TEAM BUILD
1200 TV build. Purchase all players, additional staff, rerolls and inducements from this budget. Additional skills cannot be purchased from this budget. See the Skills section for additional skills.
Special Team Prize Eligibility
To encourage extra diversity as well as attract tournament newcomers, Spooktacular Sportsball offers a prize for the best result by a coach playing a Spooky team, as well as a prize for the best result by a first-time coach. In previous years, we made [un]life harder for Spooky coaches by further restricting their choices, but this year we've relaxed those restrictions.
SPOOKY TEAMS
Vampires, Shambling Undead, Necromantic Undead, Khemri. Spooky teams can roster any eligible star players and remain spooky.
STUNTY TEAMS
Any teams which have no ST3 or ST4 players rostered (except for star players). That includes:
Goblins
Halflings
Snotlings
Ogres
Underworld (without any Skaven)
Lizardmen (without any Sauruseseses)
Black Orcs (without any Black Orcs).
Teams must roster at least 11 regular players before any stars. Duplicate stars not allowed to play on both sides during a match. All inducements (listed in all publications up to and including Spike! 16) are legal except special balls, mercs, wizards and giants. All NAF sanctioned rosters are available. (In general, this means that if a roster has not been published by Games Workshop at least a month before the tournament, it's not valid for competition yet. The new Vampire team and the Star Players included in it are legal for this event, the old Vampire team are not legal, and any extra inducements in Spike! 16 beyond Star Players will NOT be allowed)
SKILLS
Coaches get a skills budget of 12 golden pumpkins, to spend as follows:
*Primary skills are 1 golden pumpkin each.
* Secondary skills are 2 golden pumpkins each
* No random skills
* No player can have more than 2 additional skills
* No two players can have the same additional skills (so you can have one player with Guard and one player with Guard and Mighty Blow, but you can't have two players who just have Guard)
* You can't take a secondary skill if you don't take a primary skill first - so you can have a Mighty Blow Witch Elf, but she has to take a primary skill first!
Star Players require golden pumpkins in order to hire them. Non-Mega Stars can be hired for 2 golden pumpkins each.
Mega Stars are more expensive, as follows:
Bomber Dribblesnot - 3 golden pumpkins
Deeproot Strongbranch - 3 golden pumpkins
Griff Oberwald - 5 golden pumpkins
Hakflem Skuttlespike - 5 golden pumpkins
Kreek ‘the Verminator’ Rustgouger - 3 golden pumpkins
Morg ‘n’ Thorg - 6 golden pumpkins
SPECIAL RULES
Weather varies with each of the 3 rounds, see https://www.cushtie.com/cushties-blood-bowl-tournaments/spooktacular-sportsball/tournament-specific-rules/ for details.
All teams gain one extra special player for the 3rd round of the game, Garlicky Gary. Gary may take your roster above the regular 16 players. Gary presents an extra special threat for those opponents playing from beyond the grave:
Garlicky Gary
MA 5 ST3 AG 3+ PA 4+ AV 8+
Dodge, Fend, Sidestep, Stunty, Right Stuff, Loner 3+
Special rule: “You love my garlic breath!”
Once per match Gary can use Hypno Gaze, adding the opponent’s strength to the dice roll if the opposing team’s roster has the Sylvanian Spotlight keyword