Rules

The following rules are also available as a handy PDF.

Eine deutsche Version der Regeln existiert ebenfalls als übersichtliches PDF.

STYLE
The Orion Cup is a mirror-match tournament: coaches swap teams, including rosters, skill choices etc. for games 2 and 4. Besides that, the tournament is resurrection-style, with Swiss match-making and 2/1/0 points for wins, draws and losses. Awards include most casualties and most touchdowns.

TEAM BUILD
Each coach receives 1150K gold crowns, which can be used to hire players, cheerleaders, assistant coaches, dedicated fans, riotous rookies, apothecaries/igors, a master chef, star players, and to purchase bribes and Bloodweiser kegs. No other inducements are available.
According to their tier, teams will receive an additional amount of money to purchase skills for their players. No player can receive more than two skills, and no stat upgrades may be purchased. Normal skills cost 20K, secondary skills 30K.

Tier 1 teams receive 90K: Amazons, Chaos Dwarves, Dark Elves, Dwarves, Lizardmen, Norse, Orcs, Skaven, Undead, Wood Elves

Tier 2 teams receive 120K: Chaos Renegades, Elven Union, High Elves, Humans, Imperial Nobility, Necromantic, Tomb Kings, Underworld

Tier 3 teams receive 140K: Black Orcs, Chaos Chosen, Halflings, Khorne, Old World Alliance, Slann, Snotlings, Vampires

Tier 4 teams receive 160K: Goblins, Nurgle, Ogres

BONUS
Each coach that submits the final roster to orioncup15@gmx.net before or on August 2nd AND shows up before 9:15AM on Saturday will receive a free “Weather Mage” to use once throughout the tournament.

 
CLARIFICATIONS
We will be using the current “NAF Rules for Tournaments 2023”, as found on the official site: https://www.thenaf.net/tournaments/nafdocs/
There is no minimum number of players before purchasing star players, but you have to field at least 11 players. If both coaches field the same star player, both clones will play, but gain the skill "Disturbing Presence" for this match.

Important: all fatalities inflicted by blocks, fouls, secret weapons and crowd-surfs count towards total number of casualties (i.e. not failed dodges etc.).

 
NOTES

The 2h15min and 2h30min time limits will be strictly enforced.
Please let me know in advance if you feel uncomfortable letting your opponent use your miniatures, and I will provide an alternative team for your mirror matches.