a Serissu there. I can confirm that one of our group did in fact fly Serissu at Worlds.