Monthly Bucks Open One Dayers 2024 - High Wycombe - NEXT UP APRIL 20TH

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Our monthly one dayers down in High Wycombe have continued to be great fun and draw a regular crowd. In 2024 we will rebrand them as the "Bucks Open" monthly one dayers.


RULES PACK:
Venue

Bucks Open Blood Bowl Tournaments are held at Tabletop Republic, 37 High Street, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP11 2AG.

Price

May - £12.50
Each Event Thereafter - £15

Entry to the Bucks Open one dayers is only available to NAF Members. You MUST be a member of the NAF in order to play at a Bucks Open tournament. For more information on the NAF including how to join, head to www.thenaf.net.

Event Dates and Ticket Links:

Bucks Open 2024 February – 24/02
Stewbacca Wins!

Bucks Open 2024 March – 09/03
Wulfyn Wins!

Bucks Open 2024 April – 20/04
AndyDavo Wins!

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NEXT UP!

Bucks Open 2024 May – 25/05
Ticket Link:
https://www.tabletoprepublic.com/produc ... tournament

Tourplay Link:
https://tourplay.net/en/blood-bowl/bucks-open-may-2024

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Bucks Open 2024 July – 20/07
https://www.tabletoprepublic.com/produc ... tournament

Bucks Open 2024 August – 17/08
https://www.tabletoprepublic.com/produc ... tournament

Bucks Open 2024 September – 21/09
https://www.tabletoprepublic.com/produc ... tournament

Bucks Open 2024 October – 19/10
https://www.tabletoprepublic.com/produc ... tournament

Bucks Open 2024 November – 02/11
https://www.tabletoprepublic.com/produc ... tournament

Bucks Open 2024 December 07/12
https://www.tabletoprepublic.com/produc ... tournament

Access & Parking

The venue is step-free ground floor with disabled access toilet facilities. There is however no parking at the venue, being a high street premises.

Food

To keep the cost of entry down, food is not included in the ticket price. Food is available to purchase at the venue and many other nearby businesses.

Rules

The Bucks Open tournament series will be using the Blood Bowl Second Season Edition (or Blood Bowl 2020 as it is commonly known) rules, along with the “Teams of Legend” PDF and the designers' Errata which can be found over on the official Blood Bowl website, as well as the inclusion of the Slann team, which may be found under the NAF's “Rules For Tournaments 2021” document. "Daemons of Khorne" will no longer be a permitted roster due to being superseded by the official GW Khorne team. Any Games Workshop published team / rules updates which occur 7 days or more prior to the tournament start date will be implemented, unless stated through updates provided by Tabletop Republic. Any queries about tournament rules can be sent to contact@tabletoprepublic.com


Team Building


Coaches are given a starting gold pieces allowance of 1,150,000 for the purposes of selecting players, re rolls, sideline staff and purchasing any inducements permitted. This is completely separate from the inclusion of additional skills, which will be covered under the "Skills Package" section.

Inducements

The only inducements permitted are Apothecaries, Bloodweiser Kegs, Halfling Master Chefs, and Bribes, which are paid for out of the 1,150,000 gold pieces referenced above prior to the tournament. No inducements are able to be purchased at the table, so spend that gold!

Star Players

Star Players:

For the purposes of Star Players, there are two "tiers". Tier 1 may not roster a star player. Tier 2 may roster one star player after a regular 11 have been rostered.

The following Star Players however are banned for Tier 2 teams:

Cindy Piewhistle
Bomber Dribblesnot
Skitter Stab-Stab
Estelle La Veneaux
Hakflem Skuttlespike
Griif Oberwald
Deeproot Strongbranch
Morg N' Thorg

Tier 1 (may not roster a Star Player):

Amazon, Chaos Dwarf, Dark Elf, Dwarf, High Elf, Lizardmen, Norse, Orc, Shambling Undead, Skaven, Underworld Denizens, Vampire, Wood Elf

Tier 2 (may roster a Star Player not on the ban list):

Black Orc, Chaos Chosen, Chaos Renegade, Elven Union, Gnome, Goblin, Halfling, Human, Imperial Nobility, Khorne, Necromantic Horror, Nurgle, Ogre, Old World Alliance, Slann, Snotling, Tomb Kings

The only other inducements permitted are Bloodweiser Kegs, Halfling Master Chefs, and Bribes, which are paid for out of the 1,150,000 gold pieces referenced above prior to the tournament. No inducements are able to be purchased at the table, so spend that gold!

Skills Package

Once you have fully purchased your team as described above, you may distribute additional skills amongst your players. A coach may select ONE of the following two skill packages:

8 Primary Skills OR
5 Primary Skills and 2 Secondary Skills

No player may receive more than 2 additional skills from the above package.

A coach that wishes to take the latter skill package listed above may simply substitute one of the Secondary skills with a another Primary skill should they wish, but they will gain no further skills as a result (i.e. they will still have seven skills in total to allocate). Statistic increases are not an option.

Painting Requirements

All teams must be painted with at least 3 colours and be comprised of appropriate fantasy miniatures which reflect the positionals they are intended to represent.

Prayers To Nuffle

Any reference to rolling on the “Prayers to Nuffle” Table must utilise the Exhibition variant of the table found on page 103 of the Blood Bowl rulebook.

What You Need To Bring

All coaches must bring with them:
- One painted team
- One Blood Bowl pitch and dugouts
- Dice and Templates

Rosters in Tourplay

There is no requirement to bring a printed roster although players are welcome to for quick reference. All rosters will now be submitted in advance on Tourplay at the link provided. Please ensure you have submitted your roster on Tourplay as soon as possible.

Scoring

The primary scoring system is 2 Points for a win, 1 Point for a draw, 0 Points for a loss. Tie breaking will take into account strength of schedule, followed by net touchdowns, followed by net casualties.

Prizes

There will be prizes/trophies awarded for the following:
Tournament Winner
Runner Up
Most Touchdowns
Most Casualties*
Stunty Cup (Best placed Ogres, Snotlings Halflings or Goblins)
Best Painted Award**
Disaster Averted! Award (2nd bottom - a twist on the "Wooden Spoon" idea!)

*Any injury that goes into your opponent's injury box (even if it's just passing through) counts towards the Most Casualties award. (And also for the tie breaker.) this includes opponent's failed dodges, fouls and crowd surfs etc. ANY injury counts for your CAS.

**Display bases do not increase your chances of winning best painted, only the figures themselves will be judged.

Schedule

10:00 – Registration
10:30 – Game 1 Start
12:45 – Lunch
13:15 – Game 2 Start
15:30 – Break
15:45 – Game 3 Start
18:00 – Break
18:15 - Game 4 Start
20:30 - Awards and Close

[lunchmoney]

They are all Saturdays apart from March's on a Sunday; is that intended?

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They are all Saturdays apart from March's on a Sunday; is that intended?

No my colleague pointed that out to me as well, I'll be changing that

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Just to follow up and confirm, March has been changed to the 9th, which is the Saturday in line with all the others being Saturdays and this has been submitted to the NAF.

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***UPDATE*** The Early Bird season ticket will come off sale at midnight this Sunday 3rd December.

So, if you're interested now is the time.

[gumbi]

Hello - can you assign 2 skills to the same player? Thanks!

[stewbacca]

Hello - can you assign 2 skills to the same player? Thanks!

This has been the case in the tourneys that I've seen on Tourplay.

[stewbacca]

I'm the NAF rep for the South East and I'll be at the Feb event with a supply of gifts if anyone is wanting to either sign up or renew their membership for £5.

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Hello - can you assign 2 skills to the same player? Thanks!

You can indeed! You can stack up to two skills of any combo, and on as many players as you like (so if you take the 8 primaries you could end up with 4 stacks of 2 if you like.)

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After this weekend's thrilling record attendance event in store we turn our attention to our next Blood Bowl tournament - the first of our monthly one dayers! Rebranded this year to "The Bucks Open", the rule set will be familiar to all of our regular attendees from the Pitch Invasion events of 2023.

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TOURPLAY LINK FOR FEBRUARY IS NOW LIVE

PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR TEAM ON THERE ASAP

https://tourplay.net/en/blood-bowl/buck ... ruary-2024

IMPORTANT UPDATE

RULES CHANGE

A maxiumum of ONE star player may only be taken by the following teams:

Halfling
Snotling
Goblin
Ogre
Nurgle

Star players that come as pairs count as one star player for this purpose.

The following star players are prohibited:

Griff Oberwald
Morg N Thorg
Deeproot Strongbranch
Skitter Stab Stab
Hakflem Skuttlespike

STAR PLAYERS ARE NOW BANNED FOR ALL OTHER TEAMS.

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A couple of places remain for this weekend, come and join the action!

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Congratulations to Stewbacca for a maiden tournament victory at February's Bucks Open!!

Roll onto March! Come on down and let's get that tournament action back on the table.

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There's still a few spaces left for this weekend if anyone is on the look out for a quick dose of BB action!!

[lunchmoney]

Who won?