The event does custom alt art cards, so maybe. Maybe not FFG tournament legal, but it might actually be a prize from the Stele Open. http://www.steleopen.com/about Edit: I checked the Stele Open's facebook page and the card did show up in one of their photos.

I prefer MrDumbAz lol But I couldn't find my rule book for a bit and wasn't sure if it just said title, or unique title cards. I'm going off of what Diablo posted. So the RAW interpretation would be yes we can swap out task force titles?

Can Task Force Title cards be switched out on ships between rounds? Example: Round 1, three of my ships have Task Force Organa. Round 2, same three ships now use Task Force Antilles?

I think closer scoring games means that the skill levels of both the players are of equal level. Scores of 10-1, 9-2 look more like someone made a costly mistake, either with their build, deployment, or tactics, or is just the big fish in the small pond.

Does anyone know where I can find the result of all the rounds of a large tournament? I'm just a little curious to see what a bye would be if it was calculated by my suggestion. If as you said the 8-3 feeling about right, and the calculation ends up the same I think an argument could be made to switch to average MOV and that would also address changing the points awarded in smaller tournaments.

Yes, this is what happened. We ended up giving the latecomer a 0. Also to address @Tokra Let's say there are an uneven number of people all fairly equally skill and everyone gets 6-5. Now the person with the bye is in first place and in a really good position to win the tournament if everyone keeps getting 6-5s. I believe averaging up the MOV does not penalize the person with the bye, because it will put them right in the middle and they have neither a point advantage or disadvantage.

I played in a store championship the other day and a player ended up showing up late so one player received a bye the first round. Unfortunately this resulted in player with the bye rocketing all the way up to second place due to most of the other games being played that round resulting in 7-4 or 6-5 scores. Has anyone else thought that the bye would be more balanced if it took the average of margin of victory to calculate the tournament points? I just seems like 8 points is too much on average especially if most of the games are tight. This would now place the player with the bye right in the middle of the pairings instead of in our case with the top person. In out store championship the player who won had 23 tournament points (9 or 10 of those points can from being matched up with the player with the bye in the second round). Averaging 8 point in the other two rounds would've been more than enough to win the tournament for the player with the bye netting them 24 points for the whole tournament. Had our tournament continued with a odd number of players, whoever received a bye would be in a better position to finish higher in the standings at the end of the day than most players who actually played in the round.

Can someone point me to a section(s) in the rules that I can reference for my gaming group?

Who wouldn't want to go to Hawaii and make an adventure out of it. Go to the beach, see Pearl Harbor, the volcano's, the beaches. Did I mention the beaches. But I'm a bit biased, since I live there.