Suffolk Subterranean Showcase 3 - Trick Or Treat - 25/10/25, Ipswich

[Onyersix]

SUFFOLK SUBTERRANEAN 3 – Trick Or Treat

The Subterranean tournament is now into its 3rd year, and is featured is a part of the South East Tournament series for 2024.

We have NAF approval for this event which will be using the Subterranean weather table as seen on page 78 of the Death Zone book.

In previous years, the poor lighting has meant that players have been able to abuse poor vision of the referees, but this year The NAF have confirmed that sanctioned referees will be in attendance, and they will be carrying out their roles to the best of their abilities, although they may be swayed with the occasional bribe.

With the arena having its annual clean, and the remains of beaten participants are scrubbed clean from the pitch, The Red Gobbo has been seen sneaking about, and he has left each team with some Tricks and some Treats which will be able to be used once throughout the day, with the following effects:
Trick – Each coach gets a since use Trick where they have slipped some magic mushrooms into one bottle of the opposing team’s Orcarade. Before the teams are set up, a coach may play their trick and roll a d16 to randomly select a player on the opposing team. The player chosen has consumed the spiked drink. Roll a d6 before the start of each drive. On a 1, they are immediately KO’d and cannot be deployed, and reserve players must be fielded to line up with 11 players (or fewer if the team has insufficient available reserves).
Treat – Each team will receive a magic sponge, which can be used once during the tournament. When used, it will move all players in the KO box to the reserves box.

The venue: St Augustine’s Community Hub, Bucklesham Road, Ipswich, IP3 8TH

The date: Saturday 25th October 2025

Number of attendees: The tournament capacity has been set at 32 players, but if interest is high we may be able to increase this. Should an odd number of attendees sign up the organisers will enter a team to ensure everyone plays all rounds.

The ticket price is £15.00. As we will be paying for the hiring of the venue in advance, refunds can only be offered to cancellations made more than 2 weeks prior to the event. The ticket price will also include tea and coffee throughout the day. Payment can be made by Paypal to justinsmithhockey@gmail.com with your NAF name and NAF number.

Any new team, Spike or Errata released before 14th October 2025 will be valid. All BB2020 teams and Teams of Legend will be eligible. Any changes to the tier list or MegaStar list prior to this date will also be used.

This will be a Swiss style resurrection tournament following the latest NAF rules. Players will disregard any casualties suffered at the end of a match, and will start each round with their declared roster. Further to this, any players raised during a match (such as via the Masters of Undeath rule, summoned Thrall or Plague Ridden skill) are lost at the end of the match. The Exhibition table will be used for any Prayers To Nuffle rolls.
Schedule: Players will have 2 hours 15 minutes per game. Please try to be conscious of the time as you play, the organisers will give you time updates as we go through each round and may request you use a clock if you are falling behind.

Registration and first round draw: 10:15 - 10:45
Game 1: 10:45 - 13:00
Lunch 13:00 - 13:30 (There is a Subway, KFC and a newsagent across the road, and a Sainsbury’s supermarket 5 minutes away)
Game 2: 13:30 - 15:45
Game 3: 16:00 - 18:15
Results: 18:30 - 18:45

Players are required to bring a painted team with clearly identifiable positional pieces. With the increasing number of non-GW teams available, we are happy for you to bring your Cutiemals, Pi-Rats, or whatever team you have invested in, but your opponent must be able to easily tell your figures apart.

We will have a number of pitches available from our own supplies, but would encourage anyone who can bring a pitch to do so.
A copy of your roster should be brought to share with your opponent prior to each game. You may know all the 20+ teams available, but your opponent may not.

Dice : Due to the confusing variations of third-party dice available, we will be restricting block dice to GW official dice and NAF issued block dice. If you do not possess a set of GW / NAF dice you may loan a set from the organisers for the event at no additional charge. Further to this, and images or writing on a D6 die must only be on the 6 side.

Rules : All NAF teams are allowed. Players will be given a treasury of 1,150,000 gold pieces to build their team, staff, and rerolls. All teams will start with 0 dedicated fans.
Tier 1: Amazon, Chaos Dwarf, Dark Elf, Dwarf, High Elf, Lizardmen, Norse, Shambling Undead, Skaven, Underworld Denizens, Wood Elves
Tier 2: Black Orc, Chaos Chosen, Chaos Renegades, Elven Union, Human, Imperial Nobility, Khorne, Necromantic Horror, Nurgle, Old World Alliance, Orc, Tomb Kings, Vampire
Tier 3: Goblin, Gnome, Halfling, Ogre, Snotling

Each tier will have a budget with which to purchase skills.
Budget per tier is as follows:
Tier 1 may purchase 6 primary skills.
Tier 2 may purchase 7 primary skills, or 6 primary and 1 secondary skill.
Tier 3 may purchase 8 skills, of which up to 2 may be secondary skills
Skill stacking is allowed, however each skill is limited to 2 purchases per team. (E.g. Dwarf teams can purchase Block on 2 Runners, in addition to the Block skill already provided to their Linemen.)
A maximum of 2 star players may be signed. Star players may not be given any additional skills, and any team signing a Star player will have their skill budget reduced by 2 primary skills per Star player. Any team signing a MegaStar will have their skill budget reduced by 4 primary skills. If a MegaStar is signed a team cannot sign any additional star players.

You may take any inducements from page 89 of the rulebook with the following exceptions:
No special play cards
No Wizard / weather mages
No Mercenaries
Inducements from the Death Zone supplement are not permitted.

Please send a copy of your roster to justinsmithhockey@gmail.com at least 1 week prior to the event for checking.

Scoring will be 30 points for a win, 15 for a draw, and 0 for a loss, with 1 bonus point per casualty / touchdown to a maximum of 3 (of each). Any casualties caused by you (to your opponent’s team) will be counted. This includes fouls, crowd surfs and bombs, but does not include failed dodges or rushes.

There will be prizes for the following:
Overall winner
Runner Up
Most Touchdowns
Most Casualties
Best placed Stunty (Stunty Cup)
Suffolk Slayer (Most casualties caused in a match where you are victorious against a player from the Ipswich Blood Bowl League or Aardvarks & Dragons Blood Bowl League – contested by coaches not involved with those leagues)
Darrell Newman Memorial (Best placed entrant from IBBL / A&DBBL)
Wooden Spoon

We would like to share prizes as widely as possible, so in the event that the most casualties, most touchdowns, and / or best placed Stunty are also the overall winner, these prizes will be awarded to the next highest place competitor.

[Magic Dave]

Please count me in.

Payment sent.

[howlinggriffon]

Ticket bought!

[Onyersix]

Participants list (paid in bold):
1. MagicDave
2. HowlingGriffon
3. Mr_frodo
4. Rodders
5. KnuckleSammich
6. Dankin
7. Inknights
8. Besters
9. Striple_pow
10. G_Clark
11. Hellbentginger
12. Hoggul
13. Stewbacca
14. Jayesbee_
15. Jauntychuffblast
16. Bmcbri
17. 03philpota
18. Quack
19. Vacant
20. Mevans
21. Wabe2009
22. Joeseph
23. Loserville
24. Harrison
25. TheBeardedHound

[rodders]

Paid

[Onyersix]

Thank you to those who have signed up so quickly.
It's always nice to see returning names, and new faces as well.

[howlinggriffon]

Some old faces in Rodders case

[Dankin]

Payment sent

[Inknights]

Payment sent!

[besters]

Payment sent

[Onyersix]

Nice to see our current champ returning to defend his title!

[Vacant]

Please reserve me a spot!!

NAF name: Vacant
NAF number: 33243

[Onyersix]

Please reserve me a spot!!

Of course. Spot reserved.

[mevans1499]

Justin,
Please put me (mevans) and William (wabe2009) down - will sort payment shortly. Thanks.

[Onyersix]

Justin,
Please put me (mevans) and William (wabe2009) down - will sort payment shortly. Thanks.

Lovely to have you back. I see William picked up a tournament win recently, so hopefully he's got a thirst for more.