FUMBBL :: Online Blood Bowl League

30-31st may saw the Blood Bowl Grand Tourney held at Games Workshop HQ in Nottingham.

There were 172 entrants battling it out over 6 games over two days for the title.

The past two years PeteW and JockMcRowdy were the winners so the WIL group were keen to keep their sweaty palms on the Cup !!

A group of crack WIL memebers (or is that crap WIL members?) were sent to compete.

PeteW hosted fellow members
Purplegoo
Borgen
Russo
KFoged
Phil78
JockMcRowdy
Cribbleobblepie+ friend
Pigstar69
Hogshine
SillySod
spubbbba

Also present at the tourny were fellow WIL'ers
DaveTMan
Gres
dpwright
lemf
Unstoffe
Wilf
duttydave
MrStick

The tourney was hard fought and after a bad first round WIL recovered strongly to see 3 coaches in the top 4 all battling for the title. Eventually the dust settled and the top 4 all had the same match record of 5 wins, 1 draw and no defeats.....sadly for WIL the "winner" won purely on having scored a couple more TD's in the process, but considering he was Skaven he was bound to play that sort of game.

So technically WIL do not retain the title, morally WIL can hold its head high as 3 memebers performed as well as the champion but were held back by racial preferences as opposed to skill.

This was illustrated by Cribbleobblepie winning the GT League title which represents all round strength and success.

The Top 4

1st = MumboJumbo (NAF name)
2nd = Cribbleobblepie
3rd = Borgen
4th = PeteW

Further information will be forthcoming soon.

Posted by Astarael on 2009-05-31 22:30:46

Grats to the 3 but I somehow think the tone would be different had a WIL member won through more TDs ;)

Posted by Tesifonte on 2009-05-31 22:37:03

Go WILers!

Posted by Russo on 2009-05-31 22:38:03

Of course but then when has POV ever been truely omitted from any journalism.

/me thinks Ast is just jealous that he can't chat in WIL and fellow loud-mouth Russo can :D

/me kisses Ast and then uses disinfectant to wash his mouth (just in case)

Posted by Chewie on 2009-05-31 23:13:48

I hope a good time was had by you all. You'd better have made the most of it, i'll be back next year!

Posted by Cribbleobblepie on 2009-05-31 23:16:49

1st was Nick Harding (MumboJumbo on the NAF site) if anyone knows him. He was using Skaven. Great weekend and really good to meet everyone!

Posted by SillySod on 2009-06-01 00:17:21

PeteW got 5 wins and a draw.... damn, how did that happen? :P

Posted by spubbbba on 2009-06-01 00:42:01

Where did our other good friend end up?

You know that guy, what was his name again? Something like Brian or Bernard....

No it was Brad!

BRAD BRAAAAWWWWLL!!!!!!

Posted by SeraphimRed on 2009-06-01 01:36:30

I'm very impressed with the WIL'ers!
It takes a hell of lot to achieve so much in such an environment.

I personally find Russo hard to stomach over 20minutes in IRC never mind a full weekend in person!

They seem to play BB rather well too. :)

P.S. Russo captioned slide show is good too.

Posted by BooAhl on 2009-06-01 09:35:15

Wasn't there supposed to be some kind of final?

Posted by Cribbleobblepie on 2009-06-01 10:04:17

Yeah, the top two coaches at the end of round 5 played each other, Mumbojumbo won the game so won the tourney, but final places were done on your overall result, so the loosing finalist only finished 9th I think?

Posted by BooAhl on 2009-06-01 10:17:33

So nobody was 5-0-0 before the final round?

Posted by Cribbleobblepie on 2009-06-01 10:30:42

Nope, I believe six people were 4/1/0 on the fifth round. The deciding factor was TD's scored (Not TD difference, just the number you'd scored!), so unsurprisingly the final was Skaven vs Wood Elves...

(My Dorfs missed the cut by one TD, gutted!)

Posted by SillySod on 2009-06-01 11:28:00

I think the losing finalist is generally considered to have come second although I guess that that makes a little less sense when the finalists were seperated by TDs scored.

Posted by Juff on 2009-06-01 12:17:29

Grats WILers, good show :)

Posted by BooAhl on 2009-06-01 14:02:38

To SillySod: So WIL members came only 3rd?

What rosters were used for the top 4 teams? Any inducments?

Posted by Cribbleobblepie on 2009-06-01 14:16:40

MumboJumbo - Skaven
Me - Dorfs (2 Blitzers, 2 Runners, 1 Slayer, 6 Longbeards, 3 Rerolls, 1 Apo)
Borgen - Undead
PeteW - Dark Elves

One million ressurection tourney. Skillset was a single skill on a player of your choice after games 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. (I took Guard every time.)

The BloodBowl itself was contested as a final game between the two top coaches. The GT League was awarded by final position including all six games. Which is why the losing finalist finished in 9th position as his final record was 4/1/1. Hope that makes some sense?

Posted by JockMcRowdy on 2009-06-01 17:19:00

I finished like 95th, poor roster choice, poor race choice, and played rubbish too. Although it didnt help getting Stick and Purplegoo. :(

Note to all, golems in lrb5 are rubbish

Posted by Purplegoo on 2009-06-01 17:58:56

Only 14th pour moi (although what was it out of, 172?). I lost to the losing finalist, who had red-hot Woodies of POWness and only drew with Cribble (*shakes fist*).

I did however get to own McRowdy, so not all bad. ;)

Good times, great fun. Cheers all!

Posted by KFoged on 2009-06-01 19:39:58

I drew with SillySod, which isn't a bad thing, but when you know he had 14 hobgoblins and a minotaur makes me look pretty noobish. >.<

Posted by Wilf on 2009-06-01 20:09:58

I finished 10th, like Crib I missed out on the final by 1 TD. Then he beat me in game 6 so he won best of the rest. Grrrr. Still haunted by my poxy wight rolling skull, reroll skull to score against the kick. Bah.

Posted by PeteW on 2009-06-01 22:01:12

Whooops!

Stupid PC. The post below by KFoged, was actually by me. I thus prove my noobery twicefold. Huzzah.


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