SKABB League

The second pairs tournament run by the BriBBe league was this last weekend. For the first event last year , Tommy and I went as an all stunty team. In quite a competitive field, we didn't fair so well.  This year, Tommy wasn't able to make it so I paired up with Damology and we went for a pairing of undead teams - he took shambling undead and I took vampires. There was a rule that meant you couldn't have two tier one teams and we've both played these teams during the league so we were rather confident. We called ourselves the Evil Dead 2 and got these snazzy t-shirts!   For my vampire build, I had all 6 vampires and took dodge and leader on the throwers, strip ball and block on the blitzers, and dodge on both the runners. I had 8 thralls, one with kick and three re-rolls. And as I was told during the day, one coach. I really need to check these sorts of details before the first game.  I normally make notes as I go along, although I didn't do so for various reasons, ...

On Saturday, I made the trek up to 4TK Gaming in Colchester for what I think was my fourth visit there. Events are put on by Sam (scs.sam) and Coutney (myrmedon) and are always enjoyable and attract a strong group of coaches. Recently I've taken to working out "Seeding" for events based on coaches maximum ELO on the NAF database - for this all of the top 10 coaches had at least one race at 180 or higher. For anyone who doesn't understand the ELO system, this is a blog for another time - suffice to say that it is a good ranking. This was the 6th event out of 11 in the South East Tournament Series, so we're past the halfway point, and we've been thinking about next year. Dodge22, TSO for the Midlands Series was here and we had a good chat about our series for next year. We're looking to align rulesets, although more of that in the near future hopefully. I picked up DimmyGee at Ashford on the way and a couple of hours of chatting about BloodBowl made the time...