Are you ready for more NAF Live action? Of course you are! Our fifth online, real-time extravaganza is the most fiendish puzzle to solve yet, as we bring you a virtual version of the Danish Open. Over the weekend of 30/31 May, you will compete in six games of Swiss Blood Bowl in each of …
Dear Members, Since the World Cup in Lucca, the NAF has been running a program where coaches that have played the mandatory 23 team races plus Slann are eligible for a free, commemorative ’24’ patch. Those that have also played Daemons of Khorne and Bretonnians are eligible for extra patches to commemorate ‘doing the …
April Minutes NAF Committee Meeting 26th April 2020 Present: Nate, Paul, James, Anthony, Phil, Massimo Meeting Started at 23:16 CET Welcome (All) The Committee congratulates Paul on his re-election as Treasurer. NAF Gifts (MD) Massimo reports that the dice and tokens have arrived and look fantastic. Will send some pictures so they …
Hi gang! Exciting news, as the next NAF Live event has been announced for the coming weekend (16/17 May). This time, we will be bringing you two one day tournaments with a Light / Dark theme driving the skill package and some increased bragging rights available for those of you joining us for both days. …
With another great event in the books, we now move on to a big one – The NAF Championship. After the successes of The Dungeonbowl Dust-Up and The Eucalyptus Bowl Brouhaha – I’m excited to announce that the third event is now ready to take your application! The pinnacle of NAF play, the Championship was …
After the success of the first NAF Live tournament – The Dungeonbowl Dust-Up – I’m excited to announce that the second event – The Eucalyptus Bowl Brouhaha – is ready to take your application! The gem in the crown of Australian Blood Bowl calendar, the Eucalyptus Bowl (Or simply Eucbowl), was due to be held …
As you might expect this month, my blog is somewhat different to usual. Covid-19 arrived at what felt like lightning speed, and it has dominated everything for a little while now. Blood Bowl has been no different, and we’ve seen almost all March and April tournaments cancelled or postponed, all over the world. While I …
March Minutes NAF Committee meeting 8th March 2020 Present: Nate, Paul, James, Anthony, Phil, Massimo Meeting Started at 19:17 CET Welcome (all) – The Committee welcomes James Russell-Wills AKA Rabid_Bogscum as VP, and congratulates Pr Nate on his re-election. Thanks to Torsten for his years of service. – (VP) Nominations post for Treasurer election …
Dungeonbowl Dust-Up I’m delighted to announce that our first NAF Live tournament, The Dungeonbowl Dust-Up is ready to take your application! The first NAF Major of the year, the Dungeonbowl, was due to be held in Dusseldorf this weekend. Covid-19 intervened, so we are going to bring you the next best thing: six games of …
Dear members, As the Covid-19 pandemic continues, we are noting increasing numbers of NAF tournaments are being postponed or cancelled. Health and well-being comes first, and we support Tournament Organisers talking whatever steps they deem necessary with their events to keep people safe. As we lose these tournaments from the calendar, members are asking us …
Members, Apologies on behalf of the committee for the delay in publishing the accounts for 2019. They have been ready for some time but we wanted some more information from the recent World Cup just to ensure the figures were as accurate as they could be. Having conducted our first committee meeting with myself involved …
After 3 months of Double eliminating every player except PeteW from the Waterbowl tourney we’re now looking at the next online NAF tournament coming up: We’re going back to a team event with the online version of the Tilean Team Cup which takes place in Pisa on the 16th/17th of May 2020. An absolutely brilliant …
Welcome along to another TD blog! Quite a short one this time, which is probably a blessed relief to those of you that dutifully struggle through this each month! Kidding aside, while good things continue to happen, the nature of things is that there’s not always bags of fully formed stuff to report. With that …
Dear members, In order to cope with ever increasing demand, in June of 2018, we announced that Driesfield and Oventa would be joining Purplegoo on the tournament approval staff. We have decided to increase the team still further, and today, we welcome Nate / Gaixo, Nacho / Hachablanca and Matteo / Matte8 to tournament approvals. …
Hi gang, and welcome to a new Blood Bowling decade! Much has happened since I last wrote in this space, but in terms of NAF tournament news, there are three main items to cover. Firstly, GW released the Ogre Spike! Journal, and a new Extraordinary skill caused some confusion for certain parts of the membership. …
Hi all, An exciting NAF ranking development today, as we are introducing our glicko global ranking system! We have been hosting and maintaining our racial glicko rankings for approximately two years now, and in the background, Nick / mubo and Ketil / kyrre have been working on the best way to implement a ‘global’ ranking …
The NAF league locator has been having a few problems – a broken map and lots of spam! This evening I downloaded the data from the NAF League Locator. filtered the rubbish data, and tidied it up a bit to produce a map and list in Tableau: https://public.tableau.com/profile/mike.sann0638.davies#!/vizhome/BBLeagues/USA There is one tab for America and …