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Title: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: eldaec on August 31, 2011, 12:16:27 PM Pre-Season 5 Drilling and Manliness - Round 5 of 6
:siren: PENULTIMATE ROUND :siren:
:drillf: Denotes an unplayed match, unplayed matches count as losses for ranking but wins for matching. So, here are your round 5 fixtures....
TO BE PLAYED BY 10th SEPTEMBER 00:01 GMT+2 WTF, I don't even... Who Is <insert team>?! Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: eldaec on August 31, 2011, 12:20:05 PM Lamaros, I think we're only certain Iain has access to play tonight, so you may want to bug him on steam.
If Fianna Chulain do bow out in the next couple of days because of internet access we'll arrange an alternate fixture. Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: eldaec on August 31, 2011, 12:20:52 PM ALSO FUCKERS WHO HAVEN'T PLAYED ROUND 4, OR ROUND 3, SHOULD DO THAT.
Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: eldaec on August 31, 2011, 12:25:19 PM On a happier note, I'm pretty pleased with how these pairings are working out.
Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: IainC on August 31, 2011, 12:28:44 PM Yeah I'm here tonight and I can't guarantee anythign after that so if LAMAROS is around, please ping me on Steam and I'll play tonight. I may be able to play form my father-in-law's place but I really don't know if his ~5 year old PC or his shitty internet connection will handle Bloodbowl.
Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: Ruvaldt on August 31, 2011, 12:34:40 PM Ooooh, I get to play against Ingmar. Looking forward to this as it's been a while.
Yeah, I've enjoyed the pairings. It keeps things very competitive. Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: Ingmar on August 31, 2011, 04:21:34 PM WE MUST SCORE TOUCHDOWNS
Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: drogg on August 31, 2011, 05:27:33 PM Now you like Big Moot Sandwiches? :oops:
Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: IainC on August 31, 2011, 05:32:36 PM It was the only time a team scored two touchdowns from a single play!
I've been designing a commentator system and dealing with voice actors and so on at work recently and the whole experience has really driven home how bad the commentators in Bloodbowl are. Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: Sjofn on August 31, 2011, 05:41:30 PM They're at their absolute worst when an Amazon team is on the field. I fucking hate them then.
Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: IainC on August 31, 2011, 05:46:38 PM They're at their absolute worst when an Amazon team is on the field. I fucking hate them then. The thing that gets me is that the lines were very definitely written by a French guy rather than a native English speaker (I say this as someone who spent 5 years proofreading English text produced by French people), however the voice actors are clearly native English speakers. One has to wonder why they didn't correct the clumsy phrasings? When I wrote lines that were too British for the American voice actors we used, they were only too happy to suggest changes that would make it more natural sounding. Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: Strazos on August 31, 2011, 05:50:59 PM BunnyRabbitMan! When do you want to play?
Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: Sky on August 31, 2011, 07:33:26 PM The day I learned how to turn down the announcer's volume and leave the game volume - glorious.
Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: lamaros on August 31, 2011, 08:56:07 PM Yeah I'm here tonight and I can't guarantee anythign after that so if LAMAROS is around, please ping me on Steam and I'll play tonight. I may be able to play form my father-in-law's place but I really don't know if his ~5 year old PC or his shitty internet connection will handle Bloodbowl. I am around, however I have the AUS timezone, so your evening is my morning. And I'm staying at my GFs this evening so tomorrow morning (this evening for you) I won't be near my computer... Blast. Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: eldaec on August 31, 2011, 11:41:06 PM If Iain has to drop out, the plan will be to break up one of the middle ranking fixtures, and have one team play Lamaros, while the other plays Celer.
Tiebreakers etc go screwy if we have a top side play bottom directly. But hopefully won't be necessary :) Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: carnifex27 on September 01, 2011, 07:52:17 AM Pound Pound Mantrain and my Bridge Burners tied at 1 all. It was actually a much more enjoyable game then the score reflects. Megrim won the toss and kicked off to me in the first half, getting a very nice kick about 3 squares back from the LoS. It of course was caught by a level 1 zombie. Megrim did a really good job of hemming me in and eventually knocked the ball free late in the half, KOing both my wights in the process. With just a few rounds left in the half Blend, one of my rookie ghouls, ran down for a 1D hit w/o block on his ball carrier and killed himself in spectacular fashion, earning himself the MVP :uhrr:
The second half started with a shallow kick and a blitz, allowing one of my werewolves to catch his own kick and me to get a few of my other players close to him. This of course turned into a giant, ugly scrum that stretched from center field to about 2/3rds of the way to his goal line. It likely would have ended badly for me, but his Yeti rolled double skulls and lonered the reroll, knocking himself early in the half. After much shoving and blocking and failed dodging (on my part at least) I strung together a few lucky blocks and managed to run in a round 16 TD with my surviving ghoul. Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: Celer on September 01, 2011, 08:15:31 AM BYE 2-1 over S.P.H.I.N.X. (SPHINX!)
Yet another game lost on a Turn 16 TD, as the injury of several TGs was far too much for the Khemri to overcome. :oh_i_see: Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: Sjofn on September 01, 2011, 04:21:34 PM BunnyRabbitMan! When do you want to play? Oh, this was me! I'm, er. Actually a woman. If you didn't know that. Anyway, whenever is fine, I'll keep an eye out for you on Steam! Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: Modern Angel on September 01, 2011, 07:28:45 PM Another game, another tie. Calidor Fancypants tie Midnight Bleat Train 1-1
In the end, I just couldn't keep up with the KOs and none of my guys would wake up. I spent the entire second half down to five or six guys. Even then, I nearly pulled off some elf magic at the end but rolled a 1 on my long bomb. My thrower FINALLY leveled up (my throwing game has been entirely lineman based due to shit passing rolls and Sunny weather) and took Nerves of Steel. Despite a spate of ties, I'm well positioned going forward. Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: Ice Cream Emperor on September 01, 2011, 07:32:45 PM The day I learned how to turn down the announcer's volume and leave the game volume - glorious. Yeah I haven't played with the announcers on in ages -- just too annoying. eldaec, I am still on vacation and computerless. I will be back at home next Thursday evening, relatively late, which mostly leaves Friday and (I think?) Saturday to play our game before the deadline. I could play Friday evening or anytime on Saturday, PST. Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: drogg on September 02, 2011, 12:12:35 PM Despite a spate of ties, I'm well positioned going forward. the only position you're going to be in moving forward is face down, ass up :grin:Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: Celer on September 02, 2011, 12:24:46 PM That's a real spectacle, Bob!
Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: Comstar on September 02, 2011, 04:22:54 PM Pro Elves for Hoes 3 ~vs~ Kenosha Maroons 0
The poor goobo's had nothing go right. The bomber has his own bomb thrown back at him and knock down 2 other goblins with him. The trolls couldn't pass. The leaper couldn't pick up the ball. The only reason the game didn't end 6-0 was from some bad luck on the elves side, but not enough to prevent an easy victory. Still, I am yet again down an elf for my next game. No long term injures though, as I was very worried about the goblin secret weapons, so spent a lot of the first half blitzing them. Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: proudft on September 02, 2011, 05:23:44 PM Sometimes the bomb gets you. :heartbreak:
It was nice to have bribes again, though. Ah, luxury. Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: IainC on September 03, 2011, 08:12:04 AM I'm in the US but may be able to play. I don't yet know if the computer at my father-in-law's place can run BB as I can't log into my Steam account (and thus can't install BB) until I can get back into my Google account (see the thread in General Discussion about that). As soon as I know whether I can play I'll post to let you know.
Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: Ruvaldt on September 03, 2011, 04:03:03 PM Going Forth By Day 2 - 0 Emperors of the Pitch
Emperors suffered their first loss in nine games and both of their star blitzers are out for the last game of the tournament. With the D&M cup within my sight I am now sensing my dreams crumbling! Oh, the humanity! Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: Ingmar on September 03, 2011, 04:06:33 PM WE MUST SCORE TOUCHDOWNS
Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: eldaec on September 04, 2011, 03:58:09 AM That does make the run in more interesting, we'll have up to 4 teams on 4 :drill: s, which would imply those 4 teams playing off in the final round to see who goes into the ULTIMATE DECIDER match, unless the process gets complicated by pairings not being possible because too many of the four teams have already met.
Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: Ruvaldt on September 04, 2011, 08:21:33 AM At this point I've played every team with three :drill:s except for Chanson Dada and Pro Elves won their game so they'll be at three and a half :drill:s Chances are good I'll play one of those.
I'm just hoping for no Khemri if I make it to an ULTIMATE DECIDER. Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: HaemishM on September 04, 2011, 03:44:34 PM Howls and Bones 1 - Wrong Games 1
This game was a lot of pushing and shoving for not a lot of reward. I kicked off first, the ball moved around a bit and somehow ended up in a vampire's hands within one turn of scoring. Not to worry, I had enough within blitzing range I could get a hit on him. So I take a 2D block with a Flesh Golem at midfield and sans any rerolls, get 2 skulls. His vamp scores leaving me one turn to do nothing. Luckily, I had managed to badly hurt one thrall, and another had been sent off so that when the 2nd half started I was 2 men up. On receiving the kickoff, I picked the ball up deep and started pushing my way forward. My level 3 werewolf got the ball from a handoff one square over midfield and ran it 3 spaces from the endzone. With all of his players either out of range or locked up in tackle zones, I thought he was safe. But both a thrall and a vamp managed to get to my werewolf and slapped him silly, coughing up the ball. He ran it back up the sidelines but got trapped with the vamp and two thralls up against the edge of the field. Two turns and the vamp with the ball went surfing off the pitch. The ball ended up in a kicking around after a ghoul attempted pickup and failed, but a wight picked it up within range of scoring. Needing a dodge by a vamp to blitz the ball carrier, the dodge failed, the vamp hit the dirt and my wight scored the equalizer on the final play of the game. One of my ghouls leveled and promptly rolled doubles. He now has Str 4 and his role will change significantly. The scoring wight also leveled, and picked up guard. Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: IainC on September 04, 2011, 05:13:51 PM The good news is that it looks as though I can run BB on the PC here. It will run like molasses but it will actually load. However, as I'm visiting I won't be as glued to the PC as I would be at home so randomly pinging me (or even finding me) on Steam is unlikely to work. I'm in a GMT-7 timezone and I'll check my PMs here a couple of times a day. I'll be able to play after about 7pm most evenings.
Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: lamaros on September 04, 2011, 08:28:36 PM If you're around in the next 3 hours I can play.
Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: Gruntle on September 05, 2011, 11:29:43 AM I haven't had any luck contacting Hoax to set up our game, so if anyone knows where he is (9 days since he was last seen by steam), let him know I'm trying.
Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: IainC on September 06, 2011, 10:17:55 PM Lamaros and I played our game after a false start. The PC here at my father-in-law's is pretty anaemic and the first time we tried to play, everything locked up on my side, I could hear the commentary and the dice roll FX but I had a completely black screen and no cursor. A restart and turning everything down to minimum seemed to fix it and we started again.
Mostly the match can be summed up with the words 'Elven Bullshit'. I kicked first, got some players deep, got the ball and scored. Lamaros pushed back, nearly got ganked but a fluffed dodge roll on a Wardancer blitz let his Pestigor break free and he scored on his last turn. For the second half I pulled out the classic two turn Elven TD with some bullshit throwing to a Nerves of Steel catcher surrounded by Nurgle Warriors who then dodged away from all of his markers to score. Lamaros tried to break out for a quick score rather than cage up and bash his way down the pitch and I was able to stall him long enough to break the ball out, snap it up the pitch to a lone Elf and score a third on my last turn. Lamaros contented himself with breaking one of my Line-Elves on his last turn (the only injury he inflicted all match actually) and that was the game. 3-1 to Fianna Chulain and Lamaros has uploaded it to BBManager as I don't have it installed here. Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: lamaros on September 06, 2011, 10:29:55 PM Aye, nasty stuff with those elves not getting hurt and avoiding my tentacles, disturbing presences and etc when it really mattered.
Burnt all my rerolls on double skulls but then got turnovers anyway (I got about 7 double skulls for the game). Blocked at 55% (me) to 58% despite having block and a bit of tackle, with 2D average against 1.5. Oh well! I guess the Immortals can't win the trophy for this one. Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: IainC on September 06, 2011, 10:48:14 PM Now we have three of the top four, unless the Ermine Vermin/Chanson Dada game is a draw we'll have four teams on 4 wins each.
I've already played Emperors of the Pitch The Emperors have already played Going Forth By Day, Ermine Vermin and me Going Forth By Day have played the Emperors of the Pitch. So, if the Vermin win their game then the Emperors would have to play someone they've already met, otherwise they'd play Chanson Dada and the other decider would be Fianna Chulain vs Going Forth By Day. Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: eldaec on September 07, 2011, 12:58:46 AM The first rule of swiss club is that you never play the same team twice.
If Vermin beat or tie Chanson, Emperors will be playing a 3.5 team. Fianna and Going Forth might also end up with a non-4.0 opponent depending on permutations. If that happens you need to cheer for all your prior opponents as they contribute your tie breaker points. Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: eldaec on September 07, 2011, 01:05:48 AM Just to expand a little more, the system works down from the top adding teams to a score group until a valid combination of fixtures is possible.
So a number of 3.5 or 3.0 teams might need adding depending on who has already played whom. Those teams then become valid opponents for the rest of the score group. Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: eldaec on September 07, 2011, 01:09:39 AM Also the system occasionally does weird shit I don't understand but then I find I can't put together a better set of valid fixtures so whatever.
People not completing matches from 2 weeks ago doesn't help by the way as it really starts to fuck with tiebreakers. Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: Sky on September 07, 2011, 12:06:10 PM Yes, I suck. It's been hard to find an hour I know I'll be able to be online, alone and uninterrupted. I'd really like to play Sjofn at some point, but you could just give her the win if it helps unfuck things.
Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: Ice Cream Emperor on September 09, 2011, 12:06:08 AM Okay, I am finally back at home, with BB access, etc. eldaec, I should be around most of tomorrow and will in particular aim to be available tomorrow evening and on Steam, etc. Hopefully we can git 'er done then -- if not, sometime Saturday, assuming that is still pre-deadline. As for the likelihood of Chanson Dada getting another win, with no tackle and barely any skills at all vs. a Skaven team... well, I suppose I could get lucky! Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: eldaec on September 09, 2011, 02:13:49 AM I'm going give everyone the weekend for this round, as we still have a fair number of matches left.
ICE, I'm GMT+2, likely best time will be my Saturday evening, your Saturday morning if that works. Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: Ice Cream Emperor on September 09, 2011, 09:48:45 AM ICE, I'm GMT+2, likely best time will be my Saturday evening, your Saturday morning if that works. Ah, okay. That should work for me, will aim for somewhere in the 11-1 (me) / 8-10 (you) window. Could try a bit earlier if that would be better for your Sat. night plans. Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: eldaec on September 10, 2011, 12:59:18 PM Ermine Vermin 1
Chason Dada 2 2-1 grind per textbook. Chason a bit lucky with their first half TD, but Vermin had the block gods on their side throughout. Unfortunately, the dodge dice, not so much. Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: eldaec on September 10, 2011, 01:01:51 PM 5 outstanding matches.
How are we doing on scheduling? Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: Ruvaldt on September 10, 2011, 05:45:49 PM Looks like I'm playing Chanson Dada then, I think. ICE and I haven't had a conclusive match in a long time; tons of ties. Should be a lot of fun.
Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: Ice Cream Emperor on September 10, 2011, 06:58:09 PM Hopefully the inducements can win it for me, because the skill differential between our teams is pretty much like whoa. Maybe taking Tentacles on the soon-to-be-fired Minotaur wasn't the most productive choice... :why_so_serious: Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: Gruntle on September 10, 2011, 09:26:18 PM 5 outstanding matches. How are we doing on scheduling? Well, I don't know what's happened to HOAX; I have tried and tried to contact him and schedule a game. Oh how I have tried, I guess all of two attempts I had made before now. He however keeps managing to give me the slip (probably because he fears my win-less record) so if we don't play the game tomorrow, you can just go ahead and award him the win for your ranking system. It's just more efficient that way. -G Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: Ruvaldt on September 10, 2011, 09:55:10 PM Hoax has conceded his last two games. I wouldn't be surprised if he just planned on not playing.
Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: eldaec on September 11, 2011, 08:00:33 AM If we call Hoax a forfeit that still leaves Stazos/Sjofn, Sky/Sjofn, Sky/Bann, and Ulysses/Avaia.
What's the plan guys? Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: Strazos on September 11, 2011, 08:32:13 AM I never see her online - always away or asleep, and no response to previous Steam messages. :oh_i_see:
However, if she's planning at all to use whatever team she's using here in the season, I'm fine with conceding with my worthless elves. Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: Sjofn on September 11, 2011, 04:46:54 PM Sjofn just lost to Strazos 3-1. Danny Zuko went up a level and has wrestle. <3
Not much interesting to report, beyond me and Strazos having pretty clumsy elves, all things considered. He's also incapable of kicking the ball in bounds. EDIT: Also I hate that Steam doesn't tell me I have a message from a STRANGER while I'm in a game, so I wind up seeing poor Strazos messaged me who-knows-how-much-later. EDIT TWO: Also we were stuck on four minute turns for some reason. And four minute turns are worse than Hitler! Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: Strazos on September 11, 2011, 04:52:44 PM First half was fairly good for me, scoring 3 TDs in spite of some suspect rolling.
Second half was not as kind, as I immediately lose 2 players to KOs and start missing fairly simple rolls. With a 2 player advantage, Sjofn is able to keep me henned in my own end for the entire half, and finally manages to take the ball back late for a TD. I had 2 turns to answer, but a failed pickup and a 1 on a later handoff ended the game. I'm still down 3 players, but one of my elves finally has dodge. Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: eldaec on September 11, 2011, 10:36:45 PM If I don't hear anything from the remaining teams I'll do the round 6 draw this evening.
Will be arbitrarily setting results of outstanding matches. Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: Ulysees on September 12, 2011, 03:33:51 AM Have tried to get my match played with Avaia the last week but have been unsuccesful - will keep on trying.
Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: Bann on September 12, 2011, 06:22:11 AM Sky and I have been unable to find a time to play. We have spoken on steam every 2 or 3 days, but have not been able to find a time where he knows he will have time online.
I'm willing to just take a loss/draw/whatever here so we can advance the game day and I'll try again with the next opponent. Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: avaia on September 12, 2011, 07:10:46 AM Have tried to get my match played with Avaia the last week but have been unsuccesful - will keep on trying. Please PM me with your availability and I will try to schedule magic. Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: Sky on September 12, 2011, 09:17:55 AM Sky and I have been unable to find a time to play. We have spoken on steam every 2 or 3 days, but have not been able to find a time where he knows he will have time online. No, if anyone takes the loss it'll be me. You've been available and I haven't. Apologies to both you and Sjofn (and eldaec), I've got a lot on my plate for the next couple of months. Not sure I'll even be playing season 5.I'm willing to just take a loss/draw/whatever here so we can advance the game day and I'll try again with the next opponent. Title: Re: ~D&M~ Preseason 5 Round 5 Post by: eldaec on September 12, 2011, 01:38:17 PM The pools panel has met and determined the following results for the abandoned fixtures...
Round 6 draw to follow. |