Powtearoa - The NZ Blood Bowl Podcast

Kia ora NZBB fans Another first for Aotearoan Blood Bowl! Two tournaments on the same weekend! A regular occurrence in other nations but here in our teeny tiny set of islands hundreds of kilometers from everywhere else this is a big deal. 7s in Palmy and then 7s in The Hutt. Saturday and Sunday. Was this amazing series of events planned that way or was it an oversight. Lets say the first one! This...

Kia Ora Blood Bowl fans! This episode we are joined for the first half by Jesse from Christchurch to discuss all the goings on at the recent Mainland Bowl in Christchurch. Some amazing news about a big future change to this tournament following by a run down of all the fun that took place down there at The Pegasus Arms. Then we get to have a quick look at the Pav and its recent addition to the Oce...

Kia Ora and belated Happy Matariki to you all This episode we are joined by Marlborough's second favourite Blood Bowler (they love Nutsaur the most) KingWeasel (Ben). Previous Mainland Bowl winner and organiser of our new and first BB3 league! Together with our reunited triumvirate of Trickey, Toffer and Welshy we discuss the recent Matariki 7s in Tauranga, The ChriBBl league, our new BB3 league a...

We;re back! More random BB chat for your listening pleaseure A big haere mai to Mushoomy who joins us this week for a less organised more meandering chat about what is going on in the NZ Blood Bowl scene this month. We discuss all sorts of things. The 10th Capital Shield that recently happened in the beautiful Paraparaumu (thanks Mike), the FAQs and what they means for our Underworld fans, The new...

Kia Ora Powtearoa fans. Another episode to delight your ears This episode out travels take us to the deep south of Aotearoa New Zealand. To a distant city inhabited by a hardy bunch of Blood Bowlers. In this isolated and mystical place -- while the horizontal sleet flies by -- Mr Trickey plies his trade and rallies the Blood Bowl coaches to his clarion call! "Sleeping Giants awaken!!" And awaken t...

Kia Ora Coaches and welcome to episode 30!! of Powtearoa This episode your usual professional crew are ably assisted by Jesse and (a little late) Mushoomy. We have had a good rummage in our respective vegetable patches and managed to rustle up gnome teams. We have had a bit of a play and here we discuss our findings. Mushy is also able to fill us in on the upcoming 10th annual Capital Shield tourn...

Kia Ora NZBB fans Another Powtearoa episode for you. This time your usual crew are joined by Bobsol and griffonz to tell us about the groundbreaking Bay of Plenty tournament. A massive number turned up for this event with a huge 12 coaches for whom this was their first tabletop tournament. Bobsol joins us to discuss this as he was among that group. Though he has been a part of our online scene for...

Kia Ora Coaches Here we are again. Another Powtearoa episode with more spectacular audo goodnes for you to enjoy! or something like that This episode we are joined by oldhammeraotearoa Jesse from ChriBBL who is here with the rulespack for this years Powtearoa Provincial Champs. We have a good deep dive in to the pack and the tiers in particular. We also take a quick tour of what is happening aroun...

This episode we are joined by another big name in our hobby, Babs! Babs will be a name known to many after his work with Aussie BB and several stints working with NAF on various projects. These days he resides in Queensland but in the early days of Oceanic Blood Bowl he was part of a group who ran the first Trans Tasman BB tournament in Wellington in 1997! Take note those of you organising the Pav...

Kia Ora NZ Blood Bowl fans! This episode we are joined by Owen/NZ Demon who recently attended his first NAF tournament. He brings us his rundown of the recent STUBBL 11s tournament. Brought to us by the boys from Palmerston North. This tournament has gone from strength to strength and is now a major part of the NZ Blood Bowl scene. Owen tells us about the highs and highs of his awesome weekend. Me...

Kia Ora Powtearoaeans! Back again for another episode of NZ's favourite Blood Bowl related Podcast! Another first for us this week as we are joined by one of our comrades from across the Tasman. GeorgieChristo beams in via the interwebs from the beautiful city of Sydney, Australia. Georgie and Ramchop have been concocting something to bring our nations a little closer together while also allowing...

Nga mihi o te Tau Hou! Happy 20224 Blood Bolwers! Welcome back to Powtearoa! This episode we are jointed by ChriBBL's Jesse and the ever elusive and often commented on Ramchop is here with us in our special Powtearoa recording studio (definitely not just a Discord chat we recorded). We look at whats happening in NZ Blood Bowl this coming year and Jesse and Ramchop bring us some super secret and ma...

Meri Kirihimete! The Powtearoa Provincial Chaps have happened and Toffer and Welshy were there. We are also joined by friend of the show Mushoomy to get feedback on what went on in Wellington this month. Trickey is here too feeling suitably left out. We continue to ask the bog questions. Are Re-Rolls really needed? Who is Dadchop? Do we really need music at the start and end of the episode? Have a...

The Powtearoa Provincial Chaps are nearly upon us and following a massive amount of work from players, organisers and roster checkers we can now see everyone's teams! So lets have a look at who is doing what with who in the first ever PPC! Massive thanks to Mushy, Ramchop and their roster checking team in Aussie for getting this job rushed through in record time. Has Welshy been sneaky and got eve...

Kia Ora Coaches This episode we hear about the recent Mainland Bowl tournament in the Garden City. We are joined by Josh, Trickey and Welshy all of whom participated. We go through their team builds and games at the event. All under the watchful gaze of a sneaky interloper in the form of a hidden Tim. So how did they do? Can a Minotaur Leap? How did Welshy reach the dizzy heights of mid table? Let...

We're back! Aroha mai if the wait has been a bit long but we have not been able to connect with each other for a month or so due to Toffer being overseas. But we are back! This episode, Arlo kindly takes time out of his busy life to tell us about the 2023 Orcs Bay Horn tournament that took place recently. With some cool special rules and players this was an opportunity to try a few new things. So...

Kia Ora BB'ers This episode Trickey and Toffer have pulled off a coup and managed to corner Sandune in a villa in Portugal to tell us all about his World Cup V exploits last week. Our first ever international episode! And its harder to get further from Aotearoa than Lisbon! So how did he do? Who did he meet? Were jandels de rigueur? A storied episode with minimal requirements for Toffer and Tricke...

Right! Back to the admin. None of this fun and interesting stories from Tim stuff this time. Just long winded procedural discussions. Just like we like them! So our intrepid commentators Trickey, Welshy and Toffer get back to looking a the World Cup rule set unencumbered by BigBullies this time (we promise we will let him come back again someday). So sit back as we let you know what to expect in A...

Honestly we tried. We really did! All we wanted was a nice simple episode about the World Cup in Alicante next month. It was all going so well as well. But we invited Tim. And as you will hear, things sort of fell apart from the moment he arrived. We love him. But he derailed us. As you will hear we start on task but.... So sit back and enjoy the fruits of our labours, as we are joined by BigBulli...

Kia Ora Blood Bowling Kiwis! Welshy is back in our very own land of the long white cloud and has details of an upcoming one-dayer in Christchurch later this month. The rules pack is similar to Greenstone this year so we are able to put together some team rosters for your delectation. Tricky has also been playing games in the busy world of Board Gaming in The South. Are Toffer or Trickey correct ab...

Kia Ora Blood Bowlers of Aotearoa! We are back! took a little longer to get the edits done this time but we are here! This episode we are joined by DM who gives us the full story on where Blood Bowl is at in the City of Sails. Some major historical name drops can be heard as we take a stroll through the league and look ahead to Greenstone. We also hear what has been happening in Dunedin and on our...

Kia Ora NZ Blood Bowlers! Powtearoa is back again to bring you all that is awesome in our corner of the world. This episode we look at the recent outcome of the Eucalyptus Bowl just accross the Tasman Sea in Sydney. We also have not one but two very special guests in the form of Arlo and Josh from the Hawkes Bay who are able to give us a run down of what is happening in HawBBL. Then we have a quic...

Kia Ora everyone This episode we discuss how Mike and Toffer got on at the 9th Capital Shield Tournament recently held at the Paraparaumu Boating Club on the amazing Kapiti Coast. We ask the questions... Is it possible to cause most Casualties and still win Best Sport? What shouldn't you do with a Block Mino? Is it possible to be too loud in a Paraparaumu restaurant? and, how can we disappoint Ram...

Kia Ora BB Coaches This month we take a nice look into Welshy's extensive social life and find out what is happening in Christchurch (ChrBBL) our largest NZ Blood Bowl League. 26 coaches you know!! We also hear from Trickey about the state of play in our various FUMBBL leagues. Apologies for the sound issues last episode. We think we have things ironed out now though. Good Luck to everyone at CAS...

Kia Ora Powtearoaeans Sadly no Welshy this episode but we have been joined by two fantastic friends of the show. From Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington we have Mushoomy and from Te Matau-a-Māui Hawkes Bay we have Arlo. Both are here to offer their thoughts on the recent announcement of the Powtearoa Provincial Championship coming up this December! We also have a chance to look at the upcoming Capita...