Alpha Thank you for for your submission! However this ship did not pass. The shields were destroyed in the beginning of the fight right after they went down. My recommendation would be to move the shields back and put armor in front of them. If possible I would also cut out 2 shields, some armor and one of the command rooms and add more weapons.
Not to rain on your parade but, in case you didn't know, the AI in the arena will begin to attack you as soon as you enter an arena world so by using sensor arrays you handicap yourself.
Ships in the normal worlds use the normal/hard AI so sensor arrays are useful on those ships. In general you wouldn't use a sensor array on a tournament ship but you also don't generally have tournaments with the max total cost being over 1,000,000 either. So in price ranges above 1,000,000 I can put arrays because I have the extra cost and it doesn't affect combat performance in a negative way... generally.