The Pearly Kings & Queens tournament will make a glorious return on the 21st and 22nd of June 2014.
In brief :
- The event will be held at The Mad Hatter Hotel not far from Waterloo rail and tube station.
Entry will be £35.00 but this will include a pub meal on both days. Sunday roast if you want it (only on the Sunday obviously).
The event will be five games, with dice rolling from midday on both Saturday and Sunday.
We will be using the much heralded Ironmanj rules for team building.
General Information
Entry Fee
The entry will be £35.00 for NAF members and £40.00 for non-members, although this will include NAF membership. Payments can be sent via PayPal to joehainstock (AT) googlemail.com (note contracting this to '..@gmail.com' won't work). Please designate the payment as "personal" and a "gift" so that neither of us has to pay fees. Please include your real and NAF names in this email along with your NAF number if known.
Venue & How To Get There
The tournament will be held in the bar of the The Mad Hatter Hotel.
3-7 Stamford Street
London
SE1 9NY
The closest tube stations are Southwark and Blackfriars (just over the river), but Waterloo is also pretty close so it might be as easy to walk from there. Waterloo is also a national rail station. There are too many possible routes in London to list them all, but get in touch with me if you need advice.
The venue is inside the congestion charging zone and I doubt parking will be cheap, so driving is probably best avoided.
Accomodation
The venue itself is a hotel, but not a cheap one. However I would recommend the St Christopher's Inn hostel at the end of Southwark Street. A group of you could probably arrange a room to yourselves given enough notice.
Things To Bring With You
A painted team.
Your Blood Bowl board (as we won't have any spare).
Dice.
Templates.
Two roster sheets (one for me, one for yourself and your opponent to refer to).
Ironmanj Rules
Pearly Kings & Queens will be using the CRP / LRB 6.0 rules.
The Illegal Procedure and 4-minute time limit rules will not be enforced, though you may use them if both coaches agree. There will be a time limit for games as a whole though, so if you play slowly we may have to call a result early.
We will be using the standard "Resurrection" rules: teams remain identical from game to game, with casualties, winnings, fan factor rolls etc. not carrying forward.
Undead or Nurgle teams may not keep 'raised' players from game to game.
Team Selection
Coaches may spend up to 1,200,000 gc on their teams.
Coaches may not include Star Players as part of their team unless they have the Secret Weapon or Stab skills (except Zara - she is not allowed). An exception to this rule are Halfling, Goblin, Ogre and Underworld teams, who may hire up to two Star Players as normal.
You may purchase any other Inducements except Wizards or Special Play Cards as a permanent part of your team for their normal cost.
If a coach spends less than the 1.2m he will not be entitled to Inducements on a game by game basis.
Skills
Tier 1 skill = Block, Frenzy, Kick, Strip Ball, Sure Hands, Dodge, Leader, Guard, Mighty Blow and Claw.
Tier 2 skill = anything else.
1 point for the first instance of a tier 2 skill.
2 points for any other instance of a tier 2 skill.
2 points for the first instance of a tier 1 skill.
3 points for any other instance of a tier 1 skill.
+2 points if that skill is a double.
No player may have more than extra one skill. Star Players may not be given extra skills.
Teams have the following points to spend:
9 points - Undead, Wood Elf, Amazon, Chaos Dwarf, Lizardmen
11 points - Dwarf, Orc, Norse, Dark Elf, Skaven
13 points - High Elves, Humans, Pro Elves, Necromantic, Khemri
15 points - Slann, Underworld, Chaos Pact, Nurgle, Chaos, Vampires
17 points - Goblin, Halfling, Ogre
Games and Scoring
Three games will be played on the Saturday and two on the Sunday. The first round will be drawn randomly, with all further rounds using the Swiss system. The overall winner will be the coach with the most points at the end of the day - there will be no final.
Points are scored as follows:
2 points for a win.
1 points for a draw.
0 points for a loss.
Coaches will be paired within Swiss randomly. The first tiebreaker at the end of the tournament is strength of schedule. After that coaches will be separated by least TDs conceded, TD difference, CAS difference, TDs scored, CAS inflicted and finally a duel to death with range ruler swords.
Only CAS that would count for SPPs and crowd pushes count towards these totals.
Schedule
Saturday
11:30-12:00 - Registration
12:00-14:00 - Game 1
14:00-15:00 - Lunch
15.00-17.00 - Game 2
17:00-19:00 - Game 3
Sunday
12:00-14:00 - Game 4
14:00-15:00 - Lunch
15.00-17.00 - Game 5
17:00 - Trophies and then home time!
Prizes
There may be some prizes. It depends how much in advance you pay. There will at least be certificates for:
Winner ("The Pearly King")
2nd place
3rd place
James Brown Memorial Stunty Cup
Most Casualties
Most Touchdowns
Blackshirt Hunter
Blackshirt Bitch
Cheers
Joe
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