Spike! Magazine Showdown

Our third online NAF tournament of 2016 will see us partner with the Canadian NAF Major tournament, the Spike! Magazine BB Championship! This post should point you toward everything you need to know to enter the Spike! Magazine Showdown (SMS), and compete to win physical, Spike! themed prizes.

The tournament will kick off on Monday June 27th, and applications are open now.

The rulespack can be found here, here and here, and is summarised below.

What is the Spike!?

The Spike! Magazine BB Championship is one of the five yearly NAF Major tournaments. It is held in British Columbia, Canada. This year, the Spike! will be held over the weekend of August 26th / 27th, and will use the much heralded Ironmanj ruleset! The Spike! is held in a beautiful part of Canada, and Steve and the Thunderbowl team put on a superb show. A trip out to BC is more than deserving of your holiday time! Further details can be found at the Spike! website, here. Sign up NOW!
Rulespack Summary

- Individual, non-progression Blood Bowl!

- Team treasury: 1.20 M gold. All inducements are permitted except Special Play Cards, Mercenaries and Team Wizards

- Format: 6 games of Swiss in approximately 30 team groups formed according to timezone preference (Europe, America, Oceania), followed by a playoff to determine an overall winner

- Weekly rounds

- Skill package 4 normal skills, 2 doubles

- The winner will receive a free ticket to the Spike! Magazine Blood Bowl Championship, worth $50. In the event the winner cannot attend, this prize will be offered to the winner of the North American group, if (s)he is not the overall winner. This prize will be available in perpetuity! The winner may cash in the prize any year in the future

- Physical, Spike! themed prizes will also be presented to a randomly selected tier 2 or 3 team, and the winner of the Stunty Cup

- You can make a team and apply to the tournament right now! Teams should be made via this link, and then coaches wishing to play in European timezones should apply here, North American timezones here, and Oceanic timezones here.

Applications

I will accept applications every 48 hours. If you see yourself in the group within 48 hours of application, you have been accepted. If not, please try again! We have coaches miss out every tournament because they have confused the application process. Don't let that be you!