Glass Cup Plate Bowl II - Gloucester Docks - Saturday 11 June 2022

[BrockDodge]

Welcome to the rules pack for the Glass Cup Plate Bowl II hosted by the Gloucester Open Blood Bowl League (GoBBL) and Atlas Tabletop Gaming. (Change in venue from last years tourney)
Tournament Organiser: Tom (BROCKdodge) t.w.brockington@gmail.com

We are running a resurrection Blood Bowl tournaments consisting of a three round swiss style tournament (the 1st round will be a random draw made before the day). All injuries and deaths, will be cleared after every game.
The tournament will be limited to 24 coaches. If you would like to reserve a spot please email me, see above

Schedule
09.30 – 10.00 Greetings
10.15 – 12.30 Round 1
12.30 – 13.15 Lunch
13.15 – 15.30 Round 2
15.45 – 18.00 Round 3
18.15 – 18.30 Prize giving

Venue
Atlas Tabletop Games, Biddle & Shipton Warehouse. The Docks, Gloucester, GL1 2BY
Nearby parking - Gloucester Docks Southgate Moorings Car Park or Blackfriars, Ladybellegate Street, Gloucester GL1 2HJ
The shop will also be open serving snacks and drinks as well as a range of tabletop games. For lunch there is local shops and fast food restaurants within walking distance.

Payment: £15 per entrant. You can join the NAF on the day for an additional fee.
Please pay t.w.brockington@gmail.com on PayPal, include your NAF name, number and race choice.

Tournament rules
* We will be using the Blood Bowl Second Season rules (Blood Bowl 2020)
* No Special Play cards allowed.
* All teams in the BB2020 rule book, plus the new Khorne and Norse rosters as well as the ones included in the ‘Teams of Legend’ PDF are allowed (apart from the old Norse and Khorne Rosters)
* No inducements allowed with the exception of Star Players, Bribes, Riotous Rookies and Master Chef as detailed below.
Rosters
Please email me your NAF name, NAF number and chosen race to t.w.brockington@gmail.com by Friday 3 June
- No need to submit your rosters, please bring a printed copy to show your 1st round opponent to check over.


Team Creation
All teams get 1,150,000 cash to spend on players, rerolls, coaches, cheerleaders, apothecaries
In addition the following rules apply:
* Tier 1 and 2 teams can purchase 1 Star Player once they have rostered a minimum of 11 normal players.
* Tier 3 teams can purchase 2 Star Player once they have rostered a minimum of 11 normal players
* Superstar tax: Morg, Griff and Hakflem refuse to play with any teams that have additional skills, they only will play with rookies. If you roster any of the big 3 stars you get no skill pack (see section below)
* Halfling teams may include a Master Chef for 100,000.
* Goblin, Black Orc and Snotling teams may include up to 3 bribes for 50,000 each.
* Ogres and Snotling teams can buy ‘Riotous Rookies’ but the ‘Disposable’ skill has no affect

After buying the team, you can allocate skills to your players using the following rules
Limitation to skills:
- No more than two skills added to a player
- No more than 3 of the same skills
Skills- Tier (1)
You choose a skill package of 4 primary skills or 2 primary and 1 secondary
Skills- Tier (2)
You choose a skill package of 6 primary skills or 4 primary and 1 secondary
Skills- Tier (3)
You choose a skill package of 7 primary skills or 4 primary and 2 secondary
* Star Players may not be given additional skills.

Match ups and Rankings
The first matchups will be drawn randomly before the tournament, each coach will be paired with another coach based on the overall ranking according to the swiss ladder system for the rest of the games. The ranking of coaches for the next round and subsequently for the overall standings will be determined in the following order:
- Coach Points*
- Head to head performance
- Net Touchdowns plus Net Casualties
- Strength of Schedule
*Coach points are calculated by adding up the following scores from your results
- 30 points for a win
- 10 points for a tie
- 0 points for a loss
+1 point for each touchdown scored (capped at a maximum of 3 bonus points)
+1 point per casualty (capped at a maximum of 3 bonus points)

Awards
The winner of the following will be given an award
- The overall tournament winner will be the GoBBL champion
- The coach who finishes second will be given the Runner up award
- The coach who causes the most Casualties to the opponents players will be the Most Brutal
- The coach who scores the most Touchdowns will be the Highest scorer
- The highest placed coach playing a Tier 3 team will be the Stunty cup champion (as long as we have 2 stunty coaches)
- The highest placed coach who has played 2 tournaments or less will be the Best Newcomer

What you must bring
- Models representing their team and players. The players must be numbered clearly. Each player
must be painted with atleast 3 colours
- Block Dice, d8 and 2d6s
- A Blood Bowl Pitch

What each participant receives
- 3 games of Blood Bowl
- A set of custom dice
- A chance to win one of the six award

[BrockDodge]

Considering making some changes to the rules around Star inclusion in team creation, I will deliberate over the week
Options:
- Star player tax - costs 2 skills to roster a star
or
-Star player tax - if you roster a star you get no skill pack
or
-Superstar tax - if you roster Morg, Griff or Hakflem you get no skill pack

[lunchmoney]

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[BrockDodge]

Can you add the location please http://talkfantasyfootball.org/viewtopi ... 59&t=37084

Done

[BrockDodge]

Thank you to everyone joined us for the 2nd Glass Cup Plate Bowl

Hopefully this works, here is the final table:

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