FUMBBL, the online Blood Bowl league

MyszaDeadline and his Half Of Nothing Won the SNOT LEAGUE season 7




And offcourse Telesnot was there to record this glorious match



And SNOT LEAGUE IS NOT STOPING HERE!

18 new teams just start the new season of carnage...glory...and some luck :P

MEET THE NEW TEAMS!



Stay warm! Stay Bloody!
Snot League season 8 STARTS!

With the introduction of seasons in [C] division there has been some implications on tournaments as well... and the Grotty Little Tournament knocks at the door.

Since it is always a bit hard for me finding the right places to look up the needed information, I thought an little overview may help others as well. On the one hand-side this post will try to cover the tournaments and the qualifiers itself, but also the requirements and consequences to take part in these tournaments.

But first of all an important remark: This is not the official overview, but only a collection I did mostly for myself. (Because I somehow miss all the important information.) Bazakastine's blog is a very good source for any official annoucements e.g., the tournament schedule for 2025. The given descriptions are not meant cover the whole rulesets, but only provide a brief overview on the event.

And please also keep in mind that I did use some alternative / not official banners in this overview!*


Meta-Competitions


(Play Blackbox games against random coaches/teams and win as often as possible before you lose three games)


(Create a squad of four official rosters and play 15 Blackbox games against random coaches/teams with each of them)

IDT and BBT play three seasons per year (Jan-Apr, May-Aug, Sep-Dec). Winning one of the two trophies will be awarded as a 'Majors' win (3-star). Winning a roster in IDT will be awarded a 'Minors' win (1-star). Winning 10 games in IDT before the team gets frozen (3 losses) earns the roster badge for you. BBT acts a qualifier for the Steel Gauntlet, where the 32 roster leads/best teams compete. (see below)


Frequent Minors


(Bi-weekly tournament of all fresh/zero Games played teams)


(Weekly tournament in three different TV brackets)

XLF are roster specific tournaments through out the year. Have a look at the tournament homepage and see which of your favourite rosters are played when. (Applications will be open two weeks before the tournament starts) Minors are awarded with 1-star trophies.


(February 5th, April 2nd, June 4th, August 7th, Oktober 1st and December 3rd 2025)


Majors

Applications will open 2 weeks before the tournament begins. Majors will begin on the 3rd Wednesday of their given month (exceptions are Steel Gauntlets).

The given date expresses the start of the tournament. The banner will lead to the page of the Main Tournament, while - if applicable - the date below the banner will lead to the qualifier page.

Winning a Major will be awarded a 3-star trophy, while winning a qualifier will be awarded with 2-stars.


(January 1st 2025)


(Qualifier: January 22nd 2025)


(Qualifier: March 19th 2025 - shifted to 26th LIGHT / DARK)


(May 1st 2025)


(Qualifier: May 14th 2025 BIG / NEW / Special / Forlorn)


(Qualifier: July 16th 2025)


(September 1st 2025)


(October 15th 2025)


other Minors

As with the majors, applications will be open two weeks before the tournament starts. Like the frequent minors, winning one of them will be awarded a 1-star entry on the coach page.


(February 19th / April 16th / September 17th / November 19th)



Tournament Modes and their implications

As mentioned at the beginning this overview shows all the relevant information on the tournament modes used on FUMBBL. Based on that I try to provide some additional information especially for the official [C] division tournaments:

* 'Transparent' and 'Free-Form' are modes that are not used for any of the above mentioned tournaments.

* None of the used tournaments modes allow re-drafting or shifting to End-of-Season state during the tournament.

* Frequent Minors and Minors (as mentioned above) use the mode 'Minor', thus you can apply any C team with 15 or less games. No need to be in End-of-Season state, but you can.

* Qualifiers for a Major use the mode 'Qualifier', thus you need to be in End-of-Season state and are not allowed to have played more than 15 games in this season. When you leave a qualifier you are automatically pushed to End-of-Season state. Which means if you did not win the qualifier you can either re-draft or use the team to play other tournaments (as long as the number of games he team already played in this season allows / is below 15!)

* The Majors use either the 'Major' mode in case you do not need to win a qualifier before entering or the 'Invitational' mode in case you need to win a qualifier. Rational behind is that your team does not need / is not allowed to re-draft after the qualifier and your team may enter the Major ('Invitational') with more than 15 games played in the current season.

* Important to know if you drop out of a Major (no matter if it uses the 'Major' or the 'Invitational' tournament mode) you are obliged to redraft your team!



Hope this is helpful. As always I am happy about any comments.

Cheers,
Chris


*) played around with gimp a bit and managed to create Banner variations for BBT, IDT, RRR, XLF and a little repair-work on the Warpstone Open. Hope the officials do not mind. If otherwise, please tell me and I will delete the banners and/or this blog post. If you like and want to use them, feel free.

Only five days left till season 13 of the Blackbox Trophy and the IRONDWARF Trophy will come to an end. So pack your stuff and get on the pitch, it is time for some last minute glory!

Since it is the first season for IDT I am going to focus on this and leave the BBT and Steel Gauntlet entries to the more experienced once.

This is only a preliminary view since there are still five days left for all those ambitious coaches out there to make a difference... and maybe that is the reason for this blog post: Tease them to act!



While Naama, fixii and spinball as coaches are outstanding there is also a tendency on rosters with Norse and Amazon, Dwarf, Orc, but also Necromantic Horror that got earned more than others.

EDIT: Sorry I forgot to mention before: The overall lead with 20! wins of Fermano with his Lizards is really an outstanding achievement (IMO).


The following overview shows the current roster leads



Naama and Elyod are leading the pack here... at least for those rosters I can evaluate. Ogre and Hafling have no entries in the Top100 and thus I cannot see who is leading there.

As said before: If you want to make a difference to this preliminary standing, get your teams ready and play some Blackbox games!

Cheers,
Chris

PS: Please excuse the poor visuals / excel spreadsheed screenshots.

PSS: This has all been done manually. If you find any discrepancies, please feel free to contact me.

https://youtube.com/shorts/BlzZ30uEOZk?si=eoX5TCk6n2v71bXY

This has been made by a very good friend of mine. Go berserk on that "Like" button, he needs all the support he can get.

Let me lay out the rules I looked at and then post the question, so you all know I tried to find this on my own.

Add 1 to any Armour or Injury roll made by a player with this skill when an opponent is Knocked Down by this player during a block. Note that you only modify one of the dice rolls, so if you decide to use Mighty Blow to modify the Armour roll, you may not modify the Injury roll as well. ***Mighty Blow cannot be used with the Stab or Chainsaw skills.***

Chainsaw says NOTHING about MB under itself.

I recently played a game where I blitzed a chainsaw, got a 3 and a 1 for the dice and the +3 chainsaw did not break. But my tree had mighty blow. Should I not be able to apply MB to that AV roll?

I think I should because my player is not the one USING the chainsaw so Im not actually combining it with anything. OR are the rules interpretted to say as the attacker, I am using the opps chainsaw for a +3 so I cannot use my mb with it?

unfortunately I won't be able to get back online properly until the 10th May, when I'll get out of the hospital.
so, to everyone who has business with one of my teams, I guess I'll have to forfeit.
Take care, drink enough water, avoid ultra-processed foods and unnecessary salt.
see you there
A

Springtime in the northern hemisphere. Everything is growing and starting to bloom. A new beginning in nature... So why not do something new in BB as well?

As I wrote in my prior post, I finished the ‘all Elf BBT run’ beginning of April and enrolled to the Elven Union and Necromantic Horror XLF as well as to the O[L]C Lightweight Championship.

Since I did not have too much experience with (scheduled) tournaments, this was a bit too much at once and I needed to face the consequences. I did not find the time to schedule all three round one games without risking to tear the deadline and thus decided to drop from the Elven Union XLF in time to prevent a delay for the whole tournament. While I knew this meant one less game for my opponent (Sorry Solaris!), I thought open and timely communication may be more important than sticking to the tournament (even if Elven Union is one of my favourite rosters!) as long as possible and creating a delay for the rest of the coaches.

And very soon I experienced the other side of the coin in the second XLF. I completed my round 1 match two days before the communicated deadline on April 9th. Unfortunately, the other two coaches could not agree upon a time for their match, and I needed to wait till April 14th for the coinflip decision on who would be my opponent in round 2, only to wait another 4 days for the forwarded coach to communicate that he will not play our match. I do not want to judge this, because I do not know the underlying reasons. Just wanted to bring this up as an example what can happen in a tournament as well. So, I played only one match, et voila I face Java in the final.

Compared to that the O[L]C Lightweight went as intended. All games were played! And with the help of Nuffle I was able to win the cup with the ‘Sisters of the Lake’ (Avelorn).

To fill the free slots that open spontaneously and cannot be filled with scheduled tournament or league games, I decided to try Norse. After all that Elven rosters - which I still love - a bit more bashing. WaffleIron convinced me with some of his comments in the 145 Discord channel that they may be fun and so I gave them a go. Without any real intention. But after 8 games and a record of 7/0/1, I may try to win the remaining 4 matches (one win not counting towards the IDT score because I messed up the first match and did not play it in the blackbox) to earn the IDT Norse badge... If time and Nuffle allows!

So, here we are 8 days left in the season. Having won my first ever tournament, facing the legend Java in another final, one of the IDT badges within reach and still hoping for a lucky slot in the Steel Gauntlet... Two weeks in April can really mean some changes!

Cheers,
Chris


EDIT I: I wrote about the patience I needed during the scheduled XLF, but this can also happen in a blackbox or Gamefinder match. I think the Disconnection procedure is very good and if all coaches act in good faith and understand/respect the coach on the other side of the line there should be no problems. But sometimes things happen that ask for some patience... even more that close to the end of the season.

Update: I managed to get in 11 wins with the Norse and thus earned the IDT badge. The team is Not yet frozen, but reached end-of-season state and I will not re-draft it, but consider using them in a tournament.