Screaming Spires - 15th September - nr. Oxford - Kilos wins!

[Maverick]

wow 33% isn't a bad turn out

[fallingdownjoe]

Full results can be found below!

Thanks to everyone who came - I had a great time and as soon as I know more about next year I'll post something up here. I'm very strongly leaning towards 4 games.

Congratulations to Fatboyslimming for his Stunty Cup, and especially to Kilos for winning a tournament first time out!

Results have been uploaded to the NAF website, so they should filter through soon.

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[mawph]

Congrats on a first tournament we’ll run joe. Thoroughly good fun and good to see it attracted new faces too. Looking forward to the next iteration already

[Glowworm]

Damn!! 5th.....Sooooo Close

Just to echo previous comments, great day and a really well run tournament. good rule set and a decent venue, thank you Joe!!

[Twelfman]

Cheers Joe for running (and Tim for helping out!) It was a great day and a nice venue.

Thanks to Mav for giving me a schooling!! Goblins! Why'd it have to be goblins?!

If I'd taken two more cas I'd have received the vaulted You Did Okay award (exactly mid table, net TD net Cas of 0). One day, Gadget..

Sign me up for next year for sure.

[20phoenix]

Were any secondary awards handed out?

[fallingdownjoe]

Yep! Full list of awards:

Winner - Kilos
Runner up - Mawph
Stunty Cup - fatboyslimming
International Glowworm Award - fallingdownjoe
Best Painted - Thor87
Most CAS - Twelfman
Most TDs - Glowworm
Wooden Spoon - BertBassett

Unfortunately we didn't quite have 24 people so I don't think it can be counted for the Golden Gauntlet as it was only 3 games. Next year will definitely be 4!

[lunchmoney]

How did the winner not suffer any CAS? Did he hit 3 stunty teams?

[fallingdownjoe]

Two stunty teams and a Chaos team. I played him last with stunty underworld and didn't even break armour - even Morg just swatted at his hobgoblins ineffectively! He played well, but was telling me that he'd had a good day when it came to people hitting him.

[Primary_kilos]

Seeing as I sheepishly avoided giving a Speech on the day I thought it was about time I made up for it here.

First and foremost thank you to Fallingdownjoe and Tim for putting on such a cracking tournament, hopefully this will be the first of many more in and around Oxford.

This was my first Blood Bowl tournament and I have to say the atmosphere was superb, everyone was super friendly and I was surprised by how far people are willing to travel.

With regards to my win, I am by no means disillusioned by the result. I was incredibly lucky in all three games, both with the draws and the dice rolling both for and against.

In terms of the draw I faced Salamandra (who was also attending his first tournament) and his Chaos team in the first round. I think we both had a nervous start and before we had even kicked off a spot prize had gone (10 GFIs in a single turn). The first half of this game was incredibly brutal resulting in him having just 1 warrior set to return for the 2nd half. I was very surprised not to have suffered any casualties in this game especially as he was able to out strength me with the Warriors and Horns blitz. Final score 2-0 with total of 6 casualties.

Game 2, unbeknownst to me brought more luck, apparently Stunty teams don't like tackling dwarves (good or evil). Having never faced a Stunty team I was unsure of what I was going to do here. I was up against Fatboyslimming and his Skink + Krox team and it honestly couldn't have gone better from the start with a CAS on the Krox on the first turn!! I don't think Fatboyslimming will mind me saying that his dice were not favouring him at all in this game. He made a handful of successful dodges and despite trying to sack the carrier on a 2 dice uphill several times the best he managed was a push. On the flip side my dice were on fire with Centaurs playing the ball freely and even a Blocker got in on the action with a TD saving interception. Final score 2-0 and another 6 casualties. Fortunately Fatboyslimming managed to go on and win the Stunty Cup (completing the set for the Stunty teams) so I'm hoping that this game is just a blip on his overall memories of the day

My final game was against our host Fallingdownjoe at this point we were the only coaches with a 2-0-0 record so it was a top table game in its truist form with a win for either team crowning their respective coach. After never playing a stunty team before round 2 I had definitely not faced an underworld Stunty team with mutations all over the place. Although I had luck again with Centaurs dodging and picking up the ball at will, it was once again my opponents dice that had the impact on the game. Most notably Morg was unable to break armour whether he was hitting a blocker, centaur or hobbo, meanwhile his troll decided to eat his best hope of a sack, his Horns Gobbo. However his real highlight was still to come when he tried to lob a bomb at my Centaur carrying the ball and my other Centaur intercepted and threw it back taking out the little Bombadier. Final score 3-0 but just the 2 casualties (despite my best efforts I couldn't roll above a 7).

Once again a massive thank you to Joe, Tim, my opponents, and everyone who attended for making Screaming Skulls such an enjoyable day, I will definitely be looking to attend more tournaments in the future (we may even look into hosting one in North Oxfordshire!!!).

Kilos - Winner of Screaming Skulls 2018

[lunchmoney]

Nice write up

will definitely be looking to attend more tournaments in the future ...
Kilos - Winner of Screaming Skulls 2018

Check out the calendar, it's as up to date as I can make it
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Being in the Oxford area you fall right on the edge of SWTC (viewtopic.php?f=59&t=45143) and SETC (if Thor picks that up again). Lots of tourneys in the area

[Primary_kilos]

Thanks Lunchmoney,

I already had Vault bowl in mind as its just down the road from me but couldn't make last years.

[Fatboyslimming]

Kilos it was a pleasure having my ass kicked so badly by both our dice. It was great playing you and I'm so happy you enjoyed yourself. Here is to many wins In your future.