The Long Island Blood Bowl League
Presents
Empire Cup IX
Sponsored by Rollinmats.com!
Saturday, April 26, 2025
at
Rip n Ship Gaming
1883 Unit B Deer Pk Ave, Deer Park, NY 11729
Rule Set v1.0
The Empire Cup returns for it’s 9th tournament with an attitude!!! Come to the longest-running NAF-sponsored tournament in the New York metro area! This year we are officially sponsored by Rollinmats! Please check out their site at https://www.rollinmats.com/.
As always, it’s a resurrection-style tournament, meaning that any injuries sustained in one game will not carry over to the next. The tournament will be one day and feature three guaranteed games for participating teams.
Empire Cup is also part of the Northeast Blood Bowl Network. Participating coaches qualify for NEBBN points whether they reside in the region or not. Please contact the Empire Cup IX tournament organizer at empirecupbb@gmail.com for more information. Points available for this tournament are listed at the bottom of the document.
What you should bring:
• Your Painted Team
• Three printed copies of your team roster, using the BB Roster, found at https://bbroster.com/.
• Good sportsmanship
• (optional) A Blood Bowl Pitch (custom to standard specs or from the board game itself), dugouts, and templates.
Team Creation
Each coach can then build their roster as per the normal Blood Bowl rules found in the rulebook, the Spike! Magazine supplements, or on Games Workshop’s Teams of Legend information (which you can find here: https://assets.warhammer-community.com/dave-s-downloads-25-09/bloodbowl_additionalrules_teamsoflegend_eng_24.09.16.pdf). Please note that the information released in Spike! Magazine supplements supersedes the information on the Teams of Legend web page. For example, the rules for building a Chaos Dwarf team are those drawn from the Spike! edition.
The tiers of teams are defined as:
Tier Race Gold
A Amazon, Dark Elf, Dwarf, Lizardmen, Norse, Shambling Undead, Skaven, Wood Elf 1,200,000
B Chaos Dwarf, Elf Union, High Elf, Human, Khorne, Necromantic Horror, Old World Alliance, Orc, Underworld Denizens, Vampire 1,200,000
C Black Orc, Chaos Chosen, Chaos Renegade, Imperial Nobility, Nurgle, Slann, Tomb Kings 1,200,000
D Snotling, Goblin, Ogre, Halfling, Gnomes 1,200,000
Each coach may provide their players a given number of additional skills or may recruit a star player (or a mega star). If two opponents choose the same star player, the star player may NOT play in the game and will just take the money from both coaches.
The table below provides the information coaches will need for the construction of their roster in terms of additional skills and/or star players. Please note that each coach must hire 11 normal players from their team list BEFORE they may add a Star Player or a Mega Star. Also, a Tier D team hires a Mega Star, the cannot also hire a Star Player.
Tier A: 4 skill points, unlimited primary skills (1pt each), 1 stacked skill (1pt)
Tier B: 6 skill points, unlimited primary skills (1pt each), 1 secondary skill (2pts), 1 stacked skill (1pt)
Tier C: 8 skill points, unlimited primary skills (1pt each), 2 secondary skills (2pts each), 2 stacked skills (1pt each), 1 (non-mega) star player (2pts)
Tier D: 10 skill points, unlimited primary skills (1pt each), 3 secondary skills (2pts each), 3 stacked skills (1pt each), 2 (non-mega) star players (2pts each) OR 1 mega-star player (4pts)
As an example of the above, A Dwarf team (Tier A) receives 4 Skill Points. Thus they may give four players one Primary Skill each and they are not allowed any Secondary Skills. However, should the Dwarf coach decide, they may spend one Skill Point and stack two Primary Skills on a key player. Should they decide to do so, however, this means the total number of additional skills on their team drops from four to three, two of which are now stacked on one player. Finally, as a Tier A team, the Dwarf coach may not choose to recruit a star player.
Again, if a Tier D team hires a Mega Star, they cannot also hire a Star Player.
The list of Mega Stars is updated below:
• Morg n Thorg
• Griff Oberwald
• Skitter Stab-Stab
• Hakflem Shuttlespike
• Bomber Dribblesnot
• Cindy Piewhistle
• Zzharg Madeye
• Estelle la Veneaux
• Dribl & Drull
• Deeproot Strongbranch
• Kreek Rustgouger
• Varag Ghoul-Chewer
• H’Thark the Unstoppable
• Jordell Freshbreeze
• Anqi Panqi
• Jeremiah Kool
• Swiftvine Glimmershard
• Maple Highgrove
• Guffle Pussmaw
As part of their team build, coaches may purchase Inducements. The following inducements are allowed as part of the team build:
• Weather Mage
• Cavorting Nurglings
• Team Mascot
• Bloodweiser Kegs
• Mortuary Assistant
• Plague Doctor
• Biased Referee
• Riotous Rookies
• Bribes
• Hireling Sports Wizard
• Halfling Master Chef
Scoring
Scoring will go as follows:
• Win: 10pts
• Draw: 5pts
• Loss: 1pts
• Score 3 or more touchdowns: 2 points
• Cause 3 or more casualties: 2 points
Ties will be broken by strength of competition (measured by opponents’ total score). In case of a further tie, the tournament organizer will pick the winner randomly.
Note that we play Brooklyn Rules here – stabs, secret weapons and fouls can amass casualty points! So can the crowd!
Awards
There will be several awards that will be given out at this year’s Empire Cup. Note that coaches may only win one of these awards with two exceptions noted below. The coach may choose which of the awards they are eligible to win to take.
• The Montauk Lighthouse Award (1st place)
• The Orient Point Award (2nd place)
• The Long Island Lolita Award (least points in the tournament)
• The Snob Costas Award (best stunty team)
• The Suffolk Award (most touchdowns)
• The Brooklyn Award (most casualties)
• The Nassau Award (sportsmanship – can be won by a winner of another award)
• The Soho Award (best painted team - can be won by a winner of another award)
Logistics
We’ll be opening the doors at 10am for registration. You need to be there as close as possible to that time so that we can start on time. The matches will be limited to 2 hours and 15 minutes in length, no timed turns. At the end of the time, games will end and we’ll total up the scores, preparing for the next round.
Event Time
Registration 10:00 – 10:30
Round 1 10:30 – 12:45
Lunch Break 12:45 – 1:30
Round 2 1:30 – 3:45
Break 3:45 – 4:00
Round 3 4:00 – 6:15
Break 6:15 – 6:30
Awards 6:30 – 7:00
End 7:00
The cost of the tournament will be $20 whether you are a NAF member or not. If you are not a member and want to register for the NAF, it costs $5 at any NAF tournament. Note that you must be a NAF member in order to have your results count towards the NEBBN.