Skill Issue Bowl 2026

Skill Issue Bowl

Date & Venue

• Date: 26 July
• Location: Club Kraken (Rota)

Tournament Overview

Skill Issue Bowl is a Blood Bowl tournament designed as a competitive yet relaxed day for the community, following a ruleset based on the Eurobowl format. The tournament will consist of 4 rounds throughout the day and is open to coaches of all levels. In addition to the main event, participants will enjoy prizes, community atmosphere, and theming inspired by the tournament's iconography.

General Rules

• Format: Resurrection
• Matches: All players begin each match with their original team, with no injuries or upgrades carried over from previous matches.
• Duration: 4 Swiss System rounds.
• Maximum participants: 20
• Registration: Use BBTournament to register. Entry fee to be determined.
• Stalewart rule: In effect.

Team Creation

Format: Eurobowl 2026

Tier 1 // Wood Elves - Silvanos

• Team budget: 1060
• Minimum 11 players, including star players
• Skills budget: 120
• Maximum secondary skills: 3
• Maximum skill stacking: 3
• Available funds: 10

Tier 2 // Amazons - Orcs - Undead - Skaven - Underworld

• Team budget: 1070
• Minimum 11 players, including star players
• Skills budget: 140
• Maximum secondary skills: 3
• Maximum skill stacking: 3
• Available funds: 20

Tier 3 // High Elves - Dark Elves - Humans - Lizardmen - Necromancers - Norse - Vampires

• Team budget: 1080
• Minimum 11 players, including star players
• Skills budget: 160
• Maximum secondary skills: 3
• Maximum skill stacking: 3
• Available funds: 30

Tier 4 // Chosen of Chaos - Dwarves - Imperial Nobility - Nurgle - Slann - Khemri

• Team budget: 1100
• Minimum 11 players, including star players
• Skills budget: 190
• Maximum secondary skills: 3
• Maximum skill stacking: 3
• Available funds: 30

Tier 5 // Black Orcs - Bretonia - Chaos Dwarves - Chaos Renegades - Elven Union - Goblins - Khorne - Snotlings

• Team budget: 1120
• Minimum 11 players, including star players
• Skills budget: 220
• Maximum secondary skills: 3
• Maximum skill stacking: 3
• Available funds: 30

Tier 6 // Gnomes - Halflings - Ogres

• Team budget: 1140
• Minimum 11 players, including star players
• Skills budget: 240
• Maximum secondary skills: 3
• Maximum skill stacking: 3
• Available funds: 40

Available Funds: Additional money for the team that can be spent between team creation and skills in any manner the coach wishes. For example, in Tier 2, a coach may allocate the 20k between team creation and skills as 10k and 10k, or any other split.

Advances: Must be paid with money. Maximum of 3 secondary skill upgrades. Only 3 stackable. No limit on primary, elite, or duplicate skills.

Incentives: Referee, barrels of beer, bribes, halfling chef, doctors, plague doctor, crazed rookies, mascot, time wizard.

Star Players

Tiers 1-4: Cannot hire star players.

Tier 5:

• May hire 1 or 2 veterans. There is a fee payable from the team budget. Costs 50k in skills. Teams with a veteran cannot add secondary skills or stack. May hire 1 legend. There is a fee payable from the team budget. Costs 100k in skills. Teams with a legend cannot add secondary skills or stack.

Tier 6:

• May hire 1 or 2 veterans. There is a fee payable from the team budget. Costs 40k in skills. Teams with a veteran cannot add secondary skills or stack. May hire 1 legend. There is a fee payable from the team budget. Costs 80k in skills. Teams with a legend cannot add secondary skills or stack.

Extra Star Player:

Phyrex

• Does not count toward the minimum 11; joins all teams after they are built.

Special Rule: Skill Issue Bowl Weather Table

• 2 - Completion Storm: A biomechanical storm falls over the field. All players suffer -1 to picking up, passing, or catching the ball due to cables, spines, and biomechanical fragments falling from the sky.

• 3 - Tentacular Mud: The field seems alive. The mud moves like tentacles. All players suffer a penalty with their Movement (3+).

• 4-10 - Perfect Blood Bowl Weather: The weather is perfect for sports violence. No effects.

• 11 - Crowd Goes Feral: The crowd becomes completely wild. Each time a player is pushed off the field, crowd injury receives +1 to the result.

• 12 - Phyrex Ascendant: Something awakens beneath the stadium. Violence increases. Armor rolls receive +1 during the first armor roll of each drive.