New pairings with everyone actually included are up.

I echo Spry's praise and appreciation for your efforts Naarkon.

From a rules standpoint - the bye should be someone with the lowest tournament score (at this point - it is 0 points) - Flying Arrow, McNizzle, or. . .

Actually - this brings another question - Perhaps I am wrong, but didn't Deaths Baine concede to Darth Rattlehead? If so, you have them reversed.

So - either Flying Arrow, McNizzle or (the one who conceded between) Deaths Baine/Darth Rattlehead should get the bye.


Naarkon - keep kickin butt. It's not easy being a tournament organizer. These small road bumps (due to understandable and/or specific confusing circumstances) are nuthin' in the whole scheme of things.

PS - bloo mail does kinda suck.

The final (hopefully) pairings are up. Didn't know how the bye was decided normally so made it random.

If someone fails to communicate, they automatically concede. Deaths_Baine was in communication.

Your the real MVP Naarkon and your doing a smashing job! Hosting a tournament for the first time is always a learning experience. Do not sweat it!

The communication did come, just with 3 days left.

i would like to revisit the idea that we have some form of "if you do not communicate before the 3rd day" or something like that than you get a warnin/reminderg bloomail and if you haven't communicated by the 5th day you auto lose.

Or some form of ruling on it

Darth O defeats jen'ari by concession 200-15 on Commander's Office.

I won map roll and jen'ari set up on the bottom left. Round 1 he moved his guys through the bottom with Barriss and Caedus in lifts. Once he had finished his round, I moved Yoda God knows how many squares and swapped in Momaw to war throat. This killed the XT-6 and put 20 on Caedus and Barriss, but Malgus made both Dark Armour saves.

Round 2 I won init, but Caedus used Aing-Tii to SBM Momaw. He used double attack, but rolled a 1, so Momaw lived. I then used him to war troat again, bring Caedus down to 70, Malgus to 150, the R7 to 20 and Barriss to 50. He then killed Momaw. I tapped a few commanders and uggies, and he blew up the big centre door with his uggie and used the R7 to lock open the first 1-square door below gambit. Since his Sith were on the other side of the big bottom door, I ran 26 with Yoda to gallop the uggie, swapped the flametrooper in, killed the R7 and put 20 on Barriss. I then towed Blizz up and locked the bottom door with R2.

Jen'ari conceded at this point with about 30 minutes left, since he had no door control left and I could just pick off the rest of his squad at the end of each round. It was a tough matchup for him with so much movement and door control, and the 1 on Momaw made things much worse.

Just played my game with Laura. It wasn't much of a game and that's no reflection against Laura, it's just that it was a massive mismatch in squads. There was nothing her melee squad could do against this Blast Bug juggernaut. I won map, chose Laura's map of Anchorhead. Laura took left, I had the right. First round I took out Tsavong Lah, Laura failed both Avoid Defeat rolls. 2nd round I won init, put 20 on Shedao Shai and moved away. Laura tried to go around the gambit room to cut down the number of pieces I could hit her with. I was able to open doors, get a line on Shedao and cut him down at the end of rd2. Laura conceded there.

With Forward Positioning. Stable Footing. Pathfinder. The ability to bring in 40 pts of Reinforcements and then of course, that much in unavoidable auto dmg. The squad is too broken. It's impossible for Melee to face it at all. If Melee even attempts to face it, the result is this game. All your good pieces die inside the first 2 rounds and the game is called.

Laura is a great competitor, always a pleasure to play a game with her.

When running this Vong squad there is just zero strategy that goes into it. You just point and say 20 dmg to that piece. It's impossible for Melee to be ran competitively when you have this lurking out there. I sincerely hope the Balance Committee takes a hard look at this squad and nerfs it. That being said, 3pt win for me.

Tim and I just finished our game. I won 200-100 in about 40 minutes. Basically the game boiled down to Tim miscounting squares for Ree-Yees to move. He'd thought he'd set up a situation where I had 4 guys all bunched up for Ree-Yees to come in and blow himself up and do 40 to each, but was just off. Blizz was the hero, using flamethrower to kill 1 dude outright and put 20 on 3 others, and Embo came in and took out Shae Vizla. After that it was math (3 kel dors to kill Embo, 1 kel dor and Ree-Yees to kill Blizz), with Tim blowing up his final Kel Dor to kill my R7, giving him 100pts.

Had Ree-Yees been able to put 40 on those characters I still would have made the move with Blizz, and to save Shae Vizla he would have had to retreat her right away. If that had happened, he still had plenty to regroup with and I would have had a number of power pieces seriously damaged. The exchange would have made a game of it. I'm not sure I want a rematch lol. Good game, Tim.

Oh boy. I almost embarrassed to even say this. Trevor beat me 228-0. As lopsided as you can imagine it being.