Monkeybowl - Hartlepool, England March 25-26th 2006

Podfrey · Post by **Podfrey** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:00 pm

Gorbad wrote:Nearly the same lineup as I took/will take (-Apo +RR) though I'd get guard on BoB's as first two skills.

How did you fare with less guard, but more block on the BoB's?

Block on the BOBs meant I could use them in precisely the manner I see them as - complete and utter bully boys of the BB pitch. Just kept chipping away at people. Within 3 squares they make better blitzers than blitzers!!

Gorbad · Post by **Gorbad** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:05 pm

lucifer wrote:
Gorbad wrote:Nearly the same lineup as I took/will take (-Apo +RR) though I'd get guard on BoB's as first two skills.

How did you fare with less guard, but more block on the BoB's?
Block on the BOBs meant I could use them in precisely the manner I see them as - complete and utter bully boys of the BB pitch. Just kept chipping away at people. Within 3 squares they make better blitzers than blitzers!!

Fair enough...

I use them as I see them as well... Big Dumb Roadblocks

I will keep using a different strategy, as I can then still delude myself that it's the line-up, not the player skill

jordellfreshbreeze · Post by **jordellfreshbreeze** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:42 pm

well done geoff

shame i could not have gone to this tourney but i had to work

Podfrey · Post by **Podfrey** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:48 pm

Geggster wrote:Congrats Geoff (again). Grrr! Going to have to nobble you somehow........

dwarfcoach · Post by **dwarfcoach** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:49 pm

Thanks to all the Northern chaps for organising the event (special kudos to Michael who didn't end up playing but never stopped smiling

).

Loads of prizes and free food, top notch!!

Well my inaugral outing with Norse really was a dubious one; 2/2/2. I expect to have rubbish NAF rating as well as one of my two victories was in the last round Dungeonbowl event and I'm told that as it is a 'Blood Bowl varient' (not to mention difficult to quantify as there were four players involved) then it will not count for ranking.

Oh well, had a great time (just don't mention the journey up there

) and good to meet different BB'ers

.

ProfessorK · Post by **ProfessorK** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:12 pm

*tap tap*

Is this thing on? Ah, cool. Right, then!

Thanks to everyone that came, all participants helped create a really friendly atmosphere in the otherwise terrifyingly forbidding Masonic Lodge with the hidden sacrificial goat circles under the carpet and somesuch.

I put forward another Honorable Mention award to go with the others that were doled out at the end of the event: The Toilet Journey To End All Toilet Journies. That poor porcelain throne in Monkeyville's Masonic Lodge was well and truly killed by that depth charge!

Again, well done to Geoff with the Orcazons (and kudos to the owner of that team, a really novel addition to the tournament!) to Glum, who only lost 'cause he was really ill, and to the deluge of first timers, some who'd only started playing Bloodbowl a couple of weeks before!

Hopefully, I'll try and attend more of these tournament things, and get a bit better. Maybe I'll dig out those Pro-Elves I bought from Frazer's ex-housemate and try them next time, but I kinda like the wormtails.

Back to your regularly scheduled trashtalking and actual content!

Schmee · Post by **Schmee** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 4:27 pm

lucifer wrote:Very simple lineup, very simple strategy (the complex bit is in the execution of the strategy, but that remains a secret )

Geoff, it looked to me like your main strategy was 'get drawn against four chumps in the first four rounds'.

Schmee

stick_with_poo_on_the_end · Tue Mar 28, 2006 8:38 pm

Great Weekend,

Thanks to Pippy and all the boys for a great weekend

Gratz to Geoff (again), I reckon it was my lucky Orcs that you borrowed that swung it for you.

Thanks to Hangus and Max for helping me out with lifts and to Geoff Mam for her hospitality.

My Ogres came, saw, but didnâ€™t quite conquer! But I am delighted with their 2/1/3 performance. Not bad for a team with no re-rolls.
Some highlights:

Musical instruments

Awful Awful German Opera type music

The Well

Fight in King Johns Tavern

Chicken Parmo

Massive Sandwiches

Aarons â€œdodgy tummyâ€

Podfrey · Post by **Podfrey** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:38 am

Spencer the Rover wrote:Geoff, it looked to me like your main strategy was 'get drawn against four chumps in the first four rounds'.

Schmee

As YOU were the person who was doing the draws then you can hardly bleat about the outcome!!!

I can only play whoever is put in front of me....

Schmee · Post by **Schmee** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:43 am

lucifer wrote:[I can only play whoever is put in front of me....

It's not the draw I'm complaining about. As you know very well, I cannot stand the spectacle of a crowing Porritt!

Schmee

Podfrey · Post by **Podfrey** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:21 am

caw caw!!

Schmee · Post by **Schmee** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:32 am

lucifer wrote:caw caw!!

Noooo!

Schmee

Pipey · Post by **Pipey** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 1:51 pm

lol

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Didn't mention the other trophy winners before, so here goes:

Third place: Geggster [clerical error

]

Most Casualties: Max_Horseman

Most TDs: Pippy

Best Painted: ProfessorK

"Max Horseman" Comeback trophy: Ambush3

Wooden spoon: Jai Waddell

Dungeon Bowl Winner: Dwarfcoach

ProfessorK · Post by **ProfessorK** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 4:55 pm

Honorable mentions, too! Don't forget the honorable mentions!

Also, I am most terribly upset that Schmee considers me a chump. He probably thinks I'm fat, too...

Shame I missed the chicken parmo fantastica, but I was sorta busy being not-quite-right in the stomach.

Schmee · Post by **Schmee** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 8:38 am

ProfessorK wrote:Also, I am most terribly upset that Schmee considers me a chump. He probably thinks I'm fat, too...

Correct

Schmee