Pearly Kings & Queens XI - 4/5 July 2015 - London

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Pearly Kings & Queens XI - 4/5 July 2015 - London

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Hello wonderful Blood Bowlers!

The Pearly Kings & Queens tournament will be back again on the 4th and 5th of July 2015.

The event will be held at The Mad Hatter Hotel not far from Waterloo rail and tube station & Southwark tube station.

The event will be six games, four games on the Saturday and two on the Sunday due to a midday start.

We will be using the 'much heralded' Ironmanj rules for team building.

Get yourselves down to London!

General Information

Entry Fee
Entry will be £32.00 but this will include a pub meal on both days. Sunday roast if you want it (only on the Sunday obviously). Appreciate this is slightly more than most tournaments, but we have a lovely venue in central London and you get two hot meals. Please send payment via PayPal to joehainstock (AT) googlemail.com (do not contract to @gmail.com). Could you select the 'gift' or 'paying a friend' option so I don't lose out on fees please?

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. Please bring a hard board if you have one rather than a roll one to fit the tables.
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, Mercenaries 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 Normal tier 2 skill.
2 points for any other instance of a Normal tier 2 skill.
2 points for the first instance of a Normal tier 1 skill.
3 points for any other instance of a Normal tier 1 skill.
+2 points if that skill is from a 'Doubles' category.

No player may have more than one extra 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

Example : My Chaos team has 15 points to spend. I take three Chaos Warriors with Block, the first costing 2 points and the next two costing 3 points each (total 8 points). I then take three Beastmen with Wrestle, the first costing me 1 point and the next two costing 2 points each (total 5 points). This leaves me with 2 points, with which I take a Tackle Beastman and an Extra Arms Beastman. 2+3+3+1+2+2+1+1 = 15.

Games and Scoring
Four 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
11:00-11:30 - Registration
11:30-13:30 - Game 1
13:30-14:30 - Lunch
14.30-16.30 - Game 2
16:30-18:30 - Game 3
18:30-19:00 - Break
19:00-21:00 - Game 4
21:00-23:00 - we will be hanging around in the pub, so time to finish game 4, grab a pint or play other nerd games!

Sunday
12:00-14:00 - Game 5
14:00-15:00 - Lunch
15.00-17.00 - Game 6
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 or Queen")
2nd place
3rd place
James Brown Memorial Stunty Cup
Most Casualties
Most Touchdowns
Blackshirt Hunter
Blackshirt Bitch

Cheers
Joe


Last years event.

Interested (max 37)

0. Joemanji (spare player)
1. Greshvakk **PAID**
2. mubo **PAID**
3. Billydee **PAID**
4. Heff **PAID**
5. Firebreather **PAID**
6. Hangus **PAID**
7. Pippy **PAID**
8. Purplegoo **PAID**
9. Wulfyn **PAID**
10. Wilf **PAID**
11. Sorvad **PAID**
12. Mattedge666 **PAID**
13. YogiBedlamBear **PAID**
14. WishWellingtons **PAID**
15. blergeroth **PAID**
16. MrFrodo **PAID**
17. vmcat **PAID**
18. Richy **P.O.T.D.**
19. Geggster **P.O.T.D.**
20. Stu **PAID**
21. Russ?
22. nonumber?
23. nobby?

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Funny I was just looking for tournaments around my area.

I'll be there this year.

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It's in the diary. Not far for me.

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Definitely interested...

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I have my blackshirt bitch title to "defend" why would I not be there?

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I should be able to combine this with a visit to my works head office, and may have to bring my Alice in wonderland Pact team to fit the venue.

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Interested

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Hello Joe! I'd like to attend this. Will let you know nearer the time if I'm able.

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Excellent news!

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What will the finish time be please? Just in terms of possible train tickets...

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Looking to finish about 5pm, maybe 5.15pm on the Sunday. For you Kings Cross is about a 30 minute tube journey from Southwark station (Jubilee to Green Park, change on to Victoria > Kings Cross). Any train from 18.00 onwards will be easily get-able.

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Add me in please!

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I will be there!

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I possibly may go if I can persuade the wife and then my grand parents to let me crash at theirs over the weekend.

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