Congratulations to our top 2 players from each division in the Spring 2024 Escalation tournament!

Core Worlds Division:

1. spryguy1981
2. thereisnotry

Outer Rim Division:

1. N3rd
2. gandalf

It has been a really fun time getting to this point with many changes in the standings. The playoffs will be 350pt games with a 2 hour time limit and 18pt gambit. Without further ado, here are the players and squads competing in the first round of the players:

Core Worlds Division:

thereisnotry:

http://www.bloomilk.com/Squad/251929/heroes-of-endor-350

--Heroes of Endor 350--
100 Old Ben Kenobi
44 Luke Skywalker, Hero of Endor
38 Chewie
38 Han Solo, Rebel General
27 Ferus Olin
25 Sabine Wren
21 Lando Calrissian, Infiltrator
19 Princess Leia, Rebel Commando
18 Artoo-Detoo (R2-D2)
12 See-Threepio (C-3PO)
5 Pirate Breachman

(347pts. 11 activations)

Map: Frigid Outpost

spryguy1981:

http://www.bloomilk.com/Squad/254437/professor-lukes-drama-class

--Professor Luke's Drama Class--
100 Revan, Returned
48 Luke Skywalker, Galactic Hero
45 Han Solo, Corellian Legend
34 Jedi Master K'kruhk
33 Mara Jade, Galactic Hero
23 General Wedge Antilles
18 Bazel Warv, Jedi Knight
18 Lor San Tekka
15 Eryl Besa
10 R2-D2, Galactic Hero
3 Ugnaught Demolitionist
2 Kneesaa, Ewok Princess

(349pts. 12 activations)

Map: Ravaged Base

Outer Rim Division:

N3rdSl4y3r:

--Din Not See That Coming (350)--
67 The Mandalorian (Din Djarin) and the Child
54 Cad Bane
54 Montross
50 Boba Fett, Assassin for Hire
42 Embo
32 Talon Karrde, Information Broker
28 Mira of Nar Shaddaa
8 R7 Astromech Droid
5 Killik Drone
6 Ugnaught Demolitionist x2

(346pts. 11 activations)

Map: Frigid Outpost

http://www.bloomilk.com/Squad/252056/din-not-see-that-coming--350-

gandalfthegreatestwizard:

http://www.bloomilk.com/Squad/252124/when-all-the-world-was-young

--when all the world was young--
100 Old Ben Kenobi
44 Luke Skywalker, Hero of Endor
43 Ahsoka Tano, Champion of the Rebellion
38 Chewie
38 Han Solo, Rebel General
21 Lando Calrissian, Infiltrator
19 Princess Leia, Rebel Commando
18 Artoo-Detoo (R2-D2)
12 See-Threepio (C-3PO)
11 Admiral Raddus
5 Pirate Breachman

(349pts. 11 activations)

Map: Great Library

Congrats to the 4 of you! Please let us know when you guys are playing. I would love to be an observer on vassal. May the Force be with you.............

thereisnotry and I will also be playing at 8pm eastern on Friday the 19th of April.

Spryguy1981 (3) defeats gandalfthegreatestwizard (1) 382-357 on Great Library

This game had 9 rounds of play so I'm foggy on details. I will post a report as it comes to me.

Round 1 was positioning. He took 2 shots at Revan who Shien'd them away. Both got gambit.

Round 2 Revan put 80 on Luke, took 40 in return and activated Luke and Ben. Ahsoka brought Revan down to 40. I brought up the host of Bodyguards and K'Kruhk killed Luke.

Round 3 he killed Revan with Ahsoka, R2 came up and distracted Chewie's disruptive allowing Mara to kill him. Wedge and Han put 50 on his Han. Eryl Besa moved 14 to base Lando and K'Kruhk Leaping Assault killed Leia.

Round 4 He came after Han with Ben and killed him. K'kruhk and Eryl killed Lando, Ahsoka brought Mara down to 10 and Taco died off of a BG. He noble sacrificed on something. Wedge put 20 on Ben. Luke then came in with Ataru to try and get Ben. He took him down to 80. Mara killed Ahsoka.

Round 5 Ben put 60 on Luke and took some damage from Wedge. Mara and K'kruhk came back towards Ben.

Round 6 Ben killed Luke and K'kruhk/Wedge got Ben down to 30.

Round 7 Ben backed off and healed 30 rest of my guys camped gambit. The game shifted here as he moved Ben out of gambit to avoid the potential killing blows.

Round 8 He came back to gambit but Mara pushed him out of gambit, rest of my squad held back.

Round 9 He moved up the rest of his squad and Wedge/Mara killed R2, He hit K'kruhk who was down to 20. Game ended as both of us went over 350 with my score being the higher of the two.

This was an intense back and forth game that saw some overall good rolls from both sides. I think there was only 1 crit rolled in this entire game and it was an inconsequential one on Lando who would've died anyways without the crit. This may be the first time there hasn't been a crit parade. Lots of 18's and 11's though. Great game with Joe. Enjoyed playing him. Onward to the finals with n3rd and a super scary Talon squad.

Here's last night's stream of the Semi-Finals. I think this was one of our best streams to date!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2FahvphzLs

Spryguy1981 and I will be playing Friday (04/26) at 8pm eastern.

Darth Life got in the way and spry and I had to reschedule to tomorrow at 10am eastern.

N3rdSl4y3r defeats spryguy1981 376 - 363 (3-1) on Ravaged Base

spryguy won map and I took the left side. Luke set up in the command center.

Round 1: We mainly position up the board. Most of spry's team gets into the command center and he opens the door to the commanders office to set up for next round. Embo gets to the lift at the end of the round. Gambit for both [18-18]

Round 2: Mara intuitions next to the in the commanders office. Talon jumps into the lift with Mira. K'Kruhk spends to run faster to get to Boba and misses. Bazel phases through the wall and hits Boba for 30 dmg. Montross moves up and takes out Bazel, who sends 20 dmg to Boba as a parting gift. Boba flies up to shoot Mara and hits a crit, she fails the evade and both rerolls. Boba leaves her with 20 hp after another failed evade. Lor San Tekka runs up to set up Revan for his big reveal. Revan decided use the rest of my team for me and runs up to use a double Sith Sorcery with Faith in the Force. Embo, Kilik, Din, Bane, and an Uggie are all activated, while Mira is able to make it through. Mira sees that "somebody has to save our skins" throws some grenades at Revan and Tekka for 40dmg a piece on them. Mara runs in and kills Boba. Han, Luke and Wedge start to move into the action, and R2 runs down the middle hall to lock Mira and Talon in the lift. [54-86]

Round 3: Spry wins his 3rd initiative. Mara and K'Kruhk move up with intuition, while Cad Bane tries to fly away. Mara jumps over to kill the fleeing Cad Bane. Mira blows the lift door and tosses a grenade, which hit Eryl for 20 dmg. Montross flies up to base Revan and uses missiles, so that he can kill Tekka. Tekka makes the first save and dies on the second. Revan and Montross take some damage, and Montross takes some more from an AOO from Revan. Revan follows Montross, but misses both attacks. Luke comes running in and hit Mira for 60dmg. Din cable grabs to set up a Whistling Birds, this takes out Mara and hits Eryl, K'Kruhk, and Revan. Embo runs all the way around everyone and charges at Revan, but Revan makes both Shien saves. Wedge snipes and uggie and Eryl finishes off Mira. Talon is able to shoot at Eryl and kill her. Han hits Montross for 20dmg, leaving him with 30hp left. K'Kruhk runs into the lift to whack Talon for 30dmg, but not before taking 40dmg from Montross on a AOO. Gambit for spry. [120-189]

Round 4: I finally take an init and Embo backs away from Revan with Talon's CE, then Montross takes out K'Kruhk. Han takes out Montross, which clears to path for Revan to leave Talon with 10hp. Embo charges at Luke and Din follows up, which sends Luke to the scoreboard. Wedge takes out a kilik [202-248]

Round 5: I win init again. Din cable grabs into the lift, and after two failed Shien saves takes down Revan. Wedge deals the final shot to Talon, and Kneesaa kills an uggie. Embo charges into the lift and hits Wedge for 20dmg. Han kills the R7, while R2 jumps in the other lift. [302-327]

Round 6: Embo hits Wedge for another 20dmg and runs into the other lift with R2 for gambit. Han joins the party in the lift and hits Embo for 20 dmg. Din cables grabs and flamethowers Wedge and an uggie. R2 locks Han, Embo, and himself in the lift. [346-345]

Round 7: Embo is able to kill R2, which opens the door allowing him to escape to the other lift. Han hits a shot on Din, who kills Kneesaa with a counter push. Din cable grabs to gambit and put 60 dmg into Han. [376-363]


This was a super fun and super close game. I won some very key initiative rolls at the end of the game and was able to just barely edge past spry. Thanks for the game spry, and thanks to Mando for setting up the tournament. I had a lot of fun playing a variety of teams. This escalation tournament format has been very exciting.

congrats N3rd on the win! this is a very hard tournament to get 1st place in, so major kudos for you for winning the Galactic Escalation 2024 Spring Tournament! Next tournament in this format will be in the Fall of 2024. I liked how the divisions worked out this time around and will keep that going for the next tournament and hopefully we can get even more people to sign up! Thank you to all who participated in this years tournament! was very fun and lots of lead changes in the standings and close games.

Thanks Gandalf