And we're off to season 8 of NUL! Who will take the pot this year? Which undead team will show up as the liveliest? Who'll rack up the most casualties? Which elf team will reign supreme? Who'll be the touchdown hog this season? Will Luiggi get any ability upgrades with skill rolls this time? Answers to these exciting questions and more will be answered soon!
Here are the matchups:
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Here's the short reminder of how matches should be scheduled both for our new and old coaches:
- New match day and match day thread will be opened once the previous match day has finished.
- Home team is responsible for contacting the other team. However, either coach can initiate contact. Basically, which ever coach sees the new match week first can announce his free times for the week.
- Coaches can agree on the game time anyway they want: in this forum thread, private messaging, e-mail, face to face, pidgeon carriers or through goblin messengers. However, please let rest of the league know that you've settled on a match time by writing into this thread.
That's it. As Mr. B. already mentioned, we'll be going with more relaxed schedule for the first weeks. But let's try to get the first match day played within two weeks at the latest.
All righty Hakos, looks like you'll have your chance of avenging my slander of your nor... I mean human team.
I just started my vacation, so I'm quite free most of the days. However, as I'm free as a bird now for few weeks, I won't probably be online as frequently. So there might be some delays in my communication but I should be online at least once a day. Here are some of times that I'm available for gaming (all times CET/GMT+2):
- Sunday the 19th, from 15 onwards.
- Monday all day.
- Friday through Sunday all day if you let me know before Tuesday. I'll be hiking and away from the Interwebs from Tuesday to Thursday.
I have one week remaning of my vacation, and few things planned. Which means I can play almost any day, but best would be tuesday, wednesday or thursday where I can play any time. Oh, right, doesn't suit you.
Think we could aim for monday either start early (~10) or after 17.
Backup plan would be friday early, saturday late, or sunday any time.
Noticed that we have a TV of 1170 vs 1180, should be a very even match, at least if my 3 looners decides to play. Looking forward to it.
/Hakos
Lasseman! Maybe in the next season or two, your Chaotic dudes can take on my Disorganized Dudes for the mirror match, but for now, I'll just have some squishy elves. At least I get to play the chaos team before the guys get MB+PO :)
Anyway, I guess we're both in CEST timezone. I'm available Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from about 1900, and can probably start as late as 2200 if I'm stretching it.
I'll probably have some time during the weekend, and definitely during next week as well, but I don't have the full overview yet. I'll update you with more times if we can't get the game on during this week.
Ahhh, good old Barmution again. I'm the elf now so I guess I'll be the one receiving a physical beating this time for a change :D
I am a bit limited this week so I can only play from Tuesday to Friday at either 16.00 or 22.00 GMT+2. I should have a better schedule this weekend though, so if these don't suit you, tell me your options so I may adapt.
Quote from: hakos on August 19, 2012, 10:50:49 AM
Think we could aim for monday either start early (~10) or after 17.
Backup plan would be friday early, saturday late, or sunday any time.
Monday works for me. I'm doing errands at home whole day, so I'll be available for both early or late start. Just let me know the time for Monday, and I'll be there. I'll check the forum on Monday morning and plan my day according to the game time.
And yep, it should be an even match. Although you have two tacklers that'll make the game harder for me. I just have to hope that you're game plan will be so complicated that your big bonehead and those looners will not understand it and cause lots of turnovers:P
Hi Gurgeh!
Seems like a mighty clash between elves and norse are coming up! :)
My ok starting times for this week are as follow (all times are in CEST-Central European Summer Time):
Monday: 21.00 - 22.00
Tuesday: 21.00 - 22.00
Wednesday: 21.00 - 22.00
Thursday: 18.00 - 22.00
Friday: 19.30 - 00.00
Saturday: All day
Sunday: 20.00 - 22.00
Hope anyone of these times suits you, sir!
See you on the pitch!
/Gnaarkill
I see a Golden opportunity here :P, When can you take on the anti-elfs?
Weekdays are evenings only, This Wednesday is Off.
Cheers!
/B
Hm ok, monday should probably work, at least if we can not start too early. Like start 21.00 at the earliest.
Quote from: J-Reedy on August 19, 2012, 02:38:00 PM
Quote from: hakos on August 19, 2012, 10:50:49 AM
Think we could aim for monday either start early (~10) or after 17.
Backup plan would be friday early, saturday late, or sunday any time.
Monday works for me. I'm doing errands at home whole day, so I'll be available for both early or late start. Just let me know the time for Monday, and I'll be there. I'll check the forum on Monday morning and plan my day according to the game time.
It will have to be late monday, got some things planned during daytime now. So, let's say 19?
/Hakos
Ok Hakos, see you at 19 tonight!
Kvasilad shall we say 20:00 at Wednesday?
//Lars
Quote from: Lars on August 20, 2012, 08:58:57 AM
Kvasilad shall we say 20:00 at Wednesday?
//Lars
Yep, sounds good!
Quote from: kvasilad on August 20, 2012, 09:39:06 AM
Quote from: Lars on August 20, 2012, 08:58:57 AM
Kvasilad shall we say 20:00 at Wednesday?
//Lars
Yep, sounds good!
Oh crap, sorry, I forgot I already had an appointment Wednesday evening :/
Any chance you can do Thursday at 20 instead?
Quote from: kvasilad on August 20, 2012, 11:15:49 AM
Quote from: kvasilad on August 20, 2012, 09:39:06 AM
Quote from: Lars on August 20, 2012, 08:58:57 AM
Kvasilad shall we say 20:00 at Wednesday?
//Lars
Yep, sounds good!
Oh crap, sorry, I forgot I already had an appointment Wednesday evening :/
Any chance you can do Thursday at 20 instead?
yhea should work fine for me
Quote from: Luiggi on August 19, 2012, 12:02:51 PM
Ahhh, good old Barmution again. I'm the elf now so I guess I'll be the one receiving a physical beating this time for a change :D
I am a bit limited this week so I can only play from Tuesday to Friday at either 16.00 or 22.00 GMT+2. I should have a better schedule this weekend though, so if these don't suit you, tell me your options so I may adapt.
Long time no smash, Luiggi, old boy ;) I most certainly hope I won't be taking a (literal) beating at the hands of elves, but you never know in Blood Bowl...
I could possibly play tomorrow night, although 22 is a bit late. If you could do 21.30, I'd have a much better chance at being able to finish the game without my GF growling. If that's not doable I think we'll have to schedule something in the weekend, preferably early Sunday.
-Barm
Quote from: Lars on August 20, 2012, 11:20:34 AM
Quote from: kvasilad on August 20, 2012, 11:15:49 AM
Oh crap, sorry, I forgot I already had an appointment Wednesday evening :/
Any chance you can do Thursday at 20 instead?
yhea should work fine for me
Super, thanks! Sorry about the flip-flopping :D
Quote from: Barmution on August 20, 2012, 12:39:03 PM
Long time no smash, Luiggi, old boy ;) I most certainly hope I won't be taking a (literal) beating at the hands of elves, but you never know in Blood Bowl...
I could possibly play tomorrow night, although 22 is a bit late. If you could do 21.30, I'd have a much better chance at being able to finish the game without my GF growling. If that's not doable I think we'll have to schedule something in the weekend, preferably early Sunday.
-Barm
Ah, well, I'd have no problems playing at 21.30 but tomorrow turned out to be a no-go for me. I could play it on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday.
Quote from: The Golden Arrow on August 19, 2012, 09:14:23 PM
Hm ok, monday should probably work, at least if we can not start too early. Like start 21.00 at the earliest.
That sound like a plan.
Cya then.
/B
Quote from: Luiggi on August 20, 2012, 02:48:15 PM
Ah, well, I'd have no problems playing at 21.30 but tomorrow turned out to be a no-go for me. I could play it on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday.
I might be able to play on Thursday at 21.30, depending on me being able to fix stuff for a client fast enough. We can try for it and I'll tell you by Thursday afternoon if it's possible. Would that be acceptable?
Quote from: Barmution on August 20, 2012, 07:01:38 PM
I might be able to play on Thursday at 21.30, depending on me being able to fix stuff for a client fast enough. We can try for it and I'll tell you by Thursday afternoon if it's possible. Would that be acceptable?
Sure thing. Don't rush too much on IRL stuff though, we can always play it this weekend or next week :D
Ok, first match of the season is played and I do not know what J-Reedy have done to offend Nuffle, but it must have been something serious since he had an unbelievable misfortune when it came to dices.
As for myself, I prayed a lot and it seems someone heard.
By now you have probably guessed that I won, and you are right. 4-1 to the humans.
I started by KOing out two of his linewoman in t1 and it continued like that. When I scored in t5 the amazons had one wounded and 4 KO and I only one 1 KO. We got one each back and from this point of time I always played with a full team while the kittens never went above 7 players on the field.
J-Reedy finished the first half brilliant though and managed to score with 7 players vs 11.
In the second half the superiority in numbers showed and I could almost do what I wanted the whole time. To top it off I got a blitz in t12 so in total I managed to score 3 TD in the second half.
Goldie, I'm online and waiting.
I saw you had another game so if you feel you cannot manage another one nearby say 15 minutes, I feel we will finish the game a bit late for me.
Cheers!
/B
Yeah had another game and it dragged out (final in another league and it got to overtime). I can start now if its not too late.
I won the game btw :)
We had some connection issues setting the game up so we will try sunday 21.00.
Quote from: Luiggi on August 20, 2012, 07:15:13 PM
Quote from: Barmution on August 20, 2012, 07:01:38 PM
I might be able to play on Thursday at 21.30, depending on me being able to fix stuff for a client fast enough. We can try for it and I'll tell you by Thursday afternoon if it's possible. Would that be acceptable?
Sure thing. Don't rush too much on IRL stuff though, we can always play it this weekend or next week :D
Great, I think I'll have to settle for Sunday anway because things just went to hell in a handbasket at work now, so I might not get home before friday night... :o
-Barm
Quote from: Barmution on August 21, 2012, 08:49:20 AM
Great, I think I'll have to settle for Sunday anway because things just went to hell in a handbasket at work now, so I might not get home before friday night... :o
-Barm
Ok, take it easy and come back alive :D I'll wait for your post to see what times suit you this weekend.
Quote from: Gnaarkill on August 19, 2012, 07:37:10 PM
Thursday: 18.00 - 22.00
Friday: 19.30 - 00.00
Saturday: All day
Sunday: 20.00 - 22.00
Hello Gnaarkill! Any of these times will work for me. (Except for saturday 11-15 when I will do my laundry.)
Quote from: Gurgeh on August 21, 2012, 11:12:34 PM
Quote from: Gnaarkill on August 19, 2012, 07:37:10 PM
Thursday: 18.00 - 22.00
Friday: 19.30 - 00.00
Saturday: All day
Sunday: 20.00 - 22.00
Hello Gnaarkill! Any of these times will work for me. (Except for saturday 11-15 when I will do my laundry.)
Ok, cool!
So how about friday @ 20.00?
/Gnaarkill
Quote from: Gnaarkill on August 22, 2012, 10:11:37 AM
Quote from: Gurgeh on August 21, 2012, 11:12:34 PM
Quote from: Gnaarkill on August 19, 2012, 07:37:10 PM
Thursday: 18.00 - 22.00
Friday: 19.30 - 00.00
Saturday: All day
Sunday: 20.00 - 22.00
Hello Gnaarkill! Any of these times will work for me. (Except for saturday 11-15 when I will do my laundry.)
Ok, cool!
So how about friday @ 20.00?
/Gnaarkill
That sounds good.
Saw there were some matches that ended in a draw. Who should upload the data to BB Manager in case of a draw, any fixed rule, or just for the coaches to agree about who does it?
Quote from: hakos on August 25, 2012, 10:22:35 AM
Saw there were some matches that ended in a draw. Who should upload the data to BB Manager in case of a draw, any fixed rule, or just for the coaches to agree about who does it?
I think it's just the first one to do it. Better with one too many than one too few :)
Not a big problem for administrators to delete the extra one afterwards.
Quote from: Luiggi on August 21, 2012, 09:38:37 AM
Ok, take it easy and come back alive :D I'll wait for your post to see what times suit you this weekend.
Hi, I'm finally back and ready for some action! If you see this post early enough we could play the game tonight, otherwise I can play tomorrow from 12.00 to 17.00 (GMT+2).
-Barm
Hey there. I'd love to play it tonight is 20.30 GMT +2 ok for you? Need 50 minutes to eat something.
Edit: actually 20.00 would be ok too, I'll just grab a sandwich :D
Hmmm this shows you as offline so I guess you might have already left. I'll be around tonight and could start up to 22.00 gmt +2. I'll check every half an hour to see if you read this :D
If not, tomorrow at 12.00 GMT +2 is a good time to play it too ;)
Getting online now
Quote from: Barmution on August 25, 2012, 08:05:38 PM
Getting online now
:S I'm sorry but I just had a visit at home and I won't be able to play tonight :S Let's settle for tomorrow at 12.00. Sorry for all the hustle.
Quote from: Luiggi on August 25, 2012, 08:11:41 PM
Quote from: Barmution on August 25, 2012, 08:05:38 PM
Getting online now
:S I'm sorry but I just had a visit at home and I won't be able to play tonight :S Let's settle for tomorrow at 12.00. Sorry for all the hustle.
Np, man. Catch you on the field tomorrow at 12.00 :)
Thanks for the game, Luiggi! As you said we certainly owned one half each... too bad for me mine was the second half, or you'd be in dire trouble ;) Good luck further on and don't worry about Tango, he's doing fine as our new team maskot... now if only he'd stop chewing on his own bones :P
2-1 to Elfy Ways after a pretty crap 1st half for me dice wise, getting outplayed and outbashed by the elves and watching Luiggi being seemingly unable to roll a single 1 on dodging. It changed pretty dramatically after Luiggi's 2nd TD in the second half and suddenly I was just raking in casualties with my enraged mummies, giving me some very valuable SPPs for my next match. Hell, Sarah Jessica Paler got 3(!) casualties, hopefully netting her a double on her skill (as if). Good luck to you further on, Luiggi, and catch you in the play-offs ;D
Yeah, it was a nice match, it had blood, passes, touchdowns, fouls, death, triple skulls... what more can you ask for? No wonder they gave us 50 and 60k gold :D
I'm sorry, but I completely forgot about the game (seems like you maybe did too?). I can play tonight (the later the better) or wed/thur.
Quote from: The Golden Arrow on August 27, 2012, 09:13:39 AM
I'm sorry, but I completely forgot about the game (seems like you maybe did too?). I can play tonight (the later the better) or wed/thur.
hehe, No I did not.
I was there until 10 then it was to late for me.
It was not any problem as I played diablo3 with my GF during that time.
So no problem mate.
Tonight, ok around 21ish then maybe little later.. starting later than 10 is not an option during weekdays.
Cheers!
/B
That should probably work, I'll tell you if I cannot make it (this time). There's lots of stuff going on here.
Quote from: The Golden Arrow on August 27, 2012, 06:39:02 PM
That should probably work, I'll tell you if I cannot make it (this time). There's lots of stuff going on here.
Sure no worries, just let me know and we take it from there.
8)
/B
Yep, game is on.
Excerpt from Blood Bowl Gazette vol 534 issue 9, p. 34-35:
Editor's foreword: During the glorious run of our esteemed magazine, we have seen many Blood Bowl leagues come and go. One of the newest leagues out there is the Norsca Union League (Bloow Bowl Gazette abbreviation: NUL). But despite the young age this spunky little league has managed to establish itself quite nicely and has now started it's 8th season. Our apprised magazine covers all the running Blood Bowl leagues, so we will naturally bring you news and results also also from this latest season of NUL. Your correspondent for the league will be Fagronkey Nagrumbundyme, who has just started as a reporter in our highly acknowledged gazette. But be not afraid, Fagronkey has demonstrated that he has deep knowledge of NUL so you will surely get insightful analysis from this league. And naturally, our fine and highly decorated magazine's guaranteed quality management system will make sure that all Fagronkey's articles conform to our high quality standards. For no other magazine uses our patented three-tier quality assurance process where all articles go through three different test-readers. For this reason we can guarantee that our articles are so rock-solid, one might even say granite hard or down-to-big-rock that even a troll appreciates them, so smart that an ogre won't notice when the articles are giving an accurate desciption of the gloryfied excellenty abysmal intellect of ogres (please inform the editorial staff if you notice that an article in our rewarded magazine that has no quips about ogres) and finally so descriptive that even a dwarf will get shivers when reading them. I'm sure that you will all admit that the first article by mr. Fagronkey presented below fullfills all these strict quality standards of our recognized magazine already in the first paragraph of his report.
NUL match week 1 recap by Fagronkey Nagrumbundyme.
Results:
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ROCK! SLATE! CHICKEN GOOD! These are just few examples of extatic cries that I heard in the the he first week of NUL from sections of stands that are reserved for ogres and trolls - those magnificent examples of the fact that one can have both brains and brawn. At this point I must remind our readers that NUL games are one of the few places where confession stands serve those delicious fried skink brains. FOOD ROCK GOOD! These cries were especially hard in the match between the Elfy Way and Material Ghouls where we witnessed the first permanent casualty caused by a block. The victim was the Elfy Way's line-elf Tango and the person - or more accurately the empty marionette guided by an extremely twisted necromatic forces - was the undead Material Ghoul's Callista Failheart (you might remember her as the once famous spokesperson of Anorectic's Associated; rumours state that she might finally be satisfied with her weight). The block made my Failheart was so devastating that in addition to bashing in Tango's skull it caused the very golden gold and mithril necklace worn by Tango to fly through the air and smash a beer barrell. The extremely valuable gold and mithril jewelry disappeared into the bottomless sewers below the stadium with the spilled beer before anybody managed to save the valuable. GOOD KILL! In related news, the Material Ghouls announced that they have acquired a promising new skeletal player known by the name of Tango. The Elfy Way were declared the winners in this matchup but the true winners were the fans who wittnessed the death-game of the season.
FUNNY KILL! There was also another permacasualty during the first week, in the game between the elven Partly Animals and the Chaotic Dudes. But this casualty was more of in the vain of comedy as it was caused by the the line-elf John Deer slipping on a big pile of booger that one the Chaotic Dude's beastmen had snorted out few moments earlier. During his time in the air Deer managed to perform a fine routine that involved at least two somersaults, three double-axles and one pirouette. Unfortunately he botched his landing and by doing so also proved that elven neck can't hold the weight of even a slender elf when the elf in question drops from the height of two meters or so. Both teams managed to score two times, so the this game was ranked very high in the entertainment value!
JIGGLY STUFF! In the game between the amazonian Cougar Kittens and human Getingarna we didn't get to enjoy the always entertaining deaths even though the amazons did their best to entertain the crowds. They got knocked-down whopping 17 times suffering two quite enjoyable serious injuries in the process. According to analysis of experts the Cougar Kittens might've been saved from deaths by their natural "paddings". The Getingarna won the matchup 4 to 1 and in his post-game interview the Getingarna coach proudly announced that only once has he seen more efficient hitting on girls - in the after party of the infamous conference that the Gigolo's for Rent Inc. arranged for the Anonymous Nymphomaniacs Association.
SHINY ELFS! BEER GUZZLERS! The high elven team White Fire proved to be the most durable elven team of NUL. They managed to absorb the two casualties caused by the norse Vinterlegionen without injuring themselfs. High elfs also demonstrated their fine ball handling skills by scoring the only true passing touchdown of the week. However, as Vinterlegionen also scored once, the game ended in a 1 all draw. Interesting factoid about about the game was that in this game, according to stadium owners, the in-game sales of the high-end wines and beer exceeded the sales of normal games threefold.
ALL DED! The game with the highest consentration of corpses was the one between the Nurgle team Sweet Sweet Decay and the Khemri Drop Dead Gorgeous. The game proved to be as violent as expected with a total of five casualties. Surprisingly we also wittnessed a pass, made by the Khemri team. Although, some eye-wittnesses claim that the Itkhensatnut Henayt responsible for making the pass might have actually forgotten that he was holding a ball and the ball came loose when Itkhensatnut tried to swat a fly buzzing around his head. This show of surprising agility might be the reason why the Drop Dead Gorgeous managed to upend the Sweet Sweet Decay 0 to 1.
NUL GOOD! All in all the first season of NUL's eight season proved to be as entertaining and exciting as ever! In a matter of fact, this reporter's humbe opinion is that only thing that could compete with NUL in the field of entertainment would be world-famous magicast Blood Sports Spotlight hosted by that dashingly handsome Bloow-Bowl-genious Gron Grumbundy. Unfortunately the magicast has been on a long hiatus due to mr. Grumbundy taking a vacation (rumours about some financial strafe suffered by mr. Grumbundy are just rumours). However, with the absense of this truly magnificent magicast yours truly, Fagronkey Nagrumbundyme, will continue the tradition of insightful expert-level reporting of NUL on the pages of this leading Blood Bowl magazine you are reading! So remember, this column will be your best source for all news related to NUL. This has been NUL match week 1 recap and I'm Fagronkey Nagrumbundyme. Have a week!
Standings after match week 1:
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Nice write-up, J. Just a sidenote: Tango died victim of a vicious foul, not a skillful block. I'll have my revenge!
By the way, I just saw 3 tomb guardians in the Khemri Team, did they lose one already or it was the starting line-up?
Quote from: Luiggi on August 28, 2012, 12:24:32 PM
By the way, I just saw 3 tomb guardians in the Khemri Team, did they lose one already or it was the starting line-up?
I believe they only started with 3 dumb guards.
What's the rush?
We will get there no worries.
8)
And yes, another master piece by J-man Reedy as always to deliver. ;D
Quote from: Luiggi on August 28, 2012, 12:24:32 PM
Nice write-up, J. Just a sidenote: Tango died victim of a vicious foul, not a skillful block. I'll have my revenge!
Are you insinuating that performing a fatal foul is less an artform than blocking someone to death? Hmph, I will have ample opportunity to prove you wrong, sir!