RULES

There will be one active match at a time. (One at a time because I don't want to flood the forum with 16 threads, and trying to discuss multiple games at the same time in the same thread would be too confusing.) While the match is active, everyone is welcome to present their arguments for which side they think would win. Everyone is also welcome to vote for who they think would win, whether they present arguments or not. Everyone is also welcome to play games between the two squads to determine who would win. Scoring will be determined as follows:

* If the two players whose names are attached to the squads agree to actually play each other (or designate someone to play in their place) - the winner advances. Period. It's worth 1000 points per game.
* Otherwise, everyone gets a vote and each vote is worth 1 point.
* Also, if you run a solo game between the two squads, please report it. The winning squad gets 5 points. You can run multiple solo games, and each time the winner will get 5 points for each win. Theoretical minis are great, but actual minis are better.
* If two players play against each other with the two squads, please report it. The winning squad gets 10 points. You can play multiple times for 10 points each.

Maps and Reinforcements: If the squad's representative has announced a map preference and/or Reinforcements choice, use those choices. Beyond that, use your best judgement.

Deadlines
* A 24-hour deadline for each game will be announced.
* Votes must be submitted before the deadline.
* Because games sometimes take some time to arrange, they may be played after the deadline. However, they must be announced (with a concrete date/time) before the deadline, and the planned game must be played within 48 hours of the deadline.
* When the deadline is up, results will be posted. If there are no unplayed games remaining, results are final. If there are unplayed games, results will be tentative and the results of the remaining games will be added to the totals once those results are known.

Tiebreakers
If the deadline arrives and there is a tie, here are the tiebreaker rules:
1. If one squad's representative voted but the other did not, the squad of the representative who voted wins.
2. If one squad's representative played a game with the squad but other did not, but the squad of the representative who played a game wins.
3. Higher seed wins.


Seeding:
Tournament seeding is according to the following rules, but the rules themselves are somewhat arbitrary:
* Highest seeds go to squads with GenCon results. GenCon winners first, ordered by recency. Then 2nd place, ordered by recency, etc.
* Other tournament winners get the next highest seeds ordered by recency.
* Finally, squads that did well in a tournament but did not win, ordered by recency. (Note that Naarkonesque is in this category based on ScrambleCon results.)
* After that, squads that have not been entered in a competitive tournament, randomly seeded. (Blast Bugs 2018 is in this category since it's a major shake-up after the Scout errata.)

And after running the random numbers, here's the seeding:
1. Roger Stone
2. Prison Break
3. ehh... (Corellian Solo Charge)
4. Skybuck
5. Dance of Death (Caedus/Barriss)
6. Three Kings
7. Jim's Jam Session
8. Triple Hex
9. Naarkonesque
10. Just Paid for Itself (BX Commandos)
11. Triple Ven
12. Hutt Cartel Kajidii
13. Seps Vset 15
14. Rouge One
15. Blast Bugs
16. Gen Nien Wexley with Poecaster

I just ran the random numbers for the seeding (only the last few slots were randomized seeding... the rest were based on competitive results). A link to the bracket will be posted after the last two squadbuilding tournaments are complete. But from the seeding we can see the first match. Let's go ahead and get it started.

Likely Imperials, although the map would be important. With 4 differently names types of attackers, Poe loses a lot of his scissors-effectiveness. Resistance just doesn't have a good answer to the Diplomats or being outactivated. There's enough potential counters (Poe and Chewie barrages, Nien mines) that with a mistake or two Resistance could catch the Imperials with their pants down and turn the tides very quickly, but the troopers should win if they play safely.

I don't think the sled is going to get to Leia. Nien would be in the path, and Mines would likely kill the sled, so Imp player wouldn't risk it, at least not on round 1. And if he did reach Leia, she'd have Han/Chewie as bodyguards. Then again, taking Chewie out is probably more important than taking out Leia anyway. So I don't think the sled is a major concern here - it'll do some damage but not kill Han, Chewie or Leia (maybe take out Poe with a couple cannon shots?) and then die quickly.

Still, Resistance has no real way to deal with the Diplomats and once one of them gets adjacent to Chewie, the Barrages go away and half the Resistance's firepower goes away. That would be the ballgame right there. Absent more persuasive arguments to the contrary, I also vote for Roger Stone.

EDIT: I'd guess 70-30 for the Imps.

I concur that Roger Stone is likely to win. I'm happy to delegate for an official match if anyone wants to play, though, because I think the Resistance has a better chance in a skirmish than in a vote.

Feels like David and Goliath. Who volunteers to face the mighty GenCon champion, Roger Stone?

Imperials, only Vassal could let NR win this match up.

go gandalf!!!

Haha, hey no worries man!!

Well, I have Vassal but have never played a game on it, so I don't think that I'd do very well. But regardless, I am presently not able to play games on Vassal, for reasons of my own.