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Episode 415 - Liam Leads We're back and Liam is leading the conversation! He chats to Tim and Rich about a few events that have happened over the last few weeks in North America and Europe. Warszawski Squad Championship https://www.longshanks.org/event/36868/ Mandos September casual event https://www.longshanks.org/event/36768/ Steel City September Cummoning Store Championship https://www.longshan...

Episode 414 - The all conquering Germans! This week the cast are not only back to full strength, we have a special guest with us! The new European Continental System Open Champion and Captain of the WTC X-wing Team Champion's; Germany - Ilias 'Illy' Ikonomidis! We chat to Illy about both events at the World Team Championship plus new points. New points can be found on the XWA website https://www.x...

Episode 413 - Germany sinks the Pirates (and others) Fresh (ish) back from Belgium, Rich catches up with Tim about some of the goings on from the World Team Championships before diving in to the new points from XWA! We'll be back next week with a Liam and hopefully a special guest to run down the European System Open and X-wing Team events. New points can be found on the XWA website https://www.xw...

Episode 412 - Double Trouble It's just Tim and Rich this week and we run down a few events from around the Globe finishing up with the Lone Star Open XWA System Open! We'll be back in a couple of the weeks once Tim has returned from Belgium streaming the X-wing events at the World Team Championships. TCX Regional Championship https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/2702 Upstate X-Wingers Summer 2026 Tou...

Episode 411 - Summer Snap Shot Sun's out, fun's inside! We're back to cover a load of events from across Europe and North America! The first XWA System Open of the season and a Squad Championship! Plus much more! If you missed the Welsh Open stream you can find all 8 games here: https://www.twitch.tv/sith_taker_tim Lists and results from all the events we chatted about: Michiana Marauders Regional...

Episode 410 - Epic Conquest Just the one event to cover this week as at the time of recording Longshanks was down! 45 players competed last weekend in 312 Squadron's latest Conquest event - The Golden State! We chat about some of the top lists including the winners, which I'm sure you'll agree was Epically Different! Find the lists, results and data here: https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/2566 Cas...

Episode 409 - The Beautiful Game It's been a few weeks and we're back with another chunk of games from across the globe! Find out what's been doing well as the cast chat over the top lists from the various events. We also chat about a couple of upcoming events we'll be attending! Exile Squadron Squad Championship https://www.longshanks.org/event/35419/ SZ-Wing Blaster-Cup 2026 [XWA] https://www.lo...

Episode 408 - UK Games Expo 2026 A bumper show today with a load of events from North America and the UK - including the 56 player UK Games Expo event from last weekend! The cast are joined by Head Tauntaun, Conor Holmes, to chat about the event and how he did in particular! CTC - Bytown Regional https://www.longshanks.org/event/31884/ Stag Squadron - May https://www.longshanks.org/event/35269/ Ne...

Episode 407 - Legend and Relics The community has had the new Legend and Relics cards for a couple of weeks now so we take a look at some events from across the globe and chat about our own experiences of what's hot and what's not! GFA Open 2026 May - STAR WARS WEEEEK! https://xwing.longshanks.org/event/30833/ Minden Mini Tournament https://xwing.longshanks.org/event/29111/ TNX casual May 2026 htt...

Episode 406 - PAPA (Don't Preach) Points Update It's a big one! (and slight late - sorry!) but Rich is joined by Tim and Liam to chat about the Post Adepticon Point Update (PAPA) from the X-wing Alliance! Also we run down the unrevealed Legends and Relics cards! https://www.xwing.life/resources Cast - Ben, Liam, Tim and Rich Producer - Tim Recorded 27/04/2026 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello the...

Episode 405 - Spring Time Mandos EXCLUSIVE XWA PILOT REVEAL: DIS-L9B2 We're back from our Easter Break to chat about last weekend's event from Newport Pagnell that Tim attended to Stream, hosted by the Mandos, run at Players Paradice Gaming Centre. We then also chat about the cards revealed at Worlds that are coming from the next release from XWA - Legends and Relics - with an exclusive reveal of...

Episode 404 - Chatting with the Champ - Worlds 2026 Fresh from his recent victory at the first every X-wing Alliance World Championship held at Adepticon last weekend we are joined by Innkeeper_One_Six! We chat about the event, what lists did well each day and in the cut and importantly chat to Innkeeper about his list and how he approached his games as well as taking the tried and tested online l...

Episode 403 - World Watching It's almost time for the first ever X-wing Alliance run World Championships from Adepticon and although we can't be there we're excited to watch it live thanks to 312 Squadron - a massive shoutout to Nick Sperry and team for bringing the action to our screens! https://www.twitch.tv/312_squadron As well as pre-Worlds chat like what list we would run if we were going we...

Episode 402 - System Open Warsaw Fresh from his trip to Poland and streaming the Warsaw System Open, Tim is joined by Liam and Rich to chat about the event, lists and results. What did the top of faction lists look like and how did everyone get on. A massive thankyou once again to the Polish System Organisers & Polish community for being excellent hosts! We definitely recommend a trip to Poland fo...

Episode 401 - STOver for another year What an event STO 2026 was! We needed a week to recover! Join the cast as we discuss STO and a few other events from around the globe plus some news from XWA regarding Worlds and Organised Play for 2026/27. SZ-Wing XWA-Squad-Championship Turnier 2026 https://xwing.longshanks.org/event/30651/ XWA System Open Event - NJ, USA https://xwing.longshanks.org/event/26...

Episode 400 - 7 years, multiple voices, One Podcast Back in January 2019 I'm not sure we thought we'd still be here 7 years later, some of the voices have changed but here we are! In case you missed the live stream recording on Sith_Taker_Tim on Twitch/Youtube - here is episode 400! Audio was a little janky to start and we may refer to things on screen but hopefully you can still appreciate this l...

Episode 399 - Space Cowboys & Interceptors We're nearly to 400 and this week we have an absolute slew of events to talk about! Both those yet to happen with ticket information on the 2026 Welsh Open, European System Open and World Team Championship, and also those from last weekend with events from across Europe & North America! Tickets & info for the Welsh Open 2026 www.facebook.com/events/117920...

Episode 398 - Haggis for Half Time Tim is back from Scotland and Liam and Rich chat to him about the event and the lists that did well at the Tartan Tusken System Open held at Common Ground Games in Stirling. This is the first of three XWA System Open's Tim is streaming over 6 weeks! We have a couple of other smaller events from Dublin and Brazil to chat about before trying to work out what is to...

Episode 397 - French & Canadian System Opens More events to chat through - although an apology about my (Tim's) audio! Tried to boost it where I could but seems to have come through super quiet! Thankfully Rich talks a lot so you should still get a worthwhile episode! Scattered Deck XWA Squadron Championship https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/2551 Strass wars System Open https://www.longshanks.org/...

Episode 396 - Gimme gimme more OP! Another week another slew of events & lists to chat about! We have an XWA Squad Championship from Norwich plus other events from Poland, Chile, Denmark and Chicago! PSO Lomza https://longshanks.org/event/30230/ Athena Games Squad Championship https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/2505 Torneo verano X-Wing Chile https://www.longshanks.org/event/31073/ TRoA - NORDIC TA...

Episode 395 - 2nd is the new 1st We're back for a new year and this episode goes out to a special boy who's back on the daily commute! ;) New year means new OP! First we cover Tim's Revenge of Father Sithmas event which if you missed you can watch games three and four back on his Twitch and YouTube (links on our facebook page). Two players went unbeaten but all had a load of fun! We also cover Mr...

Episode 394 - It's pronounced C-E-X It's the last episode of the year! Which we remembered just as we were wrapping up! (no pun intended!) We would like to thank everyone for listening this year and all those players and Tournament Organisers who have contributed to events we've covered (especially those who submit lists!) and all the guests who've joined us over the last 12 months! Keep an eye on...

Episode 393 - Is it the Boot of Boba Fett? Hot off the press Rich is joined by Tim and Liam to discuss the 50p 1.1 Points Update from The X-wing Alliance. What and why things may have been tweaked, and what do we think to the changes. Find the full announcement here: https://www.xwing.life/news/announcements But before we get in to points we cover a couple of events, the 2.0 Legacy event from the...

Episode 392 - XWA Worlds Early Hype We have the first bits of information about what X-wing Worlds 2026 at Adepticon will look like (see our Facebook page from last Sunday for details). Tim will be heading out to Milwaukee in March and hope many others from across the community will also! For now it's a just a general chat and first we have some Organised Play to cover! First we head down to TNX S...

Episode 391 - Ch-Checkin out the OP scene Rich is joined by Tim and Liam for a round up of recent events including ones from Czech Republic and Brazil plus XWA System Opens from Spain and the USA! Bitva o preziti https://xwing.longshanks.org/event/30082/ Liga Brtherhood Brasília https://xwing.longshanks.org/event/30082/ Gastropen 2025 System Open Spain https://xwing.longshanks.org/event/25962/ Ind...