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frostmane - Apr 16, 2016 - 09:41 PM
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The Orion Cup, Toronto's longest running (?) and most handsome (unquestionable) one day tournament returns to Meeplemart this June 18th. This year's tournament will be suspiciously similar to last year's outing with a few tweaks to the rules package (rules to follow)

However, the following details should be fairly set

LOCATION:
Meeplemart
247 Spadina Ave
Lower level
Toronto ON, M5T 3A8

SCHEDULE:
11:00 - 11:15 Registration
11:15 - 11:30 Setup and trash talk
11:30 - 01:30 Game 1
02:15 - 04:15 Game 2
04:30 - 06:30 Game 3
06:30 - 07:00 Awards and closure

Due to store hours we will be enforcing fairly strict 2 hour rounds.

COST:
$15 for NAF members
$15 for non-NAF (of which $5 will go towards membership)

STYLE:
Resurrection, Swiss match-making and 3/1/0 points for wins, draws and losses.

TEAM BUILD:
Each coach will receive 1100K gold crowns. This money can be used to hire players, cheerleaders, assistant coaches and star players and purchase fan factors, rerolls, apothecaries and inducements. At least 50K of the 1100K have to be used to buy inducements (e.g. Bloodweiser babes, star players, bribes, special play cards, chef etc.). These inducements will be fixed for all three matches.

According to their tier, teams will receive an additional amount of money to purchase skills for their players. No player can receive more than two skills, and no stat upgrades may be purchased. Normal skills cost 20K, double skills 30K.

Tier 1 teams receive 70K: Amazons, Chaos Dwarves, Dark Elves, Dwarves, Lizardmen, Norse, Orcs, Skaven, Undead, Wood Elves.
Tier 2 teams receive 110K: Chaos, Chaos Pact, High Elves, Humans, Khemri, Necromantic, Nurgle, Pro Elves
Tier 3 teams receive 140K: Slann, Underworld, Vampires
Tier 4 teams receive 170K: Goblins, Halflings, Ogres

The Leader skill may only be taken as a NORMAL skill.

BONUS:
Each coach who submits the final roster to orioncup2016@gmail.com before June 17th AND shows up before 11:15AM on Saturday will receive a free random "Miscellaneous Mayhem" card to use once throughout the tournament.

CLARIFICATIONS:
There is no minimum amount of players before purchasing star players, but you have to field at least 11 players.
If both coaches field the same star player, both clones will play, but gain the skill "Disturbing Presence" for this match.
If a coach chooses to induce a special play card, the card will be randomized before each match. Decks can be chosen before each match.
Important: all fatalities inflicted from blocks, fouls, secret weapons and crowd-surfs count towards total number of casualties (i.e. not failed dodges etc.).
Unless stated otherwise, the CRP rules apply.

NOTES:
Due to the limiting opening hours, the 2h play time will be strictly enforced.
There shall be various awards.
Special play cards will be provided, as well as teams if possible. Please inquire.
All CAS caused will count: this includes fouls and crowd pushes.

A note about unpainted teams
If you wish to play an unpainted team we won't turn you away, but there will be a non-trivial in-game penalty should you choose to do so.

Any non-painted team will automatically get 0 FAME and give their (painted) opponent +1 FAME to a maximum of 2
Any non-painted team will automatically lose any Cheering Fans results to a painted team

grant85 - Apr 20, 2016 - 02:47 PM
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I will attend...and maybe bring a friend.....if I can find one by June.

ALL cas count? very interested in the game points for the tourney

frostmane - Apr 24, 2016 - 12:59 PM
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All CAS count last year too. I should point out that all CAS and armor breaks will get counted, and factored into an award somehow. Reported CAS to the NAF may be standard SPP CAS though.

Mostly trying to avoid a situation where someone breaks a ton of armor, rolls no CAS and has a feel band moment.

grant85 - Apr 26, 2016 - 04:03 PM
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frostmane wrote:

Mostly trying to avoid a situation where someone breaks a ton of armor, rolls no CAS and has a feel band moment.

hahaha, WTF are you on about? what is a "band" moment. if you mean bad then that is some weak sauce, dice are dice. meh, your call but that is a heck of a lot of tracking all day

frostmane - Apr 28, 2016 - 10:41 PM
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Rules are updated. It's almost the same as last year but with a small restriction on the Leader skill and the rules governing using an unpainted team. So if you've got an unpainted team and are going for 24 AND can't find someone to lend you a painted team you can play it, but the crowd isn't going to like it (and you'll probably lose most kickoff results as a result).

For what it's worth I wanted to get data about how often people broke armour but didn't get a CAS so I could give a "worst luck" award, but realized that it probably makes people feel bad to keep track of how much the dice were abusing them, and also it would probably feel pretty crappy to get second in that category. Also Grant seems to hate fun, so, let's just blame it on that.

grant85 - Apr 29, 2016 - 12:49 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LyKBfp3ov0

frostmane - Apr 29, 2016 - 06:11 PM
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I was thinking of recording the longest completed pass and call it the grant85 dice cup toss award.

But then I realized it probably wouldn't make you feel bad enough.

frostmane - May 18, 2016 - 02:31 PM
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Alright folks, we're about a month out now, let's get some sign ups going! I don't expect to meet Alex's impressive standard from last year, but hopefully we can get a good group out for Toronto's favourite 3 game, one day, laid back Blood Bowl tournament!

grant85 - May 19, 2016 - 05:43 AM
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frostmane wrote:

June 17th is years from now......lol

genghis - May 19, 2016 - 08:11 AM
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I'm in. I want to see if I can borrow a Goblin team for this.

frostmane - May 19, 2016 - 06:14 PM
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genghis wrote:

I'm in. I want to see if I can borrow a Goblin team for this.

I've got the goblins, but only one painted troll. And the fanatic recently lost his ball and chain.

Stimme - May 19, 2016 - 06:21 PM
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I can give you one.

On a side note: Since we had the tournament repeatedly referred to and misspelled as "O'Ryan Cup", Kevin is considering changing the name to the much easier memorable name "The Dice Thing". Stay tuned for updates.

grant85 - May 20, 2016 - 06:44 AM
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Stimme wrote:

On a side note: Since we had the tournament repeatedly referred to and misspelled as "O'Ryan Cup", Kevin is considering changing the name to the much easier memorable name "The Dice Thing". Stay tuned for updates.

BAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA! dirty engler burn lol

genghis - May 20, 2016 - 08:28 AM
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The O'Ryan Cup. Toronto's finest Guinness and whiskey themed tournament.

frostmane - May 31, 2016 - 12:00 PM
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Hey all,

I'm going to need to figure out table configuration as Meeplemart has changed their gaming space significantly since last year. If you're planning on coming can you drop a quick note here so I have an idea? Also because actual low tables are now somewhat limited, if you have a problem with standing at a high top table for a game please let me know. I'll try to make sure that people avoid having to play 2 games in a row on a high top, but with Swiss it might not be totally possible.

Thanks, sorry for the inconvenience.

grant85 - May 31, 2016 - 01:06 PM
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hammer16 and I are in for sure. we are both fine standing or sitting, or even shitting while we play Razz

we will see if any other coaches from the KW area are interested and get back to you soon.

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genghis - May 31, 2016 - 07:33 PM
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100% in. !00% fine with standing all day.

genghis - May 31, 2016 - 07:58 PM
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Also 100% on going with Goblins, and will still need to borrow a team.

Roster I'm going with would need:

2x Troll
1x Fanatic
1x Pogo
1x Bombardier
1x Looney
8x Goblins

grant85 - Jun 01, 2016 - 05:35 AM
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ken I have all those models unpainted. i can be your back up but im sure someone has a gobbo team table top ready...

frostmane - Jun 01, 2016 - 10:09 PM
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Update: we can fit 24 people seated if we are all comfortable getting to know each other. I realize of course that most of you already know each other far more than I'm comfortable with. I'm still gonna make Ken stand though, just to maintain those calves of steel.

genghis - Jun 03, 2016 - 10:15 AM
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I'm dead 'ard, mate. Smile

grant85 - Jun 03, 2016 - 10:54 AM
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I'm a weepy grot. ;p

frostmane - Jun 05, 2016 - 04:26 PM
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Just so everyone knows what you're playing for:

The Orion Cup (first)
The O'Runner Up (second)
Best Offense
Best Defense (this is a combination of TDs against and CAS)
Best Bad Team (Teir 3 or lower)
Best Sport
Best Presentation
The O'Ryan Cup

Also we will be holding a raffle for prizes. Each player will get some (to be decided) number of raffle tickets to put into a prize drawing of your choice. Additional tickets will be awarded for:

- each TD
- each CAS
- each foul resulting in a CAS (on top of the one for the CAS)
- each win
- spot tickets to be announced each round

I'm trying something new this year, and aside from trophies/certificates the prizes will be largely awarded through the raffle.

grant85 - Jun 06, 2016 - 07:10 AM
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fun!

frostmane - Jun 06, 2016 - 11:36 AM
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grant85 wrote:

fun!

That's the idea!

genghis - Jun 06, 2016 - 12:50 PM
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grant85 wrote:

ken I have all those models unpainted. i can be your back up but im sure someone has a gobbo team table top ready...

Alex is gonna hook me up. Thanks!

tlawson - Jun 07, 2016 - 01:51 PM
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I'll be there.

frostmane - Jun 07, 2016 - 05:16 PM
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tlawson wrote:

I'll be there.

Just to note there's no best shart award this year.

Stimme - Jun 07, 2016 - 05:28 PM
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Just to note: Store policy still requires everyone to wear a shirt.

genghis - Jun 08, 2016 - 09:38 AM
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Stimme wrote:

Just to note: Store policy still requires everyone to wear a shirt.

What about pants? I hear Hamm wants to bring back the Donald Duck look.

frostmane - Jun 09, 2016 - 05:06 PM
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genghis wrote:

Stimme wrote:

Just to note: Store policy still requires everyone to wear a shirt.

What about pants? I hear Hamm wants to bring back the Donald Duck look.

It's called "Winnie the Pooh"-ing

And it's implicitly banned for this tournament. And explicitly.

frostmane - Jun 13, 2016 - 01:12 PM
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So far tlawson and wapcaplets have been good participants and sent me their rosters! Hurray for you! Anyone else who gets it in by the end of today will share in an extra raffle ticket! I just made up this rule because I like rewarding people who are diligent.

For reference, as the TO and de facto OMO, I will be running pretty much the same lineup as last year. I'll send it to Alex so nobody thinks I'm cheating.

genghis - Jun 13, 2016 - 08:21 PM
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frostmane wrote:

16 snots and a bunch of rerolls. Got it.

Roster submitted for that sweet, sweet, raffle action.

frostmane - Jun 14, 2016 - 11:15 AM
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Thanks for the rosters so far! Keep them coming! If you give it to me before Friday at noon I'll print copies for you. Otherwise please bring 4 copies (or at least 2).

grant85 - Jun 15, 2016 - 02:45 PM
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i will try asap

frostmane - Jun 16, 2016 - 03:47 PM
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Two more days folks! Keep getting those rosters in. Based on what I've seen so far this is going to be an intetesting field

frostmane - Jun 16, 2016 - 03:50 PM
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Also every newly registered NAF coach and everyone that comes with them will get bonus raffle tickets! Don't forget that new NAF registrations are covered by your tournament fees so there's no cost to new, first time NAF members!

grant85 - Jun 17, 2016 - 05:38 AM
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i sent my roster in last night and plan to be there early tomorrow, get those cards ready Razz

i also printed my own roster copies so don't worry about running any off for "The Bearman of Urslo"

leather and chains weekend boys, leather and chains....

frostmane - Jun 17, 2016 - 09:24 PM
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Trying something new this year, I'm throwing SCORE in the garbage where it belongs and our results will be tracked here: https://www.tiebreak.co.uk/orion-cup-2016/

Why does this matter? Live updating that's why! If you can't make it, but want to see results as they roll in, then you're in luck, because you can see the feed at Tiebreak!

I hope this doesn't break and make me look stupid (er than I normally do)

frostmane - Jun 18, 2016 - 05:53 PM
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Thanks to call the coaches for coming for a great day of Blood Bowl! Final Standings are available here: https://www.tiebreak.co.uk/orion-cup-2016/standings

Orion Cup - manz62 (Norse)
Runner Up - frostmane (High Elves)
Best Offence - frostmane
Best Defense - doomington (Nurgle)
Best Presentation - manz62
Best Sport - wapcaplets (Vampires) (in a tie with tlawson's Khemri)
The O'Ryan Cup - dearnk

Thanks again for the great day!

frostmane - Jun 18, 2016 - 07:14 PM
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Results have been entered. Fortunately it was a small enough data set that I could just do it by hand. At this point I think I just need Daggers to push it live? I dunno how this works, but results are entered!