Midlands Tournament Series 2024 - Rules Update

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Background

The Midlands Tournament Series (MTS) will be back for its third year in 2024 after a break due to Covid.

A tournament series is a competition where coaches compete to achieve the best score over a number of different tournaments.

The Midlands series will include events which are within the geographic East and West Midlands areas which includes the following counties:

Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire,Nottinghamshire, , Rutland, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands and Worcestershire

The MTS is an open event we have identified some initial events to fill out the calendar but the MTS organising committee are seeking additional events to provide as far as possible a good geographical and calendar spread across the midlands area.
If you are a TO who would like to be included within the MTS please contact the organising committee please note it will not be possible to include all events. Any events accepted into the MTS will be approved on a first come first served basis, based on the date of NAF approval. Any event included in the MTS must :

• Be within the Midlands region, see above.
• Have capacity for at least 24 coaches
• 11s tournaments only
• Singles tournaments only – no team events
• Minimum 2 week gap between events in different counties - to provide space and opportunity for coaches to attend as many events as possible
• Minimum 6 week gap between events in the same county - to provide a geographical spread as far as possible
• The NAF Championship will not be included.
• Must be NAF approved at time of inclusion
• Must inform TSO (Dodge22) of their desire to be included in the series at least 2 months before the event
• No new events will be accepted within 3 months of the series end date
• Commit to providing results to the TSO within 1 week of the event finishing.

The MTS is run over a NAFC year with the event launching in May each year with awards to be handed out at the NAFC event following the end of the series. This series will run from May 2024 to April 2025.

The MTS organising committee are: Dodge22 (Tournament Series Organiser), Danny, Deeferdan and LittleYoshi1979. The best place to find out about the MTS is the Midlands BloodBowl discord.


The Events

The MTS will consist of between 6 and 15 events per year. To be included in the rankings for the MTS a coach must compete in a minimum or three events.

Only a coach's top 3 scores will count towards a coach's final standings no matter how many events they attend. For the stunty cup you must compete in at least two events using a stunty team and your top two scores will count.

20/21 July - Davotational - NAF Approval Pending

14 September - A Star is Born

26th October - Stranglebowl

9th November - Tourno los Muertos

7th December - West Middenland Open

21st December - Christmas Chainsaw Massacre V

Coach Requirements, Prizes and Scoring

To be included within the MTS you must be a NAF member regardless of any tournament requirements.

Prizes are provided by NAF and there will be a prize for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and Stunty Cup.

Coaches receive the following points based on their ranking:

+10 to +1 points for top 10 placement, on a declining scale. In other words, a 1st place finish is worth 10 points, a 2nd place finish is worth 9 points and so on, down to a 10th place finish being worth 1 point.

Should there be fewer than 10 coaches (it happens!), the maximum score is equal to the total number of participants, declining as usual. That means winning a tournament with 6 participants results in 6 points for 1st place, 5 points for 2nd place, and so on.

+1 point per full 10 places below them in the standings capped at a maximum of 5. Examples: A coach finishing 1st in a 32-coach tournament receives a bonus of +3 because there are 30+ coaches below. Finishing 13th in the very same tournament gives 1 bonus point, as there are 19 coaches below. A coach finishing first in a 10-coach tournament receives no bonus as there are only 9 coaches below.

+1 point per day of the tournament. Given to all participants.
+2 points for each win and 1 point for each draw

Coaches receive 0.1 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.

Tiebreakers

Total number of Series Tournament Champion wins (1st place finishes)
Total number of Series Tournament Match wins
Fewest Tournament Match defeats
Most Tournament Matches played
4th highest Tournament score; then 5th, 6th etc until a winner is determined

Link to Googlesheets
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1woI ... sp=sharing

Link to discord
https://discord.gg/3utVpTuXXj

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The first round in the Midlands TS has been completed. The standings after R1 can be found here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... id=0#gid=0

Or on the PDF. The standings look very much like the standings after the Davotational but plenty more events to come including:

14th Sep - A Star is Born - Daventry, Northants - 10mins from M1 J16 - Spaces available
26th October - Stranglebowl, Leicester - Sold out
9th November - Tourno los Muertos, Penkridge, Staffs - Sold Out
30th November - West Middenland Open, Birmingham - Spaces available
21st December - Christmas Chainsaw Massacre V , Hereford - Spaces Available

More events TBC coming in 2025.

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MTS Rules Change

The series will be shortened in length so it will now end on the 31st December 2024.

We will then start a new series which will run for 12 months from 1st January. I'm in the process of pulling together events to be included in the 2025 edition of the MTS. If you are a Midlands based TO and want your event to be included in the 2025 edition please get in touch.

The remaining events in the 2024 edition are:

26th October - Stranglebowl, Leicester https://www.stranglebowl.uk/

9th November - Tourno los Muertos, Penkridge https://fb.me/e/235m7eNFc https://member.thenaf.net/index.php?mod ... ew&id=8849

7th December - West Middenland Open, Birmingham
https://www.facebook.com/groups/5963964380290012
https://talkfantasyfootball.org/viewtop ... 89#p827589

21st December - Christmas Chainsaw Massacre V, Hereford
https://talkfantasyfootball.org/viewtop ... 69#p829169

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Event 2 update

Standings after Event 2 - A Star is Born can be found here.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

Any issues please let me know.

Event 3 - Strangle Bowl took place this weekend. I will provide standings after this event ASAP.

The remaining events are:

9th November - Tourno los Muertos, Penkridge https://fb.me/e/235m7eNFc https://member.thenaf.net/index.php?mod ... ew&id=8849

7th December - West Middenland Open, Birmingham
https://www.facebook.com/groups/5963964380290012
https://talkfantasyfootball.org/viewtop ... 89#p827589

21st December - Christmas Chainsaw Massacre V, Hereford
https://talkfantasyfootball.org/viewtop ... 69#p829169

2024 Event update.

The 2024 event was due to run from May 2024 through to May 2025. But for a number of reasons we have decided to truncate the series to bring us in line with other series running within the UK.Therefore, the MTS 2024 winners will be decided after the final event, as listed above.

You need three events to qualify so please try and get to the last two events which have space if you want to be involved - West Middenland Open and Christmas Chainsaw Massacre V.

The organisers of the Midlands, London, SW and SE series are planning to run an invitation event (may include an open element details very much TBC) to decide a champions of champions event to the top finishers of the respective series.

In 2025 we will be starting a new series, I'm pulling together a list of events to be included, it is most likely that this will also be an open series (meaning any event can join subject to certain criteria) so keep an eye out for events to be included.

Currently the 2025 series will kick of with two events in March
UK BBL TT XXI - 01/02 March https://talkfantasyfootball.org/viewtop ... 28&t=47517
Dodge Bowl II - 29 March viewtopic.php?f=59&t=47604

More events TBC

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Standings after Event 3 can be found here

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

Three events are needed to qualify for a prize

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Top 10 - with 3 or more qualifying events

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Top 10 - with 2 or more qualifying events

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Standings after round 4 can be found here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

We now have 7 coaches with who have completed 3 or more events and have qualified. The top 10 is shown in image 1.

The top 10 with 2 or more events completed is shown in image 2. Some of these coaches will be at WMO and Chainsaw Massacre.

The top 10 for the stunty cup are shown in image 3.

You need to have played in at least three events to qualify with only two more events left to go in the 2024 Midlands TS.

Please do double check your individual results.

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Top 10 after R4.jpg

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Top 10 after R4-2 or more events.jpg

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Stunty R4.jpg