Hey Coaches!

We're pleased to officially announce the Blood Bowl 2 2018 World Cup!

Compete for more than $30,000 in prizes and become the next Blood Bowl 2 Champion!

There are 3 ways to qualify for the World Cup 2018 Play-Offs:

• Champion Ladder
• Community Leagues
• Invitational Cup

Find more info about the World Cup on the official website: http://worldcup.bloodbowl-game.com/

Champion Ladder

The Champion Ladder and its Champion Cup welcome an exclusive prize for season 14 and 15 on all platforms!

You can qualify for the World Cup Play-Offs by enrolling in seasons 14 and 15 of the Champion Ladder in the Official Cabalvision League.

Create your team, sign-up to the Champion Ladder from April 4th and reach the top of the Ladder for a chance to earn your ticket to the Play-Offs!

PC/Mac

The 4 best coaches (the semi-finalists) of the Champion Cups 14 and 15 will be qualified for the World Cup 2018 Play-Offs!

PS4 & Xbox One

The winners of the Champion Cups 14 and 15 will be qualified for the World Cup 2018 Play-Offs!

Please note that the World Cup Play-Offs will be played on the PC/Mac verison of the game, meaning all console qualified coaches must be able to play on a computer.

Champion Ladder Season 14 starts April 4th on PC/Mac, PS4 and Xbox One at 12:00pm (CEST) and finishes May 9th at 11:59am (CEST).
PC/Mac Champion Ladder Rules / PS4 Champion Ladder Rules / Xbox One Champion Ladder Rules.

Champion Ladder Season 15 starts May 9th on PC/Mac, PS4 and Xbox One at 12:00pm (CEST) and finishes June 13th at 11:59am (CEST).
PC/Mac Champion Ladder Rules / PS4 Champion Ladder Rules / Xbox One Champion Ladder Rules.

Community Leagues

The World Cup is first and foremost a huge event for the Blood Bowl community, and we worked once again with the biggest and most active community leagues on Blood Bowl 2 to organize official qualifier competitions!

Each league has its own rules and organises its own competition.

Here is the list of all the Official Community Qualifier Leagues, their rules, nationality and a contact email:

PC/Mac Community Leagues

• ABBLE - RULES - abble.committee@gmail.com - 1 ticket

• ADEnglish Invitational - RULES - aarondodd@mail.ru - 1 ticket

• BB Quebec - RULES - bloodbowlquebec.com@gmail.com - 1 ticket

• BBLANZ - RULES - za_uvek@bblanz.org - 1 ticket

• BBTactics - RULES - ilari.nikkarikoski@gmail.com - 2 tickets

• Beantown - RULES - darthphysicist@gmail.com - 1 ticket

• Bloody League of Baston - RULES - bloodhazardleague@gmail.com - 1 ticket

• Canard PC - RULES - dragounetx@hotmail.com - 1 ticket

• DBBC - RULES - arioso@dbbc-ev.de - 3 tickets

• Francobowl - RULES - http://francobowl.com/forum/ - 1 ticket

• GOBBLN - RULES - gobblnoverlords@gmail.com - 1 ticket

• ICBBL - RULES - bloodbowl.icbbl@gmail.com - 1 ticket

• Iron Phoenix BBL - RULES - musicomplex@gmail.com - 1 ticket

• JOL - RULES - jcgabardo@legiodraconis.fr - 1 ticket

• Krooguistanley Cup - RULES - krooggaming@gmail.com - 1 ticket

• Liga Hispana Blood Bowl 2 - RULES - Official Discord - 1 ticket

• Ligue Française de BB - RULES - liguefrancaisebloodbowl@gmail.com - 3 tickets

• Mad Academy - RULES - Official Discord - 2 tickets

• NATTS - RULES - Ben.Cromer@hotmail.com - 1 ticket

• New Ogham League - RULES - jrcour@yahoo.fr - 1 ticket

• OCC - RULES - pr@orca-cola.com - 2 tickets

• Piel De Minotauro - RULES - pieldeminotauro.bloodbowl@gmail.com - 2 tickets

• Polish BB Community - RULES - forum@bloodbowl.pl - 1 ticket

• ReBBL - RULES - Official Discord - 4 tickets

• ReBBRL - RULES - Official Discord - 1 ticket

• Rock Paper Shotgun - RULES - divisionsofdeath@gmail.com - 1 ticket

• RuBBL - RULES - info@rubbl.ru - 3 tickets

• TBBL - RULES - alexpmcguinness@gmail.com - 1 ticket

• UKBBL - RULES - gavrad76@yahoo.com - 3 tickets

• Windy City Warmongers - RULES - windycitywarmongers@gmail.com - 1 ticket

PS4 Community Leagues

• Blood & Tears - RULES - samueltremblay2806@gmail.com - 1 ticket

• MML - RULES - commish@mmlpro.com - 1 ticket

• Old World Bowl - RULES - oldworldgaming2017@gmail.com - 1 ticket

Xbox One Community Leagues

• FABBL - RULES - gazzamattaz@gmail.com - 2 tickets

Invitational Cup

We decided to organize a tournament pitting the best Blood Bowl coaches since the creation of the Champion Ladder (August 2016) - this epic one-time tournament will grant 2 tickets to the World Cup 2018 Play-Offs!

The 8 coaches invited to the World Cup Invitational Cup are:

• The 5 best coaches from the Champion Ladder PC/Mac from Seasons 1 to 14.
• The two best coaches from the Champion Ladder PS4 from Seasons 1 to 14.
• The best coach from the Champion Ladder Xbox One from Seasons 6 to 14 (season 6 is the first season of the Champion Ladder on Xbox One).

The best Coaches are those who gained the most points in the 14 Champion Cups according to the following rules:

• 1 point if the coach reaches the Round of 32 (only valid in seasons 9 to 14)
• 1 point if the coach reaches the Round of 16
• 1 point if the coach reaches the Round of 8
• 1 point if the coach reaches the semi-finals
• 1 point if the coach reaches the grand final
• 1 point if the coach wins the Champion Cup

Find the current rankings here:

• PC/Mac Champion Ladder Rankings
• PS4 Champion Ladder Rankings
• Xbox One Champion Ladder Rankings

World Cup 2018 Play Off

The 64 best players from the qualifiers will have access to the Play-Offs.

The Play-Offs are a 64 player single-elimination tournament starting July 16th 2018. It lasts 4 weeks and finishes August 16th 2018.

Players qualified for the Play-Offs will create a brand new team with any races available in the game and keep it for the whole competition.

• 64 teams

• Knock-out Single Elimination

• All matches in BO1

• Three minute turn duration.

• Resurrection Mode

• No stadium enhancements allowed, but full (cosmetic only) stadium upgrades are encouraged.

• No inducement allowed

• Custom teams:

Tier 1: Amazon, Bretonnian, Chaos Dwarf, Dark Elves, Dwarf, Lizardmen, Norse, Orc, Skaven, Undead, Wood Elves

Team creation up to 1100 TV, then you add: 4 single skills - maximum 2 skills per player. No stat up. (Final Max starting TV: 1180)

Tier 2: Chaos, Elven Union, High Elves, Humans, Khemri, Necromantic, Nurgle, Underworld, Kislev Circus, Vampire

Team creation up to 1100 TV, then you add: 5 single skills and 1 doubles skill - maximum 2 skills per player. No stat up. (Final Max starting TV: 1230)

Tier 3: Halfling, Goblin, Ogre

Team creation up to 1100 TV, then you add: 4 single skills and 2 doubles skill - maximum 2 skills per player. No stat up. (Final Max starting TV: 1240)

• After each game, the advancing coach chooses to place 1 extra skill (Max of 2 skills for T1, T2 and T3 teams still applies) on a specified player.
  • Round of 64 - as above
  • Round of 32 - add a doubles skill
  • Round of 16 - add a normal skill
  • Quarterfinals - add a doubles skill
  • Semifinals - add a normal skill
  • Final - add a normal skill

Awards and prizes

2018 World Cup Champion

• $3,000
• ASUS Pack including (approximate total retail value of $6,700):
  • High End Gaming PC System with ROG components and AMD Ryzen 16 Core processor,
  • 1 ROG Gladius II Origin mouse
  • 1 ROG STRIX Edge mouse pad
  • 1 ROG STRIX Flare keyboard
  • 1 ROG STRIX Fusion 500 headphone
  • 1 ROG STRIX XG35VQ 35” Gaming Display monitor

Runner-up

• $1,500
• ASUS Pack including (approximate total retail value of $4,300):
  • High End Gaming PC System with ROG components and AMD Ryzen 8 Core processor,
  • 1 ROG Gladius II Origin mouse,
  • 1 ROG STRIX Edge mouse pad
  • 1 ROG STRIX Flare keyboard
  • 1 ROG STRIX Fusion 500 headphone

3rd & 4th

• $1,000
• ASUS Pack including (approximate total retail value of $670):
  • 1 ROG Gladius II Origin mouse
  • 1 ROG STRIX Edge mouse pad
  • 1 ROG STRIX Flare keyboard
  • 1 ROG STRIX Fusion 500 headphone

5th to 8th

• $500

9th to 16th

• $250

All Coaches qualified for the 2018 World Cup Play-Offs will receive:

• 1 Steam code for the games:
  • Mordheim: City of the Damned
  • Space Hulk: Deathwing - Enhanced Edition
  • Battlefleet Gothic: Armada
  • Blood Bowl 2 Legendary Edition

HYPE!

Could you tell us a bit about the process used to determine which leagues would get (how many) tickets?

Netheos will post next week the details of the process to assign tickets (discussion with him this afternoon on the LFBB Discord server).

@the-sage said in Blood Bowl 2 World Cup 2018 Announcement:

HYPE!

Could you tell us a bit about the process used to determine which leagues would get (how many) tickets?

I presume 1 ticket for every 30 coaches.

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@the-sage said in Blood Bowl 2 World Cup 2018 Announcement:

HYPE!

Could you tell us a bit about the process used to determine which leagues would get (how many) tickets?

More info about the ticket repartition:

• X the sum of all coaches registered in the community leagues for the World Cup Thursday 29th March (based on the info I received from the admins)
• 50 tickets available for community leagues in total
• Y the coaches registered in a specific league Thursday 29th March (based on the info I received from the admins)

Number of ticket for a league = (50/X)*Y, rounded at the closest whole number.

Here X=1435, meaning 50/1435=28.7

Meaning 1 ticket every 29-ish coaches. Meaning the following rule:

• 1 ticket from 15 to 43 coaches
• 2 tickets from 44 to 71 coaches
• 3 tickets from 72. That's the maximum amount of tickets for a league.

• 1 ticket for the biggest community league of the World Cup.

Thanks for the information!

Hi, may I ask something ? :

@netheos said in Blood Bowl 2 World Cup 2018 Announcement:

add: X single skills and X doubles skill (final Max starting TV : XXXX)

Is the numbers of skills mandatory ?
For example can a simple skill be taken instead of a double ?
If yes, is the 10k difference still disposable in the "max starting TV" ?)

And also, just to be sure how to translate:

@netheos said in Blood Bowl 2 World Cup 2018 Announcement:

"maximum 2 skills per player"

It allows several players to have max 2 skills, right ?

@ungern

• Double skills aren't mandatory. You can take a simple one instead of the double.
• Yes, several players can get 2 skills.