Very roughly - categorising stuff off the top of my head, and recognising some squads are hard to fit into a category (eg Force Push, Caedus + shooters):

Swarms - been run 10 times, made it into top 4 six times: 60%

Melee - run 25 times, made it into the top 4 seven times: 28%

Strafe/Gallop - run 5 times, made it into the top 4 five times: 80%

Shooters - ruin 20 times, made it into the top 4 seven times: 35%

Looks like swarms and strafers are both doing very, very well......

Based on what's being run, the strafe/gallop is facing 4 times as many non-swarms as swarms. At least until it reaches the final 4. Although he categorized Tantives as non-swarm. To a Lancer, they're a swarm.

What concerns me a little is that melee is run by far the most and doesn't fare as well. SWM has always been somewhat shooter dominated and there has always been a cry for Jedi to be better against shooters... I think of Qui Gonn in the movie, when told that Jedi couldn't be killed to which he replied, 'I wish that were true'.

I think it's people like me who wish that melee was still competitive and are trying to find a way to make it so once again.

I see the Naboo Troopers/Soldiers in the same light as the Tantives.

I agree that the Gungans are a bit dubious, but I don't know where else to put them. The main characteristic is that they're a bunch of small pieces boosted by CEs from Tarpals and Amidala, so Swarm seems like the best category to me.

Naboo are totally a swarm - you have 100 points of commanders boosting 11 Naboo Troopers and 4 Naboo Soldiers. Tantives feel quite different to me, as they're primarily support for an attacker like Han Solo Smuggler or Luke Hero of Endor.

All results are posted for Chicago.

Vong 1st, (3-1, 6pts in swiss)
Vong 2nd (4-0, 11pts in Swiss)
Imp (daala) 3rd (2-2, 6pts in swiss)
Fringe 4th (3-1, 8pts in swiss)

the rest:

Mando, 2-2
OR, 2-2
Sith 1-3
Imp 1-3
Imp 1-3
Republic 1-3

I don't know if it matters at all, but I actually only had 7 points after Swiss.

I don't know if anyone else has tried this, but my friend and I have been playing games where we each use a random number generator to choose a Regional top 4 squad from the list on the first post of this thread.

The easy favourite of the squads that randomly came up for last night's games was Jason K's Gungan squad with Panaka - really fun, lots of movements, lots of tricks. My friend loved it, and destroyed me with it - it was on Grand Plaza, so it was very hard to advance against all the Cestas.

Alberta/Canada Regional results:

8 players participated:


Squads were:

(FINAL FOUR CHAMPIONSHIP)

General_Grievous
Republic 2 wins, 1 loss (championship game)
Republic Pocketbook: Pong, Rex, Kazdan, Lobot, Monnok, Ghhhk

Obi_Dan_Kenobi
Republic 2 wins, 1 loss
Munnilinst 10: GOWK, Rex, R2, Fordo, Mas, the rest Arc Scouts

Jeroun
Sith One win, Two Losses
Maul's "Grenades": Maul Death Watch Overlord, Pre-Visla, assorted Death Watch

Nathan
New Republic 3 Wins
"War Machine": Embo, Jacen, Vergere, Jariah Syn, Mara Jade Smuggler, Wedge, Luke Ghost

(The rest)

Nik
Vong 1 Win, 1 Loss
Invasion: Quarrel, Prefect D'gara, Subcommander, pratorite Scouts x Many

Thomas
Imperial 2 Losses
Blue Storm: Storm Commandos, Storm Commando leader, Thrawn, Nyna, Assorted Imperial Commanders and Mas

Luke
Mando 2 Losses
Mandalorian Block Party: Kelborn, Mandalore Ressurector, Shae, Jaina, Mirta

Russel
Imperial 1 Win, 1 Loss
Dalaa is coming: Daala, Snowtroopers commanders, Piett, Snowtroopers x A lot

After two sets of round robin the championship was between:

Myself "Republic Pocketbook" and Obi_Dan_Kenobi's Munnilist 10
Very close game where I got 270 points of reserves in the five rounds it lasted. But I just couldn't get past GOWKs soresu in time. Bringing a reserves team to a regional was a bit risky but Republic Pocketbook is the strongest one out there and helped me to win my other games no problem (the clone trooper on speeder bike is a great reserves option especially when I fought the auto-damage Vong swarm and I think would have helped me beat the Snowtroopers if it had gone that far). In the end though I ran out of time and wasn't able to finish off the 20 Hp left GOWK. Very close game.

The New Republic and Sith battled it out for third place and Embo's war machine armour combined with some killer Evade rolls helped the New Republic win that bout. Surprised no one brought Klats or Bastilla other than my Lobot reserves but up here people tend to play with a theme they enjoy rather then top meta. All in all a reserves team getting second place in our regional really was a surprise and a ton of fun. Well not to my opponents at least.