How many NAF tournaments were there last year? Which races were most successful? And how much did the number of active coaches bounce back post-covid? Find answers to all of these questions in sann0638’s new NAF Report 2022, available as a customizable tableau on this site, or directly as a convenient summary PDF. Coaches interested …
Annually, the NAF release rules for tournaments that take place in the following calendar year. These rules are published after a review of official Blood Bowl 2020 (BB2020) releases by Games Workshop and consideration of any further elements we wish to include.The most current version for the year 2023 is now available as a webpage …
The all important Tournament Director election has started to determine the Tournament Director (TD) for the next two years. As usual, we start with collecting nominations for the position. Head to the NAF forum and post your favourite candidate’s name. The NAF Tournament Director is one of the more time intensive positions and arguably one …
The NAF recently introduced Nationals – tournaments that aim to provide nations with a large community but no Major with a prestigious event. At the moment, France, Italy, Poland, Spain and Sweden fulfill the required criteria. These are the chosen Nationals for 2023: France – Bowl des Neiges Italy – Fulginium Bowl 15 Poland – …
Hi all! It’s about time for another FUMBBL/NAF tournament, wouldn’t you say? And what better tournament to run than the mother of all headache-inducing matches… Speedbowl! -Full ruleset can be found here- Quick summary though: Five matches, with one week rounds. 1150TV. 6 skills, including one double. 3/1/0 W/D/L. One minute turns. Prize is a …
By Trumpkin When someone tells you an event is for charity, that doesn’t always conjure up images of high quality. It tends to suggest a half-arsed attempt to desperately squeeze as much money from a bunch of people, with some veneer of circumstance to give the gathering an ostensibly ‘interesting’ feel. Thrudball is an event …
Until the day when I am a carefree jet-setter traveling the globe to attend various Blood Bowl tournaments, I will have to be content to live my Blood Bowl life vicariously through others and the events that they attend in addition to the few local tournaments I’m able to get to each year. Welcome to a …
The Welsh Open in January, ARBBL in March, Cakebowl in June, Gert Bowl in July, The ACC in August and The Exiles Open in September are running the South West Tournament Championship (SWTC) again this year. In short, by attending at least three of the six events you are entered in to the Championship. Your …
Hi all, Cyanide and the NAF are proud to present the Road to NAFC 2014. This is a knockout competition on Cyanide, open to all rookie teams, where the winner wins a ticket to the NAF Championship in Nottingham on 17/18 May 2014. The tournament has started! Timescales etc (Commissioner stuff) are on the this …
Phew! After years of trying, our Belgian team finally succeeded in what we’ve been waiting for: bringing Eurobowl to our little country. First off all I would like to give a big thanks to Dries, Mats, Tim, Jurgen, Philip, Christof, Karel and captain Bram – or should I say captain Blowjob – for their great …
I’d been working myself up for the EurOpen for weeks beforehand. Actually, probably months is more accurate. You see the prospect of travelling abroad for a Blood Bowl tournament is something that adds that little bit extra to the standard fare. Half the fun is the trip there, the camaraderie and the experiences shared with …
The Eurobowl is coming to Austria later this month on October 26th and 27th in Vienna with a record 18 teams competing, alongside the individual EurOpen competition, which is sure to be keenly fought. Driesfield from Belgium, who has been to all the Eurobowls, writes: “The initial idea was to have a tournament between a …
After a couple of months, here is the review of the Lutecebowl X. It has been held during the last week-end of June 2013 in an old rehabilitated farm that has now become a event hosting structure. A massive crowd of 180 coaches and 20 staff organisergathered to play in this “team of 5” competition …
“Under blue skies they started to arrive, first in drips and drabs then a steady trickle. Locals of Woodford Green, Essex, UK stocked up on spray tan and locked their doors as they knew the RIOTS were about to kick off their second Blood Bowl Championship!” The good people at Team Romford have put together …
While most tournaments are played simply for a love of Blood Bowl, there are some that have more behind them. As with Alan Aid, the Mike Kriger Memorial Cup is raising money for a good cause, this time in memory of a friend of the organiser, with the proceeds going to charity. The tournament will …
In this post I’ll have a quick look at a few tournaments that are not NAF-ranked, and why this is. Probably the most common reason is that a tournament is a gathering of mates getting together for a day or a weekend, possibly planned at the last minute or not open to all. Some leagues …
Alan Aid – July 27th Moore, Oklahoma, USA The tornadoes that tore through Moore Oklahoma on May 20th this year were devastating to not only the hometown of your favorite podcasters(Steve and Scott from Both Down), but also destroyed the home of one of our local Blood Bowl players. If you’ve listened to Both Down …
There are a lot of articles out there which try and teach you the best ways of improving your game, team selection and tactical knowledge. These articles are on the whole very informative and helpful and have no doubt helped me to improve my games. However I find that while I am improving I am …
Firebreather reflects on 24 races in 10 years… So its 2002 and my work office has just had this new fangled tech installed … the Internet! The Boss asks me to familiarise myself with how it works by spending some time doing searches, now from memory the web was a very different place back then …
Jamsus attended the Tilean Cup in Italy in May 2013 Once upon a time there was Blood Bowl. But what can i know about Blood Bowl, that I play it for less than a year? I dont know, but on Sunday, May 19, I travelled to the Tilean Team Cup to substitute for a sick …