Couples Cup 6

Couples Cup Rules Sheet

Date: Saturday, August 15th, 2026, 10 AM - 7 PM Location: Comic Quest at 23811 Bridger Unit 111 Lake Forest, CA 92630

The Gimmick: On Thursday, August 6th, a Star Player "Draft" will be held. See special rules below.

Team Draft Budget: 1,125,000 gold pieces+

Team Selection: All Blood Bowl 2025 rule books and supplements including Slann are usable. Any rules published after April 12th are subject to TO discretion.

Tools of the Trade: Models, Roster, Dice, Rulebook, Pitch and Dugouts.

Registration

• To register email bloodbowlcouplescup@gmail.com.
• Registration is $30. You are considered registered when you have paid, and not before.
• If you have not paid before August 6th, you will not be assigned a Star Player, and you will not get to take part in the tournament.
• Payment may be given to the tournament organizer (Bradley) anytime before August 6th in person, or by PayPal at bloodbowlcouplescup@gmail.com
• $5 is a non-refundable deposit (meant to discourage people dropping after being assigned their Star Player).
• When you show up in person, on August 15th, you will receive $5 cash, as an event-themed item.
• When you register, you may choose up to 2 Star Players to be your mulligan.
• The tournament is capped at 26.

NAF/MAWLRS: This tournament is NAF approved (probably) and is a stop on MAWLRS.

Special Rules

Banned Star Players: Any star player that only comes as part of a set of two (Dribl/Drull, Grak/Crumbleberry, the Swift Twins, and any other others introduced).

• Pool A Star Players, the Mega Stars: Griff Oberwald, H'Thark the Unstoppable, Morg 'n' Thorg, Ivan "the Animal" Deathshroud, Hakflem Skuttlespike. This list may change prior to the draft.
• Pool B Star Players: Akhorne the Squirrel
• Pool C Star Players: Every other Star Player officially introduced (stats and special ability being made public, no model needs to be released) before August 1st, 2026.

The Draft

• When: August 6th, 2026. Online, and automatically done by the TO.
• What: Every coach who has registered (including payment received) will be RANDOMLY assigned one Star Player from Pool C. This draft will be done in front of witnesses, recorded, and be available upon request, until the day of the tournament.
• If a Star Player is assigned to a coach who had named them as a mulligan, they will be assigned a new Star Player, and the previous Star Player will again be available to be drafted.
• If the 2nd Star Player assigned is also on a coach's mulligan list, they will still be assigned that player.
• Once a Star is assigned to a coach, that player will no longer be available to be drafted, and will also be unavailable to be included in any other team's roster.
• Once the draft has finished, results will be posted, and emailed to the coaches.
• All remaining, undrafted Pool C Star Players will be moved into Pool B.
• TLDR: You get assigned a random Star. Build a team that uses THAT Star, plus a 2nd.

Creating a Team

How: Coaches will make a team that MUST include:

• A minimum of 11 rostered non-star players
• Their assigned star player
• A 2nd star player from Star Player Pools A or B

Both Star Players must be able to legally play for the created team and must play for the same league (i.e. Halfling Thimble Cup or Badlands Brawl). Teams may not induce a 3rd Star Player. If both teams have induced the same star player, the player will play for BOTH teams, with one being a long-lost identical twin. Crazy how often that happens.

What?!?: Not everyone owns every team, nor every star player. Because of this, with help from local volunteers, borrowed teams and star players will be available. Some of these will be nicely painted GW teams, some will be proxies. Please be respectful of anything that does not belong to you. If you have any teams or Star Players that you would like to offer up on loan for the day, please contact the tournament organizer at Bloodbowlcouplescup@gmail.com. Every little bit helps, even if it's just a singular Star Player or krox. If you need to borrow a team or Star Player, please let the tournament organizer know, so one may be provided for your use. In addition, whenever both of your Star Players are on the field, they will each receive a +1 to their Loner rolls (so "Loner 4+" becomes "Loner 3+"). When any star player is in the KO box, they will have +1 to recover from being knocked out (they are here to play!).

How Much: Teams will be given a budget of 1,125,000 gold pieces + the cost of the drafted star player with the highest cost. I.e. if someone was assigned Roxanna Darknail, then ALL teams would be given an additional 270,000 gold to build their team.

Hiring Pool A Stars: If you would like to hire a Star from Pool A (the Mega Stars), it's gonna cost ya! These stars will not only require their hiring fee, but also 3 of your allotted skills.

Inducements: All Inducements from allowed sources are allowed. Inducements must be purchased from your Team Draft budget during team drafting and are permanently added to your Team Draft list for the event. Please note the following:

• If both coaches have Induced the same (In)Famous Coaching Staff, both coaches get to use that Inducement.
• Duplicates do not cancel each other out. Assume that the character appearing on the losing team was an imposter, or long-lost cousin!
• The exhibition PTN table will be used.

Skills: Reference the team tier list and get the amount of skills listed with the following restrictions:

• Tier 1 - 4 Primary Skills, Tier 2 - 6 Primary Skills, Tier 3 - 7 Primary Skills, Tier 4 - 8 Primary Skills
• A player may not be given more than two additional Skills and only 3 of the same skill may be assigned per team
• Can trade 2 Primary skills for 1 Secondary skill
• These additional Skills are free and do not count towards your team budget
• Star Players may not be given skills

When: Final team rosters will be due Thursday, August 13th, so that the needed teams and stars can show up. Some of them are real primadonnas! Every hour a roster is late to be submitted (or re-submitted) will result in a 1 point penalty in the standing.

Team Tiers

If a new team is introduced between the announcement of this tournament and August 3rd, then it will be at the discretion of the tournament organizer to allow the new team.

• Tier 1 Teams: Amazon, Dark Elf, High Elf, Lizardmen, Norse, Old World Alliance, Shambling Undead, Skaven, Underworld Denizens, Wood Elves.
• Tier 2 Teams: Elven Union, Dwarves, Chaos Dwarves, Human, Imperial Nobility, Bretonnians, Necromantic Horror, Nurgle, Orc, Tomb Kings, Vampire, Slann*
• Tier 3 Teams: Khorne, Chaos Chosen, Chaos Renegades, Black Orcs
• Tier 4 Teams: Goblins, Halfling, Ogre, Snotling, Gnomes.

Tiering is subject to change before August 3rd.

Scoring

The Couples Cup uses a system of points to determine who will be the winner of the event. You earn points from your games in the following way:

• Win a game: 60 points
• Draw a game: 30 points
• Lose a game: 10 points

There are also bonus points available each game for the following:

• Score 3 or more touchdowns: 5 points
• Concede 0 touchdowns: 5 points
• Cause 3 or more Casualties: 5 points

A Casualty will be awarded only against opposing players and will include blocks, blitzes, fouls, casualties caused by crowd surfing, casualties caused by chainsaws/stab, casualties caused by throw/kick teammate, vomit, and any casualty caused by "Captain" Karina Von Riesz' special ability. In case of a tie in the standings, the tiebreaker will be the number of fans who showed up to support your team (during the pre-game sequence).

Schedule

• 09:30 - 10:00 Registration and Setup
• 10:15 - 12:45 Round 1
• 12:45 - 01:15 Lunch
• 01:15 - 03:45 Round 2
• 03:45 - 06:15 Round 3
• 06:15 - 06:45 Score Tally and Award Ceremony

Rounds have been given a slightly extended time to allow for people possibly playing a team for the first time.