Time for another day trip and a few rounds of swiss. This time I’m trying something new that gets the readers involved. I put out an open poll on the UK Facebook group saying that my current list (Deathrain +4 Academy Pilots) had a 49 point gap to fill. Anyone can put their creation up on the board. The ship with the highest votes wins and ends up in my list for the following tournament. And the winner by a pant-wetting 30+ votes was Howlrunner. That’s pretty dull as options go. I’ll forgive you this once as we’ve just been through a civil war and everyone could do with a nap. Off to Brighton we go!

The weather could not be more perfect

Deathrain is happy as he’s got his Barrage Rockets back. Gave Howlrunner Elusive and had points to spare for some Advanced Proton Torpedoes. Tried them out in a few practice runs with hilarious results. Brighton is home to the Dice Saloon game store and the first thing I did was ask for directions after a half hour of fruitless searching. No one stopped to help because I look like a homeless person.

My peripheral vision immediately tagged this as a warehouse and I walked straight past it

Our lovely host Kris (who the System Open goers will recognize as one of the announcers) let us know that today was 3 rounds of fun and launch day goodies. No MOV to worry about, just *his head turned and looked straight at me* have fun. Sure no problem! Lemme just put my try hard bangles back in my handbag.