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Competitive Innovations Incursion Special: Objective Secured First Blood

James "One_Wing" Grover - March 10, 2021

One of the less well explored parts of competitive 9th Edition is games played at the Incursion (1000pts) level. 2000pts play was overwhelmingly the norm in 8th Edition (where the community exploded in size), so it's no real surprise...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th: Lakes of Blood & Gladiator Gaming Teams

James "One_Wing" Grover - February 24, 2021

As promised, it's back to list reviews this week, with two events firing down under over the weekend, providing us poor, starved analysts the juicy information that we so crave. The Lakes of Blood event in New Zealand gives...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th: Ten Units to Watch

James "One_Wing" Grover - February 17, 2021

Unfortunately the long-feared quiet weekend has come to pass, with the otherwise indefatigable Australian and NZ scenes finally settling down for short rest. I do mean a short one - next weekend we've got a small GT in NZ...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th: Over the Top GT

James "One_Wing" Grover - February 10, 2021

The thunder from down under shows no signs of abating, and this week we're zooming in on New Zealand's north island to take a look at the results of the Over the Top GT. After a modest start last...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th: LVNo Winner & Hobart GT

James "One_Wing" Grover - February 3, 2021

It's been a completely wild few weeks in Australia, but after two consecutive three day majors they've still managed to put a thirty player GT into the books for us to take a look at, this week put together...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th: Adelaide Uprising

James "One_Wing" Grover - January 27, 2021

Week by week the amount of envy I feel for the Australian community grows ever greater, until soon it shall grow so large as to eclipse the sun itself. Which they have and I don't on my frigid hell...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th: Objective Secured Perth GT

James "One_Wing" Grover - January 20, 2021

The Christmas break is officially over, and tabletop hostilities can commence once more. This past weekend saw a big event fire off down under, a massive seven-round major hosted by the fine folks at Objective Secured. 80 players fighting...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th: Queensland Masters and End-of-Year Thoughts

James "One_Wing" Grover - December 23, 2020

What a year it's been. A horrible, terrible, no good year full of plague. Sorry, you're meant to start this sort of thing on a positive note. Well. Competitive Innovations has become one of my favourite parts of working on...