99 coaches online
Help Support Bugs Staff FUMBBL Rules Recent Forum Topics  Rookie coach Tournam... | Stunty Icon Project | Buddy list - who hav... |
Common Abbreviations on FUMBBL
Like any on-line community, FUMBBL sees the use of all kinds of abbreviations. These include some which are in use all over the internet and beyond, which are not listed here. (Numerous other pages, such as this one list widespread on-line acronyms.)
However, FUMBBL also sees the use of many that are specific to Blood Bowl and more that are specific to FUMBBL itself. You should find all of these listed below - if you can't find one that should be here, please add it!
Forum thread on making additions to this list
| [A] or A | - Academy |
| [B] or B | - Blackbox |
| BB | - Blood Bowl (duh) |
| bblfg | - BowlBot looking for game - this is the message used to tell FUMBBL's ircbot, BowlBot, to add your teams to Gamefinder |
| BC | - Bull Centaur, or ball-carrier |
| Beast | - used to refer to both Beastmen and Beasts of Nurgle (for clearer short forms, see goat and BoN) |
| BH | - Badly Hurt; sometimes Bone Head racial characteristic |
| Blackle | - variant of Blockle |
| Blockle | - Block and Tackle skills (on the same player) |
| Blodge | - Block and Dodge skills (on the same player) |
| Blodger | - a player with both Block and Dodge |
| BOB | - Black Orc Blocker (also the most popular player name on FUMBBL) |
| BoN | - Beast of Nurgle |
| BT | - Break Tackle skill |
| bull | - Minotaur; can also refer to Bull Centaurs |
| CAS | - casualty (any injury result: Badly Hurt, Serious Injury or Death) |
| CDB | - Chaos Dwarf Blocker |
| CDs | - Chaos Dwarves (can refer to the team as a whole and to the position Chaos Dwarf Blocker in particular) |
| chain or chaining | - see chainpush |
| chainpush | - the on-pitch technique of blocking one player so that it pushes another; this can be used to create more favourable blocks, push away a marker, improve a tactical position, OTS and more |
| cherry-picking | - a much-discussed and hard to define subject. Arguably the best definition is: 'I would say you are a cherry picker if you constantly issue challenges that, were the team owners reversed, you yourself would decline.' (SkiJunkie) |
| CP | - completed pass (aka completion); may also refer to a cherry-picker or cherry-picking |
| CPOMB | - A combination of the skills; Claw, Mighty Blow and Pile On |
| CR | - Coach Ranking (aka Coach Rating) |
| CW | - Chaos Warrior |
| darkies | - Dark Elves |
| DBL | - Deutsche BloodBowl Liga |
| DC | - very rarely used to refer to Diving Catch as the skill itself is so rare; more likely to refer to a coach, to direct connect or to a disconnection |
| DEs | - Dark Elves |
| DMU | - Dwarf Mangling Union - less successful sibling of EMU |
| dorfs | - Dwarves |
| DP | - Dirty Player skill, or Disturbing Presence |
| DT | - Diving Tackle skill |
| ELF | - Elves Leaving the Forest |
| elves | - used to refer to all types of elves (High, Wood, Dark and 'Pro'); if referring to the team roster 'Elves', use 'Pro Elves' for clarity |
| EMU | - Elf Mangling Union |
| [F] or F | - Faction |
| FA | - Foul Appearance |
| FC | - FUMBBL Cup |
| FG | - Flesh Golem |
| fleshie | - more distinctive term for a Flesh Golem |
| flings | - Halflings |
| FUMBBL | - decide for yourself |
| GFI | - Go For It |
| gg | - good game (traditionally said at the end of a match) |
| gl and hf | - good luck and have fun (traditionally said at the start of a match) |
| GLN | - Grotty Little Newspaper |
| GLT | - Grotty Little Tournament |
| goat | - Beastman |
| GR | - Gutter Runner |
| grats | - Congratulations, normally said to opponent after a touchdown is scored |
| gRATS! | - Congratulations, except I really was hoping I'd stop you somehow, you lucky git! |
| GTR | - Get the Ref kick-off result |
| gutter | - Gutter Runner |
| HEs | - High Elves |
| hf | - see gl and hf |
| HMP | - Hail Mary Pass |
| ig | - in-game (that is, in the middle of playing a game) |
| Int | - Interception |
| jeje | - Spanish laughter |
| JU | - Jump Up trait |
| Krox | - Kroxigor |
| [L] or L | - League ([L] also used to refer to the now defunct Ladder division) |
| lfg | - looking for (a) game |
| lino | - Lineman |
| lion | - Lion Warrior (remember: lion is just one mistype away from lino, so the two can easily become confused when talking about High Elves) |
| LoA | - League of Assassins |
| LRB | - Living Rulebook; at time of writing, the version of the rules used on FUMBBL is LRB 4, while the latest set of official Blood Bowl rules is LRB 5 |
| Lustrian | - Lustrian Challenge (may also refer to the now defunct Pact team) |
| MB | - Mighty Blow skill (rarely used to mean Multiple Block: for clarity, use Multi for the latter) |
| Mino | - Minotaur |
| Multi | - Multiple Block skill |
| MVP | - Most Valuable Player |
| NBL | - No-Block League |
| Necros | - players from the Necromatic roster |
| niggler | - a player with one or more niggling injuries |
| NoS | - Nerves of Steel trait |
| OCCS | - Orca-Cola Cup Series |
| OFAB | - Off for a Bite (aka Blood Lust); note that this is also used in IRC after a coach's nick to indicate that they are afk (away from keyboard) to eat food (we hope) |
| OTS | - one-turn score (scoring from kick-off in one turn) or one-turn scorer (a player with the ability to do so) |
| Pact team | - a team from one of three now-deleted mixed-race rosters (Chaos Pact, Old World, Lustrian) |
| PD | - Perfect Defence kick-off result |
| PI | - Pitch Invasion kick-off result |
| PO | - Piling On |
| Pro Elves | - used to refer to the team roster 'Elves' as distinct from other elf rosters (note that - unlike HEs, WEs, DEs - PEs is rarely used) |
| [R] or R | - Ranked |
| rats | - Skaven |
| Regen | - Regenerate racial characteristic |
| RO | - Rat Ogre (not to be confused with Ro) |
| RS | - Really Stupid (rarely Right Stuff) |
| RSC | - Razor Sharp Claws |
| RTFM | - Read The F'n Manual or Read the rules please |
| [S] or S | - Stunty |
| SFC | - Speed Freaks Challenge -no, no apostrophe :( (standards clearly in decline since the earlier creation of XFL) |
| SF | - used to refer to both Stand Firm trait and Sure Feet skill (Stand Firm is probably more common, but which is meant is usually clear from the context) |
| SI | - Seriously Injured or Serious Injury |
| S.L.E.D.G.E. | Stunty Leeg Events of Death, Gore and Explosions- Several popular and silly mass participation tournaments that were run in the Stunty Leeg. They involved light-hearted special rules that emphasize the mayhemful nature of the Leeg. |
| skellie | - Skeleton |
| slayer | - Troll Slayer |
| smack | - FUMBBL SMACK |
| SS | - Side Step skill |
| Stench | - Ranked Division is often referred to as the Stench Division by old-timers who fondly remember the old Open Division where you could opt out of CR |
| Stunty | - note that this is used to refer to the skill, the division (Stunty Leeg) and players that have the skill (who do not necessarily play in the division) |
| SV | - Stormvermin |
| SWL | - Southern Wastes League |
| TD | - Touchdown |
| TR | - Team Rating |
| tree | - Treeman |
| TS | - Team Strength |
| TTM | - Throw Team-mate racial characteristic (also used to refer to the on-pitch action: TTMing) |
| TV | - Team Value (this replaces TR in LRB 5) |
| [U] or U | - Unranked |
| UI | - Ulthuan Invitational |
| VLL | - Very Long Legs trait |
| WA | - Wild Animal racial characteristic |
| WD | - Wardancer |
| WEs | - Wood Elves or Witch Elves (for clarity, use woodies and witches respectively) |
| WIL | - White Isle League |
| witches | - Witch Elves |
| WO | - Warpstone Open |
| wolf | - Werewolf |
| woodies | - Wood Elves |
| WW | - Werewolf |
| XFL | - Xenophobes' Federated Leagues |
| zons | - Amazons |
| 1vs1 | - a match played by two teams consisting of just one player (yes, I know …) |
Last update: September 17, 2011