Come to Eucalyptus Bowl!
I figured I should probably do a plug for an endeavour I'm helping to organise.
I'm going to be helping to run a Blood Bowl (www.bloodbowl.com) tournament on the 3rd and 4th of September at Earlwood Bardwell Park RSL Club.
A thriving tournament scene exists in Australia for many games, but IMO, Blood Bowl is not one of them Myself and my colleague Ian 'DoubleSkulls' Williams (he's a pom but he's alright) decided to bite the bullet and run one ourselves. After all, its all well and good to wish for a more active tourney scene, but if you don't put your money where your mouth is you get bugger all.
My role is mainly to try and drum as much numbers as I possibly can. I've played a lot of WHFB tourneys, so I've done my best to promote the tourney as best I can on those sites to try and attract interest outside of the bloodbowl community, which is so far going pretty damn well. On our website (http://www.eucalyptus-bowl.info/) we now have 20 entrants lined up, which would make us the second biggest Blood bowl tourney in Australia at our first attempt!
A lot of the rules we're using are fairly standard fare in other countries with more active tourney scenes, but haven't been used a great deal here, which has led to some stirrings among some people. This leads into a bit of a rant I've had coming on for a while, and it applies to more than the Blood Bowl games system and tourney scene.
People in general are whinging whining bastards - I know because I'm one of them. Its amazing how demanding people can become of such trivial things, especially ones where you freely volunteer your time in trying to assist people to have a good time. There seems to be an attitude of my way or the highway with a lot of people - which with a hobby sush as gaming which is a very fringe thing is unproductive IMO. We really should be supporting people who try things in the gaming community rather than trying to tear them down at every opportunity. If you don't like the rules of a particular tourney there are two options, rubbish to everyone you possibly can and don't go, or support the people who are making the effort and try to have a rational discussion with them about your concerns (not online - in person) and if nothing changes well then fair enough, at least you've given it a go. It takes a bit of gumption to actually make the effort to get something up and running, and the organiser you rubbish today may not be around tomorrow - which might seem fine now, but what happens when the established organisers feel like playing?
That being said, there is room for honest feedback and criticism, but I think its important in doing so that you make sure people understand where you're coming from. I recently had a problem with this when I critiqued a tourney I attended (and actually did very well at), as I didn't make it sufficiently clear that I very much enjoyed the tourney and the points I was making were what I thought to be minor quibbles - the garnish on the dish if you well - good to have if you can, but not at all important compared to the rest of the dish.
So I spose my thing from this rant is that I'm going to try not to whinge so much, and hopefully some of you will to (if anyone actually reads this thing)
I'm going to be helping to run a Blood Bowl (www.bloodbowl.com) tournament on the 3rd and 4th of September at Earlwood Bardwell Park RSL Club.
A thriving tournament scene exists in Australia for many games, but IMO, Blood Bowl is not one of them Myself and my colleague Ian 'DoubleSkulls' Williams (he's a pom but he's alright) decided to bite the bullet and run one ourselves. After all, its all well and good to wish for a more active tourney scene, but if you don't put your money where your mouth is you get bugger all.
My role is mainly to try and drum as much numbers as I possibly can. I've played a lot of WHFB tourneys, so I've done my best to promote the tourney as best I can on those sites to try and attract interest outside of the bloodbowl community, which is so far going pretty damn well. On our website (http://www.eucalyptus-bowl.info/) we now have 20 entrants lined up, which would make us the second biggest Blood bowl tourney in Australia at our first attempt!
A lot of the rules we're using are fairly standard fare in other countries with more active tourney scenes, but haven't been used a great deal here, which has led to some stirrings among some people. This leads into a bit of a rant I've had coming on for a while, and it applies to more than the Blood Bowl games system and tourney scene.
People in general are whinging whining bastards - I know because I'm one of them. Its amazing how demanding people can become of such trivial things, especially ones where you freely volunteer your time in trying to assist people to have a good time. There seems to be an attitude of my way or the highway with a lot of people - which with a hobby sush as gaming which is a very fringe thing is unproductive IMO. We really should be supporting people who try things in the gaming community rather than trying to tear them down at every opportunity. If you don't like the rules of a particular tourney there are two options, rubbish to everyone you possibly can and don't go, or support the people who are making the effort and try to have a rational discussion with them about your concerns (not online - in person) and if nothing changes well then fair enough, at least you've given it a go. It takes a bit of gumption to actually make the effort to get something up and running, and the organiser you rubbish today may not be around tomorrow - which might seem fine now, but what happens when the established organisers feel like playing?
That being said, there is room for honest feedback and criticism, but I think its important in doing so that you make sure people understand where you're coming from. I recently had a problem with this when I critiqued a tourney I attended (and actually did very well at), as I didn't make it sufficiently clear that I very much enjoyed the tourney and the points I was making were what I thought to be minor quibbles - the garnish on the dish if you well - good to have if you can, but not at all important compared to the rest of the dish.
So I spose my thing from this rant is that I'm going to try not to whinge so much, and hopefully some of you will to (if anyone actually reads this thing)
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