FUMBBL, the online Blood Bowl league

Are you excited about the FIFA world cup? But still rather wanna play Blood Bowl in the evenings? Because, well, it's Blood Bowl and it's way better than football!
Then I have the perfect event for you:

NAFifa World Cup 2018

Represent your nation in an everyone can join format where the 4 best results of every nation count towards the ranking and the best 4 players of the best 4 nations will battle it out for the NAFifa World Championship 2018! Even more, since this is a World cup, we're using the recently published rules from the 4th Blood Bowl World Cup 2019 in Dornbirn, Austria!

• Winner will get honor and a T-shirt of the Thornpear Valleyshockers. But hey, it's all about bragging rights anyways!


• We are using the official 4th Blood Bowl World Cup 2019 in Dornbirn rules with 4 tiers


• There are 6 rounds of Swiss in groups of around 30, top 4 nations qualify for the playoff


• Please state the nation you are playing for in your Bio (as well as your NAF number), Nations according to FIFA rules


• Round 1 will start at 22:00 CET (Fumbbl BB-Time) on Monday, 18.6.18


• Create your team with this link and then apply the team to the Online NAF fumbbl group


• All details are available in the NAFifa World Cup 2018 Rulespack


• A guide how to make your team you can find here

We are coming closer and closer to this year's XFL Masters. The teams already crowned their race's champions are eagerly awaiting who else will turn up to fight them for the big title.

There are two more rounds of qualifiers to go, so you still have a chance to be part of the big show!

The races for this round are Human, Khemri and Necromantic. If you have a [B]lackbox or [R]anked team of any TV from these races you are hereby invited to APPLY on the group page.

The tournaments will start on June 13th at 22:00-ish and the first round deadline will be June 22nd.

The news of the Crown of Sand prize had reached the ears of the goblin organisers of the Grotty Little Tournament (GLT).

Much mumbling was heard among the green masses. How on earth could they keep up with a prize like that? It took days to finally come up with their unique idea.

They went through all they were good at. Fouling, flying through the air, fouling, more fouling, bribing, fouling and more bribing.

Then they settled on it...

SECRET WEAPONS! Who doesn't love secret weapons.

As a prize they will offer to the winner 2 secret weapons and the knowledge needed to sneak them onto the pitch.

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The winner of the GLT will be rewarded with the choice of 2 secret weapons (not 2 of the same kind) from Ball and Chain (player gets MA3/ST7), Chainsaw, Bombs or Pogo stick (player gets VLL and Leap).

They will carry the secret weapon trait which will follow normal rules.

They must be placed on a player that played in the final game.

The winning coach can also award one of their players the 'fan favourite' skill.

As some of you already noticed, the FFB game server has been acting a bit flaky recently. I've been hard at work trying to figure it out, and am still working on it.

I truly apologize for the inconvenience this instability has caused you, and continues to cause.

For those of you who are not interested in technical details, you can stop reading now as I'll simply be explaining the problems and background for the rest of this post.

A stirring had been heard from the desert. The pillars of fire had been seen flickering, as if they were changing, before they returned to their normal form. This is most unusual.

The rumours amongst the races and teams already there is that the Crown of Sand itself looks strangely different as it sits on top of the risen plinth. Lich Lords scurry around to make sense of it.

A dark silhouette of a Lich Lord stepped forward. 'Settra has spoken! The Crown of Sand will now bestow great power and responsibility on it's owner. But beware, this great power cannot last forever.' The cloaked figure returns back to the shadow of the plinth.

The noise around each of the 24 pillars was deafening as the excitement for the Crown of Sand grew.

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The Crown of Sand will now bestow +ST/Leader/Regeneration on it's owner. It will also allow the team to raise sand skeletons (functioning like a necromancer). As a display of the Crown's power, a single sand skeleton will be added to the team.

Once the wearer of the crown has died, the ability to raise sand skeletons has gone.