Pouring Rain Open - September 26th/27th 2015 Bergen Norway

[zulu]

Pouring Rain Open, Bergen

We are pleased to announce the first NAF tournament in Norway, in Bergen. This is the player pack, which contains all the important information you require to compete at the Pouring Rain Open. Important dates, tournament rules and other details can all be found below. We hope your entire experience with the Pouring Rain Open is both enjoyable and successful.

This will take place on the 26th & 27th September 2015.
Welcome to Bergen - Norway
Bergen is a city on the west coast of Norway. Bergen is an international city packed with history and tradition, a big city with small-town charm and atmosphere. http://www.visitbergen.com/en/Articles/ ... to-Bergen/
Getting there and away
You can travel there both by car, bus, train or plane. Should you be coming from abroad the most comfortable and easiest means of travel will most likely be to go by plane.
The airport is called "Bergen Airport Flesland" and is located approximately 20 kilometres from the city centre. There is an express bus service to the city centre that leaves from just outside the exit from the airport every fifteen minutes.
The train station in Bergen is in the city centre. There is a direct route from Oslo to Bergen which is famous for the nice scenery across the Hardangervidda plateau at over 1.000 metres above sea level. See http://www.nsb.no for time tables and prices.
The venue
The venue is located in the City Centre in Olav Kyrresgate 49 at The “Akademiske kvarter.” The “Akademiske kvarter” is the students’ culture house in Bergen. Det Akademiske Kvarter was opened by Crown Prince Håkon 22th of february 1995. Kvarteret has three floors, hosts about 2200 events every year and has an extended capacity of 1500 visitors at a time. The house has 10 rooms daily used for debates, concerts and other events, over 12 serving points, – and thousands of visitors every week. http://kvarteret.no/om-kvarteret/

The Cost
150 NOK for NAF members, 200 NOK for non-NAF members.
Note it will be possible to join the NAF at the event.

Paypal sj_norway@hotmail.com with your name and NAF Name and Number (if you are a member) marking payment as Pouring Rain Open.
Please mark the payment as a Personal Gift as otherwise Paypal swipes a percentage.

Accomodation
Hotels within five minutes walking distance from the venue include:
Citybox (2-star): http://citybox.no/?lang=en&loc=Bergen
Scandic Byparken* (3-star): http://www.scandichotels.com/Hotels/Nor ... n/Byparken
Scandic Bergen City (3-star): http://www.scandichotels.no/Hotels/Norg ... rgen-City/
Radisson Blu Hotel Norge (4-star): http://www.radissonblu.com/hotelnorge-bergen
*recommended
For more options
http://www.visitbergen.com/en/WHERE-TO-STAY/



Tournament Rules

The Players
All the players that attend the Tournament are expected to conduct themselves appropriately throughout the tournament. That includes playing the game in the right spirit, making sure they have everything they need (dice, templates, clear team rosters and their team!) and in general contributing to a friendly environment where everyone can enjoy both their games and the time spent in between rounds with their peers. The tournament organizers will do their best to ensure that the tournament runs smoothly and everything is provided to enable the players to get as much enjoyment as possible from the event, and likewise the players should do their utmost to hold up their end of the bargain. Most important of all, enjoy yourself!

The Officials
The officials for the tournament are 100% committed to ensuring that your Pouring Rain Open experience is the best it can possibly be. Our job is to make sure everything runs smoothly and that you can concentrate solely on your task at hand and that is to play the best you can for 2 days against likeminded people that share your love of the Bloodbowl hobby. We would like to state we are looking forward to the event as much as the players and pledge to do our best to run the event as smoothly and professionally as possible.


General Format

Team Size: 110000 Rounds: 6
The Pouring Rain Open is being run using the latest Bloodbowl competition rules.
All teams may be used including Slann, Chaos Pact & Underworld.
Coaches have a maximum of 1,100,000 to build their team and teams must consist of a minimum of 11 players. 1 Star Player per team is allowed and only after the minimum 11 players has been purchased.
Your team must be painted with a minimum of three colours and based.
All models must be WYSIWYG and proxies are not allowed.

For Game 3 only , there will be a special rule in place to reflect Bergen’s reputation as one of the wettest places in Europe. On the Weather table Nice and Pouring Rain will be swapped, (So 4-10 is Pouring Rain, 11 is Nice) and regardless of the result in the kickoff chart there will always be a gust of wind.

Skills

TIER 1 - Amazon, Chaos Dwarf, Dark Elf, Dwarf, Lizardmen, Necromantic, Norse, Orc, Skaven, Undead, Wood Elf

TIER 2 - Chaos, Chaos Pact, (Pro) Elf, High Elf, Human, Khemri, Nurgle, Slann, Underworld, Vampire

TIER 3 - Goblin, Halfling, Ogre

DAY 1 SKILLS (Saturday morning, at the start of the tournament)

Tier 1: 3 normal skills
Tier 2: 4 normal skills + 1 ‘double’ skill
Tier 3: 3 normal skills + 2 ‘double’ skills

DAY 2 SKILLS (Sunday morning, before round 4)

Tier 1: 3 normal skills
Tier 2: 3 normal skills
Tier 3: 3 normal skills

Stacking is not allowed, no player can ever receive more than one skill.

All skills must be clearly noted on all copies of your team roster before the tournament starts. It must be clear to everyone which skills are “day 1 skills” and which skills are “day 2 skills”.

All positions and all skills must be written in English to avoid language confusion.

You will be asked to hand in a copy of your team roster to the tournament organisation before the tournament starts.

Illegal procedures will not be called throughout the tournament.
The 4 minute turn limit will not be specifically enforced throughout the tournament. There is however a strict 2 hour time limit for each game. If an official believes that a game will not be completed within the allotted time they may enforce the 4 minute rule.
All inducements except for wizards and random cards can be used.
All players will be healed back to full starting strength before each match

Draw for Round 1 will be random. Draw for subsequent rounds will use the SWISS system.

Tournament Scoring
Points for the games will be awarded accordingly:
15 points for a win
5 points for a draw
0 points for a loss
-15 points for conceding

Head to Head result will be used in the event of a tiebreaker situation followed by the toughness of schedule and Touchdowns.

Prizes
Trophies/prizes will be awarded for the following:
Pouring Rain Open Winner
Pouring rain Open Runner Up
Most Touchdowns
Most Casualties

All players will get small memento from the Pouring Rain Open



Final Word
As we mentioned at the start we hope everybody has fun during our
tournament. If you have any further questions or queries, please don’t hesitate
to contact us. You can contact us via PM on this site or email me at sj_norway@hotmail.com.

Saturday
11-1130 Registration
11-30 Game 1
14.00to 15-00 Kvarteret Brunch (not included in ticket price)
15-00 Game 2
17-15 Game 3
19-30 Day 1 close

Sunday
10-00 Game 1
12.00to 13-00 Lunch
13-00 Game 2
15-15 Game 3
17-30 Day 2 close

[goldbaek]

Congratulations on hosting your first official NAF tourney guys! I hope to be able to attend this historic event

[straume]

Cool. And Welcome!

[straume]

Website is up: http://pouringrainopen.org/

[straume]

A few weeks to go and currently 20 persons applied. Sign up guys! See our web site for details.

[lunchmoney]

See our web site for details.

Cant see a link to your site?

[straume]

See our web site for details.

Cant see a link to your site?

http://pouringrainopen.org/

[lunchmoney]

See our web site for details.

Cant see a link to your site?

http://pouringrainopen.org/

Ah yes. I was trawling the first post and didnt see you had put it in a reply post.

[Bad Seeds]

22 eager coaches turned up and seemed to have a good time.

Once again many thanks to our travelling guests, especially the Swedes who really did give the tournament the boost it needed. They took home 1st and 2nd place as well, delivering some very fine blood bowl.

[Mago]

I had a good time and would consider 22 coaches for a first time tournament a success. The town felt nice and it was easy (and pretty cheap) getting there and home again.

Time and funds permitting I would be happy to return next year.

It's also good that it seems like the scene in Norway is growing. A EuroBowl team last year, first NAF tournament this year... Seems like good things are coming.

[RoterSternHochdahl]

It's nice to hear you had a succesful start!

[straume]

I had a good time and would consider 22 coaches for a first time tournament a success. The town felt nice and it was easy (and pretty cheap) getting there and home again.

Time and funds permitting I would be happy to return next year.

It's also good that it seems like the scene in Norway is growing. A EuroBowl team last year, first NAF tournament this year... Seems like good things are coming.

Thanks for the kinds words and thanks for coming!

I would add: The BB scene in Norway (Bergen particularly) is actually rather old (since back in the "good(?)" old 3rd edition). What is new is that we discovered NAF and the rest of the world!

And guess what: For that we have Cyanide and BB1 to thank for. So something you might not hear a lot on these (or any other) forum,: Yay for Cyanide

[Itchen Masack]

hehe funny you should say that, I discovered TFF, the NAF and TT blood bowl through a combination of Cyanide and Darkson. Yes. Darkson

[zulu]

As already posted 22 coachs signed up for the first NAF tournament in Norway. This included a contingent of 7 from Sweden. No major hiccups , and we have a few learning points for next year.
Thank you for all making the effort to attend, and also thanks to Marius who stood in as a reserve at very short notice on the Sunday.

Results:

Winner: pellevin - Humans
Runner up : Melisqus - Dwarves
3rd place: mynock - Pro Elf

Most TDs: Endalos 14 - Wood elves
Most Cas: zulu501 22 - Dwarves

Results have been submitted to NAF.