Thread:Wazat/@comment-2001:410:A014:667:C15D:7D9D:D123:71-20171017223210/@comment-454133-20171018002619

I don't know about the larger region (the whole Mid West), but the Intermountain Cup covered Utah and Idaho and surrounding areas and it might be a good test case (and I'm familiar with it).

Here's the list of fleets that competed

I won with triple Auzitucks and lost only two ships over 8 games. My victory shocked everyone attending, especially me. I did not expect to do well that day, but by round 3 or 4 we'd started to realize something was up with my fleet... I had people rooting for my opponents, hoping to see even a single tuck die. ;)

Multiple Decimator builds reached the playoffs, partly because they don't mind bombs and RAC is terrifying (especially with Kylo crew and the right build). The top 4 was 3 RAC fleets and my Auzitucks. ^_^  Dengar + Nym was a scary one, really anything with Dengar or Nym. Quickdraw was popular too. Lots of very high-PS ships did well because of Nym's bomblet threat, but not always. Bombs were popular.

You can read about my battles in the forum thread starting here; I gave a brief writeup on each match. I was surprised by the fleets that gave me trouble vs the fleets I trivialized... Triple Auzitucks are not very afraid of Kylo, Nym, or often even Dengar, it turns out. Dengar & Fenn killed one of my Tucks, as did RAC+Rebel Captive & Rexler.

I'm not sure how normal or weird our local meta is, though I get the impression it's slightly west of normal. I've never been to Regionals (missed out last year) or especially Worlds, though we have some players who did very well in Worlds (including Mike who was famously cheated out of a win by the dial-spinning incident; he's getting a free all expenses paid trip to Worlds this year because of that).

So, while I can't say what the meta is for the larger region, I hope that helps answer your question a bit. The next place to ask is on the FFG Forums, which are a much larger group and they're probably less sheltered than I am. ;)