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Tournament NameSpooktacular Sportsball II - Jackie's Revenge
Organizer NAF namemrcushtie (26269)
Organizer
VariantBlood Bowl 2020
Major/Nationalno
Start Date (YYYY-MM-DD)2022-10-29
End Date (YYYY-MM-DD)2022-10-29
TypeOPEN
Style
ScoringSwiss
Cost20
NAF Fee Includedyes
NAF Member Discountyes
Emailcushtie@outlook.com
Webpage

Tournament Statistics

Winner

jollyork (9471)Amazon
Bringing the new hotness in the form of the lovely ladies of Lustria, jollyork had an unbeaten run in his three games, conceding a single touchdown to a Rat Ogre in his final match. While well able to defend his end zone, jollyork clearly had less concern for his team, suffering the second largest number of casualties of any coach in the tournament. The winner walks home with (ironically) a new box of Amazons, as well as a new pitch and the second-most prestigious prize at the Spooktacular, the very shiny First Place Trophy.

Runner up

Most Touchdowns

Squigmire (25800)Halfling
With Griff assisting, the little luncheon meat guys that everyone loves ran rampant on the pitch today, scoring 7 touchdowns and shutting out their opponents on 2 of their 3 games.

Most Casualties

mrcushtie (26269)Skaven
As tournament organiser, I avoid playing if possible so I can concentrate on umpiring. But with an odd number of players (aren't all the players odd in some way?) I took to the field with what I expected to be a fragile mob of show-off rats. Only to find myself like some malefic Midas, turning everything I touched to corpses. 16 casualties and the highest cas delta on the day suggests that those mice aren't as nice as everyone expected, including myself.

Stunty Cup

kb10r (18947)Ogre
With the halflings running away with the most touchdowns prize, the way was open for the Hellpit Ogres to lay claim to the stunty prize, with a solid 1-1-1 result and the second-most casualties inflicted.

Best Painted

Other Awards

Squigmire (25800)Halfling
In the inaugural inter-league competition, the Everett Blood Bowl League came up with 36 points in total, a narrow victory over the Ordo representatives, who finished on 33 points despite a team that contained the eventual winner and stunty competitor.
WheresWalleye (31195)Necromantic Horror
In the inaugural inter-league competition, the Everett Blood Bowl League came up with 36 points in total, a narrow victory over the Ordo representatives, who finished on 33 points despite a team that contained the eventual winner and stunty competitor.
Purgatus (28979)Tomb Kings
This year we didn't have a true rookie, as every coach had played in at least one NAF tournament previously. Purgatus took home the Rookie trophy, as the highest placed coach playing at Evergreen Lanes for the first time.
ballsmcjuggler (30918)Wood Elf
In the inaugural inter-league competition, the Everett Blood Bowl League came up with 36 points in total, a narrow victory over the Ordo representatives, who finished on 33 points despite a team that contained the eventual winner and stunty competitor.
teturact (31611)Vampire
Oregon Vampire Team were the clear winner of this year's Pandemonium Award, with a record-breaking 14 casualties suffered cementing their position as the team all fans of carnage were rooting for.
kainis39 (30061)Tomb Kings
For the second successive year, Tomb Kings win the prize for the Spookiest Team at the Spooktacular. Cutting a swathe through vampires and dwarfs alike, we saw the tallest coach at Evergreen Lanes take home the biggest prize as well.
Vice (25799)Chaos Dwarf
Chaos Dwarfs are traditionally miserly, and so it was fitting that the Hellspire Forge Demons conceded the least number of TDs in the tournament, tying this with the eventual winners of the Spooky and First Place trophies
 
Tournament Location
AddressEvergreen Lanes & Restaurant
 5111 Claremont Way
CityEverett
StateWA
Zip98203
NationUnited States

Ruleset Document

Information
Three games of Blood Bowl, the day before the day before Halloween, in Everybody's Favourite Bowling Lane Blood Bowl Venue, the banquet room of Evergreen Lanes.

Entry is $5 cheaper for NAF members, and free for NAF members who live outside of the Pacific Northwest (that's right, anyone coming from Western Australia to WA doesn't have to pay to play! We're not going to pitch in for your flights, but you can camp in my backyard if you dare)

A different weather table will be used for each of the three rounds, growing more spooky as the event progresses.

(Starting with the Coastal weather table from Death Zone, then moving underground, and finishing with the Necromantic Weather Table from Spike 11 / Death Zone)

Everyone gets a special exploding-pumpkin-flinging-player for the final round (see below). This player is taken in *addition* to your roster, potentially increasing your team above the regular 16 player limit.

1200 TV build

To encourage extra diversity as well as attract tournament newcomers, Spooktacular Sportsball offers a prize for the best result by a coach playing a Spooky team, as well as a prize for the best result by a first-time coach. Note that Spooky teams are defined by extra restrictions on their rosters - there's nothing stopping you bringing a Tomb King team with blitz-ras, but that does *not* qualify as a Spooky team.

Prizes for:
1st place
Most TDs
Most CAS - all casualties count - whether by block, foul, surf, chainsaw, stab, bomb, thrown team-mate or anything else you do to the other team. Casualties from failed dodges and rushes do not count. Casualties inflicted on your own team (kickbacks, fumbled bombs, eaten teammates, and so on) do *not* count to either team's total.
Spooky team award
Stunty team award
Solid defence
Best rookie (only available for NAF members with no previous matches)
Pandemonium - total cas & TDs scored and conceded

Stunty teams: goblins, halflings, ogres, snotlings, underworld without Skaven.

Spooky teams: Vampires, Shambling Undead (mummies plus skeletons only), Necromantic Undead (flesh golems and zombies only), Khemri (tomb guardians and skeleton linemen only). Spooky teams can roster any eligible star players and remain spooky.

Teams must roster at least 11 regular players before any stars. Duplicate stars not allowed to play on both sides during a match. All inducements are legal except mercs, wizards and giants.

Skills:
Coaches get a skills budget of 12 golden pumpkins, to spend as follows:

* Primary skills are 1 golden pumpkin each.
* Secondary skills are 2 golden pumpkins each
* No random skills
* No player can have more than 2 additional skills
* No two players can have the same additional skills (so you can have one player with Guard and one player with Guard and Mighty Blow, but you can't have two players who just have Guard)
* You can't take a secondary skill if you don't take a primary skill first - so you can have a Mighty Blow Witch Elf, but she has to take a primary skill first!

The first round will be assigned randomly, with subsequent rounds based on Swiss pairings.

Scoring: 5 points for a win, 2 for a draw, 1 for a loss by less than 2 TDs, 0 for a concession.

Tiebreakers: head to head, then TD difference, casualty difference, total TDs, total casualties, strength of schedule, coin toss.

For the final round, each coach must roster Jackie O'Lantern. This player may bring the total number of players on your team above 16 for that match.

Jackie O'Lantern
Celebrating the autumnal scent of pumpkin spice that comes this time of the year, we're some high explosive fun, with a few tricks for unwitting players/victims.

Jackie O'Lantern, who would be known as 'Jackie' to his friends if he had any, is a grumpy squash farmer, enraged at having his crops spoiled by the armies of Blood Bowl fans tramping through his fields.
MA 5
ST 3
AG 3+
PA 4+
AV 8+
Bombardier
Disturbing Presence
Fend
Leap
No Hands
Secret Weapon

Special Rule: Pumpkinrooskie
Instead of throwing a bomb, Jackie can drop the bomb on the ground in the square he's occupying, then immediately move away before the bomb explodes. The bomb will explode in the vacated square as soon as Jackie leaves it. Jackie must be standing up at the start of his activation in order to Pumpkinrooskie.

Tournament Report
With the second running of the Spooktacular Sportsball, we saw a 25% increase in the number of coaches crammed into the banquet hall of the Evergreen Lanes in a celebration of the spookiest Blood Bowl possible. (If it hadn't been for a covid case, a broken wrist, a family fun day and several coaches from the Pacific Northwest travelling all the way to Kansas City just to play each other, we might have got 24 or more coaches, but even with real life interfering, happy to have a well-attended event!)

As last year, Tomb Kings turned out to be the strongest contender for the Spooky prize. Whereas last year few coaches were brave enough for the challenge of a Spooky team, we had more than a third of the field competing for the biggest prize available, the eldritch terror that is the Spooky trophy.

In order to increase the inter-regional rivalry in the Pacific North West, this was also the inaugural event for the inter-league competition, with the best four players from each local league competing for an extra spooky team trophy.

This year's innovation, Jackie O'Lantern, proved divisive (or just plain no good), blowing himself up about as much as he did anyone else.

Thanks to our sponsors, Greebo Games for a heavyweight Necromantic team, and Top Rope Games, for the lovely pitch they donated for the competition.
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