Author: Alex Wormall

The weekend of February 14/15 2026 saw the latest edition of the Waterbowl Weekend take place.

As ever it was a highly competitive affair but only one coach was able to garner six wins over the weekend. After terrorising the Waterbowl league over recent years and winning numerous titles, it was a pleasure to see Steve break his tournament duck and take home his maiden title. Steve’s team was necros.

Second and Third Place went to Spleggy (former WB Winner) – OWA, and local legend CJBlackburn – Orcs.

A huge thanks to all that came. It was lovely to see a mixture of familiar faces and newer ones, as well a cluster of coaches who made the journey from overseas.

Waterbowl 2027 will be on 13/14 February and is now NAF-sanctioned. Tickets go on sale on March 1st 2026 at 10am.

After some keenly fought semi-finals we now know our 2024 Premier League finalists!

2 time champ Steve/Spob and his Human team will be the favourite on paper but Dave/Dafo and his High Elves will be keen to upset the odds. This may be Dafo’s davebut in a final but he won’t be over-awed. He has beaten some very good players this year and his High Elves have beaten 3 former Premier League Champions in the course of this season.

In the Chumps we are at the semi-final stage and Rik/Morn De’ath is awaiting his three opponents in the Dungeonbowl finale.

Once the dates for the finals is confirmed I will confirm the definite start date for the next season. It is likely to be the week after Eurobowl – so week commencing 30/9.

On the 20th February this year’s Waterbowl Weekend drew to a close and there was a new winner on the victory roll.

Gritter joined the ranks of coaches that have taken home the title using lizardmen as his Smashy Dodgers went 5/1/0 and finished on top of the standings.

In second place we had Per-Otto (Poj-Poj) from Norway. His sneaky git deathroller dwarves came close to giving him a Waterbowl double as he has already won the Waterbowl tournament that was run on BB2.

We had our biggest Stunty Cup ever and it came down to the wire. After leading all weekend, CJ’s Ogres (with Griff) were pipped at the death by Volkajo’s snotlings (with Morg)

 

On the 30th October 2021, 22 coaches gathered at Element Games to contest the 13th edition of the Stunty Slam.

We had a good spread of races:

• 6 Halfling
• 5 Goblin
• 5 Snotling
• 4 Ogre

Coaches had 1.1 million to spend on team build, and then 42 skill points to upgrade players.

After three rounds of excellent Stunty nonsense only one team had mustered a full complement of wins, and that was the Snotling team coached by Barney the Lurker.

Barney’s winning roster was:

• 2 x Block trolls
• 1 x Tackle pump wagon
• 1 x Sure Feet stilty runna
• 1 x Sneaky Git stilty runna
• 1 x Diving Tackle fun hoppa
• 1 x fungus flinga
• 7 x snotlings
• Riotous Rookies
• 2 x Rerolls
• 2 x Bribes

Other winners were:

2nd: Elperas

3rd: CJBlackburn

Most TDs: Thor (5)

Most CAS: Blessedknight (26)

Av1 Award for the Most Damaged: Muttley

Most Scored On: Bill

Wooden Spoon: Vagabond1982uk

The Stunty Slam will return on September 10th 2022!

Waterbowl Tableau – how it works and what we learn (by sann).

As with a few other tournaments, I have published an analysis of the rosters that people are taking to Waterbowl, one of the UK’s largest, oldest and most prestigious Blood Bowl tournament.  I’ll describe quickly what the tabs do, and then a bit of analysis.

• Mobile Coach is designed for viewing on a mobile, so for the Coaches at the tournament to quickly check out their opponent’s roster.

The rest of the tabs are best viewed on a larger screen:

• Coach Rosters is a full list of all the coaches with their races, and if you click on a Coach then you can see the roster
• Race Summary shows how many of each Race have been taken, and if you click on a Race you can see who took, what positions they took, and how many of each skill were taken
• Skill Summary shows how many of each Skill were taken, and if you click on a skill you can see which positions it was taken on. Hovering over a position with a given skill will tell you which Coaches took that skill on that player.
• Race Position Choice is a simple table showing how many of each position were taken for each race, along with an average.
• Skill Pack simply shows which of the Waterbowl skill packs were taken
• The last two tabs are used in the previous ones for when you hover on a given cell, so won’t look good by themselves!

So, the findings!

• Waterbowl is super-bash heavy this year – Undead, Dwarf, Orc, Norse, Lizards, Chaos Dwarf dominating the line-up. Has this been influenced by the removal of the 2+ TD win bonus?
• Amazons have to have Roxy!
• The new Ogres are lovely but not lovely enough to encourage people to brave an untiered ruleset! 10 in total in the Stunty cup, so a reasonable but competitive field.
• A few stars are coming out to play – 2 Boomers and one Grim, plus G’Ral Bloodsucker from the new cohort.
• No Slann, Khorne or Pact this year, unless one joins the party late.

More to follow…

Waterbowl 2020 is taking place on 15-16 February 2020 at the North-West Gaming Centre in Stockport!

Resources!

• TalkFantasyFootball signup thread
• TFF legacy team thread
• Rulepack
• Roster Spreadsheet
• Facebook Event

Winner
Monkeytrumpet (21672) Lizardmen

Runner up
Don_Vito (10434) Amazons

Third Place
Winkle_Picka (12545) Wood Elves

Most Touchdowns
AndyDavo (19726) Wood Elves

Most Casualties
Tats (25375) Chaos

Stunty Cup
mjallen (26077) Goblins

Best Painted
darkdan (17198) Amazons

Other Awards

• Wooden Spoon/Boxer Shorts of Alternative Achievement
  BenShaw (27370) Humans
• Couldn’t Score…
  gillywonka (21831) Chaos
• Least Dangerous
  ahzek (25975) Dark Elves
• Best Tyro!
  lolcaeser (26745) Chaos
• Best Overseas Coach
  Candlejack (5844) Amazons
• King of the Surfs (sponsored by AndyDavo)
  thor87 (21674) Khorne
• The Foul Appreciation Society Award (Most Fouls – sponsored by Zerosgiven)
  FatboySlimming (25467) Chaos Pact
• Best Sunday Comeback
  Jawa (24641) Dark Elves
• Nosebleed Award
  Howza (27363) Skaven

It all kicks off on January 15th 2019. As ever we will be working to a schedule of 2 weeks per round, and no extensions.

As we’d like to do a live draw on January 8th, I’ll need your teams to be on the obblm by January 7th. If you don’t have an account just go to thenaf.obblm.com

Please post below with your teamname & race. If you’ve not played with us before please add the coach name that you’re using on the obblm.

We are trialling a bit of a tweak to the norm this season:

Coaches playing:
Khorne, Nurgle, Chaos, Slann, Underworld, Vamps will get to choose a normal skill for two of their linemen (ie your 0-16/0-12 positionals)

Coaches playing:
Ogres, Goblins, Halfling will get to choose to have either two x normal skills as above or take a double one of their linemen (0-16 positionals)

The skills don’t count for tv. Your players will start with 0spp.

Once you’ve chosen your team please let me know your skill choices so I can put them on the website.

There will be a Stunty Cup prize for best Stunty.

Remember there’s a £5 entry for each premier league season. This is to keep the trophies and freebies pot going.