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Troll Bowl III, Bromley, 15th June 2024

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This Saturday the fourth event of the South East Tournament Series 2024 was held in Bromley. I love the events in Bromley - not too much travel, a lovely group of coaches and in Troll Trader, an excellent venue.  I had been wanting to take snotlings to the last 11s event that was held there - the Winter Cup -  but riotuous rookies was not an allowed inducement, so it seemed like not the best idea. After badgering TO and friend Chris Whitehot, he included them for this event which made me feel like I had to take them. It was a 1.1m build with all stars allowed, although a 2 skill tax for stars and a 4 skill tax for megastars. Not wanting to be that guy who brought along a Morg and Hakflem build, I looked into more interesting options. I settled on Nobbla Blackwart and Fungus the Loon. Along with this, I got a full complement of positionals (except the pump wagons), a full roster, a couple of re-rolls and three bribes. And it only took me 3 attempts to get a legal roster! Initially I ha

SKABB Stats Seasons 1-9

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 This is an update of a post with stats for Seasons 1-8 , and also includes for the first time stats on the 2 seasons of Sevens we have played.  Games Played Across 9 seasons, 760 games have been played. A total of 2,096 touchdowns were scored (an average of 2.76 per game) and a total of 2,694 casualties have been caused (an average of 3.54 per game). Averages for seasons 1-8 were 2.6 touchdowns and 3.55 casualties per game. Season 9 was higher than average for touchdowns, but very slightly down on casuatlies, averaging 2.83 touchdowns and 3.52 casualties.  Stew is the first coach to hit 100 games played, with Oli due to hit the same milestone this season.  Iain has knocked Archie out of the top 10 and with Tommy just behind (currently on 47 games) he is expected to take Pete Gridley's spot in the top 10 this season.  12 coaches have played 5 or more seasons (up from 9 last season). They are listed below.  Touchdowns The most number of touchdowns scored in a game remains at 7, howe