X-Wing - Covenant Store Championship 2015 - Finals

The final match from Team Covenant's store championship.

X-Wing - Tulsa Store Championship 2015 - Top 4.1

Team Covenant's second semi final video from their store championship.

X-Wing - Tulsa Store Championship 2015 - Top 4.2

Team Covenant are making a concerted effort to release more X-Wing video content and improving their production quality. In the case of this recent batch of videos for example Steven is much less apathetic and does a much better job of keeping his end of the commentary up. They have also made those tiny little numbers, that they used to indicate which ship is which, a little bit bigger making them a lot easier to see. But it would seem that it's two steps forward one step back with Team Covenant as the numbers on the ship don't help you identify which ship is which. In the case of this match both players are playing the same list (mirror match) once the ships have mad a few turns it becomes hard to tell which falcon was from which team.Maybe if they took the oportunity to include the numbers on the ship lists at the edges of the screen. Also they have chosen to use a top down viewpoint which makes things more difficult to see.

Either way it is nice to see Team Covenant try to perfect their video presentations.

X Wing Battle Report 6

Kristofer Bengtsson uploads video of the final match of a local store championship final.

Kristofer does an excellent job of providing a solo commentary track and especially considering that English is not his first language he has perfect pronunciation.

Once again the camera has been placed from a top down perspective and this results in the play field occupying very little screen real estate and more of the screen is dedicated to the players, and the ship cards than is really necessary.

X Wing Battle Report: Andy vs Nate

Santa Barbara Wargaming debuts their first X-Wing battle report of a friendly game with some of their local players who also provide commentary.
The camera has been hung directly above the playfield. Now this may seem like a good choice but I've found it results in the game detail being much flatter. I personally prefer when the camera is mounted alongside the play surface facing down at an angle of about 30 degrees. I find that from that angle the ships seem much closer and the 3D aspect of the models can be appreciated better. Also I find that the obstacle tokens also pop a little better of the table surface. There are also times when the TIE Phantom is quite hard to make out the actual model.
Another downside is that the top down view restricts the width of the play field to the same height as the screen. However TV screens are considerably wider than they are tall, meaning that there is a lot of unused space to the sides of the playfield. In the case of this video so that your not watching the two players legs move around they have edited out the excess space to the edges of the screen.
The commentary recorded by the two players is actually pretty good for a first try and they do an excellent job of keeping a pretty steady conversation for the whole duration of the game.

X-Wing 2015 Store Champs Top 4.2 Shuffle and Cut Games

The second of the Shuffle & Cut Store Championship Semi-Finals. Next stop, the final.

X-Wing Miniatures Tournament, Final Round, Orlando Store Championship 20...

The final match from the Dogs of War store championship already covered in the video covered in this post, this time shot from the other side of the table.

NYC X-Wing Store Championship Episode 3 of 3 @ The Compleat Strategist

NYC X-Wing upload a Battle report from the final match of the store championship at the Compleat Strategist in manhattan.

X-Wing 2015 Store Champs Top 4.1 Shuffle and Cut Games

SoCal X-Wing's coverage of the Shuffle & Cut store championship reaches the first of the semi finals

Star Wars X Wing Store Championship Tournament Finals

The Dogs of War Gaming held a store championship this past weekend. Here we have an excellent quality video of the final match. With full 1080P all game details can be made out and the match can be followed very easily. Now as I said this match was played just this weekend so with recording commentary and such, publishing this video in less than 48 hours is pretty good on the part of the Dogs of War Gaming although it would be nice to include a squad list with shield and hull indicators as most of the higher quality channels are doing.

Commentary is pretty much on par not too interesting but manages to avoid being too boring even though there are some pretty big pauses.

X-Wing 2015 Store Champs Top 8.2 Shuffle and Cut Games

The second quarter final match from the Shuffle & Cut store championship.

X-Wing Store Championship - Round 3

Athena Games continue their excellent coverage of their local store championship in Norwich.

X-Wing 2015 Store Champs Top 8 part 1 Shuffle and Cut Games

The SoCal X-Wing channel has been providing exhaustive coverage of the most recent store championship with cameras mounted on two tables during the entire tournament. Now that the videos have progressed into the elimination round they are now introducing a commentators to provide more complete coverage of each match.
As I have already stated the video quality is perfectly adequate but as always the lack of 1080p resolution is a disappointment.
The commentary is well done and features two players from the same tournament which helps give insight into the other rounds played by the players. The commentary could be a little livelier and with fewer pauses but otherwise it is of a pretty high standard.

X-Wing Miniatures Tournament, Orlando Store Championship Top 4 - 2015, W...

Less than Geek are a new channel that has started uploading videos recorded at their local store championship in Orlando, FL.

Video quality is good and well lit and the camera is well positioned to view the play field, as always the lack of 1080p HD make some tokens more difficult to identify.

The commentary is also a good effort considering how new they are to producing videos, and they manage to keep a constant conversation going throughout.

X-Wing 2015 Store Champs Round 4.1 Shuffle and Cut Games

SoCal X-Wing's coverage of the Shuffle & Cut store championship brings you round four of Swiss where you see a double YT-1300 list take on a Rainbow Dash and friends.

X-Wing Battle Report 5

Here´s an excellent quality video from Kristofer Bengtsson in Sweden. The view of the table is clear and all details can be well identified, the only negative might be that the camera could have been quite a bit closer to the play area.

The channel host has also put a lot of effort into the post production work on his video, which includes a graphical introduction and a visual display of the squads at the edges of the screen. Once again to point out how things can be omproved the squadlists need to find a way of reflection how much damage has been taken by each ship (shield/Hull counters etc).

The commentary is very clear and well spoken English. The only problem I have with that the commentary is delivered by a sole individual in a semi-whisper quite intimate manner that I would have to liken to maybe Golf or Snooker commentary. This is not to say that this is not a good manner of commentating on a video, but i personally find it sends me to sleep as I get so relaxed. For real.

Anyway an excellent video and a pretty good match between two similar lists.

X-Wing Store Championship - Double Falcon vs Jax Whisper Howlrunner

Northern Gaming Network brings us another match from their store championship. This match sees a double falcon list go up against an TrIEfecta of TIEs.

the commentary on this video features one of the players and you can listen in and see exactly why I always say that at least one of the commentators should have played in the match. The insight that Ian provides into the play by play game information takes a lot of the pressure of the other commentators and results in a much more natural and informative conversation.

Nacional España 2014 - Final

Finally the Spanish Rojo Cinco blog uploads the video coverage from the Spanish national tournament held back in September.

At the time this particular match made some pretty big waves throughout the community as it was largely believed that there were only three viable list formats in the wave four meta, those lists being derivatives of the fat Han list, TIE Phantom lists, or TIE Swarm lists.This final of a national tournament having been help in the interim between the US national tournament and the World championship surprised many when the list that won featured the HWK-290 as the squadron linchpin, However at the time further information was pretty scarce. word of mouth informed the community that the squadron featured Roark Garnet, Airen Cracken and two blue squadrons however further details were a bit fuzzy and the only sources were Eye witness testimony.

Anyway six months later the video finally surfaces (with very little post production work so I guess the delay was due to having a very busy schedule) so take the time to check it out.

X-Wing Madness Round 6: Han vs Chewie

If Han Solo got into a fight with Chewie who would win?

SZ-Wing Trainingsfight 5 (X-Wing)

SZ-Wing continue to bring new video content to their recently launched YouTube channel.

This video is in my opinion an excellent example of how much screen space the play field should occupy with just enough space surrounding the play field.