Straight bracket I believe. Just like a normal 8 man bracket, with 7 and 8 being replaced with BYE. So 1 will be playing 4 or 5 in the SEMIS and 2 will be playing 3 or 6.

Yes, Royal Rumble is an individual event this year.

Basis of this event is you get 2 characters assigned to you as your squad (generally 1 shooter and 1 melee that totally approximately 100 pts). You then get assigned characters to "hunt" and you and the other players play Star Wars Minis trying to hunt down your target to get points. Winner is player who accumulates the most points.

Think of this as Bruce Lee's 'Enter the Dragon', Star Wars style. 8 teams of two characters, 1 range and 1 melee battle it out in a no holds barred contest to see who is the best of the best. Each team is given 2 bounties to start the game, and additional bounties are earned whenever a kill is made. While you can attack anyone you want, you'll only score points for the bounties you have at the time of the kill. Winner is the team of 2 characters with the most total bounties.

I would seriously play it this way.

FlyingArrow wrote:
#1 plays #2, #3 plays #4, #5 plays #6. Winners of those three play a round robin. Repeat round-robin until one player wins two matches. At the same time, losers of the first three matches also play a round-robin until one player wins both of his/her matches. Winner of the loser's bracket and winner's bracket then play a best of 3, but the winner of the winner's bracket starts with a free win in their column.

That's the only sensible way to run it.
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I would seriously play it this way. ThumbsUp


This would take up to much time. James has a pretty strict time limit.

Will you expand the event if the demand goes beyond the eight slots? I plan on signing up as well as another from the XW crew.

A bit about Death Race (III):

A lot of fun to be had for 6 players. No materials needed as I provide all dice, minis, cards and instructions. 3 maps end to end to end.

3 players set up on one side in a lane the length of the 3 maps equaling 1/3 of width each. 3 other players do likewise on the opposite side. They all roll a 20D with the highest roll getting first choice of one of 6 duos available for play. We proceed next highest all the way down to the lowest.

Once they set up, they roll for initiative. I roll a 4 sided dice to determine what I will do as the GM for that round. I do: nothing, run away or have 2 shots at attacking anything nearby my pieces that randomly spawn into action. I come in with pieces that are suitable for the maps we're playing on and attack any and everyone when possible. I will not attack more than 2 consecutive rounds nor will I sit idle or run away for more than 1 round at a time.

It is a race after all so the point is to get both of your duos to the opposite end of the 3 maps before the 2 hour time limit is reached. If you kill a character (enemy or GM either one,) you will automatically advance the mini that made the kill a predetermined number of spaces depending on the quality of the kill. Any time a player mini is killed by another player (to slow you down,) or by the GM, your character goes back to a spawn point at the beginning of the next round. Each map's spawn point is the beginning of the map and the halfway point so it is important to get there before dying. Once a character enters a new map, they will only return upon dying to the start of that map provided they haven't reached the halfway point.

It really is a great game and a lot of fun. I have had 33 of 36 spots filled in the first two years since I made it up and ran the event. Probably 90 percent of the players had not ever played before and all really enjoyed it a lot. We have prize support and most every game comes down to close to the hour limit and it usually a real race at the end to finish both duos. Several times we have even come down to the last initiative roll to determine who would finish first.

This year one of the maps is Korriban (WOTC) great for running. The duos and GM pieces will be Jedi-heavy. There are no movement breakers as well as no one with flight providing an advantage. The only way to move faster will be with force points.
Hope to see you there, it sells out fast so don't wait!

Avast! Batten down yur hatches!