Krampusbowl 2025
Rules:
We will play three games over the course of the day.
We will use the Blood Bowl Third Season 2025 rules set.
**Note - Star Players will not be allowed on rosters for this event. Rosters must be filled using positionals from their respective team. Every team receives a free Krampus as an inducement in addition to their roster at the start oof the event****
If any additional GW releases comes out before the event, the Tournament Organizer will review the release and decide on additions.
Rosters:
Send to thekylefrye@gmail.com a week before event
Awards:
Prizes will be based on number of entrants, raffle items, and entry fees
Prizes:
1st/2nd/3rd Place
Stunty Cup (Tier 4)
Most Brutal
Most TDs
Wooden Spoon
Building a team:
You have the following to build a team with any staff and inducements. Using current Tier List per GW FAQ and Errata:
Tier 1 - 1.0 Million
Tier 2 - 1.2 Million
Tier 3 - 1.3 Million
Tier 4 - 1.4 Million
Inducements are as noted in the Blood Bowl Second Season rule book (page 89 and onwards) You may NOT purchase mercenaries from any source, the weather mage or special play cards. If you are taking an inducement you must have a hard copy of the rules in question for your opponent to review. If in doubt please check with us at the email listed below.
A clarification to inducements as been added to the rules pack:
Legal Inducements:
Any inducements starting in Rulebook on page 142 (with expectations below)
KRAMPUS!!! (Everyone will receive him for free at the start of the game and he does not come out of the budget)
Max 3 Bribes
Illegal Inducements:
Star Players (other than Krampus)
Mercenaries
Special Stadia, Balls, Weather, Sponsorships Ect
Wizards
Infamous Coaching staff
Special Play Cards
Biased Referees
Skills Access:
Your team brought to the event can not purchase any skills. You will randomly be assigned additional skills as the tournament progresses. Coaching staff are NOT eligible for these random skill upgrades.
Your team will receive additional skills in a random before each game using "Nuffle's Wheel of Skill" that you may assign to any player on the team.
"Nuffle's Wheel of Skill" is a wheel of fortune style table has every skill and mutation from the current BB rules included. Before each round, the wheel will be spun times revealing 4 skills/mutations. Because this is only a 3 round event, the wheel will be spun an additional 4 times before the first round (for a total of 4 sets of skill selection over the round of the event). The TO spins, the wheel and all players will pick from the same set of skills.
Tier 1 teams may select 1 skill, Tier 2 may select 2, and Tier 3 may select 3, and Tier 4 will receive all 4 skills. These skills are kept for the remainder of the tournament. The same player may not receive more than 4 skills
Document these skills on your team list and player if possible. Coaching staff may NOT be selected to receive additional skills.
While Wins and Losses will determine the majority of scoring. Tie breakers will be touchdown differential and then casualty differential with further tie breaking based on ranking of players played. There will be a number of awards dependent on the total number of attendees.
Note that fouling, crowd, and secret weapon casualties on your opponent WILL COUNT towards casualties inflicted, its called Blood Bowl for a reason.
Tournament Schedule
Check in and roster checks 930-10 am
Game 1 : 10:00 am –12:15 pm
Lunch : 12:15 pm – 1:00 pm
Game 2 : 1:00pm – 3:15 pm
Game 3 : 3:30 pm – 5:45 pm
Awards 6 pm
A chess clock will be provided to players that are not on the second half of the game by half time to ensure that all games finish on time.
Models
Painting is optional but strongly encouraged. Conversions and Proxies are encouraged but should strive to be clear to your opponent.
What you need to bring:
Your team, at least 2 copies of your team roster, dice and balls. We encourage folks to type out their roster or use a free online list designer such as one of the ones available here https://www.thenaf.net/resources/roster-creation/
Krampus - Start Player (every team gets for free)
Link to Print (may need to scale up a bit 20%)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KzZ1Mj60t89UVWxfEq33qVFtXHzm12eJ/view?usp=drive_link
Awards
The prize pool depends on the number of registrants. Prizes will be raffled off based on placing and best painted.
*The NAF --- Registration pending This will be an NAF official event. You do not need to be a NAF member to play in this event, however we do encourage you to join (it comes with cool swag and global rankings!)
Join here: https://www.thenaf.net/about-the-naf/join-the-naf/
Rules subject to update as questions are asked.
FAQS Update 11/16/2025
Does the TO spin the random wheel 4 times and everyone has to pick from that same pool, or is it like each coach gets their own unique 4 spins to pick from each round?
The TO will spin 4 times and everyone gets to pick from the same set of spins/pool. There will be two sets of 4 spins before the first round, and then another set of 4 before the second/third round.
Skills can be assigned to players no matter what their skill access dictates, correct? So like a halfling can gain horns if that's what becomes available.
Correct, any positional may gain any skill that is spun on the Wheel of Nuffle!
If a spin lands on a skill everyone on the team has, is there a respin or does it just suck? Like a team of Amazons and there's a spin for Dodge, but they all have it.
It just sucks! The whims of Nuffle can be unfortunate at times! This may help or hurt some teams throughout the event. Fortunately in the case of Amazons, they would still have 3 other skills in the set of three to pick from!
However, each set of 4 must be unique. If we get the same skill in a set of 4, the TO will re-spin. If the same skill shows up in another set of 4 later, that is okay.