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It's the last day for Hordes and while Drogg and Ruvaldt have booked their places in the playoffs, there are still some upsets possible for the last two automatic spots.

Here is the schedule for day 9:
(http://i.imgur.com/34dW0.jpg)

And here are the results from day 8:
(http://i.imgur.com/hq83A.jpg)

Finally here are the standings after 8 days:
(http://i.imgur.com/MmtSZ.jpg)

Deadline for this match day is September 8th.

As you can see, Ramas can lose out if both Avaia and Ezrast win their games but even a draw vs Ezrast gives him an automatic spot.

If Ezrast wins then he gets a place regardless as will Avaia but it will depend on the result of the Ezrast/Ramas game and a possible tiebreak as to whether he takes third or fourth place. A draw for either or both of them puts them into a possible tiebreak with Comstar.

Comstar needs to win and for Ezrast and Avaia to lose their games for an automatic spot.

Here are the TD differences after 8 game days:
Bann -13
EricSwiftblade -9
Gruntle -7
Proudft -4
Avaia/Comstar 0
Ezrast +3
Ruvaldt +8
Ramas +9
Drogg +13

Ruvaldt: Thursday is out for me, but any other day should work fine for the hot goat on goat action.

My money's on the goats with tenacles

Bann,

I know it makes no difference to the league, but you still good for our game? Orc v Orc could be fun and we may get some SPP.

As it happens I have today off work (UK time), you about?

Gruntle, I am moving house to a place with probably no internet for 2 weeks. Hope we can play tomorrow.

Tomorrow could work, give me a time.

(Edit: Oh great we're like 18 hours different, so, my midnight tonight, I guess? which is your 6pm tomorrow? I dunno your schedule.)

This weekend is good.  Saturday especially because I have nothing scheduled.  Early afternoon CST is best for me, but I can make just about anything happen on Saturday or late/early Sunday.

Is drogg still on weird hours?  We're in the same time zone at least.   :awesome_for_real:

I'm GMT +10 but I'm home nowish. If you see me on steam, yell! What TZ are you.

I have a four day weekend but I'm going to be spending it adjusting to a third shift schedule. So who knows when I'm going to be awake and not a zombie.

edit: oh look, four digits. I guess I'm one of you now!

Sorry, was out early back now -- Pacific Daylight(?) Time here. I'll look for you on Steam.

(Edit: Oh, great -- according to Steam I missed you by one minute... well, I'll be on still, hope to see you)

Bann,

Got time this weekend to play?

I randomly woke up early, got the game started with Gruntle...and he reported incredibly high lag. So much he couldn't place his team on the pitch.

Please reset the match - we'll have to try again tomorrow.

What Comstar said, we need a reset... please.

Match reset.

still on vacation but back on the western shores come monday!  find me and let's see just how bad the sending-off kneecap is for HHB  :grin:

After Comstar was so gracious as to replay our first messed up game, his Catfighters lost 1-2 to the lucky Nifty Helmets with a run of bad luck costing them a tie.

The Amazons chose to receive and sensibly took 7 turns to score leaving the chaos team no time to try anything beyond a chancy ball carrier in a mad streak towards the goal line, who the amazons easily knocked down. In the second half, the chaos team dragged the ball slowly forward to score in the 14th. However the cumulative injuries and KOs left the amazons fielding a team only on one-side of the field, a trajedy unfolded when the ball ended up in the undefended side and double skulls on block dice meant that the amazons were unable to protect the ball carrier who was mobbed by beastmen who ran in a turn 16 score to win the game.

Game is up on BBManager:
And the Claw leveled - now he can finally take claw - and I believe one of Comstar's amazons also.

The most important game of the season, Orc v Orcs played yesterday. The highly anticipated match between number 9 and 10 in the league!

Interesting game, TV was about the same. His team had more skills, my team had a troll.

He chose to receive, I went full bash line up which left his goblin free to get the ball and run down the sideline. Thatfully with elf like grace I managed to dodge out of tackle zones, injure the goblin and get the ball. I then began the slow caged march towards his TD line. Some skillful defence and a couple of mistakes on my part and I fail to score.

2nd half goes better, I receive, run down the pitch and score.

He gets another chance, once again I make a mistake and leave his goblin free, a failed block allows his goblin to get right on my TD line, but with some luck i managed to recover the ball and stop the score.

1-0 to the Camptown Orcboyz, was an interesting match.

Ezrast, the sticky thread says you are -6 to me. Which is a PITA TZ difference.

If you work normal hours then maybe midnight my time, 1800 your time tomorrow, or I could alarm clock a 6am Thursday my time. Weekend is difficult.

I do not - as of this week I am on third shift, meaning my normal up-and-about hours are going to be from about 3pm to 9pm my time. Would something like 3-4ish for me, 9-10ish for you work?

Not sure if you mean am or pm on all of that. 9am Friday or 9pm tonight would work.

Dammit Avaia, I was counting on you to have hit him harder.

Ermine Vermin - 5
7 Deadly          - 3

Very much a game for the offence, neither side having much to say once the other got the ball moving.

Game turned on a defensive touchdown in each half for the vermin, when the 7 deadly's two deep skinks couldn't get control of the ball before the wave of Gutter Runners arrived.

No interesting levels or injuries as far as I know.

7 Deadly | 3 - 5 | Ermine Vermin

Teams

	7 Deadly	Ermine Vermin
Race :	Lizardman	Skaven
TV :	1710	1450
Treasury :	570000	20000
Rerolls :	4	3
Apothecary :	1	1
Fan Factor :	9	9
Cheerleaders :	0	0

Match Report

	7 Deadly	Ermine Vermin
Score :	3	5
Touchdowns inflicted :	3	5
Touchdowns sustained :	5	3
Passes :	0	0
Catches :	0	0
Interceptions :	0	0
Knockdowns inflicted :	12	7
KOs inflicted :	6	1
Injuries inflicted :	0	2
Deaths inflicted :	0	0
Tackles inflicted :	4	1
Yards gained passing :	10	4
Yards gained running :	140	106
Ball Possession (%) :	51	15
Own occupation:	47	52
Opponent occupation :	52	47
Dodges :	8/15	27/34
Block Success :	29/50	12/28
Pick Up :	7/15	4/8

Note of the match: 13/20
Spectators: 36000

Ermine Vermin over 7 Deadly 5-3

Eldaec's team is crazy to play against; all his TV is accumulated in his gutter runners so for the most part you can move around his team uninhibited... until the gutter runners show up, yoink the ball out of your hands, and run cackling into your endzone. I scored two TDs by heavily committing to a cage and rumbling upfield - something all my previous experience with lizards has told me NOT to do - and one through triple-dodgey skink bullshit, but all my attempts at sneaky running plays backfired because a single flaw in my positioning meant an instant TD for the rats, even when I tried to screen properly. Not to mention the completely unstoppable 1-turn scoring power of the Vermin's star Gutter Runner, Cheddar.

Definitely a well-played game by eldaec; as bullshitty as Gutter Runners are I imagine it must be pretty tricky to do well with a team that lopsided. No long-term injuries for either side; a Saurus of mine got MVP but I'm not sure if anybody leveled.

Sounds like an awesome game to watch!

Come forth and show yourself, Ruvaldt.  I summon thee, creature of hatred!

Avaia, your players will be but logs on the pyre I burn to honor the brutal gods of Blood Bowl.

Friday or Saturday both work for me.

We're just going to work on our passing game, right?  Wouldn't ant anyone hurt going into the playoffs...  :drillf:

Why wouldn't we?

In that case, Ex-Prez team should just hit end turn so I can get some blocking practice in.

That I can get behind.

NOTICE:  there are hairballs in the Comcast pipes in Hayward.

FURTHER NOTICE:

After failing to get a working connection with drogg, I successfully connected with Ingmar, who is a lazy bastard and never even set up his port forwarding.  So something weird is going on with me & drogg.  drogg and I tried normal connections, and Hamachi connections, and probably some combinations of both with the various reboots and restarts, and nothing would work (Blood Bowl gave us the generic 'open your port 16962 message' every time).

drogg & I are both on Comcast.  A tracert from me to him stays all on Comcast and arrives successfully.  From him to me gets nearly to me but decides to timeout at a Comcast stop in Hayward (different ip than when I hop through Hayward to him).

Any more knowledgeable network people have any ideas? 

it bears mentioning that proudft and i are less than twenty miles apart, both port forwarded, and lately i've been DMZed prior to blood bowl just in case. death to cyanide's netcode and death to comcast, who (per canyouseeme.org) may be blocking 16962 upstream  :mob:

Yeah it seems like it may actually not be Cyanide's fault, for once.

Have you tried connecting through your mobile phone? 3g is plenty for blood bowl.

verizon won't let me tether without spending another twenty bucks a month :(

Well, I actually enabled that service when I was having connection problems (I have a verizon iPhone).  When it didn't work (looks like it may have been on the other players end somewhere), I went to cancel the service, and it let me choose to prorate it.  So if all else fails, you don't have to waste a full $20.  Still, not sure if you want to spend extra money on the game either way.  The government is throwing lots of sweet sweet tax payer money at me right now, so I didn't mind the experiment.   :awesome_for_real:

You have to pay to share the network connection? I don't even...

Move to the Share Everything plan.  Free tethering.

right now i pay ~$80 for unlimited everything sans tethering. it looks like the absolute cheapest way i could go on share everything would be $100 minimum and they'd knock me down to 2 GB of data :cry:

at any rate, proudft and i tried valiantly again yesterday and couldn't manage a connection.  unfortunately i've been too busy with housecleaning to go wifi hunting today in the hopes of tracking down an unguarded wifi connection from a different ISP.  gonna try our luck again this afternoon, jah willing.

Another day, more failure.    :cry2:

Reveal yourself, Avaia!  I messaged you through Steam on Friday and Saturday but never got a reply.   :cry2:

I'm still around most of today. 

Headed to the packer game, I will look for you tonight.

We're past the deadline and I've been the cause of us not playing our match more than Ruvaldt.  I am willing to forfeit in the interest of progressing the season.

But I wanted to destroy you.   :sad:

I'll be around again tonight!

Yeah, football game again tonight, soooo....  :oh_i_see:

It is important that you murder all ruvaldts.

+1 Cuba demands it!

Just murder the ones with claw and that's good enough IMO.

Is this game going to happen? it's the last one for this division.

Avaia, pick up!  I'm sending you messages on Steam!  I want to kill you!

Did this happen? Unless it did or I hear that it will happen Very Goddamn Soon I'm going to give it as a draw in about 4 hours time so that we can move on with playoffs and failoffs.

I've tried!  I'll be on again tonight, if you're around, Avaia.

Yeah, this just isn't a good time.  Again, Ruvaldt has tried more often than I have, go ahead and award him the win.

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