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Post by garrick on Mar 22, 2015 14:04:01 GMT
Bridie Bowl 2015 Final Standings:
1. Anthony Purdie (Undead) 42 points 2. Paul Finnighan (Wood Elves) 34 points 3. Danny Wright (Orcs) 33 points 4. Alistair Unicomb (Skaven) 32 points 5. Craig Pearson (Orcs) 32 points 6. Neil Innes (Norse) 29 points 7. Marc Jones (Dark Elves) 27 points 8. Ralph Roscrow (Wood Elves) 23 points 9. Grant Murray (Norse) 22 points 10. Andreas Wilhelm (Pro Elves) 20 points 11. Mark Towell (Orcs) 19 points 12. Kar Meng Lee (Humans) 19 points 13. Stuart Walker (High Elves) 18 points 14. Michael Gale (High Elves) 17 points 15. Gordon Millar (Lizardmen) 17 points 16. Graham Thomson (Dark Elves) 16 points 17. Iain Baird (Humans) 14 points 18. Iain Young (Amazons) 13 points 19. Gary Cameron (Chaos) 11 points 20. Robert Innes (Skaven) 2 points
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Post by garrick on Mar 1, 2015 9:54:58 GMT
Season 23 kicks off today and finishes at the end of April.
We should be up and running with a new OBBLM site so less book keeping required.
Who is in and what format do they want to play?
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Post by garrick on Feb 24, 2015 12:57:32 GMT
Waterbowl results were:
1st Garrick 2nd Sann0638 3rd Vanguard 4th Boobootroid
So this tournament does not meet the "minimum of 6 Scots entering" requirement and will not count towards the Scottish Championship.
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Post by garrick on Feb 9, 2015 20:42:33 GMT
One has to consider the painful truth that "McPippy will Jinx It" has been drinking!
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Post by garrick on Feb 6, 2015 13:54:18 GMT
Any sign of the Saltires getting organised? Graham, when do you need the balance for the registration and accomodation fees? Team Saltire - what do you think ? The balance for Team Lion Rampant is due 16th March so I will be chasing you shortly!
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Post by garrick on Feb 5, 2015 21:18:45 GMT
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Post by garrick on Jan 29, 2015 11:26:35 GMT
Nice. How many other Scottish crews are brewing? One other I think, possibly along the following lines: The Saltires DonShula (capt.) Purdindas JamesEs Goldeneye LordGarlack Jez? If and when they get their act together
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Post by garrick on Jan 26, 2015 14:30:26 GMT
Scottish Championships 2015
To be eligible a coach has to either live in Scotland or be demonstrably Scottish.
Any open and easily accessible tournament can be nominated for inclusion. Nominations to be made prior to the event, and for inclusion there must be a minimum of 6 Scots entering.
3 Scores per coach, with a minimum of 1 score being from a tournament held in Scotland.
No race restrictions.
5 points for 1st down to 1 point for 5th for 1 day tournaments and Foreign tournaments
6 points for 1st down to 1 point for 6th for 2 day tournaments.
Tie breaker is highest overall placing at Burger Bowl.
Current tournaments nominated for inclusion:
WaterBowl, Stockport 21/22 February 2015 BridieBowl, Arbroath 21 March 2015 MonkeyBowl, Hartlepool 11/12 April 2015 Block Around the Clock, Gateshead 2/3 May 2015 NAF Championships 23/24 May 2015 BurgerBowl, Edinburgh 11/12 July 2015 Manchester Mayhem 1/2 August 2015 OchilBowl, Stirling 22 August 2015 GeordieBowl, Newcastle 5/6 September 2015 WeegieBowl. Glasgow 26/27 September 2015
Last year's winner handing over the trophy to this year's winner:
Final standings 2015 15pts Garrick (3*) 13pts Purdindas (3*) 10pts DonShula (2*) 9pts Valen (2*) 8pts LordGarlack (3*) 8pts Vanguard (3*) 5pts HumptyTrump (2*) 5pts Sann0638 (1) 4pts Mike Rushby (1*) 4pts Storm_of_Iron (1*) 4pts Sadface (1*) 3pts Adeptus_Fringilla (1) 3pts Goldeneye (2*) 3pts Danny Wright (1*) 2pts Phil78 (1*) 2pts Boobootroid (2*) 2pts Bill (1) 1pts FurstyFerret (1*) 1pts AliyRdr (1*)
The number in brackets is the number of tournaments making up each coaches points and an asterix means that coach has completed the criteria that "a minimum of 1 score being from a tournament held in Scotland".
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Post by garrick on Jan 24, 2015 1:50:12 GMT
Rookie League Garrick with Vampires AdeptusFringilla with Pro Elves Steven Bonnar with Norse Steven 2(1) - 1(0) Garrick Steven 1(3) - 0(0) AdeptusFringilla Garrick 2(2) - 2(2) AdeptusFringilla Steven wins the Rookie League. Tournament / Resurrection League Garrick with Dark Elves HumptyTrump with Skaven Garrick 3 - 0 HumptyTrump
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Post by garrick on Jan 24, 2015 1:45:15 GMT
Garrick with the Blood Brothers (Vampires) v AdeptusFringilla with As Welcome As Ticks (Pro-Elf)
As Steven with his Norse had already beaten both of these teams and won the Rookie League, this match was an opportunity for both sides to try and salvage some pride from the first season.
12,000 Vampire fans welcomed 7,000 Elf fans to what turned out to be a deadly affair. The Blood Brothers lost the toss and the Elves kicked. The Blood Brothers drove up the pitch with their star Vampire Marcus running interference and Vampire Sonja running in their first score. After an Elf drive in which both a Thrall and an Elf Lineman died, the Blood Brothers managed to stop the Elf reply right on their own TD zone and the first half ended 1(1)-0(1) to the Vampires.
The Elves made certain of the first drive in the second half and evened the score. On the restart an over enthusiastic Elvish fan hurled a rock at the Blood Brothers star and Marcus died! Despite losing their star Sonja managed to scramble a second touch down leaving the Elves very little time to equalise but in true Elf Ball fashion, their thrower launched the ball from deep within his own half and despite it being inaccurate still managed to find the catcher it was aimed at (what are the odds of that!). Said catcher dodged and sprinted the equaliser in the dying moments of the game. 2(2) - 2(2) Final score.
Of the 4 casualties caused by the teams plus the one caused by the crowd, 60% were fatalities despite a re-rolled regeneration attempt on the Vampire fatality. One upside for the Blood Brothers though was as Sonja scored twice, killed once and was awarded the MVP, the 13 SPP gained her two additional skills (from 4 to 17 SPP).
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Post by garrick on Jan 21, 2015 17:47:34 GMT
I am proposing a slight change to last year's rules for the Scottish Championships:
Scottish Championships 2015
Any open and easily accessible tournament can be nominated for inclusion. Nominations to be made prior to the event, and for inclusion there must be a minimum of 6 Scots entering. 3 Scores per coach, with a minimum of 1 score being from a tournament held in Scotland. No race restrictions. 5 points for 1st down to 1 point for 5th for 1 day tournaments and Foreign tournaments 6 points for 1st down to 1 point for 6th for 2 day tournaments. Tie breaker is highest overall placing at Burger Bowl.
Is everybody happy with this?
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Post by garrick on Jan 20, 2015 17:04:39 GMT
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Post by garrick on Jan 19, 2015 23:43:29 GMT
Why is NAF sanctioning important? Why not make the 'Scottish' Series open to all comers, but have all scores counting and include a couple of rounds in Aberdeen/Inverness or even more up North? If you are concerned about non-Scots winning, how do you guard against a dedicated coach from anywhere (!) turning up and winning the series? Handing out a Dragon (welsh?) Trophy has the potential to be a consolation, second class prize in a Northern Britain series. I'm Scottish, I'm not Northern British. ;-) NAF sanctioning provides prize support and visibility to the world wide Blood Bowl playing community, encouraging more players to attend and generally furthering the game we all enjoy in Scotland. The NAF sanctioned Scottish Series is open to all comers but after consultation with the Scottish Blood Bowl playing community it was decided that there were not enough tournaments in Scotland to make a "series" work and we should cooperate with our Geordie pals to "make it happen". Separate from the newly inaugurated Northern Series we have an existing Scottish Champion who holds the existing Scottish Championship Dragon (which is beautifully sculpted, about 18" high and donated by a member of the Scottish Blood Bowl community - it would cost about £200 to commission something like this and it is definitely not Welsh!). And the rest of the Scottish competitive Blood Bowl community are looking forward to winning it off him in 2015. "include a couple of rounds in Aberdeen/Inverness or even more up North?" We would be delighted and I can assure you that the Central Lowlanders would arrive in force, when do you plan to run these tournaments? Garrick, definitely Scottish!
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Post by garrick on Jan 16, 2015 12:30:26 GMT
Can I change my mind re UKTC ?
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Post by garrick on Jan 15, 2015 19:19:03 GMT
Proposed Northern British Series With the recent announcement of the NAF sanctioning tournament series www.thenaf.net/2014/12/naf-tournament-series/ Stan Richardson supported by Graham Thomson are intending to create a Northern British Series including all the Scottish tournaments open to all contestants. The NAF will sanction, publicize and provide prize support for the Northern British Series which will encourage more players to come to Scottish and Northern English tournaments. The Northern Series will consist of: WaterBowl, Stockport 21/22 February 2015 BridieBowl, Arbroath 21 March 2015 MonkeyBowl, Hartlepool 11/12 April 2015 Block Around the Clock, Gateshead 2/3 May 2015 BurgerBowl, Edinburgh July 2015 OchilBowl, Stirling August 2015 GeordieBowl, Newcastle August 2015 WeegieBowl. Glasgow September 2015 Scoring • All scoring is per tournament but only your top 3 scores will count. • A coach must attend at least 4 tournaments in the series to be eligible. • +10 to +1 points for top 10 placement on a declining scale. In other words a 1st place finish would be worth 10 points, a 2nd place finish would be worth 9 points, on down to a 10th place finish being worth 1 point. • +1 point per 10 places below them in the standings. (Examples: A coach finishing 1st in a 32-coach tournament would receive a bonus of +3 because there are 30+ coaches below them. A coach finishing 1st in an 11 coach tournament would receive a bonus of +1 because there are 10 coaches below them. A coach finishing first in a 10-coach tournament would receive no bonus because there are only 9 coaches below them.) • +1 point per day of the tournament. Given to all participants. • Coaches will be required to coach at least 2 different types of teams, their total score must include at least 1 result from this 2nd race. • Tiebreakers: Coaches receive .1 points for each tournament they participate in. This score is taken in whole and is not reduced to "best 3" as with other scores. So someone who participated in 9 tournaments might have a total score of 30.9, beating out someone who only played in 8 tournaments and has 30.8. • Secondary tiebreakers: Highest placed at largest tournament in the series. N.B. We will crown a Scottish Champion “within” the Northern Series (scoring criteria to be determined which may include NAFC) and they will win the Dragon trophy.
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