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POW TOWN 2025– Calgary, AB CanadaJune 7/8 2024
The Blood Bowl League of Calgary and The Ogres Den Gaming Club Presents
POW Town 2025
Join us for the 13th Anniversary of POW Town Alberta’s Premier Blood Bowl event.
POW TOWN Is a proud participant of the NAF Great Plains Grand Prix Tournament Series
Location: Ogre’s Den Gaming Club
#23 3220 5th Ave NE Calgary, AB T2A 5N1
Cost:
From March 1 – 8th $40
March 9th – March 31st - $50
April 1 – April 30th - $ 55
May 1 – June 1 $60
Please send tournament fee via PayPal or etransfer to [email protected]
A current NAF membership is mandatory for this event. The Tournament organizer can do this in person at the event. The membership fee is $5 and you will be given your choice of membership reward.
We will also be doing prize draws. You will be given 3 free tickets to enter into for prizes.
Pre-registration can be sent by email money transfer to [email protected]
Tournament Tracking and Roster Submission
We will be using Tourplay for results tracking. You will need to have a device to log your results. Tourplay link will be posted on April 1 2025. Roster Deadline is May 18th 2025
Tournament Organizer: Lair Ashmead [email protected]
Updates: Check out the event page on Facebook.
Tournament schedule:
The tournament will be a two day, 6 game swiss style tournament. First games will be determined by random matchup. The remaining games will be determined based on tournament points.
For the first round only, we will do our best to pair players off against members that are outside of their home club.
JUNE 7– Day 1 will run 3 matches
8:45: Registration begins
9:15am – Pretournament presentation
9:30 AM: First game
12:00 PM : Lunch
1:00 PM : Second Game
3:30 PM: Third Game
6:00 PM – Day One Ends
June 8th – Day 2 will have 3 matches
9:00 AM : Forth Game
11:30 - 12:30 - Painting Judging
11:30 PM: Lunch
12:30 PM: Fifth Game
3:00 PM Final Game
5:30 – Conclusion of Matches
5:30 – 6:00 - TO calculations
6:00 – 6:30 - Awards and Conclusion
6:30 – Tournament Finished
What to bring:
- Painted team with suitable models.
- Skill rings or another appropriate way to identify skills/positions
- Block dice
- D6s, d8,d16
- 3 copies of your team roster including skill purchases and inducements
Tournament Rules:
- Standard NAF Rules 2020 – including Slann are available to play.
Rules Not Allowed
NO WIZARDS
No referees
No Special Play Cards
No Special Weather tables
No Special Balls
No Infamous Coaches
NO Sporting Giants
Stars from all published BB2020 Rules are allowed. Any new Supplements that are published by May 18th will be available.
- Teams will resurrect at the end of each games. No SPPs, injuries or any roster changes carry over between games
- Illegal Procedure and the 4 minute time limit will not be enforced.
- Games will have a maximum length of 2 hours 30 minutes. Turn time limits or chess clocks may be imposed if a game is at risk of going over the 2.5 hour time limit. When Time is called the dice are down and the match is over. There will be no OT.
- Players must agree on cocked die rules, the use of dice cups at the start of the match. Either coach can request that dice be shared. If tournament dice are requested to be used by either opponent, both coaches will use their tournament dice.
- If there are any disagreements or rules disputes, tournament directors will be standing by to assist.
Team building:
- All 31 NAF sanctioned teams are eligible.
- Teams get 1.2 million gold to construct their roster.
- Star players can be purchased as part of a roster but after 11 roster players prior to purchase.
Highlander Rule
In the case that opposing teams hire the same star, both teams will NOT be allowed to use the star player.
- Teams must play with a minimum of 11 players.
- Teams can purchase Rerolls, apothecaries (if allowed), coaches, cheerleaders or Dedicated fans.
- Teams may also include bribes as part of the roster as per the standard inducement cost.
- Riotous Rookies, Heady Brew are available at standard cost.
- Chefs can only be purchased by Halflings 100K and Gnomes 300K
-Masters of Undeath rule is allowed for the match. Roster will reset at the end of the match.
- No other inducements may be purchased (including , cards, extra apothecaries, mercenaries, etc).
- Teams can select one of the following skill packages:
Tier System
Tier 1 – Amazon, Dark Elf, Dwarves, Lizardmen, Norse, Orcs, Skaven, Shambling Undead, Wood Elf, Underworld Denizens
Tier 2 – chaos Dwarf, Imperial Nobility, Old World Alliance, Chaos Renegades, Elf Union, High Elf Human,Tomb Kings, Necromantic Horrors, Vampires
Tier 3 – Black Orcs, Gnomes, Khorne, Chaos Chosen, Nurgle's Rotters, Slann, Snottlings
Tier 4 - Halfling, Goblin, Ogre
No STAT increases will be allowed.
Regular Skill: 6 SPP
Secondary Access 12 SPP
Star Player Access – 12 SPP/Star (Stars that are made up of duo’s for this purpose only count as 1 star)
Mega Star Player Access (Griff Oberwald, Morg N Thorg, Deeproot Strongbranch, dribbl and druell,Hackflem Skuttlespike, Bomber Dribblsnot, Cindy Pie Whistle, Kreek “The Verminator” Rustgouger, Lord Borak The Dispoiler, Skitter Stab-Stab) will cost their standard cost + 24 SPP. Teams may only hire 1 Mega Star Player
Tier 1 – 36 SPP
Tier 2 – 42 SPP
Tier 3 – 48 SPP
Teir 4 – 54 SPP may stack 2 skills on up to three models
- Stars cannot be given skills
- One extra skill maximum per player
- Each skill may be taken a maximum of 3 times
Tournament Scoring:
Win = 65
Loss = 0
Tie = 25
Scoring Bonus: There are no bonus points for this event
Casualty Award – All Casualties count with exception if a active or passive action was used. Failed Rush, or Self Inflicted injuries do not count.
Tie Breakers
Head to Head (If Applicable), should it be more than a 2 way tie move to the next tie breaker
Win Percentage
Net TD
Net Casualties
Stunty cup:
- Stunty teams will play for their own cup while still participating in the main tournament.
- Stunty teams include Halflings, Snottlings, Goblins, Gnomes and Ogres
- Star players can be added to a stunty team without disqualifying them from the Stunty Cup.
Glittering prizes:
- POW Town Champion - The team with the most tournament points.
- Runner up - the team with the 2nd most tournament points
- Stunty Cup - The stunty team with the most tournament points
- Best Painted Team
- Best Offense (Most TD’s)
- Most Casualties (Most Casualties Inflicted)
- Best Defense (Least amount of touchdowns scored against)
-Rookie Sensation – The Highest Placing 1st time attending Pow Town
- Sporting Conduct
-Best Presentation
- Share the wealth. Coaches may only win 1 trophy
Swag and prizes:
- Every dollar collected will be given back to the players in the form of swag or prizes.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Ogre's Den Gaming Club, #23, 3220 5th Ave NE,Calgary, Alberta, Canada
