The intro/Main bit/Conclusion…
Hello and welcome to this week’s blog! Kind of! (not kind of welcome, but kind of blog)
Now, I know what you’re probably thinking.
‘Dylan said he was taking December off!’
Yes, I did say that.
It became apparent quite quickly that there would be stuff that I wanted to talk about and put out there but that I wouldn’t have time to do a FULL blog AND I didn’t actually play a game last week off the back of doing the tournament the Saturday before.
So, for the sake of my sanity and yours, this will be rather brief but (hopefully) interesting and informative!
Points!
First up, there’s been a points update! Woooooo!
Technically this is the third XWA points update and it’s mostly minor tweaks. Full details can be found on the XWA website – https://www.xwing.life/resources/points
For me personally there’s no huge change in what I’ve been flying recently although I was set to try out Rebel Fang Fenn in place of Luke in my list and he’s lost 2 loadout points.
I’m not going to do a deep dive on what this changes because:
- Analysis of the meta (JARGON ALERT!!) is not my thing.
- I don’t have the time
- I’m not very good at it.
I’m sure the changes will be given the run over by plenty of places though!
Prizes!
YES! IT’S FINALLY HERE!
In my hands and on my actual dining table, I have a Wave 0 Tournament Kit!
I’m really happy with the quality and the contents, it’s just a shame it was a week too late for our tournament in Newport. Guess we’ll have to do another one eh!
Part of the reason I’m taking a break from the blog (which is clearly going very well!) is that I now have the exciting but slightly arduous task of emailing the almost 100 people who have enquired about ordering kits.
We’ve got requests in for over 120 so far which is clearly a LOT more than the 60 that we ordered. Don’t worry, we will be getting more and if you haven’t had an email yet you will do soon* which will explain the situation and how we’re dealing with it.
*subject to real life stuff and people getting back to me!
I want to thank the whole X-Wing community for the level of support this kit has had. It’s very clear that the demand for tournament prizes is very much still there and as we start planning for Store Championships and bigger events next year we aim to keep bringing exciting and beautiful things to the table for people to win.
If you’ve not seen or hear about this kit but you’d liek to know more and maybe submit an order then check out this document which has more information and a link to the order form!
Resting?
With Christmas around the corner and plenty of real life stuff happening I’m going back to taking time off. Really, I am.
When doing the blog I’ve always tried to be careful that I don’t want it to feel like work, like an obligation. It’s important to me that actually playing the game and having fun is the biggest part of it for me and that I’m not shoehorning random games in just so that I’ve got something to talk about.
So yes, I’m taking the rest of December off. Almost certainly. Unless something comes up, of course. Or I get time to write.
We’ll see.
So I won’t see you next week but in January!
Probably.
Maybe.
Ok, bye!
The outro…
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