Alpha Games - Alphageddon Bowl 2025 - Stanton, Suffolk - 5 April 2025

[fiskey7]

This tournament is NAF sanctioned.

This event will be held on Saturday 5 April 2025, from 10.00 to 19.00.

Location

Alpha Games, Unit 7 Shepherds Grove (West), Stanton, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP31 2AR

Tickets are £12. The can be purchased via Paypal using the address chris@alphagames.co.uk (please include the event name and date in the info box and use family & friends). Please note I am not Chris from Alpha Games, he owns the store and deals with all the money - I just make the rules pack and TO on the day. Any queries about tickets or refunds need to go through Chris at Alpha Games.

There is a limit of 32 coaches for this event - this is the maximum number the shop can hold.

Format

The tournament will be a three game tournament using Blood Bowl Season Two (BB 2020) Official Rules (as clarified by the most recent official FAQ). The first game will be randomly drawn between coaches with subsequent matchups following a Swiss - Resurrection style system.

Team Building

Starting team value will be 1.15 million gold pieces (Team Value 1150) and coaches may choose a legal roster up to this value. Rosters may be chosen from any of the teams in the Blood Bowl Rule Book, the official “Teams of Legend” pdf, the new Khorne roster from Spike Magazine 13, the new Norse roster from Spike Magazine 14, the new Amazon roster from Spike Magazine 15, the new Vampire roster from Spike Magazine 16, the new Gnome roster from Spike Magazine 17, the new Chaos Dwarf roster from Spike Magazine 18 and the additional NAF Roster for Slann. Any additional official teams and rosters from Spike magazines released before the event will also be allowed.

SPP Budgets

This will be a resurrection format tournament (no long term injuries) and with no progression (no star player points earned). When building their roster, coaches may purchase skills for their team according to the SPP Budget allocation below for each tier (tiers are as per the 2020 rulebook adjusted by the latest official FAQ).

● Tier 1 Teams – 36 Star Player Points

Amazon, Dark Elf, Dwarf, Lizardmen, Norse, Shambling Undead, Skaven, Underworld Denizens, Wood Elf

● Tier 2 Teams - 42 Star Player Points

Chaos Dwarf, High Elf, Human, Necromantic Horror, Orc, Vampires

● Tier 3 Teams - 48 Star Player Points

Black Orc, Chaos Chosen, Chaos Renegade, Elven Union, Imperial Nobility, Khorne, Nurgle, Old World Alliance, Slann, Tomb Kings,

● Tier 4 Teams - 54 Star Player Points

Goblin, Halfling, Ogre, Snotling, Gnomes

Only chosen primary skills (6 Star Player Points) or chosen secondary skills (12 Star Player Points) may be selected, randomly chosen skills are not allowed. Characteristic increases are not allowed.

Skill stacking:
- No players on Tier 1 teams can have more than one additional skill.
- One player on Tier 2 teams can have two additional skills, with all other players restricted to one additional skill.
- Two players on Tier 3 teams can have two additional skills, with all other players restricted to one additional skill.
- Three players on Tier 4 teams can have up to two additional skills each, with all other players restricted to one additional skill.

Any 2nd skill on a player still only costs the 6 SPP for primary skills or 12 SPP for secondary skills.

Inducements

Any inducements from the list of “common inducements” on page 89 of the Blood Bowl rulebook can be taken, with the following changes:

● 0-2 Star Players may be hired as listed in the 2020 Rulebook, Death Zone and from Spike Magazines from issue 11 onwards released before the event, the 2021 Almanac, and any official GW star players released before the event whose rules are published with the relevant model, but in all cases only after a roster of at least 11 ordinary players has been hired, and subject to the SPP tax explained below.
● Legacy Star Players are not allowed.
● Wizards, Biased Referees, Mercenaries and Special Play card inducements are not allowed.
● The following additional inducement rules from the “Death Zone” supplement are allowed:
● (In)Famous Coaching Staff
● Other Inducements from p36-39, excluding Medicinal Unguent and Side Bet.
● Any additional inducements published in any official Spike magazine prior to the date of the event (excluding any from the excluded categories listed above e.g. Wizards).
● A special inducement “Little Brown Envelope” is available to all coaches for the price of 5,000 gold pieces. This enables the coach to re-roll an “argue the call” roll once per game. Coaches are only allowed to purchase this inducement once.

Star Players and SPP Tax

If a team hires any Star Players then as well as paying the GP cost it must also deduct the relevant “SPP Tax” from its SPP Budget available to purchase skills for the team’s other players. If a team hires 2 Star Players then it must pay the SPP tax for each player. For example, a Tier 4 Team starts with an SPP budget of 54 Star Player Points. If it decides to hire Griff Oberwald, this will cost 36 SPP from their initial 54 SPP allocation, leaving 24 SPP for them to use on additional skills for their normal players.

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Alphageddon

Welcome to Alphageddon – expect epic conflict with carnage and destruction on the pitch.

To help facilitate this carnage, the following rules will be in effect for all games:
- At the start of each game, both coaches randomly select a player from their team and that player can be given either the Mighty Blow (+1) or Dirty Player (+1) skill (if the randomly selected player already has one or both of these skills then, you may randomly select another player). This skill will last for the duration of the game.
- The ‘Enclosed Pitch’ stadium rule (on page 64 of the Death Zone supplement) will be used. This means that players cannot be pushed into the crowd for any reason. Rather than being pushed into the crowd, a pushed back player is instead slammed with great force into the stadium wall and is Knocked Down in the square they occupy. In addition, the ball cannot bounce into the crowd (although a kick-off or Pass action can still cause the ball to deviate or scatter into the crowd). Instead of bouncing into the crowd and being throw-in, the ball will bounce off the wall. Use the Throw-in template to determine the direction as normal, but rather than travel 2D6 squares, the ball only bounces one square away from the wall before coming to rest. Note that thrown players can land in the crowd as normal.

Make sure you get your ticket - you're not going to want to miss a thing!

Weather Table

Thunder rumbles, lightning flashes, the wind howls and rain lashes down – THIS IS ALPHAGEDDON!! To represent these cataclysmic conditions, the usual weather table will be replaced by a special Weather Table which will be provided on the day of the tournament.).

Scoring and Prize

The scoring system will be 30 points for a win, 15 points for a draw and zero points for a loss. Bonus points will be awarded for each casualty caused (including casualties caused via foul or crowd surf) and touchdowns scored, to a maximum of 3 points for each. Tiebreakers will be Strength of Schedule followed by Touchdown difference and then Casualties difference.

Prizes for the day will include:
- Winner
- Runner Up
- Most Touchdowns
- Most Casualties
- Stunty Cup (highest placed Tier 4 team that doesn’t include a Bugman’s Best Star Player)
- Best Painted
- Wooden Spoon

There will be spot prizes available on the day for the winner of particular challenges each round!

Schedule for the day

Each round should be played within a time limit of 2hrs 15 minutes. Timing reminders will be shouted out to help coaches stay within the time window for each round, but it is recommended that coaches set their own timers and assume approximately 30 minutes per coach per half.

Registration and Round 1 draw 10.00 - 10.30
Round 1 10.30 - 12.45
Lunch 12.45 - 13.30
Round 2 13.30 - 15.45
Round 3 16.00 - 18.15
Results & prizes 18.15 - 18.30

Alpha Games is a FLGS which stocks a wide range of gaming merchandise at generally reduced prices. It does sell a limited selection of hot and cold food and drink. It is situated in a rural industrial estate, so surrounding amenities are limited but the local village centre is a 2 minute drive, and this has a Co-Op store, a village shop, fish & chip shop and bakery which will all be open on the day of the event (bakery maybe only until lunchtime).

[besters]

I've sent payment. Do we have a list of players?

[Magic Dave]

Payment sent.

[Magic Dave]

Looking forward to using the The ‘Enclosed Pitch’ stadium rule.

F U Khorne!!!

[Kowabungachunga]

Do we have a list of confirmed players yet? If only to at least see my payment and slot was confirmed.

[fiskey7]

Just under 3 weeks to go and still plenty of space available.

List of current attendees below:

1. Fiskey7
2. Farleybear
3. Unsullied
4. Bashman
5. Besters
6. Magic Dave
7. G_clark
8. Kowabungachunga
9. Roll_that_1_in_36
10. J Cranfield
11. mevans
12. wabe2009
13. zenjo
14. Headlesscoach

[besters]

I paid in February, but am not in above list, I notice Bashman is in twice?

[Zenjo]

Do players have to send in rosters beforehand?

I sent payment but haven't heard anything from the venue or TO yet.

[fiskey7]

I paid in February, but am not in above list, I notice Bashman is in twice?

Hi Jim - sorry my mistake, you are on the list and I just put the wrong name down (Bashman twice as you noticed).

[fiskey7]

Do players have to send in rosters beforehand?

I sent payment but haven't heard anything from the venue or TO yet.

Hi - no rosters don't have to be sent in beforehand, just bring on the day. Apologies for not hearing anything back - Chris at the shop gets the payments and doesn't always let me know that soon that someone has paid!

[besters]

I paid in February, but am not in above list, I notice Bashman is in twice?

Hi Jim - sorry my mistake, you are on the list and I just put the wrong name down (Bashman twice as you noticed).

No problem, thanks for the confirmation.

Choosing between Wood Elves, Dark Elves and Gnomes. Anybody have any preferences, want necessarily take advice, but I am hopeless at choosing which team to take!

[fiskey7]

I paid in February, but am not in above list, I notice Bashman is in twice?

Hi Jim - sorry my mistake, you are on the list and I just put the wrong name down (Bashman twice as you noticed).

No problem, thanks for the confirmation.

Choosing between Wood Elves, Dark Elves and Gnomes. Anybody have any preferences, want necessarily take advice, but I am hopeless at choosing which team to take!

No problem.

We don’t tend to have a lot of wood elves at Alpha, I’m actually struggling to remember the last tournament we had and woodies to be honest - so that would get my vote!