2011
Poo Bowl 5 - Norse 1-2-4
0-2 vs Besters, Orc
0-2 vs Wilzif, Humans
0-2 vs vmcat, Undead
1-3 vs Hudson, Norse
1-1 vs Geospencer88, Elves
1-1 vs Oly1987, Humans
3-0 vs Shaniepoo1, Dwarves
Having played in a local non-NAF tournament and have things go OK I was reasonably confident going up to Loughborough. Unfortunately my faith was misplaced; I basically spent the first few games getting my ‘donkey’ kicked repeatedly. Second day was much a little better but still had a loser take all game against Shanie for the spoon, in which I had the good fortune of help him increase his cutlery collection.
Poo Bowl was a great tournament I put a lot of faces to names I had seen on various forums. It was really social and a great tournament to attend even if my results sucked. At least I didn't come last.
The NAF Championships - Orcs 2-0-4
0-1 vs Sann0638, Undead
2-0 vs Mrs Xod, Orc
0-2 vs Sillysod, Humans
2-1 vs 89er, Orc
0-2 vs Mattwhile, Dwarves
0-4 vs Rodders, Skaven
This was the big one, one of the main reasons I had played a couple of tournaments was because I had wanted to go to 'The Bloodbowl' but didn't want to turn up as a complete noob with regards to tournament play. As was already becoming apparent I not only enjoyed the game itself but collecting the teams and painting them. It must have been about this point that I realised was probably going to keep on with different teams until I had done all of them, so might as well just do one tournament and go on to a different team. I had my head turned by my first visit to Warhammer World and seeing so many Blood Bowl boards and coachs in one place at one time, having met the HATE guys Diamond Joe
et al at Exiles and Poo Bowl I knew a few faces. I think if I had not been paired against Mrs Xod who had her (3rd?) game EVER! against me I would have lost three that day. Also probably shouldn't have gone to Rock City on the Friday night
Given the coaches I came up against, my still relavitive inexperiance and just getting 2 wins rather than the one I had at Poo Bowl I was OK with the result. I loved going to Warhammer World for the first time and will always remember my first NAFC.
Exiles 3: The Rise of the Cheerleaders - Humans 2-2-2
1-1 vs Dimond Joe Quimby, Lizardmen
2-1 vs Eski, Humans
2-4 vs Giraffe, Skaven
0-2 vs Lycos, Orc
3-3 vs DieselUK, Skaven
2-0 vs Darkson, High Elves
With the arrival of my first little one in June I had had some time off tournaments (including missing my local clubs first tournament Gert Bowl) having had so much fun the year before and with the added bonus of prizes for wearing a short skirt and a bra off I went to see Al and his fellow cheerleaders at Poole.
I have loved every Exiles tournament I have been to and this was no exception. Also note worthy as the start of a run where Eski and I (clubmates at Vanguard) would alternately dice each other. Unfortunately for Steve as far as NAF ranking go, I would dice him at tournaments and he would dice me in the local league.
Given the tournament set up I decided to trade the usual Ogre speedbump in and take Zug, he was really good fun but not really sure that he was worth the extra money over an Ogre. I had a nice mix of people I had met before and 'famous' names on the scene i.e. 'Thrud Bowl' Frank and 'ARBBL Spam God' Darkson
