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F13 Feeder League Masters

The inaugural feeder league masters is on. 7 of the 8 top teams have manned up, only Lamaros lacks the man parts necessary for this shit, Ice Cream Emperor's Warriors of the Sun take his place.

Group Stage

Now complete, over 12 matches the feeder league's finest as well as Ruvaldt have battled it out to determine 4 semi-finalists.

Skara Brae Conference

Pos	Team	Pld	TDD	Pts
1	Emperors of the Pitch	3	+3	7	(Q)
2	Warriors of the Sun	3	+3	5	(Q)
3	Wilson's Beard	3	0	4
4	Bishoujo All Stars	3	-6	0

Frobozz Conference

Pos	Team	Pld	TDD	Pts
1	Ermine Vermin	3	+8	9	(Q)
2	Pro Elves for Hoes	3	+2	4	(Q)
3	Wormfeed	3	-2	4
4	Calidor Fancypants	3	-8	0

Semi-Finals

Shit is now officially real as we move on to sudden death knockout. Ties will not be tolerated and must be replayed until the teams involved get it right.

Emperors of the Pitch	1 - 0	Pro Elves for Hoes
Ermine Vermin	3 - 2	Warriors of the Sun

Grand Final

Emporers of the Pitch
vs.
Ermine Vermin

 :awesome_for_real:


Format


Full Calendar & Results


Who the Fuck is Alice?

Well Falc, I'm pretty much open all day today.  Going to take a lazy Saturday of laying around the house drinking and playing on the PC after going out and doing shit every night for the last few weeks.  So just message me on steam when ever.  I haven't played Dwarves in forever, and can't remember how to play them, so I'm sure your going to run circles around me.  Shall be fun!

Comstr! Time to take your fake elves down a notch.

Tonight is no good. Monday night is no good. Other than that, I'm basically open. Eastern time.

This is totally not a "QQ I'm not in this" whine, this is what I get for starting 2-0-6 with the Khemri before the preseason D&M tournaments, but IMO in future installments you should have the winner of D&M get a free spot in this, as a bit of incentive.

Counterpoint: Change name of tournament to No Ingmars. Dance around and brag about how much fun it is in front of all Ingmars.

I agree on the winner of D&M getting a spot. Also, I repeat for future editions only teams with a set number of games should be eligible. My Sailor Moons only played 3 games, I think. Pretty easy to be up there like that.

Teleku, I am going to sleep now (been rioting in the street of Roma all day - check the news). Tomorrow I am free all day. Would it work for you?

Ruvaldt! In the battle of teams named X of the Y, only one shall emerge victorious! (Hint: it's mine. The one that will emerge victoriously, I mean.)

I could play midday tomorrow (Sunday) or any of Monday, Wednesday or Friday weeknights in the forthcoming week. I am PST.

I'm actually a little intrigued to see which teams qualify in these groups, Emperors and Pro Elves should make it, but beyond that it is a mystery. In Skara Brae, Wilson's Beard don't have espeicially favorable matchups, and I fear for how many rats Bishoujo will have left after 3 matches in the group, so suspect Warriors might make it through. Frobozz is going to see an absurd amount of dodgy bullshit, but suspect Megrim's humans are just bashy and just mobile enough to make it past the Vermin and Calidor.

One thing is certain, there will be no Ingmars in the semi-finals.

Monday I have the day off from everything, but if that doesn't work it'll have to be Friday.  I have a big high school chemistry teacher certification exam on Thursday and a lot of my week is oriented around cheating studying for it.

Your skinks will serve as an excellent beginning to the Emperors' path to Feeder League domination.  Prepare to be squished!

Emperors of the Pitch 1 - 1 Warriors of the Sun

In a very frustrating match in which the Emperors couldn't seem to pick up the ball or block, and the Warriors of the Sun couldn't dodge, ICE and I settled on our traditional draw.  We both played as well as we could, but I'll be back up to full strength again for my next match while ICE took a more serious injury and a death.  It was just a level 1 skink though so it wasn't a huge blow.  For my second consecutive game my apothecary saved an important player from death.  Fun game, but the Emperors sure have had a bad streak of games lately.

So Warriors of the Sun tie Emperors of the Pitch 1-1 in the Game of the Aggravation. To quote myself from in-game chat around turn 15, 'this game is like distilled frustration'. For Ruvaldt the frustration was mostly straightforwardly-shitty dice, which helped me run in a fairly comfortable defensive TD on the last turn of the first half, going up 1-0 and receiving -- and then continued to fuck him over seemingly nonstop for most of the second half, as failed pickups repeatedly thwarted what seemed like an almost certain TD of his own.

Whereas my frustration was in having the game borderline handed to me on a platter, only to have my overall-awesome dice be just shitty enough to completely screw me over on my second half drive, and give Ruvaldt the endless opportunities which he finally managed to convert only once it required a ridiculous multi-tacklezone pickup-and-double-dodge, instead of a simple unmarked pickup-and-jog-into-the-endzone. I tried to force a 2 turn TD but a disappearing skink on setup made it even less likely, and in the end it was not to be.

Adding to the frustration theme was a turn-15 MNG injury to one of my skilled Saurii, which the apothecary offered to turn into an equivalent -agi injury. Ruvaldt's apothecary had come through for him in the first half to save one of his star MB/tackle blitzers from instant (in accordance with the sun god) death, allowing him to rejoin the game for the crucial second half's 360-degree nuffling.

Bishoujo Allstars lost 1 - 0 tu a bunch of dirt dwarves. Despite the 520 TV difference my girls played solidly in the first half, preventing the dwarves from scoring. Too bad there were only 7 left in the second half, which managed to lose the ball pretty easily and give an easy score to Teleku on turn 13.

Since he's a great sport, he decided to score instead of dwindling on the goal line, giving me an awesome chance to score in a typical 2-turn skaven bullshit way. Which TOTALLY HAPPENED, if it wasn't for the fact that I was so amazed myself for how easily I got a gutter runner through the enemy line that I forgot to use a player to block his only runner in range. Critical mistake, since the runner closed on my gutter runner and sealed the game. As I said, my scoring was impossible for him to avoid if I moved that free Stormvermin to block his runner, but regardless of my shortcomings it's fair to say that I would have never scored if he kept the ball instead of gifting me of a final drive.

On a side note, Sailor Moon, my rat ogre, leveled up and got Breaking Tackles, but one of my two precious Gut Runners died. Not cool.

Wilson Beards vs. Bishujo Allstars 1 - 0

Pro Elves for Hoes 4 wins over Calidor Fancypants 0

In a game were Elf Bullshit should have applied to both sides, but sadly only one side could take advantage of it. The first half was very exciting, with failed passes and catches for both sides meaning the ball went up from one end of the pitch to the other every other turn. However, the high elves could not seemingly take advantage of their block bonus, though they did kill the Pro Elf Thrower with leader. Poor Fluttershy. A high elf later got killed by a dirty foul. but was apoced to badly hurt. Two of my linesman levelled up and got wrestle.

The highlights would be the multiple double skulls by the High Elf Blitzers, the multiple 1's rolled for dodges/passes/throws/leaps/safe throws that required a +2, elves on both sides making dodges into triple tackle zones and my level 5 Catcher, Princess Luna, with +1AG/Block/Dodge/Leap/Catch/Nerves of Steel only making 1 TD, so still needing 2 TD to make level 6.

I can't upload the match - bb manager is giving me an error in french :(

Just awful game. There were certainly things I could've done better in terms of positioning (and I don't think Helves are fast enough to pull the "hang back and throw the ball everywhere willy-nilly tactic") but holy shit my dice. I counted 5 or 6 failed go for its and 4 or 5 double skulls for me. I went a stretch of 3 turns without a knockdown, all arrows. I'm not really bitching about it, because BLOOD BOWL, but what a stinker series of rolls.

Awful it may have been, but it has also knocked Ruvaldt off the top of the feeder league standings and claimed glory for Frobozz.

Yeah, and now I have to play against Dwarves without any claws.  Of the last four games I've played two were against Khemri, one was against Chaos and another was against Lizards; I'm feeling pretty beaten up right now.

It will be nice to finally play Teleku though.  I've never had the opportunity.

So yeah, I'm a bit confused since this is all in the feeder league and not its own special one like the seasonal games.  Do we just play all 3 games as fast as we want with our assigned opponents?  There really isn't any "days" to advance, correct?  Or am I missing something?

Game with Falc went pretty much how he described.  Something to keep in mind is that it was raining the entire game, which made attempting to pick up the ball hilarious for both teams (especially dwarves).  Nuffle threw me a bone, however.  I had most of my team stuck in a group on the left side of the pitch, with almost no rats around (except a knocked out rat ogre), while he ran the ball along the right.  I had a few dwarves in the way though, and got into a chain block, which resulted in me knocking his ball carrier down.  The ball flew out of bounds, and was thrown back in, right into the middle of my group of dwarves on the left side of the pitch.  But not only that, it landed on one of my god damn Troll Slayers, who actually picked it up.  My two agi Troll slayer picked up a thrown in scatter ball, in the rain.

So yeah, from there I was able to march my way up the field and score.  I was feeling a bit bad, and I always hate it when people stall anyways, so I did score rather than cage up for the last turn.  Almost cost me, but still worked out.

I’m on Pacific time, and am free any time after about 5:30 PM week days.  So just message me on when it would be good to play, Ruvaldt.

If you want to push on with the next match, that's fine, especially if you are likely to be away in the following week or whatever.

The group stage calendar is more of a guide to keep games coming. A short gap between each match also gives space for more posting about Ruvaldt's inevitable defeat.

Given this tournament only has 8 coaches, all of whom play blood bowl *a lot*, I'm not expecting any real challenge getting through the calendar.

Righto. So I still have games to play against Falconeer and Teleku -- I figure the Falc game might require some scheduling due to time zones, but if either of you see me on Steam feel free to inquire.

Rome wasn't built in a day.  The Emperors still look forward to another opportunity to tackle the Ermine Vermin into oblivion.

Emperors of the Pitch 1 - 0 Wilson's Beard

Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.  An action packed match in which my block dice returned to me, until the very end, but a key blitzer and Nero are both out until the next game.  I made some questionable decisions at the end of the second half as I got a little cocky and it nearly ended up as a dwarven tie, but Teleku's blitzer missed a game-tying dodge and I ended up the victor from a 4th turn defensive TD.

Played Vermin vs Wormfeed last night.

First drive was a straightforward 2 turn 'GRs ignore other team' touchdown for the Skaven.

Second drive was getting interesting as star GR Pinkeye Perkins extracted the ball from an absurd cage, but couldn't get safe from the Human horde, only to find Cyanide had struck, and Megrim was trapped in a stupid push dialog or something and couldn't move any players. Pinkeye ran in the TD which freed Megrim so we could play on.

Third drive saw an Ermine blitz, the rats caged up under the ball and then ran in one more TD before half time.

Second half and Megrim's men almost made it to the line with a running play down his left, but at the last minute some awesome skaven bullshit saw the rats steal the ball and travel almost the whole length of the pitch, before making it 4-0 on the following turn.

Final drive saw the human side finally take command, building a more stable cage Wormfeed trundled down for a consolation TD. 4-1.



Some fun moments, but the fuck up on the second drive sucked, and arguably cost the second as well as probably the third TD.

Megrim, more than happy to replay if you catch me on steam.

Emperors of the Pitch 2 - 0 Bishoujo

A seriously pyrrhic victory for the Emperors as Tacitus, a lineman with guard, and Antoninus Pius, an extraordinary blitzer with block/guard/tackle/mighty blow/frenzy, died.  Actually, I rolled deaths on three injuries, but the apothecary was no help and his intended patient simply died again.  Brutal match which leaves me with a gaping hole in my supply of guard.  On top of all that Tacitus won mvp.

Hadrian did level up though and he took mighty blow so that, at least, was replaced, but it'll take me another 20 matches to build another Antoninus Pius.

Yeah, me and Ruvaldt played our game from Day #3, and my team-that-should-not-be-here-but-it-is-due-to-a-glitch-in-the-prerequisites perished badly and never had a chance against the emperors. The only fun part was killing two of his superpricey guys (a level 3 and a level 5), but I lost some rats too and my TV is, at the moment, 780  :awesome_for_real:

Ice Cream Emperor, you are next!

I fear the inducements! But also been having a busier week than expected. I believe I am 9 hours behind you, Falc, so maybe the weekend is our best bet to play.

Yeah, it was a rough loss to Ruvaldt.  Still trying to get the hang of playing dwarves again, and made some stupid positional mistakes.  The first half of the game, the dice just weren't going my way either, since I kept rolling pushes while he kept rolling direct hits.  That changed in the last quarter of the game though, where I started to injure his players left and right.  I also almost pulled off hilarious nuffle bullshit again, in the same way I did in Falcs game.  After getting everybody stuck together in a big cage pile up, I was able to chain push his ball carrier off the pitch.  It was thrown back in, right up towards his goal line.  I had a blitzer who was just close enough to make the pickup.  Almost all of his players were down, and the two nearest where marked by dwarves.

Alas, with no re-rolls he was able to dodge both away and mark the ball carrier.  That left me with two attempts to win a 50/50 chance dice roll to dodge away and get the tie.  So of course I fail that, but I can't complain since some crazy dice rolling at the end got me that far.

I also nearly killed one of his guys, badly injured several, and gave game missing injuries to 2 or 3 more.  So if figured who ever played him next would have a nice chance of winning.   :awesome_for_real:  Oh well, at least falc managed to do even more long term damage to the team than I was, some how.



I also need to play you for the last game, Ice Cream.  I'm PST time, so hopefully its easier for us to play soonish.  Just message me any time on steam you want to play.

It's only fair to say that you won that well. I think it was just the second TD which was lolcyanide, the first, third and fourth were entirely mine to concede. Oddly enough, I don't think that the end result was too bad for me, as I had four players level from that game, including two doubles, a stat-boost and a normal roll. I'll just have to keep reminding myself not to take stupid risks in future games, as one really can't allow Skaven any room to breathe.

Warriors of the Sun tie Wilson's Beard, 0-0.

I doubt I can even describe this game without sounding like Complainer McComplainingson, so I won't except to say that at least nobody was seriously injured, so yay for that. And apparently if I beat Falconeer I still somehow make it through the group. But given the direction this team's luck is heading I look forward to Morg singlehandedly killing my entire team.

Skara Brae has its first qualifier, Frobozz still wide open. 5 matches to go, I've listed them all in the OP looks like we don't have to worry much about the calendar.

Eldrec, if you see me o steam today give me a yell.

Ermine Vermin   5 - 2   Calidor Fancypants

The bullshit is strong with this one.

7 TDs, 2 of which were single turners, and one TD that included a pickup two squares from the opposite endzone, 4 dodges, 3 blocks, 2 GFIs, 1 pass and a hand off all in one turn.

Also 2 deaths.

(submitted to BBManager under an arbitrary day 8)


Calidor Fancypants | 2 - 5 | Ermine Vermin

Teams

	Calidor Fancypants	Ermine Vermin
Race :	High Elf	Skaven
TV :	1590	1470
Treasury :	90000	60000
Rerolls :	4	4
Apothecary :	1	1
Fan Factor :	7	8
Cheerleaders :	0	0

Match Report

	Calidor Fancypants	Ermine Vermin
Score :	2	5
Touchdowns inflicted :	2	5
Touchdowns sustained :	5	2
Passes :	3	3
Catches :	4	3
Interceptions :	0	0
Knockdowns inflicted :	14	2
KOs inflicted :	3	0
Injuries inflicted :	3	1
Deaths inflicted :	1	0
Tackles inflicted :	1	1
Yards gained passing :	70	14
Yards gained running :	86	140
Ball Possession (%) :	50	15
Own occupation:	69	30
Opponent occupation :	30	69

Note of the match: 18/20
Spectators: 31000

I've never actually encountered the one turn score gutter runner in a game before. I thought they were just legends, like Big Foot...

They are actually pretty easy to deal with. Just don't score touchdowns, then you won't concede so many kick offs.

eldeac, I keep missing you by an hour. Maybe sometime this weekend?

One step closer to playing Eldaec's rats again...mmmm.  Maybe I'll recover from losing Antoninus Pius and Tacitus sooner than I thought!   :drill:

Suspect tomorrow will be good, will be online a fair amount.

Ermine Vermin and Pro Elves have attempted their match.

Locked at 3-3 and with the 7th TD about to go in on turn 12, Cyanide naturally intervened to put a stop to all that awesome.

Pro Elves for Hoes    ~vs~     Ermine Vermin - game cancelled due to UI.

Game was 3-3, 5 turns left, the skaven had just intercepted the ball deep in their half, and somehow I opened a console. I didn't even know there WAS a console. And I couldn't see anyway to close it. When I tried doing a close command...I exited the game instead.

Replay coming up

Its the button on the right of the Spacebar, between the Control key and the Windows key.

4-2 to the rats on the replay - pretty cool but not quite as cool as the last match, mainly because of the annoying as fuck rain.

Pro Elves for Hoes 2     ~vs~     Ermine Vermin 4

Due to pouring rain for the entire game, an exciting first half was dominated by the rats in the second when the elves couldn't pick up the ball 4 times in a row. It didn't help me that it made all the rats look like they were on the bridge of the JJ Abrams Starship Enterprise. Engage Lens Flair Generators:

(http://i.imgur.com/Irmgf.jpg)


 I did level up my star catcher - say hello to SuperStar Princess Luna - Nerves of Steel, Catch, +1 AG, Block, Dodge, Leap, Shadowing MV 8 ST 3 AG 5 AR 7.

15 Matches, 2 MVPs, 20 Touchdowns, 2 Passes, 12 Catches, 3 Casualties, 330 Running Yards

(http://i.imgur.com/Tf3sG.jpg)

Touchdowns scored with 3 games left...

Skara Brae : 6
Frobozz : 22

Just saying.

That Luna girl deserves a foul or two..

Falc, hurry up and play your game against Ice Cream so we can see who makes it in our division.  Remember, you can't lose.  Just win or tie, either works great.   :awesome_for_real:

Frobozz mathematics....

For Calidor Fancypants to qualify as runner up:

Must beat Wormfeed by at least five, and Wormfeed must beat Pro Elves.
Combined winning margin of the two matches must be at least ten, also double the Calidor winning margin minus the Wormfeed winning margin must be five or greater.

For Wormfeed to qualify as runner up:

Must achieve one of the following...
Beat Pro Elves and not lose to Calidor Fancypants.
Beat Pro Elves by four or more, and lose to Calidor Fancypants by no more than four plus the winning margin over the elves, also twice the winning margin over the Pro elves minus the losing margin to Calidor must be six or more.
Or tie with Pro Elves, and beat Calidor Fancypants by six.

For Pro Elves to qualify as runner up:

Beat Wormfeed, or tie and hope Wormfeed don't beat Calidor Fancypants by six or more.
If Pro Elves lose to Wormfeed, they will still qualify if Calidor beat Wormfeed and twice Wormfeed's winning margin minus Calidor's winning margin is less than six, and the two winning margins together are less than ten.

Go Wormfeed!

For the love of God, ICE, beat Falconeer.  I'm begging you.  I can't survive another match against dwarves.

First I have to get Falconeer to stop playing Dark Souls or whatever it is long enough to play our match.

Megrim is in the process of forcing the Fancypants into retirement.

2-1 to Wormfeed at the end there. All that busted armour certainly didn't do MA any favours.

I don't think I've ever played a three game stretch like I have with the Fancypants. That 2-1 score doesn't do it justice. My star catcher, with 36 SPP, dead. On the reroll, -1 agility so... also dead. Dead star blodge lineman. Scores of injuries. Double skulls. Four failed GFI. On three one die block occasions, I rolled a skull... only to reroll into a second skull.

Not that there weren't things I couldn't have done differently. I almost never blame just luck. But holy crap, my luck the past few games.

Warriors of the Sun 3-0 over the Bishoujo Allstars in a relatively straightforward match marred by a misplaced Fireball due to Cyanide's awesome UI. The first game of blood bowl in recent memory where I did not feel like the dice were completely controlling the outcome of the game -- Falconeer hired Morg 'n Thorg, who got things off to a good start for the Skaven, KOing two of my Saurii and generally making life for the lizards very difficult throughout the first half. However, after much skirmishing and countless failed pickups and handoffs and dodges, the Lizards were able to run in a TD on the last turn, having injured the Allstars' only healthy Stormverin in the process.

The second half was more lopsided, as I managed to pile up additional injuries to both Falc's Gutter Runners, leaving him with a team consisting almost entirely of linerats (and a thrower, and Morg) -- I was able to neutralize Morg a little more, and my skinks ran around being skinky, running in two more TDs. The Skaven's last drive, however, managed to place a linerat with the ball two squares from the endzone -- with only a dodge required for the score on the last turn of the game, the rat naturally failed, falling flat on his face and leaving the poor Allstars scoreless in the end.

And then my Kroxigor rolled doubles. Why can't my league team ever have such sensible dice.

Aaaand a 2-2 draw against the other Elf team, so I'm assuming that they now go through.

Pro Elves for Hoes 2    ~vs~     Wormfeed 2

Someone work out the maths - who goes to the final? I think I beat Megrim in TDD?

However, revenge will probably be his, because my team is wrecked for the semi final. One star catcher our with -1AV (Only reason I keep him is he has +1 MV, Dodge and Sprint), another catcher out for the next game, and no skill ups.

Only Elf Bullshit saved the match for me, with my 2nd TD only coming about after 5 dodges into 3+ tacklezones by 4 players in one turn. Megrim really should have wn that game, he didn't make a mistake that any normal team could have taken advantage of.

Wormfeed will only qualify if they beat Calidor Fancypants by 6 or more. Otherwise Pro Elves for Hoes meet Emperors of the Pitch in the semi final.

Edit:

Oh yes, didn't spot the result of the other game above, pro elves go through on TDD.

And me with only two tacklers left.  Thanks, Falc!

I only have 2 players with dodge, and I've only got 10 players. When you see me on Steam, give me a yell if it's before Thursday.

Apropos of nothing, feeder league standings impacted by the group stage of the tournament:

Emperors of the Pitch     1   ->   1
Pro Elves for Hoes           2   ->   3
Wormfeed                      4    ->  5
Bishoujo All Stars             5   ->  33
Wilson's Beard                 6   ->  7
Ermine Vermin                8    ->  4
Calidor Fancypants         9    ->  21
Warriors of the Sun        11  ->  6

I was quite surprised that more teams didn't lose more points as a result of these matches, but then, I really have no idea how the feeder league scoring system works.

In other news, I'm seriously considering hiring a rat ogre ahead of the knockout stages.

I would probably have taken one through inducements playing against Lizards, and again if I meet the Humans.

1/4 of the Emperors of the Pitch are walking wounded, but he has the numbers over the out-manned and still injured Pro Elves for Hoes. Runvaldt, if you see me on steam send me a yell so we can get a game on.

My monies on the humans - I can't see elf bullshit being pulled off a second time in a row vs a strong blocking human team.

Well, at least I'm now free to endlessly challenge everybody in the feeder league with my dwarves again, instead of having to wait for the match ups!   :awesome_for_real:

Because I was looking forward to the bashing of a lifetime from Wilson  :why_so_serious:

7 causlties, 2 KO's and 1 death. Score 1-0, Humans over Pro Elves.

By the end of turn 4 I had 4 out of 11 elves out of the game but I still was able to stop the Humans making a TD. However, by the end of the first half it was 10 humans vs 5 elves. I still got within 3 squares if a TD, but a failed GFI meant the humans were always in charge and charging in from every direction. No skill ups for anyone in a game were the elves finished with 3 elves left standing and the humans into the finals.

My star level 6 catcher is out for my next game, and one of my blitzers is at -1MV (the apoc would have killed him). Another line elf dead, and a second one fired when he got -1 ST.

Emperors 1 - 0 Pro Elves

Hell of a match in which Comstar played aggressively from the very beginning by blitzing in his first round and harrying my every attempt to pick up or move the ball.  The elves seemed to dodge at will, but over the course of a block heavy first half my mighty blow blitzers slowly whittled down the elves.  Though I didn't score in the first half I was hopeful for the second due to my numbers advantage.

In the second half I kicked off to Comstar and he made a great effort to play the ball, but I was able to knock his last catcher out of the game and after that it was me versus his blitzers that wouldn't stay down and couldn't fail a dodge.  After some frustrating blocking and running I handed off to my new thrower, ran down the field, stalled for two rounds, and scored on my 15.  

Some terrible injuries for Comstar, I'm afraid.  I was pretty astonished at how well Comstar kept his team in the game in the face of such overwhelming odds there at the end.  I started to wonder if we'd tie and have to play a second game.  Even with all of the casualties there were no level ups for the Emperors.  On to the finals!  Since there aren't any mummies maybe I can actually win this time.

Kind of a busy week for me, eldaec, but if you are around tomorrow (Wednesday) evening then maybe we can get a game in. Err, assuming we're even remotely on the same time zone (I am PST) -- if not we might have to organize something more specific.

GMT+2, so suspect the weekend will work best.

The Vermin anyway need some rest after running in 16 touchdowns in the group stage.

I'm sure the warriors 4 touchdowns were also very tiring.

Yeah. You know how when it's winter, and you go for a walk in the snow, and you get tired real fast because you have to watch your step and the ground is all uneven? It was kind of like that but with all the broken bones and blood of my opponents, instead of snow. Ex-hausting.

Looks like we need to arrange for my norse to grind your elves into the dirt as well as making time for my rats to score the fuck all over your lizards.

Some kind of double header once the main league rolls on is probably the best way to do this.

That makes sense, yeah, assuming you will be able to play a second game after the first leaves you weeping in despair and humiliation.

Well, somebody beat somebody else so I can go ahead and beat either one of you. :awesome_for_real:

I could give you a warmup game against Khemri if you're feeling bored.  :why_so_serious:

Also, I took it easy and played Comstar's Pro elves against vampires.

It was moderately competitive and might have been a draw until some bad rolls gave me bloodlust and ended 3-1.

He got 3 levels and his injured stars are back...

Calling all bruisers please rape his team of 4 +1 agi elves  :drill:

Ermine Vermin 3 - 2 Warriors of the Sun

Will write more tomorrow as there was a lot of very cool bullshit, 2 one turn TDs, and a pickup under traffic countless dodges and a gazillion GFIs for the winning TD.

The Emperors look forward to defeating the Ermine Vermin again.

I've uploaded our semi-final. Quick run down...

Vermin receive the kick-off. They push a lizard out of the way, then pick up the ball and run to the endzone. 1-0 at the end of turn one.

Warriors receive the kick-off, a slow start as skinks have some trouble picking up the ball, but the lizardman team has so many fucking sauri that the rats can't really interfere. While the warriors get control of the ball a skink nonchalantly kills the Vermin Rat Ogre. Apothecary is, as always, useless, and 'The Refrigerator' becomes Ermine Vermin's second Ogre to die on the first three turns of his first match. The Ermine Vermin are now a no Rat Ogres zone. Other rats are not coming off well from blocks, and over the rest of the half five get KO'd. Pinkeye Perkins does briefly get the ball loose with a leaping horned blitz around turn 5, but is then immediately KOd. Aside from that Warriors make continual (if painfully slow) progress downfield and score on turn 8. 1-1 at half time.

Almost the entire Vermin squad wakes up at half time, and Warriors receive the kick off. Very similar start with the warriors attempting to cage up on their left, and a fair number of rats going down to KOs. Only Cheddar Persille decides he is bored of this shit, so he runs the width of the pitch to knock out the skink ball carrier on the LoS. Warriors can't get Cheddar to fall down, and next turn he picks up the ball, makes a handful of dodges and runs in the TD. 2-1

Warriors receive once again, and this time form a stable cage and run in a touchdown on turn 14, 2-2.

Receiving the kick off, Vermin pick up the ball from one square short of their endzone, push a lizard out of the way, and click on the end zone to score. Turn 14 ends, 3-2.

On the final drive, the Warriors push their skinks forward to give them a shot at some two turn bullshit. The rats knock over the best placed reciever skink to force a longish pass, skinks fumble it, Pinkeye Perkins recovers the ball, and throws to Blind Eddie waiting in the end zone, Eddie lives up to his name, fails the catch, and the game ends 3-2.

Also, this is probably a good time to start gathering feedback on the tournament.

I liked the small scale sense of focus compared to the other competitions, so I think we have the right format.

Entry needs tweaking - I guess it would be the holders, d&m open champion, and 6 further qualifiers by feeder ranking? For a minimum qualifying number of games we could say 6?

How many teams are we looking to put into the next comp?

From an outsider's perspective it definitely has been exciting and gives the feeder league something to aim for besides just practice matches and prepping teams to the main league.

If time permits I will definitely be aiming to be participating in the next Masters series!

Numberwise it probably shouldn't be more than 8-10 participants for logistic reasons as well as maintaining interest.

Look out boyos I'm coming to choke!  :awesome_for_real:

I would totally keep it at 8.

I'm thinking stick with 8.

Other changes we could make might be a double round robin first round, or in the knockout phase have two legged matches, or even a best of 3 series.

I don't think I'd prefer double round robin.  I liked the fast-paced and focused nature of the tournament.  A best of three series could be fun though.  Either way, I'll play again in the next one; I'm an addict and three of the teams in the top 10 are mine anyway.    :grin:

Is it my imagination or are Emperors abandoning Ruvaldt's team to avoid facing the Vermin?

I could have sworn that team had more than 11 dudes last week...

We dropped a wounded lineman so that you wouldn't get a wizard.  Nyah nyah.

This shit is now real.

Final being played shortly.

Emperors take the title 3-2, in a fairly epic match which swung from rat superiority, to an obvious tie, back to the rats, only for the humans to take it at the death.

Ruvaldt also insists that I point out he was a good sport to go for the win when he could have held it up for a tie.

You will also be extremely sad to hear that Pinkeye Perkins (Gutter Runner, 18 touchdowns, 57 SPP, 400 yards run, Block, Horns, Dodge, Leap, Side Step) was killed by the sadistic humans.

He leaves a wife and 43 children, he will be missed.

A fairly spectacular match.  I think it's worth watching as a replay, really.  I'll be uploading it to BBManager under the Feeder League if anyone wants to have a gander.

Yeah, I'm glad you talked me out of forcing a draw, Eldaec, but I'm sure that's only because I ended up winning it.  I just knew that Cheddar was going to pull off a one-turn score again and I'd be crying in my beer later tonight.  The rats played one hell of a game.

The Emperors are champs!  Caesar would be proud.

He died on a dodge!  You shouldn't have been running away from my tackler; he only wanted to congratulate Perkins on his upcoming victory.