The Tournament!
Now that the season is over, our thoughts are turned to the end of season bacchanal! The format will likely be that the lucky top 8 players will get to create a list using only the 4 least popular ship of their selected factions. For readers unable to parse graphs, these are (from least to “most” popular):
Rebels
- E-wing (4 Corran Horn!)
- Attack Shuttle (2 Ezra, 2 Zeb, and 1 Hera)
- HWK (2 Kyle, 2 Jan, and 2 Rebel Ops)
- A-wing (5 Green squadrons, 1 Tycho, and 1 Prototype)
Imperials
- Firespray (3 Bounty Hunters)
- TIE Punisher (2 Deathrain and a Redline)
- TIE/sf (3 Backdraft and 3 Quickdraw)
- TIE Bomber (3 Tomax, 2 Deathfire, 1 Scimitar, 1 Gamma, and a Major Rhymer)
Scum
- StarViper (A Guri and a Xizor)
- HWK (2 Palobs and a Torkil)
- Khiraxz (4 Talonbane Cobras!)
- Mist Hunter (3 4-LOM and 3 Zuckuss)
Whether it’ll be a bracket or swiss round is up in the air. If we can get everyone in a single place, we may make a day of it, but that sounds unlikely at this point.
Whatever it is, it’ll be fun!
The prizes (so far)
FDB
2015 summer kit! 2 Dash, 4 packs of evades, and 17 Recon Specialists. The 4 X-wing bags are up for grabs too!
Kobold’s Corner
2 Imdaar Alpha Bandit squadrons, 2 sets of stress tokens, 3 AA Predator, 2 AA Push the limit, 3 AA C-3P0, 1 AA Dagger Squadron, and a TIE/sf, oh my!
L’as des jeux
Art of war template set in orange!
Wizard’s Tower
Summer kit and 2 dial upgrades, one Scum and one Rebel!
Player rankings
This week
This being the last week, players rushed to get their last games in. Some managed to get to 8 (with the help of others who played a 9th game that didn’t count), some were unable to finish it out due to scheduling issues. In all, 17 players took part in 12 games.
| Rank | Player | Points | Pts killed | Matches played |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gianni | 14 | 300 | 4 |
| 2 | Jason | 8 | 126 | 2 |
| 3 | Thomas | 4 | 100 | 1 |
| 4 | Jean-Marc | 4 | 100 | 1 |
| 5 | Benjamin | 4 | 100 | 1 |
| 6 | Alex | 4 | 75 | 1 |
| 7 | Nicholas | 4 | 66 | 1 |
| 8 | Greg | 4 | 62 | 2 |
| 9 | Barry | 4 | 53 | 2 |
| 10 | Claude | 4 | 16 | 2 |
| 11 | Michael | 2 | 62 | 1 |
| 12 | Martin | 2 | 62 | 1 |
| 13 | Simon | 2 | 30 | 1 |
| 14 | Arthur | 2 | 20 | 1 |
| 15 | Maurice | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Final results
Here’s what you’ve been waiting for folks! The top 8 has been decided and some sort of end of season tournament will follow to determine who actually gets the Season 1 Bytown Smugglers’ League’s trophy* home!
| Rank | Player | Points | Pts killed | Matches played |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dany | 30 | 741 | 8 |
| 2 | Jason | 30 | 575 | 8 |
| 3 | Grant | 28 | 714 | 8 |
| 4 | Guillaume | 28 | 664 | 8 |
| 5 | Michael | 28 | 641 | 8 |
| 6 | Thomas | 26 | 647 | 8 |
| 7 | Gianni | 26 | 600 | 8 |
| 8 | Nassim | 26 | 599 | 8 |
| 9 | Dave | 24 | 517 | 8 |
| 10 | Nicholas | 24 | 439 | 8 |
| 11 | Martin | 22 | 496 | 8 |
| 12 | Claude | 22 | 316 | 8 |
| 13 | Jean-Marc | 20 | 488 | 7 |
| 14 | Aram | 20 | 392 | 8 |
| 15 | Maurice | 20 | 284 | 7 |
| 16 | Arthur | 18 | 223 | 8 |
| 17 | Benjamin | 16 | 376 | 5 |
| 18 | Barry | 16 | 353 | 5 |
| 19 | James Bryant | 12 | 242 | 5 |
| 20 | Alex | 12 | 200 | 4 |
| 21 | James Benning | 10 | 186 | 4 |
| 22 | Simon | 10 | 96 | 4 |
| 23 | Liam | 8 | 186 | 3 |
| 24 | John | 8 | 172 | 2 |
| 25 | Greg | 8 | 165 | 4 |
| 26 | Jeremy | 8 | 142 | 3 |
| 27 | Jean | 8 | 60 | 4 |
| 28 | Christian | 6 | 79 | 2 |
| 29 | Rory | 2 | 74 | 1 |
| 30 | Kenny | 2 | 17 | 1 |
| 31 | Garrett | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Factions
This week
The empire was back with a vengeance, trying to grab the crown of “most wins” through sheer number of lists fielded. Spoiler alert: they came a bit shy!
This season
A surprisingly even representation in factions this season, though the Scum don’t seem to fare as well in our fair cities as they do elsewhere.
Ships
This week
Gianni fielding 4 TIE Advanced in a single list, utterly breaking the stats for this week. The thugs were also out in force, trying to prove they’re the most popular pilots.
This season
The results speak for themselves. Defenders, TLT carriers, Dengar and Manaroo and X-wings were the talk of the town! The Palp Shuttle was not far behind though, and had a very respectable win %.
Pilots
This week
Thugs are out in force, just barely edging out Gianni’s Tempest quadruplets! Rey is continuing to make her presence known, though not to much success.
This season
The Thugs beat the Glaives! At least, in sheer numbers fielded, that is. The humble Palp shuttle claimed the most wins though, with the Glaives a sad second place, again.
Faction preferences
Overall
Win record
The top 8 players are nearly undefeated flying rebel ships, I wonder if that says anything, since outside of the top 8, Rebels were not faring well at all. Imperials had wins throughout the ranking, an overall more stable performance, while the scum cratered harder than Rebels outside the top 8.
* Trophy does not actually exist. That player will get to imagine what it would have been like!