ThrudBall 2009 25th -26th July (UK Champion Tournament)

mattwhile · Post by **mattwhile** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 12:53 pm

Grumbledook wrote:glad it doesn't involve shane, pippy and wightlord

Grumbledook · Post by **Grumbledook** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 5:46 pm

Lycos and Stick in the final again for the third year running, though this time Lycos finally managed to beat Stick.

mattwhile got the most points overall to come in third place, was all very close at the top

had a great laugh and over £1500 was raised from the auction, with more getting added from various other things, I'm sure frank will post a total when he has one

Darkson · Post by **Darkson** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 10:34 pm

Congrats to Frank again - good job.

Boo to Stick and especially Lycos - about time he started letting others get a look in.

Extremely pi$$ed off to have to work late this weekend, and next. Roll on Albion...

Grumbledook · Post by **Grumbledook** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 12:06 am

stick was 1 point ahead after 5 games

lycos, matt and iirc ben (don't know his naf name) were all tied 1 point behind him

first differential was TD scored (i think difference is better but it is TD scored on the rules pack for the tournament) and all 3 of them had scored 9 touchdowns (matt had the best difference though)

so the next was CAS caused matt and ben had caused 11 each but lycos won it with 13, so he got his third final in a row and finally a win

had a blast though and some really really good games, the french guys who stayed at mine were all good and really got in the spirit of things

some crazy stuff happened on the saturday night (when doesn't it)

though with how close things were at the top of the table I think all those guys did really well and one of any number of coaches could have won it

the only bad thing about the weekend was that I lost to a ginger ;[

Post by **lunchmoney** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 6:07 am

Grumbledook wrote:.... ben (don't know his naf name) ......

Ben is Blood Bowl Nut.

Gratz all round to the winners. I didnt get last

34th after 2-1-3.

Glowworm · Post by **Glowworm** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 7:41 am

Many thanks to all who made it happen, had a great time ( & got a free pie, just doesnt get better than that

)

Big shout to all my opponents, had 6 great games, difficult to say any one stood out they where all really close matches ( except the 3-0 stuffing I got) however killing the Minotaur with a skink did get a round of applause from the hall

Hope to see you all next year, yes i will be defending my title (Stunty Cup)

SillySod · Post by **SillySod** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 1:39 pm

Fantastic tournament. Well organised, smoothly run, and a good giggle.

Matty was the real loser here, if only he'd had some guts with Thrud. Alas it seemed that Thrudwhile had spotted Geoff in the crowd and ran off to give him a cuddle.... eventually costing him the game as well as those crucial casualties

Time to write some poetry

Indigo · Post by **Indigo** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 3:39 pm

Grumbledook wrote:good stuff aint seen you in yonks

Grumbledook wrote:the only bad thing about the weekend was that I lost to a ginger ;[

Hahahahahahaha pwned.

Glowworm · Post by **Glowworm** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 6:19 pm

Grumbledook wrote:the only bad thing about the weekend was that I lost to a ginger ;[

Was it buggritt ? If so you have my sympathy!!!

DeeTee · Post by **DeeTee** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 6:59 pm

Fab Tourney. Great organisation, great opponents.... slightly sucky results

Ah well... better luck next time!

I had an awesome time. Top marks to Frank and his team and thanks to everyone I met across the table... if you could refrain from scoring quite so much next time around I would be most grateful!

duttydave · Post by **duttydave** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 7:05 pm

Well done Frank, Mark and Alf (Althea).

Great tourney and some great games.

I learned some new BB Terminology from my last round opponent who was French. It seems our cross channel friends refer to a Crowd Surf as a 'Push into the Public' which I found quite amusing.

Giraffe · Post by **Giraffe** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 7:10 pm

Aaron sorry for the spawny TDs!!! Oh, And putting 5 of your Orcs in the Dead and injured box!

Still reeling from the Mealy Worms Snowballing incident...and Mike Morelli's BLEEDING Bare Waxed Armpits...and all four Thrudlike competitors Thrudlike stories...

Not sure we can surpass this years achievements...

gotta go, have about 3 weeks work to do (doing a 6AM - 10PM all week!)

hence piccys and selected video footage (FWPOTE!) will take me a week or two to get onto utube &or website...

PLEASE email me or put on this post any tourny pictures you took so I can add them to the archive 2009!

Thrudtastic!!!
Frank

musicwithrocksin · Post by **musicwithrocksin** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:25 pm

Congrats to the winners, and many thanks to everyone who organised the Thrudbowl and those who turned up to play. A big thanks to everyone who I was up against for making every game a good 'un. If this is the standard of non-GW tournys then I shant be bothering with the GT again.
Great atmosphere and a great weekend. Thanks again y'all.

Lycos · Post by **Lycos** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 9:07 pm

Was a great weekend and above all, well done to all for raising £1500 for cancer charities. That is a fantastic effort and puts any results in the right place.

The results are in the NAF site and may I say thanks to all my 6 oppo's for great games and roll on next year.

Also... the Stick made his 4th final in a row. Impressive.

Giraffe · Post by **Giraffe** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 11:55 am

Hopefully we should raise more than this, the £1500 was just the auction total - we also have ticket sales, ltd edition merchandice (not for resale, remember, chaps, please!) and the Bush Tucker Trial sponsor money, plus collections at the Rox Festival in Bognor and Tescos to go....

...plus some idiot is jumping out of a perfectly good aeroplane...

11th September, wish me luck(and a soft landing)!
Frank