Please check out the latest item on the NAF Facebook page for details of a charity project we're undertaking (a lovely idea of Nate's). If you wish to make donations at the NAFC, I'll be the one doing the collecting. I will make myself clear and obvious first thing on the Saturday morning during registration and then at other times on the weekend (if Andy lets me near the microphone...
), so please don't be shy and seek me out if you have a donation to make.Cheers!
Phil.
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While Blood Bowl coaches are perhaps best known for their bloodlust and devious gamesmanship, there’s a kinder side to our community as well. For over the past decade, charitable Blood Bowl tournaments have raised more than $50,000 and £30,000 for a variety of good causes, including several types of medical research/treatment, support for disabled veterans, funding for family shelters, and even veterinary aid. In most cases, these funds are raised through both ticket sales and the raffling of Blood Bowl merchandise.
The NAF is often approached for assistance in these efforts, but we don’t have much in the way of physical prizes to donate. Instead, we are going to act in as facilitators, gathering gifts from donors and then supplying those gifts to tournaments in need of them.
Here’s how it works:
- There are 4 designated tournaments at which you may donate items: The NAF Championship (UK), Chaos Cup (USA), Eurobowl (UK this time) and Dungeon Bowl (Germany). Just show up to any of these events with a bundle of Blood Bowl stuff (or general-purpose gaming gear that might be of genuine interest to Blood Bowlers). If you can’t make it to any of these tournaments, you could ask someone to donate on your behalf, or otherwise please get in touch to discuss the possibility of other options.
- Hand your loot over to a representative of the NAF, who will give you at least one raffle ticket in return. (If you bring a massive pile of things or items of particular value, you might get more than one.)
- The NAF will distribute these donated items to charity tournaments all over the world.
- Prior to each NAFC, beginning in 2019, we will hold a drawing to select one raffle winner from those coaches that donated. This person will receive some sort of fancy gift (in 2019 it will be a Dornbirn World Cup pitch, which you’ll be able to preview at this year’s NAFC). If you can’t make it to the NAFC, the prize will be shipped to you free of charge.
Easy enough, right? Thanks in advance for helping with this initiative and for encouraging your fellow Blood Bowlers’ philanthropic efforts.
