BB7 Vierchancentournee – 4. Station: Fey Forest Cup

BB7 Vierchancentournee - 4th Stop: Fey Forest Cup

General

• This tournament is the fourth of four consecutive BB7 tournaments in the 2026/27 season. Each can be attended separately; in addition there is an internal overall ranking.
• The 2025 (Season 3) rules are used, as well as the Sevens rules from the Spike Handbook and some special rules for the Fey Forest Cup from Spike Magazine 17 (see below).
  • 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" may field D2 (instead of D3) extra players.
• We play a Resurrection tournament: every game is played with the fully restored roster, injuries are not permanent, and 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 by me.

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 their respective team rosters.

  • Example: A Renegade Goblin, Renegade Orc, Renegade Skaven, Renegade Dark Elf and Renegade Human count as Linemen in a Chaos Renegade team. They are only subject to the numeric restriction in the team roster (i.e. 0-1 resp. 0-16 each), 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 already at 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 may choose 0-1 Star Player (other teams have no access to Star Players). The Star Player uses up one of the team's four non-Lineman player slots. In addition to their cost, depending on their price, they reduce 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 may 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 gain additional skills according to the following rules:

• Each team chooses a player who is the Team Captain (a "Big Guy" may not be chosen, unless the team is in Tier 5). This player receives the Leader skill at no additional cost. Each coach may instead receive an additional 20k gold for buying skills, if he wishes. For teams with the special rule "Team Captain" (i.e. Humans and Orcs), the captain chosen according to the special rule additionally receives the Leader skill (here too, the coach may receive 20k for additional skills instead of the Leader skill).
• Each coach may 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 Fourth Stop: Fey Forest Cup

The following special rules from Spike Magazine 17 apply (all players receive copies on site):

• Illusionary Balls: Gnomes love nothing more than playing tricks on their opponents - especially during a Blood Bowl game. There is hardly anything more satisfying than watching an opposing player run into the end zone for a touchdown, only for the ball in his hands to dissolve with a quiet "Puff!" into a cloud of magic smoke.

  All games of the Fey Forest Cup use the following special rule: Whenever a team kicks the ball, the coach of the kicking team performs two deviation rolls instead of one after placing the kick. Place a ball in each square that each of the two balls deviates to. Note that both balls - as usual - remain in the air until after the kick-off event is resolved, and then bounce normally once they land. If a ball lands in the same square as the other ball, the ball that landed last immediately bounces on.

  A player can never carry two balls at the same time. If a player who is already carrying a ball enters the square of the other ball, or if the other ball lands in his square, that other ball immediately bounces away. This does not cause a turnover, since the player neither attempted to pick up nor catch the second ball.

  Whenever a player attempts to pick up a ball, pass, catch or hand-off a ball, or score a touchdown, he must first roll a D6. On a 1, it turns out that the ball was merely an illusion and dissolves into a cloud of magic smoke! This player's activation ends immediately, but no turnover is caused. If a ball disappears this way, the other ball is the real ball, and this special rule no longer applies for the rest of this drive. At the start of the next drive, however, it applies again.

• The Hidden Forest Weather Table applies.

• The Gnomish Trickery Kick-Off Event Table applies.

  • The following modification is necessary due to the particularities of BB7: Due to the deviations in setup in BB7, results 10 ("The Old Switcheroo") and 11 ("A Cunning Plan") do not work (or not particularly well). Therefore, the application of these two kick-off events is postponed by one turn: after the kicking coach has finished his first turn after the kick-off (i.e. after both coaches have had one turn), the game is briefly paused and Event 10 or 11 is applied. Then the game continues "normally" (as normally as possible with two balls...).

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 a 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 Lineman positionals) cannot currently be perfectly represented on Tourplay, please send me an email with your roster if it doesn't quite fit on Tourplay. Roster submission deadline: 19.3.2027. The participation fee is 10 Euro.

(APPROVED - Twyllenimor 05.08.2026)