Mānawatia a Matariki Coaches Welcome back to another episode of Powtearoa - The New Zealand Blood Bowl Podcast! This episode we head to our biggest city to see what is happening with our Auckland coaches. No Trickey this time as he is globetrotting. But, Welshy and Toffer are joined by Mahuika (James) and Makahli (Benjamin) from Auckland to tell us all about it. 11 Auckland coaches recently visited Hamilton for Bobsol's Matariki 7s event and we hear how they got on (though Toffer couldn't rememb...
Jul 04, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 47
Kia Ora Coaches Colossal in the Capital! Towering in te whanganui a tara! A Wellington Whoppa!! Aotearoa's biggest tournament ever was last weekend and we had roving reporters on the ground as it all happened. 57 coaches battled it out over 5 fantastic games of Blood Bowl and this episode we hear from some of those who were there. Toffer and Trickey are joined by the organiser of everything the amazing Mushoomy. And, the coach who fought all the way to the top, the mighty Tobes! So, for those of...
Jun 13, 2025•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 46
Kia Ora Blood Bowl fans In this episode, We are joined by special guest CannonFodder to dive into all the action from the recent Ōtepoti Bowl in Dunedin! From standout plays to surprise upsets, they break down the highlights, share behind-the-scenes stories, and give well deserved shoutouts to the coaches who made it another fantastic NZ tournament to remember. Whether you were there or just want to catch up on the carnage, this is one you won’t want to miss! Good Luck to all those 54 coaches tr...
May 29, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 45
Kia Ora everyone! Just in time for Otepoti Bowl in Dunedin its Powtearoa - The New Zealand Blood Bowl Podcast episode 44!! This episode we were unable to recruit a Haughty Chalice attendee so we make a valiant attempt to go through the outcome ourselves. Congratulations to all the winners. Then we go through our current top Blood Bowlers according to the NAF data and Elo scores. Who are our BB Superstars?! Congratulations to all the losers who propelled these coaches to such greatness. Finally T...
May 16, 2025•54 min•Season 1Ep. 44
Kia Ora Blood Bowl Coaches galore! this episode we are joined by our own NAF rep Claymore who is with us to help us better understand the role of the NAF in NZ Blood Bowl. We all know what the NAF is but what role can it play in our lovely little corner of the planet? Also Trickey returns to us from his trip to the north (everything is north of Dunedin). Did he win all the prizes at the Otautahi 7's? we shall see. Claymore was in attendance at the recent Blitz Bowl in Tauranga and brings us all ...
May 05, 2025•56 min•Season 1Ep. 43
Kia Ora Powtearoa listener(s) episode 42 -- our second of 2025 -- picks up on some of the tings we forgot/ran out of time/expertise on last episode. Mainly what happened in Palmerston North this year? This episode Rob joins the list of people who keep us informed on the annual Stubbl Bowl outcomes and this year was its biggest turn out yet! Trickey also takes the time to tell us what happened at the recent 7's tournament in Dunedin - Otepoti 7's. Plus other assorted news from Blood Bowl in our a...
Apr 01, 2025•58 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Kia Ora Blood Bowlers Welcome back to your semi-regular update on the goings on here in Aotearoa/New Zealand This week we have Jesse and Gil joining us with exciting news about a new tournament that is going to be happening at the end of August this year. The Powtearoa Squad Spectacular. Ausbowl fans will be aware of the format but basically its a bit like PPC but the squads don't have to be regional based and can be made up of friends and fiends from anywhere! Also there are some pretty sweet t...
Mar 07, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 41
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...
Feb 15, 2025•54 min•Season 1Ep. 40
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 t...
Nov 14, 2024•2 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 39
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. S...
Oct 23, 2024•1 hr 34 min•Season 1Ep. 38
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 ...
Oct 11, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 37
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 tha...
Sep 14, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 36
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...
Aug 25, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 35
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 ...
Jul 28, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 34
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). H...
Jul 07, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 33
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 ...
Jun 21, 2024•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 32
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 they have with the first ever Otepoti Bowl our newest additions to the Blood Bowl tournament scene he...
Jun 07, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 31
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 tournament in sunny Paraparaumu (Get along people, its a blast!) So is Big Rod the new Puggy? And will we...
May 08, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 30
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 ages he is new to the tabletop tournament scene and we wanted his take on things. We also go back o...
Apr 17, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 29
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 around some of the bigger centres in their leagues as we move into the 2nd quarter of 2024. Also, nice to...
Mar 30, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 28
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 data. There is information to be mined here. Babs joins us to discuss the new Gnome team and also t...
Mar 13, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 27
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. Meanwhile in the deep south The Dunedinites managed a small but perfectly formed tournament based on t...
Feb 29, 2024•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 26
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 us to beat each other to a bloody pulp on the astrogranite!! Our amazing NAF rep Claymore has crunch...
Feb 17, 2024•54 min•Season 1Ep. 25
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 massively exciting news about the year ahead! Will Trickey, Toff and Welshy be able to handle it?! Hav...
Jan 26, 2024•58 min•Season 1Ep. 24
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 great end of the year everyone and we will see you all at our various leagues and tournaments in 20...
Dec 16, 2023•55 min•Season 1Ep. 23
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 everyone thinking Halflings are the way to go? Has Sandune got us all thinking Underworld is the way fo...
Nov 24, 2023•59 min•Season 1Ep. 22
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? Lets find out together. Get your votes in! - https://www.nzpodcastawards.com/nominate All comments and ...
Nov 12, 2023•59 min•Season 1Ep. 21
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 what happened? Well listen to the episode and you will find out. We also take the time to quickly pl...
Oct 22, 2023•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 20
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 Trickey to be involved. We were kind of hanging on every word really. :) So who's up for TEAM KIWI 2027! A...
Sep 19, 2023•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 19
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 Alicante. Best of luck to our own Team Kiwi, Nick and James. Have fun fellas. We wish we were there. ...
Sep 06, 2023•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 18
