OGBL Launched

The Ottawa-Gatineau Bloodbowl collective is starting a new "open League" this fall/winter.

• The league will be run using the latest Living rule book (LRB5) available to download for free from Games Workshop's specialist games website http://www.specialist-games.com/bloodbowl/rulebook.asp
• Team creation and advancement will be as the rule book. I.e. you get 1,000,000 GPs to buy your team, it must start with 11 players, and you can chose whether or not to spend money on Fan Factor, rerolls etc.
• All the inducements, star players and special play cards are available for purchase on a game by game basis. A team may spend "real" GC on an inducement for a particular game if they want but the inducement NEVER becomes a permanent part of the roster.
• The league will use spiralling expenses as in the rulebook with a break point of 1,750,000 GPs and step size of 150,000 GPs.

League play

• There is no fixture list and coaches may play as many or as few games as they like subject to the following restrictions.
• No team may play more than two games per calendar month. Month one is October 2007.
• Each coach may run as many teams in the league as he/she would like.
• This means that part time players will not get left too far behind and be discouraged from coming to play after a break. It also allows people with too much time on their hands to play as many games as they want with multiple teams.
• Additionally, no team may play any other team more than twice until it has played ALL the other teams. This rule is in place to encourage people who are in the league to play as many different folk as possible. This rule only applies for the duration of an "open season" which will be probably less than 6 months.

League Standings

• There will be numerous standings recorded over the season and the LRB5 match record sheet should be filled in and gotten to someone with access to the spreadsheets for data entry as soon as possible after the game (please).
• The match record sheet may be downloaded here:http://www.specialist-games.com/assets/LRB5MatchSheet.pdf
• Standings Categories will include team rankings based on Team Value and Win % along with all the regular TD/CAS categories. Substantial player rankings will be recorded as well.

I look forward to seeing you on the Field!