Present: Mike, Paul, Torsten, Nate, Gavin Apologies: Manuel Website update Significant improvements continue to be made to the database, and there are more imminent. The online registration is now fixed, having been broken for a while, and the coach page now contains more information. We discussed changing the names of the races so that they …
OK, so this is quite an emotional moment for me. Not up there with my wedding, or the birth of my children, but in terms of Blood Bowl this is alongside reffing at the World Cup or winning my first tournament (both good things). This is why I am indulging myself by writing a personal …
Following the vote held in September 2017, the NAF Committee has decided that Bretonnians and Khorne will be added as races to the NAF database. Tournaments will be allowed to include these as official races from 1st January 2018, but this will be up to the individual Tournament Organiser. The inclusion or exclusion of these …
Net CR for a tournament is now fixed (4th October) When you click on a tournament, the correct variant is now chosen for the associated rankings
The results are in on the vote on additional races, the stats for which can be found here. Out of the 3600 members eligible to vote, we had 803 votes for the 4 options (22.5% turnout), with around 10 blank votes, though these are not shown in the results. Khorne and Bretonnian 556 Khorne 30 …
NAF Committee: 10th September 17 Present: Mike, Torsten, Paul Apologies: Nate, Gavin, Manuel Website update The bulk of the adjustments to the database are complete, and from now on it will be cosmetic improvements, such as being easier to find who has won particular tournaments. The activation process also needs fixing, along with some minor …
As mentioned in the NAF minutes and various newsletters, in the next few days we will open up a vote as to whether Khorne and Bretonnians should be added as NAF-sanctioned races. The effect of this could be that eventually to be a NAF-sanctioned tournament these races would need to be allowed to be included, …
With the Online Rankings up to date and the Eurobowl almost in sight, it’s time for the next NAF online event €uropen Online is a team tournament with Squads of 3 coaches each coaching a different race. Eurobowl / Europen Rules are in place, this includes 3 different tiers Group stage is 6 weekly games …
Latest update on the rankings! Thanks to some sterling work from Strider84, Christer and myself (ahem), all the Fumbbl tournaments are now in the database, and the rankings should be correct for them. Integrating the Online tournaments is still a work in progress, and more will be done in September. There are some things to …
Thrudball.com! Top 4 as shown below! Winner – Itchen Runner-up – Rubick 3rd – Cornish Glowworm – Oon Best Team – The French Most Casualties – Nazgob Most Touchdowns – ddark Stunty Cup – Twelfman Best Thrudling – Enderman Dockbowl Winner – Laraigne Best Defence – Mawph (slight maths error at time of awarding the prizes!) …
Following the previous Rankings post, a fair amount of testing has gone on getting the rankings working, so thank you to everyone who has been patient with the various iterations. We think we’re there now! So, some points to be aware of: when new games are added, and the button is pressed, it will take …
As mentioned in the last few NAF minutes, there is a lot of work being done on the NAF rankings, which is causing some instability at the moment. Some games are missing from people’s profiles, and the numbers will occasionally change. Please do bear with us until this work is completed, and rest assured that …
Meeting held on Skype on 23rd July 2017 Present: Mike (sann0638, President), Paul (geggster, Treasurer), Torsten (tojurub, VP), Nate (gaixo, TD), Gavin (Valen, LD) League Director handover – Welcome to Gavin and thanks to Jonas (RoterSternHochDahl) – Congratulations to Gavin for the winning the election Website – Work on the rankings continues, with incorporating variants, …
What can I expect at my first Blood Bowl Tournament? I was really honoured to be invited to write an article for the NAF about advice for new tournament coaches… is how I’d like to start this article. Myself (and Merrick) at Elflympics. Think this was about four GFIs into his spot prize-winning ten …
Hi all! It’s about time for another FUMBBL/NAF tournament, wouldn’t you say? And what better tournament to run than the mother of all headache-inducing matches… Speedbowl! -Full ruleset can be found here- Quick summary though: Five matches, with one week rounds. 1150TV. 6 skills, including one double. 3/1/0 W/D/L. One minute turns. Prize is a …
Further developments on the NAF website! For a while, there have been some tournaments around the world played as Sevens, Streetbowl, or pure Dungeonbowl tournaments. Now, for the first time, these tournaments have their own rankings. The main (and default) “Variant” is still “Blood Bowl”, and so the vast majority of games in the database …
Date: 28th May Paul absent for first discussion, all others present. League Director Election The LD election is due – we will have 2 weeks for nominations, 2 weeks for discussion, 1 week for voting. A specification of the job will be posted alongside. Update on website – It is now possible to include new …
Dear Members, It is time to start the election for our League Director The time-table will be as follows: -June 4th nominations open -June 18th nominations end, Q&A begins -July 1st election opens, Q&A will continue -July 9th (20:00 CEST) election ends There will be separate threads for both Nominations, Q&A and the final election. …
The 2020 version of the NAF Tournament Rules describes how the NAF has incorporated GW’s BB2016 rules released to date (1 Nov. 2019). NAF Rules for Tournaments 2020
This year was the first year of tiering at the NAFC, and while there are other factors in play (cool models, preparing for big tournaments, general preference), it’s interesting to see the variation in races between the years. These were the Tiers: So from 2016 to 2017, this is what we see. Race 2017 % …