Northern British Tournament Series 2015

[stanrichardson]

Winkle_Picka supported by Garrick are running a Northern British Series including all the Scottish tournaments open to all contestants. The NAF will sanction, publicise and provide prize support for the Northern British Series which will encourage more players to come to Scottish and Northern English tournaments.

The Northern Series will consist of:

WaterBowl, Stockport 21/22 February 2015
BridieBowl, Arbroath 21 March 2015
MonkeyBowl, Hartlepool 11/12 April 2015
Block Around the Clock, Gateshead 2/3 May 2015
BurgerBowl, Edinburgh July 2015
OchilBowl, Stirling August 2015
GeordieBowl, Newcastle August 2015
WeegieBowl. Glasgow September 2015

Scoring

• All scoring is per tournament but only your top 3 scores will count.
• A coach must attend at least 4 tournaments in the series to be eligible.
• +10 to +1 points for top 10 placement on a declining scale. In other words a 1st place finish would be worth 10 points, a 2nd place finish would be worth 9 points, on down to a 10th place finish being worth 1 point.
• plus one scoring place for each 10 places below 1st and
• plus one scoring place for each extra day.
(Examples: A two day 32-coach tournament would have 4 extra scoring places:- 3 for 32 coaches and 1 for the extra day resulting in 1st place scoring 14pts etc. to 14th place scoring 1pt. A one day 11 coach tournament would have 1 extra scoring place because there are 10 coaches below 1st. A one day 10 coach tournament would have no extra scoring place because there are only 9 coaches below 1st.)
• Coaches will be required to coach at least 2 different types of teams, their total score must include at least 1 result from this 2nd race.
• Tiebreakers: Coaches receive .1 points for each tournament they participate in. This score is taken in whole and is not reduced to "best 3" as with other scores. So someone who participated in 9 tournaments might have a total score of 30.9, beating out someone who only played in 8 tournaments and has 30.8.
• Secondary tiebreakers: Highest placed at largest tournament in the series.

There will also be a "Stunty" prize for the best placed Stunty team in the series based on the same formula above but entirely for all the Stunty teams (Ogre, Halfling and Goblin) that enter each qualifying tournament. (Example: If only two Stunty coaches finish in a 10-coach tournament they would receive 10 and 9 points respectively for first and second towards the "Stunty" prize.)

The plan right now is for the prizes to be a series of enamel lapel pins or badges for those that finish in 1st-3rd place as well as the Stunty winner. The hope is that these will become as desirable and collectible as the pewter NAF trophy (or more so, as there will be fewer given out and the design will change slightly with each year). Again, that's just the plan, and the NAF are still working on the design for those, but they are fairly certain that it will go that way.

N.B. We will crown a Scottish Champion “within” the Northern Series (scoring criteria to be determined which may include NAFC) and they will win the Dragon trophy.
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[lunchmoney]

More series is always good

[Sizzler]

When is it?

[Pipey]

Last Tuesday, quarter past three (GMT), just after the weather roll.

[besters]

A tournament series certainly adds fun and another target, I know the SWTC got me to a couple more tournaments than usual last year.

[Pipey]

Agreed on that. Look forward to kicking this off at Waterbowl next month.

[flick]

The Rose bowl is in the North?
Doncaster

[Garrick]

The Rose bowl is in the North?
Doncaster

Ultimately it is Stan's call but all the current tournaments with one singular exception are North of Yorkshire and that exception, WaterBowl has been included due to it's close association (WaterMonkey) with MonkeyBowl in Hartlepool.

Maybe you could kick off a Middle England Tournament Series - Nate Beem in the NAF would be the man to talk to.

[purdindas]

Which Geordie will win?

[stanrichardson]

Hi Flick

I selected the the northern England events

I did look at rose bowl but didn't select it for a number of reasons, which I am happy to share.

Firstly with it being the first year I wanted to select events which had a history. All the events in selected have been running for five plus years.

Secondly in order to encourage to people to take part in the series is wanted all the events to be two day events. This is purely down to the in my experience two day events attract more people and people are more willing to travel further for a two day event rather than a one day event.

Thirdly and the least important factor was events I knew were happening and I had a relationship with the TO, this was only a factor as we rushed to set this up and needed answers quickly from TOs.

If the event is successful this year, I will look at the events included for year two.

For example Meresybowl after a few years of being unstable it's becoming a regular fixture on the scene. And we give the north west another fixture.

I'd be more then happy to include a Yorkshire event, for example if Joe/Leon we still running the Ironmanj that would of been an auto pic for me.

Hope this helps in understanding the current position and I am happy to discuss it further

[flick]

Yea that's fine, I expected us to be southern for you
I know it's fell off in last few year but was in Wakefield for years. I'm trying to rebuild it again.

Once we get players wanting to come it may go two day, but it's all ways usually just the one.

[Garrick]

We now have dates for BurgerBowl and WeegieBowl:

BurgerBowl, Edinburgh, 11-12 July 2015
WeegieBowl, Glasgow, 12-13 September 2015

[Vanguard]

• Tiebreakers: Coaches receive .1 points for each tournament they participate in. This score is taken in whole and is not reduced to "best 3" as with other scores. So someone who participated in 9 tournaments might have a total score of 30.9, beating out someone who only played in 8 tournaments and has 30.8.

If someone scores .9 out of only eight tournaments, I'm calling shenanigans!

[Garrick]

Stan, I make the standings after Waterbowl:

15 pts Purplegoo
14 pts Mr.Nuffle
13 pts Joemanji
12 pts Winkle_Picka
11 pts Netsmurf
10 pts Pippy
9 pts Podfrey
8 pts CJBlackburn
7 pts Garrick
6 pts Sann0638
5 pts Goldbaek
4 pts Sizzler
3 pts J-Bone
2 pts Lycos
1 pt Mubo

Stunty

10 pts Mightythor
9 pts Beanbag
8 pts Elspedo

Probably best to double check.

[Garrick]

Stan, can you update the schedule as in addition to BurgerBowl and WeegieBowl, we now have dates for OchilBowl and GeordieBowl:

BurgerBowl, Edinburgh, 11-12 July 2015
WeegieBowl, Glasgow, 12-13 September 2015
OchilBowl, Stirling 8 August 2015
GeordieBowl, Newcastle 5-6 September 2015

Cheers