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All the league news fit to print and then some! Compiled from across FUMBBL, this is all the news that's come to my little furry ears. Separated into four sections: 'Public' Leagues, Open Play Environments, Independant Tournaments, and Meta-groups. If you know more that is going on, please let razmus know so he can add it to the next edition, which should be early May. Trying to pull in as much of what's going on around FUMBBL so folks can find even more ways not to get all their real-life work done. I've added a channel for conversation amongst League Commissioners on my FUMBBL Leagues Discord. If you're interested in the conversation, please jump into the general channel and ask to be elevated for the commissioner's channel. The census says that there are 980 distinct, active coaches on FUMBBL who play in leagues, up a little from last time. Two numbers are given for the range of the league size, because 'active coaches in a league' is a poorly defined descriptor. When the numbers are very different - the league is likely in flux, have some deadwood teams/coaches in their locker rooms, or be at the start or end of a cycle/season (when there's usually a lot of inactive coaches watching the playoffs). Numbers very close together should be pretty close to the 'actual' active coach population (whatever that means) for the group. |
I wanna play now!! Which groups should I look at? | ||
These are the leagues closest to looking for more coaches right now. It might still be a bit before you'd play. | ||
New to Bloodbowl? | 145 Club Always available, now "Shark Awareness" | |
Earth, modified SL rosters | CIBBL is busy beating up the newbies. Join now so they don't notice you've joined. | |
Earth, modified rosters | SNBT recruiting for season four. | |
Earth | Home Brew Halflings currently recruiting. | |
Europe, Italian/Italy | Lega Gladio has two games left in the season playoffs. | |
Europe/UK | WIL is Actively recruiting | |
Europe, French Language | MBBL has a friendly challenge where all are welcome. | |
Europe, English/Polish, Secret League | SNOTs Actively recruiting for next season. New season early May! | |
Americas | NCBB will be starting Bowls soon, new season after. | |
Ontario and Quebec | WARBBL doesn't actively recruit, but if you're in their tournament region... | |
Americas, Secret League | SLA20 is Actively Recruiting | |
Americas, draft league | FDL is Actively recruiting as a new league | |
Timezone/Region | World, but focused on Coaches new to Bloodbowl or new to FUMBBL (but especially new to Blood Bowl!) | ✷ 51-69 |
Rules | BB2020 (no Mega-Stars) | |
Current status | Season of Shark Awareness is the current season for 145 and runs until the end of April -- and the season is an awareness to increase your awareness and how to (NOT) become part of the Sharks' diet. (See the discussions in Discord for more information!) 145 Box Challenge is a way of encouraging 145 players into the wider site, for the more experienced 145 players since you will play concurrent with the Blackbox Trophy. | |
Next steps | If you're new to FUMBBL or Blood Bowl, jump in at your leisure. Efforts are being made to make it easier for folks to join with minimal wait and to make it easier to find appropriate opponents. | |
To contact | dentface for even more information, razmus's 145 FAQ might answer a few questions, and stop by the 145 Club Discord to chat with folks. They also look over match replays, give advice on skill choices and team development, oh and share laughter as well. "Most of the good stuff happens on discord." |
Timezone/Region | Global (but predominately Europe), 14 day rounds to facilitate cross tz scheduling | ✺ 209-210 |
Rules | BB2020 resurrection/non-progression with promotion and relegation (tournament rules: no Star Players) | |
Current status | Season Four, Round 7 of 7 -- the end of the season is soon. | |
Next steps | Summer break: Season 5 will begin 11 September, with two season per year going forward. | |
To contact | Contact Storr and/or join them on their own Super League Discord. |
Timezone/Region | Europe but with coaches from everywhere. Large, fluff heavy league. (Effectively Global) | ✷ 59-60 |
Rules | BB2020 with modified Secret League, and customized BB2016 skill progression. Only one team per roster. (Custom stars, with subpar apothecaries.) | |
Current status | Year 12, Spring regionals in round two. Come watch all the little teams get slaughtered over and over again. | |
Next steps | Year 12, Summer fun (special) tournaments. | |
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. If you're an established FUMBBL coach who has been considering joining CIBBL, now is the BEST time to join! Hopefully you can pick up a Youngblood tournament and go straight to a fun Summer Tournament. Contact C0ddlefish and/or join them on the SL Discord in their own section. (But be aware, a lot goes into the administration of this league, and they'll tend to only accept coaches who have something of a proven track record of reliability on FUMBBL.) |
Timezone/Region | Global, divided into Americas, European, and Oceania divisions | ✶ 14-22 |
Rules | BB2020, but all the players are ST 5+, high TV, two week rounds (17 games per season!). Emphasis on BASH. (Yes Mega-Stars, but big-guy stars only) | |
Current status | Season 3, round 4 of 7. | |
Next steps | Not certain if there's a phase 2 to the season, or if it'll go straight to playoffs this season, but it'll be a bit either way. | |
To contact | knine on site or their Discord. |
“Spelledaren’s next big thing” [SNBT] | ||
Timezone/Region | Global, open round robin+playoffs | ★ 9-13 |
Rules | BB2020 with "some minor tweaks". (Custom star player handling) | |
Current status | Season 3 playoffs into the finals. | |
Next steps | [21 April] "Recruiting for SNBT season 4 - likely to start in two weeks." | |
To contact | Contact spelledaren. |
“Home Brew Halflings” | ||
Timezone/Region | Global | • * |
Rules | BB2020, custom Halfling Themed rosters (No Star Players) | |
Current status | Recruiting for initial season, and working out rosters. Need a few more Halfling coaches. | |
Next steps | Season 1. | |
To contact | Contact minimorg, and join their Discord. |
Timezone/Region | Oceania (GMT +7 to +12) | ✷ 46-55 |
Rules | BB2020, possibly the original league on Fumbbl to implement seasons! (Yes Mega-Stars) | |
Current status | Season C (that's SEASON ONE HUNDRED folks!), Round 3 of 7 | |
Next steps | Season 100, Trial of Blood | |
To contact | Talk to Irgy 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. |
Timezone/Region | New Zealand, one week rounds | Established 6th March 2015 | ✶ 28-36 |
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) (Yes Mega-Stars) | ||
Current status | Season 37 into round 2/3 of 7. | ||
Next steps | End of season tournaments in June. | ||
To contact | Contact ramchop or jump into DIBBL discord . |
Timezone/Region | New Zealand/Australian time zone preference With a bit of a lean towards NZ | ✶ 15-27 |
Rules | SL2020, each roster can only be represented once, with two week rounds. (No Mega-Stars) | |
Current status | Season XII - Round 6 of 7. | |
Next steps | Post season bloodshed. | |
To contact | PM Trickey on FUMBBL or get in touch on their channel on the DIBBL Discord . |
Timezone/Region | Italian Language/Italy | ✷ 45-56 |
Rules | BB2020 (Yes Mega-Stars) | |
Current status | Season 33 Playoffs: Phase Two in it's third round of four, with two games remaining. | |
Next steps | Season 34. | |
To contact | Ale_Kubbo |
Timezone/Region | UK timezone, give or take a couple, and English language | ✷ 45-46 |
Rules | BB2020, 9 day rounds (No Mega-Stars) | |
Current status | Season LXX (70), ONE GAME REMAINING. ACTIVELY RECRUITING | |
Next steps | Promotion and relegation. Integrate new teams, and have a go at season 71. If you're interested, get in touch because if there is sufficient interest, in the past they have been willing to run separate tournaments for groups of new teams/coaches. | |
To contact | A whole host of active commissioners to contact on the group page, but DaCoach would be the person who usually recruits, or talk to them on the WIL Discord. |
Timezone/Region | Europe (Spanish Language), but some non-European | ✷ 42-42 |
Rules | BB2020; promotion and relegation; race uniqueness within divisions enforced. (Yes Mega-Stars) | |
Current status | First season of divisional play, in round 11 of 13. | |
Next steps | Top teams from each division will enter the playoffs to determine the champion! | |
To contact | Contact MrToyce for more information and join. |
Timezone/Region | French Language/Europe TZ | ✷ 40-40 |
Rules | BB2020, with promotion and relegation, and roster rotation. (It appears that teams can be relegated right out of existence.) (Custom Star Players) | |
Current status | Season 33, Round 6 of 9 | |
Next steps | Season 33 playoffs Post Season. Recruit. Draft teams/rosters. Season. Playoffs. | |
To contact | Sharkrudi, Thoriin, Darkvatar, or Phags or visit their Discord |
Timezone/Region | Europe | ✶ 34-34 |
Rules | BB2020 rules with BB2016 skill progression, w/player drafts. Limited to 32 Team Franchises. With FLUFF! (No star players) | |
Current status | Phase 2: Interconference play for Season 15 in round 6 of 7. Three phases:1(SoS), 2(interconference play), 3(intraconference play), championship playoffs | |
Next steps | Season 15 Phase 3 - INTRAconference play. | |
To contact | BigF is in charge of the wait list. |
Timezone/Region | French Language/France | ✶ 32-33 |
Rules | Secret League 2020, with customizations - with custom star players! | |
Current status | Regular season for Season 7 is complete, with awards for the regular season! Phase 3, FIFA rankings, (awards for regular season/ friendly challenge/ end of season Cups) and invitations for next season. | |
Next steps | Season 7 Cups, and a "friendly challenge" where everybody is welcome. | |
To contact | Contact Diablange for more information and join them on their Discord (ask Diablange for a invitation if interested). |
Timezone/Region | Scotland | ✶ 32-32 |
Rules | BB2020 (Yes Mega-stars) | |
Current status | Season 1 in round 5 of 7. | |
Next steps | Playoffs. | |
To contact | ChrisRaff88 is the big man in charge. For their Discord, ask for an invitation. |
Timezone/Region | Finish Language/Finland | ✶ 28-31 |
Rules | BB2020 (Yes Mega-Stars) | |
Current status | Season 11 round 1 of 7. | |
Next steps | Season 11 playoffs. | |
To contact | Contact Jopotzuki or visit thier Discord for more information and join. |
Timezone/Region | German Language/Central Europe TZ | ✶ 28-28 |
Rules | BB2020, with building and league modes (Yes Mega-Stars) | |
Current status | Season 17 round 4 of 13 | |
Next steps | Season 17. | |
To contact | jurisch and join them on Discord. |
Timezone/Region | Europe, with two week rounds. | ★ 18-19 |
Rules | BB2020 limited to a single team per roster. Invitational. With FLUFF! (Yes Mega-Stars) | |
Current status | Season 4, round 7 of 9 or 11. | |
Next steps | End of Season 4 tournament(s). | |
To contact | See Lasgalen, datom, or det about an invitation. |
Timezone/Region | Europe (with some accomodation for others) | ★ 17-17 |
Rules | BB2020, draft (no star players) | |
Current status | Season One, INTRAconference round 7 of 7. (But one group is already completely complete.) | |
Next steps | INTERConference play. | |
To contact | Contact Kondor, Arcayn, or intrepidwilson for more information, for a Discord invite, or to join. Their Discord is also available. |
Timezone/Region | Europe/Ukraine (Ukrainian Coaches) | ★ 14-15 |
Rules | BB2020 (Yes Mega-Stars) | |
Current status | A whole lot of Blood Bowl still going on in open round robin tournaments, and the Trident Bowl VIII Wild Card. | |
Next steps | If you're in the target audience, I'd recommend contacting Ulmar99 for more information, there always seems to be a lot going on. (I don't understand what's going on, but there's a whole lot of Blood Bowl happening, and that makes my cold little heart just a little warmer.) | |
To contact | Contact Ulmar99 for more information and join. |
Timezone/Region | Europe (Polish and English language) | ★ 13-13 |
Rules | SL2020, Randomly assigned SL20 rosters. (Yes Mega-Stars) | |
Current status | Season 5, playoffs. They published a video update semifinals update. (I haven't had a chance to watch yet, but the previous updates I've seen are gold!) | |
Next steps | Season 6 recruiting, with a tentative start around the beginning of May. | |
To contact | Contact Avreus for more information and to join. Join them on their discord. |
Nuffle's Will League - League for people with strong nerves | ||
Timezone/Region | Europe (Polish and English Language) | ★ 2-10 |
Rules | BB2020, without rerolls and random level ups. With custom Star-player roster made out of players from past season. | |
Current status | Season 4, Playoffs, finals. (Still. Looks stalled. :-( ) | |
Next steps | Season 5 recruiting, team creation, and drafting. 1. Recruiting players for new season, 2. Team Creation, 3. Group Drafting, 4. Season games (round robin), 5. Play-offs, 6. New season starts | |
To contact | Contact Avreus or Jaskier for more information and join. |
Timezone/Region | Europe | ★ 8-9 | |
Rules | BB2020 with bounties and no player retirements. | ||
Current status | Season 4 appears to have just recently started, but the final game for the Season 3 playoffs is still pending. | ||
Next steps | Season 4 playoffs. | ||
To contact | Contact mayhemzz22 for more information and join. |
Timezone/Region | French Language/Central Europe TZ | ★ 4-9 |
Rules | BB2020, with custom rosters, limit two teams per roster. (Yes Mega-Stars) | |
Current status | Season 7, (first phase?) round 1-ish of 5. | |
Next steps | Season 7 playoffs. | |
To contact | Diablange |
Timezone/Region | Europe and Americas | ✶ 30-30 |
Rules | BB2020, with random players and lots and lots of extra dice rolling just to satisfy Nuffle's whims, now with BB2016 advancing | |
Current status | New Season 1, Stage 1, round 4 of 5 (with two games still to play in round 3) | |
Next steps | After the appropriate bloodshed, Season 1, Stage 2. | |
To contact | TrashMouse 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. |
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. (Star players look absent.) | |
Current status | Season 4 playoffs, just the finals left. | |
Next steps | Draft, then Season 5. | |
To contact | The_Murker (Owner), det, darkwing2k6, and misterlonestar |
Timezone/Region | Americas | ✷ 43-55 | |
Rules | BB2020, balanced number of teams from each roster! (No Mega-stars) | ||
Current status | Season 7, now with three full divisions of a total of six leagues. Currently in round 1 of 7. | ||
Next steps | Season 7 - everyone goes into their cups. | ||
To contact | HyperboLemuR on site or the NWBL Discord. |
Timezone/Region | Americas | ✷ 45-52 |
Rules | BB2020, with custom seasons, and no stunty teams. (Yes Mega-stars, but Dribblesnot and Cindy are banished.) | |
Current status | Season 44, Coaches polls. Throwing things next. Then the end of season live show when the bowls are announced. | |
Next steps | Bowl games. | |
To contact | ex-convict or HyperboLemuR or Nelphine on site, or NCBB Discord |
Second Sons Blood Bowl League | ||
Timezone/Region | Americas TZ | ✷ 34-38 |
Rules | BB2020 with some initial boost to starting teams, roughly two week rounds (Yes Mega-stars) | |
Current status | Tattered Prince Open II (Four round Swiss.) | |
Next steps | I assume Season 4. | |
To contact | HouseBlackfyre on site. |
Timezone/Region | Americas | ✶ 32-32 |
Rules | BB2020 with player draft, drawn from NCBB amongst other places. (Yes Mega-stars, but Dribblesnot and Cindy are banished.) | |
Current status | Season 32 intraconference play in round 2 of 7.. | |
Next steps | Conference playoffs. | |
To contact | To be put on the waiting list for an invitation, contact Bazakastine or dashergeaux and join them on the NBFL Discord. The league is limited to 32 franchise teams. |
Timezone/Region | Ontario, Canada & Time Zone friends | ✶ 17-20 |
Rules | BB2020, roughly weekly rounds, with bounties. (Yes Mega-stars) | |
Current status | Season 8 PLAYOOFS are complete. Congrats to the Guelph Greenskins! | |
Next steps | Season 9. (Although many are looking forward to meeting the natives at the upcoming Amorical Cup in June.) | |
To contact | Hammer16 or grant85 on site. (They aren't actively recruiting but would welcome additional friendly faces they know from the NAF table top and in-person leagues in the Ontario and Quebec area.) |
Timezone/Region | Americas | ★ 16-16 |
Rules | SL2020 (Secret League 2020) (No Mega-stars) | |
Current status | Season 5, end of season tournaments - Shady Underground Tournament done -- contrats to Carthage! Actively recruiting redraft and friendlies. | |
Next steps | Season 6 starts (tentatively) 1 May | |
To contact | razmus on site, or SLA20 channel on the Secret League Discord. |
Timezone/Region | Chilean, Americas timezone, Spanish Language | ★ 13 |
Rules | BB2020 with redraft and what looks like a bounty system! (Yes Mega-stars) | |
Current status | Waiting. Watching. Promotion/relegation. | |
Next steps | Season 2 with divisions. | |
To contact | Varadal, primary communication via WhatsApp. |
Timezone/Region | Americas | • 10 |
Rules | BB2020 draft league, two week rounds Custom star players from previous players | |
Current status | Incipient. Actively recruiting | |
Next steps | Season 1. | |
To contact | ryanfitz |
Competitive | |
Rules | BB2020 - using the latest rules available. No Mega-stars. |
Activity | Very high activity. This is the primary activity on FUMBBL |
To play | Make a team from your Coaches page for the Competitive division and put them in Gamefinder, or activate teams in the Black Box (also now within gamefinder) or seek games on the FUMBBL Discord (the last is more popular with people seeking those last few games to fill a grid.) Be aware that the box random scheduler now separates virtual season one teams from everyone else. |
Activities | Royal Rookie Rumble for new teams. (Recruiting 24/7!) Brawls for any Competitive team. Brackets break at 1400 and 1800. Minors can be looked for another run at the middle of the month. In addition, the XFL divisions for Chaos Renegades, Dark Elves, Undead, and Norse running now! Dwarf, Goblin, Khemri, and Skaven coming in May. Major Tournaments spread out across the year, each with their own requirements and some with qualifier tournaments. The Ulthuan Invitation is running the main event now, in it's quarter-finals. Grotty Little Touranment is next, in May. |
Rules | BB2020 with custom rosters. (No Mega-stars to mirror Competitive envionment.) |
Activity | Some. |
To play | Make a team from the group above (or from your coaches page in the "League","Secret League 2020" division). Put them in Gamefinder or seek games on the Secret League Discord |
Activities | Old World Rookie Rumble for new teams. Just need two more for the next Rumble. Old World Brawl for any team. Bracket breaks at 1000, 1300, 1600, and 2000. [SL]2020 Slam are Slam type instant tournaments for groups of four teams. (just needs interested coaches) [SL]2020 Open Sprint allows teams to compete on points earned in open play, leagues, and touranments. Current season running from 17 March to 30 April. Other tournaments to start when Seasons enabled on FUMBBL. |
Open League | ||
Rules | BB2020 (no Mega-Stars) | |
Activity | Low. | |
To play | Create a team from the link on the Open League group page, or from the Create Team link at the bottom of your coaches page and select 'League', 'Open League'. Make them available in gamefinder, or find an opponent in Discord or other places. It's okay to play casual games against friends here. |
Rules | BB2016, with imported League, Ranked, or Box teams, including SL16 teams. |
Activity | Low |
To play | Clone teams into the league to bring new life to them to play. Open [L]eague Cup - No limit, Official 2016 + [SL16] teams for a possibly last ride of glory. (Watch Koadah's Blog for more information on the O[L]C activities.) |
Time/Region | Global, 10-11 day rounds (Wed/Sun deadlines) to facilitate scheduling. | |
Rules | BB2020, 4M teams, (almost all) star players. | |
Next tournament | All Stars Winter Bowl when there are eight teams to make a new bracket. | |
To contact | Contact koadah. |
Season | Season 10: Jan-Apr 2024 |
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. One team from each roster will have the opportunity to participate in the Steel Gauntlet, it's own special official [C]ompetitive Division tournament. (See Christer's blog linked above for more information.) Gnomes can enter for the last couple weeks of the current season... and there's been some discussion on the Discord with previews of what the next season roster points will be for making up squads. |
Player of the Year 2024 (POTY 2024) | |
Season | The year of 2024 |
Environment | Competitive tournaments - FUMBBL Minor, Majors, and BBT |
Synopsis | Earn points in the official Comptitive division competitions, and folks are offering up prizes. 145 Club has their own related prize as well! Current Update |
Season | Inactive as of late. Watch this space to see if it comes back. |
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 accumulated from fouls certainly add to the official tally. There is a relatively quiet Discord for the Throne of Blood as well. |
Season | LXXXV: March 1 - April 30th. |
Environment | Competitive, Blackbox, and League (BB2020/SL2020). |
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. (Discord Channel.) |