For several years now, we have been running the Paddy Cup, a Blood Bowl League with the eventual winner receiving a glass mug as a trophy. We have been running seasons since winter of 2003/2004. Blood Bowl is a great game produced by Games Workshop , and we have had a bunch of fun, maybe more fun with the reporting on the games then the games themselves...Most of us in the league are 'old timers', gamer geeks from way back. We like to fluff up our miniatures and the games we play with them.
It reminds me of when I was a wee lad, and I used to take my Lincoln Logs, Legos, and Erector Sets and little green plastic army guys and build elaborate battle scenes in my bedroom. I loved doing that, spent many a rainy day trying to recreate WWII battles. I built plenty of plastic models; ships, tanks, planes and of course cars. With the discovery of minis where you could build, paint and then play games with them...oh man...whoo hoo! I was in heaven.
And then I found other folks who liked to do that too. So we play all kinds of mini games, including Bloodbowl. But its not just a boardgame with brutal rugby style play. Oh no. Its a whole atmosphere, a culture if you will, of the whole Bloodbowl universe that we have created around it. The game is the game no matter where you go, but in the land of the Paddy Cup, well...its just our brand of fun. GW created a great game and we just ran with it. Kudos to them for sparking our imagination!
See you on the pitch!
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