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Episode 371 - Rise of the Squad Champs
We're well in to May and starting to see a load more events around the globe! This week the cast chats over lists doing well at 5 events from the UK, Europe and Brazil! Plus we chat about the upcoming Squad Championship at Element Games that we'll be streaming at (twitch.tv/sith_taker_tim) plus UK Games Expo!
TNX May 3rd 2025
England - 8 players
https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/2166/players
SZ-Wing Blaster-Cup 2025 [XWA]
Germany - 33 players
https://listfortress.com/tournaments/8021
GFA Open - 2025 Május - The rise of the new SLs
Hungary - 15 players
https://xwing.longshanks.org/event/23909/
6ª Etapa - LPX 25
Brazil - 12 players
https://xwing.longshanks.org/event/25612/
X-Wing Squad Championships - Neutral Ground
England - 12 players
https://xwing.longshanks.org/event/24068/
Cast - Rich, Ben, Liam and Tim
Producer - Tim
Recorded 19/05/2025 via Discord
Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith
Outro - Go-Jo - Milkshake Man | Australia 🇦🇺 | Official Music Video | #Eurovision2025
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Episode 370 - May OP Madness
Audio warning - apologies, my mic has had an off night so my audio is very ropey!
May is upon us and not only is it the start of the OP season for XWA it's also May 4th/Revenge of the 5th so several events happening to chat about!
Richmond Open 2025 (AMG points)
USA 23 players
https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/2139
312 Squadron Conquest Series: Crumpet Conquest
Online 38 players
https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/1957
TableBound May 4th XWA Squad Championship
Canada 21 players
https://www.longshanks.org/event/22657/
Dogfights at the Forge
Canada 14 players
https://www.longshanks.org/event/24624/
Kirton Games X-Wing Spring Tournament
UK 12 players
https://www.longshanks.org/event/25280/
Cast - Rich, Liam and Tim
Producer - Tim
Recorded 05/05/2025 via Discord
Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith
Outro - Outkast - So Fresh, So Clean (Official HD Video)
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Episode 369 - Loving the new loadouts
On this weeks show the cast chat about some of their experiences of the new XWA standard loadouts and how they are featuring at events.
Event coverage we have a 52 player in-person XWA event from Poland, 18 player in-person AMG event from Canada and the first of 312 Squadron's Conquest online events using XWA points - the 61 player Windy City Conquest!
Mistrzostwa Polski 2025
https://longshanks.org/event/24113/
WetCoast AMG Star Wars X-Wing GT
https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/1823
312 Conquest Series: Windy City Conquest
https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/1956
Cast - Rich, Liam, Ben and Tim
Producer - Tim
Recorded 29/04/2025 via Discord
Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith
Outro - Steam Powered Giraffe - Pink Pony Club
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Episode 368 - Wisdom of the Ancients
We got a little bit swamped with X-wing content with all the new releases coming out of the X-wing Alliance we completely missed a fantastic article friend of the show (and occasional target of our jokes) Steve Boulton wrote!
Steve got several regular 'top' tournament players together and asked them a serious of questions to determine what makes a good player top tier. We were really impressed with the article and wanted to chat about. Thanks to Steven and Dylan for bringing it together.
We round out the show with chat about the new releases and what we've been using.
https://exilesquadron.com/xwing/making-the-cut/
Cast - Rich, Liam and Tim
Producer - Tim
Recorded 14/04/2025 via Discord
Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith
Outro - ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man (Official Music Video) [HD Remaster]
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Episode 367 - A new hope is here!
XWA release their first official content, we've seen the spoilers but we haven't seen everything - and we have points for all the new ships! The cast chat about new & spoiled ships and now we have points what we think will feature and what we're excited to fly.
We also give some shout outs to the Polish Championship happening 26/27 April and congratulations to Tom Veal & Team for emerging victorious at the 312 Squadron Team League (several games of which streamed by sith_taker_tim on Twitch).
Print & play / new content section from XWA
https://www.xwing.life/resources/xwa-content
Points
https://www.xwing.life/resources/points
Infinite Arenas
https://infinitearenas.com/
The Polish Championship
https://www.facebook.com/events/663077006378710
Cast - Rich, Ben Liam and Tim
Producer - Tim
Recorded 07/04/2025 via Discord
Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith
Outro - Queen - Play The Game (Official Video)
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Episode 366 - The Wolds are not enough
Another bumper Organised Play episode - and we're not here just talking about Calen Wong's triumphant rise to becoming the 2025 X-wing World Champion! A massive congratulations to Calen from all at the Sith Takers!
After we've covered the action from Milwaukee, USA we turn our sights to Yorkshire for the Wolds Championships where 28 players who couldn't make the trip to the States battled it out in a XWA points event. Finally we cover the online Polish System Open that Liam played in!
X-Wing 2025 World Championship
https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/2106
Yorkshire Wolds Championships
https://www.longshanks.org/event/23384/
PSO 2025 ONLINE – TURNIEJ OTWARCIA SEZONU
https://xwing.longshanks.org/event/24070/
Cast - Rich, Ben, Liam and Tim
Producer - Tim
Recorded 31/03/2025 via Discord
Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith
Outro - R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
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Episode 365 - Scum & Swag
Warning - there are some audio issues this week! Sorry!
This week the team is joined by XWA Prize Lead Dylan to chat about the final XWA Scum & Villainy spoilers and to dish the dirt on the first Squad Championship kit from the XWA - what will we be playing for, what will the alt arts be and of course what will the winner get!
Hopefully by the time this episode comes out you can find the article on Dylan's blog with lovely pics here:
https://exilesquadron.com/
If not check out the XWA website and it should be there along with the final Scum spoilers!
https://www.xwing.life/news/announcements
Finally anyone going to Worlds - safe trips, have fun & hope you all have great games!
Cast - Rich, Ben, Liam and Tim and special guest Dylan
Producer - Tim
Recorded 25/03/2025 via Discord
Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith
Outro - SABATON - Bismarck (Official Music Video)
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Episode 364 - Here come the Resistance, again!
We're back with chat about Resistance standard loadouts from XWA, more OP news from XWA and a couple of events one of which was run by Liam!
GT X WING de Normadie By AMG - except it's XWA!
https://www.longshanks.org/event/19461/
Board in Brum - X-wing March
https://www.longshanks.org/event/23323
Cast - Rich, Ben, Liam and Tim
Producer - Tim
Recorded 17/03/2025 via Discord
Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith
Outro - Skillet - "The Resistance" [Official Lyric Video]
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Episode 363 - XWA OP on the way!
It's a bumper episode today with First Order and Resistance spoilers from the XWA, a slew of events from across the globe and then Tim chats about the recent Organised Play news from XWA!
Find out what a Squad Championship is, what the OP pyramid is and what you could win if you emerge victorious at one of these events! Plus we chat about the first XWA System Open - The Welsh Open! Which tickets are now on sale for:
https://www.thebattlefields.co.uk/events-at-the-battlefields/star-wars-x-wing-welsh-open-2025-cardiff
XWA Organised Play announcements
https://www.xwing.life/news/announcements#h.2eo1y5fhvt0f
Excelsior - Feb '25 - UK
https://www.longshanks.org/event/23640/
Xwing | Mox Boarding House - USA
https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/2019
SZ-WING goes XWA - Make X-Wing great again [XWA] - Germany
https://listfortress.com/tournaments/7163
GFA Open - 2025 Március - Hungary
https://www.longshanks.org/event/22469/
Strass Wars VII - The Strass Awakens - France
https://www.longshanks.org/event/21934/
Torneio de Março X-wing - Brazil
https://www.longshanks.org/event/23850/
Cast - Rich, Ben, Liam and Tim
Producer - Tim
Recorded 03/03/2025 via Discord
Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith
Outro - Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London (Official Audio)
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Episode 362 - We love new points!
Dropping just in time for Valentines we have version 4 of the Beta points from XWA and the cast chat through their thoughts on the changes! Plus a little chat about Kylo & Mando Standard Loadouts and a bit of Organised Play News!
https://www.xwing.life/resources/pointshttps://www.xwing.life/resources/points
Cast - Rich, Ben, Liam and Tim
Producer - Tim
Recorded 17/02/2025 via Discord
Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith
Outro - LITTLE BIG – TCHAIKOVSKY (Official Music Video)
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Episode 361 - Chatting with the Champ STO 2025
This week the cast catch up with the 2025 Sith Taker Open Champion Dom Flannigan and chat about his take on CIS that saw him take the top spot and the big event of the year!
We round out the show with some chat about the recent Polish System Open X-Wing Championship final from Gdansk and a couple of Standard loadouts coming from the XWA.
Sith Taker Open 2025
https://www.longshanks.org/event/22439/
Gdansk PSO X-Wing Championship 2024
https://longshanks.org/event/15021/
Cast - Rich, Ben, Liam, Tim and special guest Dom Flannigan
Producer - Tim
Recorded 10/02/2025 via Discord
Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith
Outro - Mingle Game Song “Round and Round” Lyric Video | Squid Game: Season 2 | Netflix
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Episode 360 - STO 2025 Round-up
We're just getting over an amazing weekend of X-wing! Next week we'll be joined by the Event Champion Dom Flannigan so this week Rich & Ben chat about the event from a Tournament Organisers point of view and Tim & Liam chat about it from a players perspective.
We cover the lists in cut and chat about the social & side events surrounding the main event! And of course the people who made the event such a success and a lot of fun for all involved!
Sith Taker Open 2025 - 136 player XWA points
https://www.longshanks.org/event/22439/
Sith Taker Open Day 2 - AMG GT - 57 players
https://www.longshanks.org/event/22440/
Sith Taker Open Day 2 - XWA Doubles
https://www.longshanks.org/event/22475/
Cast - Rich, Ben Liam and Tim
Producer - Tim
Recorded 03./02/2025 via Discord
Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith
Outro - Mingle Game Song “Round and Round” Lyric Video | Squid Game: Season 2 | Netflix
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Episode 359 - Getting ready for The Big Show!Here we go! It's almost here! THE big X-wing show of the year - Sith Taker Open 2025!Rich is joined by a rather congested Tim (sorry) and Ben (also sorry ;) ) to chat about our big annual x-wing event happening in Stockport, UK! 130-140 pilots using XWA points will be joining us for casual games & pre-event social on the Friday, Swiss with potential play-in round on Saturday and then Top 16 plus side events on the Sunday! Find out some of what will be going on this weekend in this weeks show!Plus don't forget to tune in to the final ever live stream from Firecast Focus who will be covering the event for your viewing pleasure! https://www.twitch.tv/firecastfocus (check them a sub/prime sub as a thankyou if you can!)We round out the show covering AMG GTs from Canada and Australia plus an XWA points event from Germany!It's a Trap - Kiepencon 2025 - Germany XWA Pointshttps://www.longshanks.org/event/22675/AMG X-Wing Grand Tournament @ CANCON 2025 - Canberra, Down Underhttps://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/1822OFFICIAL AMG X-WING GRAND TOURNAMENT - Ontario, Canadahttps://www.longshanks.org/event/22124/Cast - Rich, Ben and TimProducer - TimRecorded 27/01/2025 via DiscordIntro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the SithOutro - Big Show Entrance Video - WWEUsed without permission - it's just for fun!
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Episode 358 - 312 Conquest Series
This week the cast are joined by 312 Squadron leader Nick Sperry to chat about their upcoming online events - the Conquest Series! A series of online events in different time zones where the winners will qualify for a global final! We also chat to Nick about he and others got on at the AMG GT from the Las Vegas Open.
And finally we cover the recent XWA events from Poland and France.
312 Conquest Series info
https://tinyurl.com/frvc74kd
LVO day 1
https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/1932
LVO day 2
https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/1934
LOV Top Cut
https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/1931
Poznan X-Wing Store Championship 2024 PSO
https://www.longshanks.org/event/15026/
Tournoi Orleans Wargames Janvier 2025
https://www.longshanks.org/event/21708/
Cast - Rich, Liam and Tim with special guest Nick Sperry
Producer - Tim
Recorded 20/01/2025 via Discord
Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith
Outro - The Jungle Book - I Wanna Be Like You
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Episode 357 - Changing of the Guard
This last weekend we've started to see a real shift towards XWA Organised Play supported events with 3 in-person events to report on! 2 in the UK plus one from the Netherlands! And of course we cover the final UK GT before Worlds!
AMG GT Nottingham
23 player AMG event
https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/1857
NWA Jan event 2025 TTBromley
11 Player XWA event from TTBromley
https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/1954
So long.. and thanks for all the ships!
16 Player XWA Event from the Netherlands
https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/1867
And for the 22 player XWA event from Weston-super-mare Games Bunker... you'll just have to listen because Richard G fellout with Longshanks! :D
Cast - Rich, Ben and Tim
Producer - Tim
Recorded 06/01/2025 via Discord
Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith
Outro - Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin' (Official Audio)
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Episode 356 - New Year New Events
We're back for 2025! Rich is joined by Ben & Tim for a new years catch up!
We also have a few events to chat about, some coming soon like the Sith Taker Open and 312 Conquest Series but we dive in to Tim's recent one day XWA event Revenge of Father Sithmas! And finally the NCX Draft League Finals!
Revenge of Father Sithmas '24
https://www.longshanks.org/event/22092/
312 Conquest Series
https://tinyurl.com/h8bbkd6f
Cast - Rich, Ben and Tim
Producer - Tim
Recorded 06/01/2025 via Discord
Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith
Outro - The Ting Tings - Shut Up and Let Me Go
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Episode 355 - Flying like a Potato
We're back with a quick wrap up of the recent events. A couple of in person AMG points GTs and an online XWA points event from 312 Squadron.
Apologies for me audio, it's a little ropey and only realise now in editing! Plus I know Liam swore... but can I find it to censor it! Oh well I'm fairly sure we can have one! Have fun finding it! :D
Official AMG Grand Tournament - North Phoenix
https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/1893
Pax Unplugged 2024 X-Wing GT
https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/1862
312 Holiday Blues Brothers Bonanza
https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/1877
Cast - Rich, Ben, Tim and Liam
Producer - Tim
Recorded 16/12/2024 via Discord
Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith
Outro - The Darkness - Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End) (Official Audio)
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Episode 354 - Exceedingly Good Points Update
Rich, Tim and Liam get together to discuss the latest points update from the XWA. It's not a particularly big update but it does come with a patch notes doc giving us some insight in to the decision process of the update.
Find all the useful information here:
https://www.xwing.life/resources/points
Cast - Rich, Tim and Liam
Producer - Tim
Recorded 02/12/2024 via Discord
Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith
Outro - Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You (Official Video)
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Episode 353 - Sins & The Herts GT
Rich is joined by Ben and Tim to chat about a couple of recent events. First up from a couple of weekends back we have the AMG GT from Hemel Hempstead running new AMG points then from last weekend we're off to Newport, Wales for a local XWA points event!
Sin city Newport November
https://www.longshanks.org/event/20454/
Star Wars: X-Wing at the Herts GT 2024
https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/1856
Cast - Rich, Tim and Den
Producer - Tim
Recorded 25/11/2024 via Discord
Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith
Outro - Imagine Dragons & JID - Enemy (from the series Arcane: League of Legends) | Official Music Video
Bonus outro - Greg Crash!
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Episode 352 - Allez les Bleus!
We haven't covered the Online X-wing Team Championship (XTC) much this year as it's been stuck running old AMG points but we couldn't let it go without congratulating Team France on their victory! 21 countries* were represented by teams of 7 pilots, each running a different faction, plus coaches & captains - but France finish in 1st place!
We're joined by Blues Captain Aurélien to chat about the event, what makes the XTC different and how it went for France, England and the other teams!
We also touch on a couple of Grand Tournaments that happened over the weekend in Australia and Germany.
XTC 2024 - Final Stage
https://www.longshanks.org/event/17488/
* some teams were combinations of 2 or more countries
Cast - Rich, Tim and Liam with special guest Aurélien Coudray
Producer - Tim
Recorded 11/11/2024 via Discord
Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith
Outro - Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee) Official Music Video (Remastered) HD
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