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Summer Blood Bowl 2004 Rules
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Hellooooo Sports Fans!
It's summer time again and you all know what that means... the return of the Dragon Slayers Cup or, more properly, the Summer Blood Bowl League! With
Dave Grant, the head coach of defending Cup champions the Tree Hugging Hippies, having moved to a rougher league in Hull there is yet again everything to play for! However, not all the veterans have moved on, with last season's League winners The Icebreakers (coached by
Rob Lane) still about and looking to capitalise on their solid performances from last year. Other teams that will be in the mix comprise of some new coaches and some existing teams, including the return of the balding
Richard Paget who is running two teams this season - the Profits of Doom with a new starting line up and a new Elf team called The Lothern Longbows. Talk about a glutton! There's all your other favourites, too, including the Berstrom Bullets (coached by
Greg Chambers), the Quo-Quacktel Raiders (mauled by
Chris Legg), Leggy’s Leg Eaters (assisted by
Andrew Chesney), the Lothern Lions (run by
Pete Delafield) and the Averland Stags (er, cobbled together by
Paul Scrivens-Smith).
There are other coaches on the sidelines, waiting to be signed to a team before the summer deadline, too:
Matt Otter looks likely to be picked up (he wishes) by an Amazon team for the coming season and rumour has it that
Michael Biggs may be contesting this season's title too. With all these dynamic individuals involved in this year's struggle for the title it could get very exciting very quickly!
Stay tuned!
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league pack:
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Teams
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Feel free to use any official team you wish, as long as you follow these guidelines:
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Coaches have 1,000,000 gold pieces for their starting team.
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Any official teams may be used; these are listed in the
Blood Bowl Living Rulebook which you can download for free. Unofficial teams need the commissioner's permission.
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Star Players will not join teams, but may be hired on a match by match basis at half the cost of buying them.
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Ageing rolls will be made when players progress.
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Games
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The league will run for three months and then turn into play-offs, leading up to the final.
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You can only play each team twice during the league. Before a league game, you must tell the League Organiser - in this case
Rob Lane - that you are doing so. You can't play, win and then say you want your score entered!
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If you play a team more than twice, the third or subsequent matches are friendlies and neither team can generate Star Player points, money or fan factor. You can have fun playing though!
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You may only play against other league teams. If you play against non-league teams it is considered to be a friendly match.
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Before each game both players must hand in their League Subscription Fee (a quid) to the League Organiser. This will go towards the prizes awarded at the end of the campaign!
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Needless to say, you have to hand in your scores to the League Organiser after each game, but please make sure these scores are correct!
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Scoring
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Scoring your matches is straightforward but please ensure these are correct before you hand them in to the League Organiser.
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You score 15 points for a win, 10 points for a draw and 5 points for a defeat.
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There is a bonus of +2 for each touchdown scored and a penalty of -2 for each touchdown conceded.
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There is a bonus of +1 for each casualty caused and a penalty of -1 for each casualty suffered.
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League Table
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The League Table will be the place to check your position within the league every week!
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The league table will list each coach, his team, the amount of games he has played as well as those he has won, drawn or lost and his total score.
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The crowd, winnings, fan factor and team ratings will also be recorded.
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Finals
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The finals day will be held at the end of the season at the Gas Club, and will basically take the form of quarter-finals, semi-finals and the final itself.
However, to ensure everybody keeps interested and is rewarded in some way, each team competes in a plate / cup / shield system, with the losers of the quarter-final games playing for the plate and the losers of the semi-final playing for the bowl. Hopefully this means everybody will get some wins in!
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The quarter-finals will be seeded, with the top four teams in the league playing the next four teams.
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Rules for semi-finals apply to both quarter- and semi-finals, with final rules applying to the final itself.
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Teams in the finals must be fully painted or face disqualification—and possibly a slap!
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Wizards, Star Players and so on may be hired during the finals, in the same manner as for during the league.
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Prizes
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The League Subscription Fee will of course be used to provide the prizes at the end of finals day, which means the more games you play the better the prizes will be—so get playing!
There will be trophies for:
All the above trophies must be returned for next year’s event of course.
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Thursday, 20 November 2008
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