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North America - Death Bowl XV: Year of the Dead Oct 20-21 Gatineau/Ottawa
jrock56 - Jul 30, 2018 - 10:02 PM
Post subject: Death Bowl XV: Year of the Dead Oct 20-21 Gatineau/Ottawa
(To the powers that be can you please sticky this thread, Thanks!)

Welcome all Blood Bowlers!!! New and Old to this Year's upcoming Death Bowl Tournament. This is Year 15 of our famed tournament and will feature the Year of the Dead...That's right folks! It will feature themes for all 4 Dead races including Undead, Necromantic, Khemri and Vampires!!

The Tournament has been booked at: Multizone: 140 Boulevard Greber in Gatineau, QC (just outside of Ottawa, 10 minutes from Downtown) For those that are unfamiliar it is a large gaming store that provides a lot of support to our local Blood Bowl Community and is more than happy to host our upcoming Tournament! 

We have already begun planning for this year's unique Year of Themed advantages and a few other unique surprises! Some prize support for during the tourney has already been gathered to give out to the participants. Expect some in game highlight reel prizes as well as our end of Tourney Awards!

Everything will be posted for your reference on multiple social media outlets shortly including this year's 'Year of' themed bonuses for all of those aspiring Dead raced coaches out there! 

For those planning to attend we will also be setting up a simple pre-registration shortly. You will be able to email transfer and send in your rosters to the same email address listed in advance. If you can let us know you are planning on coming for now that would be a great help. I will update the NAF forum regularly so keep your eyes peeled!! 

Hope to see many of you soon! 

2018 Attendees: 

1. Dan C
2. Colin K 
3. Felix D 
4. Greg S 
5. Joe M
6. Rod D 
7. Pat G 
8. Jeremy C
9. Steph G
10. Chris W
11. Mark H (1st Odd Man Out)
12. Manu L
13. Gord M
14. Austin S
15. Mario M (Maybe)
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23. Glenn Jones (2nd Odd Man Out) 
24. Adam Jones (3rd Odd Man Out) 

**As per NAF Rules adjustment as of AUG 1/2017 we will be incorporating the CRP + BB2016 (Box Set, DZ1, DZ2) into our Death Bowl Tournament. Please view the link below to take a look** 

https://www.thenaf.net/2017/05/naf-and-death-zone-2/
jrock56 - Jul 30, 2018 - 10:40 PM
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Tournament Ruleset

Registration Cost: $40 ($45 with NAF fee)

Schedule 

Saturday 
09:00-09:30 Register 
09:30-01:00 Deathbowl Game 1 
01:00-01:45 Lunch 
01:45-05:15 Deathbowl Game 2 
05:15-06:00 Dinner 
06:00-09:30 Deathbowl Game 3 
Sunday 
10:00-01:30 Deathbowl Game 4 
02:00-02:30 Awards/Prizes/Pictures 

Please bring 
All coaches should bring the following: 
1) TWO copies of their team roster 
2) A current copy of the rules 
3) NAF Blocking dice, range rulers and scatter templates 
4) A PAINTED bloodbowl team 

Provided 
The following things will be provided at the tournament: 
1) Theme Dice 
2) Game boards (Boards showcased from Fantasy Fields) 
3) Donuts & Coffee Sunday Morning 
4) Prizes awarded during the tourney for 'Highlight Reel' moments
5) Trophies and Awards for Performance after the Tournament

Tournament Rules 
Games will be played using current Games Workshop Blood Bowl rulebook & (CRP as approved by NAF), available online.

Resurrection style tournament where teams will reset after each game. No injuries, deaths, or star player points are collected. Therefore you will begin each game with exactly the same roster. 

Team Creation 
Teams have 1,150,000 gold pieces available to spend. Each coach may select any of the approved teams from the CRP rule-set + 3 NAF sanctioned teams (Slann, Chaos Pact, Underworld), also including Khorne and Brettonians. They must purchase a MIN 12 players to field for the tournament. Inducements listed below are also available, but no mercenaries, Star Players or Special Play cards are allowed. 

After Team builds have been decided on, the teams coach will receive an additional 150,000 to purchase skills for their team. Please see Update below for information about skill selections. 

Inducement Qty. Price(gps) Notes 
Bloodweiser Babes 0-2 50,000
Halfling Master Chef 0-1 300,000 100,000 for Halflings 
Igor 0-1 100,000 Only for teams not allowed an apothecary 
Wandering Apothecaries 0-2 100,000 Only for teams who can buy a normal apothecary 
Wizards 0-1 150,000
Bribes 0-3 100,000 50,000 for Goblins 

IMPORTANT UPDATE 
***Coaches can buy improvements for their players at the costs indicated in the CRP/BBowl 2016 Rulebooks. The Leader skill is not available for purchase by teams in team creation. You may purchase up to a maximum of 3 additional skills per player on your roster, this includes a +1 to MA or AV values, no other stat increases (STR & AG) will be available to purchase. No player may have more than 3 improvements in total and no additional skills will be gained during the tournament. There is a MAX 2 of the same type of mutation allowed per team*** 

Improvement Cost 
Regular skill +20,000 
Double skill +30,000 
+1 MA/AV +30,000 

Game & Turn Time Limits 

The schedule is tight so the time limits for games will be strictly controlled. This is the only way to ensure fairness for all competitors. The alarm which goes off after 3 hours and 30 minutes brings the games to an end. There will be a warning given with 15 minutes remaining, after which the table finishes the round of turns it is on but does not start another round. This prevents a game ending with an uneven number of turns for each coach. 

To make sure all coaches get an even amount of time at play, a turn time limit of 3.5 minutes per turn will apply. When the time limit runs out the coach is allowed to finish the move of the active player only. This turn limit enables us to play 4 games of Deathbowl. 

The games may finish in ties and there is NO OVERTIME! 

Turn Etiquette 

You may bargain and negotiate as much as you like in your own turn or in an opponent coaches turn if they initiate the discussion. However, as all coaches have a time limit for their turns it is impolite and against the rules to initiate such a discussion during an opponents turn. It is unfair to all the coaches at the table and indeed the tournament for another coach to “advise” on another coaches’ actions. While it is acceptable to remind a coach to move a player to block a potential TD, it is not acceptable to plan their entire turn. 

“Alliance Bowl” 

The Deathbowl Association received numerous complaints over the past few years about the alliances that like races have been forming to further themselves in the tournament. The most recent being the Zon-Zon alliance from a few years ago. We have come to the conclusion that openly aiding each other in Deathbowl shouldn’t be part of the game. Of course there are instances where getting in the way 
on defence, assisting on a block, outright throwing a block to aid in your cause are perfectly acceptable. Throwing a pass or handing off directly to an opposing team has been banned. You may no longer throw a pass directly to the opposition, if it happens to scatter to them or bounce to them that is permitted. If they happen to have diving catch that would also be deemed acceptable as the target square is not directly at an opposing player. 
Handing off the ball to an opponent is not permitted either as the fans in many stadiums have rioted and looted because of this, causing injuries and damage countless times. 

Tournament Format 

The tournament will consist of 4 games of Deathbowl following the SWISS-style format. In the first game each coach will be randomly drawn with an opponent and then each pair of coaches will be randomly drawn with a second pair of coaches to make up the four players required for a Deathbowl game. 

Game results are only determined by the results for the whole table (i.e. there can only be one winner, or there could be a 2, 3, or 4 way tie!). Tournament points are discussed below. The first round matches will be decided randomly. After the first round matches are complete, the game match-ups will proceed with 4 coaches facing each other on a table determined by tournament points and tiebreakers. Coaches may play on the same table as another coach a number of times but only face each direct opponent once! 

Deathbowl Rules 

The Pitch and Setup 

Deathbowl is played on a specially designed pitch with four teams and two balls. The teams line up on or behind the “line of scrimmage” in their own set up section. Each coach must have at least three players on the line, with no players in the wide zones. Each coach lines up according to direct opponent matchup for the round. There is no kick-off. The balls are placed in one of the four center squares, randomly chosen (D4 & D3). All players may set-up their teams on the field at the same time with a minimum of 11 players and a maximum of 16 players. A D6 roll is made by each coach with the highest roll going first in gameplay and continue clockwise from there for the half.

Continuous Play is now in effect. After the initial set-up play continues until halftime and then does the same until the end of the game after halftime. Play does not stop for any reason, including touchdowns! After halftime the player who took the last turn in the first half has the first turn and play progresses counter-clockwise around the table. 

Fame and Weather have no effect on the game of Deathbowl. 

Scoring 

A teams turn ends if a player enters the end zone and scores a touchdown. If a player carrying a ball enters the end zone on a square containing a ball on the ground, the scatter is resolved before the turn ends. This is the only currently identified way to score two touchdowns in a single player turn. Once a touchdown is scored the ball is removed from the field and re-enters play on one of the four centre squares (roll a D4) and stops there, unless the square is occupied. If the square is occupied by a standing player, the player may attempt to catch the ball just like the bounce at the end of regular Blood Bowl kick off (bouncing ball). If the square is occupied by a prone or stunned player or the other ball the new ball bounces once from the square. 

The teams continue to play after a touchdown with a new set up only occurring at halftime. 

Halftime 

At halftime (as in Blood Bowl) the play stops and the teams set up as described in the set up and play order section. Additionally at half time all KO'd players return to action without rolling. Any players KO'd in the second half do not return to play. Any injured players who were able to regenerate or who were healed by an apothecary can only return to play at halftime. 

Actions 

Each team may take a blitz action against each of the opposing teams. Each team may make a pass action with each ball, but not twice with one ball. Therefore, a team could instead pass two players with the right stuff skill, or one player and one ball. However, no player or ball can be thrown twice in one turn. Each team may take a hand off action with each ball, but not twice with one ball. Each team may take a foul action against each of the opposing teams. However, the referee will send off players following the normal Blood Bowl rules. A turnover will still end a turn with all unused actions lost as in Blood Bowl. 

Additionally, if a blitz is declared and no block dice thrown, no further blitz actions can be taken against that team this turn. If you fail your Wild Animal roll while declaring to blitz an opponent you cannot then declare a Blitz against the same opponent until your next team turn. You may refer to this as the Wild Animal rule. When declaring a Blitz against an opposing team, the player must be within range of the intended target to declare said Blitz at all. 

Blocks and Fouls 

Assists work as in normal Blood Bowl for the players on the teams involved in a block or a foul. However, the other teams may want to get involved as well. A player may assist a block or foul made by an opponent if the only opposing tackle zone they are in is the victim of the block or foul. If they are in any other opposing tackle zones they cannot assist. The only exception to this is if the player has Guard skill they can always assist a block. This applies to fouls in the same fashion as stated above. 

The edge of the field is the crowd just like in regular bloodbowl. 

Deathbowl Referees 

Referees have made their triumphant...albeit painful return to the Deathbowl pitch!! The organizers saw fit to re-negotiate their contracts in the off season giving them the benefit of ‘Danger Pay’ to encourage their participation and bring some form of order to the mayhem that takes place on the field! 

Halfling Master Chefs 

During the Death Bowl match Halfling teams will be able to force their opponents to lose rerolls. First they must roll 3 D6’s to determine how effective the Chef will be. For each successful roll they must roll another D6 to randomly determine which opponent will be affected. Using large fans the chef and his assistant manage to blow the delicious smells into their opponent’s dugouts and the other teams that are unaffected just get a tantalising yet non-distracting whiff of the marvellous culinary creations. 

Ball Handling - Passing, Handoff's & Interceptions 
No player may at any time be in possession of more than one ball. Anytime a player with a ball interacts with the other ball resolve the situation as if he/she/it had the “No Hands” skill. The player may not drop the ball he has to attempt to pick up the other. A team may pass and hand-off each ball once a turn. A team may not, however, pass or hand-off the same ball more than once in the same turn, as in the standard rules of the game. 


The ball may at no time be passed across any of the four corner squares. To determine this when passing a ball, the entire range ruler must be on the playable Pitch area. 

Interceptions 

If players from different teams are eligible to make an interception the player closest to the throwing player may make the attempt first. If two or more players are equally close than the coaches roll off to determine which player may make the first attempt. If the first player fails to intercept the next player gets a chance, if the second player fails to make and interception a player from the third team gets a chance. However, each team may only make one interception attempt. If an interception attempt is successful and followed by a successful "safe throw" roll, a team who has not yet attempted to intercept can still try with one of their players. Safe throw may be used on all successful interceptions in any given turn. For example a pass may be intercepted 3 times, each time by a player from a different team; the thrower gets to roll for safe throw in each case. 

Tournament Points 

Achievement Points 
1st Place 40 
2nd Place 30 
3rd Place 20 
4th Place 10 
1st place CAS 5 
Ties share points e.g. 
4 Way 1st 25 
3 Way 1st 30 (4th = 10) 

The number one factor in determining how teams place in the standings should still reflect their overall record and Table wins. While we feel bonus points for strong gameplay should still factor in, it should not outweigh the overall record of the competitors. It will definitely still play a part in determining placement but not override the standings completely. 

Each coaches total tournament points from game play will be used to determine each coach’s table opponents for the next round. In the event of a tie in the standings the following tie breakers will be used during the tournament and in determining the final standings. 

# Tie Breakers 
1 # Solo 1st place wins 
2 TD +/- (Your TDs scored minus TDs scored by opponent on table) 
3 CAS +/- (Your CAS caused minus CAS caused by opponent on table) 
4 # Ties for 1st place 
5 # 2nd place finishes 

Best Team Categories 

You must receive a minimum of 2.5 points for your team to qualify, which most people should be able to get. These points will not be added to your teams Tournament Points as they have no bearing on which opponents you will face. There are 6 painting categories, each worth 1/2 a point so you can miss one and still get your full 2.5 points. Of the teams that qualify 3-4 will be selected and voted on by your opponents to determine the overall winner. 

Painting Points 
Painted : All models are fully painted. 0.5 
Based: All models have a painted and textured base. 0.5 
Numbered: All models are numbered in a visible way. 0.5 
Detailed: All models are highlighted/shaded or detailed in a noticeable way. 0.5 
Conversion: At least one model on the team has been modified in a unique fashion. 0.5 
Representative: All the models on the team are representative of the player they depict. 
Or 
The models are identified by their appropriate base ring colour 0.5 

Sportsmanship 

After each game you must rank your opponent for sportsmanship. The default ranking is good sport (2). Each coach has the opportunity to mark their opponent up or down depending on their opinion of their sportsmanship. 

The sportsmanship points have no bearing on the tournament standings, and are solely to decide the “Most Sporting” and “Brass Ass” awards. 

Sportsmanship Pts 

A Good Sport 
Your opponent was pleasant all game You would happily play this coach again, anytime. 
The Default Score 2 

A Poor Sport 
Your opponent was not enjoyable to play. Constant arguing about the rules or constant complaining can be reasons for this score. 
An uncommon tournament experience. 1 

A Terrible Sport 
Your opponent was a miserable fool. They whined about everything. They also argued about the rules endlessly. You could live your whole life and if you ever saw them again it would be too soon. 
No one should get this rating. If they do, an explanation is required. 0 

An Amazing Sport 
Your opponent made your game one of the best you’ve ever had. It is impossible to imagine them being any more friendly or accommodating. A unique experience. Giving more than one opponent this rating during a tournament would be questioned. 3 

As always, shoot me a message if you have questions or need clarification on something. 

Thanks! 
Adam

The 'Year of' Theme rules will follow shortly, you can expect 2-3 options to choose from for each of the 4 races with a value of approx 50K for each, of which each coach playing a Year of themed team may choose 1 option for their team.
Taxal - Jul 31, 2018 - 06:04 AM
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I am so there!!!!!!
Buffalo_Chris - Jul 31, 2018 - 11:41 AM
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Will try to negociate something with the girlfriend.. (Her birthday is on the 21st...)

*Sigh*
jrock56 - Aug 06, 2018 - 09:04 PM
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      Taxal wrote:
I am so there!!!!!!


Awesome as always Taxal!!
jrock56 - Aug 06, 2018 - 09:05 PM
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      Buffalo_Chris wrote:
Will try to negociate something with the girlfriend.. (Her birthday is on the 21st...)

*Sigh*


Hope your negotiating skills are strong Chris! Always great to have you Very Happy
grant85 - Sep 19, 2018 - 09:29 AM
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Sorry gents but I can't make it out for this year. I'm sure it will be a great weekend.
All the best
Clan_Skaven - Sep 26, 2018 - 02:43 PM
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Where are the 4 Undead racial rules?
Taxal - Sep 27, 2018 - 12:16 PM
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My son and Pat are saying yes to this
jrock56 - Sep 27, 2018 - 10:07 PM
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      grant85 wrote:
Sorry gents but I can't make it out for this year. I'm sure it will be a great weekend.
All the best


You'll be missed Grant! Hope to see you at another tourney soon Smile
jrock56 - Sep 27, 2018 - 10:10 PM
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      Clan_Skaven wrote:
Where are the 4 Undead racial rules?


Shite!! Thanks for the reminder Clan_Skaven, finalized a couple weeks ago will have posted this weekend for sure on NAF and under FB Event page..all were fairly easy to come up with except for the last one for Vampire's!! Am sure everyone will like the options available.

Thanks again!
jrock56 - Sep 27, 2018 - 10:11 PM
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      Taxal wrote:
My son and Pat are saying yes to this


Awesome news Taxal will update the first post to include them, still awaiting several confirmations on attending!!

See you all soon!
jrock56 - Sep 27, 2018 - 10:23 PM
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**Update**

The New Death Bowl Trophies are in from the UK for this Year's tourney!! So excited about these, had a great opportunity to work with a new company to create our trophies for this year! Can't give away too much info or show pictures as we want them to be a surprise for the participants this year! After the tourney we will post pics for sure and speak about the company that assisted us but they are awesome and we can't wait to unveil them this year! Very Happy
Taxal - Oct 01, 2018 - 08:25 AM
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Any updates on the special rules?
Taxal - Oct 02, 2018 - 11:39 AM
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Just saw that this years Death Bowl will be my 50th tournament. Damn nice tournament to be a milestone
Notorious_jtb - Oct 02, 2018 - 11:40 AM
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      Taxal wrote:
Just saw that this years Death Bowl will be my 50th tournament. Damn nice tournament to be a milestone


MILESTONE!

Wow, I am about 20 behind you.....
jrock56 - Oct 03, 2018 - 05:09 PM
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      Taxal wrote:
Just saw that this years Death Bowl will be my 50th tournament. Damn nice tournament to be a milestone


Isn't it also almost a 3rd of the total tournaments that you have attended as well Very Happy you might think that you like Death Bowl or something Wink
Taxal - Oct 03, 2018 - 07:36 PM
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This will be my 14th one. Not sure but I might like Death Bowl
jrock56 - Oct 03, 2018 - 08:06 PM
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Sorry for the wait Gents! Here is the long awaited 'Year of' themed rules for the 4 Dead races. Details will follow below for the coaches to choose from. For each of the Dead races a Coach may ONLY choose 1 of the 3 options available to that race.

Khemri - 1) Free Leader Reroll given to player of choice
2) Excess Undead - Choice of Skeleton or Zombie at no charge to the coach
3) Instant Resurrection - **DETAILS BELOW**

Necro - 1) Free Leader Reroll given to player of choice
2) Excess Undead - Choice of Skeleton or Zombie at no charge to the coach
3) Instant Resurrection - **DETAILS BELOW**

Undead - 1) Free Leader Reroll given to player of choice
2) Excess Undead - Choice of Skeleton or Zombie at no charge to the coach
3) Instant Resurrection - **DETAILS BELOW**

Vampire - 1) Free Leader Reroll given to player of choice
2) Iron Thrall **DETAILS BELOW**
3) Hyper Hypnotic Gaze **DETAILS BELOW**

Excess Undead - Exactly as it sounds, due to the outbreak of Undead around the stadiums preparing for the Death Bowl tournament each coach of Khemri, Necro and Undead races has the option of recruiting one of these decaying corpses to play for their team with no cost to the coach.

Instant Resurrection - In the normal rules of Blood Bowl a coach of a Dead race has the ability to 'Raise the dead' when they kill another player on the pitch. If a coach chooses the option of 'Instant Resurrection' for their team they will have the CHANCE to resurrect ANY player that is killed on the pitch for the duration of the match. This would happen through a 'roll off' with other eligible coaches that can 'raise the dead', if there are no other coaches with the option you will automatically raise that player for your team. If there are no kills during the match then this chance will not work, however it is effective for ANY kills that take place and seeing as it is Death Bowl with 4 teams on the field there is definitely more of an opportunity for death to take place.

Iron Thrall - In preparation for the upcoming Death Bowl Vampire coaches have been hard at work developing a serum for their human Thralls that may be given to 1 Thrall per half. The serum will allow the thrall to sustain 1 Vampire bite that will incapacitate the thrall temporarily but allow him to remain on the pitch prone, recovering in time for their next turn. Each coach has developed enough serum to give to 1 Thrall in each half of the game (it does not have to be the same Thrall and if the thrall has not been bitten the serum will remain effective for the duration of the game).

Hyper Hypnotic Gaze - Only the most skilled Vampires like to immerse themselves amongst so much Death but only limited Blood supply available. Some of them have been able to intensify their abilities through increasing their blood consumption of many different Elves prior to attending the tournament. As a result each Vampire coach may select 1 of their Vampires to gain this ability for the duration of the match. Each Vampire with the symptom known as HHG will have the ability of a strengthened Hypnotic Gaze taking effect on their opponents. Their gaze will affect any opponent on an agility roll of a 2+ for the game. Each Vampire team may only have a maximum of one Vampire with this heightened symptom.

Looking forward to seeing you all on the pitch!!
Taxal - Oct 09, 2018 - 09:23 AM
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Under 2 weeks till my team '' THE GRATEFUL UNDEAD'' will conquer
jrock56 - Oct 11, 2018 - 03:55 PM
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Just over a week to go until the Year of the Dead begins!! The new trophies have arrived and are ready to roll, they look awesome by the way! Can't wait to give them out to this year's participants. While we had a couple things that were planned fail to be available in time, what that means for all of you is more giveaways, prizes and prize support during and after the tournament...don't think I have ever heard complaints about more SWAG to go around for everyone!!

Quite the assortment, we will have what I like to call 'Highlight Reel' moments for some in game prize giveaways, our end of tournament trophies and prizes, new to Death Bowl the fastest table award each round (1 coach from each round's fastest table will win a prize), some skull games at the end of each day, and potentially some support in the form of gift certificates for the Event!

Will be a lot of fun for everyone, if you haven't signed up or notified us that you are planning on attending please let us know as soon as you can so I can pre-prep for registration and get the games started quickly on Saturday morning! See you all shortly
jrock56 - Oct 12, 2018 - 07:16 PM
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In the interest of speeding up Tournament registration and getting straight to the gaming action that everyone is looking for we have decided to open up a Draw for those that pre-pay for registration and send in their rosters prior to the start of the tournament. I will accept rosters and early payment up until Friday, Oct 19th at 10pm for those interested. The draw will be for a team or new field from some of the more recent Blood Bowl releases!

You can forward both your Rosters and payment through email transfer to ajones80@gmail.com, of course you can still choose to submit them the day of the tournament but you will not be eligible for the early Draw at that point.

Of course the main point in all of this is getting all of you into gaming as quickly as possible Saturday morning with the majority of registration already being taken care of. Nothing like getting things rolling on time on the 1st day of an Event!

Thanks everyone!
jrock56 - Oct 15, 2018 - 02:16 AM
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Rules Clarification:

Just wanted to clarify a rule that came up in question/in play for the 1st time ever last year. We will be staying with the standard rules for Blood Bowl despite the field being a different shape and more opportunity for leaving the field of play.

1) If a ball being thrown goes into the crowd: it will immediately be thrown back in by the crowd using a throw in template to determine the direction the ball will go when thrown in.

2) If a player being thrown (using the Throw team-mate skill) goes into the crowd they are immediately injured by the crowd, the same as being blocked into the crowd by another player. This does not mean where the player being thrown attempts to land, as soon as the players path goes into a square that is deemed 'the crowd' they are considered injured by the crowd.

3) In the instance where the player being thrown had the ball and goes into 'the crowd' the player will be treated as injured and the crowd will throw the ball back in using the throw in template to determine the direction the ball will go when thrown in.

In the moment last year this was ruled incorrectly as it had never come up in a previous Death Bowl tournament. Hope this helps to clarify should an instance come up again. If you have any questions, please ask.

Thanks everyone,
Adam
Notorious_jtb - Oct 16, 2018 - 12:56 PM
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Have fun folks!

I was hoping to at least drop in, but we just got back from visiting the folks in the UK and we have renovations of our place starting on Monday so I have to move about 1/3 of our stuff this week to make space.

Good luck to all!
Taxal - Oct 18, 2018 - 08:10 AM
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2 DAYS!!!!!!

Cant wait
runki_khrum - Oct 21, 2018 - 03:15 PM
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I won! Thanks to everyone for a most enjoyable weekend. Adam and Glen ran a well organized tournament and with all the swag giveaways it was exciting. Thanks to all my Death Bowl opponents and a special shout out to Manu who sat with me at table 1 through all 4 games.
Looking forward to defending my title in Montreal next year.
Taxal - Oct 22, 2018 - 06:43 AM
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WOW....another great weekend of fun.
@ Colin congrats on the win
@ the Jones brothers. Thanks for another great tournament
@ my opponents thank you all for the fun
@ Adam...sorry about the late night drunk call and not remembering who I was talking too constantly
@ Glen thank you for the gifts

Hope to see you all next year for Death Bowl XVI ''Year of the Brettonian'' in Montreal
grant85 - Oct 22, 2018 - 10:56 AM
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      Taxal wrote:

@ Adam...sorry about the late night drunk call



Beauty!
jrock56 - Oct 23, 2018 - 08:44 PM
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Results have all been entered for this past weekend's tournament! If someone from the 'Powers that be' Push the 'Magic Button' to finalize results please and thank you. Final results for everyone and more details to follow shortly!

Thanks!!
jrock56 - Oct 23, 2018 - 09:01 PM
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Big Congrats to Colin (runki_khrum) on his 1st Death Bowl win!! Not to mention with a convincing 4-0-0-0 Table win in the final round to ensure there was no doubt who was winning this tournament! Hope everyone enjoyed the highlight moment prizes throughout the games, end of game prizes for fastest table to finish and the larger swag prizes to go with the trophy presentations to end the event. We had a blast this year being our final year as Tournament Organizers for the Death Bowl Tournament!

Death Bowl heads back to where it originally started in Montreal in the fine hands of Taxal (Dan Chaput) to bring it to our next generation of Blood Bowlers. He has an enthusiasm and love for the game that will bring it new life once again in a thriving Blood Bowl community around him. We look forward to seeing what new ideas and originality you can bring to the game and have full trust that you will continue to make it the successful Event that it has been for nearly 12 years with us.

We look forward to playing in many a Death Bowl tournaments in the coming year's with our focus now being on playing in and attending as many tournaments as possible while taking a break from the Organizing side of things. We will still be around for any support needed and will be glad to help along the way but Death Bowl will now reside in the city of Montreal once again!

Much love to you all and thank you again for all of your support over the years in playing and making Death Bowl what it was for us as organizers! See you all at a tournament near you in the near future!

Glenn & Adam (twodiceblock & jrock56)
jrock56 - Oct 23, 2018 - 09:28 PM
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A little excerpt from Glenn's (twodiceblock) speech at the end of this year's tournament to tie our run as DB Organizer's in a nice bow...please see below:

"I just want to thank everyone one last time for your support over the years. We have come a long way since issue 31 pg 50 of the Citadel Journal magazine which featured the original idea of a game called Death Bowl. We have collectively kept Death Bowl alive when it was about to collapse. We took a good concept in a game that was very poorly thought out and un-playtested and developed it into a proper functioning game!

As most of you know, at Death Bowl II with Dwarves I failed a go for it to win the Tournament...A failure that has become legendary in these parts and is now known as (Jonesing on the goal line) Brian, who was the commissioner at the time was so impressed that the crazy Punk guy didn't freak out and trash the place awarded me with my 1st Blood Bowl Trophy for Best Sportsmanship. I also won most Casualties and placed 3rd overall, not often are you the nicest guy and the biggest a-hole in the same tournament!!

On the drive back from Montreal, Notorious_jtb (Joe) had an epiphany to move the line of scrimmage..2 hours later the 1st step in fixing Death Bowl was taken. I came up with continuous play and having the ability to blitz each of your opponents once per turn to speed up the gameplay and make it more dynamic. Adam and Joe then sorted out a point system that would eliminate the constant tie game dilemma and made the game more functional for inputting results and thus Death Bowl became NAF approved.

The rest is history! Dan Chaput (Taxal) is officially taking over now and is clearly the best man for the job. Death Bowl will return back home to Montreal where I know it will thrive. I'll miss the absolute insanity of all of the guys crashing in my 1 bedroom apartment on many weekends. One time Rob and I stayed up all night drinking Jagermeister shots and tweaking a Goblin team built for Joe to play. Joe ended up winning that tournament with the team and realized that the 2 drunken idiots forgot to use all of the money available in the treasury with 10K leftover. I could go on forever about Laurent stories alone (as there were many) Long story short, much love to all you guys from over the years...see you in Montreal as a coach with a vicious Khorne team out for vengeance!"

That wrapped up his speech to the attendees this year but I felt this a perfect place to share it as a memory for any of those that came and played in any of our Death Bowl tournaments over the years. Thanks again to all!

Glenn & Adam
Clan_Skaven - Oct 24, 2018 - 01:09 PM
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Can we see final standings and TD's Cas , sportsmanship scores please?
SBG - Oct 30, 2018 - 07:43 PM
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      jrock56 wrote:
A little excerpt from Glenn's (twodiceblock) speech at the end of this year's tournament to tie our run as DB Organizer's in a nice bow...please see below:

"I just want to thank everyone one last time for your support over the years. We have come a long way since issue 31 pg 50 of the Citadel Journal magazine which featured the original idea of a game called Death Bowl. We have collectively kept Death Bowl alive when it was about to collapse. We took a good concept in a game that was very poorly thought out and un-playtested and developed it into a proper functioning game!

As most of you know, at Death Bowl II with Dwarves I failed a go for it to win the Tournament...A failure that has become legendary in these parts and is now known as (Jonesing on the goal line) Brian, who was the commissioner at the time was so impressed that the crazy Punk guy didn't freak out and trash the place awarded me with my 1st Blood Bowl Trophy for Best Sportsmanship. I also won most Casualties and placed 3rd overall, not often are you the nicest guy and the biggest a-hole in the same tournament!!

On the drive back from Montreal, Notorious_jtb (Joe) had an epiphany to move the line of scrimmage..2 hours later the 1st step in fixing Death Bowl was taken. I came up with continuous play and having the ability to blitz each of your opponents once per turn to speed up the gameplay and make it more dynamic. Adam and Joe then sorted out a point system that would eliminate the constant tie game dilemma and made the game more functional for inputting results and thus Death Bowl became NAF approved.

The rest is history! Dan Chaput (Taxal) is officially taking over now and is clearly the best man for the job. Death Bowl will return back home to Montreal where I know it will thrive. I'll miss the absolute insanity of all of the guys crashing in my 1 bedroom apartment on many weekends. One time Rob and I stayed up all night drinking Jagermeister shots and tweaking a Goblin team built for Joe to play. Joe ended up winning that tournament with the team and realized that the 2 drunken idiots forgot to use all of the money available in the treasury with 10K leftover. I could go on forever about Laurent stories alone (as there were many) Long story short, much love to all you guys from over the years...see you in Montreal as a coach with a vicious Khorne team out for vengeance!"

That wrapped up his speech to the attendees this year but I felt this a perfect place to share it as a memory for any of those that came and played in any of our Death Bowl tournaments over the years. Thanks again to all!

Glenn & Adam


Yeah baby ! That made me winning Death Bowl II a reality! I still never use the Jones dice when I need to go for it...

Might try to win another one in Montreal... !

Fred
Taxal - Oct 31, 2018 - 06:07 AM
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Adam can we see the final standings please with a cherry on top
Blank_Page - Nov 01, 2018 - 04:12 PM
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This was it I guess. I had planned to come, and then once again could not. It really makes no difference in hindsight, I guess it just wasn't mean't to be for me.

If the Deathbowl is heading my way, it'll be great, since its now a local tourney. Sucks I missed the many memories.
jrock56 - Nov 01, 2018 - 10:15 PM
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      Taxal wrote:
Adam can we see the final standings please with a cherry on top


Tried posting it already, was a bit of a pain in the as* since it won't convert the file info other than text which just 'mashes' all the info together making it difficult to read at all. Even tried as a picture/image and it won't work properly. Will find the time to type it all out shortly but much more time consuming that way and I have had very little of late.

Hopefully will have time by the end of the weekend.

Adam
Notorious_jtb - Nov 02, 2018 - 07:13 PM
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Adam has a tonne going on right now so he sent me the file.

Some final standings here:

NAF Name ........................NAF # .................Overall Points


Google sheet of the standings here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F4U-tvAd7EEisTfCpT4__H-IJULErLdCJ5mauoiEdcE/edit?usp=sharing
jrock56 - Nov 03, 2018 - 08:06 PM
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      Notorious_jtb wrote:
Adam has a tonne going on right now so he sent me the file.

Some final standings here:

NAF Name ........................NAF # .................Overall Points


Google sheet of the standings here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F4U-tvAd7EEisTfCpT4__H-IJULErLdCJ5mauoiEdcE/edit?usp=sharing


Thanks for the assist Notorious_jtb!! Appreciate it Very Happy
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