FUMBBL, the online Blood Bowl league

https://anchor.fm/fumbbl-podcast/episodes/41---And-we-are-back-emvfmg

After some time away, we are back.

PC and I get back into the swing of things. There is also an interview with Storr.

Enjoy!

Hello everyone,

tl;dr - the very long-running football-themed league known as OBBA is going to be resurrected in January 2021. Read on for details.

Visit the league page

The FUMBBL Bloodbowl Association, in association with the Cabel Vision Network and the Grotty Little Newspaper are proud to present the FUMBBL Cup!

The FUMBBL Cup is the largest annual tournament sanctioned by the FBBA and features hundreds of teams clashing in epic matches, all broadcast live to your choice of viewing platform by Cable Vision.

We bring you the best coaches, the best teams, the living legends and the most enthusiastic newcomers in the most lavishly sponsored tournament of the League.

Tournament draw starts
22.00pm server time
Wednesday 14th October 2020


Any Ranked or Blackbox team can apply here.

Prizes

The winner of the tournament will receive a Health Scroll (Brings back a player from death or retirement fully healed). This healing scroll can also be used on any current or future player that suffers an injury. And of course a bonus MVP.

Blackbox Trophy season 3 is coming to an end with Storr managing an absolutely crazy run at for the 1st spot. Congratulations!

Normally, Season 4 would start on the 1st of October like previous years. This year, however, we are looking at a big rules update before the year is over. Instead of simply halting the trophy, we're doing a much much shorter variant this time while we wait for the new ruleset. Season 4 will run between October 1st and November 30th.

The following configuration will be in place:

- Total squad budget of 4
- 2 teams per squad
- 15 games per team
- 1.5 points per unused squad budget
- 0.5 points for each completed set of 5 games played for teams
- 0.5 points for racial lead

Snotlings are set to cost 0 and Old World Alliance is set to cost 1; the rest of the races are set to the same costs as season 3.

Good luck!

On Thursday July 30th, I am planning to do a maintenance downtime starting at 12pm (noon) server time, where the plan is to upgrade the Database Server drives to new SSDs.

Given that I want to do a full backup before I do this, I am going to somewhat arbitrarily say that the downtime will be 6 hours (12:00 to 18:00).

During this time, the site and the game servers will be shut down and inaccessible. Discord will of course still be up and I will try to give some progress updates there as work progresses.

I apologize for the inconvenience of this downtime and hope that this won't disrupt your tournament games too much.