FUMBBL, the online Blood Bowl league

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.

With Spike issue 9 being released today, Blood Bowl got a new race! As of now, you can create these teams in Ranked, Blackbox and League divisions. If you find any errors in the new roster, please get in touch with me and I will correct them as soon as possible. Enjoy your team full of loners and animosity players!

Each year the Tomb lords of the Khemri meet at a charred and blackened crack in the desert. There powerful magic is called upon from ancient Tomes and Lich Lords under vow to assist, and the dusty magical conflagration sends up a flaming beacon into the sky. Teams from all over the world see the sign and flock to the desert for the chance to compete for the Crown Of Sand.

The Crown Of Sand is accepting applications here.

Apply with whatever team you wish to enter into the Qualifiers.

At the moment that applications are closed, the 8 most numerous races are each placed into their own qualifier. The other races are allocated into these groups first in reverse (race 8 gains race 9, race 7 gains race 10) and then from 17-24 in the original order(so 1, 16 and 17; 2, 15 and 18), and the draw is made.

Each Tournament must feature the highest 5 TV applicants from the lead race in that group, the 3 highest from the race numbered 9-16 and the two highest from races 17-24 and be filled to a maximum of 16 teams, with the remaining highest TV teams from all the races allocated to that group. where this is not possible, filler teams will be used.

The draw will start at 22.00pm on Wednesday 15th July.

The winner of each Crown Of Sand Qualifier will recieve +1 bonus MVP and the winner of the main draw will recieve an additional +1 MVP. They may then chose to elect one of the players who completed the final to don the 'Crown Of Sand'. The Crown Of Sand gives the chosen player +ST and Leader for 70TV.

So what are you waiting for?

Apply to take part in the Crown Of Sand X.

Bazakastine

Let me start with an apology to those coaches who rely on news posts to be informed about XFL. It seems something went wrong with the news item, which means this announcement is royally late.

Anyway, here goes. You have one final chance to qualify for the XFL Masters, which will kick off on August 19th. If you want to take part in this event you will need to win the qualifier for Elf Union, Norse or Skaven. These tournaments are now open for applications and will start on Wednesday July 1st. Any team from these races of any TV/TW is eligible to play, provided they are from the [B]ox or [R]anked divisions.

You can APPLY! to take part on the group page.

Get ready to rumble coaches! There are only two more rounds of qualifying left to grab a spot in this year's XFL Masters and this first of those starts next week!

Nurgle and Orc offer the last chances for the "big bad basher" type of teams and for Halflings the XFL is one of the few chances to actually win a tournament in the first place (not so much referring to the Masters obviously :P)

Anyway, if you have a [B]ox or [R]anked team of any TV/TW from these races you are hereby invited to APPLY on the group page.

The tournaments will kick off next Wednesday, June 3rd and have weekly deadlines.