| Tournament Name | The Big Boys' Badlands Brawl |
| Organizer NAF name | mrcushtie (26269) |
| Organizer | |
| Variant | Blood Bowl 2020 |
| Major/National | no |
| Start Date (YYYY-MM-DD) | 2022-04-30 |
| End Date (YYYY-MM-DD) | 2022-04-30 |
| Type | OPEN |
| Style | Swiss |
| Scoring | 50 for win, 20 for draw, 10 for loss by 1 TD, 0 for loss |
| Cost | 20 |
| NAF Fee Included | yes |
| NAF Member Discount | no |
| Email | cushtie@outlook.com |
| Webpage | Cushtie.com - The Big Boys' Badland Brawl |
| Tournament Statistics | Winner | | bhall (23772) | Tomb Kings | Solid, efficient, violent play throughout the day. And the only person wise enough to bring a chainsaw with them. The inaugural Big Boy prize makes its way eastward - will a Washingtonian grasp it next year? |
| Runner up | | Tenaciousjay (25142) | Norse | Close, but no cigar! But then, smoking cigars is bad for you! Stick to playing Blood Bowl! |
| Most Touchdowns | | teturact (31611) | Norse | One of the two Norse teams on the pitch today, bidding farewell to old Norse with a superlative display of scoring. |
| Most Casualties | | ballsmcjuggler (30918) | Human | A terrifyingly heavy hitter in some warm up games before the tournament, Phyllip maintained this form throughout the Brawl, edging out the second place for most casualties with a very slightly better casualty differential. |
| Stunty Cup | | Bear (13347) | Ogre | Sweeping down from Northern Naggarond with a bunch of good ol' big ol' boys, Bear took the coveted Stunty cup back across the border. |
| Best Painted | | Squigmire (25800) | Black Orc | In between making all the gorgeous trophies and prizes for the tournament, Squigmire made the time to paint a lovely set of Black Orcs |
| Other Awards | | blkdymnd72 (31060) | Snotling | With a total of 38 casualties and touchdowns, the Green Bog Pickers provided arguably the most entertainment / carnage of any team on the day, winning the Pandemonium award |
| | hermit (32229) | Ogre | The hermit took the highest placing for a coach in their first NAF tournament (perhaps cruelly crushing the hopes of the tournament organiser's bloodless vampires in his third match, but this is no place for mercy!) |
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| | | Tournament Location |
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| Address | Evergreen Lanes & Restaurant |
| | 5111 Claremont Way |
| City | Everett |
| State | Washington |
| Zip | 98203 |
| Nation | United States |
Ruleset Document |
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Information |
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3 games of Second Season Blood Bowl in the sunny Pacific Northwest
BASE TEAM SETUP
Each coach receives 1000TV to build their team: players, coaching staff, rerolls, bribes and chef. Team build must include at least 11 players, no star players can be purchased.
Any team capable of rostering at least one player with ST5 or higher must include at least one player with ST5 or higher. So, for example, Deathrollers are compulsory for Dwarf teams.
EXTRA INDUCEMENTS
Each team receives 200 TV extra to spend on inducements (including Star Players, excluding wizards and mercenaries). If two teams both roster the same Star Player, that’s fine: the warpstone deposits in northwestern Naggarond often lead to that sort of strange thing happening.
The following inducements are available (refer to the Blood Bowl rule book and Death Zone for details and specific costs, as availability and pricing can vary between teams:
0-4 Agency Cheerleaders
0-3 Part Time Assistant Coaches
0-1 Weather Mage
0-2 Bloodweiser Kegs
0-8 Extra Team Training
0-3 Bribes
0-2 Wandering Apothecaries
0-1 Mortuary Assistant
0-1 Plague Doctor
0-1 Riotous Rookies
0-1 Halfling Master Chef
0-2 Star Players
0-2 (In)famous Coaching Staff: Josef Bugman, Kari Coldsteel, Galandril Silverwater, Krot Shockwhisker, Fink Da Fiver, Mungo Spinecracker, Schielund Scharlitan
0-1 Biased Referee: Jorm the Ogre, Thoron, Ranulf, Trundlefoot Triplets, Generic Biased Referee (p95, 2020 rulebook)
Waaagh! Drummer
Cavorting Nurglings
Dwarfen Runesmith
Halfling Hot Pot
Master of Ballistics
Bottles of Heady Brew
SKILLS
Each coach has 120 TV to spend on skills. Primary skills cost 20 TV each, secondary skills cost 40 TV each. No random skills. No two players can have the same skills (so you can’t take 6 Guard players, but you could do Guard + Stand Firm, Guard + Mighty Blow, Guard + Thick Skull).
Prizes for:
1st place
Most TDs
Most Casualties
Best Stunty
Pandemonium - highest total TDs (scored and conceded) + Casualties (suffered and inflicted)
Best Painted |
Tournament Report |
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It's nice to be back: after some quiet months and smaller tournaments, we had 22 coaches in the room for the first Big Boys' Badland Brawl. I'd made the team build rules a bit more complicated than usual, in the hope of provoking some interesting and different builds and more mayhem. My expectation that we'd see people reject big guys in favour of elven teams was not fulfilled - with only one elf team (and that one bringing a treeman) there was a lot of commitment to having large, violent players all the time.
And oh, the violence: over three matches, we had 191 casualties. That was a slight slowing of pace from the first round, when out of the gate the marauding maniacs ended 69 players' careers. Biggest single casualty fest of the tournament was in the first round, when a combination of Black Orcs with Fungus and Bomber and an army of Snotlings clattered together and left 14 players maimed or killed. No matches were injury-free, although in the first round the enigmatically named CHORFS clattered into the Necromantic Night Terrors for a single casualty between them.
Looking at the breakdown by race, Humans inflicted the most casualties (32) but there were three teams playing, and they also sustained 24 casualties. The two Norse teams lived up to their glass cannon reputation, taking down 14 players but losing 15 in turn, and as you might have guessed, Snotlings suffered the most (43 injuries) while only inflicting 19. However, next year we need some kind of record for the most painful brick wall to run into: TJ's Gore Tribe broke 14 players while only losing 2.
Every team scored at least once, with two exceptions. I can take some blame for one of those, using the full force of my mind and every prayer to Nuffle I could think of to force a thick-skulled goblin to fall over as he tried to GFI into the end zone against my lamentable vampires. One team managed a clean sheet for the whole tournament, not letting a single TD past them.
I had hoped for some exciting inducements (or some very questionable picks) and I didn't feel let down - there was one Fink the Fixer, two biassed referees, a few weather mages, a single chainsaw, two Glarts, a scattering of Grim Ironjaws (was that something that offended the Big Boys, to take one of the antidotes to bigness? I don't know) and quite a few Extra Team Trainings (possibly because some team builds are hard to fix into 1000 TV if you also like rerolls - but why take rerolls? Nuffle hands out double skulls like candy, to teach people about fortitude!) A single Scylla ran around clawing people, there were at least three riotous rookies, and one longhaired lovely flinging pigskins for the only elf team on the Astrogranite that day. Morg sent his excuses, as the big fellow's ego is so swollen from his appearances in other tournaments that he probably couldn't fit through the doors of Evergreen Lanes.
We're already scheming on ways to make next year's Brawl even bigger. Stay tuned! |
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