Rendez-vous Blood Bowl VII

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Tournament Rules

The aim of the tournament is to play Blood Bowl and have fun.

Trambi will be referee during the tournament. He will settle rules questions. Hisr rulings must be enforced and not further discussed.

Any improper behavior (towards a referee, an organiser or another player) will be penalized with a yellow or red card (loss of 5 or 10 tournament points).Remember that we are only playing with toy soldiers and make sure the referees keep their pockets.

• Schedule
• Tournament rules
• "triplette" competition ?

Schedule:

Saturday, the 4th of July 2009

• 10h00 Gates open
• 10h45-12h45 First match
• 12h45-13h45 Meal
• 13h45-15h45 2nd Match
• 16h15-18h45 3rd Match

Sunday, the 5th of July 2009

• 10h00 Gates open
• 10h30-12h30 4th Match
• 12h30-13h30 Meals and other entertainment
• 13h30-15h30 5th match
• 14h00-16h00 Final
• 16h30 Award ceremony and end of tourny drinks

Tournament rules

• You have to be a NAF member to register. As everybody will be a NAF member, all games will be used for NAF rankings.
• The official rules ( http://www.specialist-games.com/bloodbowl/rulebook.asp) and the official updates (here) will be enforced. As the event is a tournament, we will use the following extra rules.
• Any problem between two players is solvable. Ask a referee if needed.
• Cheating is penalized with loss of tourny points or ban of the tourny.
• Rosters must be sent before the tournament. Both referees and opponent must be able to check your roster at any time.
• We have the following awards:
  • Winner
  • Best comeback (based on the difference between day 1 and day 2 rankings)
  • Best painter
  • Wooden spoon
  • Best "triplette"
  • ...
• Please check your results between each match, we do make mistakes sometimes.

How are games drawn ?

The tournament is swiss-style, with a first round drawn at random.

Swiss-style means that, for each game, your current ranking tells who your opponent will be. The following criteria will be applied (in decreasing order of importance) : Touny points/opponent points (excepted the points against you)/TD difference/casualties made.

Tourny points

The following table tells you how many points you earn after a game. This table will be used during the whole tourny and all your points will be added up.

Result	Points
Win	5 points
Draw	3 points
1-TD loss	1 point
Loss with a 2+-TD difference	0 point
Conceding	-1 point

Team Roster

Teams will begin with 1.050.000 gp and will thus have a 105 TR. The races from the 2006 Edition Bloodbowl Handbook are allowed (they are the official teams) + the three new teams :

• orcs,
• skavens,
• dark elves,
• humans,
• dwarves,
• high elves,
• goblins,
• halflings,
• wood elves,
• undeads,
• chaos dwarves,
• chaos,
• amazons,
• norses,
• lizardmen,
• necromantics,
• khemris,
• Nurgle rotters,
• pro elves,
• ogres,
• vampires,
• underworld,
• slanns,
• Chaos Pact

Normal league rules cannot be used during a tourny. However, teams will earn new skills (this keeps the strategic importance of skill choices) according to the following rules.

This year, you will be allowed to :

• pick a skill for one player,a skill for another player and double for another before the tourny begins (write it down on your team roster);
• pick a skill for one player,a skill for another player sunday morning.

Any given player can only earn one skill. No stacking is allowed.

Miniatures

All the miniatures used must clearly show the race and position of your players. This is to make things easy for you and your opponent. Please use painted miniatures if possible.

Painting is strongly desired, as it makes live pictures of the event far more interesting.

Casualties

The normal system is well suited for league play, not to tourny play. Casualties do not carry over to the next game and skills are kept. An apothecary can still be useful during a game.

Apothecaries

They are allowed !

Stars

Stars are not allowed. Big guys can be picked normally.

Wizards

They are not allowed. But Halfling cook can be hired by halfling team at 70 000 gp.

Number of players on pitch

You have to use 11 players if possible and as many as possible if not ! Nuffle is watching you.

12 players on the pitch after at least one turn : your opponent picks the player he wants and sends him off ! Illegal procedure and end of turn.

Less than 3 players for a kick-off ? Place as many players as possible on the scrimmage line.

No players left at all ?

• During play : your opponent carries on playing on his own until the end of drive. End of game.
• For a kick-off ?
  • On defense : the receiving team gets a touchback and keeps on playing.
  • On offense : the defense kicks normally and keeps on playing.

So you never have to give up because you are out of players.

Illegal procedures and game time

The IP rule is not used during the game! Game time is around 2 hours. The 4-minute time limit is not used. To keep a reasonable schedule, referees can stop a game.

"Triplette" competition ?

In France, a "triplette" is a three players team (usually in game of bowls ).

As the two last editions, we organise a triplette competition. At the beginning of the tournament, you will be invited to choose two other players to form a "Triplette". At the end of the tournament, the three coachs points will be summed and the best "Triplette" will be proclamed Triplette Winner of the RDVBB !