Welcome to the Second Element Games� North West Team Challenge for X-wing! Building on the sucess of the 2017 event where 20 team battled it out for the title we return bigger and better!
A Team is made up of 3 individuals each flying a different faction. Each round your team will be paired off against a rival team, and through a pairing process the 2 sets of pilots will be �paired� against one another so we have 3 games being fought. Although these are individual games the combined result determines the teams result, and whichever team wins 2 or more games win�s the round!
At the end of the event the team that wins the most rounds wins the North West Team Challenge!
Saturday 28th April 2018
09:00 � 10:00 Registration
10:00 � 10:15 Pre-Event Brief
10:30 � 12:00 NWTC Round 1
Tickets: �51 (for 3 players, includes lunch) � �42 If you sign up before 27th February 2018
Number available: 32 Teams
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BASIC TOURNAMENT RULES
The NWTC will use the Official X-wing Rules and Tournament Regulations as found here:
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/x-wing/
With the following additions:
* The NWTC is a team event with each team comprised of 3 players
* Each player on a team must field a different faction. So 1 player will fly Imperial, 1 will fly Rebel and 1 will fly Scum & Villany.
* Each team must nominate a Team Captain who will be the Point of Contact and be responsible for all admin for the team
* Each team must come up with a Team name which they can collectively be referred by before and during the event (clean but funny recommended!)
* Each round teams will be paired against each other � not individual players
* But the 3 matches between 2 team will determine the round result (a team winning 2 or more games in a match up wins the round!).
* Teams are required to Pre-submit their lists through their Captain (see below).
ROUND PAIRINGS
The first Round of the event will be a random draw with Rounds 2 onwards being drawn on a Swiss system (1st plays 2nd, 3rd plays 4th and so on). Once the Round draw is announced the teams will be assigned to a row containing three 3x3 x-wing mats and one empty table for admin, trays and other storage. A team will never be matched against the same team twice
When both teams are at the row they should greet each other and exchange lists (full disclosure). Once both teams have had a couple of minutes to look over the opposing lists they should begin the pairing process.
First determine which team has initiative (this is done like normal except compare the values of all 3 lists in each team). In the event of a tie roll of as normal with one team choosing hits & crits.
The Team with initiative gets to choose whether they are Team A, or Team B in the process
Step 1 � Team A nominates a player on their team and picks a player on Team B to play against
Step 2 � Team B nominates 1 of their remaining 2 players to players and pick 1 of the remaining 2 players on Team A to play against
Step 3 � The last player on each Team will play against each other.
As tables are neutral it doesn�t really matter who plays on which as long as
PRE-SUBMISSION OF LISTS
Owing to the tactical nature of pairings and to aid in list checking all Captains will be required to submit their Team's lists before April 8th to
[email protected] in a single email.
Please make sure your team name appears in the subject line and all lists have player names on them.
All lists will be published before the event in a single PDF which Teams can use to pre-Pair their match ups.
All Teams that submit their lists before April 23rd 2018 will receive a 1 Tournament Point bonus.
The preferred format for submitted lists is plain text, no formating, listing each ship, it's upgrades and points for all.
ROUND TIMING
Once the round is announced there will be 15 minutes to find your row, exchange lists, pair and set-up. Once the TO is happy the majority of the room is set-up and ready to go the Round timer will be started. We will be playing 75 minute rounds.
When time is called finish the round and determine the winner of each game as normal (found in the X-Wing Tournament Regulations). There are no draws so Final Salvo will be used in the case of Mutual Destruction or Identical Scores being achieve.
TOURNAMENT SCORING
When a Team wins 2 out of 3 games in a round, they win the round.
Winning a round earns a team 1 Tournament point, a loss earns 0 points.
The team with the most Tournament points at the end of the event wins the event.
Combined MOV (Margin of Victory) will be used as the first Tie-break with Strength of Schedule being used as the 2nd.
In the event of an odd number of Teams a Bye will be awarded to one team each round. This team receives 1 Tournament point for a round win and a MOV of 450.
AWARDS & PRIZES
Prizes will be confirmed at a later date but will consist of Trophies, Store Credit vouchers and Promo items.
* 1st, 2nd and 3rd Placed Teams
* Team Wooden Spoon
* Most Sporting Team
More prizes will be announced depending on numbers signed up
SCHEDULE
Friday 27th April 2018 (Good Friday)
12:00 � 23:00 Venue open for set-up, casual pick-up games and socialising
Saturday 28th April 2018
09:00 � 10:00 Registration
10:00 � 10:15 Pre-Event Brief
10:30 � 12:00 NWTC Round 1
12:15 � 13:45 NWTC Round 2
13:45 � 14:15 Lunch (Subway buffet)
14:15 � 15:45 NWTC Round 3
16:00 � 17:30 NWTC Round 4
17:45 � 19:15 NWTC Round 5
19:30 � 20:00 Awards
FOOD & DRINK
Snacks and drinks will be available on site. Lunch is provided but there are local shops and Takeaways within walking/driving distance if you want to bring food in you are more than welcome. The venue is a Licenced Premises and as such no outside drinks, with the exception of water, may be brought into the venue.
PARKING
FREE PARKING all day outside in the venues shared/private car par and next door in the 46 space Council run car park.
PUBLIC TRANSPORT
Davenport train station is the closest at a 10-15 minute walk but the main Stockport Station is also only 20-25 minute walk (and you'll find more frequent trains). You can get the bus from Stockport Station for less than �2.00 each way. And the Bus stops at the end of our road - opposite Premier Inn and is a 2 minute walk.
YOUR TICKET & REFUNDS
This purchase is for a virtual ticket and no physical product will be sent out to you. If you discover you can't attend the event we can process a refund for you up to 7 days prior to the event running. Please email
[email protected].
If after this date you find you can't attend we won't be able to process a refund for you as food, venue space and prizes will have been bought and paid for.