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Post subject: The BLOODBOWL 2005
 Posted: Sep 30, 2004 - 05:14 AM
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When will the 2005 BloodBowl take place?
I'd like to attend, if timed right I could book the time off work, & use my Bonus to fund the trip!
I know its early, but I'd like to be as prepared as possible, & soon my work will be asking us for vacation bookings for next Spring.
Thanks for any info.
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Posted: Sep 30, 2004 - 07:18 AM
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If you can afford it you should go, I highly recommend it!
I'll be taking a break from the BB this year. I am going to try and go to a different tourney somewhere in Europe... hopefully. |
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Posted: Sep 30, 2004 - 08:50 AM
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That was my plan to Anthony, maybe we could get a few more Canucks to go to the same tourney and resurrect the Team Canada idea. 
Just have to figure out what tourney would be good (I'm thinking one in Holland maybe). |
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Posted: Sep 30, 2004 - 01:05 PM
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Posted: Sep 30, 2004 - 03:37 PM
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Don't count on it! I think GW had more concern for the little muppets that were gaming on the WFB, 40K, and LOTR tables behind us at the BB (and there parents who were buying loads of stuff from the store), BB is a specialist game and therefore not worth the time for GW to worry about those of us who spent 40 quid to come to the biggest (and supposedly the best) BB tournement.
Sorry for the rant, but I doubt things will be much better for the BB 2005, so I doubt I'll be there, rather check out a different European tourney. |
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Posted: Sep 30, 2004 - 05:28 PM
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Torg wrote: Don't count on it! I think GW had more concern for the little muppets that were gaming on the WFB, 40K, and LOTR tables behind us at the BB (and there parents who were buying loads of stuff from the store), BB is a specialist game and therefore not worth the time for GW to worry about those of us who spent 40 quid to come to the biggest (and supposedly the best) BB tournement.
Sorry for the rant, but I doubt things will be much better for the BB 2005, so I doubt I'll be there, rather check out a different European tourney.
Ok, fine point well made. But I have to attend at least one of the BloodBowls, 2005 or later! |
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Posted: Sep 30, 2004 - 05:48 PM
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| Sure, I wouldn't discourage someone who never been before, go to the next BB tourney in Nottingham, everyone should do it once. If you're serious on doing it, should do it in 2005 so that you can play with rules that haven't been tainted by the vault yet. |
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Posted: Sep 30, 2004 - 06:03 PM
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Too bad the tourney wasn't in June.
May 7-8 is the Tourney, my bonus comes May 30th.
If I go I'll have to save for it pay cheaque by pay cheaque. |
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Posted: Oct 01, 2004 - 04:47 PM
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| There are a number of Euro tournies in the summer you could go to (like Rendez-vousBB, I think that's in July). There's the DungeonBowl in Germany also, but I heard non-GW tourneys are more fun and have better prizes (though you probably don't have to worry about that, except maybe the wooded spoon, just kidding) |
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Posted: Oct 02, 2004 - 07:04 AM
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Check either here or on TBB for a schedule of tournaments most anywhere in the world. There are a selection of good tournaments in Europe during the summer months.
I cannot say much about GW tournaments as have only attended one (2004 Blood Bowl). The most disturbing thing about it was that when you walked up to an employee:
- most knew little if anything about Blood Bowl,
- its miniatures or what's available in the miniature line up (am sure that if you brought a Shadowforge team, you could call it '2nd edition' and most of them wouldn't know any better. Though it wouldn't be worth trying out of courtesy),
- and several repeatedly said that they really disliked Blood Bowl (fair enough, but when amongst 200 Blood Bowl players and you are supposed to be promoting the company is it really something that you should share with the world?),
To balance this out a bit, I doubt that you would meet as many of the online crowd in one place as you would there. The after game socializing is great. If you were looking for new ideas on how to convert a team, make a pitch, play a variant, there will be someone there who will enthusiastically help you. They just won't be a GW employee.
It depends upon why you want to go to the Blood Bowl. If you want to see the premises (the large statue of a Space Marine in the front and the 40K eagle on the building), the tournament space (looks like a castle), order miniatures and get them shipped up from the factory within the hour (or three hours as they get backed up with requests), visit Bugman's and chat with a large number of other players then it is worth doing. If you want six great games of Blood Bowl and a crack at a large number of glittering prizes, then try another tournament. The crowd at the Blood Bowl ranged from 'never played the game before this weekend' to 'old pros', basically whoever got a ticket. The prizes were few and pretty dire (a piece of paper for most) and with 150+ people, the chances are slim that you would see any of them - even the wooden spoon (which once again was a piece of paper). Other tournaments have gift packs of miniatures or dice just for showing up, T-Shirts for sale, and real trophies if you win. I would go so far as to say that GW themselves support other tournaments better than their own in this regard.
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Posted: Oct 03, 2004 - 03:31 AM
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Torpor wrote: I would go so far as to say that GW themselves support other tournaments better than their own in this regard.
This really puzzled me this year - last year they gave a £40 LOTR starter set for the wooden spoon alone! This year, it's a certificate for everything! I'm not sure that Mordredd even received a small BB trophy to commemorate it like Tarra did last year.... (although I may be wrong) |
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Posted: Oct 03, 2004 - 03:45 AM
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| Ok if not the 2005 BloodBowl, then what? What other Euro BB Tournies would you suggest for 2005? |
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Posted: Oct 03, 2004 - 04:26 AM
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I've been to loads of tournaments and won dick all
the bloodbowl is the biggest one, i would deffo given the choice just go to that one
all the tournaments i have done well at gw havn't sent prizes for, if your going to a tournament just to win prizes then you are a mug
though there is a good chance that indigo may be going to the bloodbowl so you might have the misfortune of meeting him |
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Posted: Oct 03, 2004 - 05:06 AM
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I don't care about prizes much, (look at my NAF record!)
I'm not sure what "a mug" means in Brittish slang, but I'm sure it's an insult!
Why would I not want to meet Indigo? Is he mean, or does he do odd rituals with dead things late at night? (I personally like meeting many people from all corners of the globe at BB tourneys. So I'm sure meeting Indigo won't be at all as bad as it was meeting you Grumbledook!  )
So, ok fine thats that, I will go to the BB in Nottingham, (or whereever it is in that Weeeeeee Lil Country)
Then after that maybe another in 2006.
(& don't worry Indigo, I don't think you do those nasty rituals! ) |
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Posted: Oct 03, 2004 - 05:26 AM
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| its worse than that he is ginger |
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