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The Blood Bowl major of the Pacific Northwest and the Great White North is back!



Spike! 2012 saw the reforging of the Spike! Magazine Trophy itself! Spike! 2013 marks the 10th anniversary of the Spike! Magazine tournament. Fantastic give-away prize to be announced!

Our dedicated crew from Edmonton made the trek once again in 2012, as well as coaches from Rat City Rumble in Seattle and over half a dozen members from OrdoFanaticus in Oregon. Thank you Tremere, Khail and Weav for organizing that. And big thanks to the crew from Calgary for finally making the trip over the Rockies and introducing yourselves! It was great to meet you guys and add faces to names. I was also happy to see Zootsuitjeff make the trip out once again. And HUGE thanks for current Spike! champion Kaare from Denmark for making the trip out to both NA Majors last year and owning Pacwest! We look forward to seeing last year's participants return and hope to see a lot of new faces as well. 2013 marks an even bigger year in Spike! history.

For those of you unfamiliar with the SPIKE!, the SPIKE! Magazine Blood Bowl Championship is the Canadian Blood Bowl NAF Major. Five "Major" tournments take place annually, each in a different country. They are in chronological order:

1. The Southern Wastes Scrimmage, held each year in January at CanCon in Canberra, Australia.
2. The Dungeonbowl, held each year in March in Duesseldorf, Germany
3. The Blood Bowl (aka NAF Championship), held each year in May at GW HQ in Nottingham, England
4. The Chaos Cup, held this year in early September at the Battle Bunker Chicago, Illinous, USA
5. The Spike! Magazine Trophy, held this year in mid September in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

2013 sees the continuance of the one-week-or-no-more-than-a-fortnight policy between NA Majors, where the organizers of the Spike! Magazine and the Chaos Cup host the 2 North American Majors within 1 week of each other. We started this 3 years ago with Tom, with a fortnight between them in the same month. The second year Johnny and I set them 7 days from each other. Last year due to circumstance two weeks. This year due to fortune the Majors are back to one week in between for 2013. For those travellers wishing to make it out for a North American Major now you can try to make it out to both of them in one trip!

Things that have been added or changed from last year's event:

WE ARE NO LONGER PLAYING AT THE COMPASS POINT INN. OUR NEW HOME IS THE PACIFIC INN RESORT IN WHITE ROCK: http://www.pacificinn.com/

Spike! Magazine 2013 Blood Bowl Grand Tournament
Dates: Saturday, September 14th, and Sunday, September the 15th, 2013

Location: Pacific Inn Resort
Address: 1160 King George BVLD, White Rock, B.C.
Hotel Website: http://www.pacificinn.com/
Accomodations: Mention the Spike! Magazine when booking a room at the Pacific Inn Resort and receive the Discount Rate of $89.99.

Time: 8AM Registration Saturday

Contact: Craig or Mike
Email: thunder-bowl@hotmail.com or PM me (generaljason) here.
Web: http://www.spiketournament.com/

Additional Information:
- $45 non-NAF pre-registration, or $50 at the door
- $40 NAF member pre-registration
- 6-game Swiss Resurrection TV 110
- Door prizes from local and online stores

Since this is the Tenth Anniversary of the Spike! Magazine tournament, this year every participant will be receiving as their sign-up gift a set of full colour 104 Special Play Cards. These are the same cards that we introduced to the community back in 2007, with full coloured pictures and card descriptions.





Stay tuned for any new developments in this thread. Any questions feel free to post away and looking forward to seeing some more of you on the other side of the pitch.

Gj.

MAN! I still get shivers of joy when I look at that trophy! Simply the greatest trophy in Blood Bowl today! S.

Blammaham wrote:MAN! I still get shivers of joy when I look at that trophy! Simply the greatest trophy in Blood Bowl today! S.

You should try holding it - after winning the tournament

haha you just got called out Steve.

Can't wait for this tourney again! My 7th straight Spike!

Powtown in Calgary has completed. Thunderbowl play-offs are over. Two months out it's now time to officially open pre-registration for Spike! Magazine 2013.

Since this is the Tenth Anniversary of the Spike! Magazine tournament, this year every participant will be receiving as their sign-up gift a set of full colour 104 Special Play Cards. These are the same cards that we introduced to the community back in 2007, with full coloured pictures and card descriptions.





All our information can be found on the first page of this thread, but as well on our Spike! website. Pre-registration must by be done via our website: http://spiketournament.com/

Hope to see you out at our new location near the beach in White Rock!

Craig.

Last week to pre-register for this year's Spike! Pre-registration will officially close Sunday, September the 8th. For those planning on going but have not pre-registered be sure to take advantage of the pre-reg discount. $40 for pre-registration as opposed to $50 at the door.

Pre-registration on the Spike! website can be found here:
http://spiketournament.com/?page_id=30

10 days! Can't wait! Hope to see you out.

Gj.

These came in about a week ago:



Looking awesome!!

Pre-registration will officially close Sunday, September the 8th. For those planning on going but have not pre-registered be sure to take advantage of the pre-reg discount. $40 for pre-registration as opposed to $50 at the door.

Pre-registration on the Spike! website can be found here:
http://spiketournament.com/?page_id=30

One week out! We placed a massive Impact Order this year so the door prize table for BB related material will be stacked. 3 full teams as well, plus a few goodies from the NAF. Hope to see you out!

Gj.

Those trophies look bad ass!

Thanks Jonny! Yeah we've been doing that style of award since 2008. We were able to do them locally before, but since our original trophy maker retired we haven't been able to find anybody in town that's able to do them. This year to keep the continuity going I had to drive down to Washington State to pick them up (I didn't want to ship them):

https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=610+ ... ls&t=m&z=8

Keeping it real buddy. Sadly I've never won any of those awards in the Spike!s I get to play.

Gj.

ps to all the coaches out there making it out to the Spike! this weekend - beware of Kaare, and beware of Swedish Power!

Sweet... have a great Spike! and drop me a line afterwards so we can discuss dates for next year. Already.

Will do!

20 hours to go until game time! Looking forward to it!

For the out-of-towners arriving tonight I'll meet you in the hotel lounge after I'm done set-up for tomorrow. I'll be the really good looking guy holding the trophy.

For everyone else - hope to see you tomorrow!

Gj.

04:00 AM over in foggy, rainy British Columbia right now after partying some more with the Albertans after the tournament I'm still going. I honestly don't know what's keeping me up right now since I had no sleep Friday, about 6 hours on Saturday, plus too many beers to count, but I'm still buzzing. What a GREAT WEEKEND!!

50 coaches turned up for what turned out to be the tightest tournament I've ever had the pleasure to run. As Day 2 took it's course we honestly could not pick a winner until the completion of the last round. Day 2 saw Kaare (kfoged) lose a tight fought match against Travis (frostitute) from Oregon, the only other 3-0 coach in the fourth round, only to see Travis lose to Tyler (lordchaos) in the 5th round, and Tyler lose to Kaare in the 6th. Nobody at the tournament went 6-0. This one was decided on head-to-head and bonus points.

The Spike! stayed in North America this year! The 2013 Spike! Champion is Travis Childs (frositute) from Oregon playing Undead. Travis went 5th last year with Underworld. Great player and has been attending the Spike! since 2010. Kaare (kfoged) placed Second, and Magnus Lyrberg (Mago) from Sweden came Third.

Current Chaos Cup Champion David Granberg (meowth) from Sweden took Endzone Hog (Most Touchdowns), as well as his compatriot Anders Jansson (NIWnW) taking the Goblin Tribal Leeg Award (Best Stunty) - taking BOTH the Best Stunty Team awards at the NA Majors this year! Three out of four Swedes walked away with a glittering prize at Spike! this year. You guys weren't kidding that Team Sweden came with a mission. 4 out of 5 Europeans took home silverware.

BIG thanks to Kaare for making the trek out to the Pacific North West to defend his title. You almost did it again this year buddy! It was great seeing you. And HUGE props to Jonas (ozt) for organizing the crew from Sweden! The suits were PHENOMENAL!

Great job Bryan (grither) on making it to both NA Majors as well this year - it was great seeing you again. Thanks to Damion and Sean for making the trip out across the rockies again, plus all our friends from Oregon and Washington State for coming out and making a great weekend for us! And I often forget to mention and take for granted, but thanks to all the TB crew that came out to participate and represent.

Full results will be posted on the site shortly. NAF results will be posted as soon as I track down a few IDs, plus some sleep of course. The glittering prizes were:

Spike! 2013 Champion: Travis Childs (Frostitute) - Undead
Second Place: Kaare Foged (kfoged) - Dark Elves
Third Place: Magnus Lyrberg (Mago) - Wood Elves

Outstanding Painting: Mike Adams (Nitnit) - Amazons
Outstanding Sportsmanship: Jason Weaver (Weav) - Dark Elves

Goblin Tribal Leeg (Best Stunty Team): Anders Jansson (NIWnW) - Halflings
Endzone Hog (Most Touchdowns): David Granberg (meowth) - Dark Elf
Rambo (Most Casualties): Eric Weber (raindog) - Orc
The Wall (Best Defence): Murray Campbell (Gimli) - Lizardmen
Glass Joe (Lowest Score): Kristian Hargreaves (wedge22) - Ogres


Thanks to everybody for a great weekend and already looking forward to next year!!

Best regards,
Craig.

Played Travis last year at Spike! he is a great competitor. Next year there will be more Albertans