Round 2 game #1 matchups:

N3rdSl4y3r vs Caedus

spryguy1981 vs Darth O

DarthMaim vs thereisnotry

Overley28 vs Mando

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You will have 1 week to play your matchup starting October 4th (Wednesday). Please get you games in by midnight on Thursday October 12th. If some people need to get a little more time to get their game in we can accommodate that. Make sure to make your squad links public prior to your game. Have fun and may the force be with you!

you are right...it should be 8pts.

DarthMaim and I are unable to find a time to play until Wednesday evening. I'm going camping with my family, and he's totally booked up during the brief timeframe that I'll be home on Saturday and Sunday.

Tint and I will play on Wednesday at 7:30pm ( est )

Spryguy1981 (3) defeats Darth O (1) 187-128 on Rhen Var.

Round 1 we move towards the center.

Round 2 we moved more towards the center. Rex shot at Serra and put 20 on her. She put 30 on Rex. R2 towed Quinlan and locked the door giving him Ataru vs Zeb. Quinlan killed Zeb.

Round 3 Serra Presumes Rex dead. Cin and Quinlan kill Ezra. Kallus and Ahsoka attack things.

Round 4 and 5 we traded a bunch of blows. Quinlan killed Rex. Cin finally goes down.

Round 6 Serra kills Kallus

Round 7 Serra puts Ahsoka at 20. Ahsoka kills Quinlan

Round 8 Ahsoka makes some really bad rolls against Serra (didn't get the Riposte opportunity.) Serra kills Ahsoka.

This was a super fun game. Nothing like the clash of lightsabers against each other. O's attack rolls stunk, my defense rolls stunk. I really enjoyed this match, felt laid back.

We pushed our start time to tonight at 11:00pm ( est )

Tourney: Galactic Escalation Fall 2023: Round 2 game #1
N3rdSl4y3r (3pts) defeats Caedus (0pts) : (conceded game)
spryguy1981 (3pts) defeats Darth O (1pt) : (187-128)
DarthMaim (3pts) defeats thereisnotry (1pt) : (198-113)
Overley28 (3pts) defeats Mando (0pts) : (150-38)

Tourney: Galactic Escalation Fall 2023
Leaderboard after round 2, game #1 completion.
1: 6 Points: DarthMaim - WW
2: 6 Points: Spryguy1981 - WW
3: 6 Points: Overly28 - WW
4: 4 Points: Thereisnotry - WL
5: 3 Points: N3rdSl4y3r - LW
6. 3 Points: Caedus - LW
7: 1 Points: Darth O - LL
8: 0 Points: Mando - LL

Are we still at 150pts for game #2?

Thereisnotry defeats N3rdSl4y3r 188-100 (3-1)

I won the map roll but I'm tired of my map (Mercenary Base), so we played on his map (Anchorhead). He set up first on the left side. The Nexus set up to the west of the door on the right side of gambit, with Tulak on the other side of the door.


Round 1: Standard advancement, except he locked the door in front of Tulak, to both prevent me from getting shots on his guys at the end of the round, and also to lock Tulak out from gambit (and also prevent him from gaining FP from the Nexus). Gambit for N3rdSl4y3r.

Round 2: He won init and blew up a door with his Spaarti. I blasted the door with my Uggie, then moved a Guard into place, then sac'ed my XT-6 to activate the Agent, who blew away R2 and then missed an unactivated Mace (needing 10 because of Obi's CE). Because of how I had set things up, Mace had no targets, so he moved up to expel Exar, who made his save on the fprr. Obiwan tried the same thing, but again I survived. The Nexus moved Vongerella adjacent to Mace via Easy Path; however, when she used PlayerBol, Mace rolled a 20. Tulak went up to attack Obiwan, and (thanks to Exar's aura) got some damage through (didn't want to risk being near Mace quite yet), plus some chip dmg via Sith Hatred.

Round 3: I won init, so Vongerella tried her Bol trick again, and Mace failed the save but rolled a 20 on the fprr (sigh...that's 80dmg avoided by timely epic dice). The holocron tried to expel Exar, but I made the save. Then Obi did it again, and Exar finally ghosted me (see what I did there? get it? :)). A guard moved up to attack Mace, and actually hit with a crit! But this is trouble, because of Reflect...Mace spent 2fp to Reflect, failed...made the fprr. But the guard made his save to avoid the dmg coming back at him, so he could swap for the Agent, who then did a sweet double attack on Mace for 50s, with Obi's CE distracted, so I only needed 6s...Mace made his LS Defense save on the first attack, and I rolled a 5 (miss) on the double. Mace is still at 150hp. He activates and obliterates Vongerella (failed LS Defense save), then flanked Tulak, who was based with Obiwan. I moved my other guard into position to IF swap the Agent into position for next round in case I won init, because Mace was looking far too healthy for my own good. Tulak used Rage and then attacked Mace (needing 8s), and I rolled a 3...fprr: 2. :sigh:...it's like last game, again! lol

Round 4: The dice apologized to me at this point, because things finally started to go my way. I won init and the Agent threw a big 100dmg on Mace (failed both LS Deflect saves). One Soresu Master attacked another, but they were equally matched and no dmg got through. Mace then activated and proceeded to crit Tulak twice...Tulak made one save with a fprr, and the other save on the first try. Regardless, Tulak was now down to 100hp (Obi at 70, Mace at 40). Tulak activated and managed to roll a crit vs Mace (I told you the dice apologized!), who wasn't able to get dmg through on his final Riposte. Tulak's 2nd attack was on Obi, who parried it easily. Then Tulak used Sith Hatred twice for a sneaky 20dmg on Obiwan (50hp). No further significant damage on the big pieces, though I was able to take out the Spaarti with a Guard.

Round 5: N3rdSl4y3r won the init and brought Tulak to 80hp...Tulak used Sith Reflexes to try an attack, but he couldn't roll for nothing anymore. Tulak activated and did no attack damage...just Sith Hatred yet again (Obi to 30hp). The rest of my pieces (including the Agent) could do nothing significant, other than kill an Uggie. The Nexus ran out of gas and died.

Round 6: Obiwan put 20dmg on Tulak (missed my attack from Sith Reflexes). Tulak activated and once again did no attack damage, and once again did a double-Sith-Hatred (Obi to 10, Tulak at 0fp). Once again, my other pieces couldn't hit Obiwan for anything.

Round 7: I lost init and Obiwan did 40dmg to Tulak (20hp). Tulak then said, "Screw this...Sith Hatred!" and didn't bother trying to attack again, since he had apparently been using his nerf saber for most of the fight.


The dice were definitely more friendly to N3rdSl4y3r at the beginning of the match, with him making most of his Presence saves and both of his Bol saves (huge because that was 80dmg prevented) even when needing 15s, and with me unable to get any dmg onto Mace. But that big apology from the dice at the start of Round 4 is probably what turned things around, because Mace went down that round and then it was just a matter of Tulak manifesting his Hate on Obiwan to eventually wear him down. Mace did get some crits, but Tulak managed to weather that storm. There were so many huge swings and turning points in this game that it's hard to say how many ways either of us could've won or lost with slightly different dice results...but this time, I managed to squeak by for victory. Super close and exciting game!

Looks like the big dogs in the tourney so far are Spry and Overley, both at 3-0. Those 2 would be a really cool matchup