X-Wing 2015 Store Champs Finals Shuffle and Cut Games

The Shuffle & Cut Store championship comes to a spectacular close with this truly epic final round where former world champion Dallas Pàrker throws Soontir and Chiraneau headlong into a dual Aggressor list run by Brandon Cating. Please make sure to watch this game all the way through to the end for some truly incredible X-Wing moments and behold, mouth agape and green with envy Dallas' multiple sets of transparent regional winners dice in the lower right corner of the screen.

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 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

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 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 2015 Store Champs Round 5.2 Shuffle and Cut Games

A second match from round five of the Shuffle & Cut store championship

X-Wing 2015 Store Champs Round 5.1 Shuffle and Cut Games

Round five of the Shuffle & Cut store championship from SoCal X-Wing

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

SoCal X-Wing's coverage of the Shuffle & Cut Store Championship is one of the most complete tournament coverage I've seen to date. Each round features two matches played with a good clear view of the playfield. Whilst commentary is missing in these Swiss rounds the fact that they went to the effort of making sure to document so much play with a wide variety of lists is definitely worthy of note.

The only thing lacking from this collection of videos is that they don't get up to 1080p resolution.

This round four match seems to have been a huge coincidence of seeding as two lists, both featuring a lambda and two arc dodgers, battle it out.

X-Wing 2015 Store Champs Round 3.2 Shuffle and Cut Games

Another match from the Shuffle & Cut store championship round three of Swiss

X-Wing 2015 Store Champs Round 3.1 Shuffle and Cut Games

SoCal X-Wing continues to upload some excellent quality videos from the Shuffle & Cut Store championship.

As these videos are still covering the Swiss rounds they have decided not to provide commentary and are saving that for the elimination rounds where the games will be more intense.

Check back in the next few days to find those videos.

X-Wing 2015 Store Champs Round 2.2 Shuffle and Cut Games

Round two of the Shuffle & Cut Store Championship brought to you by SoCal X-Wing

X-Wing 2015 Store Champs Round 1.2 Shuffle and Cut Games

Max Gingold has changed the name of his channel to SoCal X-Wing and uploads a video of the swiss competition at the Shuffle & Cut Store championship.

Once again good quality video and an interesting match to watch with the scum Z-95 swarm facing off against a rebel four ship list for 11 ships on the table.

The audio on the video doesn't have any commentary only the on-board microphone picking up ambient noise and the conversation between the players even though it is very faint.

X-Wing Shuffle and Cut Winter 2014 Invitational Finals Match

Excellent game. Looks like Max Gingold made to the final match at the shuffle and cut store championship and played an excellent game. I'm gonna take a minute to say that whilst the video quality is the same as all the other videos that Max has uploaded over the last week the audio in this one is slightly better which I guess is down to the store being quieter and as such less background noise and the majority of the conversation between the players is clear.

X-Wing Shuffle and Cut Winter 2014 Invitational Top 4 featured match

The videos on this channel are just barebones battle reports from a local game store. The videos are pretty much recorded and published directly toYouTube. This I approve of but there are a few small changes that could be done to improve the viewer experience.

A good place to start would be to zoom the camera a little closer to the play field. Whilst it can be interesting to see the table edges to the left and right for damage cards etc. the inclusion of the table top below and above the play-field generally wasted a quarter of the screen space. Also zooming closer to the play-field would make smaller details such as dice rolls and tokens discernible. 

The players at this store use a bunch of acrylic tokens and not all are standard. There are some orange tokens that I think are critical effect markers but most strange are some free standing target lock markers that can be a bit difficult to make out depending on their orientation to the camera.

Recording in the local game store has a lot of background noise, and the weak on board microphone on the device is not able to pick up the two players conversation adequately. 

Another help would be to edit out the planning phase of each turn, this would help condense the video down considerably. 

The game in question is an interesting matchup between two nearly identical lists and is definately worth a watch, just a shame it is so hard to follow. 

And one last thing. What's the deal with these VT-49's and their pegs, fantasy flight delayed their release because they were unhappy with quality, you think they would have noticed this issue.

Score: 6/10