![]() ![]() Full coloured, complete with card descriptions and pictures, as well as embossed in laminate for protection from drunken gamers. Given it was the tenth anniversary of the Spike! Magazine tournament, Thunderbowl was very proud to be able to giveaway a full set of 104 Special Play Cards to every participant who attended this year. Needless to say he’s retiring the Ogres in tournament play for good. Probably not the Award he wished to win, but finally Kristian was able to take home some silverware after being a Spike! faithful for the last 6 years. This came with Damion (tremere) from Edmonton’s relief after earning the infamous distinction for the last 2 Spike!s in a row. It’ll come as no surprise to his club mates from Thunderbowl who have witnessed his on field dilemmas over the last decade in League play, but a shock to those who witnessed his great run at this year’s North American Team Challenge, but Kristian (wedge22) won the infamous Glass Joe Award this year for Lowest Coaching Score with one tie with Ogres. It was refreshing to see him in the running for something other than Casualties. Tyler being in contention for taking the whole event came as a shock this year – not because he’s not a good player, but because he’s gone out of his way to capture the Rambo Award each year: or at least 3 years in a row. Surprises this year came from Eric (Raindog), also from Portland, winning the Rambo Award for Most Casualties Inflicted, and Tyler (lordchaos) winning Best Defense. ![]() Weav has always been a great ambassador of the hobby and is one of the principle organizers in Oregon, running premier WFB and 40K events at the annual OFCC in Portland. Jay (weav) from Portland, Oregon winning Outstanding Sportsmanship for the second time in 4 years came as no surprise as well. His Snotling Hordes army for WFB is still legendary in the Pacific North West for those who had the fortune to witness it, and his Goblin Team he constructed for his first Spike! Painting Award in 2010 still turns heads. To those who know him and have seen his work first hand, Mike continues to raise the bar not only with his technique but also his modeling. To no surprise Mike (nitnit) took home the Painting Award for the second time in 6 years with his amazing Amazon team. We honestly didn’t know who was going to win the whole thing until the completion of the final round, which made it very exiting for myself as well as the participants, as well as a testament to how deep the coaching pool has become in recent years. Although he beat Kaare this year in the fourth round he lost to Tyler (lordchaos) in the fifth. He took 4 th last year at Spike! 2012 with Underworld and Fezglitch so one could say he was due once he played a more competitive team like Undead. This was Travis’s fourth appearance at the Spike! as well as his club mates. Travis (frostitute) from the Ordo Fanaticus club in Portland, Oregon took home the Spike! Magazine Trophy this year. Nobody at Spike! 2013 had a perfect record, and the difference between 2 nd and Champion came down to bonus points and head to head. ![]() As it turned out Kaare placed 2 nd at the Spike! this year and it was one of the most contested Spike! championships in recent memory. David (meowth) took the Chaos Cup, as well as Most Touchdowns at the Spike! Jonas placed 2 nd and 4 th at Chaos Cup and Spike! respectively, Magnus (Mago) took 3 rd at both events, with Anders (NIWnW) being the undisputed Stunty Champion at both Majors this year! Needless to say the Swedes were coming for blood this year taking 3 out of the 10 glittering prizes at this year’s Spike!Ģ013 also saw the return of Spike! Magazine 2012 Champion Kaare Foged (kfoged) from Denmark – not only to try and defend his Spike! title but also to take another crack at winning the Chaos Cup. Like its North American counterpart the Chaos Cup, the Spike! Magazine tournament has long ceased being a tournament with only local participants but the international NAF Major it was always meant to be.īoth North American Majors experienced a Swedish invasion this year, with Jonas (ozt) leading his troupe from Sodertalje and Stockholm to hit both the Chaos Cup and the Spike! Magazine. 6 years since the tournament made its way out to the Pacific North West from where it started in Ontario back in 2004, and the Canadian Major that at times had struggled to take place at all has now become an international event with participants not only from Washington State and Oregon, but now coaches from Spain, Denmark and now Sweden. The weekend of September the 14 th and 15 th marked the tenth anniversary of the Spike! Magazine Blood Bowl tournament. Ten Years Later: Now an International Event ![]()
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