p.s. there will be a pre-registration prize draw assuming we can persuade eric to do us a second website............

Are you kidding me? I am sure that Eric loves the fact that having "rubli" at the front of a website is becoming synonomous with Blood Bowl links!

I actually saw this kind of thing (ie non-green football field) used at one of the US Colleges. Cannot rember which but it was different.

And could you be refering to the Broncos from Boise State? Don't forget, they wear blue uniforms too! UGH...
http://news.boisestate.edu/beyondtheblue.shtml

Thats it. I had not relised that the uniforms were blue aswell. Gotta suck to be a spectator.

why not goblins Spazz ?

Its all about the incentive.

Spazz, you and your sneaky shizzle...

maybe we should ban display boards from the competition

Ok, many thanks to Mr Rubli, the CCKO '08 now has a website with rules to download and many preregistration possibilities.

There will be nice prizes again for the preregistration draw, including an IMPACT miniatures finger case with metal insert to attach your minis with magnets in to, Speaking of which, another prizse in the draw is a set of base magnets, synergy!

check out the website here: http://rubli.ca/CCKO/

Q: Whats a finger case?

Rod

undead is a good choice spazz. they occupy 18 of the top 100 spots in the rankings.
Including 6 in the top 20.

We should make Eric do a week by week progress report on his Chaos Dwarves! This will give him some ectra incentive to make sure that he has them ready! I mean, if I can convert and paint a whole team in a month when I have report cards, am in the middle of a custody battle and I am moving, then I think he can get one team done when he...... well let's face it. He has no life! So c'mon Eric, get a move on! We want to pick on something else other than your humans and 'zons!

Whats the difference between Spazz and that thing between his mom's legs? Nothing, they are both d!cks . . .

Dude, that's weak!

is that a jelly bean ball eric?

Never noticed that it looked like a Jelly Bean. It is supoose to be a ball made of some gem stone. Way to ruin my good mood

It is actuallyin the shape a ball with the lacing and creases. But because of the translucent plastic it does not show up well in photos.

p.s. Go on spazz, you know you can't resist!

I do not want Spazz eating my balls either

have you guys played many games with the LrB 5?
I have not
and i cant say Im to into it from first looks

There is the first problem: you just looked at it. Any bets you have also read many of the Anti-LRB5 threads aswell - Bad Idea. You have to play under these rules to fully grasp how the changes affect the game and then decide to adopt them or return to LRB 4.

Before the TBBF started on LRB5 everyone had their concerns cause they thought they understood how the changes affected the game. And, there were many misconception and misunderstandings. It was simply that they were ill informed. Now that everyone has played it, I beleive we are all proponants of it.

Joe,

Who is going to be the odd man out for this one? If you (and Jonesa) are playing, what races are you goign to take? Please say that you are going to man-up and start playing something other than orcs! (Can I reccomend vampires?)

Re manning-up, I believe I played goblins at deathbowl and undead at the Naggaroth bowl, so how much more man can you handle?

But hold on there, Skippy, you HAD to play another team at the Naggaroth Bowl (and I STILL had to play your orcs) and then playing goblins at the Deathbowl only seemed decent as you were the odd man out (yet somehow you still win the whole thing - sheesh! But we both know, that is only because I wasn't there to stop you!)

Time to blow the dust off the paint brushes man - bring out the 'flings! (If you can win a tourney with them, then I will REALLY be impressed!)

Glenn is going to be odd man out for this one. I don't know what he is going to take, he has endless choice after all.

Oh c'mon! Let's be real here! Glenn has more Blood Bowl teams than anyone I know, yet he always takes his dwarves! <grumble>stupid dwarves<grumble>

Who knows, Glenn is p*****d that he isn't gettin' enuff respect on the streets these days so you may be surprised!

Great. Looking forward to a Dwarf - Orc rematch against him.

(Actually you might want to lock up your sheep too, because Eric is coming as well)

Don't forget to preregister folks. The prizes for preregistration are bigger than the ones for winning, to spread the love around..

Also, we will use the rules clarifications (not test rules) from the 2007 BBRC rules review.

They can be found here (thanks Torg)

http://www.blood-bowl.net/LRB_PBBL/2007BloodBowlRulesReview.pdf

The first page is clarifications, the rest is league play only.

What are some of the prizes? Is there going to be one of Jones' jockstraps for the poor sportsmanship award?

this post appears to have caused some confusion. The tournament will only allow official teams from the LRB5 rulebook. The team lists in the 2007 rules review are playtest only at this stage. The first page of the review is clarifications on the rules and is in effect as of now for official events.

ta

This is going to be interesting. Chris is not playing Lizards. Joe is not playing Orcs (or so he tells me). Dan is playing a real team. Ben is a surprise. I'm playing Orcs. Eric, well, he's still Eric.

I think that it's the first time that I'll see Dan playing with a "real" team. Now, will he do any better.

Variety is indeed the spice of life.

Do I like my Blood Bowl Bland?

That is the question!

Why don't you go for a really exciting team.... like humans!

that didn't go so well the last time. I played a tournie in 2003 (one of only 2 in england that I went to) with humies and they kinda sucked, finished 5th at the first Carnage (called Cam Carnage then). Switched to Orcs for the Student Nationals the next year and won so thats the story.

I have to wean myself off the orcs somehow.....

Spazz, the only thing you'll own is a large kitchen utensil.

Why all the secrecy Joe? Don't want people to plan strategies against your team in advance? What are you bringing?

For me, if I can remember not to dodge with my BoBs, I should do OK.

hey joe

let your wife make the decision, after all she wears the pants!!!!!!

(6 games x 6 sportsmanship ratings (max 3 each))/6 games = 3 points maximum (very unlikely as each player may give only one 3 rating and don't have too)

At the end of the tournament, the average sportsmanship score a player received will be added to their total.

Would it not be: 6 games ?? 3 Points/Game Max = 18 Pts. ? or 12 Pts. @ 2 Points/Game.

That would make a Max of 35 Pts @ maximun Sportsmanship or 29 Pts. @ average Sportsmanship?

U r right, I never saw the bold font. But does that not make Sportmanship less important than painting/etc. of the models? Or am I missing something else that is written in bold text?

i.e. ±1 point of sportmanship only effects the final score by ±0.17 and only effects the final score by ±1 if the opponant was an Awsome Player (i.e. all 3's) or a Bitchy Player (i.e. all 1's). In the end the average score for sportmanship for all participants will probably lie within 2 ± 0.17.

PS: Don't take this as trying to put down your tourny or the system you are using, or else I would not be comming out.

the only problem i see with this is, you'll probably have a huge tie with a bunch at 12 points

Rod

Do you mean for best sportsman?

Probably be a lot of ties, but I expect a few 3s to get given out so don't worry I reckon we will end up with a winner somehow, even if it comes down to a vote of some sort.

What I'd suggest is if lets say you end up with 9 people tied at end with sportsmanship scores, You ask everyone to vote for 3 of them with a 1 a 2 & a 3..... (after all the votes you add up the scores) if still tied, let the tourney organiser pick someone...

Rod

Ok, sorry I was bitchy before.

Another way I have seen in the past, is after all the games have been played everyone votes for one of the players they have played against. That person represents the best sportsman out of all they played against during the weekend. Each vote you receive would give you ?? bonus points.

Joe is trying to make sure that he does not get the Poor Sport award again!

One golden soother is quite enough. Natalie is convinced everyone must hate me!

Nah, give you a timer and we have no problem with you buddy!

One golden soother is quite enough. Natalie is convinced everyone must hate me!

We were playing two minute turns at Ben's the other night - was a lot of fun! Four minutes will seem like forever now!

Looks like Peter "Flanders" Meers will be joining the ranks of the TBBF boys, we are waiting for confirmatikon from him, but it looks like he may be on board. So if you could look at freeing up some carpet space for him, that would be cool.

So with one week to go its looking good for attendance.

We have 15 registered and another 7 fence sitters plus our odd man out Mr Jones.

It is looking good for beating last years attendance of 16

Prizes are all ready.

Trophies are being engraved as I type

Its all good!

JTB

Colin and Leathan will both be there for the tourney. Saw them last weekend and they confirmed it with me.
Be really nice if we can get over the 25 mark.......

p.p.p.s. Ok I'm not that much of an ass, my name is on last years winners plaque. Your name won't get engraved until next year spaz

As you guys appear to be so active in Ottawa I'll have to see about getting up there for future activities.

I'm glad I found this site.

Unfortunately I haven't met him.

The only people I know right now in my area who play are from my gaming group.

Though I heard there is a regular league in Oshawa (half an hour from PH and Cob) which I was going to look into.

Ottawa is a bit of a drive, I'm sure you know, but for tournaments and what not it would be worth it.

Unfortunately with this short notice I won't be able to get the time off work.

But thank you for the offer.

[Not to worry Apocrypha, there is the canadian open in March or the Challenge of Q'ermitt in April both in Brampton, which is not too far. You should come along and meet everyone.

Sorry guys, but I'm out......

Hope to see you all at the Canadian Open or C o Q!

Rod

Hey,

I was looking at the website and could not see the finish time on Sunday, What time do you anticipate that we will be getting out of there?

I took some photos of the team last night - will post those hopefully tonight, give you guys something to feed your nightmares!

I'm real scared now. Oh my!

Joe, you're still playing a TBA team? I bet ya that you'll be playing with your Orcs again ...

Spazz you get ahold of Chris Poynter?

Rod

Looking good Spazz, can't wait to beat them down on the field.

The only foot race I need to beat you at, is the one where I am walking all over you. You better gets used to seeing the bottom of my shoes, cause thats all you gonna see..

No pain, all gain! The Spazz-express is making his final stop in O-dot, to be dismembered and sent home in pieces, similar to the fate his Undead Orcs have already felt. Fitting theme.

That or Eric will be near by and you will be presenting to him!

I like how I get draged into al the smack talk without actually being involved in it . . . .

Wish I would have had more time to do a base for them. Really think it brings out the whole team.

GOOD luck this Week end !!!!!

Good times . . . despite the Pink-Eye caused by Cuban Shot Guns

March - Canadian Open (Brampton)
April - The Challenge of Q'ermitt (Mississauga)
June - Bongo Bowl (Brampton or Missisauga - TBA)
July - Lakeside Cup - (Couburg)
September - Naggaroth Cup - (Niagra Falls)


See ya!

Spazz

Note: Piling-On sucks.

E-

Ah c'mon - he learned his lesson! Can you not give him credit for that?

p.s. thats job hunting, what were you thinking, I'm a vegetarian i'll have you know!

I was picturing Joe on horseback with the red suit and black hat following the pack of beagles!

where's the pics bra'?

My camera isn't crap, purely the photographer!

I will try to add the last 50ish tonight.

jtb