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dwarfcoach - Feb 25, 2007 - 01:28 PM
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Pearly Kings & Queens 4

28th-29th April 2007

That's right, this years Pearly Kings & Queens is being held 2 minutes walk from the centre of Camden Town!!!
Rules are more or less the same as last year, i.e. 6 round Swiss, 1.1 mil teams, skills on random players before each round & seeding based on NAF ranking for the 1st round.

* Loads of cheap hostels within walking distance of the event

* Loads of Blackshirts to try to beat

* Loads of great places to hold a Saturday night social

*Loads of the usual stuff; prizes, food, beer, extra incentives for Stunty teams, Blackshirt Hunter Prize, you name it, we've got it!

Tickets cost £33. Please make cheques payable to and post them to this address:

You can pay by paypal if you want:

Dare you face the Blackshirts? Cool

Interested coaches:
1) Dwarfcoach (obviously Very Happy

) PAID
2) Doubleskulls PAID
Question

) Northernknight (possibly)
3) Rodders PAID
4) Pigstar PAID
5) Geggster PAID
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) Sproutman CAN'T ATTEND THIS YEAR
Question

)Giraffe

) Marcus (possibly)
Question

) clockwork steve
6) Magic Dave PAID
7) Stu PAID
8 ) JJB PAID
9) stick_with_poo_on_the_end PAID
10) Bunny Girl PAID
11) Ryan PAID
12) Gumbo PAID
13) Al the Trowel PAID
14 ) Ronnie4655 PAID
15) Hangus PAID
16) Blitzwing PAID
17) Richy PAID
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) Darkson DENIED!
18 ) Giess PAID
Sad

) Mephiston DENIED BY WORK
19) besters PAID
20) Lycos PAID
21) Cookie PAID
22) Firebreather PAID
23) bigallium PAID
24 ) King-Nerd PAID
25) Indigo PAID
26) Loony Toadquack PAID
27) Spencer the Rover PAID
28 ) LuciferPAID
29) VultureSquadron PAID
30) Goldfish PAID
31) ValenPAID
32) Gavin (not the dude above, a different one)PAID
Question

) Grumbledook (probably not... Crying or Very sad

)
33) Lee PAID
34 ) Evil Git PAID
35) Lowny PAID
36) PetefromBarnsley PAID
37) Grotuk PAID

*Players marked bold are the feared ECBBL Blackshirts

Doubleskulls - Feb 25, 2007 - 07:14 PM
Post subject: RE: Pearly Kings & Queens 4- 28th-29th April, Camden Lon

Pencil me in!

Geggster - Feb 26, 2007 - 06:32 AM
Post subject: RE: Pearly Kings & Queens 4- 28th-29th April, Camden Lon

Anyone prepared to try and beat the Blackshirts in their own backyard?

Apart from Ian and his gobbos, obviously.

Lycos - Feb 26, 2007 - 02:27 PM
Post subject: RE: Pearly Kings & Queens 4- 28th-29th April, Camden Lon

But Ian IS a blackshirt?

Mephiston - Feb 27, 2007 - 11:38 AM
Post subject: RE: Pearly Kings & Queens 4- 28th-29th April, Camden Lon

Can I be added as a maybe please

dwarfcoach - Feb 27, 2007 - 12:06 PM
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You're on mate!

Blimey, twenty four names in a couple of days! Surprised

I'm poping into the pub tomorrow to see if I can get some more 'BB-specific stuff' cleared up with the manager and I'll check how many people is our maximum.

Paypal is messing me around a bit at the moment but for those of you who have a cheque or postal order (do people still use postal orders???? Oh well, if you have some spare from Christmas or something...) to the value of £28 before April, £33 after then you can post it here:

Remember, pay before 1st April and save £5!

dwarfcoach - Mar 16, 2007 - 06:00 PM
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Well we have 4 confirmed 'stunty coaches', all we need is one more brave dude (or dudette) and we will definately be hosting the 'Stunty Cup'! Very Happy

Also thanks to those who have sent in payment already( I will update the list at the top of the page soon with who has paid (just not late on a Friday night, we want to keep it accurate Wink

), it really helps with deposits/prizes etc.
Remember there are still about two weeks to go to catch the 'early bird' payment option of £28...

King-Nerd - Mar 18, 2007 - 11:37 AM
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Can you stick my name down please.

Cheers

Indigo - Mar 18, 2007 - 02:20 PM
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I'll definitely be there mate Wink

dwarfcoach - Mar 22, 2007 - 02:52 PM
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Ok chaps, there are eight days to go before the 'early-bird discount' runs out and the cost of the event is £5 more.

Pay before 1st April and it is £28. You can pay via Visa, Mastercard, Switch, Electron... well to be honest whatever Paypal accept, you can pay usiing it! Smile

Payment e-mail

Of course cheques / postal orders can be sent as well, please make payable to and post to address at the top of the page.

This one is gonna be great, we've left the middle of the City and now we're in London 'proper'... Cool

dwarfcoach - Mar 31, 2007 - 10:14 AM
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Right, well due to being messed around by the pub to a silly degree (being told that we would have to pay at leat £2000 for room hire for a start Surprised

) PKQ has now moved.

Any questions, please ask!

dwarfcoach - Apr 02, 2007 - 03:09 PM
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*Attention everyone wishing to attend PKQ4*

Please note that the realistic maximum capacity for this event is 45 unless we get unprecendented attendance and then we can hire the upstairs bar as well (not likely to be honest as that would mean we need another member of the clubs staff to be in charge of the upstairs bar as well so not going to happend with less than 65 attendees).

We have a list of 38 coaches at the top of this thread so it really is 'first payed, first in'.

Easiest way to pay is paypal, £33 to guarantees your place... Cool

Mephiston - Apr 05, 2007 - 12:55 PM
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Unfortunately work have gone and spoilt all this for me Sad

Maybe next year Wink

dwarfcoach - Apr 06, 2007 - 04:27 AM
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Awww, sorry mate, always a shame to see a little thing like work spoiling a mans hobby... Rolling Eyes

Maybe next year eh? I've ammended the list on the first post accordingly.

Geggster - Apr 06, 2007 - 08:13 AM
Post subject: Re: Pearly Kings & Queens 4- 28th-29th April, Camden Lon

dwarfcoach wrote:

[size=9]*Players marked bold are the "feared" ECBBL Blackshirts

Not technically true, that. Indi is in bold as well.

Lycos - Apr 09, 2007 - 12:19 PM
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Meeeooowww!! Ouch!

dwarfcoach - Apr 15, 2007 - 09:30 AM
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This post is in responce to a couple of people asking if the Halfling Chef is allowed at PKQ4 as the rules aer not 100% clear on the subject.

The Halflings cannot use the Chef.

I just had a go creating a couple of 110 Halfling rosters and you can indeed make a pretty tasty ( Wink

) stunty team without a chef. Remember that Assistant Coaches, Cheerleaders and indeed Fan Factor have a more important role in games these days (ref. kick-off table and winnning the Fame roll) and you can afford a decent amount of all three of those plus 4 re-rolls and a full 14 Halfling/two tree roster at 110.

Pearlies has classically been one of the more vanilla tournaments on the scene with the bare minimum of special rules and as such will remain so as this year is the first time I've run it and I don't want to make any sweeping changes.

Don't panic, I honestly think that Halflings at 110 can achieve more than the stats of a basic Halfling would suggest and as it appears that there will be quite a few 'short teams' attending the weekend at least you can beat up your fellow 'teams of restricted height'. And besides, if you manage a draw (and god forbid a win) then you have bragging rights for a long time... Cool

dwarfcoach - Apr 17, 2007 - 04:19 PM
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*PEARLIES UPDATE*

Ok, just to reiterate, we are now up to 42 people interested with 33 people paid up and guaranteed entry. I'm going to see the exact tables we are moving into the club to play on this weekend but as I have said already we are realistically only likely to make it to about 44-45 guys before we run out of room. Confused

I mention this as a number of chaps have requested to pay on the door, or casually mentioned 'yeah, I normally pay when I arrive' and I don't want to turn people away.

As such please check your paypal account (or cheque-book) as it has to be first come, first in and I'd hate to offer chaps who want to pay on the day a warm greeting and the offer of

"You're more than welcome to watch others play and have a drink..."

C'mon chaps, if you're up for the PQK challenge then it's better to get it sorted early rather than being disappointed later. Smile

dwarfcoach - Apr 21, 2007 - 05:23 AM
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One week away from the event so I have ammended the list on the front page to show only the numbers who have paid to get an accurate idea of how many players we will have on the weekend.

37! Cool

That is 37 paid up players which means a great event with some top quality coaches including the chap who was in the Blood Bowl final last year! Very Happy

I'm really looking forward to this now, can't wait to see you guys there, hope alot of you are planning to come out for a meal (optional) and a beer (almost compulsory Wink

) on the Saturday night. I will make an 'official' announcement about our plans next week but they basically include three choices:
* the option of going to a pretty nice restaurant for food & a civil drink Cool

* the option of getting some quick/nasty take-away food then straight back to drinking Razz

* the option of straght drinking all the way

So something to suit everyone...

dwarfcoach - Apr 22, 2007 - 04:56 PM
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Bit of an update for those using the postcode that I posted on the front page to help find the venue; the club had it listed incorrectly on their own site! Rolling Eyes

(too much 'rockin' if you ask me... Wink

)

No matter, I have found out the correct postcode, changed the front page address and have a map here:

(I can e-mail it to anyone if necessary but there may be a hint of sarcasm in regards to the reason you couldn't copy and paste it from here Razz

).

This is gonna rock!

dwarfcoach - Apr 27, 2007 - 07:23 AM
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Ok, almost D-day, anyone have any last minute problems please call me on

Look forward to seeing everyone there...

dwarfcoach - Apr 29, 2007 - 03:08 PM
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Grotuk is the new Pearly King for 2007!!!

Runner Up: Vulture Squadron

Most Casualties: Stu

Most TD's: Valan

Best Painted: Richy

Blackshirt Hunter: Pippy (Brendan S)

Best Stunty Coach (& Stunty Cup Winner): Rodders

'Bottom of the Barrel' aka Wooden Spoon: Michael Ryan

Loads of laughs, lessons learned, beer drunk, stress overcome and now I need to sleep for about 24 hours Laughing

.

Thanks alot guys, great bunch of chaps (well 38 is an odd sized bunch but there you go...?) and thoroughly enjoyed the weekend.

Roll on the Blood Bowl!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Darkson - May 03, 2007 - 03:49 PM
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So, where's the rankings then. Wink

dwarfcoach - May 04, 2007 - 02:47 AM
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Calm is good. They are currently being worked on, have patience young one... Razz

hoomin_erra - May 04, 2007 - 03:33 AM
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Yes Yoda

Doubleskulls - May 04, 2007 - 07:51 AM
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Full results are available from http://www.irwilliams.com/ecbbl/pkq.php

dwarfcoach - May 07, 2007 - 05:03 AM
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Pictures courtesy of intrepid photographer Peter Pa... well Darkson:

The flash on my camera is not great but it was definitely the darkest tourney I've ever been to, appropriate seeing as it was held in a dingy rock club in Camden:

Al the Trowel looks over at Ronnies game thinking 'I wish I was playing Ronnie right now' as he faces Grotuk, the guy who would go on to win PKQ4:

Richy (bottom right hand corner) doing his best interpretation of 'Man stressed by Blood Bowl':

Valen gives his normal response to 'It's your round Gav' and Grumbledook taking a beating from Bunny Girl:

Game One on the Saturday and the two top ranked players of the event (Pearlies is seeded via NAF ranking for the first round) Pippy and Doubleskulls. Pippy thinking 'Right, 1-0 down, I've really got to step up my game now'. Ian thinking 'Right, I've spent 45 minutes of this game messing around with DC's laptop, hopefully I can just play my game now... Rolling Eyes

Vulture Squadron not happy about Pete from Bars taking a blitz action and Lucifer playing like a (self-confessed) tool against Pigstar:

Jammy Dodger playing Lowny and wondering why his dice have been replaced with a pile of guano:

Lycos gazing over at Darkson whilst thinking 'Hmm, Chaos really is not the best team in the Blood Bowl game':

Unfortunately as my photographer was only there on Saturday and I was playing as well as running the event on Sunday I have no pics of Sunday or the winners Sad

. If anyone does please post them here of e-mail them to me at dwarfcoach@googlemail.com and I will host them.