Brassbowl 8 december 11th and 12th in Oostende, Belgium

[mepmuff]

Games, chicken and zeegeuzen Looking forward to this!

[Gorbad]

I'll be arriving in Oostende at around 22:00, which is too late to check in to 'De Ploate', so who else will be staying there and getting drunk in Oostende until late (AND has a key to the Hostel!)?

[mepmuff]

Not staying at the ploate myself this year, but contact Dries and/or Sjapie. I read on the belgian forum they're arranging a key and sheets for someone else as well.

[Vigfus]

Gorbad, Have you already booked at The Ploate. We have someone booked there under the name bloodbowl, but we don't have a name. We'll make sure we've got the key to the room so everybody can get into their room. This does mean that we need to know who is coming to the hostel this year.

For everyone else:
These are the people that we know of that have currently booked a room at The Ploate. I have confirmed these bookings with the hostel:
Dave Downes
Paul Gegg
Joe Hainstock
David Candlish
Steven Van De Perre
Gercon Goncalves
Johnathan Iotta
Rob-Bert Valkeneers
A Mysterious person by the name of Bloodbowl (internet booking)

There is still plenty of place in the youth hostel, but they need to know if you're coming or not.

For those coming over on friday, in the club, we've foreseen pastry (free) for both club members and Brassbowl participants. Saturday noon we'll have sandwiches available. On Sunday afternoon we'll serve spaghetti. For vegetarians, we'll have a vegetarian spaghetti option.

The Chicken shack has also been warned we'll be coming over on Saturday night.

In case anybody needs to contact me concerning the tournament, you can do so on my cellphone ++32/476/96.28.92. You can also use Dries' but he's currently not very talkative (he's got a severe cold on his larynx).

[Magic Dave]

Sorry guys but i can't make it this year.

All the best.

[Gorbad]

Gorbad, Have you already booked at The Ploate. We have someone booked there under the name bloodbowl, but we don't have a name. We'll make sure we've got the key to the room so everybody can get into their room. This does mean that we need to know who is coming to the hostel this year.

I reserved via e-mail in De Ploate. I don't think I am a mysterious person called Bloodbowl, but who knows?

But as I see that some of our English friends are in the hostel as well, and are also known for staying out way past any regular hours, I don't see any problems

[Leipziger]

Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot! Excitement building here Can't wait for the weekend!

[Leipziger]

Day 1 has finished and it is pretty tight at the top, but the big game for tomorrow is on table 4 where Indigo's Undead play Valen's goblins

[driesfield]

This years Brassbowl had passed again with a lot of casualties.
Christof and I wish to thank all the attending players and I hope everybody had a great time.
We wish to congratulate Michel Schaake (Mepmuff) with his victory and Mats Clays (Da_Great_MC) with his second place.
Marc Schutz (Draco) got most cas with a whoopin' 40!
Wim Helsen (LuinTost) had most Td's with 11
Christof (Sjapie) was stunty King.
Wooden Spoon was for Steven Van Der Perre.
Best Painted went to Tom De Wulf (LordWriggly)
best foreign coach was Michel Schaake (the price went to Peter Meijer)
Best Belgian coach was mats Clays (price went to Jelle Cornelus)

1° Michel Schaake - Mepmuff- Khemri
2° Matc Clays - Da_Great_MC- Nurgle Rotters
3° Dries Goutsmit -Driesfield- Necromantic
4° Jelle Cornelus -Quetzal- Lizardman Best Belgian coach
5° Peter Meijer -Miloquaser- Dark Elf Best Foreign coach
6° Paul Gegg -geggster- Vampire
7° Sean Van Osselaer -Masterfit- Undead
8° David Candlish -Indigo- Undead
9° Wim Helsen -LuinToST- Necromantic Most TD's
10° Joe Hainstock -Joemanji- Human
11° Christof Simons -Sjapie- Goblins Stunty King
12° Gavin Sutton -Valen- Goblin
13° Daivd Downes -Lycos- Lizardman
14° Klaas Bernaert -Mr_Sandman- Orc
15° Wouter Mannens -Zoror- Undead
16° Jean-Jacques Bernkens -JJ- Undead
17° Tom Pellecom -Pelle- Lizardman
18° Jelmer Bergsma -Jelmer- Necromantic
19° Gerson Goncalves -Oon- Norse
20° Bart Verstuyft -MagicTobe- Necromantic
21° Bram Serbuyrns -Gesmachiene- human
22° Robbert Valkeneers -Xod- Dark Elf
23° Dirk Rykx -TheOrk- Skaven
24° Karel Meuleman -Carloz- Lizardman
25° Ruward Leenstra -Gorbad- Necromantic
26° Jonathan Iotta -French_Maverick- Necromantic
27° Gregory Claesens -Elminster- Chaos
28° Jort Lippmann -Furious_fleabag- Chaos
29° Marc Schutz -Draco- Ogre Most Cas
30° Richard Schaake -DukeJan- Nurgle Rotters
31° Wouter Wyckmans -Woete- Norse
32° Tom De Wulf -Lord Wriggly- Goblin Best Painted
33° Jurgen Decneut -Hellboy- Wood Elf
34° Jonas Tanghe -El_hombre- Wood Elf
35° Juke De Winter - Juke- Lizardman
36° Tim Coupez -Timtje- Norse
37° Alex Wormall -Leipziger- Khemri
38° Steven Vandeperre - Skaven Wooden Spoon

[Lycos]

Now 1am in uk and back home!

Thank you to Dries, Christoff and the guys for a great weekend. Road trip, Dominion, Beer, BB, more beer, Chicken, beer, more bb, laughs and then do it all again next day etc etc. (I missed out sleep as we got so little).
Love it. Great fun. What a great tournament.

Well done to winners and as you can expect, I will be back.

[Duke Jan]

Great tournament as always. It was probably the best edition I have attended so far (How on earth did you guys do that?). Special thanks to Sjapie and Dries.

Next year I have to remember bringing my Ambi-Pur Garlic/Paprika (Patent Pending Leipziger) to drive away the smell of the kitchen.

[Joemanji]

Thanks guys! Great tournament, so welcoming and friendly. Thanks to everyone for breaking me on the Saturday night too.

[mepmuff]

Big thanks to Dries and Christoff (and support) for organizing. It was a blast! Loved the format, and especially the effect it had on the races taken. After three rounds I think there were Khemri, Nurgle, Vampires, Orcs, Humans and even goblins in the top ten!

Thanks to my opponents as well for five enjoyable matches.

I played against Greg (Chaos, won), Peter (Dark Elves, won), Mats (Nurgle, tied), Joe (Humans, won) and Gavin (Goblins, won) in that order.

Of course I did have my share of luck. Against Greg it was mostly the fact that ST5 is higher than ST4 which clenched the deal. Against Peter I had to resort to passing after he rolled his second blitz, so I kinda felt I deserved for that to work Beside that this game was won on knocking out Dark Elves. I think my game against Mats was balanced. He got the first half, I got the second. Most of my luck went into the game against Joe, where I really wasn't able to break his line without having to resort to shenanigans. The term utter horseshit was used at several points Against Gavin's Goblins I finally managed to get the casualties rolling and work on my tie breaker. Funnest thing from that game was that with his second to last goblin, Gavin blitzes my Throw-Ra half-diced, stuns him, catches the bounce and runs away. Only to be knocked over again after which the bloody thing gets up, picks up in 2 TZ's and gets 2 squares from my end-zone. I did manage to knock him over at that point and had 3 turns left for my 24 square march to the end-zone

For those interested, my setup was: Guard on a TG, Mighty Blow on a TG and a Blitz-Ra, Block on the Throw-Ra. I took a twelve man roster with 2FF, 1AC and 1CL instead of a thirteenth man and that was a good decision. Thick Skull keeps the skellies on the pitch and having FAME (and more importantly not having +2 FAME against) really helps throughout 5 games. For day two I added Block on the Guard, Might Blow on another TG, Frenzy on the MB Blitz-Ra and Tackle on the other Blitz-Ra. Those were picked knowing I'd play Joe's humans in the morning.

[Valen]

Great torni and will be back next year.

Goblins are great really great fun. Indigo, hang your head in shame young man

[Indigo]

/hung