| Tournament Name | Kent Team Championship 2024 |
| Organizer NAF name | Stewbacca (24161) |
| Organizer | Stewart Anderson |
| Variant | Blood Bowl 2020 |
| Major/National | no |
| Start Date (YYYY-MM-DD) | 2024-03-02 |
| End Date (YYYY-MM-DD) | 2024-03-02 |
| Type | OPEN |
| Style | Team Tournament (4-5 per team) |
| Scoring | 2 points for team win, 1 point for team draw |
| Cost | £25pp inc food (potential discount available) |
| NAF Fee Included | no |
| NAF Member Discount | no |
| Email | skabbleague@gmail.com |
| Webpage | BloodBowl South East Discord |
| Tournament Statistics | Winner | | rikk1980 (27145) | Lizardmen | Runner up | | bb_nut (5275) | Orc | Most Touchdowns | | RogerRatogre (26981) | Skaven | Most Casualties | | bigmanfury (36988) | Orc | Stunty Cup | | Phuqster (28109) | Halfling | Best Painted | Other Awards | | gb_skullz (36839) | Shambling Undead | Top Junior |
| | Ratticus_Finch (32009) | Skaven | Wooden Spoon |
| | starferret (32519) | Skaven | Joint Team Winner (Teamendous) |
| | bb_nut (5275) | Orc | Joint Team Winner (Teamendous) |
| | hendy (30511) | Tomb Kings | Joint Team Winner (Teamendous) |
| | MisspelledTree (25997) | Wood Elf | Joint Team Winner (Teamendous) |
| | Wulfyn (20556) | Underworld Denizens | Joint Team Winner (Team Tacklezone) |
| | deeferdan (20747) | Elf Union | Joint Team Winner (Team Tacklezone) |
| | AndyDavo (19726) | High Elf | Joint Team Winner (Team Tacklezone) |
| | NippyLongskar (9897) | Dwarf | Joint Team Winner (Team Tacklezone) |
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| | | Tournament Location |
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| Address | The Harris Suite, Spitfire Ground |
| | Old Dover Road |
| City | Canterbury |
| State | Kent |
| Zip | CT1 3NZ |
| Nation | United Kingdom |
Ruleset Document |
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Introduction
In 2023, the first ever Kent Team Championship was held as an invite only collaborative event between the BloodBowl leagues in the county. 30 coaches took part and the winning team was the All-Kent All-Stars (damology, phuqster, whitehot and tommyb).
The event will be returning in 2024 and we have moved to a larger venue with increased capacity. The Championship will be the opening event of the inaugural South East Tournament Series and this year will be NAF approved event open to all, regardless of whether you’re cool/unfortunate* enough to live in The Garden of England.
After the event, all competing coaches will be awarded points as per the Tournament Series rules, which can be found here: https://www.talkfantasyfootball.org/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=46870
Date: Sat 2nd March
Location: The Harris Suite, Spitfire Ground, Old Dover Road, Canterbury. CT1 3NZ
Parking: Free parking is available onsite. Turn down The Drive (to the right of Sainsbury’s) and follow the signs for Event Parking.
Public transport: The nearest rail station is Canterbury East which is 20 minutes walk from the venue (15 minutes by bus or 7 minutes by tax) and has trains from London Victoria.
Canterbury West has trains from London St Pancras on HS1 which saves around 35 minutes on the rail journey but is a 35 minute walk to the venue (or 25 minutes by bus, 10 minutes by taxi)
Capacity: We expect to be able to host a maximum of 28 teams (112 coaches), although the exact number of teams will be determined by how many are bringing spare coaches (see below).
Food and drink: A small lunch will be provided as part of your ticket price by the on-site catering facilities. This will comprise sandwiches, tortilla chips and dips, a chocolate brownie and water and cordials. If you have any dietary requirements, please let us know by Saturday 3rd February.
There is also a cafe on the cricket club grounds and a Sainsbury’s just beside it. You are welcome to bring your own food/packed lunch with you however please do not bring any alcohol due to the onsite bar.
Disabled access: there is disabled access to the room we are using and also the toilet facilities.
Format:
Teams of 4, Swiss round system for teams, with best performing player in each team playing, then second best etc. Teams will win, lose or draw collectively.
Roster building:
The ruleset closely follows that of the UKTC as at the date of the rulespack with a few minor adjustments.
Each team must have separate races, i.e. a team cannot have, for example, 2 dark elf teams.
All GW official races plus Slann are allowed. If Games Workshop release a new team above the 29 listed below prior to the roster submission date, the team will be allowed for the tournament but will be assumed to be a Tier 1 team. This may be amended at the TOs discretion.
Each race is allocated 1,150,000 gold pieces to spend on roster building only. This comprises the purchasing of players, sideline staff, rerolls, permitted inducements and dedicated fans.
Permitted inducements are: 0-2 Bloodweiser kegs, 0-3 bribes, 0-2 wandering apothecaries, 0-1 mortuary assistant, 0-1 plague doctor, 0-1 riotous rookies (if selected roll separately before each match), 0-1 biased referee, 0-1 halfling master chef. Bribery and Corruption and Thimble Cup races get their relevant discounts.
Everything else including star players are not permitted.
Teams then have separate gold to buy upgrades, based on the teams tier, as below. All skills must be chosen skills and not random.
Tier 1
Dark Elf, Lizardmen, Undead, Underworld
100,000 gold
Primary, Secondary (1 max). No stacking
2
Tier 2
Amazon, Chaos Dwarf, Dwarf, Norse, Orc, Skaven, Wood Elf, Vampires (new roster)
120,000 gold
Primary, Secondary (1 max). No stacking
Tier 3
Black Orc, Human, Nobility, OWA, Necromantic
150,000
Primary, Secondary (1 max). No stacking
Tier 4
Chaos Chosen, Chaos Renegades, Khorne, Elven Union, High Elf, Slann, Tomb Kings
170,000
Primary, Secondary (2 max). No stacking
Tier 5
Nurgle
190,000
Primary, Secondary (2 max). No stacking
Tier 6
Halfling, Goblin, Snotling, Ogre
220,000
Primary, Secondary (unlimited), stacking allowed (1 player only may receive 2 skills), Stat Increases (2 max)
Upgrade costs are:
Primary Skill - 20,000
Secondary Skill - 30,000
+1 AV - 10,000
+1 MA - 20,000
+1 PA - 20,000
+1 AG - 40,000
+1 ST - 80,000
To allow time for them to be adequately checked, rosters will need to be submitted by email to skabbleague@gmail.com by Saturday 17th February. Your roster being submitted on time will be the first tiebreaker if required.
Schedule:
If you are having any issues with your journey on the day, please message us on Discord to let us know and we will do our best to accommodate. Please be aware that you will be passing through part of a City Centre on a Saturday and ensure you give yourself contingency time for your journey.
Registration: 08.45-09.15
Game 1: 9.15-11.30
Buffet Lunch: 11.15 onwards
Game 2: 12.00-14.15
Game 3: 14.30-16.45
Game 4: 17.00-19.15
Awards: 19.15-19.30
The amount of time left in each round should be visible on the projector screen during the games, and we will make announcements as the time approaches. At time, we will ask both players to put dice down and the result will be logged as it stands.
If you feel like you will be running out of time, please look to implement a chess clock. Many apps are available for this purpose, including BB Coach Assistant if you have an Android phone.
Scoring:
Teams earn points for each round as follows: Team win - 2 points. Team draw - 1 point. Team loss - 0 points. A team wins if they collectively win more individual matches than the opposing team. A draw is if they register the same amount of individual wins as their opponents. A loss is recorded if they lose more individual matches than the other team.
For the purposes of the tournament, a casualty is one caused by a block made by either yourself or your opponent. For the avoidance of doubt, any caused by secret weapons, the crowd, failed dodge or rush, throw team mate or anything other than a block is excluded from this count.
Tiebreakers for teams on the same points are: number of rosters submitted on time, sum of individual points, opponents score, net team TDs, net team CAS.
For the individual prize, players on the same points will be ranked using these tiebreakers: roster submitted on time, opponents score, net TDs, net Cas.
Entry:
The tournament will be a NAF event, and all coaches must be NAF registered. Please let us know your NAF names and numbers when registering (these can be updated later if players change). There will be no facility for registering you for the NAF on the day.
The price will be £100 per team (so £25 per person). There is the option to add a fifth team member (see the Spare Coaches section) which will increase the price to £115 per team (so £23 per person).
Tickets will be on sale from 1st August 2023.
Please fill out this registration form (https://forms.gle/MYrmTsiuhTAd1aRNA) and then send the entry as a payment to Friends and Family via paypal to skabbleague@gmail.com. Please note, information given on the form can be changed at a later date, however it will reduce admin work to have information as correct as possible now.
Initially we will only be booking whole teams but if you are unable to field a whole team/are an individual coach wishing to play then please message Stewbacca (ideally via Discord) and we will keep a record and look to fill any unfilled spots from 1st October 2023 by matching up individuals into teams. We will try to get coaches as geographically close to each other as possible matched up.
We will endeavour to get a spot for everyone but obviously we will be first of all looking to ensure we have a balanced number of teams. It may be that individual coaches will be offered a spot as a spare player guaranteed 4 NAF ranked games.
Spare Coaches
Spare coaches/referees: EldritchFox, Stewbacca
Teams can add a fifth member for just £15. This fifth member will be a spare player but is guaranteed a NAF rank game each round.
Depending on spaces available, they will either:
fill a spot on a team missing a player for the entire day
Join a spare coaches team to ensure an even number of teams
Play a NAF ranked game against another spare player. If this is the option for a coach/coaches, then it is likely that we will ask teams to rotate their spare player so as to reduce the likelihood of repeat matchups
Protocol on the day for missing players: Spare players will be asked to fill in where this is feasible. If an entire team is missing such that there is an odd number of teams, providing another team will be a priority over filling in for teams missing one or more players.
Prizes:
Best team overall
Best individual player
Most touchdowns (individual)
Most casualties (individual)
Stunty cup
Wooden spoon (individual)
We will have a 1 prize per coach rule so if for example the overall individual winner also wins best touchdowns, the best touchdown award will go to the next best coach. This does not apply to the best team award - a coach can win that alongside an individual award.
Tiebreakers for most touchdowns and most casualties will be the number of each conceded.
If there is still a tie for any prize then, head to head record (if applicable) followed by rock paper scissors best of 3 (between team captains if it is for the team prize).
Prizes will be announced in due course via Social Media and Discord.
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