Members, Apologies on behalf of the committee for the delay in publishing the accounts for 2019. They have been ready for some time but we wanted some more information from the recent World Cup just to ensure the figures were as accurate as they could be. Having conducted our first committee meeting with myself involved …
Welcome along to another TD blog! Quite a short one this time, which is probably a blessed relief to those of you that dutifully struggle through this each month! Kidding aside, while good things continue to happen, the nature of things is that there’s not always bags of fully formed stuff to report. With that …
Dear members, In order to cope with ever increasing demand, in June of 2018, we announced that Driesfield and Oventa would be joining Purplegoo on the tournament approval staff. We have decided to increase the team still further, and today, we welcome Nate / Gaixo, Nacho / Hachablanca and Matteo / Matte8 to tournament approvals. …
Hi gang, and welcome to a new Blood Bowling decade! Much has happened since I last wrote in this space, but in terms of NAF tournament news, there are three main items to cover. Firstly, GW released the Ogre Spike! Journal, and a new Extraordinary skill caused some confusion for certain parts of the membership. …
Hi all, An exciting NAF ranking development today, as we are introducing our glicko global ranking system! We have been hosting and maintaining our racial glicko rankings for approximately two years now, and in the background, Nick / mubo and Ketil / kyrre have been working on the best way to implement a ‘global’ ranking …
Dear members, The NAF Annual Review 2019 is now complete. I’d like to thank everyone who was involved or showed interest in the process this year. You will find all 2020 NAF tournament documentation on the revised Tournament Documents page, and tournaments will be expected to use these rules throughout 2020. If you have already had a …
As you might expect, this month my blog is all about NAF World Cup IV. However, first, let’s get the rest of the news out of the way! BB2016 has been making waves throughout October. Firstly, the Lizards finally arrived, and cold blooded BB enthusiasts now have Chameleon Skinks and some new star players to …
Dear members, You may notice that some new things are appearing on the NAF membership website. Firstly, there is now a coloured status bar at the top of the ELO rankings page. We’ve been doing some work to repair and improve our games database, and we’ve found that a daily, automated rankings recalculation is the …
Meeting Minutes of Committee Meeting on Sunday, December 16, 2018 Meeting started at 21:00 CET 1. Club Status (Pr/VP) – Sign-up bug on Website/ Addition to Webmaster team: Massimo brought in Jump from the Forlí League to the Webmaster team to help Jose with the Sign-up Bug. Tiago will be contacted after the TD elections are …
Committee Meeting November 4, 2018, Attending: President Gaixo/Nate, Vice President Tojurub/Torsten, Tournament Director Purplegoo/Phil, Treasurer Geggster/Paul, Membership Director Rolex/Massimo, League Director Smilzo/Tommaso Meeting started at 21:00 CET 1. Club Status – Paypal/Database issue: Webmaster Jose is reporting that the logic is not visible in the pages he has looked at. The Portuguese developers we utilized …
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 …
Committee Meeting September 23, 2018 Attending: President Gaixo/Nate, Vice President Tojurub/Torsten, Tournament Director Purplegoo/Phil, Treasurer Geggster/Paul, Membership Director Rolex/Massimo, League Director Smilzo/Tommaso Meeting started at 21:00 CET 1. League Director Report (LD) – Welcome to Tommaso. – He has had issues getting started in his new role, mainly due to the transfer of permissions. Other …
Committee Meeting August 11, 2018 Attending: President Gaixo/Nate, Vice President Tojurub/Torsten, Tournament Director Purplegoo/Phil, Treasurer Geggster/Paul, Membership Director Rolex/Massimo Apologies: League Director Valen Meeting started at 21:00 CET 1. Club Status (Pr/LD) – Breaking News: LD Valen stepped down just before the meeting, but has offered to take care of OBBLM matters until a new …
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 …
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, …
Committee Meeting April 22, 2018 Attending: President Gaixo/Nate, Vice President Tojurub/Torsten, Tournament Director Purplegoo/Phil, Treasurer Geggster/Paul, Membership Director Rolex/Massimo Apologies: League Director Valen Meeting started at 21:00 CET 1. Club Status Data protection issues were brought up by Nate, specifically the access to the different portions of the website. There needs to be a review …
Committee Meeting March 4, 2018 Attending: President Gaixo/Nate, Vice President Tojurub/Torsten, Tournament Director Purplegoo/Phil, Treasurer Geggster/Paul, League Director Valen Apologies: Membership Director Rolex/Massimo Meeting started at 21:00 CET / 20:00 UK time / 3 p.m. ET 1. League Director Report (LD) Michael Franchetti (Vanguard) is taking over as the NAF OBBLM Lead from Steve Arthurs. …
Committee Meeting January 25, 2018 Attending: President Gaixo/Nate, Vice President Tojurub/Torsten, Tournament Director Purplegoo/Phil, Treasurer Geggster/Paul, Membership Director Rolex/Massimo Apologies: League Director Valen Meeting started at 22:00 CET / 21:00 UK time / 4 p.m. ET 1. Welcome new President and new committee members The committee welcomed Tournament Director Phil Pearson and Membership Director Massimo …
NAF committee meeting 3rd December 2017 Present: Paul, Nate, Mike, Torsten Apologies: Manuel, Gavin 1. Website update We’re in the final stages now, the final stage is a live stats page to complement that done by Doubleskulls. 2. World Cup A team of referees is being put together of many nationalities, headed up by Old …
Present: Mike, Paul, Torsten, Nate, Gavin Apologies: Manuel Website update Significant improvements continue to be made to the database, and there are more imminent. The online registration is now fixed, having been broken for a while, and the coach page now contains more information. We discussed changing the names of the races so that they …