Ok... this is digressing
Anyways... its really GW's fault that there isn't a lot of BB over here. I mean in a country where FOOTBALL is one of our primary sports, why wouldn't that take advantage of that?
I go to a GW store, I have 1 an hour West, another an hour and a half East. What do I find? A Handbook, a 2002 Annual, a copy of Mag 3, a few scatter boosters, mostly Goblins, a Rat Ogre, and Prince Moron. And a few teams, typically Norse, Khemri and Dwarf. Thats it. They don't have a league in the store, they don't demo it, nothing. The one West has a painted Skaven team in the case. So I look on GWUSMO, put Mag 5, and 6 in my cart, each one is $3.50 total comes to $22.00 with shipping!!! WTF!!! $11 per mag for something that is $3.50??!!! So I call and ask about a subscription, he has no clue. I call again and get a different troll, they don't offer a subscription in the US. Sigh... so I have come to rely on my local hobby shop that runs one BB League, and has a few more boosters and at least gets the mag 4-6 months after Europe, Annual 2003 whats that? Well, the league is a joke, none of them know how to play right, they interpret the rules totally wrong, none visit these boards and none of them even know what the NAF is.
For me its not so much the cash, its the family as well. But, I would have gone to GenCon if I wasn't going to have a 2 week old at the time. Indiana is only 12 hours away by car. Chicago about 10-11. I would go to Toronto since that is only 2 hours NW of me, but I haven't heard exactly when something is going down there. It would be nice if they would rotate the Chaos cup around, since Baltimore is only 8 hours away for me as well, and I have friends there.
I would gladly run a tournament here in Rochester, NY but I would probably get like 12 people and of those 12 about 6 would be using plastic Orc minis because trying to get a hold of real minis in the US is near IMPOSSIBLE without paying the outrageous shipping that GW charges. It doesn't not cost $15 to send me two magazines from Baltimore to Rochester.
Enough bitching... from me.
DL - If you want to run a PBEM tournament, use a scoring system that mimics NAF and start an Unofficial Underground Whatever, I am with ya. We could charge x amount of money that would be spent entirely on Prizes and shipping of said prizes and post results on the web. You could do four tournaments a year, have each round equal 1 week of playing time so about 2.5 turns per day. We could have a prize for being in the tournament, like dice or a 'coin'
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or something else... depending on the amount of entries, could use PayPal or some other way to collect fees that would allow us to later post the accounting of the tournament. To prove that all funds were used to pay for prizes. And it would be an Official Unofficial tournament... Think about it... I know of about 40 coaches that would play...
DW - no offense taken... but I think that there are also distractions for some of us that play PBEM. I mean with an average of 12-24 hours per turn, you quickly lose any sense of strategy. Plus the boss could walk around at any point, the baby cries, the wife is nagging, etc... Needless to say you aren't always focused on the game. At least at a tourny you are focused on one thing and one thing only, Blood Bowl. I don't disagree with anything you have said, I hope that you see my point as well. Maybe in a year or two I can hit some tournaments, but for now PBEM is all I got. Unless GW decides to actually market the US... gee there's a thought.
Wow this is long... sorry...
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