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You don't have time to commit a whole evening to a single game of Blood Bowl ?
You are a firm believer in swift and brutal justice on the pitch ?

Join the Speed-Dating league, where nobody finishes their turns in time

Anyone interested ? I find my 40s turn games in the public leagues hilarious.  :awesome_for_real:

My Coach name = Hlem

Open league
Fresh teams only
No password, requires application.

This... is... amazing!

I'd be interested in this.

Does 40second turns help Strength teams or Agile team more though?

You definitly won't be able to move all your players or bash all the players you want, so I am not sure. I rolled a generic High Elf team for this league.

Is this that Real-time I've heard so little about?

My gut instinct is it will favor teams with more of their power concentrated in a few positionals - ie the ones with a few good guys and a horde of crappy linemen who don't matter that much. It also will favor (relative to a regular league) turnover-prone teams, since a turnover will hurt relatively less because your opponent probably won't be able to move all his guys again anyway. Having good agility on the few good positional players will probably be important because you won't have time to knock everyone down and will thus probably have to make more dodges.

In other words it is the perfect league for vampires.  :-P

No, it's exactly like the other league, but turns are 40 seconds instead of 2 or 4 minutes.

40sec became A Thing back in the waning days of Dark Elf edition. I got amazingly good at finishing my turns.

It does feel a bit like playing an RTS, though.   :grin: (not ever having even started a real-time game so far)

It favours passing teams big time, IMO.

Wait, is this going to allow randoms? I don't want to have to schedule with randoms.  :oh_i_see:

No password on the league, but (as you should have found out by now)  I have to accept every coach into the league.

I don't understand how I am supposed to arrange matches each day with randoms. Randoms that have the possibility to just up and disconnect when things don't go their way...

Helm just told you there weren't going to be any randoms!

It favours teams who can punish turnovers and make risky plays (Read Elves.)

But it'll be good fun

Oh, I took his "have to" to mean "required" - stupid French, leaking into my non-work activities!  :oh_i_see:

Hm. One application so far by Strazos. Anyone else ?  :awesome_for_real:

Eh, what the hell. Maybe it'll teach me to stop running out of time every damn turn in the other leagues.

Alright Helm, I'll run a halfling team that everyone can beat up on.

Applied with a Helf Team.

Really? All the posts here, and I was the only one to actually apply?  :oh_i_see:

Maybe you were just the only one cool enough to make the cut.

Accepted!  :awesome_for_real:

So is this league getting off the ground?

I have applied with my goblins.

As far as I understood, you guys just have to be online at the same time to have a match.

Oh!

We didn't know it was an unscheduled, MM league.

Err, yes. I was expecting a structured league. Makes it a lot easier to get a game going I would have thought.

Gruntle challanged me via Steam for the very first match of the season. High Elves vs Halflings.

3-0, 4 dead lings (and 3 Badly Hurt and 3 KO'ed) and 1 dead helf (and another one out for the next game).

40 seconds makes the game very fas4...45 minutes at most.  A brutle game, with a halfling being killed every 3 turns or so, and one of my very expensive catchers. The other catcher got the Dodge skill, and one my Bltizers rolled +1ST, which will make him very likely to be my stuff ball carrier killer.  I replaced the catcher with a thrower, and I'm down 1 player next game.

I'm available to play in US prime time, or any time Tue/Wed/Thurs.

Err, how do you FIND someone to play? There's no in game way of seeing who else is in the league that I can see.

Accept my team Helm! You're ruining christmas!

Could be that challenges aren't enabled?

Pony Squad X has applied. Are you a bad enough breed to run... with the Pony Squad?

Just checked. They are enabled. Both teams accepted. Sorry. I am a bit busy right now.  :uhrr: