A Springfield, MO LAW PQ Report and Vader Deck Tech
I Told My Team Not to Play Vader. Then I Played Vader. A tournament report from the Meta-Games Unlimited LAW Planetary Qualifier — Springfield, MO...
Author : kennon
The Hub and Spoke Model
Seven weeks in. Eighty-four events. 5,523 players. Eighty-four winners. Week 7 brought us thirteen events, 1,135 players, and a 482-player Sector Qualifier in London, the...
How Solid Is The Three Column Foundation?
Six weeks in. Seventy-one events. 4,388 players. Seventy-one winners. I’ve had something on my mind this week. Not a nagging thought exactly, but after a...
A Mea Culpa on Trend Data
A commenter on Reddit made a fair point after this week’s article: the cumulative APR numbers I’ve been publishing don’t account well for a deck...
The Big Three
Five weeks in. Fifty-eight events. 3,686 players. Fifty-eight winners. Atlanta reshaped the format and week five confirmed it. The format currently has three pillars. Boba...
Atlanta Changes Everything (Or Does It?)
Four weeks in. One Sector Qualifier. Forty-three qualifying events, 2,831 players, 43 winners. The Atlanta Sector is the first real data break we’ve gotten since...
Collateral Damage: A Saw Gerrera Deck Tech
Welcome back to The SWU Report. If you’ve been following along lately, you know I’ve been spending this post-rotation window doing what I love most:...
What Are We Looking At Now? LAW PQs Three Weeks In
Thirty-one Premier PQs. Seventeen hundred and eighty-four players. Thirty-one winners to analyze. Week three is now fully in the books, and we have more data...
Applying Championship Metrics to the LAW PQ Season
Back in August, I wrote a piece arguing that Conversion Rate, the go-to metric for most tournament post-mortems, was telling an incomplete story. The short...
The Hutt Economy: A Jabba the Hutt Deck
The Hutt Economy: A Jabba the Hutt Deck Tech By Kennon | The SWU Report Welcome back to The SWU Report. After rotation, we’re still...