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Episode 30: The Crumpet Conquest!
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A long time ago… in a windy city, far, far away… Your hosts Andrew Kouba, Nick Sperry, and Team League/Crumpet Conquest Conquest CHAMPION, Tom Veale, discuss the recent Crumpet Conquest!
The 312 Conquest Series is an online qualifier series, one tournament a month, across various timezones. Top 8 players from each event win an invite to the Global Conquest in December!
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Introduction and 312 Squadron Podcast Overview
00:00:02
Speaker
Welcome, everybody. You are listening to the 312 Squadron Podcast. My name is Andrew Kuba. My name is Nick Sperry. And my name is Tom Veal. And we are here talking another exciting week of X-Wing.
00:00:16
Speaker
We have Tom Veal from the 312 Team League here with us today, but also winner of the 312 Conquest Series Series.
00:00:27
Speaker
The Crumpet Conquest, talking with us today a little bit about that, and then we are going to get into some more general observations we're having as we start developing this new
Structure and Dynamics of the 312 Team League
00:00:38
Speaker
meta.
00:00:38
Speaker
But without further ado, let's talk about the exciting team league, 3-2 team league, where we didn't really get to talk too much about the end of that season. And I think that would be a great place for us to kick it off. So Nick and Tom, how how did we arrive there at the at this final end?
00:00:58
Speaker
Maybe we should go back to the start, Nick. Where did all begin? Well, 1997, I was born. um it go all the way back to the beginning. The team league is we've had three seasons now of our online ah league season.
00:01:15
Speaker
it's really ah basically kind of inspired by the team format, having a team, an X-Wing, as we've seen from the X-Wing team championships, as well as, you know, Greg's long time running with the Nickel City X-Wing draft league wanted to create a, basically a community community,
00:01:35
Speaker
league series where people can come together and play on the same team and kind of you know back each other up and do list building together and practices and and all that and so we've done three seasons now the the latest is by far been the biggest it's almost 130 players we had 18 teams uh we had four divisions and two conferences and we had an eight-week regular season and then followed by a four-week uh playoff series so tom's team tom what was your team's name and it was a glorious name we were tom's wankers um if you don't know how did that name come together well nick graciously gave it to us we were struggling to come up with a name um and then you so eloquently put it that we should be called uh tom's wankers and the name
00:02:27
Speaker
The name fits all too well,
Running the League: Logistics and Experiences
00:02:28
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to be honest. So that's what we went with. It just stuck. Yeah. Yeah, it just stuck. Yeah. There was a lot of, ah especially the last few weeks of the playoffs, there were a lot of references to, you know, taking matters into your own hand. Yeah. Don't stop the wank or whatever. sort of wank reference that you could imagine. It was quite...
00:02:50
Speaker
ah was not family friendly place. the The wank melon or whatever it was from Joe. that Yeah. God awful. and Yeah. incredible It was, it was, ah it was a vibe though. I mean, the the team league went really well. You guys had a lot of fun. Your team, obviously you guys were stacked even with your,
00:03:06
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your independent players, Walter and Taylor, both of them yeah randomly assigned to you guys did really well, both very competent X-Wing players. And seems like you guys had a really good time and get went to, I think it went to four games when the series was decided. um Every week you have five games. Yeah.
00:03:24
Speaker
Yeah. I did my fifth game just for, you know, if there were any doubts that we weren't to win the league, you know, just wanted to stamp that out. There you go. Yeah. but ah yeah But did you enjoy me creating our logo? Did you like the logo? It's probably that probably one of the the best parts of the team league is how unserious it is in a lot of ways, despite it still being competitive. But the team names and the logos is one of the best parts of it.
00:03:50
Speaker
And your guys' was by far the worst Oh, yeah, it was low res. It was poorly photoshopped. Oh, yeah, it was pretty much everything I could have ever dreamed of. and it was um It was great. And fun fact, Twitch does not like the word wanker. So I had to like be very clever with what I'd put the teams that were playing for
Acknowledge Contributors and Team Reflections
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our streams. how to put your guys' team on t twitter forever goals and you a headache right oh it was yeah it was great yeah good stuff i it was an exhausting process running the league and playing in it all the same time but it was great content it was a lot of fun and i'm i'm glad to be taking a break before we do another one later in the year and andrew maybe you'll be around to to jump in on that i know you've been playing a lot more online x-wing yeah i'll definitely be there for that it was great though i mean shout out to eric
00:04:39
Speaker
And Tony Eric, basically, he's like a spreadsheet guru. He created this incredible master spreadsheet that tracked everything, including faction statistics and performance and how we rank the players in terms of their you know gain How we wank the players, did you say? Sorry. and Yeah, wankings. Not rankings, but wankings after you guys won.
00:05:00
Speaker
And yeah, so just yeah i wanted to mention that. Obviously, team league isn't something we talked about too much, but you know Tom is here as a guest because of his most recent victory, but his team winning the team league. They're now the third and third different team to win um one of our team leagues. And we'll see if they can pull a repeat if they come back or if that we can stop the wank.
00:05:19
Speaker
if there' is No, you can't stop the wank. Once it's started, you just can't stop. But yeah, you might you might there might be an addiction and there and involved at that stage.
00:05:30
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that That's more of a reflection on my players than myself. and It's their addiction, yeah. Yeah, that's great. it sounds like you got yourself in quite a sticky situation. Yeah, every every every week.
00:05:42
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Every week. Couldn't get out of it. Tom, you ah and Andrew both played in the, this is my attempt at a segue, in the Crumpet Conquest, which Andrew and I got up. We're in the same time zone here. We're both in Chicago, of course, and got up real early to play slash run and X-Wing tournament.
Crumpet Conquest Tournament Overview
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And, ah you know, it was a bank holiday for you guys, which apparently wasn't a wasn't really a factor until a couple weeks before that people were reminding me of that as if I could move it.
00:06:13
Speaker
And it was one of the nicest weather days. No, honestly, it depends on the person. Like me like you said, like me and Rory were like, I literally couldn't care less what the weather was. We're going to play X-Wing.
00:06:24
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When then there are some other people who are like, oh, we only get sun in England once a year. So, you know, we're going to go over and do that. But no, it's a bit of a mixed bag. I definitely think we could have gotten a bigger turnout, but the turnout was pretty good still.
00:06:42
Speaker
Yeah, and I mean, yeah unfortunate because the first ah the the first conquest, so the Windy City conquest, numbers were really great. Turn that was really great. We had about 60 people. That was on Easter weekend, which, you know of course, doesn't impact or affect everybody because it's a religious holiday. But sure just a little unlucky with the first two being on holiday weekends.
00:07:02
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for folks so um you know high hopes to continue the climb getting more and more folks to play moving forward but with that said i wasn't disappointed per se ah i was hoping for a few more players but i think we had a late push that ended up getting us close to 40 people which uh not too bad um and it was a good size for what it is yeah decent amount of us players which was also like not that many drops either So everyone really played it to the end, which is great, too. Yeah. Let's see. Two, four, five, six, seven drops, which is pretty good. um
00:07:36
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And we had, a yeah, of course, a few people that weren't able to show up on time. It always happens. That's all right. Yeah. But yeah, um yeah I mean, ah curious, Tom, like, you know, you you had messaged me they basically confidently be like, well, I got to win this thing. And you did. So congratulations on rigging it in your favor. I got the.
00:07:57
Speaker
the win, but ah what you're usually a CIS player, right? So what was your mindset going into to playing in this and the list that you decided to bring? So, as you probably know, I've been flying the same list since XWA came out with their first points.
00:08:15
Speaker
It's a pretty solid list. I've won handful of things now with it, without tooting my own horn, but, you know, obviously with the new SLs coming out, um people who have been sort of Got a massive hard-on for SCUM at the moment, and rightly so. the It's really, really strong. And I haven't had much practice into it. So I thought, well, I'll just take the list that I'm going to be using for subsequent team events. Like, we're going to the WTC. This is likely the list I'm going to use ah for that.
00:08:44
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um Potentially, with England XTC, potentially going to use this list as well. um So it's sort of a testing field for me. um And I got to play against three SCUM lists, which was great.
00:08:58
Speaker
um put them all in their place which is equally great um but yeah i wasn't expecting to go 4-0 and win it um i mean i'd back myself to do that but i wasn't expecting it um so it was nice to be able to do it um yeah how do you feel about cis uh after like the tweak that xwa points how do i feel about cis yeah just like i mean clearly still pretty good right like I think it's always a faction that is going to favor um like a niche group of people. It's never the highest... like It's quite a high-performing faction, but you never get the amount of people playing it. So yeah I think this... I mean, this is a prime example. There were two Separatist players in this tournament, and two of them were in top four.
00:09:46
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so But I don't think it's a faction like anyone could pick up. um I think there's a lot of prep that goes into it, personally. um But, I mean, I think they're definitely strong, ah dis say little not to say the least, which is nice.
00:10:03
Speaker
um but Yeah, yeah it it definitely feels like a faction where you're raiding the player versus the actual faction itself. like right Don't get me wrong, like um I think that list that was... i was going around for ages, it was the when when the HMPs were super undercasted,
00:10:23
Speaker
And you would had like CAD and Dirge and you had that six ship list. I think that was a bit user are friendly. um I'm sort of glad the three point HMPs were sort of gone because they were just, you were just getting too much bang for your buck across the faction.
00:10:39
Speaker
um I think it's a little tailored out a bit now, um which is nice. Yeah, I mean, and like in terms of factions themselves, I mean, CIS and CIS, obviously, you mentioned, only two...
00:10:55
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ah two factions or two people brought CIS and Crumpet, double the amount of FO players, which we'll get to as we already had our little soapbox about FO our last episode. But FO, you know, it's its turnout was worse than I had hoped for this one. And not as many people playing in this one, but still worth noting. But, you know, we're seeing Scum continue to be...
00:11:17
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favored when it comes to quantity of
In-depth Tournament Strategy and Player Dynamics
00:11:20
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scumless being brought. 25%, Empire second, 22%, Republic 20%, and Rebels all way to fourth.
00:11:30
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um Resistance is funny. It's really Resistance, CISFO, all ah all mate rounding out the back yeah of the of of the totem pole when it comes to number of lists brought for this one.
00:11:44
Speaker
I feel like Empire always has a good showing. Everyone just likes Flying Empire, right? That's always been the case. um But I don't think they've ever been particularly bad either, so but sort of No, yeah. It would be really concerning if Empire was like fifth or or like you know fifth place or beyond. That would be very bizarre.
00:12:04
Speaker
um And a lot more Empire i was as I was looking through during check-in for this that I was seeing. People brought a lot more Empire than I expected. Republic tapered off, Resistance tapered off, and then Unfortunately, FO is it's difficult to really when you're not being given a sample because people don't want to play it, it's difficult to ah make ah ah hypotheses about the faction, despite, you know, maybe that is enough to say something about it. Yeah, exactly. I don't know i don't know how bad in parentheses FO actually is. um
00:12:36
Speaker
I definitely think they have some good pieces. ah
00:12:41
Speaker
I think, like you said, it's hard to tell because you don't have the sample size. No one's playing it. Maybe it's just because, you know, Scum has all these exciting new pieces. And I know Efo has new pieces, but I don't like, I'd rather fly the new Boba Fett than, you know, my my favorite Star Wars character, Omega-3 or whatever it is. Do you know what I mean? Yeah.
00:13:02
Speaker
it's I think there is some element of that. Yeah, SCUM has better branding for sure. Yeah. And I think that it's also too, like the the SCUM ah SL cards, and same thing with the Resistance ah SL cards, is that they're they're exciting, and I would say that they're a little bit more obvious. FO, I think, is still that faction that needs a little more work to get the most out of it, and you can really even see that in some of the SL design.
00:13:28
Speaker
Their SL design is still like a little quirky. Yeah. i think they're really good and they are very good like i uh lehuse is great just great uh double modded attacks and great chassis for it as well um and omega-3 is also really good like i don't think they're bad by any stretch of the imagination no i just think it's gonna take some time to figure it out and yeah You know, sort of like how Separatist is, I think FO has always been that sort of faction as well that has a a lower player count, but a higher skill.
00:14:04
Speaker
Very niche. so Yeah, very niche. And I think we'll probably see that, you know. Yeah. Tom, what was your what was your list, though, that you brought? because like can he Oh, yeah.
00:14:15
Speaker
Well, do you know the name of my list, Nick? It doesn't say it in lot. Oh, it doesn't say. Hold on. Rollbetter will tell me. Yeah. Well, I mean, I can say it, but I don't know if I want... Sunfak your mum.
00:14:29
Speaker
Sunfak your mum. Yeah, and it's always... Every list with Sunfak in it is called that because that's just what he does best. ah and but So my list is Sunfak with Gravitic, ah target Targeting Computer, Ensnare, and Predator.
00:14:48
Speaker
um I mean, Sunfak just causes people headaches. um ah people have PTSD, I feel like, flying against Sunfak, and I sort of like the fact that people just get really annoyed by seeing Sunfak on the other end of the table.
00:15:01
Speaker
Yeah, that gives me great pleasure. Yeah, there there is an intimidation factor there, for sure. There is. Yeah. yeah And then when they go down the rest of the list, they probably just get more and more annoyed because we have standard loadout Grievous.
00:15:13
Speaker
Yeah, like and that's the combo. Like, what a combo, Sunfak and Grievous. Sunfak and Grievous. um And then three proximity bomber bombardment drones, just... a super strong collective, to be honest.
00:15:27
Speaker
I sort of fly them as one piece, in a way. um That sort of kind of... Yeah, people just get triggered by them. You throw them at your opponent, too. Oh, yeah.
00:15:38
Speaker
you just Absolutely. You throw them. Yeah. um But I sort of like the Bomber Mom Jones in this list with Sumfak, because Sumfak becomes a little bit more versatile. He's not just a sort of hunt down your small base ships, he sort of becomes a support ship as well in the earlier stages where he can sort of fling your proxy bombers into positions that are advantageous to you.
00:16:02
Speaker
i and Sort of help with repositioning yeah your ships as required. um And I sort of like that because getting Sumfak in too early, which I've done a few times myself, I think I did it on stream, is you can get him killed. So you sort of want to mop up with Sumfak a little bit.
00:16:18
Speaker
And I just like how versatile he is in the list. And then to round it out, I have Doofus with and Independent. He's basically just a calc battery, and he just is amazing on Assault, if you get the rock placement right. um But yeah, 6-ship, Separatist list.
00:16:33
Speaker
um Does a lot of damage. Is quite tanky in some places. There's a pain in the bum to deal with. But, like, I think I have like something like 60-70 reps with this list now.
00:16:46
Speaker
So... It's pretty good. Yeah, that's a lot of that's a lot of reps. It's not an easy list to fly either, I don't think. um I think you've got to get a lot right. um I think also as well, on the other side of that, if you play someone who doesn't know how to fly against it, um you can sort of railroad people.
00:17:04
Speaker
um But in those like high skill games, it's still really tough to get right. like yeah People who know what they're doing, it's it's it's a really tough game. Yeah, I mean, I'm looking at our top our breakdown here for top cut of course you first place with your uh one two three four five the six ship list and obviously uh dfs 311 is such a game changer too just passing it's sitting on rocks people don't want to bother um and you things almost did go but terribly wrong for you in that final table game the opening was yeah a little concerning um but you rebounded a little bit um it
00:17:47
Speaker
ah you were able to basically peel away different parts of your list to block up. um But essentially what was what it was looking like was Sunfak was going to die in the second, I think it was in the second engagement. Yeah, I i'm ah highly messed Sunfak. Took took a lot, and he somehow didn't die.
00:18:05
Speaker
And then he ended up dying in a way that no one expected. i think it was like a bump. and Oh, this was the first, my first stream. That was the first stream game. Oh, was it? Okay. But something happened in, no, against system error, you took a couple, I think you took one or two pockets. That was, died very quickly. I traded for Corrin, I think. And i was that's right yeah I was like, Oh, that wasn't great. And I got a bit too giddy and you can't, it can't, and usually against rebels, I'm sort of like, some fact is really great against rebels. Like, get him in. And I'm like, Oh no, that was a little bit overzealous.
00:18:37
Speaker
Um, yeah. I definitely made a few mistakes that game, but... But some choice proximity mine placements that really harassed this system error. No kidding. Yeah. No kidding. Yeah. Well, I think... There was a couple.
00:18:52
Speaker
Eight of some prox mines in that game. I really wanted Wedge to fall for the um five straight for the... It was the proxy bomber that was on one health with a structural, or two health with structural, and I really thought he was just going to, like, send it...
00:19:07
Speaker
ah And that's why I dropped the two out the back to see if I could just one shot wedge with the proxy bombs. I was really wanting him to do that. But he he played that really well because he he did he did the minimum move possible to not get hit and then barrel boosted.
00:19:20
Speaker
And was like, oh, it's boring. System error, Miguel, he was your opponent in the final table. He brought ah ah rebel list. um And I believe, let me double check.
00:19:33
Speaker
one of two rebel lists to make the top eight again with the conquest series top eight players get an invite to the global conquest which is a single day elimination tournament in december date tbd but uh system air brought a uh fenrao corin horn thane kirel geno moonsong wedge until he's in the a-wing list but you had One, had one, two proton rockets between Korn and Thane.
00:19:58
Speaker
Fenrau had Predator and Crackshot, so you get that ace platform with the ability to reposition and to rerolls and to, you know, cancel a die or a defense die. And then Gina, really kind of a sneaky part of the list in the sense that she can just, you know line up a proton cannon while you're too busy trying to avoid getting procketed.
00:20:17
Speaker
She's the annoying girlfriend, he knows right? She just passes your stress off onto everyone else, you know.
00:20:25
Speaker
She is the annoying. Yep, that's a good, that's ah actually a great. yeah great I can't take credit for it. As Daniel Athe always cols calls her the annoying girlfriend. Yeah, what was your thought process going against that list? When you saw him bring that, obviously he did really well. He's a good player.
00:20:41
Speaker
um Yeah. i You were giddy about the prospect of being able to have SunFact do SunFact things, but i don't like what was the biggest challenge with that game? It's challenge. It's a high damage list. I was really worried that he could take a proxy bomber off or two very, very quickly.
00:20:58
Speaker
and So it came down to
Competitive X-Wing: Strategies and Challenges
00:21:00
Speaker
turn zero for me. he but Personally, I felt like he spread his list out too much, um which would have favored like an initial engage, but maybe he was worried about because it was assault, claiming objectives.
00:21:12
Speaker
So when he put Wedge off to the side, um i was like, well, or i think I can't remember if I placed first or not, but like having him sort of like be preoccupied with Grievous was really good for me.
00:21:25
Speaker
um And then I was sort of focused on getting bumps um on that initial engage. Not the stupid range three shot that I double blanked out or whatever it was, which was really annoying. but ah Not that one. But basically trying to limit his prox his proton rockets and claim as many objectives as I can.
00:21:45
Speaker
Because once you get the proxy bombers in, that's where the prop that's where the damage starts getting done. um not even placing Not even placing the proxies, just the threat of having them. um I think um after turn one or whatever, Fenn pretty much did fuck all when I and turned out the proxy bomber and it stopped. He basically two-hearted with Fenn and couldn't roll back in.
00:22:09
Speaker
So he had to roll out and it delayed him for another couple of turns, which was really big. um But yeah, it was sort of just isolating pieces and um when he spread out his list, it made that easier. That's essentially all it was.
00:22:25
Speaker
I think he needed to get rid of the proxy bombers fast um and that didn't happen. So that led me... um Yeah, and it still came down to the last round because he yeah he rolled out of a shot that we all kind of assumed with Gina on one hole that Gina was going to die from. And then you nattied with a ah unmodded shot from yeah ah ba from the bombardment drone to clinch the victory. But it really did come down to just a few points in the end. And one thing that I noticed, System Error, when he had his wedge facing off at the bottom of the board all the way across the board from Grievous,
00:22:57
Speaker
There was a moment where he he opted to not boost, this was Assault that you guys are playing, to not boost in the range of an objective with Wedge because he might have been worried about Grievous. And that also cost him pretty big later on in the game when he only needed a couple of points to get to 20.
00:23:13
Speaker
He had not, he played it too cagey with with a Wedge in that turn. and yeah He's doing his job. So I thought that maybe he thought that I was going to try bullying Wedge um by maybe like doing like a,
00:23:27
Speaker
two bank barrel and be behind him but i mean but i think objectively for i think yeah i mean objectively i think that's wrong for me to do that exactly yeah yeah i think i i tried to lay it out so i well i think i claimed both i did the five straight boost focus with grievous which claimed both objectives and was engaging um which was far stronger than obviously what he did but yeah like you said i think sometimes people need to think about what what sort of the optimal thing is for your opponent to do.
00:23:57
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. I mean, we talked about that in on the stream. i was like, Grievous doing a bank towards Wedge here is so tactically bad that Grievous is out of the game for three rounds yeah if he goes that direction. because you know it's just it if you Especially if he links actions and needs to clear his stress. like Absolutely. He's out of the fight and it just doesn't make any sense where he needs to go in and support the height the bombardment drones and support SunFak. It was just one of those moments, like you said, he was more so concerned about what could happen to him and less about what you wanted to do.
00:24:29
Speaker
and That's something that I think is the next level of X-Wing play for a lot of people is starting to think about your opponent's win condition per round, not just the total win condition, but what are they trying to do each round?
00:24:41
Speaker
ah In fairness, I think it was quite close. um Maybe he felt he wasn't, which is fair. like i mean Sometimes in that case, do you want to just sort of ah Do you just want to ensure that you have it? and and And that comes with sort of like, that's sort of a skill thing as well. Like, I feel like i'm pretty on it with ranges and knowing what's range one and what's not.
00:25:03
Speaker
So, like, having that knowledge would have let you make, like, you make a better decision in a way. So, um but yeah, like, in that case, I just didn't care what Wedge was doing. Wedge could have sat behind Grievous all game for all I could um and parted shots of them as long as Grievous was um outputting damage onto the other parts of his list, I was pretty happy.
00:25:26
Speaker
But yeah. yeah um Now, pivoting really quick, i want to get Andrew involved a little bit um here with ah you and I, Andrew, and we had a kind of ah a really interesting morning because we didn't really... ah The days kind of blurred together. like I wasn't able to deprive myself of sleep in advance to make to make it so that I could get a full night's sleep and wake up really early. So I just took like an hour long power nap it was like, you know what?
00:25:53
Speaker
I could I, you know, I could survive this. It ended up being totally fine. I was really tired at the end of it, but it took a long time for the exhaustion to kick in. Yeah. What was it like for you getting up super early to play X-Wing? And do you feel like that affected you or would have affected any of the you US based players playing a game that revolves a lot of thinking so early?
00:26:12
Speaker
Yeah, well, so actually i I did pretty well in the sleep department. I ended up like ah taking a melatonin at 8 p.m. the night before made dinner and yeah i was I was kind of in bed by 930. So waking up at 2 a.m. I got a solid like seven hours of sleep. But I went to Trader Joe's the day before I bought crumpets. So I had those in the toaster, had some coffee. Wow.
00:26:35
Speaker
I put together I was ah in a full Adidas track suit and put together a UK playlist, UK and Ireland playlist. So I had that ready to go. He's more British than you are, Tom.
00:26:47
Speaker
I was going to say, yeah, that is that's pretty on it, to be honest. I was feeling it. Oh, I didn't have to make coffee. I had tea. I had some Earl Grey brewing. So did I. I had Earl Grey as well. Nice.
00:26:59
Speaker
Yeah, just a leaned into it. I will say crumpets are amazing. They are good. They're so good. I put some orange marmalade on mine, but you're good with butter. or like They're kind of like a big pancake, so you can put syrup on there too.
00:27:13
Speaker
yeah I mean, I always go for Marmite and cheese. That's always Marmite is I mean, it's a love it or hate it thing. I'm sure some people love it listen to this and go like, what a fucking idiot. How could he like that? And some people will just agree with it. So it's really You didn't have your Mackey's, your McDonald's, Tom? I did. Yeah. So when we broke up for lunch, my pregnant wife was like, ah essentially, well, you're playing X-Wing all day. You're going to buy me some fucking food. And I was like, yeah, fair enough. So we all hopped in the car and our Mackey's.
00:27:42
Speaker
Yeah, easy trade. Yeah, it was fine by me, right? Yeah, for sure. yeah Yeah, your pregnant wife, too. if Yeah, just to learn. I mean, she would say that regardless whether she was pregnant or not, like to
Evolution of Strategies and Meta Considerations
00:27:57
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be fair. Andrew, did you bring your Goran list again, or did you offer something else?
00:28:02
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i play i played it It was Goran list, but it was a different variation of it. How do you feel about that versus your last one, ah the Windy City Conquest one that you brought? um I mean, i i I did, I mean, it did but I went two and two this time, about the same.
00:28:18
Speaker
i i feel okay about it. I was expecting to see more scum. I was but expecting to play against more scum this time around than I actually did. Isn't that amazing how that works? Like, I always, did I forgot, I've actually kind of ditched that mindset of being like, this is what I expect to play against, because it never happens, ever.
00:28:39
Speaker
It ah never happens. you could you could expect what to see if you do encounter that i got my dream but yeah yeah i so i mean it turned out being okay one game that i lost was very close um probably even though i had lost it very proud with how i did because i started off the game we're in a really rough spot where my opponent was able to One shot Magna Tolvin and two shot Scimitar. Yeah, Scimitar won with the focus and evade and was really behind in in game two. But I ended up coming back from it and was one dice roll away from winning the game.
00:29:25
Speaker
So, you know, definitely a lesson in not giving up on that one. Even though I didn't end up winning at it, i I came from an eight point deficit, I mean, I came from a nine point deficit to a point where I could have won the game.
00:29:38
Speaker
Wow. yeah Yeah. i So super, super happy with that. and And I do feel, though, that getting the sleep was definitely a big help there. I'm glad I didn't play. I probably would have been in the salt mines if I was playing.
00:29:52
Speaker
What was the rest of your list? Because me and Dom have been I mean, I think Andrew Euler started playing Goron's Morons, as I call it, back when Scythe 6 was 3 points. But me and Dom were talking about this list a lot, because I think it's, like, probably you've identified as well, is quite good into this meta.
00:30:10
Speaker
Yeah. um what's what's What's rounding out the rest of your list? Because, like, most of the stuff is obviously Goron, Skimitar 1, Magva, and... something, some other pieces, but there's a lot variations of it.
00:30:22
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Yeah, theres there's some ways that you can go. I went for the highest efficiency version of mine. So it is, it has, you know, Kaminant Gorin, Scimitar 1, and Magna Tolvin.
00:30:35
Speaker
um And then I have Karsabi, which is three points, the Alpha-class Starwing as, ah you know, a flanker. And then I have Double Edge in the TIE Aggressor with the Barrage Rockets and Dorsal Turret.
00:30:46
Speaker
You know, i kind of look at it as i as ah a little bit of a better TIE fighter. And then my last one, I have Wampa as the three points, which oh as a ah kind of like a matador with the the red cape.
00:30:58
Speaker
yeah You know, it's like yeah if you don't go for it, it will it will mess you up. So you kind of have to consider Wampa as a part of it. Well, yeah this list also more low initiative for a core to take advantage of. Cause I think your last list, it was like you had Ubel in there. It was a little awkward for like using Gordon's ability across the list, but this one, Gordon can, can have his pick of the litter. Now I will say with the, with the last one though, the last one has more of the, it is a trade off. Like the last one I was flying with Ubel and fair off, like you have those bigger bases. So it makes assault a little easier.
00:31:33
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it, it has a little more staying power with this like individual pieces. Um, and Gorin doesn't really need to give the evades to, you know, to Ubal like, uh, and countdown is usually too far away to really even do it.
00:31:49
Speaker
ah It's more about the locks, right? and It's more, it's more about, it's both, I guess, but sure. yeah But if they're, if they're shooting at those, then they're also not shooting at scimitar. So that one, it's more protecting scimitar than anything.
00:32:02
Speaker
Um, yeah. yeah i've been trying and yeah i've been trying in that three point slot um is it erica quill the one where you if you do a maneuver you get a bullseye but i've been taking clusters on her just so basically you get the lock have the focus and then you have a three dice gun no matter what yep um is was pretty solid that that's a good call too for sure yeah that that i've enjoyed quite a bit i i oh sorry continue no you're all good um I was just saying people always go for pockets on her, which doesn't make sense to me, but not yeah. projects are done
00:32:37
Speaker
She wants, i mean, yeah but yeah you know, trying to line up a bullseye when it, when it comes time to shoot at I three is just, that's a prospect that's, oh you can do it. It's just so hard. I mean, I would go for that in a meta where there's a lot more large base ships and great kind of do that.
00:32:52
Speaker
um I mean, there was I do remember when Yurikoquil first came out, I had one of my ah my favorite X-Wing memories was I got to like one shot wedge with a rocket on her, which was just yeah, which was fun.
00:33:06
Speaker
But yeah, I think that I love the idea of cluster missiles, though. It's a really good double tap there. Yeah. Yeah, and I think I take Disciplined and the one that lets you do the Sloopy Barrel, the Sloopy Bendy, what are they called? Signor's Loops or whatever instead of the K-turns, so you can line that bullseye up a bit better.
00:33:25
Speaker
Okay. Oh, the egg Precision Iron Engines? Yeah, because after you're done like unloading plasmas and stuff, you can use Magva to coordinate the focus, do the sloop, um get the lock, and do it that way as well. It's pretty fun.
00:33:37
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, like that. Yeah, what what would you guys say? Well, I guess, Andrew, you can really answer this one. So I'll ask you because Tom didn't play in the first one. But what was the biggest difference in terms of player feel from the first conquest? Maybe not about your performance or your list, but more so just how the conquest or tournament felt from between the first one and this one.
00:33:57
Speaker
What was what would how would you describe? but I mean, I'll say for me, for me this felt like ah tougher, like a lot tighter. um And as as a competitive field, like the caliber of players were was very high.
00:34:10
Speaker
I would agree, especially when you have the 2024 world champ in top eight as well. Yeah. No, I mean, i will say this time around, like every single one of my games felt like I was playing them on a nice edge.
00:34:23
Speaker
like It was definitely on my toes the entire time. The games that I won were also really close. so Could have gone either way. Interesting you say that because this is the European, the first year of a few couple European conquests. And obviously, you know, I think a lot of X-Wing players think of European X-Wing players as being pretty good.
00:34:43
Speaker
um And so I'm not surprised to hear that it felt as like that's that's been my experience. Yeah. yeah Yeah, I mean, you had Corintzen in here who won the last Sith Taker Open. Not the pre not not the one the latest one, but the one before a year ago.
00:34:58
Speaker
yeah um and know Illy was my last opponent of the game. Illy, 2024 World Champ. um yeah I mean, i know i know all these guys. A lot of the people in here ah who played. in you know sorry um ah indar Indar was my last opponent, not Illy. But Illy, yeah, Illy, amazing competitor too. Indar's also very good.
00:35:19
Speaker
Indar, yeah. yeah I haven't lost that badly in a long time. He destroyed every ship in my list. yeah Oh, that's brutal. It's a good Republic list, to be fair. It's still really strong. Super good.
00:35:32
Speaker
Yeah, Republic is doing well, and I'm just just going to really quickly rifle through the rest of top eight to be covered. You and System Error. um Yeah, and then in Indar was flying Resistance. oh yes sorry but it's still resistance get coverage still really good yeah we got every let's see we got i ironically we got scum and first order shut out of top eight um Good, keep the scum out. Epiotic, though. Epiotic did finish 3-1, which, because of SOS, he wasn't able to make top 8, but he does get honorable mention, as he did bring I mean, scott if it wasn't for Corentin bringing Empire, 50% of the playing field would have been, you know, there's just two factions that would have been shut out of top 8.
00:36:24
Speaker
cool There's only one Empire list that made it. And so Oscar Ice finished a third. He had five-ship Republic list with a 212th Battalion, LATS, the oddball in the V-Wing with Plasma Torps. Oh, that's what I mixed up. I mixed up Indara and Oscar Ice, yeah.
00:36:41
Speaker
Yeah, um I played Oscar was I played against Oscar before I lost him 20 to 19 in a league match. It was wow. Crazy game. um Yeah. i Plo Koon with R4P CLT Rick Ollie with Juke R7A7 and then Anakin in the Y-Wing with his dorsal plasma torps veteran turret gunner R4 ion bombs.
00:37:03
Speaker
again a lot of the lats provide the re-rolls plo kun provides double mods it's it's just very swiss army knife uh hits hard high initiative uh what we talk about is really good at leveraging that can we talk about my favorite list um that was brought uh list number 17 have you seen have you seen it uh let me finish top eight and then i will look at list number 17 you'll enjoy it JP Gonzalez, the other CIS player, and also the other player who made top eight. That's pretty cool.
00:37:37
Speaker
The winner and and the second of two CIS players both doing well ah in this tournament. He brought a, let's see, a seven ship CIS list? Yeah, I played him. He was, he, he his...
00:37:52
Speaker
loss was dealt by me yeah that's so which is awkward we could have had two undefeated separatist players potentially but you had to play each other yeah it was a wild the streamer cited me was what was happy to see that i didn't have to stream cis versus cis but that's just me uh but two he had two um two hmp's in this list uh i i would hope i don't i doubt he did but i would hope because the custom ships painted for this one were the four different parts of the uk as agent begun ships that he would have used one of those paint jobs but i doubt he did because he's anti-fun is what i'm saying i'm sure maybe he's also from chile so he should have used that thing he should have used the thing
00:38:36
Speaker
I made a player on our stream last night use ah ah one of our page ops. He was fine with it, but it was like, oh, why not? Then he had ah couple of vultures, three vultures as well. 081, DFS 311, and a Horshell prototype. So a couple of them, Energy Shell is one of them. 081 had ah Discord Missiles because that's an SOC vulture.
00:38:58
Speaker
Then Andrew mentioned Quarantine.
Tournament Analysis: Lists and Performances
00:39:00
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He brought a four ship AC Imperial list. We got proton rocket Vader 6.x1 Vader custom Vader with rockets, passive sensors and predictive shot.
00:39:10
Speaker
Pretty nasty. Vader's like, oh, no, I didn't get bullseye because I moved first. beatat I got my lock and now I'm going to barrel roll. uh pretty good boe soon to your whisper it's pretty standard target computer fifth brother and then echo without maneuver and ruthless which you got to watch out for echo with that bendy uh that kind of bendy d cloak that echo likes to do yeah i do two phantoms too yeah that's that's a cool i would have been a cool list to get that's on me he's just so good though like he could fly anything too well let's be honest yeah he really is he's super good um and we got uh we got indar playing a five ship resistance list uh zori zz finn po this is heroes of hope po with the ah smaller amount of loadout and scythe rinaldi which is a evacuation of takar scythe rinaldi uh
00:40:03
Speaker
i'm not super familiar with i think it's the same ability uh with regarding getting gaining evade tokens and you fly over people but i guess yeah i think it's got bendy bendy bowels as well it does yeah oh that's right yeah that's the that's the one um but hey illy 2024 world champ brought a jan or's list for rebels that's just awesome what a dude so Legendary Jan or is only can take multi crow.
00:40:31
Speaker
One of the reasons why I kind of I as a rebel player myself, I I gave Jan a shot just not for me without being able to take any load out. um But we know her power level, and what she's able to do for a list.
00:40:42
Speaker
ah She's also just had a pretty bad chassis, so you have to. be mindful of how you set her up and where you put her. But she's surrounded by Blount, Wedge in the A-Wing, Arvel in the A-Wing with Intimidation, Sabine in the A-Wing, and then Zeburelius, a nice budget three-dice gun in the attack shuttle with the Phantom title and an Ion Cannon turret for the extra coverage.
00:41:04
Speaker
Illy getting his invite at number seven. I think the Ion Cannon is the secret sauce of that list. There's something like being able to ionize and hook up Arvel with Intimidation and stuff like that. I feel like it's a really big sort of thing to try and pull off. Yeah.
00:41:21
Speaker
And Andrew, how many US, System Error is US-based player, but so far going through this top eight, we don't have... another u.s player i don't believe indar is from the u united states i wouldn't know you would know maybe tom do you know if indar is from the u.s he's polish i'm pretty sure oh he's polish okay so him and oscar ice are polish players um so that representation is great uh illy is from germany Yeah. Yeah.
00:41:49
Speaker
Yeah. And then Teddy Roosevelt. So clearly a U S player with a name like that. My boy, Tyler seen Tyler's come up and played in our tournaments many times and he representing Illinois, uh, represent Peoria, Illinois, number eight, uh,
00:42:04
Speaker
getting in there with a five ship republic list bringing ada to anakin and obi-wan i believe i i got the chance to stream him round one uh it was a it was a fun game against playing against empire and he's got plo coon that's clt patience compassion plo and then his favorite pilot and x-wing wolf in the arc 170 he loves wolf so much with r4p synced console and soc jag so uh hard to kill Klo, Obi, Anakin, hard to kill. Wolf, Jag, a lot of health. and ah you know
00:42:35
Speaker
Could pick you apart. yeah
00:42:39
Speaker
List number 17. Gone. You'll love it.
00:42:44
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Alan Barlow brought a one, two, three, four Red Squadron Bomber Republic Y-Wing list with Plasma Torps and R4 Astromech on all of them, and then two LATs, both of them, fitted with Thread Tracers and Sync Consoles.
00:43:01
Speaker
Don't worry, he brought Gas Clouds. It literally can double mod both Thread Tracers, right? Because of... Yeah, that's how it works, right? Yeah. and Yeah, because the other one gets the lock, yeah.
00:43:12
Speaker
get two shots at that and then just loads of plasma torque it's goy also so much hull crit mitigation it's got everything you'd ever need in x-wing yeah yeah anything you'd ever want in x-wing that's that's it went two and two not bad not bad a list like that you know i think you know you're on the cusp of being able to hit the ceiling at three and one or you know going on four and he did a nice job of going two and two there i mean the one thing that you're yeah the one thing your opponents don't want are shields This is why I don't run it. yeah
00:43:44
Speaker
Except for Gravis. Right, right. You're like, ha ha, you brought plasmas? Joke's on you. yeah It's also like, it's been really beneficial playing Rebels with the clan-run volunteer Fang Fighters and it just being like, I did oh yeah i don't care if you have plasmas, that actually helps.
00:44:00
Speaker
Thanks. Yeah. yeah yeah i mean oh A lot of US players played in this one, but we got the European folks really did dominate. um you know We had two out of eight US-based, including System Error, second-place finisher who you were able to beat in Final Table, bringing his Rebel list, and ah Teddy Roosevelt with the Republic.
Organizing Conquest Series: Logistics and Challenges
00:44:21
Speaker
but i Going through the all the players, was like, wow, this is quite a stack to him. Yeah. No, it really is.
00:44:29
Speaker
i would say thematically, though, it is fitting. I think it's the... It's a just conclusion to to the tournament for sure. We'd never hear the end of it, let's be honest. Yeah.
00:44:40
Speaker
Do you know what mean? If you got showed up by the Yanks, yeah. Yeah. like A European could win it. That's fine. No issues. But i think I think it would have been pretty bad.
00:44:52
Speaker
what What I've noticed with with our the U.S.-based events that I've run you know in the past, like our smaller scale tournaments and then with the Windy City Conquest, is that we still get like Euro folks are used to having to adapt and just are used to having being forced to play in U.S.-based time zones for events that still do really well. And so that those numbers, I will continue to see good turnout from Europe.
00:45:15
Speaker
for the US-based events despite their sleep. and That's another reason why i calculated when setting up the schedule for all of these that they would only ever be on a Saturday because even if you do forfeit a good night's sleep, you do get to make up for it on a Sunday, assuming you have a traditional work schedule sure some yeah in some way, yeah which helps.
00:45:35
Speaker
Oh, big time. I would not have been in this one if it was on a Sunday. but Yeah, that would have been tough for everyone. It was really nice having it. on a uk time zone to be honest like it was sort of nice just getting up and being able to play yeah for sure so i appreciate that i i think i mean yeah especially for something that's global like this like you want that inclusivity yeah yeah it's quite nice for us because we would have done the like to be fair if i was free on the day for for the windy city one i probably would have done that as well because it's actually not that bad um
00:46:10
Speaker
For us, I'd play late anyway. Yeah, it wouldd be it'd be like afternoon for you. Yeah, afternoon to evening. I'd be like, yeah, cool. Yeah, but... um We've got another one coming up in July that's going to be the Pierogi Conquest, which will take place ah local to Warsaw. So at times it's UTC plus two. So not not the only one. Crumpet's be the only one that will ah be more geared towards europe European players. And yeah hoping that we that one we get a great turnout.
00:46:39
Speaker
I'm not sure what holiday that will be on, but I'm sure there'll be something out there somewhere just to keep that theme consistent. You say there's like you don't have access to like a calendar or well it's funny you know it's really ironic that you say that tom because you ask me to do everything for you so like everything like you know yeah you're like where do i get diapers like tom you got to figure out the family stuff on your own man yeah i just usually let the child use my own my own yeah I will say there was a little bit of a micro debacle when it came to the player meeting time, because what I was doing all the scheduling, it was before daylight savings and then everything shifted and i had to go back through and change the UTC plus you know to subtract one. And then GMT was offset and people are like, well, what is the actual player meeting? What does it actually start? And you know I was sending emails all the players like this. is the time you should show up. So we did technically start an hour earlier than we initially had planned, but it all worked out. i don't think anybody miss no miss any missed it because of that, but that was a a little confusing for a hot second ah when people- I don't blame you though. Like it's a pain in the ass. Like it's so annoying trying to like align all the time zones, especially with like daylight savings and all that crap.
00:47:53
Speaker
Oh yeah. It's just a nightmare. Yeah, and people have asked for, like, a countdown, and a countdown timer is good, but um people won't, like, you know, do I do the countdown timer for the player meeting or do it for when it starts? If I do for when it starts, then people are not going to show up for the player meeting and check in on time, and it's just, like, a whole...
00:48:13
Speaker
It's a mess. so But we we survived. It wasn't too bad. That gave me a little bit of stress. I was doing a lot of that stuff on my phone because I was traveling in and out of the office that day and everyone's complaining about the confusion of the time. says I'm like, shit, I'm not even at my computer right now. like I have to do this for my phone.
00:48:32
Speaker
but It all worked out, didn't it? So that's fine. Surprisingly, despite all the kerfuffle, actually no one missed out. So... so one No one missed out.
Improving X-Wing Skills and Strategies
00:48:43
Speaker
Thank you. Yeah, I mean, and well done to both you guys, you know, Andrew, your dedication to to to getting up early and you did it right. and You got the sleep you needed and it's been nice to have you, ah you know, like representing us and playing. And, you know, I'm definitely hopeful that think the next one you'll break through that that two and two hill it can feel hard to get past yeah it is it is what it is like i'm happy i'm doing as well as i'm doing given the the field of competitors that are out there and the caliber of players so
00:49:17
Speaker
yeah my advice is just keep flying the same thing yeah honestly just keep flying the same list over and over again that is how because if you change it it could be like a reset a little bit of a reset button sometimes you risk that at least yeah oh yeah no it definitely is it it's one of those funny things too where whenever you switch what you're playing you have to not only relearn that old list and Yeah.
00:49:40
Speaker
um Sometimes that can help you understand like what your competitors are trying to do. But um honestly, I've been flying it ah this last list too, because I was making those changes for the other online leagues that I'm in. So I'm like, all right, am I might as well stick with this just to learn it as best I can.
00:49:58
Speaker
Yeah, and playing in those leagues gives you the benefit of practice anyway. It's just purely because you're there. Yeah, that's honestly what it was. And, like, the biggest thing that's helped me just though so far is, I mean, I've been just doing ah a mission for myself to try to get in a game of X-Wing at least i every day.
00:50:13
Speaker
um Every day? is oh wow. Yeah, even if it is on fly casual. i This last weekend, I got a little hung up at work, so I was only able to do that, like, three out of the seven days. But... Otherwise, I've been sticking with it, and I i have seen my my skill level, I feel, has improved quite quite a bit.
00:50:28
Speaker
That's awesome. Feels good when you can feel that that shift um as well. Yeah, for sure. But yeah, getting the reps in, that's really, that's just been the biggest biggest part of it. Practice.
00:50:41
Speaker
Something that's sort of massive for me that Mr. Daniel Athe sort of, he didn't directly tell me to do it, but I've sort of seen him do it, is I just go into TTS and I map out multiple potential turn zeros um with rocks like what where each movement puts me and in in place of like which rocks i place you know how separatist players always have their rock placements um the first few turns for me i know exactly where my ships are going to go it's less mental strain for me um i know roughly where things are going to be ah based on what movements they do and i think it really can help like oh so sometimes not even just playing a game against someone just
00:51:19
Speaker
the the theory of turn zero, turn one against hypothetical meta lists has been massive. yeah Yeah, that's great advice. So, yeah. if you if you can't If you can't, you know, trash on someone in GSP, TTS, looking for game, then... Or on our own server, too. Don't forget where you are, Tom. Any of the servers are good for fighting games, honestly.
00:51:44
Speaker
Yeah, for sure. There's so many servers now. I know. Yeah, I was just looking at the size of our Discord server. I was pretty blown away. I was like, holy crap. Ours is huge now in terms of the amount of people in it.
00:51:58
Speaker
um The LFG channel is always popping now. It seems like everyone's looking for games at the wrong time, though. It's very like maybe one in every like 10. Someone's like, I'll play.
00:52:10
Speaker
My favorite it was when somebody LFGs and then five minutes later, someone else LFGs. I'm like, are you not going to acknowledge the person that five minutes ago who was also looking for a game? I think people tactically dodge people sometimes, you know?
00:52:21
Speaker
You know, cool i don't like, you know, if hypothetically Illy or someone puts in, well, I don't want to play Illy. Yeah, right. It's not so casual. ah Yeah, I'm not looking to get tickled this evening.
00:52:34
Speaker
i and Well, i mean I mean, at that point, I'd be like, a fly casual is great. And... um ah But yeah I was going to say, I think a lot of people also just, just you get a DM if you put an LG and then they're like, hey, yeah I can play. And then they just don't like go back to the stream to say that they found a game or anything. So I think that's also happening 50% of the time.
00:52:57
Speaker
It's been pretty rare that I've gone on looking for a game and I'm just like getting left on read.
Local Metagames and Competitive Reflections
00:53:02
Speaker
Yeah. I get left. I stopped looking for games. Yeah. yeah I heard. i got I had one player. I'll never stop calling Joe Barkovich out for this, but i had a player who was looking for a game, and I told him I'd play and he said, no thanks, because he didn't feel he didn't want to play me. He didn't want to lose to me, and I was like, okay, I guess I'll go fuck myself, and then he immediately picked up a game with somebody else like five seconds later, and I was like... but I wanted to play X-Wing like fine that oh ah imagine that oh yeah I'll have a friendly game with you no not what I was looking for sorry dude sorry no like okay you're too good yeah
00:53:39
Speaker
Well, that was his excuse. it was like, like i dude, I'm not going to bring anything super sweaty. It just felt like playing. Because my motivation to play X-Wing on a daily basis is very different from you guys these days, just because X-Wing is a very different beast for me nowadays. So when I do look for a game, it's rare. And so it feels bad when you get shot down like that. You're like, I don't feel like playing anymore. Like, that's it. that was I had the window of the window of opportunity to want to play, and it's gone. It's bad. they This sounds really bad, but...
00:54:08
Speaker
As you probably know, I'm super competitive. so Sometimes when I'm looking for games, like I'll sort of wait until someone I know, um i'll I'll wait for that Illy or Crispy or Carton to look for a game before I play yeah i it. Every game for me matters, so it's sort of like and I'm trying to improve something, so.
00:54:32
Speaker
them i want to play the best exactly like that that's my mentality with it is like you know i'm i'm always looking to play the best players i possibly can because those are the games that i'll learn the most from absolutely yeah i mean like i would say for me like i feel fortunate enough where i my local meta is you know nick it's marcel it's uh steve it's wyland you know um where when we go to l like when i went to lvo two years ago with nick like half the people we had like eight people who are sort locals that showed up there too so you know every every major tournament is also partly a local tournament yeah i'm this is the similar thing for me i mean because england's so uh densely well we're just smaller right we're all closer to together but yeah especially up where i am like my local scene is like kez dan
00:55:23
Speaker
jack um like elliot stuff like that and then we've got like sith takers who are just literally down the door and then we have like the york garrison lot um but like anyone in england as well uh like sure it's it's so easy to get a game in like in in person which is great um yeah and that's incredible and that just like helps your game so much yeah Yeah, for sure.
00:55:48
Speaker
um But I would be remiss without mentioning i just kind of what's coming up on the horizon for us as the Gotham City Conquest is next month.
00:56:00
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On June 21st, that's gonna be New York based. So that's UTC minus four, our AKA Eastern time. And those tickets are starting to pick up. So make sure you guys check out ah the Gotham City Conquest and everything through September has been announced. The Middle Earth Conquest is in September.
00:56:19
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and that's going to be a really fun one because that'll be a late that'll be an evening start for us in chicago as it's an auckland new zealand based online event so still plenty of opportunity to get in and play if you missed out on the first couple Well, by the end of it, I'm not sure how many excuses you'll still have. Lots of opportunities to play.
00:56:40
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ah would love to have you guys. It'll be a lot of fun. I'm just giving people a hard time. I understand that people make plans. The weekends are the weekends. But ah you know what? It's just a good way to support XWA, to support us, get content out there, and to to watch the new stuff getting played in all of the different ways that people are experimenting with right now.
00:56:59
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It's just generally just been really good for X-Wing to have something like this. um And I'm looking forward to continuing to do it um moving forward. um Is there anything you guys want to want to say as we wrap up to throw it over to you and the champ, and Andrew?
Future Tournaments and Community Engagement
00:57:18
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Well, I would like to shout out a tournament that we're running. um It's not online, but I mean, you can come you can come to it anyway if you want to, but ah dan Dan said I had to shout it out otherwise I wasn't allowed to make this appearance so on the 5th and 6th of July we're running Steel City Squadrons which is a two day team tournament um teams of three and then ah it's a top cut for day two essentially um so if you're listening to this and you know fancy it come do it you get the chance to play me and beat me and
00:57:54
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If I lose, I'll probably cry. So that's probably an incentive, right? So yeah. So I just wanted to shout that out. That's all. And thank you, Nick, for running the tournament and letting me win twice.
00:58:08
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You're welcome. i don't know if I can do it again. i i'll be Yeah, yeah. Well, we'll see what the paypal check. yeah Yeah, right. Yeah. My my three three pounds, as they like to say, in a couple of shittings.
00:58:20
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Fuck off.
00:58:24
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Can I get an aye-aye-ya? What are you, Andrew? fucking hate Honestly. Jesus Christ. No, I'm good. I think that's a that's a good place to end it. Just that.
00:58:36
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Yeah, just end an aye-aye-ya. Well, everybody, thank you so much for listening to it. I believe it's episode 30. It sure is. my That's a nice, ripe number. Episode 30 of the 312 Squadron podcast.
00:58:49
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i Thank you to both Andrew and Tom for jumping on Tom. Congratulations on winning the crumpet conquest and your team wanking their way to the championship in the team league season three.
00:59:02
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Lots of accolades for the wankers and the wanky apparently. Yeah. Other things guys to keep in mind ah when it comes to supporting us, obviously subscribing to YouTube, joining the conversation in discord,
00:59:17
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Liking us on Facebook are all very good ways to stay in touch with us and support us. Being in the Twitch chat when you're able to watch live goes a long ways. But if you want some cool stuff, you can also check out our Patreon. We got some beautiful Paul LaRue cards coming this month.
00:59:30
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This quarter is Q2 is about to kick off. ah we have four cards for four different pilots we got mando we've got poe we've got bow katan and we've got one more i'm gonna we're gonna have to look it up to to see the fourth one because i'm drawing a blank but the middle and top tier patrons also get a beautiful acrylic base plate for the mandalorian in the n1 so consider supporting us there really just came in the mail a few days ago and they are really really nice so That is going to do it for us for this episode.
01:00:03
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Join us for the next Conquest and sign up for the Conquest series. All of this information is going to be in the description. And you can even listen on YouTube now as we finally are able to get that linked up. Every episode is on YouTube. So if you don't have a Spotify, don't have an Apple podcast, et cetera, subscription, you can go to YouTube to listen to these episodes.
01:00:23
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My name is Nick Sperry. And I'm Andrew Kubo. And I'm Tom. I feel... And we'll catch you all on the flapper day flap. Goodbye, Governor.
01:00:34
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See you later. Tiddle it.