Weeks wrote:No one played Skybuck, Lancers, Solo Charge, or Rebel Cannon. Those seem like a good place to start.
Yes but two HoFers played Sith and two other HoFers played Vong :). I went 2-3, but I think Matt, Scott and Eric all ended at 3-2.
We had some of the usual bad match up issues, then getting paired with other spoiler squads that helped the Empire dominate this event.
For example, Eric and Matt (Vong and Vong) played round 1.
Round 2 I played Tim (tough match of Sith against Thrawn, but Zannah did kill one speeder by rerolling the crap out of every SSM for the Lightsaber kill), then Tim and Jason played, Tim winning, which put me against Jason - ugg thrawn again. The in between round, I faced Engineer with Vong... But won.
So final round, I was sitting at 2-2 and got paired up against you guessed it, thrawn...
So 3/5 games against force immunity. Not good lol. And the first one that wasn't was GOWK tank which I beat, and the other one that wasn't were echani that could shoot through SSM (of course didn't matter when I only made 1 save and one echani finished her lol).
The bigger issue with this event is that it represented the meta, as opposed to what people were mistakenly calling it by naming the OR as the top dog. OR is the gatekeeper to some degree, and you could see that with the squads brought. Almost everyone had a way to handle bastilla, or at least to account for the match up. Consequently I think there were 3 Bastilla squads, and they didn't do well.
As for the other prevalent squad types not mentioned, tank style squads were popular in the Republic. Skybuck may have not been there, but there isn't much difference between Urbanshmi's Mace/Foul squad in terms of how it does in the various match ups. She went 3-2 I think with it. There were other versions, and other GOWKs played as well. I knocked out one of them in round 1 with the Sith, and I think one of the others lost to the force immunity early on as well. That plays a part in how outcomes occur.
However, I really wish I had played all the squads you mentioned. I can beat each of those. Force immunity however, not so much :)