Anyone who brings Daala to GenCon has my respect. To win GenCon they're going to have to face top players with all the Daala hate and still come out on top. The boards have been nothing but talk about Daala and her dominance for months and months. So it would be pretty sad if no one runs Daala.
She's responsible for this meta, she needs to show her face!

Michigan Regional my OR trooper squad got hosed by Lou's regional winning Daala-Snowtroop squad.
I playtested against it and sadly discovered that squads I usually play don't beat Daala-Snowtroopers.

Kokomo regional was full of Daala hate and not one "Daala-trooper squad", she was just taunting us...
I continued for months trying to beat Daala with different squads without any success.
So I decided to admit defeat and just to take Daala to the Chicago Regional.
Besides, it felt like it would be a crime if no one played her.

Round 1 Jason K. Vong Swarm with aggressive Negotiations and Blast Bug (Tough Match Up) 0-1 0 points
Bad rolls and Jason outplayed me and won a 3 point win.

Round 2 ??? Daala Scout trooper Swarm (Mirror Match) 1-1 2 points
We were tied on points and I won a 2pt win for having a snowtrooper in the middle of gambit.

Round 3 Atmsalad Mando DeathWatch Swarm with furious and SD20 (Tough Match Up) 1-2 2 points
Atm could run 12 squares furious assault, base multiple troopers and SD20. bad news

Round 4 Timmerb123 Talon-Klat Swarm (Tough Match up) 1-3 2 points
Tim beats me like a drum and by the end of the day I'm glad to watch Daala die.

I feel my experience is a good representation for what a person playing Daala at GenCon should expect.
They might get some easy wins early in the day but the later matches are going to be very challenging.
It would be a great accomplishment for someone to win that day with Daala.

In my opinion, the problem originally was Daala giving far more damage to way lower costing troopers, the Slaver being a way too good movement breaker and the Snowtrooper Officer offering Snowtroopers a rapport of 2.

we have since worked on the first two problems with an errata, but I think the real trouble maker is the Snowtrooper Officer. Snowtroopers have access to more attack boosts thus making their attack astronomically high and with the Rapport you also have them competing cost wise with the Raxus Prime Troopers with the added benefit of 20 hp. THAT'S the problem my friends. If the Snows weren't that viable an option (thanks mostly to the Rapport) Daala wouldn't be as competitive me thinks. Still really good, but not as incredibly nasty as we've seen. 20 hp is what prevents the successful use of the Swarm killer Momaw who usually is the best reinforcement option for ALL faction to help with swarms and he isn't really worth swat against 20 hp troopers. Any thoughts on this?

personally i voted to wait until after gen con. I really do not want to see a piece get banned, but instead of tweaking her even further i feel we should just ban her instead. IF she keeps getting tweaked, then we will simply cause more and more confusion that is not good for the game.

Daala is UBER PAPER, nothing matches her in activations, boosts or firepower.
Naboo Troops are good but opposing players have more options for dealing with them.
Vong Swarms could be the next tier one paper squad, but most people really dislike playing Vong.
I think there would be plenty of top teir 1 paper type squads available if Daala got banna Jammaed

Removing Pellaeon from the mix would probably solve the problem (assuming there is one). From what I've read, the flexibility offered by his CE combined with the Force immunity offered by Ysalamiri are huge boosts to Daala squads. Taking away the ability to switch in/out Ozzel would reduce the power offered by all of the activations in Daala squads, and removing Ysalamiri would allow even more squads to compete, with Bastila nerfing CEs, Thought Bomb and Unleash the Force acting as swarm counters, and giving Jedi more of a fighting chance with Lightsaber Defense and other Force powers.

From the suggestions posed in this thread, a Rival for "admirals" is probably the best way to go about this. Not only does it remove Pellaeon from the equation, but it also gives the designers a way to design powerful Imperial commanders in the future without having to worry about Daala.

Of course, this all assumes that there is a problem, and I'm not entirely sure of that. So I'm voting to wait until after Gencon before changing her.
Besides, it seems like all of the time people have spent preparing Daala counters would be wasted if she were to be nerfed before the big competition.

In my mind the part about daala that makes her really strong is a board wide indisruptable stackable +4 +10 for a cheap price. Troopers already have a ton of perks available to them that stack (especially the snowtroopers with their overloaded commanders). Never played with daala before but that's what I get out of it.

I agree that the snowtroopers have too much bonuses already with their exclusive commanders which give them already +8 atk +10 dmg, which in my mind is already a lot. Daala added to the mix is just over the top.

just trying shame some people to bring a squad that's fun for both players

Also not correct. The polls and discussion were prompts for me to start looking at data. Opinions have to mean very little in rules, but data isn't the end-all-be-all either; sometimes you have to just make a judgement call based off of the said data and when that happens in this type of environment then you have to factor in the emotional support of the player base, thus the second poll.

Hmm... Honestly, I would still give that title to guys like pre-v-set GOWK over Daala in just the most negative PIECES category.

And no Ozzel. (I think "Rival" works... I don't think you would need a new name for the SA.)