Dear members, NAF Blood Bowl has never been so popular. From May 2015-17, we approved circa 600 tournaments. In the first five months of this year, we have been approving at double that rate. This is absolutely brilliant, but it is also an increased workload. Historically, only the NAF Tournament Director has approved tournaments, …
Learning to love Blood Bowl 7s, by Jip Bar tabs, vehicle repair bills, radiation, vegetables, crazy exes. These are all things that are better in small amounts. After six-months of playing Norse in preparation for the NAFC, I found myself saying “oh great, looks like I’m playing Blood Bowl 7s…” with alarming regularity, having watched …
Are you excited about the FIFA world cup? But still rather wanna play Blood Bowl in the evenings? Because, well, it’s Blood Bowl and it’s way better than football! Then I have the perfect event for you: NAFifa World Cup 2018 Represent your nation in an everyone can join format where the 4 best results …
May in NAF Tournaments May has all but gone, and it’s been another month packed full of NAF tournament news and excitement. The first Spike! Journal has arrived from GW, we’ve had more exciting World Cup news and the NAF Championship has been and gone for another year. The Eurobowl closed it’s doors for registration last …
The Englishman’s Guide to International Blood Bowl – Part Uno The benefits of an international Blood Bowl tournament can at first seem manifold. They offer the reclusive, vitamin-deficient English Blood Bowler the chance to experience new and exotic locations. They present an ideal opportunity to cultivate inter-league relationships across the globe and to open up …
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Committee Meeting April 22, 2018 Attending: President Gaixo/Nate, Vice President Tojurub/Torsten, Tournament Director Purplegoo/Phil, Treasurer Geggster/Paul, Membership Director Rolex/Massimo Apologies: League Director Valen Meeting started at 21:00 CET 1. Club Status Data protection issues were brought up by Nate, specifically the access to the different portions of the website. There needs to be a review …
The dust has settled, the NAF results are in the database, the coach page will reflect those results in its own good time, so how was the weekend? As ever, a fair few arrived on the Friday, lots staying at the luxurious Orchard hotel, literally 50 metres from the venue, and with lots of space …
NAF Championship 2018 Final Standings Champion: Podfrey (Dark Elves) Runner-Up: Purplegoo (Humans) League Champion: Hawca (Wood Elf) Most Cas: Fredator (Orc) 26 CAS Most TDs: Macejedi (Wood Elf) 18 TDs Stunty Cup: Gorgoroth (Halflings) Best Newcomer: wwe2015 (Necromantic) Best Painted: Stig’s Wood Elf team “Plantopia” Duel Painting competition winner: Goldeneye Andydavo won the lottery for …
As we come to the end of day 1 at the NAF Champs, here’s a quick look at the representation. After a few years bubbling under, Necro are the most represented team, benefiting from their Tier 2 status, as do Humans. The #FlingNation contingent number 15, so the Stunty cup will be hard fought alongside …
April in NAF Tournaments Somehow, we’re already a third of the way through 2018. How did that happen?! There has been plenty of big Blood Bowl news in April, and lots of it matters if you play in NAF tournaments. Firstly, let’s talk Chaos and the upcoming GW releases. In case you’ve been living under …
Are you excited about the FIFA world cup? But still wanna play Blood Bowl in the evenings? Because, well, it’s Blood Bowl and it’s way better than football! Then I have the perfect event for you: NAFifa World Cup 2018 Represent your nation in an everyone can join format DOO 2018 is coupled with the …
March in NAF Tournaments March has been massive. Not only have we been playing Blood Bowl in 49 tournaments across 4 continents (including one Major), we’ve seen the soft-launch of a new ranking system, fought it out online in the Road to the NAF Championship and learned more about the 2019 NAF World Cup in …
Hi all, Some exciting news for NAF members today, as we are launching our new Glicko ranking system, implemented by Nick Harding / mubo. These rankings aren’t designed to replace the Elo numbers you’ve been used to since NAF rankings began, they are simply a new way of processing NAF data and ranking coaches, and …
Committee Meeting March 4, 2018 Attending: President Gaixo/Nate, Vice President Tojurub/Torsten, Tournament Director Purplegoo/Phil, Treasurer Geggster/Paul, League Director Valen Apologies: Membership Director Rolex/Massimo Meeting started at 21:00 CET / 20:00 UK time / 3 p.m. ET 1. League Director Report (LD) Michael Franchetti (Vanguard) is taking over as the NAF OBBLM Lead from Steve Arthurs. …
February in NAF Tournaments Hello, and welcome to your February round-up of all things NAF tournament! We’ve had another super-full month with a total of 50 events taking place all over the world. We’ve been playing Blood Bowl in Greece, Chile and Malta, Sevens in the USA and Streetbowl in Uruguay. Alongside the real life action, …
I’m happy to announce that for the 4th year in a row we’ll have the Road to the NAF Championship Online Tournament on Fumbbl. this was the original first Online NAF tournament which means we’re now 3 years in and still getting close to 100 participants for the Online Naf tourneys. So let’s get the 100 …
Committee Meeting January 25, 2018 Attending: President Gaixo/Nate, Vice President Tojurub/Torsten, Tournament Director Purplegoo/Phil, Treasurer Geggster/Paul, Membership Director Rolex/Massimo Apologies: League Director Valen Meeting started at 22:00 CET / 21:00 UK time / 4 p.m. ET 1. Welcome new President and new committee members The committee welcomed Tournament Director Phil Pearson and Membership Director Massimo …
At roughly the same time that you’re reading this, the annual NAF account statement will be made public. The largest expenditure is for work on the website, so we anticipate that the membership will have some questions about it. Since most of the things that were done to the website were not really visible to …
Introduction Hello, and welcome to what I hope is going to be a monthly or so blog about all things NAF tournament. As newly installed NAF Tournament Director (TD), I should be talking about tournaments, well, SHOUTING about tournaments, and between this blog and another I’ll mention later, I hope to do just that. …
With the Online Welsh Open coming to a close, we are now ready for the next Fumbbl NAF event which is the: Dungeonbowl (K)Online 2018 Dungeonbowl (K)Online 2018 is coupled with the Dungeonbowl 2018 taking place on March 24th / 25th in Düsseldorf Winner will get a ticket to the Dungeonbowl 2018 Daemons of Khorne …