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Online NAF Sanctioned Tournaments
The NAF
The NAF is an international association of players dedicated to Blood Bowl. The NAF acts as a central resource for coaches the world over – offering news, contacts, discussion, sanctioned tournaments and international player rankings. Whether you are planning to run your own tabletop tournament, looking for a league or just wanting to catch up on the latest from the world of fantasy football gaming, the NAF aims to provide everything you will need.
You can visit the NAF at thenaf.net, or join the NAF here.
Why not find the most up to date information on tabletop tournaments in your area? There is a handy list here. If you ever need help or have any questions regarding attending a tabletop tournament, please come ask!
Current Live! Event
| ABOUT THE TOURNAMENT |
| WELCOME TO HOLIDAY BOWL 2024 Time for another NAF Live! event, featuring an old school ruleset! This ruleset will be familiar to the veterans of the NAF scene, back before the need for tiers or complicated rulesets. This is back to basics of tournament blood bowl. This will consist of two, one-day tournaments. One on Saturday 28th Decmeber 2024 and one on Sunday 29th Decmeber 2024. There will be three separate tournaments, one for each region of the [OC], [EU] & [NA]. These will each run, separately, on both days w/ 3 games per day. This will amount to a total of 6 games should you choose to play on both days. You can choose to play a single day or both days for all the regional tourneys. They will be reported, to the NAF site, as 6 separate tournaments w/ 6 winners. However, we will make a special mention, on FUMBBL, to the overall winners of each region.* *Coaches will ONLY be eligible for 'overall winner' if they played on BOTH days. • The OC event will start at 02:00 server & will feature 3 rounds of 2 hours each. • The EU event will start at 14:00 server & will feature 3 rounds of 2 hours each. • The US event will start at 20:00 server (1pm Central) & will feature 3 rounds of 2 hours each. To participate, you MUST make yourself available for the whole 6 hours! Tournament admins: Valen • Nightbird • neilwat • Stimme • baz_machine |
| CREATING AND APPLYING A TEAM ROSTER |
| Before you create your team on Fumbbl, we highly suggest that you use an Excel sheet or one of the online helpers to create your team and make sure it adds up to the total amount. Find roster making tools on the NAF site. Once you have decided on your setup, generate a new team following all of the subsequent steps (do not reuse an existing team!): 1. Create a new team using this link and choose your race and team name. Please add your desired start time (OC, EU or NA) in brackets at the start of your team name and if your team is only taking part in one day add the day this team will take part in by adding a 1 or 2. E.g. [EU] Cherryville Croakers. This team would take part in both EU tournaments. [EU1] Cherryville Croakers. This team would take part in the EU day 1 tournament. 2. On the team page, there is no need to change ‘Progression’ from ‘Standard’ to ‘None’. 3. Buy all of your players, re-rolls, etc. and click ‘submit for approval’. 4. On the following screen, select your skills. 5. When ‘Save’ is pressed to confirm your skill choices, there is no pop-up or conformation screen. You can check if your skills have saved correctly by navigating away from the screen and then checking ‘Team Options’ on your team page. You must select all skills before the start of the tournament and may not change them later. 6. NAF coaches must record their NAF nick and NAF number in the team bio section following team creation. This will help us in the future recording and ranking of online games. 7. Inducement(s) you wish to use should be left out of your team creation process and listed in the team bio. Inducements have to be announced before start of the tournament and may not be changed in-between matches! e.g.: at the beginning of a tournament match, select only your announced inducements, as you would normally by spending your remaining treasury as petty cash. 8. Navigate to the tournament team site and use the button at the bottom at the page to apply your team. Please view Strider’s youtube video if you need more details how to create a team. |
| RULES SUMMARY |
| • BB2020 ruleset with Slann • Resurrection-style • 6 Seperate One-day tournament • 3 rounds total per tournmanet |
| TEAM BUILDING |
Starting Gold is 1100GP |
| ADDITIONAL SKILLS |
All teams will be allowed 6 normal skills, you may exchange two of these skills for a single double. A player may be allocated a maximum of 1 additional skill. All additional skills are selected prior to the event; random skills and characteristic increases may not be selected. The following inducements are available for all teams: ● Bloodweiser Kegs: 0-2 ● Mortuary Assistant: 0-1 ● Part-time Assistant Coach: 0-3 ● Plague Doctor: 0-1 ● Temp Agency Cheerleader: 0-4 ● Wandering Apothecary: 0-1 ● Biased Referee: 0-1 ● Bribes: 0-3 ● Halfling Master Chef: 0-1 ● Riotous Rookies: 0-1 Star Players notes: There will be no star players in this event All inducements must be announced in the “team bio” at the team’s creation and may not change between rounds. State which roster pack you are using in your team bio. |
| CONCESSIONS |
| • No concessions are allowed during a match. Penalty may be exclusion from the tournament and no registration accepted for the next NAF event. • If a coach misses their match at the scheduled time, a concession will be applied. • Everyone is counting on you to play the 3 rounds regardless of your performance. Dropping without a proper cause will result in denying your registration for the next NAF Online event. |
| TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE |
| • The tournaments will be held over two days, 28th & 29th Decmeber. • Each round will last two hours. • Coaches are expected to be online 15 min before start of the first round! Failure to do so will result in exclusion from the tournament. • Team registration: before end of 26th Decmeber. BOTH days will run with the following timings: 1st Round OC: 02:00 server 2nd Round OC: 04:00 server 3rd Round OC: 06:00 server 1st Round EU: 14:00 server 2nd Round EU: 16:00 server 3rd Round EU: 18:00 server 1st Round NA: 20:00 server (1pm Central) 2nd Round NA: 22:00 server (3pm Central) 3rd Round NA: 0:00 server (5pm Central) |
| OTHER RULES |
| • Games will be forfeited promptly to begin new rounds. • If one player benefits from inducements not listed on the team’s “bio” or irregular use of Timeout with direct influence on the score, a concession might be applied. • Games will count towards NAF ranking as Online NAF games on thenaf.net. Forfeits and games against non NAF members are not recorded. |
| FAIRPLAY |
| • Be cordial on the chat and pm towards your opponent and audience. Any use of offensive laguage towards your opponent regarding racial, political or religious content might result in exclusion from the tournament and 1 year ban from NAF events. • We recommend avoiding Timeouts. However, if you use it, you are not allowed to do it without a first “transgression” and consequent first warning on the chat. Example: my opponent exceeds the time in one turn, I warn him that I will timeout next time. You can only use a timeout if the other opponent is playing their turn, if they give an indication that they need 5 minutes or similar to deal with a real life event then they can’t be timed out for this. |
| NAF RANKING AND NAF MEMBERSHIP |
| • All games between NAF members are recorded on the NAF homepage and will be used to calculate the NAF online rankings. • Even though a NAF membership is not mandatory, we highly encourage you to join the NAF: https://www.thenaf.net/members-area/join-the-naf/ o The cost is £5, 5 Euros or 5 dollars in person, or $10 by Paypal online. For this you get your NAF name registered for rankings purposes and this lasts forever. o Tracking your online rankings and enabling your opponents to play for their ranking is solid fun. o You get goodies every time you renew your membership |
FAQ
Q: Who are the NAF?
A: Click on the 'NAF' tab above and find out!
Q: What are Online NAF tournaments?
A: Online NAF aims to reproduce tournaments a NAF member may have attended on tabletop here on FUMBBL. Online NAF tournaments are open to all, members and non-members, and a number of shiny, physical prizes are up for grabs.
Q: When are the online NAF Rankings happening?
A: Part of the rankings are uploaded and can be found here
Q: What about format X?
A: We are always up for ideas, and you never know, format X might be in the pipeline! Remember - tournament functionality is open to everyone, so you can always have a go yourself in the mean time.
Q: I organise a tabletop NAF tournament. Can we speak about doing something online?
A: Sure! Contact Stimme or Neilwat. They are happy to hear from you.
Q: Can I help staff Online NAF tournaments?
A: We've a great team looking after Online NAF, but we're always interested in hearing from volunteers.