forgo the Kick Off all together, as it is in the final game, and set up a neutral zone where the the ball will be placed to start the game. The first player to move will still have something of an advantage, but they will not always start the game with the ball.
For those who are not in the know, The Stunty Cup is a very quick and dirty tournament that is run as part of the attraction for The Challenge of Q'ermitt tournament. The Stunty Cup is run on the Saturday night of the tournament, after the regular day of play.
As the name suggests the only races allowed into the Stunty Cup are the proper stunty teams (goblin, halfling or skink). No mutant gutter runners!
As the timing would suggest (Saturday night) the tournament is going to have to be very fast so that we can all get home to get a few hours of sleep before the tournament the next day! As such, the tournament will be first score wins for the first round, and then a DeathBowl 4-way round for the final four teams to determine the overall winner.
So what do we do if we have uneven numbers, etc? We make it up as we go along! Like I said, this is supposed to be a quick and fun tournament, and is not for any NAF rankings.
Last year's overall cup winner, Joe "Grell" Michaud managed to score the winning Deathbowl touchdown by picking up the ball with his pogo stick goblin, leaping over a blocking skink, dodging away and then "going for it "
all four times to score. A moment to remember!
The teams this year will be bought with 600K, but please note
there will be no big guys allowed. This is a tourney strictly for the little guys! Secret weapons for the gobbos will be bought as per the LRB 4.0 star player costs. FF will not need to be bought as there will be no kick off rolls. Instead, I am going to try out a suggestion made by Stunty Right Activist and professional bellyacher Karl Lagerbottom (
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KarlLagerbottom wrote:
forgo the Kick Off all together, as it is in the final game, and set up a neutral zone where the the ball will be placed to start the game. The first player to move will still have something of an advantage, but they will not always start the game with the ball.
So there will be some variation of the above.
Any other ideas or thoughts are welcome, especially from those who played in it last year and had suggestions.
But remember, this is supposed to be a quick tourney! If the game is over fast, then it's a good thing!
Spazz
Since there is no "true" center square why not have both teams start off with a ball, or both teams ball starts on the center square of thier endzone.?
You gotta make it more than 600K (600K/60K=10) so a skink team could only start off with a max of 10 skinks & no RR's ? unless this will be BB7's?
To be honest, I'm not sure this would work...having the Skinks start with the ball would give them an automatic cage with the ball. This would give them a huge advantage. The Pogo stick gobbo could keep-up, but he'd be all alone. The Swarm Of Skinks would over-run the opposition.
Rob - I think you just have to face facts and say that there is only so much to level playing field for the halflings. If they are slow and not dirty enough to take secret weapons then it is their own dman fault!
To be honest...playing with 4 gutter runners might be fun if you allowed this roster. They are not that much faster than the skinks...and sure they have AG 4, but no stunty. If they make it to the finals...thats lots of TZs to contend with. icon_smile.gif
Don't the original Goblin Tribal Leeg rules from one of the BB Magazines say taht you score 1 point for each player you put in the end zone at the end of the half? Maybe you could do it that way. Maybe throw in a bonus point or two if that player actually has the ball as well
I'm seriously considering staying around for this. It sounds like it would be fun and gives me a reason to paint up those gobbos I've got.
I am currently watching a game on FUMBBL with the crazy stunty leeg teams. Too funny! If no-one has any objections, and is willing to go through the trouble of covertingup proper models, I think we should allow these teams in the stunty free-for-all!