BB7 Vierchancentournee – 3. Station: Icebowl Cup

General

• This tournament is the third of four consecutive BB7 tournaments in the 2026/27 season. Each of them can be attended separately; additionally, there is an internal overall ranking.
• The BB 2025 (Season 3) rules, the Sevens rules from the Spike Handbook, as well as some special rules for the Icebowl Cup from Spike Magazine 14 (see below) are used.
  • For ball deviation after kick-off, 2D6 are rolled and the lower result is used. For Throw-Ins, 3D6 are rolled and the lower 2 results are used.
  • On the Kick-off Table, D3+1 replaces all references to D3+3.
  • Teams with the special rule "Swarming" can field D2 (instead of D3) additional players.
• We play a Resurrection tournament: every game is played with the fully restored roster, injuries are not permanent, there are no player advancements.

IMPORTANT: If Spike Magazine 22 with the new BB7 rules is released beforehand, there may be some adjustments to the ruleset! This will be announced accordingly.

Team Creation

• Each team can have a maximum Team Value corresponding to its tier in the list below.

• Each team must have at least seven players and may have a maximum of eleven players.

• A team may have a maximum of four non-Lineman players; normal restrictions apply here (e.g. 0-1 Ogre for a Human team). Teams that have different Lineman positionals (e.g. Chaos Renegades, Old World Alliance, Underworld Denizens, Humans) may use these without limit according to the respective team roster.

  • Example: A Renegade Goblin, Renegade Orc, Renegade Skaven, Renegade Dark Elf and Renegade Human count as Linemen in a Chaos Renegades team. Only the numerical restriction in the team roster applies to them (i.e. 0-1 or 0-16 respectively), so they can be chosen in addition to the team's positionals.

• Rerolls cost double their normal price (a reroll in a Human team therefore costs, e.g., 100,000 GP).

• Inducements must be purchased at the time of team creation. Mercenaries, Desperate Measures, Special Play Inducements and Extra Trainings cannot be chosen. Star Players cannot be chosen by Tier 1-4 teams.

  • Tier 5 teams can choose 0-1 Star Player (other teams have no access to Star Players). The Star Player uses one of the team's four non-Lineman player slots. In addition to their cost, they reduce - depending on their price - the amount of team gold that can be spent on skills (but not the maximum team cost): Star Players up to and including 100k -> reduction of 30k; up to and including 200k -> reduction of 60k; up to and including 300k -> reduction of 90k; up to and including 400k -> reduction of 120k.
  • 0-1 Team Mascots can be chosen at a price of 60k.

• Tier 1 (total budget max 640,000; max 40k for skills): Amazons, Dark Elves, Humans, Lizardmen, Old World Alliance, Skaven, Underworld, Wood Elves

• Tier 2 (total budget max 670,000; max 70k for skills): Elven Union, High Elves, Imperial Nobility, Necromantic Horror, Norse, Orcs, Shambling Undead, Vampires

• Tier 3 (total budget max 710,000; max 110k for skills): Bretonnia, Chaos Dwarves, Chaos Renegades, Slann

• Tier 4 (total budget max 740,000; max 140k for skills): Black Orcs, Chaos Chosen, Dwarves, Gnomes, Khorne, Nurgle, Tomb Kings

• Tier 5 (total budget max 780,000; max 180k for skills): Goblins, Halflings, Ogre, Snotlings

Skills

Each team can receive additional skills according to the following rules:

• Each team chooses one player who is the Team Captain (a "Big Guy" may not be chosen; except if the team is Tier 5). This player receives the Leader skill at no additional cost. Each coach can instead receive an additional 20k gold for buying skills, if desired. For teams with the special rule "Team Captain" (i.e. Humans and Orcs), the captain chosen under the special rule additionally receives the Leader skill (here too, the coach can receive 20k for additional skills instead of the Leader skill).
• Each coach can additionally assign skills by spending gold from the skill budget; the skill budget gold depends on the respective tier (see above).
  • Primary Non-Elite Skill: 20k
  • Primary Elite Skill: 30k
  • Secondary Non-Elite Skill: 40k
  • Secondary Elite Skill: 50k
• Skill-stacking is allowed at the costs below; however, no player can receive more than two additional skills (the Leader skill [and possibly the Pro skill] of the Team Captain counts as one of these skills, with no stacking costs applying here).
  • Cost for 2 Primary Non-Elite Skills: 50k
  • Cost for 1 Primary Non-Elite Skill and 1 Primary Elite Skill: 60k
  • Cost for 2 Primary Elite Skills: 70k

Special Rules of the Third Station: Icebowl Cup

The following special rules from Spike Magazine 14 apply (all players will receive copies on site):

• Every player gets a Norse Seer as an additional inducement at the start of the game: Some of the more superstitious inhabitants of Norsca are convinced that the wise and ancient seers of the North interpret Nuffle's will by throwing bones or reading rune stones. Immediately after step 6 of game setup, a team that has hired a Norse Seer may let them interpret the runes. Roll a D6 and apply the corresponding result from the following table:
  • 1: The omens foretell doom! Your team immediately loses one Team Re-roll. (This does not affect re-rolls gained by coaches through the Leader skill.)
  • 2-3: The omens are obscured - just like the weather. You may immediately change the weather to any result of the Weather table. (Should both players use their Norse Seer and both roll this result, both coaches choose a weather event. Then they roll against each other and the winner's choice is applied.)
  • 4-5: Nuffle watches over us... You may immediately roll once on the Prayers to Nuffle table.
  • 6: Nuffle smiles upon us today! Randomly determine a player of your team who is eligible to play for the current drive and does not have the Loner (X+) trait. Until the end of the game, this player receives a Primary Skill of your choice.
• The Norse Weather Table applies.
• The Norse Kick-off Event Table applies.
  • The following modification is necessary due to the particularities of BB7: Result 2 ("Pitchside Brawl") affects D2 players. For result 11 ("Reckless Rookies"), the rule means that coaches can exceptionally have more than seven (and of course not eleven) players on the pitch.

Schedule

• 9:30 Registration
• 10:00 Round 1
• 11:15 Round 2
• 12:30 Lunch break
• 13:30 Round 3
• 14:45 Round 4
• 16:00 Round 5
• 17:30 Award ceremony

Standings

We play in the Swiss system:

• Win = 4 points
• Draw = 2 points
• Loss with 1 TD deficit = 1 point
• Loss with 2 or more TDs deficit = 0 points
• Surrender = -2 points

In case of a tie, the following tiebreakers apply: 1. Touchdown difference, 2. Casualty difference, 3. Number of Touchdowns, 4. Number of Casualties.

Registration

Registration is done via Tourplay. Since the rules (e.g. regarding the Lineman positionals) cannot currently be perfectly represented on Tourplay, please send me an email with your roster if it does not quite fit on Tourplay. Roster submission deadline is 15.1.2027 at the latest. The entry fee is 10 Euro.

(APPROVED - Twyllenimor 05.08.2026)