X-Wing: Second Edition is looming close on the horizon! In just a couple short weeks, we will have our hands on the all-new X-Wing and diving right in to play and listbuilding. Us competitive players will be well rewarded with many options to test our skills on the table. However, Fantasy Flight’s Organized Play announcement left much in the way of questions. With the recent revelation that World’s will be an invite-only event, many of us are scratching our heads at the confusing wordings and events and trying to figure out how it all fits together.

Fortunately, Kieran Simske put together this fantastic infographic, laying out exactly the tiers of play and how you need to do in each of those to advance!

At the top, of course, you have the World Championships, held at the Fantasy Flight Games Center in Roseville, MN. But you have to qualify to get there! As you can see above, “Hyperspace” events are your most widely available option to jump to lightspeed and make it to Worlds. Going undefeated at a Hyperspace Trial or Qualifier, or making the finals at a Hyperspace Cup (The “Elite Tier” of Regional competition) gets you a ticket to Worlds.

Competing in a System Open can also get you a ticket in. In fact, System Opens have the largest window – the entire Top 8 cut – to get yourself there. However, the level of competition is extremely high at System Opens! These are also the events at which Hyperspace Qualifiers can both get you into the Coruscant Open, as well as earn you a spot at Worlds. Of course, Coruscant Open winners earn a seat.

So that leaves the store level. As far as we know right now, none of the five available tournament types available to any store on a seasonal or by-wave level earn you a spot at Worlds. It remains to be seen if these feed into upper tiers at all – perhaps “Wave Leaders” get some sort of bye or leg up at Hyperspace Trials.

Personally, I would like to see those lower tiers feed into the system in some way. Thank you to Kieran for letting us use this infographic!