S1 Blood Bowl Champion's League
39 videos • 29 views • by Grid Ironman The Blood Bowl Champion's League is an association of Draft Leagues that share a postseason. There are four phases to a season. The first phase is a league segregated preseason tournament during the in universe Spring. The tournament incorporates all divisions of competition for a league if a division 2 exists. Division 2 teams cannot qualify for the BCL. The winners of these tournaments will automatically qualify for the BCL which is formatted like the UEFA Champion's League. Teams that do not qualify for the BCL play in a consolation tournament called the Major Bloodbowl Invitational. Another automatic qualifier for the BCL involves the second phase of the season during the in universe Summer. It involves the league segregated + division segregated round robin regular season. The worst division 1 team auto demotes and the best division 2 team auto promotes. The D1 2nd worst v. D2 2nd best and D1 3rd Worst v. D2 3rd best will then play a promotion/relegation match for the honor of joining first division. The third phase of the season involves a postseason during the in universe Fall. The BCL and MBI are then played. The site of the BCL cycles from nation to nation of countries that have established leagues; the UFL is based in Atlantean style Ulthuan, the KPA is based in Norsca and Kislev which are similar to eastern European and Nordic+Finnish regions of our world during the Viking age, the IBA is based in what could be described as an allegory for the Holy Roman Empire, and the TSC is based in city state renaissance Italy. In contrast, the MBI involves homefield advantage to the better rated seed of the tournament. The fourth phase of the season involves the Olympic style event that involves the BloodBowl World Cup. The BWC is always played at the Amorican Mountains where the sacred text of Nuffle was found. This event involves the all star tournament of these draft leagues that coincides with the unified draft. The unified draft is based on the unified standings of the prior season with picks allocated from worst to best across four rounds of picks in flights to speed up the process. The first league built was the stock elf draft league called the Ulthuan First League or UFL (stock leagues refer to all teams sharing the same roster). The UFL was the first professional league formed in the Old World in universe and as such carries a great deal of prestige. The second league was the FUMBBL Secret League Kislev Premier Alliance or KPA (Secret League has community curated unofficial teams that vastly expand playstyles). The KPA is considered the flashiest league that involves the best entertainment in universe with playstyles that the fans are most appreciative of watching. The third league is the Imperial Blood Bowl Association or IBA that has official GW approved teams and teams that used to be approved by GW. The IBA is the most mainline league that functions as bread and circuses for the masses but is the best codified league in universe that the others have adapted to emulate. The fourth league is the Tilean Super Confederation or TSC a stock human roster league. The TSC is the most well funded league because it involves a competition between Tilean city states that are patrons of sport like the patrons of art in renaissance Italy.