Wobble Bowl 2018 - 19th May 2018 - West Yorkshire

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The West Yorkshire Blood Bowl League presents - WOBBLE BOWL 2018
24 (with room up to 48) coach tournament - NAF ranked

Greetings Blood Bowl Coaches,

The West Yorkshire Blood Bowl League is proud to announce, that on the 19th of May 2018 at the Holmfirth Gaming Centre, that they will be hosting Wobble Bowl.
Furthermore, we will be once again be using the infamous WYBBL Wobble Ball (copyright still pending) rule. See the rule section for further information.

General Information

Wobble Bowl will be held on 19th of May 2018 at the Holmfirth Gaming Centre, 1 Miry Ln, New Mill, Thongsbridge, Holmfirth HD9 7HP

Game timings will be as follows:
09:45 to 10.00 Registration
10:00 to 12:15 Game One
12:15 to 12:45 Lunch
12:45 to 15:00 Game Two
15:15 to 17:30 Game Three
17:30 to 18:00 Awards and close
The venue has ample free parking (though car sharing is encouraged in case we get above 48 coaches!), and food is available to purchase on site.

Entry costs and payment

NAF registered adults will be £8.50, and non-NAF will be £13.50 but will include (1 years) NAF membership.

Please send payments by paypal to admin@wybbl.org.uk. Could you select the 'gift' or 'paying a friend' option so we don't lose out on fees please? Please tell us your NAF name and number if registered. As we will be paying for the trophies and venue using funds collected we will be unable to offer refunds, we will however look to help coaches sell on their ticket should they have to drop out.

Rules

Wobble Bowl will be using the current NAF rules in place on the tournament day.

The Illegal Procedure will not be enforced. There is a time limit for games, so coaches are encouraged to play 4 minute turns to ensure games are completed. Any games that reach the time limit will have to be halted and the result at this point will be the final result of that game.

We will be using the standard "Resurrection" rules; coaches will play each match with the same starting roster and do not need to record SPPs or any ongoing injuries. Undead, Necro or Nurgle teams may not keep 'raised' players from game to game.
We will also be using the ‘WYBBL Wobble Ball’ rule…
Some say the winds of magic blow strongest this time of year, others will tell you the ball is enchanted and has a mind of its own. Either way the ball is a little ... unpredictable....

To represent this whenever the ball scatters and lands in an empty square it "wobbles" one additional square in a random direction determined by the scatter template before finally coming to rest. If it lands on a standing player they will attempt to catch it as normal and it will SCATTER again if not caught or after landing on a prone player. The ball will always wobble once (and only once) after scattering including after kick off, failed catches, failed pick-ups and throw ins.

Coaches may spend up to 1,100,000 gold crowns on their team roster. Rosters may include one star player as part of their team; the star player may be part of the starting eleven players. Halfling, Goblin and Ogre teams are an exception to this rule; they may have two star players, both of which can be part of the starting eleven players.

No inducements may be taken except goblins who make take up to 3 bribes at 50k each, and halflings who may hire a master chef for 100k.

Each team will be offered a skills package to enhance their players; this will be done on a tier system.
TIER 1 Amazon, Chaos Dwarf, Dark Elf, Dwarf, Lizardman, Norse, Orc, Skaven, Undead, Wood Elf, Brets
TIER 2 Chaos, Chaos Pact, Elf, High Elf, Human, Khemri, Necromantic, Nurgle, Slann, Khorne
TIER 3 Halfling, Goblin, Ogre, Underworld, Vampire

The packages will be as follows:
TIER 1 = 4 normal skills
TIER 2 = 5 normal skills and 1 double skill
TIER 3 = 6 normal skills and 2 double skills

You may not assign more than one additional skill to any player and star players may not have additional skills added.

Games and Scoring

The first round will be drawn randomly, with all further rounds using the Swiss system. The overall winner will be the coach with the most points at the end of the day - there will be no final.

Points are scored as follows:

50 points for a win.
20 points for a draw.
0 points for a loss.
+1 Bonus point per touchdown (max 3 bonus points)
+1 Bonus point per casualty (max 3 bonus points)
+1 Bonus point per interception (max 3 bonus points)

Ties (for both Swiss and final winner) will be resolved as follows:
Ties to be determined on the following (in order) Head to Head, Strength of Schedule, Combined TD and Causality difference

Casualty score in this case is casualties from BLOCKING ONLY (including "defensive" ones where the blocking player ends up injured and gives the intended victim a casualty point).

Things To Bring With You

A painted team.
Your Blood Bowl board.
Dice.
Templates.
Three roster sheets (one for the head ref, one for yourself and one for your opponent).

[indiana-utah]

To Pay:

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Coaches that have paid:

01) Indiana Utah (Needs to renew NAF status)
02) Slimjono
03) Scouseboy
04) Spleggy
05) Darkstar (Needs to renew NAF status)
06) Lewis Sharpe (Needs new NAF registration)
07) Asarion (Needs to renew NAF status)
08) Tommonstrosity
09) Ryan Lewis (Needs new NAF registration)
10) KFoged
11) Rob Lovett (Needs new NAF registration)
12) Nathan Halligan (Needs new NAF registration)
13) Firebreather
14) vagabond1982uk
15) ninjahamster
16) ambush3
17) Jay Muffit (Needs new NAF registration)
18) Littleleadperson
19) philipprocter
20) Seg
21) Barney the Lurker
22) Olliander-Jones (Needs to renew NAF membership)
23) Podfrey
24) Mark James

[indiana-utah]

Rule's have now been added. NAF sanctioned status has been approved.

Just waiting for final confirmation from the venue, then we can start booking places.

Edit: Now fully confirmed. Let registration commence!

[indiana-utah]

Quick update: We are on target for 14 sign ups already (the venue has a BB league of 100% non-NAF coaches, and it looks like we've got 10 of them to sign up to the NAF and play!

We are also working on a tournament gift for all coaches who enter.

So for a mere £8.50 (£13.50 if you need to take out NAF membership) you get 3 NAF ranked games, a tournament gift, a chance at some tournament trophies, and a chance at a NAF winners trophy, and a NAF best painted team trophy. Quite possibly the best value tournament this year.

[indiana-utah]

So Wobble Bowl Gifts...

3 Green Re-Roll tokens, and 1 yellow (leader?) token.

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Trophies...

1st Place
Most Touchdowns
Most Casualties
Stunty Cup

Also as we are aiming for between 24 and 48 coaches we should have a NAF winners trophy, and a NAF best painted trophy too...

[KFoged]

Paid

[Arctaeus]

Keen to get involved with this. Is it still all going ahead?

[indiana-utah]

Keen to get involved with this. Is it still all going ahead?

Hi, yes 100% going ahead.

[indiana-utah]

So the NAFC is done and dusted, the Bank Holiday is just about over, what's left to do?

Well play more Blood Bowl of course!

[firebreather]

Payment sent

[Slimjono]

Should be another great event held by WYBBL. A bargain price too!

[indiana-utah]

Payment sent

Thank you, see you on the 19th

[indiana-utah]

Places are starting to fill up fast now.

15 Paid
Valen and the boys still to pay (so gets us to 19)
2 SYBBL coaches to confirm and pay (21)
3 HGC coaches to confirm and pay (24)
The Waterbowl crew are making arrangments to come and play too.

All in all we should clear the 24 coaches mark, which means the planned NAF Shield, and NAF best painted awards should be going ahead, and most importantly we have a good number of coaches to ensure this years Wobble Bowl is another success.

If you want in, still time, and we can flex up to 48 coaches if need be without breaking a sweat!