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Watch The FFG Star Wars: World Championships Here
May 4, 2017 by crew
This week sees the Fantasy Flight Games, Star Wars World Championships happening in Roseville, Minnesota featuring all of their Star Wars games currently on the competitive scene.
Live Stream
You can see a full schedule of what's happening when over the next few days below and make sure to check out the Live Stream we've hosted to catch it all here on Beasts Of War.
THURSDAY
Star Wars: The Card Game (2:30pm CDT) (8:30pm BST)
Star Wars: Armada (6:30pm CDT) (0:30am BST)
FRIDAY
Star Wars: Imperial Assault (2:00pm CDT) (8:00pm BST)
SATURDAY
Star Wars: Destiny (1:00pm CDT) (7:00pm BST)
SUNDAY
Star Wars: X-Wing (1:00pm CDT) (7:00pm BST)
We hope that you'll be tuning in and learning about all the crazy tournament level plays that you can get in these games. All of them are highly tactical, especially Armada and X-Wing and it's great watching the masters at work.
Personally, I'll be watching for the Star Wars: Destiny tournament to see what kind of characters folks are using in their games.
Will you be tuning in?
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FFG have posted the top 16 in Star Wars: The Card Game, all of whom head into the cut.
https://twitter.com/FFGOP?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Word is filtering through that the first match on the stream will be a top 4 bout between Andy Hornby and James Lau. Good luck to both, though a little bit more good luck to Andy who’s over there representing the UK meta 🙂
The top 4 for Armada here – https://twitter.com/FFGOP?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
just got back in. good for the final round and in plenty of time for armada.
go on Andy lad.
Congratulations to Mick Cipra, the 2017 Star Wars: The Card Game world champion. He adds this to his 2014 win. Congratulations and commiserations to Andy also, who lost his first game in the cut, had to win out from there, and almost managed to do it. An extremely fortunate triple Spark of Rebellion for three free characters just as his board was about to wiped out swung the game for Mick.
great final, a real twist at the end there. gutted for Andy, I really thought he was going to pull it off for a minute there. Mick was fortunate but it seemed like he was playing for that swing. would have been really interesting to see how it would of played out if he had pull only one or two in that last draw. he would have still had those cards at some point but Andy may of been able to see it through.
2.20 and I’m going to have to hit the hay. armada is my favourite of the games on show but I really need to go to sleep.
Norm Weir edged out Nathan Dahlberg 171 to 150 in a back and forth clash that hit the three hour time limit with five out of the six rounds completed. Both were running Rebel lists. Norm takes the title back to Canada and prevents a clean sweep of Thursday’s games by the Minnesota metas.
Both lists are here – https://twitter.com/FFGOP/status/860288108050436099
well done to Norm and his technicoloured dream boat. sounds like it was a real chess match start to finish. Armada is such an underrated game. that must of been a 4:30 finish here in the UK though.
Yeah, it would have been. I’d originally planned on watching the start but once the time was pushed back to 1.30am I decided to just wait and skim watch it in the morning.
The top 16 for Imperial Assault – https://twitter.com/FFGOP?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
got the start of the first game and the second half of Pauls game.
I was a little worried when the 16 got introduced as a good chunk were playing virtually the same list. but what I’ve seen so far has been good in spite of that. sounds like they need to advance the factions in a more balanced way but the maps and grid based movement really make this an interesting watch.
well that was interesting. the same list, with some variety in the command cards, but completely different tactics.
now for the big one.
the reckless abandon of my rock and roll life style. stayed up late watching imperial assault.
I watched the first couple and I’ll be catching up with the final this morning.
Congratulations to Daniel Taylor for winning back-to-back Imperial Assault world titles. A tremendous acheivement. Commiserations to Paul Heaver who has now been runner-up in two of the three IA world championships. This may not be the last we see of Paul this weekend as he’s a three-time X-Wing world champion.
that early bantha gamble to take the advantage really cost him. he played well to keep himself in with a chance ,but Daniel made no mistakes and that cleaver objective denial at the end snuffed out any remaining hope.
imperial assault is a lot better in the skirmish mode than I was giving it credit for.
The top 16 for Destiny is here – https://twitter.com/FFGOP?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Nathan and Zach will be kicking us off soon.
element games in the building. if I knew they were sponsoring folks for STAR WARS I might have made the effort to get there and get my STAR WARS on.
Leeds and Leeds and Leeds and Leeds.
A bit of a shellacking there by Zach. I assume Nathan’s deck was designed to put a lot of red dice into play, then use It’s a Trap to change them all to ranged damage and one-shot an opposing character off the board, but he never got going in either game.
which deck do you fancy in the final?
Only just caught up with it now. Honestly wouldn’t have been sure 🙂
cleaver winning deck.
interesting that most of the top placed players are specialising in the one game. seem to remember more people playing multiple games at worlds in the past.
Part of it is a scheduling issue in that the games overlap, especially if you make the cut. Andy Hornby’s a high level Imperial Assault player, but if he did that tournament he wouldn’t be able to play either the LCG or Destiny. We may well see Paul Heaver in the top 16 for X-Wing, though. There are also a lot of side events so if you have one game you really like you can play in the worlds and do the side events for it. It looks like that what’s Mick Cipra is doing.
Congratulations to Daniel Weiser who swept the final with a Vader/Tuskan Raider deck, and is the first ever Destiny world champion. Commiserations to Nick Obee, who may well regret going after Vader in that second game.
The top 16 for X-Wing – https://twitter.com/FFGOP?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Reigning champ, Nand Torf, finished the Swiss ranked #2 so we might be on for our second title defence of the weekend.
looks like I spoke too soon. there are a fair few playing a couple of different games in the last 16, no Paul Heaver though.
watching the meta and searching for an anti meta build is a solid tactic and it looks like it’s going to take some beating. especially with the list they thought would give it the most problems going out.
some nice moments of masterful flying. 2000 watching and rising.