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Mulligan's Open

Mulligan's Open is Scotland's largest blood bowl tournament. Mulligan's Open first opened its doors in March 2020 and welcomed 32 participants to the tournament. Fast forward to 2024 and we have just welcomed 85 participants to our first ever year as a NAF National event! 

We are extremely happy to announce that Mulligan's Open will be Scotland's NAF National tournament in 2025. With this comes an ELO boost on all games at the tournament towards your NAF ranking! So if you haven't joined us before... now is a really good excuse to get in the action.

We aim to offer a fun, inclusive and competitive experience to all our participants every year.

Tournament Details

Date: Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd March 2025

Time: 9.30 to 19.00 (Sat) and 9.30 to 18.00 (Sun)

Location: The Biscuit Factory, 4-6 Anderson Pl, Edinburgh EH6 5NP

Ruleset: Blood Bowl 2020

TO: Chris Rafferty (ChrisRaff88)

Price: £50

Lunch: TBD

Participation Gift: 2D6 + Custom Enamel Token

Tournament Rules

At its core the tournament rules will follow current NAF guidelines for all NAF tournaments. Any changes made to these guidelines between now and two months prior to the date of the tournament will be incorporated into the tournament rules and notifications will be added to the Mulligan’s Open Facebook Event page and website . Any changes made after two months before the tournament date will not be in effect within this tournament.

The tournament is a resurrection style tournament. This means that all rosters will be reset after each round. Your players will not gain any SPP throughout the matches, no casualties will continue into the next match and you will earn no additional income after matches.

Full Rules Pack

Find the full rules pack for Mulligan's Open 2025 below.

Roster Creation

All tiers will be given a gold value equal to that shown within their tier level with which to create an initial roster. Star players are permitted and you may include these within your roster, however you must first have a roster of 11 standard players (non stars).


You may also spend a portion of your roster gold on inducements. More information on which inducements are permitted can be found in the inducement section.


No gold crowns are awarded to either team during the pre-match sequence. No leftover gold crowns may be spent on Inducements during the pre-match sequence. No gold crowns left over from the roster allowance can be used for skills.

Inducements

Permitted inducements are as follows:
● 0 - 2 Bloodweiser Kegs
● 0 - 3 Bribes
● 0 - 2 Wandering Apothecaries
● 0 - 1 Mortuary Assistant
● 0 - 1 Plague Doctor
● 0 - 1 Riotous Rookies
● 0 - 1 Biased Referee
● 0 - 1 Halfling Master Chef

Star Players

What star players are permitted? Good question! All star players with the exception of Mega star players that are included within the NAF guidelines and all current Spike Journals will be permitted within the tournament.


If two coaches are drawn against each other with the same Star on their rosters, both players are permitted to use them.


There is a maximum of one Star Player that may be rostered per team in tier 4 through 6.


You must also have 11 rostered players first, before adding a star player to your roster.


Mega Star players are banned at Mulligan's Open 2025. These mega stars are outlined below.

Mega Stars

  • Bomber Driblesnot

  • Cindy Piewhistle

  • Deeproot Strongbranch

  • Dribl & Drull

  • Estelle La Veneaux

  • Griff Oberwald

  • Hakflem Skuttlespike

  • Ivan the Animal Deathshroud

  • Kreek Rustgouger

  • Morg ‘n’ Thorg

  • Skitter Stab-Stab

  • Varag Ghoulchewer

  • Willhelm Chaney

Race Tiers

This tournament is a tiered tournament. This places all of the races into tiers based on how competitive they are. The top tiers will gain less additional bonuses with the bottom tiers gaining more. This helps to try and level the playing field, allowing all races to be competitive within the tournament. 


Each team has been assigned a tier as shown below

Tier 0

Underworld Denizens

TV1100

Tier 1

Chaos Dwarf, Dark Elf, Dwarf, Lizardman, Shambling Undead.

TV1150

Tier 2

Amazon, Norse, Orc, Skaven, Wood Elf, Vampires.

TV1160

Tier 3

High Elf, Human, Elven Union, Khemri Tomb Kings, Khorne, Necromantic Horror.

TV1170

Tier 4

Chaos Renegades, Imperial Nobility,  Old World Alliance, Slann.

TV1180

Tier 5

Black Orc, Chaos Chosen, Gnomes, Nurgle. Snotling.

TV1190

Tier 6

Halfling, Goblin, Ogre.

TV1200

Aside from the starting base skills you will receive for each player on your roster, you will gain additional skill points to spend on player advances/skills and star players. The number and type (primary/secondary) of additional skills available to you is determined by the tier that your team is within. These skills must be chosen prior to the tournament and recorded within your roster. The additional skills must remain the same for every match within the tournament and cannot be altered at any time. In addition they cannot be altered after the roster submission date.


The following restrictions apply to your additional skills selection:

 

●    Tiers 3 to 6 may sacrifice 1 point to stack skills on players within their team. For example a Black Orc team                   would sacrifice one of their 10 points to stack two skills on two different players. This would cost a total of 5                   points, one for the sacrifice to allow stacking then 2 points for each player with 2 skills. Likewise Goblins in tier 6         can sacrifice 1 point to stack two primary skills on three players This would total 7 points used from their 11.


●    Tiers 4+5 may select one player to increase one statistic (points cost shown below). Tier 6 can increase one                 statistic on two players.


●    Any stat increases taken must confirm with the maximum stat increase restrictions as displayed within the                  BB20 rulebook. Therefore MA10 Gutter Runners etc. will not be allowed.


●    No player with a stat increase may take an additional skill


●    Star players on your roster may not be given an additional skill or statistic increase

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How to Sign Up to Mulligan's Open 2024

General sale tickets will go on sale on the 16th June 2024

International pre sale begins 2nd June 2024

(20 tickets have been set aside for international coaches)

 

To sign up to Mulligan's Open you must send your £50 ticket price to the Mulligan's Open PayPal account.

Payments should be made by PayPal via a friends and family (gift) payment please to the following address: mulligansopen@outlook.com

When sending the payment please provide the following details in the payment note:

  • NAF name
  • NAF number
  • Any dietary requirements you may have

Unfortunately refunds cannot be offered in the 2 months proceeding the tournament due to the financial planning involved in running a large event of this kind.


Sign Up List

(L) Lactose Intolerant 
(P) Pescatarian
(V) Vegetarian
(Vg) Vegan

Contact

If you have any questions regarding the event, please feel free to reach out at our email shown to the right.

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