*ONE PLACE NOW AVAILABLE* The Castle Cup - Lancaster, Lancs - 10th December 2022

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Tabletop Republic Lancaster hosts it's second Blood Bowl tournament!

Venue

Tabletop Republic Lancaster
3-5 Damside Street
Lancaster
Lancastershire
LA1 1PD

Cost

REFUND POLICY – Please read before
booking your ticket:
We cannot process refunds for any ticket cancellations that occur within 2 WEEKS prior to the event start date. Please ensure you are able to attend and are committed to the date before booking your ticket, it helps us run a smoother tournament and means we are not losing out having to refund late drop outs.

Tickets for NAF members are £12.50 each and are available at the link below:

https://www.tabletoprepublic.com/produc ... tournament

Please note, you MUST be a member of the NAF in order to play at this event, there is NO provision to sign up on the day.

Parking
Please note there is no parking at the venue, we are however directly opposite Lancaster Bus Station.
The following are just some of the car parks that service Lancaster and are in close proximity:

Cable Street Car Park
Cable St, Lancaster LA1 1HD

Lower St Leonard's Gate Car Park
50 St Leonard's Gate, Lancaster LA1 1NN

St Nicolas Arcade Car Park
Lancaster LA1 1NE

Food:
To keep the cost of entry down, lunch is not included in the ticket price. There are a variety of bars and cafes in short distance to the store.

RULES

The Castle Cup tournament 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 "Daemons of Khorne" will no longer be a permitted roster due to being superseded by the official GW Khorne team.

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 below.

Inducements:

Star Players are permitted in the following two categories:

STUNTY TEAMS (Goblins, Ogres, Snotlings and Halflings):
May take a maximum of one star player from all GW published star players from Blood Bowl Second Season Edition onward, after a regular 11 players have been rostered.

ALL OTHER TEAMS:
May take a maximum of one star player from all GW published star players from Blood Bowl Second Season Edition onwards, after a regular 11 players have been rostered, except the following players which are prohibited for non-stunty teams:

Morg N' Thorg
Deeproot Strongbranch
Hakflem Skuttlespike
Griff Oberwald

Mercenaries are not permitted.

The only 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!

Additional Skills:
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

A maximum of two skills may be stacked onto the same player (including both Secondary skills if you wish). Aside from this, there are no other limitations such as limits on duplicate skills etc. *FAQ* Yes this means more than one player may have two skills, just no more than two skills per player. A coach that wishes to take the latter skill package listed above may substitute one of the Secondary skills with a Primary skill should they wish, but they will gain no further skills as a result (i.e. they will still have seven skills total to allocate). Statistic increases are not an option, otherwise... they'd be listed above...

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.

The Prayers to Nuffle Table:

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
A painted team (minimum 3 colours)
Board and dugout
Dice
Templates
ONE printed roster

Scoring

2 Points for a win
1 Point for a draw
0 Points for a loss

Tie breaking system will take into account net touchdowns followed by net casualties.

Format

The tournament will use the standard "swiss style" format, wherein the first round is drawn randomly and subsequent rounds are matched up based on table standings.

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**

*Any injury that goes into your opponents injury box (even if it's just passing through) counts towards the Most Casualties award. (And also for the tie breaker.)
FAQ - Yes that includes if your opponent fails a dodge or rush and kills themselves. 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
9:00 – Registration
9:30 – Game 1 Start
11:45 – Lunch
12:15 – Game 2 Start
14:30 – Break
14:45 – Game 3 Start
17:00 – Break
17:15 - Game 4 Start
19:30 - Awards and Close

Attending:

1.) Waldorf (spare player)
2.) Dafo
3.) Forgotmytea
4.) AngryGerbil
5.) sirgalahad_grailhunter
6.) Tax-e-CAB
7.) Curmudgeonerd
8.) Bigshillers
9.) Quarkbutter
10.) Schterve
11.) LancasterMatt
12.) Widram
13.) BarmiArmi
14.) weary_runtherd

Capacity 14

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Quick update - this has filled up to 50% capacity inside a week, so although it's not till December if you've got this pencilled in your calendar get your ticket purchased ASAP!

[gr4n0t4]

Same date as High Wycombe one?

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Same date as High Wycombe one?

Yeah mate don't worry, they are 230 miles apart

[gr4n0t4]

Same date as High Wycombe one?

Yeah mate don't worry, they are 230 miles apart

I wonder how are you going to play both

[lunchmoney]

Skype.

[Bigshillers]

Payment sent. Looking forward to it

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Same date as High Wycombe one?

Yeah mate don't worry, they are 230 miles apart

I wonder how are you going to play both

When you dream enough and your heart is pure you can achieve anything

[BarmiArmi]

Applied and paid for one of the 2 remaining places

[elspedo]

Are there any tickets left for this?

Above shows 12/14 sold but sold out on website?

[Waldorf28]

NoNumber is the person handling the tickets so only he can answer that question I'm afraid.

However I am the TO on the day and I'd like to request all rosters be submitted by midnight on Saturday 3rd December (a week in advance).

Register on TourPlay here: https://tourplay.net/en/blood-bowl/the-castle-cup

...and bring a Smartphone or Wireless tablet along on the day to submit your scores and match events with.

Any questions to ukbblcommissioners@gmail.com or post here.

Thanks!

[Podfrey]

If you’re running a reserve list, please can you add me and Maya (but would need 2x tickets). Cheers!

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Tabletop Republic Lancaster hosts it's second Blood Bowl tournament!

Venue

Tabletop Republic Lancaster
3-5 Damside Street
Lancaster
Lancastershire
LA1 1PD

Cost

REFUND POLICY – Please read before
booking your ticket:
We cannot process refunds for any ticket cancellations that occur within 2 WEEKS prior to the event start date. Please ensure you are able to attend and are committed to the date before booking your ticket, it helps us run a smoother tournament and means we are not losing out having to refund late drop outs.

Tickets for NAF members are £12.50 each and are available at the link below:

https://www.tabletoprepublic.com/produc ... tournament

Please note, you MUST be a member of the NAF in order to play at this event, there is NO provision to sign up on the day.

Parking
Please note there is no parking at the venue, we are however directly opposite Lancaster Bus Station.
The following are just some of the car parks that service Lancaster and are in close proximity:

Cable Street Car Park
Cable St, Lancaster LA1 1HD

Lower St Leonard's Gate Car Park
50 St Leonard's Gate, Lancaster LA1 1NN

St Nicolas Arcade Car Park
Lancaster LA1 1NE

Food:
To keep the cost of entry down, lunch is not included in the ticket price. There are a variety of bars and cafes in short distance to the store.

RULES

The Castle Cup tournament 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.

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 below.

Inducements:

Star Players are permitted in the following two categories:

STUNTY TEAMS (Goblins, Ogres, Snotlings and Halflings):
May take a maximum of one star player from all GW published star players from Blood Bowl Second Season Edition onward, after a regular 11 players have been rostered.

ALL OTHER TEAMS:
May take a maximum of one star player from all GW published star players from Blood Bowl Second Season Edition onwards, after a regular 11 players have been rostered, except the following players which are prohibited for non-stunty teams:

Morg N' Thorg
Deeproot Strongbranch
Hakflem Skuttlespike
Griff Oberwald

Mercenaries are not permitted.

The only 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!

Additional Skills:
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

A maximum of two skills may be stacked onto the same player (including both Secondary skills if you wish). Aside from this, there are no other limitations such as limits on duplicate skills etc. *FAQ* Yes this means more than one player may have two skills, just no more than two skills per player. A coach that wishes to take the latter skill package listed above may substitute one of the Secondary skills with a Primary skill should they wish, but they will gain no further skills as a result (i.e. they will still have seven skills total to allocate). Statistic increases are not an option, otherwise... they'd be listed above...

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.

The Prayers to Nuffle Table:

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
A painted team (minimum 3 colours)
Board and dugout
Dice
Templates
ONE printed roster

Scoring

2 Points for a win
1 Point for a draw
0 Points for a loss

Tie breaking system will take into account net touchdowns followed by net casualties.

Format

The tournament will use the standard "swiss style" format, wherein the first round is drawn randomly and subsequent rounds are matched up based on table standings.

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**

*Any injury that goes into your opponents injury box (even if it's just passing through) counts towards the Most Casualties award. (And also for the tie breaker.)
FAQ - Yes that includes if your opponent fails a dodge or rush and kills themselves. 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
9:00 – Registration
9:30 – Game 1 Start
11:45 – Lunch
12:15 – Game 2 Start
14:30 – Break
14:45 – Game 3 Start
17:00 – Break
17:15 - Game 4 Start
19:30 - Awards and Close

Attending:

0.) nonumber (spare player)
1.) Waldorf (spare player)
2.) Dafo
3.) Forgotmytea
4.) AngryGerbil
5.) sirgalahad_grailhunter
6.) Tax-e-CAB
7.) Curmudgeonerd
8.) Bigshillers
9.) Quarkbutter
10.) Schterve
11.) LancasterMatt
12.) Widram
13.) BarmiArmi
14.) weary_runtherd

Capacity 14

[Waldorf28]

There are three coaches who have yet to register a team in Tourplay:

https://tourplay.net/en/blood-bowl/the-castle-cup

Please finalise your rosters by midnight on Saturday 3rd December.

Also .. is Tiwaloluwa Bamidele the screen name of one of our coaches or has someone just wandered in at random? I do not see them on the list of registered coaches!

[Curmudgeonerd]

Ive messaged this on Facebook. Had a family bereavement thats messed up my availability for next weekend. I can no longer attend. Give someone my spot for free i dont want a refund