| Tournament Name | Fumbbl Road to Thrud 2023 North America |
| Organizer NAF name | Stimme (17245) |
| Organizer | NAF Fumbbl |
| Variant | Online |
| Major/National | no |
| Start Date (YYYY-MM-DD) | 2023-06-05 |
| End Date (YYYY-MM-DD) | 2023-07-16 |
| Type | OPEN |
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| NAF Fee Included | no |
| NAF Member Discount | no |
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| Webpage | https://fumbbl.com/p/group?op=view&group=9298 |
| Tournament Statistics | Winner | | happygrue (16876) | Necromantic Horror | Runner up | | seanh1986 (23461) | Necromantic Horror | Most Touchdowns | | happygrue (16876) | Necromantic Horror | Most Casualties | | deurbroucq (33209) | Shambling Undead | Stunty Cup | Best Painted | Other Awards |
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| Nation | FUMBBL |
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ABOUT THE TOURNAMENT
ThrudBall is a charity Blood Bowl event which is held in Swindon in the Uk, each year. In the run up to this event, we will hold two Fumbbl NAF events: one tournament in the EU evening times, and one tournament to play at North-American evening times. Both tournaments will be for individual coaches, it is not a squad event. It will be Swiss pairing for these tournaments.
Both events will start on Monday the 6th of June and will feature a total of six matches over six weeks.
We are suggesting a £5 or similar donation for taking part in this event.
https://www.thrudball.com/home
Donate via PayPal to thrudballpayments@gmail.com
Put "Road to Thrud" as the reference
Tournament admins: neilwat • Stimme
The deadline for submitting rosters is 2nd June.
CREATING AND APPLYING A TEAM ROSTER
Before you create your team on Fumbbl, we highly suggest that you use an Excel sheet or one of the online helpers to create your team and make sure it adds up to the total amount. You can download a WC-specific Excel roster here. Find additional roster making tools on the NAF site.
Once you have decided on your setup, generate a new team following all of the subsequent steps (do not reuse an existing team!):
1. Create a new team using this link and choose your race and team name. Please add your time zone identifier in brackets, at the beginning of your team name, E.g. [EU] Cherryville Croakers or [NA] Cherryville Croakers
2. On the team page, there is no need to change ‘Progression’ from ‘Standard’ to ‘None’.
3. Buy all of your players, re-rolls, etc. and click ‘submit for approval’.
4. On the following screen, select your skills.
5. When ‘Save’ is pressed to confirm your skill choices, there is no pop-up or conformation screen. You can check if your skills have saved correctly by navigating away from the screen and then checking ‘Team Options’ on your team page. You must select all skills before the start of the tournament and may not change them later.
6. NAF coaches must record their NAF nick and NAF number in the team bio section following team creation. This will help us in the future recording and ranking of online games.
7. Inducement(s) you wish to use should be left out of your team creation process and listed in the team bio. Inducements have to be announced before start of the tournament and may not be changed in-between matches!
e.g.: at the beginning of a tournament match, select only your announced inducements, as you would normally by spending your remaining treasury as petty cash.
8. Navigate to the tournament team site and use the button at the bottom at the page to apply your team.
Please view Strider’s youtube video if you need more details how to create a team.
RULES SUMMARY
• BB2020 ruleset with Slann
• Resurrection-style
• Weekly rounds
• 6 rounds total
TEAM BUILDING
1150k gold to be used for standard team building and inducements.
A minimum of 11 players and a maximum of 16 are to be rostered.
• 0-8 Re-Rolls
• Assistant coaches
• Cheerleaders
• 0-1 Apothecary
• 0-6 Dedicated Fans
In the Table Top event the first dedicated fan will cost 5k, however in this event it would still be 10k
The following inducements are available:
• 0-1 Halfling Master Chef for Halflings only (100k)
• 0-6 Assistant coaches (10k)
• 0-12 Cheerleaders (10k)
• 0-2 Bloodweiser Kegs (50k)
• 0-3 Bribes for Ogres and Goblins only (Ogres 100k, Goblins 50k)
• 0-1 Morgue Assistant (100k)
• 0-1 Plague Doctor (100k)
• 0-1 Riotous Rookies for Snotlings only (100k)
• 0-1 Sports Wizard (Fireball/Zap! 150k)
Star Player notes:
• Only the ThrudBall All Stars are available to hire for your team; no other mercenary or Star Players are allowed.
• Tier 1 and 2 teams may hire one of the following: Drunken Thrud, Thrud Squig, or Gymir.
• Tier 3 teams may hire two from the full list of ThrudBall Stars.
• Star Players can only be induced after 11 Players have already been rostered.
Stats on the star players can be found linked below:
https://www.thrudball.com/rules/thrudball-star-players
All inducements must be announced in the “team bio” at the team’s creation and may not change between rounds
ADDITIONAL SKILLS
Tier 1
Amazon, Chaos Dwarf, Dark Elf, Dwarf, High Elf, Lizardmen, Norse, Orc, Shambling Undead, Skaven, Underworld Denizens, Wood Elves
• 120TV to spend on additional skills
• Any rostered player may be given a single Primary skill
Tier 2
Black Orc, Chaos Chosen, Chaos Renegades, Elven Union, Human, Imperial Nobility, Khorne, Necromantic Horror, Nurgle, Old World Alliance, Slann, Tomb Kings, Vampires
• 160TV to spend on additional skills
• Any rostered player may be given a single Primary skill
• One rostered player may be given stacked Primary skills, or may be given a single Secondary skill (e.g. 8 primary skills or 6 primary skills and one secondary)
• It is not possible to stack Primary and Secondary skills on the same player
Tier 3
Goblin, Halfling, Ogre, Snotling
• 200TV to spend on additional skills
• Any player may either be given a single Primary skill, be given stacked Primary skills, or may be given a single Secondary skill
• It is not possible to stack Primary and Secondary skills on the same player
SCORING
• 2 points per coach win
• 1 point per coach draw
• 0 points per loss or concession
• 0 points for both coaches if there is no evidence of communication and the game is not completed by the deadline
Tiebreakers are as follows:
1) NET TDs + NET CAS
2) Most touchdowns
CONCESSIONS
• No concessions are allowed during a match. Penalty may be exclusion from the tournament and no registration accepted for the next NAF event. The reasoning here is that touchdowns and casulties can be important tiebreakers, so play on to the best of your ability, whatever in game things happen.
• If a coach misses their match on an agreeded time without warning, a concession will likely be applied if another appropriate time to play can’t be found.
• If the opponents are unable to schedule a match, the organizers will make a judgement call and decide the winner of the match or a draw might be given.
• If two coaches end up not playing their round within schedule without informing the admins a concession will be given to both coaches.
• Everyone is counting on you to play the 6 rounds regardless of your performance. Dropping without a proper cause will result in denying your registration for the next NAF Online event.
TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
Each round will start at 0:01 Monday morning server time and end at 23:59 Sunday night server time. If you games are sceduled for later on a Sunday then please invite Stimme and neilwat to the messages.
Team registration: by end of Friday 2nd Jun
1st Round: 5th - 11th June
2nd Round: 12th - 18th June
3rd Round: 19th - 25th June
4th Round: 26th June - 2nd July
5th Round: 3rd - 9th July
6th Round: 10th - 16th July
OTHER RULES
• Please endeavour to complete your games. PM your opponent as soon as you can and organise a time to play.
• If agreeing a time is proving difficult, PM the tournament admins - include both Neilwat and Stimme - and your opponent.
• Games will be forfeited promptly to begin new rounds.
• If one player benefits from inducements not listed on the team’s “bio” or irregular use of Timeout with direct influence on the score, a concession might be applied.
• Games will count towards NAF ranking as Online NAF games on thenaf.net. Forfeits and games against non NAF members are not recorded.
FAIRPLAY
• Be cordial on the chat and pm towards your opponent and audience. Any use of offensive laguage towards your opponent regarding racial, political or religious content might result in exclusion from the tournament and 1 year ban from NAF events.
• Use wisdom and good faith when agreeing a match with your opponent.
• We recommend avoiding Timeouts. However, if you use it, you are not allowed to do it without a first “transgression” and consequent first warning on the chat.
Ex: my opponent exceeds the time one turn, I warn him I’ll timeout next time.
You can only use a timeout if the other opponent is playing their turn, if they give an indication that they need 5 minutes or similar to deal with a real life event then they can’t be timed out for this.
NAF RANKING AND NAF MEMBERSHIP
• All games between NAF members are recorded on the NAF homepage and will be used to calculate the NAF online rankings.
• Even though a NAF membership is not mandatory, we highly encourage you to join the NAF: https://www.thenaf.net/about-the-naf/join-the-naf/
o The cost is £5, 5 Euros or 5 dollars in person, or $10 by Paypal online. For this you get your NAF name registered for rankings purposes and this lasts forever.
o Tracking your online rankings and enabling your opponents to play for their ranking is solid fun.
o You get goodies every time you renew your membership |
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