Overview
This will be a Swiss format style, Resurrection, Exhibition, 4 matches of Blood Bowl 11s, tournament.
This is an exhibition Blood Bowl tournament. No SPPs are gained and no injuries, casualties, or deaths carry over. All teams will start each round with their original same roster.
Illegal Procedures will not be called. Please bring the issue to your opponent's attention and ask they move their turn marker.
Stalling will not be called. Stalling as defined in the 2025 Blood Bowl Rule Book on pages 80-81 will not be called/used during the TMBBT.
Match Timing
- Matches will be held to a 2 hour and 15-minute time limit.
- Coaches will be reminded at the 1 hour remaining, 30-minute remaining, 10 minutes, and 5 minutes remaining times.
- During the last 5 minutes each coach should finish the current turn they are on.
- When the 2 hour and 15-minute time is up, the host will call out, "DICE DOWN" and the round ends immediately.
- There will be no overtime period during the TMBBT.
What to Bring
- One Blood Bowl team in which the players are clearly marked with identifiable position, number, and any added Skill-Ups they have (preferably a painted team because it looks way better on the pitch than an unpainted team).
- Three Blood Bowl blocking dice, one D8, one D16 dice (you will be given a pair of TMBBT D6 dice to use during the tourney).
- Throw-In, Random Direction, Corner Throw-In, & Range Ruler templates.
- The host has custom TMBBT pitches to use, but please bring a Blood Bowl pitch just in case (GW folding pitches will fit best with the tables that will be using for the TMBBT).
- 2025 Blood Bowl Rule Book, SPIKE! Magazine Issues 19, 20, & 21. The SLANN team as documented on NAF can be used. Any 2025 Blood Bowl Star Player downloads, and the most current Blood Bowl Errata.
Roster Review Deadline
ALL rosters need to be sent to the Host, Tony B., by Saturday July 25th, 2026 to be reviewed: tucsonmonsoonbbtourney@gmail.com
Eligible Blood Bowl 11s Teams
All Standard Blood Bowl teams can be used in the TMBBT. These eligible teams include:
- All the teams listed in the 2025 Blood Bowl Rule Book and SPIKE! Magazine 19, 20, & 21.
- The SLANN team as documented on NAF can be used.
- New Releases: If Games Workshop releases any new team after July 1st 2026, they will not be used in the TMBBT.
- If GW releases any new teams and/or rules prior to July 1st, 2026, the eligible Blood Bowl teams will be updated for the 2026 TMBBT.
Team Build/Draft
- Teams built for TMBBT will follow the Match Play Rules as mentioned on pages 108-111 in the 2025 Blood Bowl Rule Book.
- All TMBBT coaches will be allowed 1,100,000 gold pieces to build a team.
- Coaches can build a team to no more than 1.1 million total team value as mentioned in the 2025 Blood Bowl Rule Book on page 110.
- Teams will consist of a minimum of 11 players and a maximum of 16 players.
- Team rosters must consist of 11 rostered players before rostering any Star Player or the TMBBT Star Player, The Coyote.
- Star Players from the 2025 Blood Bowl Rulebook, SPIKE! Magazine Issues 19 & 20, and any downloadable Star Players located on the Games Workshop website that were released prior to July 1st, 2026 are eligible to roster on TMBBT teams.
- New Star Players released after July 1st, 2026 will not be used in the TMBBT.
- You will get the TMBBT Star Player, The Coyote, to roster on your team for free. The TMBBT Star Player, The Coyote does not take up a slot on your roster so, your roster may go over the 16-player team maximum.
2026 TMBBT Team Tiers
- AMAZONS, CHAOS DWARVES, DARK ELVES, DWARVES, HIGH ELVES, LIZARDMEN, NORSE, OLD WORLD ALLIANCE, UNDERWORLD DENIZENS, WOOD ELVES.
- BRETONNIAN, HUMANS, IMPERIAL NOBILITY, NECROMANTIC HORROR, NURGLE, ORCS, SHAMBLING UNDEAD, SKAVEN, TOMB KINGS, VAMPIRES
- BLACK ORCS, CHAOS CHOSEN, CHAOS RENEGADES, ELVEN UNION, KHORNE, SLANN
- GNOMES, GOBLINS, HALFLINGS, OGRE, SNOTLINGS
Team Tiers Note
Since Blood Bowl 2025 is still new to all of us, during the early months of 2026 the Host will be assessing the Tournament Team Tier List as recommended by the Blood Bowl Designers (GW) and The NAF to ensure the most up-to-date and "balanced" Tier List is listed for the TMBBT. The Host will lock the 2026 TMBBT Team Tier list on July 1st 2026. If rosters were submitted prior to July 1st 2026 and the team has moved into a different Team Tier, the Host will for certain communicate with the team's coach so that they can redraft their current team or choose a new team to play with for the 2026 TMBBT.
Team Build & Inducements
The following Team Sideline Staff and Common Inducements are allowed to be purchased when building a team and can be used during each 2026 TMBBT match:
- Team Re-Rolls - prices will vary
- 0-5 Part-time Assistant Coaches - 20,000 gold pieces each (refer to the TMBBT Kickoff Table It's So Hot rule)
- 0-5 Temp Agency Cheerleaders - 5,000 gold pieces each (refer to the TMBBT Kickoff Table MONSOON!!! rule)
- Team Apothecary - 50,000 gold pieces
- Team Mascot - 25,000 gold pieces
- 0-2 Blitzer's Best Kegs - 50,000 gold pieces each
- 0-3 Bribes (0-6 for teams with the Bribery and Corruption special rule) - 100,000 gold pieces each (50,000 gold pieces each for teams with the Bribery and Corruption rule)
- 0-2 Wandering Apothecaries - 100,000 gold pieces each (not available to teams that cannot hire an apothecary)
- 0-1 Mortuary Assistant - 100,000 gold pieces (only for teams with the Masters of Undeath special rule)
- 0-1 Plague Doctor - 100,000 gold pieces (only available to teams with the Favored of Nurgle special rule)
- 0-1 Riotous Rookies - 150,000 gold pieces (only available to teams with the Low Cost Linemen special rule)
- 0-1 Halfling Master Chef - 300,000 gold pieces (100,000 gold pieces for Halfling teams)
- 0-2 Star Players - prices will vary (must roster initial 11 players on team first before selecting a Star Player, the same Star Player can be rostered on both teams.) Kokopelli made it so!
Prays to Nuffle, Weather Mage, Extra Team Training, Mercenary Players, InFamous Coaching Staff, Wizard, Biased Referees, and any other inducements not mentioned in the allowed inducements list above CANNOT be taken.
Sideline Staff and Common Inducement will be updated if GW releases any new ones.
Skill-Ups
Coaches will be allowed to Skill-Up players on their team for free as noted by the corresponding Team Tier outlined below.
For your TIER team build and player Skill-Ups, pick either OPTION A or OPTION B:
- TIER 1: Option A = 5 Primary Skill-Ups; Option B = 4 Primary Skill-Ups and 1 Secondary Skill-Up
- TIER 2: Option A = 6 Primary Skill-Ups; Option B = 5 Primary Skill-Ups and 1 Secondary Skill-Up
- TIER 3: Option A = 7 Primary Skill-Ups; Option B = 6 Primary Skill-Ups and 1 Secondary Skill-Up
- TIER 4: Option A = 8 Primary Skill-Ups; Option B = 7 Primary Skill-Ups and 1 Secondary Skill-Up
Other Skill-Up rules when adding them to your roster:
- No stacking Skill-Ups = only one Skill-Up per player.
- Star Players cannot receive a Skill-Up.
- No more than four of the same Skill-Up on a roster.
Star Player Roster Tax
Every Star Player that is rostered on a TMBBT Team will have to pay the Star Player Roster Tax as outlined below. You will have to subtract the listed number of Primary Skill-Ups from whatever Tier and Option of Skill-Ups in which you choose for your team if you roster any Star Player.
For the following Mega "SUPER STAR" Players you will have to pay a Star Player Roster Tax of 4 Primary Skill-Ups if you choose to place them on your roster:
- GRIFF OBERWALD
- HAKFLEM SKUTTLESPIKE
- H'THARK THE UNSTOPPABLE
- IVAN DEATHSHROUD
- MORG 'N' THORG
For any and all other Star Players you will have to pay a Star Player Tax of 2 Primary Skill-Ups.
You do not have to pay a Star Player Roster Tax for the TMBBT Star Player, The Coyote.
If both opposing teams field the same Star Player in a game, both Star Players are allowed to be used because Kokopelli said so.
You can use an Apothecary on any Blood Bowl Star Player.
2026 TMBBT Star Player: The Coyote
(Human Chainsaw)
- MA 6
- ST 3
- AG 3+
- PA ---
- AV 9+
- SKILLS: CHAINSAW, LONER 4+, NO HANDS, SECRET WEAPON, SNEAKY GIT
TMBBT The Coyote Star Player Special Rules:
- Once per game you can reroll a 'Kick-Back' roll of a 1.
- The Coyote is immune to any of the effects that occur as a result of the TMBBT custom Kick Off Table.
- You can use an Apothecary on the TMBBT Star Player, The Coyote.
- You do not have to field The Coyote during any of your matches nor is there any penalty against your team if you choose not to play with him.
- All coaches will receive an unpainted, 3D printed, model of The Coyote for free upon registering for the TMBBT. (If you'd like The Coyote 3D printed model to paint up prior to the tourney, please contact Tony B. and he will gladly ship it to you via standard shipping rates.) tucosnmonsoonbbtourney@gmail.com
- Coaches can use the TMBBT The Star Player, The Coyote model, or any other designated model of their choosing to represent The Coyote.
Roster Builder
The TMBBT host asks that you build your roster with www.bbroster.com
Once on www.bbroster.com just follow these instructions:
- Choose EXHIBITION and ELEVENS.
- Choose your Race that you'll be using for the TMBBT and then select CREATE.
- Name your team and put your NAF NAME and NAF NUMBER on it.
- Set the treasury to 1,100. (this will make it a 1,100,000 gold piece team build)
- Create your team. (Hire all players, buy Re-Rolls, and purchase approved TMBBT inducements before adding any Skill-Ups to rostered players).
- On the POSITION part of each player, you can click on the "PLAYER ADVANCEMENT" box in order to add a Skill-Up to that player.
- PLEASE print to a PDF in landscape and make sure it fits on one page so that it is easiest for the host to read and review it.
- Email your roster to Tony B. at tucsonmonsoonbbtourney@gmail.com
Once your roster is reviewed and approved by the host, he will email you back confirming it has been APPROVED.
No changes to the roster can be made without the approval of the host and all changes must be done prior to the day of the tourney.
On the day of the tourney, the host will give you 5 copies of your roster; 1 for you and 1 for each of your opponents.
So, you don't have to worry about printing out any rosters for your opponents.
TMBBT Custom Kick Off Table
Kokopelli has combined the Blood Bowl Weather Table and the Blood Bowl Kick Off Table together and created a custom MONSOON weather themed Kick Off Table that will be used. At the beginning of every drive, each coach will roll a D6, add them together, and the result will give you the corresponding TMBBT Custom Kick Off Table outcome.
Remember, Kokopelli's TMBBT Star Player, The Coyote, is immune to any of the effects that occur as a result from the TMBBT Custom Kick Off Table.
2D6 Result:
- 2 IT'S SO HOT: Some players just can't take the heat and will temporarily leave the field to get some quality H2O…and to check out the cheerleaders on the sidelines too! At the beginning of the drive each coach rolls a D6 adding the number of cheerleaders rostered to the dice roll. The losing coach randomly selects a player who is placed in the reserves box until the beginning of the next drive. If the result is a tie then both coaches will randomly select a player to be placed in the reserves box until the beginning of the next drive.
- 3 DOWNPOUR: Dark rain clouds have massed over the pitch and torrential downpouring is making the ball extremely wet and slippery to be handled. For the 1st turn of the drive for each team, ALL pick-ups, handoffs, catches, interfering with a pass, catching an interception, passing, throwing a teammate, and throwing any special weapons have a +1 modifier added to the dice roll.
- 4-10 THE WEATHER IS PERFECT TO PLAY BLOOD BOWL AND THERE IS NO KICK OFF EVENT…However, after the ball is deviated (D8 & D6) the ball will bounce three times before it comes to a rest on the pitch. Kokopelli loves watching bare-bones Blood Bowl!!!
- 11 FLASH FLOOD: The raining has stopped, but it has caused a flash flood running through the pitch making players movement extremely slow in the rushing water. For the 1st turn of the drive for each team, ALL players movements are cut in half (rounding up).
- 12 MONSOON!!!: Swirling winds, rain coming down sideways, loud crackling thunder overhead, the pitch being a muddy mess, and lightning strikes all over has made it the absolute worse Blood Bowl conditions. Only the greatest of coaching will inspire the team to keep playing on. At the beginning of the drive each coach rolls a D6 adding the number of coaches rostered to the dice roll. The losing coach will randomly select a player fielded on the pitch and then will follow the FIREBALL Wizard rule as described on page 94 of the Blood Bowl Rule Book. If the result is a tie then both coaches will randomly select a player fielded on the pitch and then will follow the FIREBALL Wizard rule as described on page 94 of the Blood Bowl Rule Book.
Scoring
Each coach will be given a match result sheet for each of the rounds. At the end of each match, coaches will tally up the points earned and will pass it into the host of the tourney so it can be scored.
- WIN = +60 points
- TIE = +30 points
- EACH TD SCORED = +5 points
- EACH CASUALTY INFLICTED (*) = +1 points
- HOLD YOUR OPPONENT TO NO TDs = +5 points
- CONCEDING THE MATCH (**) = -100 points
* Casualty Inflicted are any casualties caused to your opponent during your team's turn from Blocks, Fouls, Crowd Surfing, Secret Weapons, or from being hit by a thrown player.
** Conceding The Match means any coach who quits or misses the match, the opposing coach will automatically earn a 3-0 for touchdowns scored, 3-0 for casualties inflicted, and holding your opponent to no TDs. This calculates to 83 points for the match awarded to the winning coach while the coach who conceded has 100 points subtracted from their overall point total.
TMBBT Tentative Schedule
The host hopes to keep the following schedule during the 2025 TMBBT. However, the times are subject to change depending on how all the tourney is going.
- Doors at Tucson Games & Gadgets/Tucson Mall will open at 10:00 am.
- 10:00 - 10:15 = Registration & Final Roster Check
- 10:15 - 10:30 = TMBBT housekeeping and rules review
- 1st ROUND = 10:30 - 12:45
- 2nd ROUND = 1:00 - 3:15
- BREAK = 3:15 - 4:30
- 3rd ROUND = 4:30 - 6:45
- 4th ROUND = 7:00 - 9:15
- 9:30 = Trophy Presentation & Prize Support Raffle
(The TMBBT host will keep a running game clock.)
TMBBT Trophies
- CHAMPION (most tourney points accumulated)
- RUNNER UP (2nd most tourney points accumulated)
- SO CLOSE (3rd most tourney points accumulated)
- TOP OFFENSE (most TDs Scored)
- STINGY DEFENSE (least TDs given up)
- BRUTALITY (most casualties inflicted)
- DIRTY T (most fouls attempted)
- STUNTY (highest ranking Stunty Team)
- MIDDLE OF THE PACK (middle tourney points accumulated)
- TRAVELER (longest traveled Coach to TMBBT)
- GOOD GUY (coach who others advised they enjoyed playing against and/or a coach that did not commit any fouls during the tourney)
- WOODEN SPOON (two teams with the least amount of points at the end of the 3rd Round will play for the TMBBT Wooden Spoon)
- TMBBT BEST PAINTED TEAM (During the tourney, TG&G staff members will be walking around and will take note of what they believe is the best painted team that has graced their store's gaming tables.)
- BEST PAINTED TMBBT STAR PLAYER (best painted TMBBT Star Player, THE COYOTE, model as picked by the host)
- 2026 TMBBT KOKOPELLI CHAMPION (coach who accumulated the most combined points in both the Tucson Monsoon Lightning 7s Tourney held on July 31st, 2026 and the TMBBT)
Note
The TMBBT is a share-the-wealth tournament meaning that coaches will only be awarded one TMBBT Trophy.
If a coach has earned the rights to two or more trophies, than the host will ask that coach which trophy they prefer to receive and the next coach in line will get the trophy in question.
Tiebreakers
- Total number of TDs Scored.
- Total number of Casualties Inflicted.
- TD Differential.
- Total number of fouls attempted.
- Lower Tier Team.
- Lower Team Rerolls Purchased For TMBBT.
- D16 Roll Off!