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2023 01 01

All the league news fit to print and then some! Compiled from across FUMBBL, this is all the league news that's come to my little furry ears. If you know more that is going on, please let razmus know so he can add it to the next edition, which should be in a couple weeks. (Seriously... got a quip/update about your league -- forward it on over.) The census says that there are 803 distinct coaches on FUMBBL who play in leagues. Two numbers are given which the range of the league size, because there isn't a single good indicator of the league size. When the numbers are very different - the league may be in flux, have some deadwood teams/coaches in their locker rooms, or at the start or end of a cycle. Numbers very close together should be pretty close to the actual census for the group. The following leagues should have space/recruiting right now: Chill Axe (UK), Liga Woli Nuffla (Poland/Polish), OSBBL (NZ), DIBBL (NZ), IoMT (Earth)(2016 teams), and “Spelledaren’s next big thing” (Earth)(two slots).

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Timezone/Region	World, but focused on Coaches new to Bloodbowl or new to Fumbbl	✶ 20-27
Rules	BB2020
Current status	PIE Holiday Season finished the day after Christmas. Exactly eight teams earned their PIE by playing at least eight games each. Special Snowflakes Season started last Thursday, and thirty-three games have already been played. Lots of potential left in the current season, with thirteen free slots still available. Only seventeen of potentially forty teams bloodied.
Next steps	If you're new to Blood Bowl or new to FUMBBL, this is the group to help you get oriented! Join the discord, join the tournament. A new season will begin when we've squeezed the fun and the learning from the current tournament.
To contact	razmus's blog for more info, and 145 Club Discord

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Timezone/Region	Europe	★ 16-17
Rules	BB2020, divisions with promotion/relegation
Current status	Hubba Season 3 round three.
Next steps	Another Playoff/Cup -- in late February early March 2023
To contact	Contact eldritchfox for more information and join them on the HUBBA Discord.

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Timezone/Region	Europe but with coaches from everywhere. Large, fluff heavy league.	✹ 76-77
Rules	BB2020 with modified Secret League, and customized BB2016 skill progression. Only one team per roster.
Current status	Year 10, tenth anniversary SUMMER Tournaments, round two complete.
Next steps	Year 10, Autumn tournaments by prestige.
To contact	New teams either enter a Youngbloods tournament or the general mix depending on timing, and with a league this large they're almost always recruiting. Contact C0ddlefish and/or join them on the SL Discord in their own section. (If you were considering joining CIBBL, now is a good time, because hopefully they could still get enough for another Youngbloods tournament, and Autumn is a good time for rookies.)

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Timezone/Region	UK, with ten day rounds	★ 10-18
Rules	BB2020, but someone has to wield the axe...
Current status	In the calm between Seasons 3 and 4. Redraft. Recruit.
Next steps	Season 4.
To contact	MisterA , and check out their discord. If you were considering playing in the Chill Axe, this is probably the best time to jump in. Don't miss out.

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Timezone/Region	Italian Language/Italy	✹ 50-77
Rules	BB2020
Current status	Season 31 playoffs are complete (11 Dec)!
Next steps	Season 32.
To contact	Ale_Kubbo

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Timezone/Region	German Language/Central Europe TZ	✶ 32-32
Rules	BB2020, with building and league modes
Current status	Last round of Season 14.
Next steps	Season 14 Playoffs
To contact	jurisch and join them on Discord.

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Timezone/Region	UK	✷ 41-41
Rules	BB2020
Current status	Season 65 has just a couple rounds left.
Next steps	Promotion/relegations and recruiting -- likely mid to late January.
To contact	A whole host of active commissioners to contact on the group page, or talk to them on the WIL Discord.

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Timezone/Region	French Language/France	✶ 32-32
Rules	Secret League 2020, with customizations - now also with custom star players!
Current status	Season 4 playoff tournaments semi-finals and finals remaining.
Next steps	Recruiting and Season 5!
To contact	Contact Diablange for more information and join them on their Discord (ask Diablange for a invitation if interested).

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Timezone/Region	French Language/Europe TZ	✷ 44-45
Rules	BB2020, with promotion and relegation, and roster rotation. (It appears that teams can be relegated right out of existence.)
Current status	Season 30 playoffs.
Next steps	Post Season. Recruit. Draft teams/rosters. If you're interested, might be a good time to get in touch with them, so you can get into the Draft early.
To contact	Sharkrudi, Thoriin, Darkvatar, or Phags or visit their Discord

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Timezone/Region	Europe, with two week rounds.	✶ 24-24
Rules	BB2020 limited to a single team per roster. Invitational. With FLUFF!
Current status	Season 2 Classic Bowl and Mud Cup should start soon.
Next steps	Redraft and Season 3
To contact	See Lasgalen, datom, or det about an invitation. Looks to be some openings.

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Timezone/Region	Europe	✶ 34-36
Rules	BB2020 rules with BB2016 skill progression, w/player drafts. Limited to 32 Team Franchises. With FLUFF!
Current status	The third part of Season 13 has begun.
Next steps	Season 13 Playoffs.
To contact	BigF is in charge of the wait list.

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Timezone/Region	Europe	★ 9-9
Rules	BB2020 with several house rules and drafting. Two week rounds.
Current status	Season 6 is has finished round seven.
Next steps	Playoffs (mid-January), then draft (mid-February) to prepare for Season 7.
To contact	Contact Hovring for more information and join.

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Timezone/Region	Europe/Ukraine (Ukrainian Coaches)	★ 9-12
Rules	BB2020
Current status	Rookie Bowl 6 has played nearly every possible game and Trident Bowl 3 has stalled in round three.
Next steps	Season 4.
To contact	Contact Ulmar99 for more information and join. Ulmar99 is also looking for coaches for an Eastern Europe League.

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Nuffle's Will League - League for people with strong nerves
Timezone/Region	Europe/Poland (Polish Language)	★ 16-16
Rules	BB2020 without rerols and random level ups. With custom Starplayer rooster made out of players from past season..
Current status	Season 2 Playoffs.
Next steps	Recruiting players for new season.
To contact	Contact Avreus or Jaskier for more information and join.

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Liga Snota w Worku (Snot League in the Bag)
Timezone/Region	Europe/Poland (Polish Language)	★ 15-15
Rules	SL2020, Randomly assigned SL20 rosters.
Current status	Season 3 is into round two.
Next steps	Season 3 playoffs.
To contact	Contact Avreus for more information and join.

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Timezone/Region	Europe (Spanish Language), but some non-European	✶ 36-36
Rules	BB2020.
Current status	First Season in two divisions, Round 9 of 17. It's an amazing display of discipline and endurance!
Next steps	Playoffs in May
To contact	Contact MrToyce for more information and join.

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Grand Est League (GEL)
Timezone/Region	France (French Language)	✶ 30
Rules	BB2020.
Current status	First Season in three divisions, Round 3 of 9.
Next steps	Playoffs
To contact	Contact LeonHart for more information, or better... talk to them on their Discord..

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Timezone/Region	Europe maybe, please don't let the goblins across the pond.	✶ 22-27
Rules	BB2020, with custom goblin themed rosters. With rulz (HA!) written by and for goblins.
Current status	They're continuing with the World Waaagh III tournament, and The XXL Badland Brawl and double elim-Pirate tournaments are still going on. It appears very chaotic, but strangely like a lot of fun.
Next steps	Nuffle only knows, and she ain't talking. I'm certain there will be more opportunities to crush, smash, and spindle a few more gobbos. (Contact mekutata for more information about what they have planned next! I'm afraid if I ask, I'll get some of it on me.)
To contact	mekutata apparently translates goblin and might be able to help you.

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Timezone/Region	Mainly Europe but Coaches in North and South America, Canada too. 14 day turns!	★ 20-20
Rules	BB20 Draft League, Human rosters, custom seasons and re-draft. Custom Icons and Team logo's.
Current status	Season 2, cross region competition is into round 4 of 9.
Next steps	Championship and Jesters Cup playoffs.
To contact	The_Murker (Owner), det, darkwing2k6, and misterlonestar

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Timezone/Region	Europe and Americas	✶ 23-24
Rules	BB2020, with random players and lots and lots of extra dice rolling just to satisfy Nuffle's whims
Current status	The first half of Season 2 is (still) in it's last round. (Apparently the Americas coaches are holding things up)
Next steps	The second half of Season 2 in January, in which more dice will be rolled in honour of Nuffle. End of season should be in March/April.
To contact	Foremole on site NUFFLE League Discord channel to roll up your random team. They're always recruiting new teams, and can run new blood type tournaments when there is enough new blood to justify.

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Timezone/Region	Americas	✶ 31-31
Rules	BB2020 with player draft, drawn from NCBB amongst other places
Current status	SuperBowl XXIX was won my captainmalkor's Cleaved Land Bedlam. Oddly I heard of no couches being burned in Ohio.
Next steps	Crazy wealthy players run around endorcing products to make even more money, and with the league -- The Draft, to bring in former college (NCBB) players.
To contact	To be put on the waiting list for an invitation, contact Bazakastine or dashergeaux and join them on the NBFL Discord.

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Timezone/Region	Americas	✷ 41-46
Rules	BB2020, with custom seasons
Current status	Season 41 continues - BCS administration apparently said 'Bah! HUMBUG!' just before Christmas, and fired their unpaid interns in charge of scheduling. The individual schools were suddently responsible for coordinating schedules, and have only been able to minimal manage with the tens of million in their athletics budgets. Things may get better now that some of those university staff folks are returning from holiday.
Next steps	Season 41 - makeup games. (Probably not sponsored by either Revlon or Avon, but you never know.) Then polling. Then the traditional whining about getting screwed in the coach's poll.
To contact	ex-convict or Nelphine on site, or NCBB Discord

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	Timezone/Region	Americas	✶ 34-34
	Rules	BB2020
	Current status	Season 3 EFL Cup and The FA Trophy tournaments continue. 'Friendlies' have begun (but aren't.)
	Next steps	Inexplicably, the FA Cup is next, then a drunken brawl (confirmed on the schedule).
	To contact	Waagh and ryanfitz on site or the NWBL Discord.

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Timezone/Region	Americas	★ 16-19
Rules	SL2020 (Secret League 2020)
Current status	Season 3 is in round five. Undefeated Norsii Iron Wolves continue to hold the Mystic Sparkle-Slann of Huah-Huah.
Next steps	Once the season finishes in early March, playoffs.
To contact	razmus on site, or SLA20 channel on the Secret League Discord.

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Timezone/Region	Chilean, Americas timezone, Spanish Language	★ 14-20
Rules	BB2020/BB2020 Resurrection/BB2020 Stunty (League moves between groups/ruleset thru the year)
Current status	Watching to see what's next.
Next steps	Stunty League phase, I believe
To contact	Varadal, primary communication via WhatsApp.

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Timezone/Region	Ontario, Canada & Time Zone friends	✶ 20-21
Rules	BB2020, roughly weekly rounds
Current status	Season 6 is in round 17-19 of 19 rounds. Another test of endurance.
Next steps	"Playoofs".
To contact	Hammer16 or grant85 on site.

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Second Sons Blood Bowl League
Timezone/Region	Americas TZ	✶ 26-26
Rules	BB2020 with some initial boost to starting teams, roughly two week rounds
Current status	Season 2 is in round 6 of 13 rounds.
Next steps	Season 2 playoffs
To contact	HouseBlackfyre on site.

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Timezone/Region	Oceania (GMT +7 to +12)	✷ 51-62
Rules	BB2020
Current status	Season 94 has two outstanding games.
Next steps	Draft and regionals planned, then another Trial of Blood, which I'd expect any day.
To contact	Talk to Wozzaa about getting started or join them on the SWL Discord and 'ask to be drafted and hazed.' New teams need a little time to draft and get 'some blooding games' played before they're fed to the le... err... before they start.

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	Timezone/Region	New Zealand/Australian time zone preference With a bit of a lean towards NZ	✶ 19-21
	Rules	SL2020, each roster can only be represented once, with two week rounds.
	Current status	Pre-season builder games.
	Next steps	Season 10
	To contact	PM Trickey on FUMBBL or get in touch on their channel on the DIBBL Discord .

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Timezone/Region	New Zealand, one week rounds	Established 6th March 2015	✶ 19-22
Rules	BB2020. Equivalent pools with tiered postseason playoffs to decide champion. No redrafting or TV caps. Expensive mistakes and Spiraling expenses both active. Older players may pickup a niggle between seasons (aging)
Current status	One remaining playoff tournaments is up to the finals!
Next steps	Season 32. If you're in the target audience -- now would be a good time to get in touch with ramchop to play next season!
To contact	Contact ramchop or jump into DIBBL discord .

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Timezone/Region	Global	★ 0-16
Rules	BB2016 with individual customized rosters, limited franchises, seasons, and lots of house rules.
Current status	Year 2 Summer; KO Competition - Top Tier Cup remains to be played.
Next steps	Year 2 Autumn - Ranked League.
To contact	Contact cowhead. They occasionally search for a replacement coach when someone drops, but again, there are limited franchise teams.

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Timezone/Region	Global, 21 day rounds to facilitate cross tz scheduling	★ 7-9
Rules	BB2016: experienced, orphaned teams -- Will now be importing teams into the league, as the BB2016 open environment has been declared dead.
Current status	Season 10 playoffs, with finals deadline in mid January.
Next steps	If there's sufficient interest to play old teams, Season 11. Now wouldn't be a bad time to start talking to razmus about travel to exotic El-Aljana to play. Warm those old players bones in the salty sands!
To contact	Contact razmus and join the IoMT Discord Channel.

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Timezone/Region	Global, 14 day rounds to facilitate cross tz scheduling	✦ 4-5
Rules	BB2020: experienced, orphaned teams
Current status	Season 1 started today.
Next steps	Season 1 Playoffs, around March.
To contact	Contact razmus and join the IoMTNG Discord Channel.

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Timezone/Region	Global, 21 day rounds to facilitate cross tz scheduling	★ 7-10
Rules	SL16 Open Environment teams
Current status	Season 7, Round 4.
Next steps	Playoffs April 2023.
To contact	Contact razmus and join the IoMT Discord Channel.

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Timezone/Region	Global, 14 day rounds to facilitate cross tz scheduling	✺ 151-152
Rules	BB2020 resurrection/non-progression with promotion and relegation
Current status	Season 1, round 3.
Next steps	Shuffling then Season 2!
To contact	Contact TheFear.

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Timezone/Region	Global, 14 day rounds to facilitate cross tz scheduling	✦ 5-6
Rules	SL2020 resurrection/non-progression, with some additional rosters and customization.
Current status	Waiting, pending the anticipated SL20 changes.
Next steps	Season 5
To contact	Contact Java.

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Timezone/Region	Global, some schedule... Nuffle isn't picky	✦ 4-6
Rules	BB2020 with a single custom Nuffle roster, no retirements, no stars, no outside games, spiked balls.
Current status	Season 1, Round 3 (still stalled).
Next steps	Season 1 Catacombs Cup knockout tournament.
To contact	Contact Happy_Amateur.

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“Spelledaren’s next big thing”
Timezone/Region	Global, open round robin+playoffs	★ 7-9
Rules	BB2020 with "some minor tweaks"
Current status	Season 1, with a couple open slots remaining, and a few unbloodied teams!
Next steps	More bloodshed, I mean... a playoff for the top teams.
To contact	Contact spelledaren.

Open Play Environments

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Rules	BB2020 with custom rosters. Updates to the rosters are anticipated.
Activity	Low activity. Garion's release of the new rosters anticipated any moment.
To play	Make a team from the group above and put them in Gamefinder or seek games on the Secret League Discord
Activities	Old World Rookie Rumble for new teams... starting to push again -- STILL need a few more teams for the next Rumble. Old World Brawl for any team... and again, while activity is slow, tournaments will still happen. [SL]2020 Slam are Slam type instant tournaments for groups of four teams. (just needs for interested coaches) Other tournaments to start when Seasons enabled on FUMBBL.

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Rules	BB2016 with custom rosters.
Activity	Very low, and we may need to get out a fork soon.
To play	Make a team from the group above and put them in Gamefinder or seek games on the Secret League Discord
Activities	Secret 2016 [SL]am Series are Slam type instant tournaments for groups of four teams. (just needs four interested coaches) [SL]UMBBL Shield - Minor's like tournament for SL2016 teams. SLUMBBL CUP - Annual all comers tournament. [SL16] Grand Championship Two part tournament run multiple times per year. Secret Stunty Cup Annual Stunty Team tournament. (Recently complete for this year.)

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Rules	BB2016, with imported League, Ranked, or Box teams, including SL16 teams.
Activity	Moderate <- Recruiting for October.
To play	Clone teams into the league to bring new life to them to play.
Activities	O[L]C Classic - No limit KO tournaments O[L]C Open League play - Now between seasons. Open [L]eague Cup - No limit, KO tournament coming up to the FINALS., Official 2016 + [SL16] teams O[L]C 2016 Championship - TV limited, KO tournaments, up to eight(8) official 2016 + [SL16] teams Open [L]eague Challenge 2020 - TV limited, KO tournaments, up to eight(8) official 2020 + [SL20] teams

Active Metagroups
Metagroups play in other open environments, against teams which aren't necessarily part of the metagroup for thier own goals

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Season	Season 7 has begun! (Go look at where the rosters ended up on the points for the new season!)
Environment	Competitive (Blackbox Scheduler only)
Synopsis	FUMBBL's only officially supported metagroup. Build one or more squads of four teams, and amass points by winning and tying after randomly matching other teams.

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Season	January 1-31th
Environment	Any/All
Synopsis	Stunty teams across the FUMBBL-verse attempting to beat, kill and maim everyone else... but mostly kill. Accumulate points for building up the biggest stack of corpses, with dwarves counting double. And of course, being stunties... the bodies accumulately from fouls certainly add to the official tally.

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Season	78: Jan 1st to Feb 28th
Environment	Competitive, Blackbox, and League (BB2020). (Blackbox only team awards added in this season.)
Synopsis	A reboot of the original E.L.F. group, Elf teams accumulate points for playing (and more for winning) against a variety of different rosters. Additional awards for filling your dance card, and a special award for taking more casualties than anyone else. (Only two teams completed the cycle in each of the last two seasons.) (Now with a Discord Channel.)

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	Borg Invasion
	Season	Perpetual
	Environment	Any/All
	Synopsis	Chaos Renegades teams as Borg collective. Start vanilla and play against other teams... and as you kill your opponent's players, you add their unique biological signature to the Borg. It was challenging under the BB2016 rules, and I suspect it's even harder now.