Newsletter 21 – October 2014
Your NAF roundup for October, containing: Podcasts Team events Road to NAFC 2015 NAFC 2015 Rules pack Sanctioning and Score updates North American Major results Still here? Go read!
Road to NAFC 2015
by Purplegoo The NAF and FUMBBL are pleased to announce the Road to the NAF Championship 2015! The Road to the NAFC 2014 was a knock out tournament for rookie teams hosted by Cyanide, and the prize was a ticket to the NAFC in Nottingham, UK. This year, FUMBBL will host the tournament, and it …
July and August NAF Minutes
The below is a summary of matters discussed during the NAF Committee Meeting in August 2014. 1 Opening and welcome – Present: Beppe, Geggster, Lycos, Nate and Dave. First meeting to be held over Skype chat rather than Skype calling due to connection issues. Apologies from other members 2 Other points for the agenda 3 …
UK Team Challenge
By Pippy This Winter an exciting new event is coming to the UK, The United Kingdom Team Challenge. The four-player team tournament will take place in the run up to the NAF World Cup 2015 and we hope teams will see this as a try out for the big event in Italy next November. Just …
Team Events
Blood Bowl is an individual game, where you pit your wits and luck against an opponent, one on one, but some events take it beyond this to give the extra layer of camaraderie and banter that comes from being on a team of three, four, six or even eight players, who sit together across the …
Eurobowl Preview
Eurobowl 2014 – Belgium The tenth Eurobowl takes place next month in Ostende, in Belgium, alongside the Europen. The hosts have put together a fantastic package in one hotel, with all food and gaming included, and as a result the weekend of 8-9 November will see 38 Europen teams of 3 and 17 National teams …
Snapshot of Tournament Rules
Inspired by a question asked VoodooMike on the Cyanide forums, here’s an off the top of my head snapshot of whether progression is used by BB tournaments (mostly UK based). Tournament When are skills implemented? Welsh Open All skills upfront Cakebowl All skills upfront Waterbowl All skills upfront Thrudball All skills upfront Monkeybowl All skills …
NAF Newsletter 19
The email version looked nicer, but the info is the same! VOL 19 – JUNE 2014 View Online Translate Hi all, after taking May off the newsletter, there is lots to read in this one! Those of you who follow the Facebook and Twitter feeds or visit …
Cakebowl 4
Photos and results from a fantastic weekend of Blood Bowl and cake at a new venue in Swindon! Scoring was 10/5/0 with 1 point per TD and Cas, to a maximum of 3 each. Now my tournament report: As I arrived at the virtually empty free car park, having advised a couple of people to …
NAFC 2014 Photos
Those who came to NAFC would have seen Indigo prowling with his camera, then setting up his lightbox for the best painted and Duel competitions. Here are the results! Click to make larger.
Big Boys Battle
Big Boys Battle A Tourney Report – or why tourney orga is the most fun-tastic thing on the world After long time of preparation to make the trophies, including my first self-sculptured mini, it finally was tourney time. On Father’s Day, 12 Coaches found their way to Lindau at beautiful Lake Constance. Coaches came from …
NAFC 2015 May 23/24
Hello, We are happy to announce the dates for the 2015 NAF Championship as the 23rd and 24th of May 2015. This is a Bank Holiday weekend. The event will again be held at the East Midlands Conference Centre in Nottingham, England. Tickets will again be priced at £55.00, the rules will be the same …
Intro from new Tournament Director
Hi. I’m your new Tournament Director, Nate Beem. A few of you might know me, either through meeting me at a tournament or from interacting with me online, but for the majority of you this will be our first introduction. I’m 37 and live in Virginia Beach, USA, where I run a Blood Bowl league …
R.O.T. Cup 2014
On April 26, 2014 the premier Blood Bowl tournament in Texas returned to Austin for its second year. For its second installment the number of coaches grew to 18, representing 5 states from as far away as Wisconsin! Throughout the day the coaches clashed for 4 games of Texas style Blood Bowl.The tournament included …
Golden Tentacle 2014
First annual tournament feating trohpies made of Lewdgrip’s cutoff throwing arm … er Tentacle. The first annual Golden Tentacle tournament in Everett, Washington USA finished with a brutal and successful showing by Beorg’s Norse team. Before we go into that, let’s get some others details. Format: The tournament featured a 16 coach cap, with 1.1M …
Report on the NAFC Final
Brilliant sunshine greeted the two combatants as they trotted out to fight for the 4th NAF Championship – Bloodbowl LIII. One on side were the Lizardmen team, Pilous Lézards. These lizards were coached by Frenchman Clement Bozec-Claverie (Bouzzy). He had overcome SCS.Sam’s Chaos Dwarves, Stig’s infamous Nurgle team, Manu’s fantastically painted Dwarves, Galmor’s Wood Elves …
Putting the Boot In Revisited
By Ian ‘Double Skulls’ Williams – taken from the Library of member.thenaf.net Not so long ago I wrote a little article called “Putting the Boot In” that examined that tactics and probabilities of fouling under the LRB4. As many of you will be aware the fouling rules have been substantially rewritten in LRB5 – because …
ARBBL Results 2008-14
Ever been near Andover? Relive the horror here! ARBBL Open 2008 Latest Standings # Team Race NAF Name Score Touchdowns Casualties 1 The Firecrackers Chaos Dwarf Firebreather 84 11 – 7 22 – 5 2 Total Arrogance Pro Elf Gazza 81 19 – 7 12 – 10 3 Sewersidal Tendancies Skaven Venomous_Breath 75 17 – …
Headbangers Ball IV
UP THE IRONS! For the 4th year in a row, Headbangers Ball is the most metal Blood Bowl Tournament in the world. This year was once again another amazing event with 18 coaches in attendance, all clad in heavy metal t-shirts ready to cause some on-the-pitch and real life mosh pits! If you are curious …
Jimany Match Report
Jimjimany has written an in-depth report of a tournament warmup match, giving an insight into the tactical decisions made by one of the world’s best Blood Bowl players. Read on! — Ladies and gentlemen; I present to you a match report. The following is an account of a tournament style game between myself and Andrew …