ngā mihi o te tau hou

Happy New Year from all of us here in the Powtearoa offices! We are back!

Been a slow turn around on this one which has made our Christmas break a week longer than we intended. Sorry

Anyway, here we are in the year 2025. What will it bring for us here in the NZ Blood Bowl community? who knows? well we know some things but not all of them. So join Welshy, Trickey and Toffer as we discuss the upcoming leagues, tournaments and various goings on in our favourite game right here in our favourite place.

Have a great year everyone. See you on the circuit

If you are not already on discord, come and join us on the NZBB Discord server here - https://tinyurl.com/joinNZBBC and please visit the NZ Blood Bowl Community FB page here - https://www.facebook.com/groups/NZBBC/

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Josh Yig is a wonder!

That's right everyone, we're back with one more final last minute end of year episode! You thought it couldn't happen. Well it did and Josh is the reason. So, a big thanks to him as guest editor for this special extended episode.

Joining Welshy and Trickey this episode are Hutchi, Mahuika and the aforementioned Josh Yig who all attended the recent Powtearoa Provincial Championships in Christchurch and they are here to let you know what happened, who it happened to and how they cleaned the mess up afterwards.

So sit back and enjoy the final final episode of 2024 and we will see you again in 2025!

details on how to vote for us in the 2024 NZ Podcast Awards will follow soon but for now here is the web address - https://www.nzpodcastawards.com

If you are not already on discord, come and join us on the NZBB Discord server here - https://tinyurl.com/joinNZBBC and please visit the NZ Blood Bowl Community FB page here - https://www.facebook.com/groups/NZBBC/

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Kia Ora Blood Bowl Coaches

Not an episode just a request for a vote for Powtearoa in the upcoming New Zealand Podcast Awards.

Please can you take 2 min to go to this webpage:

https://www.nzpodcastawards.com/nominate

• next to name please write Powtearoa
• then give an email address
• you can leave the rest blank if you like (you don't have to)
• just click the capcha and press submit

Please ask everyone in your leagues, clubs and gaming groups to help out if you can!

I will delete this minisode in a couple of weeks. Not sure when voting closes but they announce the winners on 28th November so not far away now.

Thanks everyone

Kia Pai Te Ra'

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Kia Ora Blood Bowl coaches, managers, players and fans

Its a big one this time everyone. Sorry but our editing gnomes just couldn't get it any shorter than this! They have been admonished and had their badgers confiscated.

This is a full look at all 40 of the teams being taken to the Powtearoa Provincial Champs? Gil and Jesse join us to see who could take the top spot. 10 teams of 4 will enter the fray in the first weekend of November 2024 in the beautiful garden city of Ōtautahi Christchurch.

So if you were wondering who is taking what this will answer all your questions. If you are attending the tournament yourself then get your notebooks out and start planning. Here you will hear who has Blodge, who has Guard and who has the players to counteract your stock tactics.

Good Luck everyone!

details on how to vote for us in the 2024 NZ Podcast Awards will follow soon but for now here is the web address - https://www.nzpodcastawards.com

If you are not already on discord, come and join us on the NZBB Discord server here - https://tinyurl.com/joinNZBBC and please visit the NZ Blood Bowl Community FB page here - https://www.facebook.com/groups/NZBBC/

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Kia ora Coaches. A bumper episode this time.

We are kindly joined by friends of the show Arlo and James who both attended the recent tournament in Napier.

But first we finally get round to discussing the arrival of the new GW Chaos Dwarf team and roster. Do we like them? What do we like if we do like? What if we don't like? Will anyone care? Do we care? No, we will talk about it all anyway! We also look at the current tournament series standings as the year draws to a close.

Then we head to the sunny Hawkes Bay on the east Coast of the North Island to see hat went on at the biggest Orcs Bay Horn yet! Who did what and when? Why is Vinnie so violent? Did Quentin make a triumphant return to BB? What made Josh very happy? What makes Bobsol so much better than the rest of us in every way? and why did Mushy and Dadchop hold secret talks instead of attending the board game night at Sandune's?

All these questions and less will be answered here on episode 37 of Powtearoa - The New Zealand Blood Bowl Podcast.

Thanks for listening!

details on how to vote for us in the 2024 NZ Podcast Awards will follow soon but for now here is the web address - https://www.nzpodcastawards.com

If you are not already on discord, come and join us on the NZBB Discord server here - https://tinyurl.com/joinNZBBC and please visit the NZ Blood Bowl Community FB page here - https://www.facebook.com/groups/NZBBC/

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Kia Ora Blood Bowl Coaches

It was only a matter of time and that time is now. James Cardno (Mahuika) joins us this episode to discuss the recent Greenstone Cup in Auckland. Luckily, Maria (Saku) joins us too and between us we manage to keep Mr Cardno under control.

So join us as we take a gentle stroll through the suburbs of the City of Sails and find out what happened at our NZ Major tournament. James and Maria tell us about their teams and games. We learn about the new depths of corruption that Glyn has been exploring. Why Necromantic teams need guard and sure hands. What happens when you cannot roll injury on Wozza's Elves, why GW saw fit to include anatomy diagrams from old biology text books in the middle of their Gnome pitch. And who, if anyone, came out on top at Greenstone. You can also play the 'When will Trickey get here' game as we go along. A packed show and we don't even find time to discuss the new Chorf team so we will leave that for another day.

Thanks for listening!

If you are not already on discord, come and join us on the NZBB Discord server here - https://tinyurl.com/joinNZBBC and please visit the NZ Blood Bowl Community FB page here - https://www.facebook.com/groups/NZBBC/

If, after this you still feel the need to listen to more Southern Hemisphere Blood Bowl chat check our Down Underworld Denizens the NZ Western Island Podcast - https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-down-under-world-denizens-184968742/

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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 episode we are joined by Arlo who shows us that even if you win a tournament you still cannot be as amazing as Deon who is clearly the best Wellington based Blood Bowler of them all. Nonetheless this is a fine example of humble bragging. Claymore also joins us to feed in the stats from his set of super secret dossiers.

Welshy, Toffer and the Trickmeisterster are around as usual to learn from the best in the game.

Is 7's the best form of Blood Bowl? Is Trickey's Gnome obsession getting out of hand? Will we ever get a statue of Arlo? Should Dadchop and Mushster move to Twizel? All these questions and less will be answered in the 35th! episode of Powtearoa, The New Zealand Blood Bowl Podcast.

If you are not already on discord, come and join us on the NZBB Discord server here - https://tinyurl.com/joinNZBBC and please visit the NZ Blood Bowl Community FB page here - https://www.facebook.com/groups/NZBBC/

If, after this you still feel the need to listen to more Southern Hemisphere Blood Bowl chat check our Down Underworld Denizens the NZ Western Island Podcast - https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-down-under-world-denizens-184968742/

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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 Oceanic Blood Bowl scene. Beautiful new trophy. In other news, the bidding process is out for the 2027 World Cup and Trickey has plans for it to come here to beautiful Aotearoa NZ. Is he mad? yes...but is this particular idea of his mad? maybe...

If you are not already on discord, come and join us on the NZBB Discord server here - https://tinyurl.com/joinNZBBC and please visit the NZ Blood Bowl Community FB page here - https://www.facebook.com/groups/NZBBC/

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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 and go over some ideas we have for the upcoming Mainland Bowl (2 weeks people get your names down).

Have a great time everyone. May your leapers leap and your blockers block.

If you are not already on discord, come and join us on the NZBB Discord server here - https://tinyurl.com/joinNZBBC and please visit the NZ Blood Bowl Community FB page here - https://www.facebook.com/groups/NZBBC/

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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 newly formed NZBBC Blood Bowl 3 league (cheers Grub), the Pav, the NZ tournament circuit standings and whether Tussock is a cleverly designed online algorithm or a figment of Trickey's imagination.

As ever we thank you all for listening.

A big shout out to our Aussie colleagues on Down Under World Denizens Podcast (check them out here - https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-down-under-world-denizens-184968742/). Great stuff from Babs and the boys!

If you are not already on discord, come and join us on the NZBB Discord server here - https://tinyurl.com/joinNZBBC and please visit the NZ Blood Bowl Community FB page here - https://www.facebook.com/groups/NZBBC/

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