| Tournament Name | Fumbbl Tackle Zone Trial Euro |
| Organizer NAF name | Stimme (17245) |
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| Variant | Online |
| Major/National | no |
| Start Date (YYYY-MM-DD) | 2024-01-29 |
| End Date (YYYY-MM-DD) | 2024-03-03 |
| Type | OPEN |
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| NAF Fee Included | no |
| NAF Member Discount | no |
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| Webpage | https://fumbbl.com/p/group&group=16630&op=view |
| Tournament Statistics | Winner | | fagio (22348) | Shambling Undead | Team Winner: Alfea |
| | Diomlord (22346) | Lizardmen | Team Winner: Alfea |
| | ATP (21764) | Skaven | Team Winner: Alfea |
| | PanicoBlack (21763) | Dark Elf | Team Winner: Alfea |
| | Yena (5798) | Vampire | Team Winner: Alfea |
| | BadStorm (23028) | Wood Elf | Team Winner: Alfea |
| Runner up | | Dragou (32757) | Lizardmen | Team runner up: Pirates of Wind |
| | Ashrame (25344) | Wood Elf | Team runner up: Pirates of Wind |
| | Helborg (22470) | Dark Elf | Team runner up: Pirates of Wind |
| | Sebotouno (16213) | Skaven | Team runner up: Pirates of Wind |
| | Chavrouze51 (16353) | Tomb Kings | Team runner up: Pirates of Wind |
| | Tyra (18660) | Necromantic Horror | Team runner up: Pirates of Wind |
| Most Touchdowns | | jb (28280) | Vampire | 13 TDs (+9 net) in five games |
| Most Casualties | | fagio (22348) | Shambling Undead | 20 Cas (+11 net) in five games |
| Stunty Cup | Best Painted | Other Awards |
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| Nation | FUMBBL |
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ABOUT THE TOURNAMENT
Welcome to the rule pack for the inaugural Tackle Zone Team Trophy (TZTT), a team Blood Bowl tournament taking place at the UK Games Expo (UKGE), at the Birmingham NEC on June 1st and 2nd 2024. Where possible we are going to be running this event as closely as possible to the real event. This will include a slightly different form of matching coaches in the squad event.
There will be a squad event for the [EU] timezone with 6 coaches in each squad, and an individual event in the [NA] timezone. Both events will start on Monday the 29th of January and will feature a total of five matches over five weeks. There will be a slight change in that we will need games in the Euro time zone to be started by 22:00 on the Sunday evening at latest. This is so that the next rounds pairings can be organised in a timely manner.
Our next big event is planned to be the "Amorical Cup" and we want this to be a squad event in the NA timezone. It will likely be squads of 4 coaches.
EU Tournament admins: neilwat • Stimme
NA Tournament admins: neilwat • Nightbird
The deadline for submitting rosters and squads is Midnight of the 26th of Janaury.
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. Find 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 start of your team's name. If in the North America timezone add [NA] or your squad name if in the EU timezone. Add this at the beginning of your team name, E.g. [HUBBA] 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 cannot save them until every slot is filled, even if you are just putting "no skill". 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 the 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
• 5 rounds total
Squad Creation
Each Squad is created by 6 coaches, each has to choose a different race to play. The captain of each squad will inform Stimme of their order of play.
Individual coach matching will not use the Swiss system. Instead, coaches will play all 5 games on the pre-assigned board number allocated to them before the event by their captain. For example, if you have been assigned board 1 by your captain, that will be your seating position for the whole weekend, and you will only play against other coaches also assigned to board 1 for their respective teams.
TEAM BUILDING
Starting Gold is 1150GP
No skill stacking
ADDITIONAL SKILLS
Tier1:Amazon, Chaos Dwarf, Dark Elf, Dwarf, Lizardman, Norse, Orc, Shambling Undead, Skaven, Underworld Denizens, Wood Elf
Tier2: Black Orc, Chaos Chosen, Chaos Renegade, Elven Union, High Elf, Human, Imperial Nobility,
Khorne, Necromantic Horror, Nurgle, Old World Alliance, Slann, Tomb Kings, Vampire
Tier3: Goblin, Halfling, Ogre, Snotling
Skills Packs
Please list the Tier and option in your teams bio. For example if taking wood elves and I wanted to spend 20k more, I could spend 1170k, and have 5 primary skills. In the bio I would add...
Tier 1: Option B: 5 Primary skills and 20,000gc extra for roster building.
A player may be allocated a maximum of 1 additional skill. All additional skills are selected prior to the event; random skills and characteristic increases may not be selected.
Secondary skills are optional and can be swapped for primary skills if desired.
The different tiers can select from the following skill-pack options:
● Tier 1:
○ Option A: 6 Primary skills.
○ Option B: 5 Primary skills and 20,000gc extra for roster building.
○ Option C: 4 Primary skills and 40,000gc extra for roster building.
● Tier 2:
○ Option A: 7 Primary skills.
○ Option B: 6 Primary skills and 20,000gc extra for roster building.
○ Option C: 5 Primary skills and 1 Secondary skill.
● Tier 3:
○ Option A: 9 Primary skills.
○ Option B: 7 Primary skills and 1 Secondary skill.
○ Option C: 5 Primary skills and 2 Secondary skills.
The following inducements are available for all teams:
● Bloodweiser Kegs: 0-2
● Mortuary Assistant: 0-1
● Part-time Assistant Coach: 0-3
● Plague Doctor: 0-1
● Temp Agency Cheerleader: 0-4
● Wandering Apothecary: 0-1
The following inducements are available for tier 3 teams:
● Biased Referee: 0-1
● Bribes: 0-3
● Halfling Master Chef: 0-1
● Riotous Rookies: 0-1
Star Players notes: There will be no star players in this event
All inducements must be announced in the “team bio” at the team’s creation and may not change between rounds. State which roster pack you are using in your team bio.
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
The aim is for the following to organise sqaud wins and tiebreakers. This will be reliant on the technology/spreadsheets being able to achieve this.
The TZTT will score the team result using the following scoring and tie breakers:
● Scoring: Team win: 2 Points / Team draw: 1 Point / Team loss: 0 Points
● Tie Breakers (for teams on the same total points):
○ Olympiad-Sonneborn-Berger* (strength of schedule variant)
○ Fewest touchdowns conceded
○ Total individual points within the team.
In the NA timezone, the 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,a draw might be given or both coaches might be given zero points.
• 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. Real life does happen but please communicate issues as quickly as possible with your squad members and Stimme and myself. We can look into swapping coaches out of a tournament or can consider issues that you might be having when we make decisions.
TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
In the NA time zone, each round will start at 0:01 Monday morning server time and end at 23:59 Sunday night server time.
In the EU timezone the rounds will start at 0:01 Monday morning and the last games must be started by 22:00.
If you games are scheduled for later in the day, on a Sunday, then please invite Stimme and neilwat to the messages.
Team registration: by end of Friday 26th January
1st Round: 29th Jan - 4th Feb
2nd Round: 5th Feb - 11th Feb
3rd Round: 12th Feb - 18th Feb
4th Round: 19th Feb- 25th Feb
5th Round: 26th Feb - 3rd Mar
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 for [EU] ane neilwat and Nightbird for [NA] - 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 |
Tournament Report |
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Tacklezone is now all wrapped up and ALFEA come out on top with 5 squad wins. That is a stunning result and well played on that. 3 other squads got 4000 or more points. So, in second place was “Pirates of Wind” with 4038 points, third was “ZWOKAJO” with 4037 points and in fourth was Chimera with 4035 points. It was very tight in this top grouping and well done to everyone.
Fagio (helping ALFEA’s win) and Arioso were the only coaches who got all 5 wins but Fagio took the top coach spot. Fagio was very greedy with also getting the most casualties but was nice enough to again share this with someone else, PeteW. JB, with vamps took the most TDs, vamps do seem good at getting some high scoring games. Outkast easily won the most casualties against, with a total of 30.
We hope you all had some fun. Next event will be based on the Amorical cup and will be squad events in both the EU and NA timezones.
The set up with coaches in the same seat each round was different and interesting. Maybe head over to the Fumbbl discord and chat about this in the NAF tab. |
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