All matches in each round must be played before certain date. Those not unable to do that must ask more time or matches are automatically marked as non-held.
The team scores 2 points from victory and 1 point from draw in each game. Most points scoring teams enter play-offs.
After all 3 rounds have been played (for a total of 6 games for each team), the official play-offs begin. Play-offs are played with 8 teams, and participating teams are selected with following rules:
Those teams that do not enter play-offs or drop from them get free matches, see below.
Any MISS NEXT GAME injuries are automatically healed at the start of the season.
Tournament | Autumn | Winter | Spring | Summer |
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Tournament | Spike! Challenge | DungeonBowl | Chaos Cup | BloodBowl |
Winner's Cash prize | 200 000 | 150 000 | Varies | 350 000 |
Extra | +d6 Fan Factor | - | - | Each player fielded in final gains MVP (not just winner's) |
Modiefirs to each match | - | Free Team Wizard | +1 Random event | +20 000 money. |
Second's cash prize | 100 000 | 100 000 | Varies | 150 000 |
Best player (most SPPs) after Spike! challenge will enter Hall of Fame, giving +1 Fan factor to the team.
Note that the Free Team Wizard is in addition to any wizard you may already have. That is, you can get 2 wizards for the match.
Trophy reroll will be given to each tournament winner, and remains untille next year tournament final has been played. The reroll is usable once/match, and nothing can take it away, not master chef, bad habits or allies. You cannot use it when doom and gloom has been played, but it waits for the next half. TR of the team is increased by the cost of half reroll, round up.
Non-held matches: If some match is not held for some reason, it is marked as such in results. This is very undesirable result, but sometimes there is nothing to be done about that. Coach of each team must explain reasons for that and non-held match may result as banning from the next tournament. In any case, one non-held match can be replaced with free game after official rounds. If team has more than one round match non-held, it is automatically banned from next tournament unless coach has very good explanation for that.
Dropping team: If some team completely leaves current tournament, the match chart is reorganized to reflect this, if possible. Otherwise its opponents gain automatic 0-2 victory from each non-held match. In any case, this team is quite certainly banned from the next tournament.
Extra newbie rule: Teams with less than 3 matches may play extra free matches to sum it up to 6 before playing 'normal' free games. Thus a fresh team may play 6 matches before actual 'normal' 3 free games, while team with 2 may play 4.
Please note that team cannot play 2 or more matches against a same team in free matches! Official tournament games are not counted on this limit.
IMPORTANT: Even if your match goes badly, your entire team is massacred or otherwise you want to get rid of it, no team is ever removed from the system after it has played any games! Instead, set it as 'hibernated' in TeamTracker.
The mimimum cost of the transfer is value of the player times 5,000 gold coins, round down to nearest 10,000. The selling team does not gain any lost Fan Factor of an ally and the buying team loses Fan Factor from bought player if appropriate as described in ally rules.
For example, a niggling dark elf lineman with 13 SPPs is sold. The mimimum cost is 40,000 gold coins, because the value of the dark elf is 7 -1 (niggling) +2 (SPPs) = 8.
Note: All player transfers must be announced on the public bulletin board! No transfer is allowed from team coached by certain player to other team coached by the same player.
NOTE: Coaching staff cannot be sold!
This prohibition applies to all teams from first third round match pre match sequence to last play-off match (or third round match if fails to enter play-offs) post match sequence.
For example, a team outside the season cannot buy player from team currently in play-offs.
Exception: Money transfers to opponent in the outgoing match is, however, allowed. So you can still sell your random play cards and bribe your opponent from using that bad habits on you.