Date of event: 28th March 2026
Location: Firestorm Games, Sloper Road, Cardiff CF11 8AB
Tourplay signup:https://tourplay.net/en/blood-bowl/caerdydd-cup-vi
Cost: £20 to jashay1985@gmail.com by PayPal (Friends and Family please!)
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Caerdydd Cup VI is a 1-day Blood Bowl tournament which will take place in Cardiff, Wales on Saturday 28th March 2026.
The tournament will be resurrection style, meaning all injuries and player deaths etc. reset after each round.
The format of the tournament will be a random pairing for round one, followed by swiss pairings for the remaining rounds. Scoring is 3-1-0 with tie breakers as SoS followed by net TD+cas.
The tournament is part of the Welsh Tournament Series and is NAF sanctioned.
Schedule & Timings
- Registration and Welcome 0900-0930
- Game 1 0930-1130
- Game 2 1145-1345
- Lunch 1345-1415
- Game 3 1415-1615
- Game 4 1630-1830
- Awards 1830-1900
Ruleset
Coaches will be given 1.15M to build their teams.
In addition teams will be given the following amount of SPPs:
- Tier 1 – 42 SPP: Amazon, Lizardmen, Necromantic Horrors, Old World Alliance, Orcs, Shambling Undead, Skaven, Underworld Denizens, Wood Elf
- Tier 2 – 48 SPP: Chaos Dwarf, Dark Elf, Dwarf, High Elf (ToL), Humans, Imperial Nobility, Norse, Nurgle, Tomb Kings, Vampires
- Tier 3 – 54 SPP: Black Orc, Bretonnians, Chaos Chosen, Chaos Renegade, Elven Union, Gnome, Goblin, Halfling, Khorne, Ogres, Snotlings
SPP allocations follow the rules for skilling up your team in the rulebook with two exceptions. No stat boosts are permitted, and random skills are capped at a maximum of four.
Random skills must be rolled in front of your opponent each game.
Skill stacking is permitted: A player may gain a maximum of 2 chosen skills. A player who takes a random skill may not stack skills.
There is no Elite skill tax or cap: they are treated as normal skills.
All inducements from the Season 3 Rulebook are allowed apart from Prayers to Nuffle, Mercenaries, and Wizards.
Star Players may be taken but come with an additional cost of 12 SPP per star. You must have 11 players rostered before hiring stars.
Bomber Dribblesnot, Cindy Piewhistle, Deeproot Strongbranch, Kreek Rustgouger, Morg N’Thorg, Ripper Bolgrot, and Skrorg Snowpelt are 24 SPP each.
Grak and Crumbleberry, Dribbl and Drull, and the Swift Twins are 24SPP for the pair. The pair count as one Star Player choice.
H’thark, Hakflem, Griff, Estelle, Jordell and Skitter are 36 SPP each.
The star player rules will be reviewed closer to the date.
Please note that I won’t be able to guarantee refunds after the 14th March as I have to confirm numbers with the venue