Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-454133-20171102205841/@comment-27029853-20171106205911

System Opens are large tournaments with a ton of prizes, people who qualified in previous years by winning the entire competition got paid flight and accommodations for the Coruscant Closed which was at Star Wars celebration. The tournaments took 2 days, 7 rounds of Swiss on day 1. Anyone with 5 wins got to participate in day 2, where there was 2 rounds of Swiss and then a cut to top 8 (based on all 9 rounds of Swiss).

This year (March 2017), there were only 8 System Opens 4 of them in the States, 4 in Europe, none in Canada or Australia, and a few of them had over 250 people.

Participation prize was a Darth Vader damage deck and Darth crew card, every win after the 3rd on day 1 earned you a unique Target Lock, wins in the 8th and 9th rounds of Swiss won 10 shield tokens, winner got paid accommodations to Coruscant closed.

For those who dropped out, there was a hangar bay tournament (where you bring 3 lists, you and your opponent reveal and then you select your preferred list), participation was a double sided aurebesh Lothal Rebel and Baron of the Empire, 3 wins and you got a neat plastic one like Lassekaa has.

Canada didn't have one, but for the Naboo Open in Syracuse, we got a bus of 30 people (called the party bus), and with other straggling Canadians there were a total of 50 Canadians (so roughly a fifth of attendees at that one). A lot of Canadians also did well, 3 of the top 8 were Canadians, top Imperial pilot was Canadian.

Now, they haven't officially announced the System Opens for this year...but several weeks ago in the Philadelphia PAX (board game convention) online ticket sales an even called Mandalore Open was announced. Since then, the prizes have been leaked as a Boba Fett damage deck, Boba Fett, Bossk, IG, Dengar cards, other stuff, and it's all on November 18th-19th.

Now there's one person that was called the guy who organized all the American System Opens...he's now being called the guy who's organizing all the North American System Opens, and he brought special attention to how there's a community that can clearly organize itself if it got a chartered bus for the weekend for 30 people and they're looking to reward people. The qualification has also changed, there's a Hangar Bay winner who qualifies and several people rather than the winner qualifies for Coruscant Closed...but only the winner of the main event gets the paid accommodations and flight to Coruscant Closed.