The Red Trophy VI - High Wycombe, Bucks - 24/25 June - GREENSKINPHIL WINS!!!

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The Red Trophy is our annual two-day NAF Registered Blood Bowl tournament based in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. This will be even bigger and better than before, and will take place on Saturday the 24th and Sunday the 25th June 2023.

Venue
Tabletop Republic's new High Street store:

37-38 High Street
High Wycombe
Buckinghamshire
HP11 2AG

Cost
Tickets for NAF members are £35. PLEASE BE AWARE OF OUR REFUND POLICY -

Refund Policy
We cannot process refunds for any ticket cancellations that occur within 30 days 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.

Additionally, please note, you MUST be a member of the NAF in order to play at the Red Trophy. There is NO provision to sign up on the day.

For further information on the NAF and how to join, head to https://www.thenaf.net/

Tickets can be purchased at the following link:
https://www.tabletoprepublic.com/produc ... tournament

Parking:

Please note there is no parking at the store. The following car parks service High Wycombe:

Easton Street car park
Queen Victoria Rd, High Wycombe HP11 1NP

Dovecot Car Park
High Wycombe HP13 5FX

Eden car park
Lily's Walk, High Wycombe HP11 2BY

Accommodation
The following hotels are in close proximity to the venue:

Premier Inn High Wycombe Central hotel
Arch Way, High Wycombe HP13 5HL

Travelodge High Wycombe
Octagon Parade, Abbey Way, High Wycombe HP11 2DQ

Food:
A hot lunch will be provided on both Saturday and Sunday. More details to follow.

RULES

Welcome to the Red Trophy! We 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 "Daemons of Khorne" will no longer be a permitted roster due to being superseded by the official GW Khorne team.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:
Teams competing at The Red Trophy are made of highly trained, world renowned and completely insane Blood Bowlers. As such, coaches are given a generous starting gold pieces allowance of 1,200,000 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 not permitted except for the following teams, who may take ONE star player after a full 11 of regular team players have been rostered -

Goblins
Halflings
Snotlings
Ogres

The only other inducements permitted are Bloodweiser Kegs, Halfling Master Chefs, and Bribes, which are paid for out of the 1,200,000 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. 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 101 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 be the following, and in this order:

Strength of schedule
NET Touchdowns
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, Halflings, Snotlings 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.)
**Display bases do not increase your chances of winning best painted, only the figures themselves will be judged
Schedule

Saturday
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 – End of Play

Sunday
10:00 – Game 4 Start
12:15 – Lunch
12:45 – Game 5 Start
15:00 – Break
15:15 – Game 6 Start
17:30 – End of Play
17:45 – Awards and Close

Attendance List (Capacity 54):
Interested / Paid

0.) CK2023 (Spare Player)
1.) Torquemada
2.) Mefspores
3.) Mysterioushandle
4.) GColeman76
5.) Frodo
6.) Chaoshugs
7.) Tadhgy
8.) nonumber
9.) VMCat
10.) TheShepherd
11.) Jayward
12.) PokeTheBear
13.) CptOats
14.) Thatotherasianguy
15.) Atlas04
16.) philgc
17.) Hekdar
18.) BartK
19.) Nickson104
20.) Aaaardvark101
21.) Manfredironskull

[gcoleman76]

Count me in.

[gr4n0t4]

Nice, my birthday is the 23th of June, so I hope you let me win

[MSJavaid]

Put me down as interested.

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Update:

We are very very close to finalising the agreement for our actual venue. Everything agreed, just needs to be signed. In the meantime get your names down for this new BB extravaganza!!

[Jayward]

Interested, but I need to wait and see what's happening with a festival before I can confirm

[genghis_kong]

Call me a maybe!

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Update regarding venue -

We have cancelled plans to host our tournament elsewhere and will be utilising our first floor neighbours' space in order to expand our capacity!

This gives us an approximate capacity of 80 though we may investigate increasing this.

[TheShepherd]

Yes please! Thought i'd signed up already but turns out i'm just an idiot (not news i'm sure)

[genghis_kong]

Definitely interested, think I have spousal approval so consider me a strong maybe

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Update regarding the TR Trophy

The TR Trophy was intended to be a hugely upscaled event compared to the previous years' Red Trophy event. It was my intention to source a large venue, hit a capacity of over 100 players and introduce food both days and sponsors to make the weekend a proper big tournament experience.

After reflecting on the UK tournament road map and things being what they are I've come to the decision it was too big of a stretch to do in one hit with many other large events already on the scene, and as such I'm going to go for a more modest increase on the first go.

The tournament will be re-re-branded back to the Red Trophy, we'll still be increasing the usual capacity for Blood Bowl that we have here in store but from 36 players to 54 rather than 100+. Hot food prepared in-house will still be provided both days and we will be not only sponsoring prizes ourselves through the tournament but will still be sourcing 3rd party sponsors for increased prize support.

As such really the only differences to the experience I was originally aiming for is that the tournament will take place in our high street location and with less players. But still this is not the experience first advertised and I've also come to the decision to decrease the ticket cost from £45 to £35 to reflect the much lower overheads on our side.

Hope to see you all there!

[TheShepherd]

Paid

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Delighted to update that we'll be having prize sponsorship from Docminiature in the form of some of their wonderful accessories.

Tabletop Republic will also be providing plenty of goodies and spotprizes.

[gr4n0t4]

Paid!
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[CptOats]

I'll be there too