I updated the rules to allow for you to upgrade a single character to a higher cost one in the subsequent rounds if you so choose. So if for example, you want to build a sith squad with the 50pt Darth Bane and want to upgrade him to the 80+ point version in round 2, you can. It will go towards the 50pts you have to work with. I feel that this is a good way to work with the theme and might lead to more interesting squad builds using weaker versions of characters and gradually building them up for future rounds. A lot of main characters have multiple versions of them, so there are interesting ways this can be integrated. Might be a cool way to help your squad adapt and counter what others are playing also. This is a good middle ground I feel for allowing some of the higher cost minis to see play if you don't wish to build them into your initial 100pt team.

As an additional note, it was suggested to me that we could add a 5 round to the Galactic Escalation tournament and it would take place after round 3 and be where you build a 300pt team and thus have 100pts to add to your previous round squad. Round 5 then would be your 300 point squad + 1 Epic miniature for the Grand finale. I'd like to get people's thoughts on this if that is something people would like. It would make the tournament last an additional month, so that might be hard for some people to commit to, which is why I initially kept it to 4 rounds.

I did also add a start date will be next week on Wednesday November 16th. That will give people a little over a week to figure out a squad build to play. Once I have submitted my squad to a 3rd party, I will update you all and you can send your squad submissions to me.

One other thought: maybe this doesn’t need to take several months; what if, instead of playing 100 for 4 weeks and then 150 for 4 weeks…we instead played 100 for one game and 150 for the next game, and so on?

I can imagine that it might start to get rather repetitive, playing with what is essentially the same squad for several months in a row.

It's a good suggestion. The reason I didn't want to set a point limit was so people didn't choose a single epic that costs little (Satele for example) and then use the rest of the points on cheap stuff (10 mouse droids for example). Epic format usually has an activation cap of 16, so I figured that usually people run about 12-16 activations in a 200pt team. Maybe we could say you have 175 pts for 2 extra minis to be added, one of which has to be a Epic miniature. That way everyone is adding the same amount of activations and depending on your Epic miniature cost, you can add something from fringe or your faction to make up the rest.

For a Swiss tournament format, which is what we are doing, how many games is needed at a minimum? We aren't doing playoffs so it'd be just so many games against others that are doing as well as you are and your total points for the round gets added to the other rounds. I just want to give everyone a fair shot to showcase their squad and not suffer from bad matchups.

What if I make a squad with 98 points? Can I then add 52 for the next squad to get it equal to 150?

In theory you could say full round robin. Every player plays every player every round. Give a full month to finish all games. Dunno how time looks for everyone.

You could just add Kneesa lol. The only situation where someone might have to build with more points is if they have 99pts in round 1. Next round I would be okay with them having 51. We don't have any (and probably never will) 1 pt piece.

The only problem (as far as the rules go right now) is that if you add Kneesa at 100, then she has to still be part of your 150 squad and your 200 and your 300 and your Epic squads. If things stay as they currently are, then it might be necessary to build a 97pt squad in round 1, so that you have room to build the squad that you really want in 150 or 200.

Sooooo, what are the rules? Is it too late to sign up? Why does the thread say round 1 (if it hasn't even started yet)?