Talk Fantasy Football

At last!

After years (well almost) in the wilderness, Flame Bowl has found a new home and is once more set to become a hotbed for the bitter rivalry and intrigue of team-based fantasy football!

Eh?

For those of you that don't know, or have forgotten, Flame Bowl is a Manchester-based weekend tourney. Players band up into groups of 4 like minded souls (or else are flung headlong into Team Merkin) and battle it out to see which club/region/etc are the hottest at Blood Bowl. Hence Flame Bowl, see?

A Brave New World!

Sadly we weren't able to secure last years venue again for 2010, but happily as one door closes, another opens, and so this year's venue is:

The Hellfire Club (click to visit their site)

...which is a horror themed restaurant in the Mancunian suburbs. Huzzah!

The Hellfire has space for 40, so that's our headroom for this year. Would be awesome to get 10 full teams!

Still a good excuse!

All money raised by the event will be donated to Cancer Research UK. Flamebowl has managed to raise over £2000 for Cancer Research so far, and hopefully this year will see that figure creep a little higher!

I want goodies!

Prizes will include spot prizes each round, some exciting Flame Bowl giveaways, Flame Bowl pitches for the winning team and a fully painted team for the overall individual winner. Oh, and the Stunty Cup, of course.

Powergaming Time!

The rules document is available here:

Flame Bowl III Rules Link

So what do I need to do?

Ideally, band together with your 3 closest Blood Bowling pals, come up with a team name and pay up. However, if you'd like to come and don't have a team to join, don't worry, as I'll start a thread in the 'Tournament Discussions' section for people to ally up. In the tournament's inaugural year, a team of random misfits actually won - so there's hope for everyone!

Tickets cost £25; or £30 for Non NAF members, incuding your NAF subscription (apologies for the increase in price this year, I hope it's not too steep)

If you'd like to pay via Paypal, please send payments, using the gift option, to:

Flamebowl@hotmail.com

Alternatively if you wish to pay by cheque please PM me and I'll let you know the address to send it to.

If you have a team of 4 interested then let me know on this thread and I'll update the list of teams. If there's 1, 2 or 3 of you then pop a post up on the 'Flame Bowl III Teammates' thread in Tournament Discussions and we'll get it sorted.

The Teams So Far

Team 1 Team MoX

Wilburs
Behindu
Martel
Chilblain

Team 2 Flame On Team C

Nethrag PAID
Sean PAID
Vodrake PAID
Grotsmeg PAID

Team 3 Team Creamy Friends/Brutal Deluxe

Leipziger PAID
Northernknight
Beanbag
Fireolli

Team 4 GBBL presents: Gazza's Tears

Stick PAID
Pippy PAID
Don Vito PAID
Stan PAID

Team 5 Pippy's Booty Bashers II (or III?)

Shaniespoon PAID
Wightlord PAID
Chosen Gobbo
Big Pete

Team 6 Team Paincake

Jimany PAID
Iron Nick
Joemanji PAID
Polar Bear

Team 7 Team Scotland

Valen PAID
Purdinas PAID
Donshula PAID
Jordell PAID

Team 8 The Kings and Leon

Ironjaw PAID
Lycos PAID
Geggster PAID
Grumbledook PAID

Team 9 GBBL presents: Local Heroes

Jeeves PAID
Schmee PAID
Hangus PAID
Zedsdead PAID

Team 10 Flame On Team B

Barney the Lurker PAID
Sizzling Gromril PAID
Ninjahamster PAID
Zoglug PAID

Team 11 Geoff's Swim Team

Purplegoo PAID
Podfrey PAID
Ambush PAID
Sillysod PAID

Bring it on!

Hell to the yeah!

Good work nipples, as usual.

GBBL will be there, lineup to be announced by Captain Stick! Can't wait!!!

Brutal Deluxe will be there Nipples!

Good stuff guys, look forward to seeing the lineups!

Creamy friends... Hoooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

Martel, Behindu, A.N.Other and myself will be representing Team MoX this year Nippy.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One of the best tournaments going. Can't wait.

Nippy Longskar wrote:A points based system for selecting the 4 races within each team

However, a caveat Mark.

I am very interested in hearing the details of this. I hope it won't be a buzz kill. Team tournaments are all about bringing your best frocks (i.e. races) and trying to win for your mates. The big guns bringing their 'A' game and duking it out for the spoils. If 2-3 coaches on each team will have their hands tied behind their backs, well ... that ain't fun. I'd almost go as far to say we should consider whether it should be NAF ranked. If I rock up with my Undead and only have to play Nurgle/Humans/Pro Elves ... well, that ain't right. Alternatively, the idea of me taking Nurgle for a weekend and getting trashed so that my teammate can take Wood Elves and rack up 6 easy wins doesn't seem like it adds fun (for either of us).

This should be seriously considered. There is no other tournament that has ever made a coach use a crappy race. By all means give the weaker races an incentive for people to use them. Extra points etc.

Joemanji wrote:me taking Nurgle for a weekend and getting trashed so that my teammate can take Wood Elves and rack up 6 easy wins doesn't seem like it adds fun (for either of us).

Sounds great to me joe, thanks for putting your hand up.

Like it wasn't happening anyway. Anything for the greater good of your ranking.

Payment sent Mark. Can't wait

Defo interested. Will have a word with the other deviants and perverts (Wightlord and Chosen G) and get a suitable team ready to sexualy haras Pip

How about a rule that starte each team MUST include atleast 1 stunty team. Will mean 10+ stunties for the cup.

Yes, yes, yes!

Dunno where Joe gets off with his 'caveats'! Who does he think he is?

To be fair I see where Joe's coming from. Interesting concept, as long as it doesn't go overboard.

But Nips will be well aware of all this. It's his tourney and I'm sure it will be another trailblazing classic.

My own nipples are positively erect at the thought of another Flame Bowl!

Will definatley be there, trying to drum up interest from the scottish lads