UK Champion for 2009
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 7:54 pm
The UK has many tournaments and during 2008 some general discussion started about having a UK annual champion in the same way that many other countries do. This is a light hearted idea not some attempt for all power gamers to get all serious, tournaments are about having fun and that is first and foremost.
There are many different views on how this could work and they have all been discussed by a group of who are amongst the most regular of the UK scene. It has been agreed that we need to make it available to all players in the UK and ensure that we cover the geographical aspect of where the bigger tournaments are. To make it easier to digest and understand, I have put this in simple categories.
WHO: Any player who resides in the UK is deemed to be eligible. Non resident foreign coaches who come over and compete in the tournaments will not be eligible.
WHERE: Because we all live in different areas it has been agreed to provide a range of locations. We also needed to make sure we had some history of each tournament and also enough attending coaches. As if by fate, the 2007 and 2008 calendars provided us with the perfect spread of locations and dates that have the right size so they are for 2009: North – Albabowl, Monkeybowl & Waterbowl. Midlands – Poobowl & The Bloodbowl. South – Spiky, Pearly Kings and Queens & Thrudbowl.
HOW: As you can see there are 8 tournaments but we cannot expect players to attend all of these so the required number is 3. Your best results of ANY 3 will make up your “score”. If you do 6 or 7 of these, then your best 3 will count. We felt this was important because many coaches will do 4 or 5 of these tournaments and we want to encourage coaches to still take weaker or fun races.
SCORE: This will be done by a straight positional finish. Win your first, second, guess what. If two coaches tie on 3 or 4 or 5 points, you share it.
One side note here, if there is a final it will be the positions after any SF or finals have taken place. Several of the 8 do have a final and be clear up front that making a final does not make you top 2 for sure.
As you can see, it’s not that complicated. Just turn up and play as normal and a group of us will be tracking this on a spreadsheet that will be public and kept in a suitably accessible web site. The champion covers the year from January 1st so the first one is The Poobowl this weekend. It doesn’t matter what races you use, this is just a simple bit of banter really and no, the winner doesn’t get a Eurobowl slot or anything like that, it’s not meant to be so serious, just a bit of fun.
There are many different views on how this could work and they have all been discussed by a group of who are amongst the most regular of the UK scene. It has been agreed that we need to make it available to all players in the UK and ensure that we cover the geographical aspect of where the bigger tournaments are. To make it easier to digest and understand, I have put this in simple categories.
WHO: Any player who resides in the UK is deemed to be eligible. Non resident foreign coaches who come over and compete in the tournaments will not be eligible.
WHERE: Because we all live in different areas it has been agreed to provide a range of locations. We also needed to make sure we had some history of each tournament and also enough attending coaches. As if by fate, the 2007 and 2008 calendars provided us with the perfect spread of locations and dates that have the right size so they are for 2009: North – Albabowl, Monkeybowl & Waterbowl. Midlands – Poobowl & The Bloodbowl. South – Spiky, Pearly Kings and Queens & Thrudbowl.
HOW: As you can see there are 8 tournaments but we cannot expect players to attend all of these so the required number is 3. Your best results of ANY 3 will make up your “score”. If you do 6 or 7 of these, then your best 3 will count. We felt this was important because many coaches will do 4 or 5 of these tournaments and we want to encourage coaches to still take weaker or fun races.
SCORE: This will be done by a straight positional finish. Win your first, second, guess what. If two coaches tie on 3 or 4 or 5 points, you share it.
One side note here, if there is a final it will be the positions after any SF or finals have taken place. Several of the 8 do have a final and be clear up front that making a final does not make you top 2 for sure.
As you can see, it’s not that complicated. Just turn up and play as normal and a group of us will be tracking this on a spreadsheet that will be public and kept in a suitably accessible web site. The champion covers the year from January 1st so the first one is The Poobowl this weekend. It doesn’t matter what races you use, this is just a simple bit of banter really and no, the winner doesn’t get a Eurobowl slot or anything like that, it’s not meant to be so serious, just a bit of fun.
Is it me or is this all turning a bit 1970's Open University?