Before the tournament there was analysis on rankings, and Bask has done a quick spreadsheet comparing it to final position. It turns out there was a 70% correlation – so does that mean BB is 70% skill and 30% luck? Probably not. Highest outperformer: Polenta e Cannonau! Awards for being exactly predicted: Discepoli del Signore della …
w Coach Standings after Round 9 # Race Team Score Tiebreaker Touchdowns Casualties 1 Wood Elf Muadib (SPIKE! Crusaders,Germany) 25 16 20 – 7 16 – 13 2 High Elf Funny_Valentine (Les Experts Lutèce,France) 25 9 18 – 6 12 – 15 3 Necromantic Undead Frikipe (Jodidos Fumbleros,Spain) 23 29 18 – 3 20 – …
Team Results after Round 9 # Team Score Touchdowns Casualties 1 Masters of Tilea 37.0 76 – 48 102 – 76 2 Latino Lovers 35.0 …
The standings after round 8 are a secret, to build excitement! Here is the draw… Draw for Round 9 Table Match 1 Podfrey (Team Waterbowl,United Kingdom) vs Beppe (Masters of Tilea,Italy) Dwarf Undead 2 Jimjimany (Team Waterbowl,United Kingdom) vs Dirold (Masters of Tilea,Italy) Wood Elf Dark Elf 3 Joemanji …
Draw for Round 8 Table Match 1 Podfrey (Team Waterbowl,United Kingdom) vs Silkoun (Azes Tech,France) Dwarf Human 2 Jimjimany (Team Waterbowl,United Kingdom) vs Zoul (Azes Tech,France) Wood Elf Dark Elf 3 Joemanji (Team Waterbowl,United Kingdom) vs darthmael (Azes Tech,France) Undead Undead 4 Leipziger (Team Waterbowl,United Kingdom) …
The best painted teams were chosen by professional painters, and awarded to the best of each race. Congratulations to the winners, and click to make bigger!
It’s another beautiful day in Lucca as the 912 gather again. Games started from 9 as people were keen to get on, so are well advanced already with just over an hour to go. Table 1 (right) is Beppe from the Masters of Tilea against Tripleskull from Latino Lovers, after these two teams achieved big …
These are the individual standings based on 3/1/0, which will be used to decide the individual winner. The draw for who plays who is based on 2/1/0, so may not exactly match. First tiebreaker is Net Cas + Net TD. Second is opponent score. Coach Standings after Round 6 # Race Team Score Tiebreaker …
Draw for Round 7 Table Match 1 Tripleskull (Latino Lovers,Denmark) vs Beppe (Masters of Tilea,Italy) Wood Elf Undead 2 MissSweden (Latino Lovers,Denmark) vs Spartako (Masters of Tilea,Italy) Chaos Pact Wood Elf 3 Tank (Latino Lovers,Denmark) vs Dirold (Masters of Tilea,Italy) Dark Elf Dark Elf 4 Niebling …
2:30 on Saturday, half way through Round 5, and it’s time for a few updates! We have just had the first redraw, though as the draw was published 25 minutes early and it pretty much only affected the top tables, it was spotted and dealt with within 5 minutes. In fact, the draw had not …
Draw for Round 5 Table Match 1 Gilles_Cacciari (The Linemen,Spain) vs Titouch (Lutece Noobz,France) Lizardman Wood Elf 2 bbfanatic (The Linemen,Spain) vs Knox (Lutece Noobz,France) Chaos Dwarf 3 nebur_el_sanguinario (The Linemen,Spain) vs Sladmortis (Lutece Noobz,France) Chaos Dwarf Undead 4 Duke_Luthor_Von_Hawkfire (The Linemen,Spain) vs Vencarl …
Draw for Round 4 Table Match 1 Inluzon (Mas Galactikos,Spain) vs Gilles_Cacciari (The Linemen,Spain) Orc Lizardman 2 Nans (Mas Galactikos,Spain) vs bbfanatic (The Linemen,Spain) Dwarf Chaos 3 Josepe (Mas Galactikos,Spain) vs nebur_el_sanguinario (The Linemen,Spain) Undead Chaos Dwarf 4 Jaap (Mas Galactikos,Spain) vs hachablanca (The …
Here we are in the middle of Round 3, and I am sitting on the stage in front of the massive LED, screen, with an hour and 17 until the results start getting entered again! This is my view: Starting before the tournament, we had a few unfortunate dropouts, so 5 or 6 teams ended …
Draw for Round 3 Table Match 1 Nans (Mas Galactikos,Spain) vs Podfrey (Team Waterbowl,United Kingdom) Dwarf Dwarf 2 Jaap (Mas Galactikos,Spain) vs Purplegoo (Team Waterbowl,United Kingdom) Necromantic Undead Lizardman 3 Inluzon (Mas Galactikos,Spain) vs Jimjimany (Team Waterbowl,United Kingdom) Orc Wood Elf 4 Malasnoticias (Mas Galactikos,Spain) …
The following document will be circulated to Captains at the World Cup, giving their responsibilities in a little more detail: NAF World Cup 3 Captains Briefing As Captain of your team of 6, you have taken on some important responsibilities! With your opposing Captain, you have responsibility for submitting results for your team. You will …
The best of each race will get a prize at the World Cup! If you are on Facebook, read more from Axia. Will it be one of these, with the highest NAF ranking for each race they are playing there?
Thanks to Rolo for the analsysis – this is the total NAF ranking for each team with the races they are using – will it correlate with final positions? Data from here: wc_player_ratings Position Team Rating 1 Team Waterbowl 1437.93 2 Masters of Tilea 1379.64 3 Geordie Juggernaut. 1293.14 4 Socks’ 2 1261.51 5 Joe …
A great post from Kwek on TFF: — Hi Guys, this post won’t be for all of you But my flings have been waiting for the opportunity to play in the World Cup… and some people have been messaging and sending emails for over a year. There are 4 sort of people in Blood Bowl… …
Wood Elf 100, Dark Elf 89, Undead 89, Necromantic 82, Lizardman 72, Skaven 62, Dwarf 50, Chaos Dwarf 48, Orc 46 Human 45, Elf 38, Norse 37, Chaos Pact 25, High Elf 18, Chaos 16, Amazon 14, Khemri 14, Ogre 14, Underworld 11, Slann 10, Goblin 9, Halfling 8, Vampire 8, Nurgle 7.
Find your opponent’s roster here: http://worldcup.luccini.it/rosters.htm Listen to sann’s analysis of round 1 on youtube, as the draw was done live! Draw for Round 1 Table Match 1 kuzzone (Black Thunder BBF,Italy) vs Festen (Gavilan Pollero,Spain) Orc Orc 2 prowler (Black Thunder BBF,Italy) vs Tzoscey (Gavilan Pollero,Spain) Chaos Dwarf Necromantic Undead 3 pask74 (Black …