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North America - GenCon Bowl 2006 - August 11 and 12
GalakStarscraper - May 16, 2006 - 09:52 AM
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So far the GenCon Bowl has been the largest tournament in North America 3 years running. The GenCon convention is also the largest gaming convention in North America.
Come out and see them both.
5 rounds of swiss style play ... lots of prizes and a free mini for everyone finishing the tournament.
All rules for the event at:
http://www.blood-bowl.net/GenCon/2006/GenCon2006.html
I strongly recommend pre-registration if you are not going to be visiting the convention on Thursday during the day as the lines in the morning for events can be very long.
Sign up for GenCon at: http://www.gencon.com
The Blood Bowl tournament is Event Type BGM - Board Game and the 2 days are events: BGM00730 and BGM00731.
Finally note ... if the NAF rep could approve the tournament ... much appreciated.
Galak
KarlLagerbottom - Jun 09, 2006 - 06:44 AM
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Galak-
Will there be a cool T-Shirt this year? I will probably not be able to make it this year, but would like to get a T-Shirt if possible.
Thanks. -RobO
Melifaxis - Jun 26, 2006 - 02:18 PM
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Can someone grab me an OotS book if you are going to get one for yourself?
http://www.giantitp.com/Book004.html
GalakStarscraper - Jun 26, 2006 - 03:55 PM
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KarlLagerbottom wrote:
Galak-
Will there be a cool T-Shirt this year? I will probably not be able to make it this year, but would like to get a T-Shirt if possible.
Thanks. -RobO
No T-shirts ... sorry ... this year has been so insane for me with everything I'm trying to do that the T-shirt died on the altar of ... "I just don't have any good way to do this".
Also the guy who did the shirts (my father-in-law) ... well I'm not sure he was interested in doing them again this year.
Also ... I came home with a lot of those shirts last year and I'm trying to be a bit more reasonable with my spending cash these days ...
so the shirts actually went for a few reasons.
Sorry.
Galak
jaylazer - Jun 29, 2006 - 10:05 AM
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Melifaxis wrote:
Can someone grab me an OotS book if you are going to get one for yourself?
http://www.giantitp.com/Book004.html
I can get you one Mel. I love those comics.
I'm making myself a note now but it would help if you could remind me as well when the time gets closer.
Melifaxis - Jun 29, 2006 - 07:35 PM
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I actually already got a volunteer via PM, but thanks Jay! I'll remind you anyways so you remember to grab your own copy of the book 
Clan_Skaven - Jul 04, 2006 - 09:29 PM
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Slight possibilty in my attending....
Anyone gonna be going from Canada (preferably Toronto, Niagara area?)
Rod.
CyberHare - Jul 12, 2006 - 03:15 PM
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I've a few questions for any of the locals in Indianapolis.
Has anyone been to the Easley Winery?
http://www.easleywine.com/
What are the local laws about the selling and purchasing of wine or spirits? Are there specific stores one must visit to purchase wine or is it non regulated? Does anyone know of a good wine/spirits store in the area of the convention centre?
Thanks in advance,
GalakStarscraper - Jul 12, 2006 - 03:23 PM
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CyberHare wrote:
What are the local laws about the selling and purchasing of wine or spirits?
Any liquor store and most pharamacies and grocery stores carry wine and harder spirits.
There are only really two laws. Alcohol cannot be purchased in bottle or can form on Sunday from any location and you cannot have open containers of alcohol in a moving vehicle. Other than that ... you are fine.
Galak
CyberHare - Jul 12, 2006 - 03:32 PM
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GalakStarscraper wrote:
There are only really two laws. Alcohol cannot be purchased in bottle or can form on Sunday from any location
That's a bit of important info.
GalakStarscraper wrote:
and you cannot have open containers of alcohol in a moving vehicle.
Man, you mean the hooker and I have to wait till we get back to the motel? I guess I'll just have to keep her otherwise occupied 
Xtreme - Jul 12, 2006 - 09:02 PM
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If you are ridding in the trunk with the hooker you are ok. As the open container just can't be in the passenger areas of the car. 
Xtreme - Jul 13, 2006 - 03:03 AM
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By the way I just noticed pre-registration ends on the 21st. Always sneaks up on me.
CyberHare - Jul 13, 2006 - 04:07 AM
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Xtreme wrote:
If you are ridding in the trunk with the hooker you are ok. As the open container just can't be in the passenger areas of the car.
Hmmmm
Pre registration actually ended on the 24th of June. You can still register for events now until the 21st but they won't mail you out the tickets. The Will Call line though is quite a bit shorter than the registration line so it's still worth registering ahead of time.
SolarFlare - Jul 24, 2006 - 12:36 PM
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From the tournament rules:
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The tournament will be 5 rounds of Swiss. Starting team will be 1,000,000. You will allowed your choice of giving 2 players each a normal skill or one player a doubles roll skill or mutation after rounds 1, 3, and 5.
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My question is, what do we do with the skills after round 5?
Xtreme - Jul 24, 2006 - 05:36 PM
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Your blitzer can frenzy himself to the dealer room.
SolarFlare - Jul 25, 2006 - 05:43 AM
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Since GenConBowl is still the biggest tourney in North America and is less than a month away, could we get this topic "stickied"?
SolarFlare - Jul 25, 2006 - 05:44 AM
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Xtreme wrote:
Your blitzer can frenzy himself to the dealer room.
If he could only take right stuff and have a troll throw him...
LouisX - Jul 29, 2006 - 11:09 AM
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"ou will allowed your choice of giving 2 players each a normal skill or one player a doubles roll skill or mutation after rounds 1, 3, and 5."
Is that correct ? 
SolarFlare - Jul 31, 2006 - 05:32 AM
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LouisX wrote:
"ou will allowed your choice of giving 2 players each a normal skill or one player a doubles roll skill or mutation after rounds 1, 3, and 5."
Is that correct ?
I'm sure it's correct. The only thing I was having fun with was that there are only 5 rounds... So, the skills you give your guys *after* round 5 will not be incredibly useful.
GalakStarscraper - Jul 31, 2006 - 07:00 AM
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SolarFlare wrote:
LouisX wrote:
"ou will allowed your choice of giving 2 players each a normal skill or one player a doubles roll skill or mutation after rounds 1, 3, and 5."
Is that correct ?
I'm sure it's correct. The only thing I was having fun with was that there are only 5 rounds... So, the skills you give your guys *after* round 5 will not be incredibly useful.
Galak
MightyZug - Aug 08, 2006 - 05:09 PM
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Xtreme I sent you (and the wife) a PM hope to see you guys in Indy.
I haven't registered yet, but I'm thinking about playing again this year. Still trying to figure out all the events and such.
If not I'll stop by and heckle a bit...seriously though, Galak, here is a heartfelt thanks for running the GenCon tourney and supporting the game!
majortusk - Aug 08, 2006 - 08:25 PM
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well, then you can see my new painted team, The Freshwater Sharks (It is such a good Lizardman Team name!!)
just kidding though, I hope you do play. I just got done talking to Nori, so maybe I can stay with you guys.
LouisX - Aug 09, 2006 - 04:03 AM
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GalakStarscraper wrote:
I've always left that in for fun.
We actually found a guy who was willing to give 2 skills after the last game
GalakStarscraper - Aug 13, 2006 - 09:37 PM
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Congrats to Jay Deckman for winning the GenCon Bowl 2006 with 45 coaches attending.
Wolfgang came in 2nd place.
Rachel Green won Most Valuable Coach (YES! ... Women can win this game ... I hope her and Grace show up next year as they both are good competitors).
mrinprophet (Chris A.) won Best Sportsmanship
Matt Spanke won Least TDs allowed
Micheal Mullar won Best Painted (he won at the Chaos Cup 2005 as well with a different team ... really impressive paint jobs on both).
Alex Shutte won Most CAS (with Dwarves)
Sean McLane won Most TDs (with Dark Elves)
Wooden Spoon with to Jeff Pfaffman (Ogres)
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Side Note of personal pride. My brother Dennis Anders (he won last year's GenCon Bowl) has now played in all 4 GenCon Bowls ... 19 games. He has never lost a game yet (only coach who can say this ... Wolfgang is 2nd with only losing 1 in 19 games). This year he was 3rd in game points after Wolfgang and next in line after Rachel for Most Valuable Coach.
And the biggest laugh to me was he cannot wait for LRB 5.0 not because he cares about the rules (he doesn't pay ANY attention at all to be honest ... every year I have to sit down with him before the tournament and talk him through the newest changes since he only plays Blood Bowl once a year (at GenCon)) ... but he kept coming to me between rounds with complaints ... "why do Mummies have access to Block?" ... "Don't worry Dennis they won't next year" ... "Why can Deeproot and Count Luthor use team re-rolls?" ... "Don't worry Dennis they won't next year" ... "Why is the Master Chef so great? ... "Don't worry Dennis its not next year"
After all of this he asked ... "okay so what did LRB 5.0 do to my team" ... "Your Kroxigor will be a bit more expensive but you have enough Fan Factor to cover it and that's it" ... he says "Cool I'll look forward to next year."
So I got a laugh from that ... in fact ... I got an earful wondering why I didn't use it this year ...
SkavenBoy - Aug 14, 2006 - 01:36 AM
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Had a great time, hopefully I'll make it to the tourny in Chicago in October. Any idea when the results will be posted?
Thanks!
Skavenboy
Jonny_P - Aug 14, 2006 - 01:41 AM
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I had 5 great opponents and had an amazing time even with only getting 1 win. Thanks to Tom for running a great tournament. My favorite games were against Marcus' Ogres and Dave's Dwarves.
I hope to see some of the same faces at both the Chaos Cup in Chicago in October and the Underworld Cup in Ann Arbor in November.
SolarFlare - Aug 14, 2006 - 05:38 AM
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Thanks to Tom for putting in the effort to run a fantastic tournament.
My opponents were all great, and I had some of the best games I can remember.
mrinprophet - Aug 14, 2006 - 06:33 AM
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I'll echo previous posters by saying thanks to Tom for a great tournament. I had a great deal of fun and played some really great guys (Lawquoter, Xtreme, Wolfgang, Tom's brother Dennis and Patrick). This was the most fun I've had in years.
Thanks to Jay, Marcus, Joe, Bryan, Val, AJ and Patrick for a great time.
Rune_Master - Aug 14, 2006 - 08:39 AM
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Way to go Jay! PHILLY REPRESENTIN!
BTW - I am also undefeated at GenCon!
(that would likely change the first time I went, but until then...)
GalakStarscraper - Aug 14, 2006 - 10:13 AM
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SkavenBoy wrote:
Had a great time, hopefully I'll make it to the tourny in Chicago in October. Any idea when the results will be posted?
Thanks!
Skavenboy
I hope to post this week to the website.
The NAF results might take me a bit longer because I had a lot of folks I need to track down their NAF names or numbers for.
Galak
Xtreme - Aug 14, 2006 - 01:00 PM
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GalakStarscraper wrote:
Side Note of personal pride. My brother Dennis Anders (he won last year's Chaos Cup) has now played in all 4 GenCon Bowls ... 19 games. He has never lost a game yet (only coach who can say this ... Wolfgang is 2nd with only losing 1 in 19 games). This year he was 3rd in game points after Wolfgang and next in line after Rachel for Most Valuable Coach.
Typo, Dennis won last years GenCon Bowl not the Chaos Cup.
Thanks for running the tourney again this year Tom had a lot of fun, even though result wise it was my worst GenCon finish yet. Thanks to Chris and al of my opponets for helping to make it a fun weekend for me.
Hope to see some of you guys at the Chaos Cup, and Underworld.
KarlLagerbottom - Aug 14, 2006 - 04:29 PM
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GalakStarscraper wrote:
Congrats to Jay Deckman for winning the GenCon Bowl 2006 with 45 coaches attending.
Nice work Jay! What race did you play? Give us some play-by-play...Did you beat Wolfgang for his only GenCon loss?
-Rob
Hoshi_Komi - Aug 14, 2006 - 08:19 PM
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congrat's JAY!!! represent!
lawquoter - Aug 14, 2006 - 08:46 PM
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you guys know you won't get a response from Jay unless and until you call him "The Champ."
He had a great tourney. He played Orcs and apparently could do no wrong. Well, that's how he explained it. 
jkarr - Aug 14, 2006 - 09:16 PM
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I hear he will be playing those same Orcs at the Mafia Massacre. He is your chance to beat the GenCon Champ.
J. Karr
And yes I know it's a blatant plug.
GalakStarscraper - Aug 14, 2006 - 09:25 PM
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KarlLagerbottom wrote:
Nice work Jay! What race did you play? Give us some play-by-play...Did you beat Wolfgang for his only GenCon loss?
-Rob
Wolfgang's one loss so far at GenCon in 4 years came from Dennis Anders last year in the final/5th round when the ball bounced to a Saurus who caught it and ran it in for the tournament winning TD.
Galak
SolarFlare - Aug 15, 2006 - 05:39 AM
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Jay played awesome. His strategy was fairly simple: beat the heck out of the other guy. Obviously, it worked.
His roster, as I recall, was something like this: 4 black orcs, 4 blitzers, troll, goblin, thrower, 2 rerolls. His 6 skills were: block on black orcs (x4), tackle on a blitzer, and strip ball on a blitzer.
He beat up my team, and I just didn't have enough players to stop the winning score. I've been finding bruises on my players ever since I got home...
jaylazer - Aug 15, 2006 - 06:44 AM
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The Champ has decided to grace you all with a post.
(I couldn't resist one more "The Champ" saying.)
It was a great time at the tournament.
SolarFlare had my roster, skills and strategy pretty much perfectly.
All of my games were a lot of fun. All 5 opponents played their teams really well and save my 3rd round game, they were all hard fought battles. Alex (3rd round coach) played hard but the dice really wanted me to win that game. I think I threw 20 blocks at his saurus and got 18 pows. Most of the time he could only stand them back up.
The whole con was great. Even getting killed many times in "Engarde!".
Thanks to everyone for the great time.
Chairface - Aug 15, 2006 - 09:24 PM
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Great team name! I would love to see pics! Did you use the reaper wereshark as your Krox?
majortusk wrote:
well, then you can see my new painted team, The Freshwater Sharks
(It is such a good Lizardman Team name!!)
just kidding though, I hope you do play. I just got done talking to Nori, so maybe I can stay with you guys.
Oak - Aug 16, 2006 - 01:47 AM
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I also had a great time! All games, exept the first one, were really hard and challenging and my opponents know that two of the games i have won really luckily.
Congratulation to Jay! I think if we would have played against he would have beaten me too.
Thanks Tom for the organisation it was a wonderful tournament again!
majortusk - Aug 16, 2006 - 02:59 AM
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Chairface wrote:
Great team name! I would love to see pics! Did you use the reaper wereshark as your Krox?
sadly, i was unable to field the Sharks, was unable to fully finish them 
they will be ready for the chaos cup.
The mini i used for my krox was this guy
Milo - Aug 16, 2006 - 08:25 AM
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THAT is an awesome Kroxigor mini.
SolarFlare - Aug 16, 2006 - 08:48 AM
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I think I like majortusk's paint job even better. Twas a shame he didn't have the rest of the team ready.
Zarhan - Aug 17, 2006 - 07:50 AM
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Well, my orcs finished 2 W, 2 T, and 1 L. I was finally able to get ahold of that elusive Austrian and actually played him to a tie. I will say this, I do believe he's one of the best players I've ever played against. Not only did he have some nice luck, but his tactics were very sound. Then I got to play Dennis (Tom's Bro), and a bit of nice rolls helped him along, and might I say I finally seen a Sauras successfully dodge, nice one there Dennis, as it blind sided me. The game was lost in turn 8 for me with double skullz, trying to knock a skink oobs. He played a terrific game, and I'm sure we will play again. I still have to work on my sportsmanship, as I tend to get mad when Nuffle disses me, nothing to any of my opponents, as I had 5 cool games. I do believe I will try something else next year, I have Norse or a return to my High Elves from year 1 Gen Con ( it was very sad ). If Dennis would like a shot with Orcs next Gen Con I will bring mine for him to use, as he stated he doesn't have any other teams to use, I'm sure I will change, it's just to what.
And finally Tom, thanx again you seem to bring the masses to game. Even females are flocking to your tables, keep up the good work, and I hope to see you in Chaos cup (if I can get vacation), otherwise next year @ GenCon. I noticed a lot of returning players, I hope they continue to return and bring friends.
Bobbo
Oak - Aug 18, 2006 - 03:44 AM
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zarhan wrote:
I was finally able to get ahold of that elusive Austrian
and actually played him to a tie. I will say this, I do believe he's one of the best players I've ever played against. Not only did he have some nice luck, but his tactics were very sound.
Thanks for the laurel wreath! The game against you was one of the hardest and best. With a little more luck with your dice or a little bad luck with mine you would have won it! Thanks for the nice game, was a good experience!
Zarhan - Aug 25, 2006 - 03:35 PM
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What gives, looking for Gencon input into rankings, as well as the finally spreadsheet.
GalakStarscraper - Aug 27, 2006 - 11:50 AM
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zarhan wrote:
What gives, looking for Gencon input into rankings, as well as the finally spreadsheet.
Need to figure out who everyone is ... had some folks sign up at the tournament ... as soon as that is all sorted ... I'll get the results posted.
Galak
Zarhan - Aug 27, 2006 - 04:02 PM
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thanx,
Bobbo
MightyZug - Sep 05, 2006 - 01:11 AM
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Galak,
What's the word on getting the tourney data entered? When should we expect to come back to the site and find the rankings updated?
Mightyzug
valdric - Oct 01, 2006 - 11:27 AM
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Yeah, I need to see just how badly I did!!!! 
avatar666 - Oct 01, 2006 - 12:50 PM
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You couldn't have done too bad, taking home the best painted trophy!
Zarhan - Oct 03, 2006 - 06:33 PM
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Galak,
still wondering on the finals, I was under the impression you were close, but needed a few #'s of NAF new members. Is that still the case.
Bobbo
MightyZug - Oct 24, 2006 - 01:08 PM
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Galak,
What is the word? After GenCon 2005 it took you forever to get the results posted. Is the issue in 2006 something different?
As I've told ya' before when I've gone to a MajorTusk tourney he'll have the results posted that night!
Two issues here that I see, there seems to be no communication to this forum so as to set expectations as to when the results will be posted and...
You need to get the damn tourney data entered. C'mon Tom get on the ball here!
SolarFlare - Oct 24, 2006 - 01:21 PM
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Tom just ran the Chaos Cup. At that event, he said he would get both events entered in the next week or so.
GalakStarscraper - Oct 24, 2006 - 09:55 PM
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MightyZug,
Just be glad you didn't play at TKC. 2 months to get the results in is lightning speed compared to OMM ... LOL!
Galak
Old_Man_Monkey - Oct 26, 2006 - 12:13 AM
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Hey, worry about your own tournament, damn it! 
GalakStarscraper - Nov 15, 2006 - 11:34 AM
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Results are now entered.
Galak
valdric - Nov 15, 2006 - 02:34 PM
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is there a place where we can see all the participants and what their results were, like you had for the Chaos Cup?
GalakStarscraper - Nov 15, 2006 - 04:29 PM
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Results:
GenCon 2006
http://www.blood-bowl.net/GenCon/2006/GenCon2006Results.html
Chaos Cup 2006
http://www.bloodbowlmajors.com/ChaosCup/2006/ChaosCup2006Results.html
MightyZug - Dec 03, 2006 - 04:41 PM
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Galak, Thank you for gettin' the data done, running the tourney, and in general continuing to support this game. Especially with all the whiny ninnies complaining about posting results...
There has to be something seriously wrong with the NAF algorithm. I checked my ranking for woodies and it had my ranking coming out on top in the US. Now anyone who has ever played Xtreme and played me would laugh at the idea that I'm a better Woodies coach than Bryan. We've faced off once and though it was a great game I was definitely outcoached.
Gotta make it to Zlurpee to see Jen and Bryan and get my rating "adjusted".
Either that or I gotta start playing a real Blood Bowl team. Tom knows why I don't. My Woodies still aren't completely painted and I played him with 'em back at neoliminal's inaugural Underworld Cup. It takes three or four years for me to get a good basecoat on it seems. Yet I get my wood elf uni all in a twist when the results aren't available in a timely manner.
Go figure.