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NAFC 2023

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Anyone who has ever had a discussion with me about which team I'm taking to a tournament will know how indecisive I am about it. After not having a great record at UKTC with Elf Union and not doing as well as I'd hoped with them at NAFC 2022, I had decided to ditch the elves.  Whilst driving back from UKTC, Oli suggsted I take Halflings with Griff. I figured that even losing would be fun, so that's what I did, partly because I need grown ups to make most of my life choices for me. I had a few practice games and was doing quite well with them - losing only once to dwarves - and was feeling quite pleased by this. However, I'm very aware that no matter how good the players in our league are, going to a large event like this, you'd expect a step up in skill quality. My roster was: 2 trees with pro, 2 catchers with sure feet, 2 heftys (one with leader), hopefuls to 13 (two with sneaky git) and the ever so dashing Griff Oberwald. On top of this I had 1 rostered re-roll, a

Pre-NAFC 7s at Warhammer World

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The NAF Championship (or NAFC for short) was the first large Blood Bowl event that I attended and for me, I think it will always be THE Blood Bowl event.  The first time I went up in 2019, I had been unable to get the day off work so took the train up to Nottingham after I finished and got a taxi to Warhammer World - after explaining to the driver what it was -  to meet up with 3 league mates (Oli, Matt and Wes) who were already there.   I had really wanted to play in the sevens event there, especially as I'd never played a single game of Sevens previously. It was like it was a form of Blood Bowl that was only available in exotic places such as Nottingham.  Walking into Warhammer World (WHW) for the first time blew my little mind. I've literally never played another Games Workshop game but the place itself is just really exciting and gives me a bit of a buzz just being there. Fast forward 4 years to my third visit and that buzz is still there - and this time I was helping Oli -