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Episode 382 - Lone Star Open 2025 Rich is back from his holiday's to take the helm again, and this week we cover a couple of events - Polish System Open (online event) and the XWA System Open - The Lone Star Open! PSO 2025 online https://www.longshanks.org/event/27080/ LSO 2025 https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/2190 Cast - Liam, Tim and Rich Producer - Tim Recorded 11/08/2025 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro - Confidence Man & JADE - gossip (official video) Used without permission - it's just for fun!

Episode 381 - Board in Brum Squad Champs 25 This week Tim & Liam are joined by Steel City's greatest Tom to chat about the recent XWA Squad Championship from Board in Brum! We also chat about how we're finding the new scoring and Ancient Knowledge! Standings, results and lists can be found here: https://xwing.longshanks.org/event/26688/ Streamed games can be found here: www.twitch.tv/sith_taker_tim/videos www.youtube.com/@sith_taker_tim/streams If you want to support Tim's live streaming efforts please consider subscribing on Twitch (use your free Prime sub if you have it) or you can support directly via a Streamlabs donation here: https://streamlabs.com/sith_taker_tim/tip Cast - Liam, Tim and special guest Tom Veale Producer - Tim Recorded 04/08/2025 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro - LMFAO - Sexy and I Know It Used without permission - it's just for fun!

Episode 380 - Ancient Knowledge A mini podcast for this week as Tim is moving house and Rich & Ben are on holiday! But with the news from XWA about the changes to scenario scoring and a brand new scenario we couldn't just skip this week! Big thanks to Chris Burnett from Tin Squadron for jumping in and helping us with his playtest insights! check out https://www.xwing.life/ for more info! Cast - Tim, Liam, and special guest Chris Burnett Producer - Tim Recorded 27/07/2025 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro - Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall, Part Two (Official Music Video) Used without permission - it's just for fun!

Episode 379 - Prince of Wales Tim and Liam return after a successful weekend at the Welsh Open 2025 - the first ever XWA System Open - and chat about how they got on at the event, on and off the table top! We also chat generally about the event and how much we enjoyed the trip to Cardiff! Before we chat over Liam's games and route to the final we have a quick chat about the GFA Open from Hungary. Games from the Welsh Open can be watched back on Twitch AND YouTube - if you haven't done already please follow us on Twitch and subscribe on YouTube - both are free and you'll get notified when new videos go live! Be sure to check you're watching back in 1080p! https://www.twitch.tv/sith_taker_tim/videos https://www.youtube.com/@sith_taker_tim/streams If you want to support Tim's live streaming efforts please consider subscribing on Twitch (use your free Prime sub if you have it) or you can support directly via a Streamlabs donation here: https://streamlabs.com/sith_taker_tim/ Event links: X-Wing Welsh Open

Episode 378 - Throwing down the Gauntlet 2025 This week Rich and Liam chat about the Gauntlet and how this ship may suddenly be a lot more viable for players following the recent XWA points update! Before that however we have a few events to chat about including the Tin Squadron Squad Championship and the The Windy City Trials 2025! Blue Squadron 2025 - 36 player team event from Brazil https://www.longshanks.org/event/26289/ Tin Squadron Squad Championship https://www.longshanks.org/event/26540/ The Windy City Trials 2025 https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/2174 Which was streamed by 312 Squadron https://www.twitch.tv/312_squadron Cast - Rich, Liam and Tim Producer - Tim Recorded 14/07/2025 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro - Superman Soundtrack | The Mighty Crabjoys Theme - The Mighty Crabjoys | WaterTower Music Used without permission - it's just for fun!

Episode 377 - It's the Rich-istance! We're back with a bumper episode! Last weekend Rich and Tim headed to Sheffield for the Steel City Squadrons X-wing Team event and both had a great weekend, Rich on the tabletop and Tim behind (or in front!) of the camera! We chat about Rich's list, the event and streaming. We also get time to catch up on a few other events. First another Team event, but this time from Canada, with the Grand River X-wing Team Tournament, then a couple of singles events including one from Stag Squadron! Sith Taker Tim on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/sith_taker_tim Grand River X-Wing Team Tournament 2025 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n2U-170day2J2aGLfkwoHmU8EPIVbMOsOZvmn1KZSkc/edit?usp=sharing TCX Squadron Contest I https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/2241 July Stag 2025 https://www.longshanks.org/event/27046/ Steel City Squadrons https://xwing.longshanks.org/event/21272/ Cast - Rich, Ben, Liam and Tim Producer - Tim Recorded 08/07/2025 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello ther

Episode 376 - June 25 Points update The team get together to chat about the latest points update from the X-wing Alliance, what changes we think will have players excited and what we may be looking at trying! Some old ships coming back in to the light, and some pilots we've never heard of before! But before that we have a couple of events to chat about including the 312 Squadron Conquest Series: Gotham City event and one from Brazil! New point can be found here: https://www.xwing.life/resources/points 312 Conquest Series: Gotham City Conquest https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/1958 CBX Qualifier 2025 BH - Brazil https://xwing.longshanks.org/event/26014/ Cast - Rich, Ben, Liam and Tim Producer - Tim Recorded 23/06/2025 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro - Foo Fighters - The Pretender Used without permission - it's just for fun!

Episode 375 - Double Coin Club We're back with another OP packed episode with a slew of events from across Europe and North America plus we have another inductee to the 'double coin club' after Chris Burnett shows Liam how easy it is to pick up another Squad Championship victory! We also chat about the news from XWA about the System Open kit contents! X-Wing Alliance 2025/26 Season System Open Kit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_eAc5qP9hipLkL543eLcC_FTVvDBOriqnj7Cp9To6ME/edit?tab=t.0 Mandos summer championship https://www.longshanks.org/event/26357/ I Am Your Father Day - An X-Wing Event https://xwing.longshanks.org/event/26506/ Krakow PSO https://www.longshanks.org/event/25747/ BKG X-Wing XWA Store Championship https://longshanks.org/event/25372/ Michiana Marauders Squad Championship https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/2187 Cast - Rich, Liam and Tim Producer - Tim Recorded 16/06/2025 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro - The Chemical Brothers - The Salmon Da

Episode 374 - COPR and Coins Lot's of Organized Play news to chat about this week, hot off the press Tim is able to chat to us about Version 1.1 of XWA's Competitive Organized Play Regulations or COPR. And we also chat about XWA's updated 1st year road map! But before we get in to that we have a couple of XWA Squad Championships to chat about, one from Scotland and one from USA! Tartan Tusken Trial XIX - CGG Store Championships https://www.longshanks.org/event/24326/ Geek Out's Squadron (Store) Championship 2025 https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/2186/players XWA Competitive Organized Play Doc https://www.xwing.life/organized-play/op-resources Cast - Rich, Liam and Tim Producer - Tim Recorded 09/06/2025 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro - The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star (Official Music Video) Used without permission - it's just for fun!

Episode 373 - UK Games Expo 25 This week it's just Tim & Liam chatting about last weekend's X-wing event from the UK Games Expo! They both chat about the convention in general, what lists did well and what they thought of the event overall. Spoilers - they may be a little biased! Rollbetter standings, lists & results https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/2037/players Pattern Analyzer https://www.pattern-analyzer.app/tournament/listfortress/8320 Cast - Tim & Liam Producer - Tim Recorded 02//2025 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro - Beastie Boys - Intergalactic (2009 Digital Remaster) Used without permission - it's just for fun!

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) Used without permission - it's just for fun!

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

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) Used without permission - it's just for fun!

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 Used without permission - it's just for fun!

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] Used without permission - it's just for fun!

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) Used without permission - it's just for fun!

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) Used without permission - it's just for fun!

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) Used without permission - it's just for fun!

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] Used without permission - it's just for fun!

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://ww