Episode 372 - He doesn't always fly like a Potato

After a successful day's playing & streaming at the Element Games XWA Squad Championships Rich, Liam and Tim get together to chat about the event.

We also have some time to chat about the prize support for this weekend's X-wing at UK Games expo plus X-wing events from Wales, Canada and Poland!

You can watch the action back from the Element Games Squad Champs here:

https://www.twitch.tv/sith_taker_tim

Exile Squadron Xwing @ the Arena

https://www.longshanks.org/event/26010/

CTC Star Wars X-Wing Ottawa Grand Tournament

https://www.longshanks.org/event/23448

Poznan PSO

https://www.longshanks.org/event/25123/

Element Games XWA Squadron event

https://xwing.longshanks.org/event/25736/

Cast - Rich, Liam and Tim

Producer - Tim

Recorded 26/05/2025 via Discord

Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith

Outro - alt-J - In Cold Blood (Baauer Remix)

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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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