FUMBBL hierarchy and terminology

After this section, you will know some basic things about the community that resides on the FUMBBL chat. If you feel you know this already, feel free to skip to the next section, Finding Games

Terminology and definitions

Users

When you connect to the FUMBBL chat, you will have a list of users on one side, displaying the people who are connected to the chatroom you are in. There are three groups of users: Operators, Voiced users and everyone else. In FUMBBL the operators are the administrators and security officers of the site. They are normally designated with a green dot or an @ sign in the user list. Voiced users are what we call "Team Approvers" and they are designated by a yellow dot or a + sign.

Administrators (bow down before them!)

Christer - Owner and lead developer of the site
peikko - Adminstrator

Administrators will be able to help you with account issues such as username changes, help you if you misclick when choosing skill and various other things.

When contacting support staff, please use sites Support System

Security Officers (or Gorillas)

freak_in_a_frock
Laviak
Longshanks
Nachtogen
Plorg
Topper28
Trog

Cusi was also a Gorilla, and is sadly missed.

The security officers can help you out when someone breaks the rules and will be the ones that talk to you in case you break a rule yourself.

When contacting support staff, please use sites Support System

Team approvers (or Monkeys)

There are a whole bunch of team approvers in FUMBBL. They are the ones who approve the teams and images you submit to the site. These are the ones you ask if you have questions on team approval rules or ask for help if your team has not been approved within a reasonable amount of time.

For a complete list of the current staff click here

BowlBot

BowlBot is a program that is connected to the chat which announces games, team approvals and teams looking for games. When signed into chat, you MUST use your fumbbl coach name for Bowlbot to recognize you and to utilize its options.

The most common types of message you will see from BowlBot are:

<BowlBot> Christer (195.01): [R] Goblin 185/122

This is a "looking for game" announcement. This particular example says that Christer, with a coach ranking of 195.01, is looking for a game with his Ranked division Goblin team. The team has a Team Rating of 185 and a Strength of 122. To advertise your own team(s), just type, "bb lfg" and a message just like this one will display your teams in the same format for others to see. There are more advanced commands to display only the teams you wish.

<BowlBot> Team Approved: Kaos Kritters

This announces that a team by the name Kaos Kritters has been approved and is ready to play games.

<BowlBot> *** Kaos Kritters 3 vs 2 Woodland-Warriors ***

This is an announcement that a game has just been completed, showing the teams involved and the final score.

Displaying coach pages from mIRC

Contrubuted by SubSonic in forums August 22nd, 2003.

With the following code you can go directly to someone's coach page from mirc. Insert it in "popups" by pressing alt+p. The from "view"-menu select "nick list" (and if you want to use it in query/PM windows too, add it to "query" as well). After this, when you right click someone's nick in the channel, select "Fumbbl-page" from the list and it will open a browser with that coach's overview page.

Code:
$$1's Fumbbl-page:/url -n http://fumbbl.com/~ $+ $$1

FUMBBL dictionary

There are a number of words and phrases which might be confusing to the first-time visitors.

Words and phrases

• Elfbowl - The non-bashy style of play that appears when two developed elf teams play.
• GLN - The Grotty Little Newspaper. The FUMBBL community-driven blood bowl e-zine.
• Gorilla - Security officers are sometimes referred to as gorillas. This is the obvious extension of the Monkey designation for team approvers, and also, if you don't follow the rules they will beat you like a 400kg gorilla would.
• Lfg - Acronym meaning "looking for game".
• Monkey - Team approvers are commonly called approval monkies.
• proxy - Generally used as a part of the games setup talk. "I'll host, proxy stunty-power". This indicates that the person you are talking to will start the game as server, playing at the fumbbl.com proxy server (See further info on this in the Playing Games section).
• This is BLOOD bowl - One of the things every coach with a bashy play style says when something is mentioned that would reduce the bashy skills or generally make their teams less able to destroy others.
• Grandfathered Players - As the official (and experimental) rosters are changed at times, you might find teams with players they shouldn't have anymore by the new rules. Teams that are affected by those rule changes are allowed to keep their "extra" players until those die or are retired. These players are Grandfathered, as they cannot be replaced. Examples for that are Ogres on Dwarf Teams or Undead teams with more than two Wights.
• PM - Private Message. Usually referres to Messages sent through the FUMBBL message system. Click on "Send PM" on a coaches Page to send them a message.
• Fluff (adjective: fluffy) - Refers to back story, often relating to the Warhammer universe from which Blood Bowl is originated. An excellent source of Blood Bowl fluff is the Handbook and Manual from the 2nd edition of Blood Bowl, which was released in the late '80s. Stories of the great (and not so great) teams and players are covered, with lots of short 'Did you know?' articles in the margins. FUMBBL coaches are encouraged to write fluff for their own teams and players in the Bio sections provided.
• NI - Non-Progression Instant: Short Instant Tournament played without progression. Teams have to be fresh tr100 League teams and cannot play against normal progression teams after they took part in a NI, this will cause an upload error.
• Cherry-picking - A term used to describe the act of choosing only or mainly opponents that are easy to beat and do not pose a serious physical threat in terms of damage causing capability.
• Million Games Goal - The attempt of the site owner to generate enough user response to be able to sell our souls to Nuffle himself. Or not. Users might be rewarded with a gift of FUMBBL underwear for christmas (I am personally hoping for the chainmail bra for my RL girlfriend)
• RL - A plane of existance rumored to exist outside of FUMBBL. It usually serves as a lame excuse for not playing to the best (or fastest) of one's ability. See (see: Burning Cat)
• Burning Cat Syndrome - A pathologic case of hallucinating events outside of the plane of FUMBBL that begin to bear greater importance to a coach than coaching itself.
• Fouling - A despicable act of usurping threads in the forums that is nonetheless a viable tactic in the client. The button for this is located at the bottom of the action choices. Avoid posting this term unless you are in a desperate situation of attention deficit. In that case try combining it with (see: turn 16/T16) or (see: stalling)
• Turn 16/T16 - Making the most of your time on the pitch. Making less of your time on some of your opponents' whitelists.
• Stalling - A despicable act of usurping threads in the forums that is nonetheless a viable tactic in the client. (see: fouling)
• Spiroing - Oh those eyes, those horrible eyes...
• Major Tournaments - A way for high CR coaches to show off their access to the admin client.
• Pie - A mandatory option to be included in polls that has nothing to do with culinary feats. It might be an acronym, but it's origins are shrouded in mystery. It is there to remind us to pick interesting entries for the (see: polls)
• Polls - Are merely a way of drawing attention to a thread. They bear no other meaning whatsoever, unless the poster uses one in the general tactics forum, where the option of anti reciprocal adoption is often used: The poster asks for a skill choice to be made, only to pick the skill that is voted upon least.
• Admin Client - A mystery mechanism that is not meant to be available to every coach, as even trying to learn about it leads to instant Spiroing!

Legendary Teams

• Deathgerbil's Revenge - One of the nastiest teams ever to play in FUMBBL. Home of Enjoyment, who will continue to haunt the nightmares of people all over the world. Coached by DeathGerbil.
• Grotty Little Wankers - A legendary goblin team coached by Mr-Klipp. This is the team of the mighty Grot Teef, Troll extraordinaire, legendary goblin-tosser and the Troll all others want to be.
• Terrifying Anarchists of Naggaroth - The first, and some say the only true, major team on FUMBBL, peaking at a TR of over 600! Coached by EvolveToAnarchism.

Now that you know the most basic things you need to know about surviving in the chatroom, you are ready to start looking for a game.

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