Three categories of players:

1. Never competed in a standard format SWM GenCon tournament, won a regional, or placed top 4 in the NZ nationals, and want to construct their own squad.

2. Never competed in a standard format SWM GenCon tournament, won a regional, or placed top 4 in the NZ nationals and would rather just be handed a squad.

3. Have played in standard format SWM GenCon tournaments, won a regional, or placed top 4 in the NZ nationals.


(TILE WARS, Royal Rumble, minis madness, sealed, Epics, scenarios, etc are all fine to have been played in the past. I am speaking of regular minis tournaments, which has lately just been the Championship at GenCon)



Those folks in category 1 will build their squads in advance (following the new format squad building rules) and bring them to the tournament (just like normal)

Those folks in category 2 will show up, nothing required but a passing familiarity with the game. They get handed a squad, a map, and a quick overview of how the squad plays. These squads will be strong, but simple and straightforward to run.

Those folks in category 3 will show up, nothing required to bring. They will be handed a "fun" squad, and a map. These squads will usually have a theme and will not be tier 1. They will most certainly NOT contain any of the following: Booming Voice, boardwide CEs, override, Vong, strafe, galloping attack, ABM, Vaapad, SSM, etc. You get the idea.


Rules for SWM competitive play all remain the same, with the exception of squadbuilding restrictions


-For those constructing their own squads:

Squad building restrictions:


1. No booming voice
2. No activation control (less or more activations per turn)
3. No commanders with boardwide CEs
4. 16 activation limit
5. No characters with reinforcements, reserves or bribery
6. 200 pt squads
7. No Yuuzhan Vong
8. No override (manual override is fine)
9. No initiative altering abilities (of any kind)
10. No strafe or galloping attack.

This means you may not bring characters with any of the above.

All pre-build squads will adhere to the same restrictions.



Saturday Oct 22

This is the START date for the tournament. We will be doing long form tournament, like the Vassal Regional was this year.

Cost: FREE!
Map List: Any standard list map currently on Vassal. (This is casual after all)
Legal Pieces: All WotC and V-Set pieces, up through and including V-Set 12 (including the BHC pieces). Please take note that you are welcome to use V-Sets 11 + 12 pieces, although you’ll need to use proxies for those pieces since V-Sets 11 + 12 have not yet been added to the Vassal module.
Squad Format: 200pt Constructed. All SWMGPA Floor Rules will be in effect, including errata and decisions made by the SWM Balance Team. The only exception is the squadbuilding restrictions above.
Judge: The community. It's a casual format, try to make ruling between yourselves. If it's just a question on rules - hit anyone else up.
Format: Standard format: Swiss rounds (depending on the number of players - usually 3-4 rounds) then cutting to a Top 4 for playoff rounds (1st vs 4th and 2nd vs 3rd, then the winners play each other in the Finals).
Game Length: 80 min rounds, including setup time. (The little extra is because we will HOPEFULLY have some newcomers). Since we’ll all be using Skype or telephone, there is no reason why the game has to take longer than 60 minutes, but since the Vassal interface might not be completely familiar to some players, we’ll make it 80 just to be fair to everyone. Players need to keep track of their own time during their matches. Set a countdown timer.
System Requirements: You must have Skype, or at least some sort of live voice-chat capability such as FaceTime or a basic phone call, in order to play. Most telephone plans have unlimited free minutes domestically. For international, Skype is the best option. Seriously, there are so many different avenues available to us now that there’s really no good reason not to have a way to speak with your opponent.
You must also have the newest versions of the Vassal mod (version 11) and the V-Set extensions (v 10.0) on your computer. If you have trouble, contact me before the tournament starts and I'll (try to) walk you through the setup process.
Player Requirements: You must make a faithful and reasonable effort to check your BMs at least once every 24 hours after the tournament has started. You are responsible for staying up-to-date on what is going on with the tournament, and for communicating with your opponent each round in order to schedule and play your game. I will send a BM to all players every time a new round of pairings are announced.


How to Register
1. Sign up in this thread
2. Before 8:00 pm CST on Thursday, October 20th, send me a BM that includes ALL of the following information for yourself:
-Real name
-Screen name on Vassal
-Screen name here on Bloomilk
-emai address
-Skype name
-Map choice
-Which category of player you are (See above - 1, 2, or 3)
-And ONLY if you are category 1:
A Bloomilk squad link for your squad. Make sure that your squad is set to Public rather than Private.
As with any typical tournament, your squad and map choices will apply for the whole tournament. You may not change your squad or map after the tournament has begun.


How the Tournament Will Run
This Tournament will not be held on a single day. Rather, this tournament will be run over the course of several weeks so that everyone can fit their games into their own schedule.

Each round, once pairings are announced, players will have 7 days in which to contact their opponent, schedule and play their game, and then report the results. When I announce the pairings I will also announce the deadline for completing those matches.

The winner of the game is responsible for reporting the game results. Please report your game results in THIS thread, and then send me a brief BM, stating that you’ve reported your results. Reports need to include the player names, the squads, the map that was used, and the score after 80 minutes of play. Match summaries of one sort or another are welcomed too, but not at all necessary.

If it turns out that all the matches have been completed their match before the week’s time is up, then we’ll start the next round a little earlier. Regardless, players will never have more than 7 days to complete match, once that round’s pairings have been announced.

In the case of any match not being completed by the deadline, both players will receive a double-loss unless one player can demonstrate that his/her opponent has been completely non-responsive to communications. But please don’t let it get that far; if your opponent is still non-responsive after 24 hours then contact me via BM immediately. In this case we’ll deal with situations as they come up.

Rules questions can be sent directly to our expert SWM rules gurus (one of the benefits of a format like this). Be sure to take note of the time remaining in the match when you pause for a situation like this, so that you can continue with that same time after you’ve resolved the dispute. Keep in mind that this is a casual format, so I don't expect too many issues

We will be using the 3-2-1 scoring system: it will be “200 or 2.” since it is the only fair way to do it. Since people will be playing at different times, there is no way to reliably contact someone to resolve a dispute, and so please just play fairly and at a good speed. Experienced players, help out the new ones out. More than anything - have fun! :) Consider this a test run for possible inclusion at GenCon

I am in and I will have vassal up and running on my computer ;)

Will send info soon, just have to pin point what army i want

Great points!

Those are both added.

Cool!

A hair's breadth away from category 3.

*BUMP*

October 22? That's a pretty long wait to get started. I think I'll join, though.

*bump*

Looks like so far we have:

Jen'ari
Darth Rattlehead
Mando
Flying_Arrow
Caedus (assuming your inquiry means you'd like to play).

Others I might hope or except to play.

UrbanJedi I would think for sure. The format was LITERALLY (yes, not figuratively) made for him. His isistance on playing in the casual format helped bring this hybrid to life.

Thereisnotry was also interested in the causal format play.



others that contributed to the origianl casual format thread:

kkj
Darth_Reignir
ChewbaccaBigfoot
jak
shmi15
juice man
TheHutts
harryg
Deaths_Baine
gholli69
leshippy
billiv15
CorellianComedian
AceAce
spryguy1981
DarthMaim
Echo24
UrbanShmi



So - let's drum up some excitemement and get these folks to sign up!

I'd absolutely love to play, simply because it's SWM. I was just thinking that with all the talk about how we needed a format like this, there would be more interest shown by some of the more casual players. On another note, BM isn't working that well, I may need to send my info Via FB sir. I will try to put a plug on SHNN, this week, as well