Season 7 Playoffs and Failoffs - First Round Matches Are Go!

[IainC]

We're done with the main season so now it's time to see who is the champion of champions and who sucks the least out of the also-rans.

Here are the results from the last day of the regular season:



And here are the final BB Manager stats for the league:

Now the top four in each division go through to the playoffs and the bottom four are in the failoffs. These are separate leagues that have already been created as f13 Season 7 Playoffs and f13 Season 7 Failoffs respectively. If your name is in yellow in the list below then you should quit the main league and join the Playoffs, if your name is in green then you should quit the main league and join the Failoffs. The password for both leagues is skullskull as for the main league. To quit a league you need to go to the f13 Season 7 league, choose your team from the dropdown at the bottom and then the Quit League button will appear.

Final rankings

40k Division:
1st Ulysees
2nd Carnifex
3rd Megrim
4th Celer
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5th Falconeer
6th EricSwiftblade
7th Lightfax
8th Danicia

Hail Caesar Division:
1st Ramas
2nd Ruvaldt
3rd Gruntle
4th Haemish
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5th Jasper
6th Avaia
7th Gort
8th Sjofn

Hordes Division:
1st Catfud
2nd Teleku
3rd Drogg
4th Luckton
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5th Brocktoon
6th Willisterman
7th Reborne
8th ChiefTripodBear

Tamurkhan Division:
1st Lamaros
2nd IainC
3rd Ingmar
4th R3dknight
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5th Proudft
6th Ezrast
7th Fildrigar
8th Satael

Here's the diagram (thanks to RK47 for updating Falc's old table with the new divisions).


This is a knockout competition so you will play one, two or three games depending on how far through the competition you get.

Please quit the main league and join either the Playoffs or the Failoffs as soon as possible.

Some final non-BBManager based stats:

There were 32 teams in all for the main season.
7 coaches and 16 teams were new to the league
5 of the 16 new teams made it to the Playoffs
There were 7 brand new 1000TV teams and 2 of these are in the Playoffs
The season 6 champion is in the playoffs with a brand new team
Of the 16 players from the Season 6 Playoffs, 11 of them are in the Season 7 playoffs, 2 did not compete in this season, 3 failed to qualify.
Of the 11 Season 6 Playoff coaches who also made it to Season 7 playoffs, 4 did so with new teams and 7 kept their existing teams.
Of the 5 coaches who are in the Season 7 Playoffs but were not in the Season 6 playoffs, 4 played the same teams from Season 6, 1 team was new.

[avaia]

REBORNE.  Let us bleed.

[Llyse]

RK let's do this.

WhiteWolf's time to retire has come.

I'm GMT +9 so this weekend is the best bet, anytime Saturday afternoon my time.

Nice work as always from IainC the Arch-Cromulence

[Reborne]

REBORNE.  Let us bleed.

Wow, eager.
Can I make it out in the first round of the failoffs for yet another season?
All signs point to yes 

I'm on GMT+10 and will be available to play in about 7 hours from this post.
I'm booked solid until the weekend after tonight though, but the weekend is mostly free.

[IainC]

The playoffs won't start until everyone has joined up so that's not going to be in time for tonight.

[IainC]

Here are the playoff and failoff charts for reference.

[rk47]

RK let's do this.

WhiteWolf's time to retire has come.

I'm GMT +9 so this weekend is the best bet, anytime Saturday afternoon my time.

Nice work as always from IainC the Arch-Cromulence

I will not entertain you. I will forfeit.

[Megrim]

Hahahaha, for the first time in like six seasons I DON'T have to play catfud in the first round.

[Reborne]

The playoffs won't start until everyone has joined up so that's not going to be in time for tonight.

Good point, especially since I'm one of those people that needs to sign up  

Guess this will wait until the weekend or later then.
The question is, can Avaia contain their bloodlust until then or are hapless snotlings going to suffer for the delay?

[Ingmar]

Applied. I pondered trying to sneak Beardstorm! in...

[avaia]

The playoffs won't start until everyone has joined up so that's not going to be in time for tonight.

Good point, especially since I'm one of those people that needs to sign up  

Guess this will wait until the weekend or later then.
The question is, can Avaia contain their bloodlust until then or are hapless snotlings going to suffer for the delay?

No snotlings will be harmed if you agree to sit the ogres off to the side.

[Ulysees]

I'm going to have an issue getting my game in before next weekend 11-5 with a US opponent as I am away this weekend unless it is also a bank holiday on Monday 6th May in the US as well in which case we could play at a reasonable hour UK time in the evening. So Haemish are you working on Monday 6th?

[drogg]

ruvaldt my old nemesis! your hour of reckoning is at hand 

[Llyse]

I will not entertain you. I will forfeit.

You're not seriously going to not forfeit are you? I'll go easy on you I swear.

Go Drogg! Knock out the Champ!!!

[rk47]

it doesn't seem possible. after the beat down vs 1500 tv necro, 1900 tv negros shd be worse.

[ezrast]

it doesn't seem possible. after the beat down vs 1500 tv necro, 1900 tv negros shd be worse.

Quoting for posterity  

Now I'm imagining a Blood Bowl team of nearly 2,000 copies of Bill Cosby.

[Llyse]

it doesn't seem possible. after the beat down vs 1500 tv necro, 1900 tv negros shd be worse.

You'd get more inducements but anyway

[rk47]

I can see it now, Whitewolf with the ball, trying to make it to the end zone ... and....
oh god, they're all over him oh my god. Oh my god. THE HUMANITY

[HaemishM]

I'm going to have an issue getting my game in before next weekend 11-5 with a US opponent as I am away this weekend unless it is also a bank holiday on Monday 6th May in the US as well in which case we could play at a reasonable hour UK time in the evening. So Haemish are you working on Monday 6th?

No, I'll be working May the 6th. My boss is off this week for vacation and next Monday as well, and it's not a US holiday. We'll have to look towards next weekend I believe.

Also, you will probably stumpbreak me quite easily.

[Ulysees]

That was close to ending horribly as I forgot how to quit a league and chose deactivate on the team instead, thank god that didn't actually delete the buggers! Have applied to the league now so will set a time next weekend for playing Haemish assuming it starts before then.

Haemish pretty much all my losses come against agi teams rather than bashy teams so really it's a case of can I take out your gutter runners before you get an unassailable lead? Our match last season was a case of UI skull fuckery if I recall and wasn't a fair reflection of the match so it could have been a much closer match than it turned out so I am not taking your guys lightly at all. Hopefully it will be a good game.

[Ruvaldt]

ruvaldt my old nemesis! your hour of reckoning is at hand 

I'm sure it is.  Oh well, I had a good run!  Hopefully I can at least drag a few of your skinks down with me.  Give me a season or two to grow some claws and mighty blow.   

What times are good for you?  Weekends are best for me.

[drogg]

ruvaldt my old nemesis! your hour of reckoning is at hand 

I'm sure it is.  Oh well, I had a good run!  Hopefully I can at least drag a few of your skinks down with me.  Give me a season or two to grow some claws and mighty blow.   

What times are good for you?  Weekends are best for me.

this friday's probably booked up and i'm a wedding guest sunday but as far as i know my saturday's free.  ping me if you see me on steam?

[eldaec]

Sorry to throw a spanner in the works, but I can't get online till Sunday, even just to apply.

Typing this on a beach.

[Reborne]

Is the failoffs set to 4 minute turns?

I could be reading it wrong, but just in case

[IainC]

Is the failoffs set to 4 minute turns?

I could be reading it wrong, but just in case

Fixed now, thanks for spotting it.

[HaemishM]

Even the commish fails in the failoffs! 

[Danicia]

Doh! Thanks for the prod, Iain  I've joined the fail league. I thwapped around Figrigar to do it, too.

[luckton]

The Crew has applied for it's first and most likely only and last playoff match 

[drogg]

ruvaldt my old nemesis! your hour of reckoning is at hand 

I'm sure it is.  Oh well, I had a good run!  Hopefully I can at least drag a few of your skinks down with me.  Give me a season or two to grow some claws and mighty blow.   

What times are good for you?  Weekends are best for me.

this friday's probably booked up and i'm a wedding guest sunday but as far as i know my saturday's free.  ping me if you see me on steam?

strike that - busy saturday, free sunday.  whoops!

[Falconeer]

Oooooh playing Sjofn. I never had the pleasure of ethically crushing her bones. This will be fun.

[z22]

Swiftblade, we play in the GhettoBowl bracket. When would you like to play?  I'm in GMT-5, EST USA. Next week I can play any time on Monday, 7pm-10pm Tues/Thursday, Fri 11am-3pm. Sunday the 12th: 11am to 9pm. Assuming the games can be played this soon.

[IainC]

Still waiting for RK47 and Ramas to join the playoffs and for Lightfax, ChiefTripodBear, Swiftblade and Fildrigar to join the playoffs. Please do so as soon as you can so we can get started.

[eldaec]

I won't be able to apply till Sunday. As mentioned above, I am literally posting from the beach...

[swiftblade]

Swiftblade, we play in the GhettoBowl bracket. When would you like to play?  I'm in GMT-5, EST USA. Next week I can play any time on Monday, 7pm-10pm Tues/Thursday, Fri 11am-3pm. Sunday the 12th: 11am to 9pm. Assuming the games can be played this soon.

Based on your times it looks like Sunday will be the first I can make. 11am your time should hopefully be 4pm mine... I think.

[IainC]

The Failoffs are now started and the seeding should be correct. The Bloodbowl UI is pretty horrible and those of you who have ever run a league will know that the league interface is even worse than the rest of the UI. The screen where you set up seeding however makes the rest of the UI look spectacularly good by comparison.

You can start playing the first round Failoff games as soon as you like, the Playoffs should start tomorrow when Ramas is back and has signed up. The deadline for both (assuming that the Playoffs start on time is Sunday 19th May. Please organise your games as soon as you can.

Upload matches as usual to the Season 7 league in BBManager, first round should be day 8, quarterfinal matches should be day 9, semis are day 10 and the final will be day 11.