Greater Seattle Blood Bowl League

Unlike the Cheese Plate, Touchdowns in Tacoma doesn't have a trophy table consisting entirely of cheese ... but that's probably a good thing. Hopefully we'll see you getting your lactose-free fix of Blood Bowl in July in Tacoma, with one of the biggest events in the Pacific Northwest this year

Blood Bowl Tournament: Touchdowns in Tacoma Celebrate your love for hard hitting Blood Bowl action with a weekend of incredible gaming in an even more incredible city.

It's starting! First round of the third Badland Brawl

Exciting news already for next year's Badland Brawl - new sponsorship from classy clothiers Abercrombie & Witch means that we're instituting a new prize, the Elegant Gentleman, for the highest ratio of points:casualties, to prove you can get somewhere in life without hurting people

Stealing these ideas for the next Spooktacular...

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Finally, the dice from January's Sevens event (and the dice for the forthcoming Brawl) are in the country, and somewhere on a UPS truck between Los Angeles and Seattle! Will post a photo as soon as they arrive, then start getting those dice to you. Thanks for your patience!

That's not rain outside, it's Nuffle's salty tears, with 29 dead rats from 6 games. Will anyone beat the 8 dead rats from Burk & Lance's second round match?

The wheels of the NAF grind slow, but they grind finely as well - while we're waiting to get one more NAF number so we can upload the stats and make it all official, here's the highlights from our team of goblinoid prognosticators:....

Over three matches, we had 191 casualties. That was a slight slowing of pace from the first round, when out of the gate the marauding maniacs ended 69 players' careers. Biggest single casualty fest of the tournament was in the first round, when a combination of Black Orcs with Fungus and Bomber and an army of Snotlings clattered together and left 14 players maimed or killed. No matches were injury-free, although in the first round the enigmatically named CHORFS clattered into the Necromantic Night Terrors for a single casualty between them.

Looking at the breakdown by race, Humans inflicted the most casualties (32) but there were three teams playing, and they also sustained 24 casualties. The two Norse teams lived up to their glass cannon reputation, taking down 14 players but losing 15 in turn, and as you might have guessed, Snotlings suffered the most (43 injuries) while only inflicting 19. However, next year we need some kind of record for the most painful brick wall to run into: TJ's Gore Tribe broke 14 players while only losing 2.

Every team scored at least once, with two exceptions. I can take some blame for one of those, using the full force of my mind and every prayer to Nuffle I could think of to force a thick-skulled goblin to fall over as he tried to GFI into the end zone against my lamentable vampires. One team managed a clean sheet for the whole tournament, not letting a single TD past them.

I had hoped for some exciting inducements (or some very questionable picks) and I didn't feel let down - there was one Fink the Fixer, two biassed referees, a few weather mages, a single chainsaw, two Glarts, a scattering of Grim Ironjaws (was that something that offended the Big Boys, to take one of the antidotes to bigness? I don't know) and quite a few Extra Team Trainings (possibly because some team builds are hard to fix into 1000 TV if you also like rerolls - but why take rerolls? Nuffle hands out double skulls like candy, to teach people about fortitude!) A single Scylla ran around clawing people, there were at least three riotous rookies, and one longhaired lovely flinging pigskins for the only elf team on the Astrogranite that day. Morg sent his excuses, as the big fellow's ego is so swollen from his appearances in other tournaments that he probably couldn't fit through the doors of Evergreen Lanes.

We're already scheming on ways to make next year's Brawl even bigger. Stay tuned!

Congratulations to all the coaches from Saturday's inaugural Brawl: 22 coaches, with everyone but the organiser himself bringing at least one Big Guy to the mix. My team of expert goblin staticktishans are still collating a full report on the total casualties inflicted over the three matches - wait for that tomorrow. NAF standings to be updated as soon as we've processed a few numbers.

With the EBBL starting up its 2022 league season soon, and the impending Freedom Bowl, the Ordo Collegiate Bowl and the Golden Te****le closer than you think, it's looking to be a great year for Blood Bowl in the Pacific Northwest!

Didn't see any of this at the weekend. Maybe I need to make the ruleset more frustrating for next time :-)

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Feedback from this weekend requested

What did you like? What would you like done differently next time?

* If we could have had 4 matches instead of 3, would you prefer that? (would require an earlier start, because we'd need to fit 9 hours of game time plus intermissions)
* were matches the right length for you to get all your turns in? was there enough space?
* certain star players like Morg and Griff were conspicuous by their absence - did you miss not having them around, or was my scheme to force a bit more variety in the inducement selection a good one?
* should I have leaned even more into the Badlands theme and only let Badlands Brawl teams play?
* how about those result sheets? I think I probably should have made them a bit bigger - what else to improve them?

Any other suggestions I'd love to hear - my next tournament is way off in October, but I want to make sure every one is better than the one before it...