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  1. Posted · Edited by lycean

    Last night we finished the tournament.

     

    Apart from who played which random team, we thought it would be interesting to tally how each team did in the tournament, too.  I kept a small notepad like a bookie and kept the stats.  Here's how the teams were doing at the end of the Round Robin:

     

    Team: wins | losses - total fans for the games they were involved in

    Humans: 2|2 - 26,5,23,28

    Elves: 1|1 - 11,20

    Dwarves: 2|1 - 10,25,8

    Orcs: 1|2 - 10,28,17

    Scaven: 2|2 - 33,9,23,18

    Chaos: 3|1 - 26,16,41,26

     

    THE FINALS

    Two simultaneous 2-player, 4-week (three highlights and a random tournament) games formed the Finals.For these games, the Round Robin determined a pecking order for players to choose their teams instead of drawing at random.  Winners proceeded to the Championship Bracket to play in the Blood Bowl for "Champion" and "Runner-Up", while the losers went to the Losers Bracket to compete for the the coveted "Waterboy" prize.  Scores for the Finals are as follows:

     

    Dwarves (41) vs Elves (11)

    Scaven (34) vs Humans (19)

     

    The Losers Bracket and Championship were very exciting, full (5 week) games, with the Championship coming down to the final fan count and the reveal being only 2 fans apart.

     

    Loser's Bracket: Orcs (41) vs Chaos (32)

    Championship: Dwarves (40) vs Scaven (38)

     

    Final Tournament Statistics: (We're thinking of including a non-monetary "betting pool" for the next tournament as sort of a side/mini game for our spectators.)

     

    Humans: 2|3 - 26,5,23,28, 19

    Elves: 1|2 - 11,20,11

    Dwarves: 4|1 - 10,25,8,41,40

    Orcs: 2|2 - 10,28,17,41

    Scaven: 3|3 - 33,9,23,18,34,38

    Chaos: 3|2 - 26,16,41,26,32

     

    All in all, it's fitting that the Dwarves took home the prize.  The reigning Waterboy chose Orcs for the Loser's Bracket after seeing the running stats because he felt it was time for a comeback, and he certainly gave the Orcs their due.  The Champion chose Dwarves for both the finals and the Championship, and now he chooses Dwarves for every Fantasy themed game we play because "Dwarves don't lose".

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    So we had the first night of our tournament last night.

     

    5 players committed to the tourney, so this first night was round robin.  Everyone played everyone once, for a total of 10 games.  We played simultaneous games (drawing from common decks and cheat token pool, but we had to mock up some additional dice) of 3 weeks each (two highlights and a random ending Tournament).  Once we had our play order in the round robin, we drew team tokens from a hat to identify the team we would be using for the game, drawing again from the hat between each game. Due to the odd number of players, a different player got a "bye" and sat out each round, so everyone got a break during the tourney.  After about 4 hours we'd all played each other, and we tallied our wins (and total fans for any necessary tie breakers).  Even picked up some spectators who were interested in learning the game as we played.

     

    Tomorrow night we'll go into the finals where the top 4 players will play 2 player, 4 week games (3 highlights and a random ending Tournament).  The winners of those finals will play in the Blood Bowl (5 weeks, 4 highlights and the Blood Bowl) to determine Champion and Runner-Up.  At the same time, the losers will play each other in another final to determine 3rd place, or "Waterboy".

     

    So far we're having a blast.  One person has already been eliminated (me, unfortunately, but I'm not complaining at all), and tomorrow night one more will be out after losing both the Finals and the losers bracket.  Top three will get small prizes.  Not bad for our first go around, and after we pull in a few more players and pick up the expansions (and maybe another base set), we'll put on another, bigger tournament with bigger prizes.

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    My group is looking into setting up a bracketed BB:TM tournament, and I was curious if anyone else had tried something similar?  Did you alter the number of weeks in a season?  Did you make the players stay with one team (provided you had 6 players)?  Did you use the tournaments differently?

     

    We have lots of ideas, but I wanted to see if anyone had already tried them, and how it worked.

     

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