Results, Pictures From The Bloodbowl (updated 17 March)

Skummy · Post by **Skummy** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 2:38 pm

Can anyone tell us what teams Marcos and Jez were playing?

martynq · Post by **martynq** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 2:39 pm

Oh yeah, the five of you ought to get off your backsides and start writing up your "Ultimate Guide to Winning at Blood Bowl" so the rest of us can start to catch up!

Martyn

Indigo · Post by **Indigo** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 2:41 pm

both human, and both with zug and griff I believe

at the end, Jervis asked if stars should be ditched for tournies and an overwhelming majority said yes

cidervampire · Post by **cidervampire** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 2:44 pm

jez (who beat me) had griff and zug and the other guy had griff and luthor. So as the rules stood neither of them got to use griff

Post by **DoubleSkulls** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 2:44 pm

Skummy wrote:Can anyone tell us what teams Marcos and Jez were playing?

Both were humans. Marcos and Griff & Luthor, Jez Griff and Zug. Neither Griff played and Luthor out performed Zug in the final.

Post by **DoubleSkulls** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 2:46 pm

Indigo wrote:at the end, Jervis asked if stars should be ditched for tournies and an overwhelming majority said yes

I think he was a bit shocked that coaches didn't want stars in the final...

It should change and the scoring system might be better too (5 for a win, 3 draw, 2 lose by a TD, 1 for loss, 0 for conceding).

Skummy · Post by **Skummy** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 2:50 pm

Nice, a humanbowl! Does anyone know what other teams were represented in the 10 players used.

Post by **DoubleSkulls** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 3:02 pm

martynq wrote:Oh yeah, the five of you ought to get off your backsides and start writing up your "Ultimate Guide to Winning at Blood Bowl" so the rest of us can start to catch up!

Martyn

Well you can read my match report which may contain some tips.

The only change I'd make to the team is to change my skill selection. The dirty player wasn't useful enough to justify coming 2nd and I could have done with a strip ball blitzer instead of 2 tackles and a guard.

Post by **Dave** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 3:07 pm

where's the dutch contignent??

Marcus · Post by **Marcus** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 3:37 pm

where's the dutch contignent??

Andre "princelucianus" Blank managed 16th after spending most of the tournament prowling the top tables.

Oh yeah, the five of you ought to get off your backsides and start writing up your "Ultimate Guide to Winning at Blood Bowl" so the rest of us can start to catch up!

Come play us, we're always happy to hand out "lessons"

martynq · Post by **martynq** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 3:47 pm

Marcus wrote:
Me wrote:Oh yeah, the five of you ought to get off your backsides and start writing up your "Ultimate Guide to Winning at Blood Bowl" so the rest of us can start to catch up!
Come play us, we're always happy to hand out "lessons"

"Lessons" meaning "humiliation"?

Sounds good... unfortunately, I live at least two hours drive from London, seem to be constantly ridiculously busy, and also don't think I'd cope terribly well with the atmosphere at your gatherings. (No personal offense, but I'm a pretty vehement non-smoker.)

Don't suppose you do PBEM?

Martyn

Grumbledook · Post by **Grumbledook** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 3:47 pm

Hmm dunno about the ECBBL guys none of them came above me now did they :p

Geggster · Post by **Geggster** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 3:49 pm

Fair point 'Dook.

4th for you. Well done mate.

Marcus · Post by **Marcus** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 4:00 pm

martynq wrote:

"Lessons" meaning "humiliation"?

Well that was kinda tongue in cheek, but with a grain of truth. The best way to improve at any game is to keep playing people better than you. We manage to maintain a fairly high standard of play in our league because we push each other to improve so much. Nothing like healthy competition.

and also don't think I'd cope terribly well with the atmosphere at your gatherings. (No personal offense, but I'm a pretty vehement non-smoker.)

Excuses, excuses

It's actually only Ian and I who smoke, unless you simply can't stand to be in a pub.

Don't suppose you do PBEM?

Nah, much prefer face to face. Although some of our players play using the IRC client in the OLBBL. We've been known to play the odd league game that way as well.

Grumbledook · Post by **Grumbledook** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 4:03 pm

I am a bit amazed by it, also like to point out me longfang deathwing and some others managed to stay in bugmans till they kicked us out all 3 nights ;]

Was cool to meet so many names off here and most put in good performances, thought i was out of the running after losing my second game but other results went my way and I think the fact i only suffered 2 cas the whole tournament was rather useful.

Sunday night was cool with loads of us hitting a local pub and consuming lots of alcohol. Think the staff were a bit bemused by it all and its the first time i've been in an english pub with only 3 out of 13 of us being english. It got rather rowdy at times, think the english, scotish, dutch, french, german and canadian were all present. Sorry if i missed one out, was a great night though, hopw to repeat it next year!

Thanks to longfang and deathwing for putting up with me all weekend as well.

As for that top 30 list here are some more tbbers

16 Andie Blank - Prince Lucy
38 Gary Mills - Zy-Nox
39 Geoff Porrit - Lucifer
50 John Lewis - Neoliminal

I will be scanning the results pages in later and uploading them so everyone can see the final standings asap.

Well done to all who done well and those who didn't well better luck next time!