The Nottingham GT: Blood Bowl. 13/14th January 2024.

[Pauluktc]

Hello,

2 Day Blood Bowl event in Nottingham. NAF approved. https://member.thenaf.net/index.php?mod ... ew&id=7748

WHERE
Harvey Hadden Sports Village, Wigman Rd, Nottingham NG8 4PB

TICKETS
https://www.uktc.events/product-page/th ... am-gt-2024
Tickets are £40, make sure to choose Blood Bowl as the game system.

WHAT IS IT
This event is part of a brand new series of Blood Bowl events. Over two days attendees will play six rounds with three rounds on the Saturday and three on the Sunday.
This is a 1,150,000gp tournament and uses Games Workshop's match play guide as a guidance.
WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING
Your painted and based Blood Bowl team.
Dice.
The core rules for Blood Bowl.
Any relevant rules, supplements, and FAQs for your Blood Bowl team.
This gaming pack.
Optionally you can bring your own Pitch and Dugouts, or use the Neoprene pitches shown below.

Digital copies are fine.

EVENT TIMINGS
To avoid queues we will be digitally registering attendees and doing the first round draw before the event. When you arrive on Saturday, please proceed directly to your table. You are welcome to start your game as soon as you and your opponent are ready. There will be a short announcement which formally marks the start of round one.

Saturday
Doors open 0900
Arrival 09:00 - 09:45
Welcome Speech 09:45 - 10:00
Round 1 10:00 - 12:30
Lunch 12:30 - 13:30
Round 2 13:30 - 16:00
Round 3 16:30 - 19:00

Sunday
Doors open 09:00
Round 4 09:30 - 12:00
Lunch 12:00 - 13:00
Round 5 13:00 - 15:30
Round 6 15:30 - 18:00
Awards 18:00 - 18:30

REGISTRATION
Coaches will need to create a digital roster on TourPlay and register for the event. Rosters will be locked 7 days before the event.

Nottingham GT:
https://tourplay.net/en/blood-bowl/the- ... blood-bowl

TEAM BUILDING
Coaches will have 1,150,000gp to spend on their rosters and any inducements.
Each team will have a number of free skills that they can add to their team based upon their tier, and each player can only be given a maximum of 2 skills.
Stat increases may not be purchased.

Tier 1: 6 primary skills.
Tier 2: 6 primary skills, and 1 secondary skill.
Tier 3: 6 primary skills, and 2 secondary skills, only tier 3 teams may include star players.

If a tier 3 team takes any MEGA STARS then for each one taken the team gets 2 less skills.
For example: A Goblin team takes Morg ‘n’ Thorg, then that team only has 4 skills and 2 secondary skills they can add to the team.

Tier 1: Amazon, Chaos Dwarf, Dark Elf, Dwarf, High Elf, Lizardman, Norse, Shambling Undead, Skaven, Underworld Denizens, Wood Elves
Tier 2: Black Orc, Chaos Chosen, Chaos Renegade, Elven Union, Human, Imperial Nobility,
Khorne, Necromantic Horror, Nurgle, Old World Alliance, Orc, Slann, Tomb Kings, Vampire
Tier 3: Goblin, Halfling, Ogre, Snotling

MEGA-STARS are Bomber Dribblesnot, Deeproot Strongbranch, Griff Oberwald, Hakflem Skuttlespike, Kreek ‘the Verminator’ Rustgouger, Morg ‘n’ Thorg


SCORING AND TIEBREAKERS
GAMES

This event will be played using a resurrection format meaning that any casualties will not carry over into following rounds. It will use the most up to date GW FAQ, currently May 2023.
FAQs - Warhammer Community (warhammer-community.com)

At the end of each game, coaches will need to record the result. This includes: who won, lost or drew; the number of Bonus Points earned; the number of touchdowns each team scored; and the number of casualties inflicted by each team. If the coaches do not finish the game before the time runs out, then play continues until the end of the current turn at which point the score at that point will become the final result.

Coaches will earn a number of Tournament Points depending on how they did in their games. Coaches will earn 2 Tournament Points for a win, 1 Tournament Point for a draw, and 0 Tournament Points for a loss.

It is important that both players provide all of the information as it is all used for the tiebreakers to work out who is where in the rankings.

RANKING
Players are ranked according to the number of Tournament Points they have; the more Tournament Points a player has, the higher they are in the rankings.

Where players are tied on the number of Tournament Points, there are a number of Tiebreakers to be used to determine who is placed higher.

The first Tiebreaker is the number of Bonus Points a coach has earned. Bonus Points are earned in each game for meeting the following criteria:
Scoring 3 or more touchdowns - 1 Bonus Point
Conceding 0 touchdowns - 1 Bonus Point
Inflicting 3 or more Casualties (counting only those that would normally award Star Player Points) - 1 Bonus Point

If coaches are still tied, the second Tiebreaker is a coaches Touchdown Difference, which is equal to the number of touchdowns they have scored across all of their games minus the number of touchdowns they have conceded across all of their games.

If coaches are still tied, the third Tiebreaker is the total number of touchdowns a coach has scored across all their games, with the coach who has scored the most being higher in the rankings.

If coaches are still tied, the fourth Tiebreaker is the total number of casualties a coach has inflicted across all their games, with the coach who has inflicted the most being higher in the rankings.

PAIRING SYSTEM

ROUND 1
For the first round, players are paired together randomly. If there is an odd number of players then one random player will be given a Bye.

BYE
A Bye counts as winning the game 3-0, and having caused 3 casualties. This will award 2 Tournament Points and 3 Bonus Points for the purpose of Tiebreakers. The maximum score possible.

Playing the Spare Player
Regardless of the game result, the player matched against the Spare Player will count as winning the game 3-0, and inflicting 3 casualties. This will award 2 Tournament Points and 3 Bonus points for the purpose of Tiebreakers. So a maximum score.

CONCEDING
Should a player concede a game, their opponent will automatically receive a 3-0 win (unless the score at the time of conceding was better) and will receive the maximum number of Bonus Points available. Additionally, the player who conceded will receive no Bonus Points whatsoever and will also suffer a penalty of -1 Tournament Point.

SUBSEQUENT ROUNDS
For subsequent rounds, player are paired as follows:
The player who is highest in the rankings will play the player who is second in the rankings, the player in third will play the player in fourth, the player in fifth will play the player in sixth and so on until all players are paired up. If a player is supposed to play an opponent they have already played, the lowest ranked of the two will swap places with the highest ranked player on the rankings table below them.
This system is used for all rounds after the first, including the final round with one small adjustment. In the final round players will not swap opponents if they draw a player they have already faced; the two are clearly equally matched and will face off one last time!

PITCHES
This event will use bespoke Neoprene Blood Bowl Pitches as default. Please note that the Kick off table on these Neoprene pitches are from BB16 and the Kick Off table is incorrect on some results. Use the BB20 rulebook for correct play on Kick Off results. Also the Throwing Grid is from BB16, the only difference is that Squares 13 by 2 should also be red to be in range for a Long Bomb attempt.

AWARDS
Awards: 1st place (highest scoring coach)
2nd place (best runner up)
3rd place
Wooden spoon (most determined coach)
Most sporting (player vote)
Best painted (player vote)

PAINTING REQUIREMENTS
All miniatures are required to be painted and finished to a tabletop standard, with basing done.
Conversions and 3rd party miniatures are accepted as long as they can be matched to the appropriate entry on the roster.

PROMOTIONAL OFFERS
Group discount. If you buy 3 tickets for the event at one time we will provide you a 4th for free. After purchase, email the seller the order number and the name and email that you want the 4th ticket to go to. The free ticket will then be emailed to them.

Free drink. Also for this event there is a offer for the first 24 tickets sold, if you buy one of the first 24 tickets to be sold you will get a free drink of your choice from our bar at the event. Simply come to the bar with your order number during the event. (soft drinks and tea/coffee also available).

Swag programme. When a friend buys a ticket, if they write your name in the 'Add a note' section at checkout on the website, then at the event you can claim free your free prize worth up to £25. Come to the main T.O. desk at anytime during a round and state your name, you will get told then how many people used your name and you will get that many prizes to take home.

[lunchmoney]

Same weekend as Welsh National Championship.
I'm trying to pull strings to get your Coventry event NAF sanctioned but you'll be very lucky to get this one approved.

[Pauluktc]

Same weekend as Welsh National Championship.
I'm trying to pull strings to get your Coventry event NAF sanctioned but you'll be very lucky to get this one approved.

Thank you for your help.

This event has been approved by the NAF. I guess I was very lucky?

[lunchmoney]

sure

[Purplegoo]

160 miles with Birmingham in the way? Not sure how lucky it is that this was approved if there is nothing more local already on this weekend.

The 'GT' thing is intriguing me, just because it's new and potentially disruptive. How is it going Pauluktc? Two down so far, correct? How many have attended? What's the long term goal? Is BB going to continue to be supported even if it doesn't take off at these events in a big way?

I've always found large events where BB is one (small) system a bit difficult. These might be different, but hanging around while the 'more important' (and inevitably more numerous) 40 k nerds take precedence, being in a small side room (or worse actually, the back table in an aircraft hanger), etc. is a bit tedious for me. But if these get good reviews and there is one in a good place / on a good weekend, you never know.

[Pauluktc]

Hello,

One down so far, was done as a single day with 12 attended. Long term goal is for BB to be supported even if it doesn't take off in a big way, the same as for all the other systems.

The GT part, is because it is part of a bigger event that has that name. All of these events are in large halls where BB would be set up alongside other game systems, each has its own TO so is separate from the 40K event. Ultimately these events are a opportunity for BB to be played.

[lunchmoney]

I clearly have no grasp of geography

[shaniepoo]

What was the Bloodbowl turnout last time?

[PeteW]

I did a big event like this in London in an athetics stadium. Was kind of cool to spectate some crazy 40k games and see all sorts of cool models. I even had the opportunity to dry Dan's salty tears as his all-go-kart army (or some such nonsense) crashed and burned. It was fun, and we didn't feel at all side-lined.

It was also amusing to go outside to the burger vans with all the other nerd-shaped people and be watched enviously as we gorged ourselves on saturated food by semi-professional athletes having a break from serious training.