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The main season is finally over and so it's time to find out which of the also-rans sucks the least.

As we have ten teams in the failoffs, it will be run as an open league with externally seeded games according to a Swiss system. This means that you will be told who your next opponent is based on my extremely scientific algorithm. It's super scientific. There will be three games in total and as there's no knockout everyone will get three games. The player with the most points is the winner with ties broken as for the main league (Head to Head >> TD Difference >> TDs for >> Worst TV).

As this is an open league I can't reset games that have become b0rked therefore - THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT - if your opponent disconnects and doesn't come back in then you MUST alt-f4 to crash your client. This will annul the game and you will be able to play it again. Otherwise the player who's left in the game will get a default win and I can't change that. On the plus side, you won't need me to validate your games so can spend all those lovely SPPs as soon as the game is done.

The following players should join the f13 Season 6 Failoffs league that has the password fearchange:
Haemish
Satael
Ironwood
Luckton
Sir T
Reborne
Falconeer
Bann
Gruntle
Ericswiftblade

I will randomly draw players for the first round (avoiding matches from players in the same division where possible) then draws for subsequent days will be randomly drawn with winners playing winners and so on.

The G6 Crew plans to dominate all of its opponents in the Failoffs, having cut it's teeth enough on greater teams over the last couple months.  TREMBLE AND DESPAIR BEFORE MY FRENZY/BLODGING/MIGHTY BLOW/PILE-ON TITANS OF WRATH!   :drill:

Zellar Dwellarz have applied.

Can someone remind me how to leave a league? Can never figure it out...

Go to the league, select your team from the drop down at the bottom and then the quit league button will appear.

Got it, not intuitive at all. Think I've applied for the new league..

The suckers for punishment have applied.

Waiting on Bann, Falconeer, Ironwood and Reborne.

Sorry, I'll get my ass in gear tonight.

Wow, sorry for vanishing into thin air. I'll sign up later today.

People paying attention will have noted my ass did not, in fact, get into gear.

I will retry the ass gear asap.

Sorry for holding things up.
With the delay after the last round I stopped checking as often and suddenly it's been over a week.

I've applied now.

I'm in Ireland until Wednesday evening. I'll kick everything off when I'm back at home.

*taps the mic*

Is this thing on?

We're still waiting for a Ironwood and Bann to sign up.

Can I just go ahead and forfeit? I'm short on time, hated my orcs, and just have not enjoyed bloodbowl this season.

Why can't I see the season 6 failoffs ?

Ok, so we finally have Ironwood signed up and Bann has decided not to participate further so my bodge for the failoffs is going to have to be bodged further still.

We'll do the initial plan of 3 matches in an open format except that one lucky person per round will get a bye.

So, the seeding for round one is as follows:

Ironwood v Reborne
Gruntle v HaemishM
Falconeer v EricSwiftblade
SirT v Satael
Luckton - Bye.

Get playing. Remember that this is an open league so I cannot alter results or cancel games once the game has registered.

lol, I poked Ironwood and Bann to get this in gear, and I get a bye on the first day  :why_so_serious:

Soon, gentlemen...soon  :drill:

Who is Sateal? Anyway, I'm avalible most of the time so Pick your rime to rape and pillige me, good sir.

What's the bet that even in this, the contest of shit people against shit people, that I'm still gonna come in last ?

I don't know what the fuck, but my rats have played like a bunch of retards trying to fuck a doorknob.

"Sateal" is Satael57 on steam and satael on bloodbowl.
If I'm on steam and not set to "busy" then I'm available to play (usually I'm available or will be quite quickly even if I'm playing GW2 where steam messages should reach me)

Satael has half a million in Inducements. This is going to go well.  :why_so_serious:

My elves last season played like they were made out of popsicle sticks and hot glue but managed to do reasonably well in the failoffs. There's always time for a turnaround!

Probably they'll just keep fucking up though.  :why_so_serious:

The game was decided in a failoff way with a pass that should never have worked (and was actually just a desperate attempt to clear the ball from my side of the field). Do the failoff games need to be uploaded?

in less important news the rats won against the dwarves 3-1

Upload it please. Keeps the stats nice and tidy that way.

Don't see it on the list there?

Meaning where do I upload, don't see season 6 failoffs in the BB Manager

Maybe instead of doing a bye, we could just add the first player out of the playoffs? Looks like proudft

Falconeer, when you free?

Whoever's got me, my life is so busy right now, if you don't poke me LOUDLY when I'm on Steam it'll never happen.

So get screaming at me.

Warp Cheese Disciples | 3 - 1 | The Pimpernels

The difference in TV meant I could afford Morg and 2 bloodweiser babes (there was no question my rats would be visiting the knocked-out box often). The disciples were also pretty broken up which meant I got 4 fodders mercenaries into this game (2 of which ended up injured by the end of the game). The dwarves won the toss and proceeded to bash down Morg, the rat ogre (who was knocked out) and the poor fodder mercenary in the line. From then on the dwarves were able to score without serious opposition which lead to an early td (by dwarf standards) that allowed the rats to equalize before the halftime. The only interesting point of the first half was the lone stormvermin (other was missing the game due to being bashed in the previous game) getting killed though the apothecary managed to save the poor rat (just a broken neck for -1 AGI and missed next game). Second half began with the rats going for a relatively fast td despite trying to delay it to shorten the dwarves' inevitable grind towards the equalizing td. While the game was set to become a 2-2 tie a single failed catch by the dwarves followed by an unbelievable display of luck skill by the gutter runners! Gwehj dodged away from a dwarf tackler and ran to pick up the ball in front of the dwarf that had failed to catch it, dodged out again and launched the ball in a desperate attempt to get it away from rats' end of the field in a great show of skill to another gutter runner further up the field who somehow managed to catch it and dodge away from a dwarf marking him and run right to the dwarves' td line! After that it was just a matter of waiting the clock to run out and putting the lucky mercenaries still on the field along with Morg into the line to be bashed by the less than happy dwarves (while the regular members of the team watched the massacre from the td line)

While the last td was pure luck and random chance (never meant it to actually work) it was (almost) offset by the 1's I rolled (9 vs SirT's 3)

it didn't help that for a little while there both sides thought they were practicing for Dancing on Ice, slipping and falling all over the place. And of course the usual unforced errors like me using the Deathroller on Morg, misreading which of them had block and selecting both down, getting the steamroller smashed into the dirt.  :why_so_serious: Of course the rat ogre decided to recite poetry at the Dwarves a lot rather than do anything, as to be expected.

And seriously that pass was an amazing display of rattitude bullshit . It crossed the interception zones of 2 Dwarves, one of which had sure hands. I think I burned a reroll on it too. Sadly my fake beard impeded the similar attempts at Elf Bullshit on my side.

Hi EricSwiftBlade. I am located in Europe, what about you? The weekend will probably work, Saturday or Sunday.

Hey mate, I'm UK. Saturday late afternoon would work for me. Say 4pm UK time?

Regarding interceptions, only one of your guys can attempt the intercept and unless your guy is unmarked agi4 or better, you have to roll a 6. Sure hands doesn't affect it (catch does) and anyway you can't use a team reroll on an event already rerolled by a skill reroll.

Basically interceptions are a once in a blue moon event unless you have elves or gutter runners on hand.

You're on my friends list, so I've been checking when I'm around, no luck so far

Eric, just to confirm you that it's OK for me to play later today. I am not sure if I'll be available exactly at 4 though. Can we consider a larger window, like between 4pm to 6pm?

Actually, a larger window suits me too. Guess we'll just ping on steam and see when we're about.

I'm on now and for the next two hours. Messaged you on Steam, ping me back whenever you can.

6pm GMT, which should be 5pm UK, sorry buddy but I have to go out now. I guess we can try again tomorrow. Can we do it at 3pm UK time?

Not seeing any messages from you, sorry :( Can try tomorrow at 3pm, not sure if I'll be free though since it's my wife's birthday.

That sucks about Steam messages, I sent you more than one over our supposed gaming window. It said you were playing some Hero game, but should have delivered the messages anyway.

About tomorrow, I need to know because I would be coming home and planning the day just for that. It's totally ok if you can't though, we can try and schedule for later during the week. Sorry to have people waiting on us, but real life is real life.

Haemish's Skaven trounced the Nifty Helmets 1-0 as my minotaur tripped attempting to score on a go for it in the 16th turn to end the game.

1 Death against the rats, otherwise only a few badly hurts on both sides.

(more to follow)

Is there a BB Manager league for this? I can't find one to submit the match results to.

Zellar Dwellarz 1 - Nifty Helmets 0

I won the toss and elected to kick. The kick was TERRIBLE, going off the field and giving him a quick snap opportunity. He chose to give the ball to his +1 str leaping beastman in the back, so had a long while to get out of his end. This was his undoing, as I managed to delay his movement down the field until I could force the ball free in my half. A gutter runner picked up the loose ball, chucked it down the field to my other gutter runner who ran it to the end zone with one turn left in the half. Next turn, SCORE, end half.

As the second half started, I thought for sure I had this in the bag. Chaos is slow-footed. His kick went directly into the hands of my rat ogre who kept the ball in his grasp. I start pushing forward with the rat ogre until I'm a three or so squares into his end. I make a REALLY STUPID block that would have made no difference and failed, which gave him the chance to surround the ogre and knock him down. The ball pops out and is caught to everyone's surprise by his minotaur. The mino gets marked by a gutter runner with wrestle, and Gruntle spent a blitz from the minotaur trying to knock the runner back. This backfired, causing the frenzied mino to make three steps back towards his own goal instead of towards the tie. Once the runner got knocked off by his other teammates, the slow slog towards an equalizer began. Over the bodies of many a rat did this mino charge, but he still had time to score when Gruntle made a huge mistake. He forgot to blitz with the mino, blocking someone instead, and losing a full turn's worth of movement. Another turn was lost to wild animal. By the last turn, he was within one full movement of scoring, with a linerat marking him. He would either have to dodge (not happening), use another beastman to blitz off the marker or blitz with the mino, knock down the marker then try to score by rolling two GFI's. He chose the third option. The blitz succeeded but the very last GFI roll failed. Game over, my win.

I lost a thrower to death, but otherwise came out unscathed. One of my gutter runner's leveled, gaining a +1 MA. Meaning there's now a wrestling, dodging, jump up gutter runner with a MA of 10 (though his AV is 6 and I could have taken a +1 AV - movement more important).

Ok, lets get it played. 3pm UK time it is.

Game played 1-1 draw. If you watch the replay please remember I'm functioning on 3 -4 hours of sleep a night at the minute :)

It's worth saying that in turn 15 I had 0 players on the field. ZERO.

I'm out of town this weekend, so, you know, if we advance the day or something  :why_so_serious:

I've tried contacting Ironwood a couple of times but without luck so far.

Do we have a deadline?

You have ?  Whoops.

I'm usually on steam having an xcom at the moment, but I did just finish an intensive house move around, so the pooters were mostly off.

Try again.

*pokes the thread with a stick*

Still alive out there?

I think it's in the spirit of fail(-off) that it's a month since the start of the first round (well, in 2 days anyways) and there are still 40% of the games left unplayed.   :grin:

Even the fail-off is a failure  :grin:

Yeah, we fail the most, but at least that is consistent with the rest of my team's history  :uhrr:

I'm still looking any time I have an opportunity to play and the best I've seen is Ironwood on Steam but on Snooze, so not actually there.

I'm happy to take a draw (though it ruins my losing streak) if Ironwood is, just so we can let everyone else play.

I'm easy, but I think you're selling yourself short with a draw.  My rats suck a big fat bag of cocks this season.

Your rats decimated mine 5-0 on the first day of season 6 so I wouldn't sell them short (since I didn't manage to lose all the following games).

I think we can declare the failoffs officially failed (and quietly dump the corpse into a shallow unmarked grave)  :heartbreak: