Games The 25th SWC/EUC Starfighter Draft: Old Enough to Have Death Sticks (Congrats ma_petite!)

As evidenced by my team, I will always draft best pilot. Yes, teams are important but ultimately it is a matchup of pilot vs pilot and why would you ever draft a pilot that wasn't the best one on the board?

I could see if, like the Pash vs Phennir situation where there is a solid argument for one over the other at which point people who value team matchups are going to pick either Rebel or Imperial, but for 2 Rebel pilots? Always choose the better one, especially in the first 3 rounds.


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Did you talk about Saba's feats? All I saw in your argument was that she was a powerful force user and while force does help a pilot, this is the star fighter draft, not a light saber battle which is what Saba has far more experience in than flying and dogfighting against skilled pilots.


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My feats argument was a few pages ago in the thread when I successfully argued Pash over Phennir. That's when I actually wrote words as to what cool things Pash has done.


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Screw the force, I'm voting for Pash. He's just better, and doesn't need a crutch to be a good pilot.

Evil.

 

Sorry I thought this was all in good fun. Didn't realize you were reading differently.


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While we wait for a decision, figured we could co-opt a tried-and-true convention of sports downtime...the ****post.


1. If the average JC user was given the ability to have a 100% hit rate with their fighter cannons, but retained all of their other ability, could they be draft-worthy?

Pros:
Excellent trump partner
Probably has played Rogue Squadron before so at least has starfighter spatial awareness
A competent squad could surround and guide him through the battlefield in teams, letting him just fire away and sap enemy shields
If Porkins can do it then what the hell

Cons:
One-on-one matchups still probably a loss
Is friendly fire an issue?
Will get voted against by Evil and Jello who assume the ability comes from the Force and is thus irrelevant
Porkins was a goddamn hero don't smear his name


2. The Thon Quotient

If you replaced one player on the other team with Thon, could your team win? If not, how many Thons would it take?

We can do this by looking at:

1. The minimum number of Thons needed to make your team favored
2. The maxiumum number of Thons the other team could take on before your team becomes favored

For example, DarthTunick drafted:

Villian Dance (seriously? He drafted Villian Dance first? What weird Lakers reference was this?)/Octa Ramis/Ace Azzameen/Jake Farrell/Zev Senesca/Yolo Ziff/Valin Horn/Gunn Yage

If he was facing DarkEagle's team (Tycho/Tiin/Ooryl/Adi/Syal/Kell/Varth/Shara Bey), Tunes could probably win if you replaced DE's top 3 with Thons (Thon/Thon/Thon/Adi/Syal/Kell/Varth/Shara Bey).

But if DE picked who he replaced the Thons with, it'd probably swing after Adi (Tycho/Tiin/Ooryl/Thon/Thon/Thon/Thon/Thon not so much favored).

So Tunes would need his opponent here to add 3 to 5 Thons in order to win. That's assuming you could fit Thon into a fighter, which is an entirely different post.


3. Do you think Darth Vader would still be the best pilot in the SFD if he had to fly the Spaceballs bus every match?

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This is the best thing ever posted in a draft thread.

I dunno. I think this current match is only close because it's the last match, so we're over thinking it. It's like watching an NBA Playoff game. A call you make in the first quarter vs. a call you make in the final 2 minutes of a close game. Or something like that.

I dunno. 'sey has a terrible argument - no one gives a crap about where a pilot is drafted, tbh. But, Pash is a better pilot. As much as I'd like to see teams, I don't think I can do it in good conscience.

A foul in the first minute of the first quarter should be a foul in the final minute of the fourth quarter. And Pash > Saba, if it decides the match or if it's called early in the match. Pash

 

I love you cyber space people. Of course you could all be figments of my imagination and I'm in the matrix, but at least it's been a fun ride.

 

I don't know how you can say where a pilot is drafted doesn't matter. I mean consistently drafted. Not some random Villian Dance, but it's been 25 drafts over the course of 15 years. That's a variety of different people's opinions on where these pilots stand against each other so logically if a pilot is always drafted before another it means the pilot is better because people should be drafting the better pilots first. If it is a matchup where the pilots tend to be drafted in the same round, then an argument is required and fun to do, like Pash vs Phennir.


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Another successful draft concluded, and another win by Sey. Amazing. Hard to believe that between the EUC and SWC that 25 of these have been hosted already. Many thanks to our commissioner and our judges for taking the time to put this together and run the draft, it is appreciated. Thanks also to the participants of the draft, without you all there would be no teams, no arguments and no game. And of course congratulations ma_petite on your victory, PG will contact you shortly regarding your prize!