Guidelines
Current Series (2025)
Archive:
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Tournament Series are a great way to encourage coaches to compete in multiple tournaments in one region. They work by allocating a points total for every event you compete in within a series, with the player who achieves the highest total points score being crowned the series champion! The NAF will provide prizes for the top 3 places and the top stunty coach for any NAF approved tournament series.
Tournament series have existed in Blood Bowl for almost as long as tournaments and are a good way to increase regional cooperation, competition and camaraderie. The NAF allows two tournament series types: structured and open. Approval and support of all tournament series is provided by an appointed Tournament Series Coordinator (TSC), currently Topas. You can view all of the guidelines which define both types and introduce a suggested scoring system here. Series Organizers will receive prizes (pins) for the first, second and third ranked player at the end of the year and also for best stunty. In addition they can use a NAF approved logo on their series website.
There are several tournament series running across the globe. For a list of all active series, you can view this handy page which breaks them down by region.
We will soon be creating a page to honour all past winners.
Frequently Asked Quetions
Q: How do I get a tournament series NAF approved?
A: The best thing to do is to chat to Topas who will guide you through the process.
Q: Why should I request NAF approval for my series?
A: The series organizer will receive prizes for first to third ranked player and best stunty. Also a NAF logo can be used to show that the series is NAF approved and the series will be publicly listed on the series overview page. Future enhancement will be that the series winner have this accolade be listed on their coach page.
Q: What do I need to consider about the scoring?
A: There is one example in the guideline that has worked well over the years. Of course you can also come up with your own scoring system. The most important thing is that it is clearly defined when you register the series and the scoring must not change afterwards (or talk to the NAF Tournament Series Coordinator, currently Topas). Other than that you should allow for players to not attend all tournaments and therefore only use the e.g. best four results for each coach. You can consider that these scores need to be performed by at least two different races if you want. Winning a bigger tournament should give more points that winning a smaller tournament and two-day tournaments should also give more points that one-day tournaments, but all of this (except the clearly defined in advance item) is optional for your consideration.
Q: How should I handle squad tournaments?
A: There is no clear answer to that other than that you should clearly define that it advance, how you handle it. Options are:
individual rankings: this is often done but it means that players that join teams with lot of inexperienced players that lose most games benefit from easier opponents and therefore can score higher than their playing level would allow.
rankings by squad: better option in my opinion, however, it could lead to competitive players not wanting to play with their friends when they are not up to their standard and the players are afraid they get dragged down be them.
exclude squad tournaments from series: not necessarily the option you want to use depending on how many tournaments your series already has. However, if the tournament is so big that winning this tournament would give the most points and is most critical for the overall series ranking, I would actually exclude it due to the downsides mentioned above for both other options.
In the end a mixed option like individual rankings and adding one point for coaches in the winning squad might also be an option.