International Bloodbowl Open League

[Raziel_Spry]

Idea: To create an international Bloodbowl league.
A Bloodbowl team, including a team roster and background fluff, would be created by the team owner/manager. Teams would be posted to a new host every couple of weeks to either play the local teams, or meet another travelling team. The teams would be constantly evolving. The temporary coaches hosting the team would need to document the games played, and make coaching decisions for the team (model additions, conversions, or retirements would have to be cleared with the team owner). The progress of participating teams could be documented on the internet.

Working properly, it would...

*Allow talented hobbyists to share/showcase their modelling and/or conversion skills

*Provide new and different challenges to coaches playing with or against an unfamiliar team

*Create its own fluff, and a set of “legendary” teams

*Nourish the international Bloodbowl community


However, this idea would need:

“Owners/managers” who would be willing to donate a team to the international circuit (and may not see them for some time)

“Temporary coaches” who would be interested in hosting a team: this would mean playing and documenting games, as well as posting the team to its next game. Ideally, something would be added to the team at each stop

A Bloodbowl community that finds the concept interesting!

What do you think? Is this possible/feasible? Has anything similar been done before?

[Khambian]

I don't think this would work for an entire league's worth of teams. Too many logistics issues.

However, if you just do it with one or two teams, then it has a lot of potential. Literal touring teams- they show up in one place with a league, play a handful of exhibition games with results etc. recorded, then are shipped off to the next league.

Have each person on the tour list add something to the team somehow- whether it be paint up the next player to be added to the roster and send him/her/it along, or perhaps some sort of support staff or fan or turn marker. If money/lack of spare models, no time to paint, etc. becomes an issue, play-by-plays or other such fluff could be written/drawn/recorded and added to the set. This also adds a little incentive for the owner to put up a team- he will end up with all sorts of additional little goodies when they come home.

I've seen other hobby communities (action figure groups especially) do some really cool things with a figure or figures sent on a trip around the world.

I'd nominate a Chaos Pact team to be one of the ones sent- that leaves a lot of leeway as far as contributions go.