Talk Fantasy Football

The question came up in the discussion of the Chaos Cup. Since there are not too many people who can travel overseas (or even go to the only non-English speaking major), I was wondering how many people went to the classic majors so far (NOT including the Australian NAF-Major)?

I'll start then:
Chaos Cup 2003
Blood Bowl 2004
Dungeonbowl 2005

Only Dungeonbowl 2005 so far.

None. I've been to BB tournaments at Lenton, but I have never been able to get a ticket for the Blood Bowl proper. Rang in 2003 but got no answer after 40 minutes. Same again in 2004 - hung on the phone for 40 minutes but no answer. Didn't even try this year ... the 50 quid price put me off, along with some bad stories about previous years. I still want to try and go this year though. I suppose it is just something that you have to do, and living an hour's drive from Nottingham, I don't have much of an excuse not to!

Funds (and language) would never allow me to go to a tourney outside of the UK right now.

Only Blood Bowl '05 for the moment, in 2006 i'll go to Nottingham again and i would like very much to play the dungeonbowl too. The American majors mean a very high cost for a simply student ..., maybe in the future ...

BB 2004
BB 2005
Dungeonbowl 2005

BB 03/04
DB 04/05

no oversea tourney so far

Sadly none yet, but I've only just got in BB, so that's understandable. Hope to go to the BB next year, and after that, perhaps some others.

Nazgit wrote:Good topic btw Tojorub.

you're welcome

Chaos Cup 2003, Bloodweiser 2004, Chaos Cup 2004, Spike 2004

Missing that damn Dungeonbowl.....probably won't ever get it now

None, but not one bit sad about it.

Maybe people here can convince me, but I have never been to a GW sponsored event where I had fun, so I wasn't about to start with BB.

Plenty of fun tournaments to go to that aren't overpriced or come with rules that I hate. (Stars? ).

Gordab - stars have been out of the BB for the last 2 years. Technically speaking.

They're all so hideously expensive that the rest of the team is utter dross with no rerolls as to make their inclusion not worth it. Or put another way it's an easier game if the opponent has taken them!

Overall they're good for the craic - but it does mean getting up early at the DO to buy tickets (on sale the morning of the Saturday of DO).

I've been to all the BBs and would really like to do the other majors at least once, though I'm a little hesitant about the Dungeon Bowl as I know what a pain a significant language barrier can be.

Nazgit wrote:... the 50 quid price put me off...

I thought that was a stupid rumour that turned out to be, shock horror, wrong. I'm sure they were £40 like previous years.

None and I doubt that it will change in the future. GW events are too expensive in relation to their fun-level. With the money spent I rather travel to a funky foreign toruney (UK, France, Holland, Spain or Italy) and have a good time with people I like.

Mordredd wrote:I thought that was a stupid rumour that turned out to be, shock horror, wrong. I'm sure they were £40 like previous years.

I thought it was £45. I rounded up to "50 quid" for effect.