Dear members,
As the Covid-19 pandemic continues, we are noting increasing numbers of NAF tournaments are being postponed or cancelled. Health and well-being comes first, and we support Tournament Organisers talking whatever steps they deem necessary with their events to keep people safe.
As we lose these tournaments from the calendar, members are asking us if we can fill the gap with increased Online NAF activity; either via TOs simply holding their events online, or via the NAF providing more tournaments for you to participate in. The former presents us with non-trivial administration, technical and practical issues, so starting on March 28, we will be running a number of ‘NAF Live’ tournaments on FUMBBL for an indefinite amount of time.
We will be reviewing the format and frequency of these tournaments as we go along, but to begin with, these tournaments aim to recreate the real life tournament feeling as best we can, and will run in parallel with existing Online NAF events (currently the Tilean Team Cup). Further details:
– Tournaments will comprise 3-6 games of Swiss over 1-2 weekend days (Sat / Sun), taking place on alternate weekends beginning Mar. 28.
– Participants will be expected to play up to 3 games in a day according to a set, timed schedule. e.g. Game 1: 10:00, Game 2: 12:30, etc.
– Tournaments will take place in European, Americas and Oceanic time zones. All NAF members may participate, as per usual for Online NAF.
– Rulesets will be taken from postponed tournaments with clear and well written rulespacks, accessible via the NAF site. These rulespacks should be easily implemented on FUMBBL, so tournaments with heavy or unique, integral house-rules should not apply.
Further details of our first tournament will be revealed shortly (watch this space!), but for now, if you would like to see your tournament recreated online, please contact me (Purplegoo) via the NAF website. You should also contact me if you have a good working knowledge of FUMBBL and would like to assist in administering these temporary events for a short time, as with more tournaments comes more work for our team. Please assist if you can!
Many thanks, and stay safe.
Phil / Purplegoo.