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Right, the season is (finally) over and so we can move onto the playoffs. The following teams are in the playoffs and should join the playoff league as soon as possible:

Drogg (Hordes Champion)
Ruvaldt (Hordes 2nd)
Ramas (Hordes 3rd)
Ezrast (Hordes 4th - beats Avaia on TD difference)

Ingmar (Tamurkhan Champion - on TD difference)
Ulysees (Tamurkhan 2nd)
Megrim (Tamurkhan 3rd)
IainC (Tamurkhan 4th)

Brocktoon (40k Champion)
Teleku (40k 2nd - on H2H)
Catfud (40k 3rd)
Paelos (40k 4th)

Comstar (top wildcard 12 points)
Avaia (2nd wildcard 11 points)
Lamaros (3nd wildcard 9 points)
Proudft (4th wildcard 6 points - beats Haemish on TD difference)

The league is already created; it's called f13 Season 6 Playoffs and has the password fearchange.

Quit the current league and join that as soon as you can please.

I managed toscrew up the end of season for Tamurkhan and 40k and started a new season by mistake - this means that the stats for the last day and the calendar view are lost and I had to recreate the tables from the day 6 results and BBManager. Please can someone who's been paying attention (Ingmar?) double check that I didn't make any horrible mistakes in working out who is in.

Seeding for the playoffs will be as follows:
Champion Hordes v 4th Wildcard
Champion Tamurkhan v 3rd Wildcard
Champion 40k v 2nd Wildcard
2nd Hordes v top Wildcard
2nd Tamurkhan v 4th 40k
2nd 40k v 4th Hordes
3rd Hordes v 4th Tamurkhan
3rd Tamurkhan v 3rd 40k

Looks right to me.

Nice work commish. Its about time we rolled on with this.

Augh I get to try to connect with drogg again?   :ye_gods:

Curse youuuuuu Comcast!

Well, that's me done. Congratulations on making the next round Ingmar.  :why_so_serious:

I'm not on steam much due to unreliable wireless, but I've applied.

Ruvaldt (Hordes 2nd). Whelp, there goes my playoff contention.

We meet again, Comstar!

In. Ready to grind you all under orcish boot heels!

ah jeez :ye_gods:  this time maybe i'll try and bring my laptop to work? i'm like 99% sure the network's gonna be locked down tho.  otherwise i'll have to drive to alameda  :grin:

Applied!

applicated

Vamplied.

i'm in!

My Rats applied last weekend, metaphorically speaking a one turn application.

You never know, any goblin team that makes the playoff cut at all is a goblin team to take seriously. Plus somehow I lost to Amazons 4-0 last playoffs so you can't discount Nuffle or me making horrible errors.  :why_so_serious:

Orc v Nurgle, I predict a 6-5 win for me.

Yeah, but I got through by beating up on lower AV guys with my chainsaw and Trolls, then running out tight victories. I'm not even sure I'll be able to get a knockdown with all the guard you have, and I have literally no other tricks apart from hoping for 1TDDs and stalling.

Still, the goblins will give it their best.

Have applied to the playoff league.

Letting you guys know in advance, I'm going to be out of the country between the 9th and 21st Oct, so pre-emptive apologies for any delays.

Playing XCOM isn't 'out of the country'.  :why_so_serious:

No, its worse than that. I'll be hard at work on a beach at Fiji. So you know, I'm heartbroken tbh.

I'm back on the 3rd and I'll set things up as soon as I'm back. Would be great if you could play your first round match before you go away.

I think its with Paelos, so tz difference might be a bit rough. I will try to aim to get round finished regardless.

According to the groupings I make it you V Catfud (Lyse) which I think works better for you in terms of the timezones, so fingers crossed you get that match in before you have to go.

Ingmar (Tamurkhan Champion - on TD difference)
Ulysees (Tamurkhan 2nd)
Megrim (Tamurkhan 3rd)
IainC (Tamurkhan 4th)

Brocktoon (40k Champion)
Teleku (40k 2nd - on H2H)
Catfud (40k 3rd)
Paelos (40k 4

3rd Tamurkhan v 3rd 40k

Oh, it is too. LET THE SPARKLE MAGIC COMMENCE.

Yeah I still have to sign up for this.

Completely forgot after MoP came out.

If Commissioner IainC is back from drinking/fighting/schmoking me and Megrim will be playing this weekend to rain on his Fijian parade.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkBe80SajCg

I still forgot to sign up. Ugh. Have to do it tonight. I will be available this weekend for the first time in a while.

Applied.

Playoffs have begun and seeding is done. Go, play.

Will keep a look out for you on Steam Paelos, if we miss each other today will probably have to shoot for next weekend due to the time difference.

avaia. You. Me. My ORC FIST

2-1 HHB over the Whalers - was a little anxious heading into this after the last two punishments HHB received, and after proudft and i had had so much trouble connecting, but inexplicably we connected the first try and it was smooth as silk from there on out.  Lots of punishment for the aluminumed whalers, with six injuries and HHB dominance of the field.  only one skull fracture, otherwise nada permanent.  the whaler score came from an audacious push with two turns to go in the second half ending in a perfect blitz that swept away the blodge sidestep skink trying to dam the tide.  kudos to proudft for a dogged performance despite the rotten die luck.

edit: uploaded the match to f13 season 6 as day 10.  hope that doesn't screw anything up!

Through the miracle of modern technology drogg and I somehow connected on the first try.  Maybe something really WAS broken with Comcast?

The cold-blooded lizards were victorious 2-1.  This was always going to be an uphill battle for the Whalers and their unimpressive record vs. the undefeated lizardmen, but the first half rapidly moved it from 'uphill' to 'nearly impossible' with a (to use the technical term) shitload of injuries and KOs, leaving 3 humans on the field after the lizard's first TD near the end of the half.

The second half was much more even, as all the KOed humans woke up with the help of Bloodweiser brew, and the injuries were somewhat covered by substitute players.  Lizards were more easily separated and a few skinks went down, but after the first half it was too little, too late to divert the lizard juggernaut.  The lizards scored again, and it was 2-0 with about three turns left.  A human catcher made a suicide run with the ball and ran over a skink for a token TD, and then it was over.

A human blitzer got a -1 AV injury but the other injuries were all Badly Hurts, somehow, so despite the drubbing the Whalers may be back in a future season.  They do seem to be somewhat coming together, despite their pitiful record!

Your orcs will be fisted, no need to fret.

I'm available for most of the rest of the day for our match if you're free Ingmar.

I'll be home from work about an hour from now.

Dwarves win in a very tight 1-0 match against Goblin Baby. Lamaros had a chance to equalize on turn 16 with a goblin toss, but his star player Ripper decided to engage in some massive last minute Loner fail.

Beardstorm! | 1 - 0 | Goblin Baby

Teams

	Beardstorm!	Goblin Baby
Race :	Dwarf	Goblin
TV :	2100	1240
Treasury :	430000	110000
Rerolls :	4	4
Apothecary :	1	1
Fan Factor :	11	8
Cheerleaders :	0	0

Match Report

	Beardstorm!	Goblin Baby
Score :	1	0
Touchdowns inflicted :	1	0
Touchdowns sustained :	0	1
Passes :	0	0
Catches :	1	0
Interceptions :	0	0
Knockdowns inflicted :	16	6
KOs inflicted :	5	1
Injuries inflicted :	4	1
Deaths inflicted :	0	0
Tackles inflicted :	2	0
Yards gained passing :	0	2
Yards gained running :	54	26
Ball Possession (%) :	51	36
Own occupation:	17	82
Opponent occupation :	82	17

Note of the match: 11/20
Spectators: 33000

Lamaros bought: Ripper, Morg'n'thorg, and a pile of bribes.

This match featured one of the most one-sided pitch invasions I've ever seen - on turn 1 all 4 of his big guys, his pogoer, and his fanatic (resulting in a fanatic KO due to ball & chain rule) and none of my front line were knocked down but Lamaros recovered well from it. Pucker factor was high for a lot of the game and there was a lot of tricky positioning and pushing, etc. Suprisingly little blood, however, considering the amount of tackle/MB vs. stunty/dodge going on.

No permanent dwarf injuries, although the deathroller was fired in a contract dispute before the game. Trollslayer #2 leveled.

Ermine Vermin 5 - 2 Fianna Chulain

Not a great game for the Elves, they were playing the whole match in either a blizzard or blinding sunshine and without their star catcher or a second Wardancer. The Skaven started off with a 1 turn TD, then managed to extend their lead to 3-1 by half time due to some poor Elvish ball handling. The Elves could have gone into the break leading but a dropped catch and a fumbled pass gave the initiative back to the rats. The second half wasn't much better. A running play was turned around by a 1d Gutter Runner blitz on the Elvish catcher who thought he was out of rat range, the blitz was a push and strip ball put the ball out of bounds, the crowd then obligingly threw it back in close to an unmarked Skaven who could throw it to a different unmarked Skaven in scoring range. There was a comedy moment after the second Elf TD when the Skaven again pulled out their 1 turn TD trick only for the GR to fail the last GfI in the endzone and KO himself. A relieved Elf thrower collected the ball and went to throw it to a catcher for what would have been a safe 3rd TD but fumbled it and the Skaven were able to recover the ball and go 4-2 up in their next turn instead.

Nobody died despite an egregious foul on the star Gutter Runner however the kick-rat will miss his next game.

Fianna Chulain | 2 - 5 | Ermine Vermin

Teams

	Fianna Chulain	Ermine Vermin
Race :	Wood elf	Skaven
TV :	1710	1460
Treasury :	110000	70000
Rerolls :	3	3
Apothecary :	1	1
Fan Factor :	7	10
Cheerleaders :	0	0

Match Report

	Fianna Chulain	Ermine Vermin
Score :	2	5
Touchdowns inflicted :	2	5
Touchdowns sustained :	5	2
Passes :	8	4
Catches :	8	4
Interceptions :	0	0
Knockdowns inflicted :	9	5
KOs inflicted :	5	1
Injuries inflicted :	1	1
Deaths inflicted :	0	0
Tackles inflicted :	1	2
Yards gained passing :	98	22
Yards gained running :	158	156
Ball Possession (%) :	48	27
Own occupation:	73	26
Opponent occupation :	26	73

Note of the match: 16/20
Spectators: 34000

Ermine Vermin - 5
Fianna Chulain - 2

There were blizzards, twelve passes, three rats knocked out by crowd rocks, Cheddar Persille failing a GFI, fumbled elf passes, a ball on the ground for 25% of the game, a non-gutter rat on the scoreboard, over 400 yards gained between the two teams and elves resorting to fouls.


You're never out of rat range.

 :drill:

I'll see if I can do a brief Insatiable v Alive not Dead write-up once I get home from work. Or Catfud can do it. The game was quite a struggle.

In a fit of cowardice, Team Snoosnoo shit themselves so hard they knocked themselves off the internets as the Bleating team was lining up.

Guess we need a reset.

Same here

Troll Slayer rolled +str.  :why_so_serious:

avaia and I are going to need a reset. I crashed hard (complete system reboot) while setting up. THEN, as my machine was coming back to life, my wife took a nice chunk out of a finger with a knife, so I had to do that and potentially go to the ER. It was a comedy of errors.

Did your wife lose any stats?  :why_so_serious:

Avaia v Brocktoon has been reset.

Comstar!  What times are good for you?  My weekends are the best time for me as I can play pretty much any time, but with enough planning I can arrange weekday games during my evening.

We toughed it out and wrapped it. Then it reopened so she got it glued shut at the doctor this afternoon. No stat loss. Apothecary burned.

Do we have an actual bracket somewhere? I have no idea who I play next round.

I have no idea who you play next round either because I have no idea if I can affect the seedings after the first round. Setting up the seeding for round 1 was already a giant pain in the arse requiring non-intuitive guesswork at random UI elements in the league management interface.

If you see me on steam, I can probably play. I'm rolemastering on Saturday. I'm avilable all day every day from Sunday till next Thursday.

Yeah, it's pretty awful.  You can only designate the first seeding.  After that it makes it up on its own.  I learned that from Horns & Hooves 2 because I had a big post-season.  Falconeer managed to set it up properly somehow though, so it is possible.  It just involves Italian witchcraft.

I've a suspicion based on vague recollection that in the next round you play the winner of the match next to yours on the fixture list.

Huh that would mean we might have #1 seeds playing each other in the 2nd and 3rd rounds. Oops?

Just a heads-up, I'm out of the country until the 21st, so no games from me until then.

Write the match report while you're on the beach arsehole!  :grin:

Uylesses! I'm going to be at home this Saturday and partly on Sunday.

However, I'm never actually on Steam because I play WoW, so if you can post a time you'd like me to log over, I will.

I'm Eastern Time zone which is GMT -4. I will be available between Noon and Midnight my time on Saturday.

Ok if I got this right then GMT - 4 means your noon is my 9am so if we aim for noon-1pm my time 3-4pm your time I think that will be doable for this Saturday.

Unless you moved to California, Ulysses, that is not right.

If he's in the UK, it means that he's likely 4 hours ahead of me. So his 4PM would be my noon.

Math was never my strong suit! Yeah I am UK based so if we say 4pm my time Noon yours then?

Yeah, that's fine.

I'm having big problems getting the patch. It just cuts out or stops or the program is no longer running.

I tried adding my original key to steam, which worked...but it says it's downloading The Dark Elves edition..when the key is clearly from Legendary. How do I tell steam it's the legendary key??

Or does anyone know the download site for the pach I can download directly?

Bleating 1-0 over Snoosnoo in OT.  Pretty crazy match, perhaps I will write more later.

http://www.focus-files.com/patchs/bb/bble-update-2-0-1-5.exe, as per http://forum.bloodbowl-game.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1780.

Somw stuff has come up Paelos so I am going to have to postpone for a few hours, can still play tonight but will have to be around -8pm my time so 3-4pm your time if that's no issue your end. Can stay up late if needed tonight if you are better playing later.

Just looking in game, I'm moderately confident the QF bracket will go....

7 Deadly or Hazardous Hippies vs Millizillas or South Park Smackdown
Ex-Presidents or Catfighters vs Bleating

Insatiable vs Huhnqua Huhnqua Burnin Luv
Ermine Vermin vs Beardstorm

Winners of the top two being one SF and the bottom two being the other.

I'm far from certain but think this is how it works.


Hordes already guaranteed at least one semifinalist based on this.

avaia with the upset in a really weird game. As orcs, I can't outrun Nurgle very well and a few very well-timed KOs on my players meant I was constantly down and unable to break free. The first half was a more or less standard 0-0 draw. The second half went completely bonkers and was one of the odder halves I've played in a long time. Tons of double skulls, skulls rerolled into injuries for the target, his extra armed mutant not picking up the ball and letting me nab it. It went to overtime (20 turns) and avaia got a deserved 1-0 win.

Ok 4PM it is.

The Minizilla's 1 - Southpark Smackdown 0

Will do a proper write up tomorrow as want to play Xcom now  :grin:

Is the playoff leage in BBmanager cos I could not find it, have uploaded to season 6 game day 1 for the time being until that is clarified and will put it in the right place as needed.

Ruvaldt hasn't been online steam for 4 days and hasn't replied to my PM yesterday :(

The good news is I spent the 10bux to buy Chaos Edition, and my account password worked so I can play now.

Yeah, most of my gaming time is spent on the PS3 right now.  You are not going to randomly find me on Steam.  I am free most of Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.  Weekends are always good.  If it is a weekday though I have to play during the afternoon my time (-5 GMT) and I know that could be tricky with you being on the other side of the planet.  During weekends I can play at any time.

Upload games to the F13 Season 6 league as day 10/11/12 as appropriate.

Iain are you ok to move my game or shall i resubmit it on the correct day?

7 Deadly 3-2 over Hazardous Hippies on turn 20 of a classic elves vs lizards game. Wardancers danced, Skinks pranced, cages were made for very brief periods of time, lots of elves fell over to a stiff breeze at the very end, and time was called with an elf Catcher two tiles away from the lizard endzone.

I'm still pissed at Avaia for that -1MV to Sonneillon.

I however this week often am randomly on steam- if you have time, check me out.

How about tomorrow?

09:00:00 a.m. Tuesday October 16, 2012 in Australia/Melbourne converts to
05:00:00 p.m. Monday October 15, 2012 in GMT-5

I'll fix it, no need to resubmit.

Thanks Iain.

Match Report.

I gave away 80k of inducements to Paelos' Chaos team so he invested in a Babe for the match which proved a wise investment as it meant that all bar 1 of his KO's woke up for the second half. Ultimately this match I think was decided on the second turn when I KO'd his Minotaur to add the Chaos Warrior I KO'd on the first turn which meant that I had a significant strength advantage in the first half.

The match started with me winning the toss and electing to kick, Paelos forms a natural mid table cage and throws some blocks scoring a couple of knock downs then on my first block I KO a chaos warrior who was a cage edge and pressure the ball carrier with the opening this created. Paelos clears the carrier from being marked and moves up the field to the middle and I again pressure the cage and with my second turn round of blocks KO his minotuar, things start to look a little dicey with lizards poised to pounce on my next turn but with a couple of skillful blocks Paelos clears a path to run his beastman down my right side of the field, however he cannot get any support with the runner and though all my hitters are marked I free my krox and move him plus 3 skinks to mark the goatman thinkiing this will now be an easy turn over on my next turn. Paelos has other ideas though and manages to pass to a midfield chaos warrior but again with no support so I then surround this guy and things are looking grim for paelos on this drive. With a lot of coverage Paelos attempts a dodge which fails but to my horror the bouncing ball is picked up by my star Saurus! Normally when this happens it never ends well but with a little nuffle love and surviving a couple of 1d blocks I manage to run Xhooqs upfield for a last turn score.

Second half and all bar 1 Chaos warrior wakes up from the 5 KO's suffered that half along with my single KO'd Saurus and I setup a standard push for a sideline cage and this is where things go wrong for Paelos as he gets thouroughly outbashed taking an injury and a death (thankfully it was only a level 1 guy who died) this half and finding himself very lightly manned and with only beastmen to try and break my side cage. He tries one dodge into 3 tackle zones which fails and lets me creep a little closer to scoring then to my amazement he manages to dodge a beastman into the cage and sack my carrier! Unluckily for him the ball doesn't go out of bounds and I knock down any close beastmen and decide to try and pickup with a saurus who needs 3 points to level. Allegedly this is a 33% chance with rerolls to work though the next 4 turns for me all ended quite quickly as every attempt failed to pick up the ball with those grease fingered T-rex wannabes!! The second half ended without any more real incident barring a fouling miss next game injury on a saurus that I re-rolled with the apoc to just a badly hurt and the final score finshed at 1-0 to me.

That's pretty much how it went. In a bash on bash scenario, the Chaos have a tough go against a team with higher STR on the front line. Basically I tried to play defense and look for a weakness to hope for a little luck. In the end, the better team won the game. One the Mino went down early, it went into panic mode.

I'm not feeling too well today, sadly.  If we could make it Wednesday at that time I would be all over it.

I'm not feeling too well today, sadly.  If we could make it Wednesday at that time I would be all over it.
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Wednesday at whose time zone?? Either is ok by me, but please clarify if it's your Wednesday or my Wednesday.

I think we can all agree this is all just formality- your team is very much more powerful, you beat me decisively in the last match and I'm down two of my star players.

Oh, yeah, you're right.  I meant Wednesday my time.

And I never count any team out.  Yours especially.

17:00:00 Wednesday October 17, 2012 in GMT-5 converts to
09:00:00 Thursday October 18, 2012 in Australia/Melbourne

See you then.

I'd much rather face chaos skull bashing over amazon bullshit, but perhaps that's my lack of tackle speaking.  :heartbreak:

I was here at 5:00 - 5:45!  I'd stick around longer but I have an rpg to referee soon.

Would you be available at the same time tomorrow, Comstar?

Sorry, couldn't be at the PC in tim. My fault.

Same time tomorrow then.

Sounds good to me!

Game played.

The summary:

The stats:

Day is advanced. Quarterfinals are go

(http://i.imgur.com/XzIf1.jpg)

It's like I never got out of the Hordes division.

Avaia!  I have all this Saturday and Sunday to play.  Pick a time and I'll be there.

I'm out of town from 10/20 through 10/28.  Are you available tonight?

I am not!  Friday night is date night with the missus.  If I violated it I'd be flayed.

Sunday the 29th or Monday the 30th?

i'm up in eureka this weekend megrim but can be around weekday evenings.  hit me up!

I am pretty busy all weekend, eldaec, but after that things open up like normal.

I'm free daytimes (except tomorrow) so I'm guessing my afternoon/your evening will be best for our game, Ulysees.

Cool will look for you on Sunday night my time then as I am out on Saturday night.

I'm on UK time, so imagine we'll need to plan something next weekend.

We should make it a double header as Nerve Damage need to play Going Forth by Day as well.

Minizilla's 3 - 7 Deadly 0

Will do a proper write up tomorrow as it is late now and it's a school night. Was a good game and lots of break tackle Saurus are really damn annoying.

Game is submitted on BBmanager to game day 11

*edit* Match Report

So the hot lizard on lizard action took place last night and the Minizilla's triupmhed 3 - 0 over Ezrasts 7 Deadly with the game being a lot closer than the scoreline suggested. I was giving up 220k of inducements to Ezrasts team so he took a wizard and a babe. I won the toss and elected to kick first and promptly put the ball out of bounds for an easy hand off to start proceedings. Ezrast elects to not make a standard cage and just screens his carrier allowing me to put early pressure on him and on his second turn he finds himself marked by one of my blocking skinks who with a 1d block scores a POW and pops the ball free, however we then spend 3 turns trying to manouver the ball into a safe place for one of us to make a pickup and eventually I get the luck and with a push onto the ball and it finally drops into an unmarked square. I make the pickup and hand off to scurry down the pitch on turn 5. All of Ezrasts saurus' are marked but I did not account for how much break tackle he had on his team and he wizards my carrying skink and moves a saurus to mark the ball. I surround this saurus with skinks and attempt a pickup which fails and the ball bounces to his Saurus who makes the catch! With 2 turns remaining he break tackles away and runs up towards midfield and can still score on his drive if he can survive a blitz and get a hand off. Fortunately for me Xhooqs once more proves his worth to the team with a take down of the carrier and I manage to get the ball back and move within score range as long as I survive the last turn of Ezrasts' half then I will take the lead. Ezrast blitzs me with a skink but has to make 2 GFI's to hit me and predictably because it is a do-or-die move it fails on the second GFI and KO's his skink leaving me a run in to open the scoring on the final turn of the half.

Second half kicks off with me not having taken notice of the number of turns so thinking I am receiving a kick after scoring I am out of position to receive the kick. I have to form a midfield cage using skinks as corners but at least that gives me the advantage of having more of my team in a position to hit Ezrasts and I proceed to clear a path through the middle and score on turn 13, surviving a couple of hair raising attempts to stop me giving Ezrast 2 turns to score a consolation. Since he does not have any 1 turn capable players this effectively ended the match. I kick off and Ezrast tries to make a fast scoring running play but once again I am able to sack the ball carrier quickly and after a lot of pushing around free up my ball carrying skink for a last turn touchdown. I kick off for a final time and Ezrast throws his last blocks but is only able to score a KO and the match ended with me having injured 4 of Ezrasts team (all via Xhooqs)  though one was repaired by the apothecary (luckily it wasn't a required save to his saurus as it was only a badly hurt but as the quack actually tried to save the poor lizard he slipped with the knife severing a vein which would have led to an untimely demise).

Do not think either side suffered any permanent injuries and I got 2 level ups, a level 1 Skink and the mighty Xhooqs. I think the lack of block was a handicap for Ezrast but he did not fail numerous break tackles on his turns and showed the flexibilty this gives to counter the one real weakness of a lizardman team, namely their lack of mobilty if you mark all their saurus' and he was very unlucky in the fact that whenever i needed to score a POW I did and he was unable to really threaten my carrier on my drive, most likely because of the screw up I made with the positioning which left me covered much more widely than I would have been normally.

Eldaec -

Now that my weekend schedule has firmed up it looks like the best bet unfortunately is going to be a late night game for me/morning game for you. You're either 8 or 9 hours ahead of me I believe, so if we play at say 1 am my time that shouldn't be too awfully early for you right?

The clocks change this weekend for me, I'm moving from GMT+1 to GMT.

What are you on?

I am UTC -7 (Pacific Daylight Time), my clock doesn't change until Nov 4.

Hmmm, sure you can't do first thing your time on Sunday (teatime here)?

May be able to do Sunday morning but will need to post nearer the time.

I can get up early Sunday, probably yeah. I don't know that I'll be able to fit the full double header in.

megrim come back  :cry:

Turns out I'm away tonight. So won't be able to do 1am your time as suspected.

Can do anything your morning on Sunday through to about 5pm your time.

What's your account on Steam?

Beardstorm! advances with a 3-0 win in its 4th match against rats this season. Seriously can we get an exterminator?

The entire match was spent Very Sunny; it didn't change the outcome of the one pass that was thrown, however. I don't remember any other significant kickoff effects; Eldaec got to move his guys one square a couple times I believe.

His inducements were Morg, an apothecary, a Bloodweiser Babe, and something else I forgot.

He chose to kick off to me, resulting in the typical 8 turn dwarf drive for a score; he had one turn to set up for a one turn score, but was foiled by a failed pickup roll (something of a theme for the rats in this game).

The second half started similarly, with the rats lined up to go deep, but after some failed pickups and other such nonsense, the dwarves were able to get the ball and run it in, in the process KOing/injuring the one turn capable GRs. At this point the rats were short handed enough that a similar thing happened on the 3rd drive. As I type this, brutal revenge is being taken on my shitty mummies in the Masters tournament.

Beardstorm! | 3 - 0 | Ermine Vermin

Teams

	Beardstorm!	Ermine Vermin
Race :	Dwarf	Skaven
TV :	2150	1490
Treasury :	460000	20000
Rerolls :	4	3
Apothecary :	1	1
Fan Factor :	11	11
Cheerleaders :	0	0

Match Report

	Beardstorm!	Ermine Vermin
Score :	3	0
Touchdowns inflicted :	3	0
Touchdowns sustained :	0	3
Passes :	0	1
Catches :	0	1
Interceptions :	0	0
Knockdowns inflicted :	15	5
KOs inflicted :	2	3
Injuries inflicted :	4	1
Deaths inflicted :	1	0
Tackles inflicted :	2	0
Yards gained passing :	2	4
Yards gained running :	100	28
Ball Possession (%) :	67	8
Own occupation:	41	58
Opponent occupation :	58	41

Note of the match: 15/20
Spectators: 42000

This was the first game in 17 that the Vermin failed to score.

First half was pretty fun, ball changed hands 4 or 5 times before the dwarfs made their dastardly escape.

Turn 8 and 9 was supposed to see Cheddar Persille bring Ermine back into contention, but 4 consecutive failed pickups (agi4, unopposed) meant he never got a look in, and the second half went thoroughly dwarf shaped.

Fuck tackle.

No permanent injuries for either side afaik, though the Marquis de Brunost did reach level 2, and barring boxcars will be trained to guard.

Yeah the inflicted death was a loner merc.

I've got a small window to play tonight unless you are available late late tonight (read early hours of the 30th).  Let me know if some other time works better for you.

NURGLE NURGLE HE'S OUR MAN

Nope!  D&D tonight and probably Halloween.  I'm free Thurs, Sat and Sun.  Thursday during the afternoon/evening, Saturday and Sunday pretty much any time of the day or night.

Avaia!  I'm free Mon, Thu, Sat, and Sun.  How is your coming week looking?

Should be fine in the evenings.  I've been looking for you but you haven't been online. 

Yeah, I really don't hang out on Steam lately.  I'll start checking in the evenings though.

megrim and i are having connection woes again :(  try #3 scheduled for this weekend.

Any luck for the remaining games?

megrim was gonna do some research on fixing his end of the internet but i didn't see him active on steam this weekend - for what its worth, megrim, i can be around my nights for the rest of the week since my girlfriend's gonna be on the other coast.

I've been out of town for work, should be around over the weekend if you are available...

I will be!  Promise.   :awesome_for_real:

Actually, I'm off work from Friday the 16th to Sunday the 25th. 

Ugh, I am so sorry about the delay guys, drogg and I have finally played our match. To quote my worthy opponent, "Hypnotic Gaze is a motherfucker". I've uploaded the rep to Day 11.

HHB's undefeated reign of terror ends 3-2 in overtime to megrim's vampires.  bloody match - two skinks forever gone, including a blocker; two saurii down; the agi 5 vampire goes out too with the standard handful of thralls. it wasn't enough.  megrim scores early in overtime thanks to a blitz.   i had a couple of opportunities to tie it up but choked due mostly to my own incompetence and some well applied hypnotic gaze.  alas and alack.

thanks for everyone's patience while we sorted out the dumb connection bullshit.

Am I correct in understanding that this is just Avaia and Ruvaldt now?

I believe so.

Yep!  I was on Steam this week, but didn't see avaia.  We're just going to have to arrange a specific time.  I'm available any day besides Tuesday between 5pm and 10pm CST.

Wednesday night work?  Kiddie concerts galore for me, I am free from Wednesday on.

Wednesday night is a go!  I'll be there.

So... did this happen?

It did not.  I was on yesterday after work for a few hours, but when Avaia got in I had to go to bed to get up early for work the next day.  We're playing earlier in the day today though, or that's what was set up.

I'll post a summary and the log as soon as it does though.  This stop on my way to the championship has taken long enough.

Fun fact: We started this season six months ago.

That is the opposite of a fun fact.  :mob:

I should have put that in green.  :why_so_serious:

Ex-Presidents of Doom 2 - 0 Bleating

It was a game of lots of KOs and injuries, but little lasting harm.  I managed to kill a Rotter in the first turn, but who hasn't?  Avaia also suffered two other KOs during that same turn.  He gave as good as he got though and injured two of my three claw beastmen by his third turn, and I really feared that my possession might end in a turnover in my territory.  I regrouped though, and capitalized on a lucky injury roll against Avaia's ball carrier, then ran the hell away from most of Avaia's players.  I ended up scoring on turn 7, and knew I'd be down a man, even with the injuries/kos on my side.

I caught a break with Avaia's two turn reception, and missed a golden opportunity to reroll on a two-die block against his Beast or Nurgle with my star clawpomb beast, Millard Fillmore, but ended up KO'ing him when he tried to block me back and got double skulls.  We went into the second half with me feeling pretty hopeful.

The second half was spent with me chasing Avaia's ball carrier around his side of the field, trying not to overcommit to anything, and eventually managed to capitalize on a bad dodge roll.  Franklin Pierce blitzed his ball carrier, and picked up the ball in the endzone for my second TD.  The last few turns were spent by me attempting to score a third time after a bad pick-up on Avaia's part. 

It was a good, brutal game of Blood Bowl that could've gone another way if the injury dice were different.  I go into the next game with one fewer claw beasts, but a Chaos Warrior who is about to get another level, I think.  Looking forward to my first trip this far into the playoffs.

The gritty details:

Games validated day moved on.

Ruvaldt vs Ulysees
Ingmar vs Megrim

Go!

Ulysees!  I'm free saturday and sunday at any time.  Otherwise, the next few days look busy.  Next week looks more clearer though.

Sunday anytime should be fine for me - my saturday evening your saturday afternoon also works as it stands at the moment so if you have a best time that suits let me know and I will make it happen my side.

Tamurkhan Division FTW.

Megrim, our best bet is probably your Sunday during the day/my Saturday evening (or possibly your Saturday/my Friday.)

GO MEGRIM!

DO IT FOR STRAYA MATE!  :drill: :grin: :awesome_for_real:

Sounds good - I will look to make some time to play the game on the weekend. If we are lucky, we might even be able to finish the entire season over this weekend.

Sounds good to me.  I'll be on Sunday then.  I will probably log in around noon time.  I'm looking forward to it.  Lizards are my worst opponents with the Presidents; your team and drogg's were the two I most wanted to avoid in the post-season.  By the way, thanks for that, Megrim.

OK Ruvaldt will see you Sunday. There is only 1 thing I am sure of in our match. THERE WILL BE BLOOD!

Dwarves lose in overtime, 2-1. Very tight game, a fair amount of injuries, one dead dwarf (nobody particularly important), and lots of 1s rolled by both sides. I'll make Megrim post the stats. :)

Beardstorm! | 1 - 2 | Insatiable

Teams

	Beardstorm!	Insatiable
Race :	Dwarf	Vampire
TV :	2150	1740
Treasury :	480000	280000
Rerolls :	4	4
Apothecary :	1	1
Fan Factor :	11	10
Cheerleaders :	0	1

Match Report

	Beardstorm!	Insatiable
Score :	1	2
Touchdowns inflicted :	1	1
Touchdowns sustained :	1	1
Passes :	0	0
Catches :	0	0
Interceptions :	1	0
Knockdowns inflicted :	16	12
KOs inflicted :	2	3
Injuries inflicted :	2	3
Deaths inflicted :	0	1
Tackles inflicted :	2	0
Yards gained passing :	0	2
Yards gained running :	62	46
Ball Possession (%) :	55	36
Own occupation:	35	64
Opponent occupation :	64	35

Note of the match: 14/20
Spectators: 33000

Oh good, the stats thing worked.

I cant really say much about the game without looking at the replay. Going in I felt that Ingmar was in with a much better chance than me, given the amount of muscle on his team. Luckily I think for me, he didn't break armour as much as he could have, and with the loss of two dwarves early on, the dwarf speed disadvantage became very apparent as the match went on.

Match validated, well done Megrim. If Ruvaldt and Ulysees can get their game done soon we may be able to wrap this league up before Christmas.

Congrats, Megrim.

I'm on now.  Hopefully Ulysees and I can get it done today.

Congrats Megrim!!

Bad luck Ingmar, definitely two of the best coaches in the league, sounds like a game worthy of the playoffs

I was on for most of today but have to take off for the evening football game.  Soooo...make it another day, Ulysees?  My next available day would be Thursday, I think, but I'll have to look.

Sorry Ruvaldt - My other half went into hospital for an exploratory operation that should have been routine but she had a bad reaction to the anaesthetic so not bene around my PC at the weekend. Thursday should be good for me and apologies for not thinking to post about not being around to get our match done.

Hey, no problem.  I probably wouldn't have thought to post on a forum while my wife was having a medical problem either.  I hope everyone is alright.  That's what really matters.

Thanks for the understanding Ruvaldt. Looks like thursday is a no go here but will definately make the time for our match Saturday or Sunday this weekend if you can confirm a day. Once again sorry for missing you Sunday.

That works for me.  As it turns out, I am going to watch the first round of the playoffs for a local curling league, that I am planning to join soon, on Thursday so it would not work for me either.  Saturday or Sunday are the best days for me, too.  If you have a preferred time just let me know.  I am very flexible both of those days and don't have anything planned except for holiday shopping.

OK how about we say 9pm GMT which I make around 3pm your time on Saturday?

Curling...Texas... :uhrr:

That sounds great.

It's north Texas, at least, Avaia.   :awesome_for_real:

It's you and I, Megrim.

Ex-Presidents of Doom 2 - 1 Minizillas

Ulysees scored after three rounds in pretty standard Lizard fashion and knocked one of my beastmen out of the match along with a KO, but those would be my only sustained casualties or KOs for the rest of the match.  I went into my first possession confident I had time to score, but what I really needed to do was thing out his sauri.  By the eighth turn I had a pretty significant advantage manpower-wise, had forced Ulysees to use his apothecary, I was poised to score a TD, but I made a key positioning mistake that was easily avoidable, and I failed a blitz and then a dodge I needed for the TD.  I went into the second half down a point.

The second half was a bit of a bloodbath for Ulysees as I took out some key sauri, including his beast of an MB/Tackle/Frenzy/Block sauri.  I scored with four turns left knowing that Ulysees had a good shot at scoring fast and leaving me no time to equalize for overtime.  I had a bad kick off that went off field and Ulysees gave the ball to a skink, ran a fast skink into my territory and then rushed down for a hand off.  The hand off went poorly though, I surrounded the ball, knocked out one of his skinks, grabbed the ball with Pierce and started running down field.  By the end I scored on turn 20.

Ulysees played one hell of a match, but the casualties/kos were just too much for his team.  Fortunately, only one proved to be an injury that will last past this match.

Now the Presidents are going to their first championship match.

Tale of the tape:

The Ex-Presidents 2 - The Minizilla's 1

I was fairly confident going into this match that while Ruvaldts team was able to pack a punch so was mine and expected this to be decided by who could get players off the field fastest. Things started well for me with an injury and a Ko in my first round of blocks and my quick score sideline cage paid off with a turn 3 score. After this my trsuty block dice deserted me. Ruvaldt injured my Krox on his first block of his drive and though I saved him with the apoth to come on again it was the start of my teams decimation as with his very next block he also injured a saurus. Ruvaldt made a mistake though with his last turn putting himself in range of a skink who had to make some dodges to mark him and he survived the blitz that would have freed Ruvaldt for the equaliser and then makes his diving tackle to send me into the second half down 2 Saurus' and a skink but leading 1 - 0.

Second half carries on like the first with a steady stream of lizards leaving the field either to injuries or KO's and Ruvaldt does equalise on turn 13 but for my drive I only have 5 players on the field 3 of those skinks. I get a little luck with a free hand off from the kick off but made the mistake of passing it behind the LOS and when i cleared the centre to make a run I had to use a re-roll on a GFI and failed the hand off and with that my chance of winning the match ended and all that was left was to pray that no more harm could be done to me before Ruvaldt ran in the winner on the last turn of overtime.

Was a good game despite the beating I took and I look forward to the final as 2 skilled players will be contesting it. Made the semi's this season so my progression continues, next year for the final!

It's a Christmas miracle!

Final is on, Ruvaldt vs Megrim for the glory and adulation of their peers.

Do ho ho. Was hoping for a bit more damage to this Chaos nonsense, but it looks as though I'll have to do it the hard way. The upshot however, is that if I win, I can finally stop playing Vampires.

And if I win the league won't have to deal with the Presidents any longer.  I'm sure both options are music to a lot of ears.

So when is good for you, Megrim?  I have a lot of free time after Wednesday as I've got two weeks of vacation coming up.

I am at work most of this week, but Friday night my time - so Thursday morning your time might be worth a shot. Alternatively Saturday morning and Friday night your time is also a possibility. If those don't work, we can just try for some time over the weekend.

Saturday morning, my time, would almost certainly work.  My in-laws are in town and I'm not entirely sure what they hope to do this weekend, but whatever it is it'll almost certainly be in the afternoon.

Sounds pretty good. Lets see if we can get this finished over the weekend then.

And we are done, season over! And before the year ended too!

Results:

Congratulations Ruvaldt!

Season 6 championship match has been played.  The match has been uploaded if anyone wants to view it.  It turned out to be a pretty good game if you enjoy positioning and defensive showdowns as much as I do.

Congratulations to the champions!

Well done Ruvaldt! Glad to get this out of the way before Xmas.

Thanks to everyone who participated in what was a much messier than usual league.

It's over?  Already?    :grin:

Well deserved Congratulations to Ruvaldt! and Much Kudos to Megrim for getting another Silver for Australia  :why_so_serious: :drill: :grin: