Glittering Prizes

1st Place

2nd Place

3rd Place

Stunty Cup*

* The Stunty Cup will take a coach’s top 3 scores with any of the stunty teams. For clarification, these are Goblins, Gnomes, Halflings, Ogres and Snotlings. Any new team released by GW and officially placed in Tier 3 will likely count as Stunty, although this is at the TSO’s discretion.

The alignment of the series rulespacks will benefit all as there are players on the borders of each series who are likely to compete in more than one series, they will have consistent rules and it will be easier to follow.

To be clear, individual tournaments will have their own unique rulesets; the below only applies to the series themselves.

Date Range

All series will run from 1st January 2025 to 31st December 2025.

What is expected of tournaments

Any TOs are welcome to put forward events to run as part of the series. Each series will have its own deadlines for submitting events to be part of the series. 

The exact date does not need to be confirmed when requesting an event to run in the series, although obviously it will assist in the series admin if dates are finalised as early as possible. 

All events should have a capacity of 24 coaches or more. 

All series will allow BloodBowl 2020 events to be part of the series. Variant events may be allowed but this is at the discretion of each TSO.

We expect Tournament Organisers to:

1. To have each event submitted for NAF approval asap (ideally before 1 Jan 2025 but we are very aware this is often not feasible).

2. Advise the TSO as and when the date and venue is finalised.

3. To provide the TSO with full details of final standings as well as either races used or at a minimum identifying which coaches played a stunty race. Once the scoring software has been finalised, we may have requirements for the best way to share these scores with us. 

4. To include that the event is part of the relevant series when advertising it

5. To be awesome to each other (eg promote other events, encourage attendance at other events etc).

6. To upload results to the NAF in a timely manner. 

7. To let the TSO know asap if there are any issues.

In order to be eligible for any of the awards, a coach must have competed in a minimum of three events in the series. The scores used to form a coaches series score will be their three best scores. 

Points will be awarded with the 1st placed coach receiving 15 points or the number of entrants in the event, whichever is lower. Each place below this gets 1 point less (e.g. 2nd place 14 points, 3rd place 13 points) down to 15th place.

There is an additional point for every 10 coaches below you (i.e. in larger tournaments you will get additional points for a top 10 finish, and lower placings will also receive points). These additional points are capped at 5, making the maximum score achievable in any one event 20 points before any multipliers are applied.

Note: Whatever tiebreakers are used in each event will determine the final finishing position used to calculate points awarded.

For all BloodBowl 11s events, after the points have been calculated a multiplier of 1.x will be applied to scores where x is the number of games in the tournament. A 3 game tournament will have a multiple of 1.3, a 6 game tournament will have a multiplier of 1.6 and so on.

As an example, someone finishes 3rd out of 26 in a 3 game tournament. Their score would be 13 points for the third place finish, with an additional 2 points for there being 23 coaches below them. These 15 points are then multiplied by 1.3, giving a score of 19.5 points. 

No multiplier will apply for variant events (e.g. Sevens, Dungeonbowl). 

To differentiate between coaches on the same number of points, the following tiebreakers will be used:

1. Number of tournaments won

2. Best score

3. Second best score

4. Third best score

5. Total tournaments attended

6. Coin toss