“Star Player Side Bets”
Full rules can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1owOVLHv5HBMvvj9n6a81RsMiltpq-iJ5KJ88aqjE0_w/
March 8th 2025 at Muntmeesters, Leidsekade 117, 3531 HD Utrecht
€15 attendance fee
One day 3 match resurrection style tournament.
Swiss draw pairing after the first match.
Registration: bloodstorm.nl@gmail.com
9:30 - 9:45: Player Registration
9:45 - 10:00: Introduction
10:00 - 12:30: Match 1
12:30 - 13:00: Lunch break
13:00 - 15:30: Match 2
15:30 - 15:45: Showcase break
15:45 - 18:15: Match 3
18:15 - 18:45: Results break
18:45 - 19:00: Award Ceremony
Glittering Prizes:
* Most Sporting
* Tournament Champion (overall)
* 1st Place (match W/D/L: 10/4/0)
* Wooden Spoon*
* Players’ Choice (painting)
* Best Team (painting)
* Stunty Cup**
Additional spot prizes to be announced.
*This award grants a free reroll if the coach snaps the Wooden Spoon in two at any Bloodstorm.nl Event!
**Eligible Stunty teams are:
Gnome, Goblin, Halfling, Ogre, Snotling,
Black Orc (no Black Orcs), Lizardman (no Saurus), Underworld Denizen (no Skaven, except Rat Ogre).
Three exhibition matches.
All officially released teams + unreleased Teams of Legend + NAF Slann.
All teams must induce 1-2 Star Players (see below).
Bet on which Star Players will perform best and worst (see below).
Unpainted miniatures gain Loner (2+).
Team Creation Rules:
Tiers based on recent NAF recorded win rates (subject to change until February 8th):
1. Underworld Denizen.
2. Amazon, Dark Elf, Elven Union, High Elf, Necromantic Horror, Old World Alliance, Shambling Undead, Skaven, Slann, Tomb King, Vampire, Wood Elf.
3. Chaos Dwarf, Chaos Renegade, Dwarf, Human, Imperial Nobility, Khorne, Lizardman, Norse, Orc, Snotling.
4. Black Orc, Chaos Chosen, Gnome, Halfling, Nurgle, Ogre.
5. Goblin.
Draft Budget and Skill Points (SP):
Tier 1: 1240k & 7 SP
Tier 2: 1260k & 8 SP
Tier 3: 1300k & 9 SP
Tier 4: 1340k & 10 SP
Tier 5: 1360k & 11 SP
Skill points: 1 SP per primary skill; 1 SP per secondary skill. No random skills, no stat-ups. SP must also be spent on star player(s).
Each secondary skill requires having at least 3 primary skills.
No stacking, except Tier 4+. Players can have at most 2 added skills.
Allowed inducements:
Most inducements from the Blood Bowl 2020 rulebook are allowed*, except for the following list:
* Special Plays.
* Mercenary Players.
* Wizard.
*0-2 Infamous Coaching Staff is allowed, but also costs 1 SP.
The following inducements from the Death Zone expansion are allowed:
* 0-2 Infamous Coaching Staff (also costs 1 SP), except Professor Frönkelheim and Schielund Scharlitan.
* 0-1 Biased Referee.
* 0-3 Cavorting Nurglings.
* 0-3 Bottles of Heady Brew.
* 0-1 Medicinal Unguent.
Each team must induce 1-2 Star Players. You can induce 1 Mega-Star, as listed in the GW Errata document, costing 4 SP. Otherwise, you can induce 1-2 other Star Player(s), costing 2 SP each. Star Players that must be hired as a pair only count as a single Star Player for SP cost.
Besides costing SP, Star Players also cost gold. The gold cost and availability of Star Players is different from normal for this event. The complete list of Star Players and their availability is recorded in the following document:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xiWFvkFEXHWCaQVDp1loXcCXC2lbazWImfMC9PmhiCI/
If two opposing teams have induced the same Star Player, that Star Player does not play during this match for either team. This match also does not count towards their matches played for any Side Bets.
We hope this event will start a tournament series. After each event, the gold cost (and possibly availability) of each Star Player will be adjusted based on their presence and performance.
Side Bets:
Before the first match, each coach places side bets on two different Star Players present at the event that they themselves did not hire: one to win and one to lose.
After the final match, the ‘average result’ of each Star Player is calculated, as the sum of +1 per match they won and -1 per match they lost, divided by the number of matches played by that Star Player (draws add 0). If the average result is above +0.33 the result is a win, if it is below -0.33 the result is a loss, any other result is a draw.
Per correct side bet (i.e. that Star Player won or lost as predicted), the coach gains 5 Match Points.