StrangleBowl, Leicester UK, 13th October 2018

[Gorgoroth]

A great event had a great time, the most colourful tournie I’ve been to.

Can you post final standings please?

[Jip]

Think ‘the Champ’ could do with a little calming down (some good ideas in the room), but that’s a footnote to a brilliant day.

I’m intrigued, just what did he do to warrant the need to calm down?!

[Purplegoo]

'The Champ' I'm referring to is the tournament's custom Star Player. Each team got free use of him for one half, and he was probably a bit good. He certainly dominated at least one of my games (with Owen), and there was a bit of a brainstorm in the room towards the end of the day about how he might be revised to introduce a bit of jeopardy while keeping him fun.

But again - in large text - it's a footnote and this was a great day.

[Jip]

'The Champ' I'm referring to is the tournament's custom Star Player. Each team got free use of him for one half, and he was probably a bit good. He certainly dominated at least one of my games (with Owen), and there was a bit of a brainstorm in the room towards the end of the day about how he might be revised to introduce a bit of jeopardy while keeping him fun.

But again - in large text - it's a footnote and this was a great day.

Oh, I thought you meant Justin might have kicked off!

Looked great and lots of associated razzmatazz in the build-up; the Midlands is quickly catching up with us in the South-West with regards to being spoilt for choice with the number of tournaments on offer.

[Danny]

@purplegoo - he didn't do anything for either coach in the games I played, well apart from take out my fanatic each time! But anyone with stab could have done pretty much the same. I asked as many people as I could how they were finding The Champ and no-one mentioned they thought it was OP, it seemed pretty ordinary to me, especially compared to other tournaments I have been too such as Burmayhem (I had a ST5 blodge witch elf last year!) or Auld World. I am going to email out all the coaches and ask for feedback so it will be interesting how many people share the view he was OP.

@Jip - yup, just waiting for Coventry and Nottingham to join in!

[Purplegoo]

Sure. Hopefully I was clear above that it didn't spoil any fun or any of the huge amount of goodwill the organisation built up. It's a rare thing any tournament is as well promoted / organised, so for a new group to put on that sort of show was really (pleasantly) unexpected (and a bit worrying for those of us that haven't been putting that sort of effort in for years! ). I wouldn't have mentioned it again bar that one sentence had Jip not enquired.

I don't think I'd label him 'over-powered', but that wasn't the point. A house rule doesn't have to be 'OP' to slightly shift the focus of the Blood Bowl too far. Having a 28 % shot at a free AV7 removal (plus all of the other lovely stuff he did - Block / Stand Firm isn't to be sniffed at in such a skill-poor environment) for negligible risk is a tad problematic for me. It wouldn't take too much to reign him in to the point you had to think more about his use; send-offs on a double while strangling or +1 to armour only, Wrestle over Block, Blood Lust over Bonehead were all mentioned later in the day, and one of those would likely round him off nicely rather than leave him a pretty-decent shot to nothing. Reminds me a bit of the free Stand Firm dodging Fleshies in LRB4 really; not a problem unless it's suddenly really a problem!

But, anyway, not complaining. I'll certainly make every effort to be back, and you should also attend, casual reader!

[lunchmoney]

Can we see his stats?

[Danny]

In here:
http://stranglebowl.uk/pdfs/StrangleBow ... 20Pack.pdf

Basically
5 3 2 8

Loner, Bonehead, Block, Thick Skull, Dirty Player, Stand Firm, Strangle

Strangle (new skill)
The Champ may attempt to Strangle any adjacent opposing player instead of throwing a block, as part of a Block or Blitz action. Make an Armour roll, adding 1 to the result. If this fails, the Strangle has no effect. If this beats the victim’s AV make a roll on the Injury table adding 1 to the result, but treating a Casualty result as a KO instead. If a Strangle is used during a Blitz, the Champ cannot continue moving afterwards.

[Danny]

Full results are now up: http://www.stranglebowl.uk/results.html

[lunchmoney]

Full results are now up: http://www.stranglebowl.uk/results.html

Any chance of those results being listed with NAF/TFF names, please?

[Danny]

Full results are now up: http://www.stranglebowl.uk/results.html

Any chance of those results being listed with NAF/TFF names, please?

Not sure score has that option? I don't have time currently to do it all manually

[lunchmoney]

Full results are now up: http://www.stranglebowl.uk/results.html

Full results with NAF names, for GG purposes

[20phoenix]

Thanks for the NAF name list Al. How confident are you in the accuracy of it? There's a much higher than expected number of people on that list who haven't scored GG points before which throws up a bit of a red flag. Are the ones with normal names non-NAF?

Leap - were any other awards presented? If so can you provide a list please?

[lunchmoney]

Thanks for the NAF name list Al. How confident are you in the accuracy of it? There's a much higher than expected number of people on that list who haven't scored GG points before which throws up a bit of a red flag. Are the ones with normal names non-NAF?

That was taken direct from the Score file Leap sent me. The coaches with real names are non NAF and there appeared to be a few new coaches there, plus I recognise a few names who don't play too often (Pug for example), so no surprise to see new names going on the GG table

Considering our illustrious TD, Mr Goo, was in attendance I am a little surprised he couldn't persuade more to sign up. Must get him a bigger drum

[fire olli]

Was under the impression that everyone was NAF due to the fact that when you booked it said you must be NAF to play in this tournament.