January in NAF Tournaments Happy New Year and welcome to 2019! It’s going to be an absolute blockbuster of year for NAF tournaments, and January has started us off on the right foot. With ~190 coaches contesting REVA in Spain and the third largest tournament ever in the UK, the UKTC ’19 taking place in …
November in NAF Tournaments With festive thoughts slowly creeping into our collective conscious, November was a super-busy month of Blood Bowl action as coaches everywhere tried to sneak just one more in before the end of the year. 73 (seventy-three!) tournaments took place, of which 9 were Sevens and one was Dungeonbowl. Colossal! All of …
Tournament Organisers often ask how to submit a tournament to the NAF for sanctioning. Also, some find the submission form confusing, and commonly fields aren’t entirely completed or aren’t completed correctly. With this in mind, tournament approver Oventa has produced this best practice guide. If you’ve ever wondered what the correct way to submit a …
Dear members, The NAF Annual Review 2018 is now complete. I’d like to thank everyone who showed interest in the process or was involved. You will find all 2019 NAF tournament documentation on this revised Tournament Documents page, and tournaments will be expected to use these rules throughout 2019. If you have already had a …
October in NAF Tournaments As anyone who is still recovering from Eurobowl 2018 will tell you, October has been a special month. Much more on the third largest Blood Bowl tournament in NAF history shortly, but first, the monthly statistics and all of the other exciting NAF tournament news! October saw 52 tournaments played including …
September in NAF Tournaments As we enter the last quarter of 2018, there is no let-up in NAF Blood Bowl. This month, you have participated in a whopping 67 tournaments including one Streetbowl, one Dungeon Sevens, four ‘standard’ Sevens and two Dungeonbowl. It’s all go! You’re also about halfway through the Online Europen 2018, where …
August in NAF Tournaments August news in NAF tournament Blood Bowl mainly concerns cool stuff that is coming soon. GW have advertised that the next Spike! Journal will be Nurgle, and we’re all waiting with baited breath (and wrinkled noses) to see what new news will arrive. In America, the US Major tournament, the Chaos …
Dear members, The time has come to begin the NAF Annual Review 2018! What is it? The Annual Review is the new method by which the NAF will set rules and guidelines for tournaments held over the next calendar year. It is our aim to reduce confusion, increase stability and make sure that our tournament …
July in NAF Tournaments July’s NAF tournament headlines are probably twofold. Firstly, we have some new stars and inducements from GW to look at. The second Spike! journal has hit the shops, and Dark Elfs now have more choice in BB2016. TOs are already asking if they can include Modrix Hex and friends at their …
June in NAF Tournaments As World Cup (not the proper one – the football / soccer one!) fever has set in, June has been a quieter month than many in terms of exciting news that impacts NAF tournaments. Other than some interesting Warhammer Live notes, there is nothing stopping us tearing straight into great tournaments …
Dear members, NAF Blood Bowl has never been so popular. From May 2015-17, we approved circa 600 tournaments. In the first five months of this year, we have been approving at double that rate. This is absolutely brilliant, but it is also an increased workload. Historically, only the NAF Tournament Director has approved tournaments, …
May in NAF Tournaments May has all but gone, and it’s been another month packed full of NAF tournament news and excitement. The first Spike! Journal has arrived from GW, we’ve had more exciting World Cup news and the NAF Championship has been and gone for another year. The Eurobowl closed it’s doors for registration last …
April in NAF Tournaments Somehow, we’re already a third of the way through 2018. How did that happen?! There has been plenty of big Blood Bowl news in April, and lots of it matters if you play in NAF tournaments. Firstly, let’s talk Chaos and the upcoming GW releases. In case you’ve been living under …
March in NAF Tournaments March has been massive. Not only have we been playing Blood Bowl in 49 tournaments across 4 continents (including one Major), we’ve seen the soft-launch of a new ranking system, fought it out online in the Road to the NAF Championship and learned more about the 2019 NAF World Cup in …
Hi all, Some exciting news for NAF members today, as we are launching our new Glicko ranking system, implemented by Nick Harding / mubo. These rankings aren’t designed to replace the Elo numbers you’ve been used to since NAF rankings began, they are simply a new way of processing NAF data and ranking coaches, and …
February in NAF Tournaments Hello, and welcome to your February round-up of all things NAF tournament! We’ve had another super-full month with a total of 50 events taking place all over the world. We’ve been playing Blood Bowl in Greece, Chile and Malta, Sevens in the USA and Streetbowl in Uruguay. Alongside the real life action, …
Introduction Hello, and welcome to what I hope is going to be a monthly or so blog about all things NAF tournament. As newly installed NAF Tournament Director (TD), I should be talking about tournaments, well, SHOUTING about tournaments, and between this blog and another I’ll mention later, I hope to do just that. …
Road to the NAFC 2017 The first Online NAF tournament of 2017 is to be our recurring favourite, as once we once again travel the Road to the NAF Championship! The tournament will kick off on Monday January 23rd, and once again you can win your ticket to the NAFC (or other NAF Major of …
Dungeonbowl Highlanderturnement Our final online NAF tournament of 2016 is our third partnership of the year with a NAF major. This time, the Dungeonbowl! This post should contain everything you need to know to enter the Dungeonbowl Highlanderturnement (there can only be one!), and to be in with a chance of winning some great physical, Dungeonbowl prizes. The …
Online Welsh Open Our fourth online NAF tournament of 2016 is a partnership with one of the UK’s largest events, the Welsh Open! This rulespack should contain everything you need to know to enter the Online Welsh Open (OWO), and to be in with a chance of winning lovely physical prizes. Mynd Cymru! The rulespack …