Happy Jaloglin, everyone! We're back with the second edition of the GTS Jaloglin Bowl.
The tournament will be held at GTS Mallorca on Saturday, October 31st. Jaloglin!!
Challenges can be issued for the first round, which will be played the same Saturday along with the rest of the participants.
Tournament Characteristics
Type: Individual (single-player)
Format: Swiss, no final
Rules: BB2025 (Season 3) with FAQs, Spikes, and everything released up until the week before the tournament (i.e., anything published from October 25th onward does not count)
Tournament pending NAF approval
Maximum places: 30
Rosters must be sent to i.boatres@gmail.com before October 25th, using BBRoster or a similar application
Cost: 12€
Registration will take place at GTS Mallorca. The last day to register, pay, and send the roster will be October 25th
What You'll Need to Play
Costume! Not mandatory, but if you come in costume, cool things will happen. We promise!
Complete Blood Bowl team. If you want to bring badly painted teddy bears, at least make sure it's PERFECTLY clear which player on your roster each miniature represents
Pass rule, rebound templates, and throw-in templates (or two fingers of forehead, whichever you prefer)
Rulebook and any tables you might need
IMPORTANT: Minimally functional mobile phone to report each round's results
Dice: D6, D8, D16, and Block dice
Prizes
The tournament winner will choose from a selection of prizes. The rest of the prizes will be raffled
No player can win more than one prize
A player who has conceded a match cannot opt for any prize
Prize for best painted team
Prize for best costume
Jaloglinesque Peculiarities
All rounds will be played using the "Graveyard Weather Table" from the previous edition. It will be available to all players during the tournament day
Teams with the special rule "Silvanian Selective" may choose to apply a +1 or -1 modifier to all rolls on the weather table, because that's what Jaloglin is for. If both teams have this rule, for the first weather roll, the winner of an opposed 1d6 roll will apply the modifier. For the rest of the rolls, it will alternate
Trick or Treat!?: When creating your rosters you can choose between:
Trick: A player may gain the "Trickster" skill
Treat: A player may gain the "Lone Fouler" skill
These skills do not count toward the stacked skill limit
During the "Recover Knocked-Out Players" step, you may use the Apothecary to automatically wake up a KO'd player. This will count as the normal use of the Apothecary for the match
It is not allowed to include Prayers to Nuffle in your rosters
Costume Party!
When creating your rosters, you can purchase a special "Star Player Costume" inducement
To use this inducement, you must come to the tournament in costume
To reflect this on your rosters, add the "Mercenary Player 0-3 (30k)" inducement. For each one you purchase, the costume level will improve:
Level 1: Star Players costing up to 100k
Level 2: Star Players costing up to 175k
Level 3: Star Players costing up to 250k
For those who prefer numbers: you can spend between 0 and 90k of your roster's money on the above. The more you spend, the better the costume
Assign the name of the Star Player you want the costume of to one of your roster players
The costume can be of any Star Player, regardless of whether or not they could normally play for your team
The chosen costume cannot be of a Star Player already on your roster
Once per match, the chosen player can use the "Star Player Costume" to disguise as the chosen Star Player by rolling 1d6 and consulting the following table:
1: 3 turns
2-5: 4 turns
6: 5 turns
If the drive ends before the remaining turns run out, the costume is lost
While the player is disguised, they will exchange their attributes, traits, and skills for those of the Star Player in question. They may also use their "Special Ability" if they have one
Aliexpress Costume: The costume is pretty cheap, and sometimes the hood gets misplaced, covering the eyes and leaving them disoriented. While the player is disguised they will be subject to the "Really Stupid" rule in addition to any other negative rule the Star Player has (e.g., a player disguised as Grashnak Blackhoof must roll for Really Stupid first and then for Unchannelled Fury)
If the chosen Star Player has the "Secret Weapon" trait, the disguised player will be sent off as normal at the end of the drive
"Oh boy, what fatigue": Once the drive in which the player used their costume ends, the tiredness and heat of wearing the costume will cause the player to suffer a -1 Movement modifier during the following drive
Restrictions: Your Star Player costume cannot be of a Mega Star, nor of a Star Player that consists of more than one miniature (the Swift Twins, Grak & Crumbleberry, Dribl and Drull...)
Schedule
9:30 Doors open
10:00 - 12:00 First round
12:15 - 14:15 Second round
14:30 - 15:45 Lunch break
15:45 - 17:45 Third round
18:00 - 20:00 Fourth round
IMPORTANT: The first round is partially played before the shop opens to the public. Please, once inside, try to avoid leaving before business hours begin as much as possible.
Team Creation
It is mandatory to assign all available skills. Secondary skills cannot be swapped for primary ones. Attribute increases must respect the maximum values for each attribute
All teams will have two attribute increases available. The increases must be of a different attribute (i.e., you cannot have two players with +1 Strength), but otherwise you are free to assign them as you wish. These do not count toward the stacked skill limit
All teams will have a number of coins based on their Tier to hire players, staff, Star Players, and inducements. You need to have 11 players on the Roster before hiring Star Players. The usual Star Player maximum limit applies
Hiring Mega Stars implies the following:
Only one attribute increase can be used
You lose 3 primary skills and one secondary skill
The "Leader" skill cannot be assigned to any player
Your opponent will earn the right to mock you mercilessly (but only a little)
The following Star Players are considered Mega Stars:
Griff Oberwald
Bomber Dribblesnot
Cindy Piewhistle
Deeproot Strongbranch
H'Tark the Unstoppable
Skitter Stab-Stab
Tiers
Tier 1
Teams: Amazon, Undead, Orc, Skaven, Lizardmen, Human, Underworld Denizens, High Elf, Old World Alliance