Nuffles runny nose (10/05/25) Gloucester

[Stoneknight11]

Hello fans of the noble sport of Blood Bowl!

Nurgle is ever presented always has it's way. They have taken a particluar interest in a series of games loacted in Gloucestershire, the home of the cherry and whites, cheese rolling and a thriving Blood Bowl scene.

I am are running this one-day, 3-game, NAF-accredited Blood Bowl 11s tournament.

Location
Gala Club,
Fairmile Gardens,
Longford,
Gloucester,
GL2 9EB.

Around 1.5 miles from the centre of Gloucester there is adequate on-site free parking for participants.

Format
The tournament consists of 3 games of Blood Bowl using the BB2020 / Second Season ruleset.

Coaches will play 3 games against 3 different opponents. The first round will be paired randomly, and Swiss pairings will be used for rounds 2 and 3. This will be a resurrection format: your roster resets after each match (no SPP, injuries, raised dead etc.).

The official Blood Bowl rules, and all current FAQs and errata published up to the date of the tournament will be in effect.
In the event of any rules disagreements, TO’s decision is final.

Team Creation

Tourplay link will be created shortly

All coaches will have 1.15 million gold pieces to spend on team creation, following the team creation rules for exhibition play detailed in the rulebook. From this they must purchase all their players (at least 11), re-rolls and any sideline staff such as cheerleaders, assistant coaches, or apothecaries (and their ilk).

Eligible teams include all official GW teams published up to the date of tournament, including Teams of Legend that have not been superseded by subsequent releases, as well as the Slann team from the NAF.

Inducements. Coaches can also spend from their treasury to permanently add inducements to their roster. 
Eligible inducements are: bribes, biased referees, Halfling master chef, riotous rookies, star players*, and mercenary giants (11 players must be rostered first).

Team Tiers
The tournament uses a 5-tier system:
TIER 1 - Amazons, Dark Elves, Lizardmen, Shambling Undead, Underworld Denizens & Wood Elves
TIER 2 – Chaos Dwarfs, Dwarfs, Norse, Orcs, Skaven, Slann, Tomb Kings & Vampires
TIER 3 – Elven Union, Humans, High Elves, Imperial Nobility, Khorne, Necromantic & Old World Alliance
TIER 4 – Black Orcs, Chaos Chosen, Chaos Renegades, Gnomes, Nurgle & Snotlings

TIER 5 – Goblins, Halflings & Ogres

Skills & Star Player Allowance
Tier 1 – 6 Primary Skills + 0-1 Stars (No Megastars)
Tier 2 - 6 Primary Skills & 1 Scondary Skill + 0-1 Stars (No Megastars)
Tier 3 - 7 Primary & 1 Secondary Skill + 0-1 Stars (No Megastars)
Tier 4 - 8 Primary & 1 Secondary Skill + 0-2 Stars (No Megastars)
Tier 5 - 8 Primary & 2 Secondary Skill + 0-2 Stars (0-1 Megastar allowed)

Skills
After building a team coaches may add additional skills to the players on their team (Star Players may not receive additional skills), according to their tier, as outlined below. All additional skills will need to be correctly identified (Eg loom bands, skill ings etc.). Secondary skill allowances can be swapped for a primary skill. Upto 2 primary skills can be stacked on a player, though you can not stack primary and secondary skills on a player.

Stars
After rostering 11 players stars can be purchased as long as they are able to represent your chosen team though come with an additional cost the amount of GPs paid for them.

Drafting a Megastar will remove 1 secondary and 2 primary skills from your allowance, all other stars will remove 2 primary skills.

Scoring

Tournament points will be allocated as follows:
Win: 3 points
Draw: 1 points
Loss: 0 points

-1 points for a concession

Tiebreakers will be:
1. Head-to-head record
2. Strength of schedule
3. TD difference
4. CAS difference
5. TD & CAS difference combined

Glittering Prizes
Trophies to be awarded on the day will be:
Tournament Winner
Runner Up
Stunty Cup (Best placed team with no ST3 or ST4, exc. Stars)
Wooden spoon
Most TDs
Most CAS
Best painted

Food & Drink
Your ticket price includes a choice from a selection of hot basket meals (Will need to be pre-ordered at least a week in advance):

Menu to be confirmed

The venue also has a full licensed bar that will open mid-morning.

Timings
9:00~9:30 Registration

9:30~11:45 Game 1
11:45~12:30 Lunch & Best painted

12:30~14:45 Game 2

15:00~17:15 Game 3


17:30 Awards, thank yous and good bye

Games are scheduled to finish within 2 hours 15 minutes and games which run over this limit may be called by the TO if they are in danger of impacting the overall timings of the day.

Tickets
£20 payable as "Friends and family" to stonejoseph4@gmail.com please including your NAF name and email address (So we can communicate about food choices and rosters)

Roster Submission
Roster submission will be via Tourplay and I will publish the link once it has been setup, rosters will be locked in 1 week before the event and we will then open the view so you can see what you may be facing. https://tourplay.net/en/blood-bowl/nuffles-runny-nose

Tournament Special Rule
Nurgle and Nuffle are playing particular attention to this event and as such have offered several teams consultation. Each coach can randomly select one player from there team to gain the foul appearance skill ( if player already has this rule reroll)

Participants
1. StoneKnight11 -> non playing

Tournament Swag & Prizes
Tournament Winner - TBC
Runner Up - TBC
Stunty Cup -TBC
Wooden spoon - a wooden spoon!
Most TDs - TBC
Most CAS - TBC
Best painted - TBC

[Blitzy]

Go on then sign me up also I like this special rule a lot more than the other one

[Dafo5]

Hi, on the main tournament page, this is showing date - Sun 20 Apr and is grouped with other April tournaments, but the header of this page is showing - (10/05/25)?

I'm in for April but i can't do May so hopefully it's the April one ...
Thanks
David

[lunchmoney]

Hi, on the main tournament page, this is showing date - Sun 20 Apr and is grouped with other April tournaments, but the header of this page is showing - (10/05/25)?

If by main tourney page you are referring to my calendar (I like that title:) ), that is likely an error on my part. Sorry about that. This thread is correct, as it matches the NAF listing.

[Stoneknight11]

Sorry for the delay getting back to you.

Yes I have had to change the date due to Easter as alot of people spend time with family's on long weekends

Thank you for pointing it out will adjust now