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Here are the fixtures for the first round of the playoffs.

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The deadline for these games is Tuesday 18th March. Please upload your games to the Season 8 league in BBManager as day 8 (then day 9 for the next round etc).

Good luck all. May the best rats win.

Ingmar: I'm Eastern US, available any night except Monday and Thursday. My schedule has actually lightened a bit so I should be fairly flexible.

Your off nights are the same as mine. The only wrinkle on the other nights is it is rough for me to get home from work and ready to play before about 10/10:30 pm your time.

swiftblade, i'm GMT+8
Add me on Steam probably get the game going this weekend.
It's Monday where I live.

Invite sent. Weekend is good for me. Early morning my time should presumably work for you?

Weekend I shd be ok whenever, since I'm a virgin. I can spare 48 hours.

Are you still Europe based Iain? In which case you are only an hour ahead of me so possibly get our match in sometime this week, if that doesn't work then we should set a time at the weekend so I can make sure I am free.

I should be free most nights this week and I'm CET so will shout up. Tomorrow or Wednesday are good for me but I can do other nights too.

Ok Megrim.  What times are good for you?  We live in vastly different time zones, and I think this weekend might be my best bet to be at a computer at the same time as you.

Want to shoot for 10pm tomorrow night? 10 my time, I mean.

Sounds good.

So proudft, when's a good time for you?

What timezone you in?

Wednesday should be ok for me around 8pm UK time 9pm your time? Barring baby disasters I should be fine.

I'm GMT +10 and I think weekend is best bet. I've got too much shit on otherwise - the only aside from that is me having Friday my time relatively free (iirc that is your Thursday).

Nifty Helmets are out. Avaia's Bleating crushed us 3-0 with many injuries (7-1 injures*).
He'll provide the stats and the run down, but from early in the first half it was obvious we were trounced.

(*that may be including Avaia's 3 stomps, each for injury, each without an ejection.)

Gruntle and I got the playoff party started tonight with our match.  He won the toss and decided to kick.  I scored a casualty on one of his block warriors with my first action, and then lined myself up nicely for a fireball on 5 of my dudes.  3 went down, but only knock downs.  Gruntle's annoying minotaur took out my guard rotter, and things looked a bit dicey after my ball carrier was put down, with the ball bouncing into the hands of my unskilled nurgle warrior.  Shit pushed around for a turn or so, but the I started to do some damage.  at one point, he was down to 5 on the pitch, and I had his minotaur on the ground, and ROTTERS NEVAR FORGET, so he laid the boots to Mr. Big, resulting in a badly hurt with no ejection.  I was feeling fine.  I scored on turn 8 to go up 1-0.

I think one of his two KOs woke up, but he was definitely outnumbered.  I eventually got the ball loose and picked it up with the same nub warrior that scored earlier.  I also managed to put in a good lick on a guard warrior of his that was lazily laying on the ground, breaking his neck.   :ye_gods:  The ref saw nothing again, so I scored and made it 2-0.

Gruntle has 4 people left with 2 or 3 turns to go, and he encouraged me to foul once again to go for the hat trick.  I obliged, again sending a player to the ouch box without incurring an ejection.  I ran in a third, because I think that's about how many times I scored all season.

GMT-7.   Steamchat me, I'm around all sorts of hours.

Carnifex, I'm GMT+1 and available whole Friday and Saturday, and most of Thursday as well.

I'm GMT-8 and completely available Sunday and Monday  :headscratch:. If you can be awake and soberish around 2-3am you time Friday or Saturday (wich should be 5-6pm my Thursday or Friday, unless I am terrible at math) morning we can do that, otherwise I am willing to be awake at whatever ridiculous time is required of me on Sunday or Monday.

We're about to start. I predict a messy game due to lack of developed ball handlers on either side.

God dammit, why'd you have to play while I'm at work T_T

Well, we're done. I'm not sure you would have wanted to watch this one, as I ended up with a 3-0 win largely on the back of double minotaur refusal to cooperate. MA lost like 3 turns to early minotaur loner fail which combined with some hobgoblin fumblehands was enough of a difference to let my ghouls run away with the ball a lot. I was out of zombies by the end, but it didn't end up mattering due to the gap in the score at that point. I did have my trademark failed-dodge-ghoul-injury, but it was only a badly hurt this time.

Also, [ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED]: Push out two bull centaurs on a single werewolf blitz!

I think the only lasting damage done was that I'll have a 0 SPP zombie missing next game.

Uploaded to day 8 of the regular league, hopefully that is right.

The Banned | 3 - 0 | Power Team Volcano

Teams

	The Banned	Power Team Volcano
Race :	Necromantic	Chaos Dwarf
TV :	1770	1340
Treasury :	490000	110000
Rerolls :	4	3
Apothecary :	0	1
Fan Factor :	11	5
Cheerleaders :	0	2

Match Report

	The Banned	Power Team Volcano
Score :	3	0
Touchdowns inflicted :	3	0
Touchdowns sustained :	0	3
Passes :	0	2
Catches :	0	2
Interceptions :	0	0
Knockdowns inflicted :	10	12
KOs inflicted :	2	4
Injuries inflicted :	0	3
Deaths inflicted :	0	0
Tackles inflicted :	1	1
Yards gained passing :	8	26
Yards gained running :	58	28
Ball Possession (%) :	21	32
Own occupation:	32	67
Opponent occupation :	67	32

Note of the match: 16/20
Spectators: 33000

In that case, how about monday, your morning my evening? Because that will work fine for me as well.

Beetles lose 1-2 to the Twitch family.

Sadly this is better than I expected, given the tendency of rats to gaily and merrily dance around slow mummies.  The khemri were aided by an awesome first kick and an injury to the expensive star rat ogre.  Unfortunately the spectre of a wizard was hanging over their heads the whole game, and khemri hate wizards (known fact).

The Beetles had a very faint chance of tying with a multiple blitz-ra dodge but they chickened out since the odds were very slim, and tried to just bash their way through for the first score but the dice did not go the way they wanted and the score was delayed, nearly sealing their fate.   The outcome was definitely sealed when no extra turns were rolled on the last turn and the blitz-ras forgot to move up to the line to allow a 2-turn trip to the TZ but they would have had to somehow get the ball away from a grubby gutter runner so those odds were similarly slim.

Really we just needed like 4 more turns to completely clear out all the rats.  :awesome_for_real:

Anyhoo, Jaedar at least had to work for it, and the Beetles are finally back in fighting shape for the next season.

Me and Proudft played


I uploaded match do day8 of the league, I hope that's correct.

To the surprise of nobody apart from RK47 apparently, Fursecution bombed out of the Playoffs in impressive style. I was 2-0 down at half time and gave up two more by the time the final whistle blew. When the Minizillas had the ball, they made a cage I couldn't break and slipped it down a flank with a sidestepping, sure-hands, blodging Skink. When I had the ball, I had nowhere to go with it and found Lizards in my face sooner rather than later. I had a couple of moments where I thought I might turn the ball around and make a breakout score but I managed to fail pickups, dodges or throws at those points and the play would come to a crashing halt. The 'Zillas basically dictated everything about the match and, despite a coupel of early Skink casualties I was never able to take control. I took Morg and a spare apoth with my inducements. Morg managed to keep Sauri locked up but I never managed to get him into the important scrums so he didn't impact play that much - especially as I kept rolling pushes vs Stand Firm Sauri in the LoS - with all the Guard going on in the Lizard front row, that usually meant that my opening round of blocks after a kickoff stopped there as I couldn't get any more safe blocks and couldn't make a hole in the Lizard ranks to squeeze Gutter Runners through.

I believed in you, Iain.

And you too, Proudft.

Why do you all have to fail me  :heartbreak:

Cut the drama, potato, we all know Sweden Skavens will win it for Codex.

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Töten sie die Juden! Wir können nicht noch stehen, bis alle tot sind!
- Alfred Nobel

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REMOVE lizards remove lizards

The Minizilla's 4 - Fursecution 0

Another game where all bar one of my risky plays worked and pretty much none of Iain's came off at all leading to a rather one sided match where the mobility of my skinks stifled any attempts at giving my lizards the run around and with either bad dodge rolls or failed pickup rolls robbing Iain of gaining any traction in the match it finished with a very flattering scoreline.

Iain won the toss and elected to kick first. Having taken Morg and an extra apoth with his 500k inducements I guessed he was going to go for an aggresive strategy against me and the match started that way with 2 skinks quickly being sent to the injury pen with 2 of Iains rats being sent to the KO box in reply. I was able to run the ball carrier into the far corner of the match but was not bale to stall out for a final turn score and had to take the touchdown on turn 5 giving Iain 3 turns to reply which should have been plenty of time but my stand firm, guard LOS proved to be a real pain in the ass and with double up cover meaning there were no free routes he only elected to risk his AGI 5 gutter runner as a scoring player for his long bomb and on the next turn the mighty Xhooqs sent the gutter runner to the injury pen and my skinks had rushed forward to mark up the thrower who failed a dodge to give me a simple second score to end the half 2-0 up.

The pattern then continued for the next 2 drives. Iain unable to push through my centre and only risking the lone gutter runner to make the required dodges and me knocking that gutter runner down repeatedly while rushing skinks onto his ball carrier forcing another turnover to dodge fail scoring me 1 goal and a panic pass upfield that landed in the middle of a giant scrum of players but I had the bash advantage in that encounter and eventually manouvered the ball so it was only marked by 1 player and my AGI 4 sure hands skink made no mistake with a scoop and handoff score.

Undoubtably a frustrating game for Iain since Morg was nullified by his appaling block dice and refusal to remove any of my Sauri from the pitch and the fact that my skinks are now, all bar one, incredibly well levelled defensively and setup to shut down running teams meant that his options were pretty much always quite limited while he waitied for his block dice to come to life and remove a couple of the larger lizards which would have then given him the room to use his gutter runners to their best effect.

Sounds good to me. See you then.

Iain, I was trailing 2-1 at turn 12 but the game dropped - my wifi suddenly crapped out.
I want a replay, but swiftblade said no he should win cuz he injured my ST6 Ogre with 2-1 up.
I let you decide on this.

Walkover is not the way of Chaos.

The gods demand more blood!

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I'm not going to get into an internet argument, because frankly they are lame and this is just a game at the end of the day. But here we go, reasons why I don't want to replay.

1. I was winning 2-1 with 4 turns to go.
2. It was his connection that dropped, not mine.
3. I did a permanent injury to a blitzer of his and injured his str 6 Ogre, something that gave me a great advantage.
4. He agreed to give me the win, then changed his mind.
5. I got up early on a Sunday to play, I have plans for the rest of today and am away next weekend, the chance of a replay with our respective timezones within the new few weeks seem slim.
6. I was in a position to mark up his ball carrying thrower and both his catchers including a blitz on one, along with marking the rest of his team downfield.
7. Replays are lame frankly, Nuffle is fickle and a replay is likely to yield vastly different results.
8. Frankly, its not fair on me.

But meh, its a game.

Yes, I'm lame. Give me the win Iain.

You know what, do it. I expected some common courtesy for this league, but when I wished you good luck at the start I got nothing. My first TD, nothing. Your TD I congratulated you. My second, nothing. If this is how you get your wins, good luck. If my connection dropped and I was behind I wouldn't dream of seeking a replay... Disgusting behaviour sir.

If at all possible I really think you should replay. Swiftblaed had the upper hand but it was from a sure thing(faaaaaar, it could have easily gone both ways and very likely into overtime). In the best of all worlds you would have been able to resume the game where it got interrupted, but this is cyanide we're talking about so... expecting that you only need to try a match once is a bit naive. And this is the playoffs: Where is your fighting spirit?

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We've never had strict rules about matches that dropped because generally the coaches have either agreed that one side had won or that the match should be replayed. I've watched the replay and it's far from clear that the Orcs had the match out of reach. However, they were winning and had removed a key Human player from the game with four turns to go.

Both decisions are unfair.

I propose the following. Replay the game however for the first 11 turns, the teams recreate the score from this game without interfering with each other - that means they let the other team score without throwing blocks, forcing dodges etc. Make sure that the second Orc score happens on turn 11 (get the Orc in place beforehand and wait out the clock). Then, on turn 12, the Orcs will kick to the Humans and you can replay the last four turns. However the Ogre may not be in play. If the Humans have too few players to leave the Ogre off the pitch during any drive then he must be set up in the endzone and may not move or take any actions for the game.

Play it by Tuesday.

Seems fair. But bearing in mind I work I can't see how we're going to get time to replay...

Speaking of not being able to set up a game - my opponent has been swamped at work all weekend, and with the time difference...  :oh_i_see:

I just want to point out - this Ruvaldt guy - total wimp for not showing up.

Would love a replay, but someone removed me from their friend list.  :awesome_for_real:
How gentlemanly.

Yeah, sorry, Joe Bidden kind of unexpectedly ruined my weekend.  Um, I can maybe stay up late Monday night.  What's the earliest you can be back from class and ready to play Monday?

I don't get back until about 6pm EST...I'm going to guess that sucks for you.

Maybe I'll luck out and have a snow day?

If only there were some way for you to re-add me... Does this need to be dealt with some childishly?

I am free tonight about 9pm GMT, Tuesday I have commitments to my World of Tanks clan.

 :why_so_serious: yes, more insults please, it's totally mature.

*sigh*

You said it's just a game and I should just take the game right?
You don't even understand why I'm acting this way right?
All the things you posted, left me very upset, Mr. Swiftblade

Is it really what you think I am?
I want a sincere answer, not in those faux-gentleman stuff you spout but didn't really mean.
Come on, I'm the disgusting one remember?

Sir? I'm waiting.
I'm waiting for a modicum of civility to be re-established in thine words.
I've never played anyone this uncivil in Blood Bowl ever.
Your post-match brushing off my replay request - and subsequent posting of my 'in-game conduct' was just pure spite and rubbish.
You ask ANYONE here. ANYONE that I've played with, have I offended them in any way?
ANYONE that I've played with would've agreed to a replay without so much of a venom in their argument.
But all you posted were lines of 'how lame this argument, but I shall partake in one,' then went to snipe me on those 'ungentlemanly conduct' that was irrelevant.
I read Iain's decision and felt vindicated, then realized that you removed me from Steam Friend list.

And you had the nerve to label me childish, huh?
Here,

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I deserve a goddamn apology.
And I'm not seeing a single line of it.

Play nice children.

On that basis, I shall keep my thoughts about you to myself.

 :awesome_for_real: WAAAAAAAAH WAAAAAAAH  :pedobear:

Dude I'm enjoying following this league from the background, so for the sake of moving it forward, how about just re-adding rk?

Accusations of childishness can be leveled at both parties here. Is it sorta childish for him to get aggressive and refuse to re-add himself instead of just getting the damn game over with? Sure, I suppose it is. Is it equally if not more childish to remove a guy from friends (despite talking about how everything's 'just a game' and posting various insults and passive-aggressive snark while crowing about 'not getting into silly internet arguments'), then demand that he be the one to re-add you, claiming that he's the only one being immature? Yeah, I'd say that too.

Both of you get over yourselves and just play the game, so that the league can move forward and I can go back to lurking and following Bloodbowl matches, instead of this embarrassing BS.

Nevermind, I just got voluntold to run the control room from 10 PM till 4 AM tonight.   :facepalm:

Though maybe if I can borrow a laptop from somebody, I might get away playing blood bowl over the hotels WiFi while pretending to support White House staff.   :awesome_for_real:

Well, I got my snow day, so just try to ping me if you can play.

Really.  DC got another snow day.   :oh_i_see:

Ok, we can try to play between when I get off work and have to go take over at the control room.  I should be able to play around 1 PM your time, but of course shit is changing hour by hour here.  I'll message you when I log on.

Happy Saint Patricks day!   :oh_i_see:

Bridgeburners vs Secret Military Union
3:1

Well, fully deserved win to Carnifex, he played well while I derped like an epileptic on steroids.

The dice were also largely in his favour, I think, except for double reds one time around turn 4 that made him lose the first drive. Especially the block dice hated me this game, 16/49 successful blocks, wtf undercover amazons :oh_i_see:

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In a game much closer than the score implies, the Bridgeburners defeated the Secret Military Union 3-1. It was a close and well played match. It wasn't until a failed gfi on turn 15 by SMU (hope Darth Roxor doesn't mind the acronym) that the outcome of the match became clear.  The failed gfi gave my ww enough of a hole to dodge through and hand off to my other ww, who ran it up to the line of scrimmage, sealing our fates.

So somehow, the stars aligned and Teleku and I got our game in on-time.

My Dark Ones won the toss and elected to receive, intending to trudge up the pitch and score late in the first half while eating the clock, with the idea of either getting the ball back early in the second half or forcing a score with time to go back up by 1.

That did not happen.

The game opened poorly for the Effing Elves, as the Hippies were able to take a few players off early. Before long, the drive was stalled, and a whole lot of nothing happened in the first half beyond injuries and KOs.

The Elves kick to open the second half, and a scrum ensues. However, a blown block by one of the witch elves thinking they could push someone out led to an easy score for the Hippies. On the kick, the Elves' dice finally come alive, and by the end of the half they've nearly cleared the pitch and scored on their final turn, sending the game into overtime.

Even with the Hippies down in numbers, the Elves' must continue to respect their dodging and quick-strike ability. They finally get the ball back and SLOWLY carry it up the field. Painfully slowly. Even down to four players, the Hippies were able to give the Elves a scare, but they managed to keep the ball from the hippies and progress forward, finally inching the ball over the line in the 24th turn to walk off with a win.

So the Elves will advance, on their successful attempt to gain sweet vengeance for the elven bullshit inflicted upon their affliated team Diplomatic Immunity many seasons ago. I believe they may be without one of their Guard linemen for the next match, but that's it. The Hippies, on the other hand...they had 6 players lost to injury in this match, including both Wardancers, one of which is lost for their next match.

Should they ever play again.

In addition to 3 Badly Hurt players, plus a Wardancer with a smashed hand, the Hippies also lost two players to death - one to a fireball in a failed attempt to halt the Hippies' scoring drive, and one to the Bitch Elf, who again earns her pay and is rewarded with the MVP award. This second death was especially costly, as it claimed the Hippies third Wardancer-in-Disguise.

It was a tough match, but well fought by Teleku - this was truly a game which came down to the dice if I've ever seen one.


PS - Not sure why I'm not getting credit for a INT.

Just the Rk47 v Swiftblade rematch and the Ruvaldt v Megrim game to go.

Iain, I'd love to play but I can't get in touch with swiftblade - and was pretty tired last night.
Our timezone difference really sucks.
Is there really no way to postpone this week?
Last weekend I woke up at 7AM he said it was 11PM his time.
So I'm guessing if I wake up 5 AM, I might be able to make time for that match which would be his 9PM
Swift, you ok with that arrangement?

9pm my time is usually not a problem; I was online at 9pm last night for 30 minutes waiting for you as Iain indicated you were up for a game. You didn't come online.

Tonight I have Clan commitments, tomorrow I have squash, Thursday I'm at my parents and Friday is RP night, so this week is out. The weekend I am away, so the first evening I have free is next Monday.

Ah, what a pity. Last night wasn't really confirmed cause I wasn't planning to wake up early without anything confirmed over steam.
I dunno Iain, he looks fully booked to me. Kinda regret not making a game on my Saturday night now.

hey swift come chat on steam i know ur online now in f13 bb grp.

Sorry, but getting ready for work and child wrangling...

Yeah. Just re-add me on steam later so we can possibly setup a game when we're both online instead of reading outdated forum posts
4 turns is just 30 mins prolly. We'll make it I think.

Play the goddamn game. I don't care that you don't like each other. Set up a time and mute chat for all I care. Tell me when it will happen. If it doesn't happen then I'll flip a coin.

Iain, I think we're actually both ok with playing the game as per your instructions. It is literally now down to the time-zone differences and previous commitments (certainly on my behalf). If you decide that flipping a coin is fair, then so be it.

Ok, tell me when it will happen. If it takes a few days then I'll live with that.

Monday is my first available evening.

Actually, I have all next week off work, so can do any time Monday....

Is rk47 versus swiftblade the only remaining game?

No, the Megrim v Ruvaldt game is also outstanding.

Should be being played in about 30.

Game played.


What day do I upload rep to?

that game was amazing to watch.  :awesome_for_real:
herpaderpity derp.
Audience review:

Of all the games I've played, that one may have been the most fun.  Frustrating, outlandish fun.

Yea, not too sure what to say about that game. There is a point in bloodbowl when things just get downright weird. I'd fully thought that after the ball-carrying cultist got sacked in my backfield, that it was gg. Then your hob got tripwire'd people started knocking each other off the pitch, rerolls ran out and I somehow got the ball. Well, I should say I got around the ball, because apparently there was no way in hell anyone on my team was actually going to pick it up. Eventually, thanks in no small part to Ruvaldt pushing the ball around, it managed to lodge itself onto my Bloodthirster's claws and I could run it in.

I think for me, the biggest thing was being able to successfully spread out and isolate the chorf blob, which helped a lot by generating many failed one-die blocks and minimised the, otherwise overwhelming, Guard.

Oh yea, the game was 28 turns long. Another 4, and we would have effectively played two games back-to-back.

Upload it to day 8.

Hey Iain, I don't wanna delay the league.
I started it with the disconnect.
So give him the game already so others can play their ties over the weekend.

Iain's happy for us to play Monday, so let's play (there is a possibility this weekend may be cancelled - so might even be free over the weekend after all). Since I'm not at work next week I could do a bit later on Monday, say 10pm my time. If its Saturday, we could maybe play a similar time to last week.

If you still want this replay as per Iain's instructions then re-add me on steam, if I don't hear from you I'll assume not.

Ulysses, I am out of town for round 2 until March 30, maybe late my 29th.

Replayed as per Iain's instructions. Ended up as 2-1 to the Orcs.

Lets get this next game day done. Will upload replay now.

Alright, validated and day moved on. Thank you both for getting it done.