NAF Presidential debate to usher in the post-Lycos era

After leading the NAF since 2007 Lycos is stepping away from his position as President. Lycos was successful in three election campaigns with varying degrees of suspense and competitiveness to become the longest tenured President in NAF history. This time around we have the absolute certainty of a change at the head of our global Blood Bowl players society. Lycos has given greatly of his time in his role and has personally assisted on numerous issues that were important to NAF Canada. Not only has he headed the NAF organization but he also has managed to attend an average of 15.7 tournaments a year for the last decade. These numbers are almost inconceivable here in Canada and North America. If we look just at 2011, Lycos attended 26 ranked events, that is a tournament every other weekend for a whole year, that is a very serious commitment! While some might say, "Seriously? He should be committed!" I applaud the sheer presence in our Blood Bowl community such attendance creates.

This brings us to this election cycle. We have a wide field of candidates with 5 members being nominated, seconded and accepting their nominations. These people are, with links to their coach pages:

Beppe
Italy

Kilowog1
USA

MrHannah
UK

Sann0638
UK

Podfrey
UK

The election timeline (we are midway through right now):

-Nov 10th nominations open
-Nov 24th nominations end, Q&A begins
-Dec 15th election opens Q&A will continue
-Jan 5th election ends

The Q&A is underway and the debate is heating up here in the sticky announcements section on thenaf.net. I will keep up to date on the discussions and may share some of my thoughts, here or more possibly on my own blog so it doesn't sound like an official NAF Canada position.....

I would encourage all Canadian NAF members, and those in North American to read and participate in the discussion around the election as if you don't speak (write) you won't be heard (read)!

JTB

Belated update

Hey all so life slowed the real online launch of NAF Canada, but lots of people are working on things now and hopefully more will happen very soon!

twitter now @nafcanada

TTFN

North American Team Championship 2013

Just a quick update for Canada to let you know that the bidding process is open to host the first North American Team Championship in 2013.

A Canadian bid or three would be an excellent way to draw attention to the potential of Canada in the North American Blood Bowl Scene. NAF Canada would be happy to support any Canadian groups in the production of a big package.

Ask for a bid package at the address below if you are interested!

Also let us know!

NAF CANADA 

The following is taken from the "thenaf.net"

Following the success of the NAF World Cup II in Amsterdam (Nov 2011) we want to get a continental championship going now so a legitimate bid from North America can be made for the 2015 World Cup.



We also want to follow the bidding model to determine the host location for the event each time. The vision is a once every four year event, two years removed from the NAF World Cup each time.

1) Bids must only be submitted by email.
Northamericanteamchampionship@gmail.com
2) Bids must not be publicised on the message boards, any such posts will be deleted and may cause the removal of the bid from the competition.
3) Bids must plan to use a location in North America (just in case we have any jokers )

Key Dates

Bidding open Jan 1st
Bidding closed midnight PST January 31st
Results announced February 21st (latest).

*January 1st bidding process opens

Submit an expression of interest to receive full bidding guidelines. All correspondence will be conducted through the following email address: Northamericanteamchampionship@gmail.com

*January 31st last date for full submission.

*Winning bid announced on forums by third week in February

Bidding process will select based on:

Resume of organizing team 

Proposed location 

Proposed Venue 

Suggested Accommodation 

Overall price

Bidding process will not involve:

Tournament format 

Tournament rules

NAF Presidential Election now voting Jan 3rd

The field has narrowed to:
Lycos (Dave Downes)
Pako (Francisco Miguel Torres Grande)
Kwek (Tom Neeven)

Voting is ongoing on thenaf.net
VOTE HERE

Exercise your democratic priveledges!!!!

Now we are doing our best to hide the current NAF Canada staff preferences so we do encourage doing your own background reading independantly.

Cheers!

NAF Presidential Election

Holiday Season is Election Season for the NAF!

The current Presidential term of Lycos is ending and we have to pick our new leader.

The field of four members who are both nominated, seconded and have accepted the nomination are:

Lycos (Dave Downes)
Pako (Francisco Miguel Torres Grande)
Thomsy (Stephen Thomms)
Kwek (Tom Neeven)

All members are invited to ask the candidates about their plans, their ideas and their thoughts on how to run the NAF. The Q&A session starts today!

Important dates:
start Q&A - and closing of nominations: 20th of December
start voting 3rd of January
end voting 17th of January (24:00 CET)

The discussion can be found on the NAF message boards.

NAF CANADA encourages all NAF members to participate!

NAF CANADA Launches Blog

Welcome to the blog for NAF CANADA!

After the participation of Team Canada in the second NAF World Cup we wanted to make an effort to connect and celebrate the amazing blood bowl community we have in our country!

We are planning on making this blog a hub for the Canadian Blood Bowl community and we hope to feature some great "coach" generated content.

Our objective is to increase cohesion and participation in Blood Bowl activities in Canada, not just in NAF sanctioned tournaments but also leagues and conventions.

We will also take a lead in organizing Canadian teams to participate in International events like the World Cup, the North American Team Championship and larger "foreign" tournaments.

We hope to bring you more info and content real soon.....

Thanks,

NAF CANADA