Starfighter Mafia Talks 2.5
Wow, almost 4 years since the last post, yet here we are… Introduction: I won Crossroads Classic VI in October 2023. I'm happy to have won it, and it was my first tournament win beyond the small scale or online stuff, but I don't think it gives me any special insight or credentials into how the game works. It was a long two days, and so much happened that I don’t trust my memory on a lot of key details, especially from day 1, so I don't want to talk about in-game decisions or make any kind of battle report, or draw any strong conclusions from this particular result. Any win of a good sized tournament requires some amount of luck in matchup and dice, and some luck in not being punished for a few mistakes you made. This event, however, was an opportunity to test some ideas. I'm going to talk about this set of ideas that have been clattering around in my head since my very mid-level results of Worlds in March of 2023, because they informed how I constru...
