SKABB League

This is an update on all time SKABB League stats! To read previous iterations, there is one for the past three seasons: Seasons 1-8 Seasons 1-9 Season 1-10 We have now had a total of 58 coaches compete across our 11 seasons.  Games Played Across 11 seasons, a total of 1,021 games have been played. There has been a total of 2,812 touchdowns (an average of 2.75 per game) and 3,633 casualties (an average of 3.56 per game). Only 2 coaches have played over 100 games - Stew and Oli - which is due to the fact that they are the only coaches to have played every season. It is likely that Matt will hit that milestone in Season 12.  18 coaches have now played 5 or more seasons, with Alex and James joining the list since last season. Touchdowns The most touchdowns in a game has been beaten in season 11, with Stew's vampires scoring an 8-0 victory over Craig's dwarfs. This is also, unsurprisingly the most TD scored by a single team in a game. 7 touchdowns in a game has occurred 5 times: Se...

Due to some pesky thing called "life" we had been unable to send a team to the inaugural Home Nations last year.  This was rectified, albeit with a bit of a scare was had around childcare at one point, for the second helping, and myself, Oli, Tommy and Matt set off to LoogerBorooger to compete with coaches from far and wide (although mainly Scotland as it turned out.) After a nightmare journey we arrived at our hotel and proceeded our policy of only eating where Team Waterbowl were eating. but sitting a little away from them to intimidate them, by popping to the Harvester next door for our dinner.   (l-r Stewbacca, tommyb, MCB_TurnOgre, EldritchFox Using the Eurobowl ruleset, the main event sets the Home Nations of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland against each other, with some invitational teams - this year Italy and Poland. Alongside this is an Open event with teams of four where the likes of you and I can enter - alongside some national teams. In the much maligned rules...

For the first Battlebowl last year, I took Dimmy's favourite team - Imperial Nobility. This year, I decided to take their slightly less noble cousins, humans. This was partly based on the fact that I thought they got a reasonable package (seven primaries and one secondary) compared to tier 1 teams who were limited to 5 primary skills. It was also partly because I'd been a bit disappointed with how I had done with them at Superbowl last year and had hoped that I could do a bit better.  As I much prefer fast agile teams, I went for a slightly unconventional build which had 4 catchers, none of whom had skills. The skills went on the ogre (block), blitzers (4 guard) and linemen (2 block). This left me with just 2 players - my thrower and a lineman - who didn't have any defensive skills at all. There was the possibility of both chainpushing and thrown team mate one turn touchdowns. I would have felt confident if I'd managed to get any practice in, however when I tried on B...

Last night, was the playoff final for SKABB Season 11. This was been my vampires (Pitchfork Pines Preschool) and Oli's khorne (Stonefolk Skullhunters). Before I get into talking about the match, I want to add some context. Oli is the person who got me into playing Blood Bowl much more frequently and seriously. He was at the first tournament I ever played in 2017 that two school friends had convinced me to go along to. I took ogres as I thought I'd do badly anyway, and ended up with the wooden spoon. A week or so later, I go to collect a parcel from the post office and he's working there. We have a good chat and I say that I'll try to join up the league after my wedding is out of the way as that plus a long honeymoon meant I couldn't put a lot of time into playing the game for a while. We have played far more times than I can remember, both in person and online, in both competitive and friendly games. We've had games before tournaments where we've talked abou...

This Saturday, I made the trip up to the Big Smoke to play my first event in the London series. The series began this year after the spate of series that started in 2024 and it's great to see so many events and interest being created in the London scene, which is one of the busiest in terms of leagues but has perhaps been a bit underserved by tournaments in recent years. The Condiment Cup was the first tournament run by SaltyMurcutt (aka Rob from the Channelled Fury podcast ). Rob has run the SaltBowl League for many years which bans tier 1 teams, and it was no surprise to see that for his first event whilst they weren't banned, they were given a package such that they wouldn't be very inviting. Only one player took one - Dinlo with orcs - whose focus was to knock the opposition down and foul them every turn if possible to win the most fouls prize. I took the opportunity to try out khorne which I'd just recently finished painting, accidentally in World Eaters colours. I...

I found myself with this Saturday unexpectedly spare and a tournament within reasonable driving distance so I headed off to Egham. I had no idea where Egham was before I left - it's a good job I have a semi-reliable satnav in the car to help me get there. Despite them being my favourite team, I'd only ever taken wood elves to a tournament once before - NAF Championship last year , and so I thought I'd give them another run out to see if I've learned anything from playing them online a fair bit. One big change from my NAFC roster is dropping the tree. I really like the mobility of having eleven elves, compared to 10 and a tree that will stand still a lot. It really suits my style of play. I went for 2 wardancers with strip ball and tackle, a leader thrower, 4 catchers with no added skills and 4 linemen - three of whom had dodge. Round 1 v Paul (stelthelf) Of the 22 players at the tournament, a large number of them have just started playing the game with Egham starting up...