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We're done with the main season so now it's time to see who is the champion of champions and who sucks the least out of the also-rans.

Here are the results from the last day of the regular season:

(http://i.imgur.com/rCm2dIB.jpg)

And here are the final BB Manager stats for the league:

Now the top four in each division go through to the playoffs and the bottom four are in the failoffs. These are separate leagues that have already been created as f13 Season 7 Playoffs and f13 Season 7 Failoffs respectively. If your name is in yellow in the list below then you should quit the main league and join the Playoffs, if your name is in green then you should quit the main league and join the Failoffs. The password for both leagues is skullskull as for the main league. To quit a league you need to go to the f13 Season 7 league, choose your team from the dropdown at the bottom and then the Quit League button will appear.

Final rankings

40k Division:
1st Ulysees
2nd Carnifex
3rd Megrim
4th Celer
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5th Falconeer
6th EricSwiftblade
7th Lightfax
8th Danicia

Hail Caesar Division:
1st Ramas
2nd Ruvaldt
3rd Gruntle
4th Haemish
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5th Jasper
6th Avaia
7th Gort
8th Sjofn

Hordes Division:
1st Catfud
2nd Teleku
3rd Drogg
4th Luckton
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5th Brocktoon
6th Willisterman
7th Reborne
8th ChiefTripodBear

Tamurkhan Division:
1st Lamaros
2nd IainC
3rd Ingmar
4th R3dknight
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5th Proudft
6th Ezrast
7th Fildrigar
8th Satael

Here's the diagram (thanks to RK47 for updating Falc's old table with the new divisions).
(http://i.imgur.com/UHLuadx.png)

This is a knockout competition so you will play one, two or three games depending on how far through the competition you get.

Please quit the main league and join either the Playoffs or the Failoffs as soon as possible.

Some final non-BBManager based stats:

There were 32 teams in all for the main season.
7 coaches and 16 teams were new to the league
5 of the 16 new teams made it to the Playoffs
There were 7 brand new 1000TV teams and 2 of these are in the Playoffs
The season 6 champion is in the playoffs with a brand new team
Of the 16 players from the Season 6 Playoffs, 11 of them are in the Season 7 playoffs, 2 did not compete in this season, 3 failed to qualify.
Of the 11 Season 6 Playoff coaches who also made it to Season 7 playoffs, 4 did so with new teams and 7 kept their existing teams.
Of the 5 coaches who are in the Season 7 Playoffs but were not in the Season 6 playoffs, 4 played the same teams from Season 6, 1 team was new.

REBORNE.  Let us bleed.

RK let's do this.

WhiteWolf's time to retire has come.

I'm GMT +9 so this weekend is the best bet, anytime Saturday afternoon my time.

Nice work as always from IainC the Arch-Cromulence

Wow, eager.
Can I make it out in the first round of the failoffs for yet another season?
All signs point to yes  :drill:

I'm on GMT+10 and will be available to play in about 7 hours from this post.
I'm booked solid until the weekend after tonight though, but the weekend is mostly free.

The playoffs won't start until everyone has joined up so that's not going to be in time for tonight.

Here are the playoff and failoff charts for reference.

(http://i.imgur.com/e08ak8O.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/NoNgt7T.jpg)

I will not entertain you. I will forfeit.

Hahahaha, for the first time in like six seasons I DON'T have to play catfud in the first round.

Good point, especially since I'm one of those people that needs to sign up  :uhrr:

Guess this will wait until the weekend or later then.
The question is, can Avaia contain their bloodlust until then or are hapless snotlings going to suffer for the delay?

Applied. I pondered trying to sneak Beardstorm! in...

No snotlings will be harmed if you agree to sit the ogres off to the side.

I'm going to have an issue getting my game in before next weekend 11-5 with a US opponent as I am away this weekend unless it is also a bank holiday on Monday 6th May in the US as well in which case we could play at a reasonable hour UK time in the evening. So Haemish are you working on Monday 6th?

ruvaldt my old nemesis! your hour of reckoning is at hand  :vv:

You're not seriously going to not forfeit are you? I'll go easy on you I swear.

Go Drogg! Knock out the Champ!!!

it doesn't seem possible. after the beat down vs 1500 tv necro, 1900 tv negros shd be worse.

Quoting for posterity  :awesome_for_real:

Now I'm imagining a Blood Bowl team of nearly 2,000 copies of Bill Cosby.

You'd get more inducements but anyway

I can see it now, Whitewolf with the ball, trying to make it to the end zone ... and....
oh god, they're all over him oh my god. Oh my god. THE HUMANITY

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No, I'll be working May the 6th. My boss is off this week for vacation and next Monday as well, and it's not a US holiday. We'll have to look towards next weekend I believe.

Also, you will probably stumpbreak me quite easily.

That was close to ending horribly as I forgot how to quit a league and chose deactivate on the team instead, thank god that didn't actually delete the buggers! Have applied to the league now so will set a time next weekend for playing Haemish assuming it starts before then.

Haemish pretty much all my losses come against agi teams rather than bashy teams so really it's a case of can I take out your gutter runners before you get an unassailable lead? Our match last season was a case of UI skull fuckery if I recall and wasn't a fair reflection of the match so it could have been a much closer match than it turned out so I am not taking your guys lightly at all. Hopefully it will be a good game.

I'm sure it is.  Oh well, I had a good run!  Hopefully I can at least drag a few of your skinks down with me.  Give me a season or two to grow some claws and mighty blow.   :grin:

What times are good for you?  Weekends are best for me.

this friday's probably booked up and i'm a wedding guest sunday but as far as i know my saturday's free.  ping me if you see me on steam?

Sorry to throw a spanner in the works, but I can't get online till Sunday, even just to apply.

Typing this on a beach.

Is the failoffs set to 4 minute turns?

I could be reading it wrong, but just in case

Fixed now, thanks for spotting it.

Even the commish fails in the failoffs!  :why_so_serious:

Doh! Thanks for the prod, Iain  :mob: I've joined the fail league. I thwapped around Figrigar to do it, too.

The Crew has applied for it's first and most likely only and last playoff match  :why_so_serious:

strike that - busy saturday, free sunday.  whoops!

Oooooh playing Sjofn. I never had the pleasure of ethically crushing her bones. This will be fun.

Swiftblade, we play in the GhettoBowl bracket. When would you like to play?  I'm in GMT-5, EST USA. Next week I can play any time on Monday, 7pm-10pm Tues/Thursday, Fri 11am-3pm. Sunday the 12th: 11am to 9pm. Assuming the games can be played this soon.

Still waiting for RK47 and Ramas to join the playoffs and for Lightfax, ChiefTripodBear, Swiftblade and Fildrigar to join the playoffs. Please do so as soon as you can so we can get started.

I won't be able to apply till Sunday. As mentioned above, I am literally posting from the beach (http://db.tt/bMAMUJ4M)...

Based on your times it looks like Sunday will be the first I can make. 11am your time should hopefully be 4pm mine... I think.

The Failoffs are now started and the seeding should be correct. The Bloodbowl UI is pretty horrible and those of you who have ever run a league will know that the league interface is even worse than the rest of the UI. The screen where you set up seeding however makes the rest of the UI look spectacularly good by comparison.

You can start playing the first round Failoff games as soon as you like, the Playoffs should start tomorrow when Ramas is back and has signed up. The deadline for both (assuming that the Playoffs start on time is Sunday 19th May. Please organise your games as soon as you can.

Upload matches as usual to the Season 7 league in BBManager, first round should be day 8, quarterfinal matches should be day 9, semis are day 10 and the final will be day 11.

Fildrigar, I'm BST, and it's a bank holiday Monday, so let me know if you want to get the game done today/tommorrow.  Otherwise I can do most evenings, apart from Thursday.

Posting from the plane home, will sign up as soon as I get back.

OMG, he's got an electronic device on an airplane!  DON'T CRASH!   :ye_gods: :why_so_serious:

Well I'm Posting from the train I'm taking back home.  With $1.50 Czech beer and free WiFi.  I already signed up for the playoffs before I took off on vacation, since I was afraid of being that guy (who turned out to be Eldeac), so doesn't really matter.  But I felt I should just brag.  Fuck flying, this is so much nicer.

Ok, Sheldon.

Oopsie, I forgot about Mother's day. I have a brunch to go to so I can't play that Sunday afternoon. What other times will work for you? Sorry.

Essentially with the time zone differences it looks like weekends. I can do weekends or evenings, but I'm guessing evenings in the UK are no good to you?

Applied!

Playoffs are also ready to go.

Megrim, I won't be around after tonight until next Sunday, I'm CET, please let me know when is good for you - I can do unsociable hours with enough notice. On the off chance that you're around in the next ~6-7 hours we can play then otherwise it will be next Sunday or afterwards.

Excellent.  I'm off tomorrow and Tuesday.  Your rats can kick my ass then.   :why_so_serious:

I can probably do tomorrow morning my time (middle of the night for you) or Tuesday evening (your afternoon?). So guessing Tuesday is  best?

Looks like it.  I'll just ping you when I see you.   :awesome_for_real:

ChiefTripodBear, looks like we're up!  I think you're 6 hours after my PST?  If so, I can most easily be around Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, perhaps around 6pm for you and midnight for me?

The bear is GMT +10 so it's probably a lot more than 6 hours :D

R3dknight! I'll be away this weekend and kinda of busy but maybe I'll be able to fit in on a friend's computer if you're free

weekend probably. i'm too tired to play on weekdays

Avaia

Looks like we're 16 hours apart (-6 to +10)

I'm busy tonight, Tuesday night and Friday Night.
Does my Wednesday night, Thursday night or weekend work for you or is this going to be awkward? (relatively speaking of course, my team is always awkward  :uhrr: )

Sure, if you like it's 18 hours ahead of PST; or 6 hours behind.  But you make a good point in that I was imprecise enough we could wind up on the wrong day!

So make that Monday, Tuesday, Thursday at 23:00 GMT-8, which is to say 17:00 GMT+10 the following days.

Depends on when you can start. I'm GMT-5 so I think, but am not sure, that I am 4 hours behind you?  I can play Thursday evening, but would have to start no later than ~11pm my time, 7pm yours? I can also play Friday during the day if that's possible for you. Let me know.

11pm your time is 4am mine, since I'm GMT. Friday I'll be at work, so back to weekend it seems.

P.S. I'm posting this at 20:40 if you want to check the timezone difference.

Iain,

Have had a long chat with z22 on steam. Looks like neither of us can play whilst the other is awake/not at work/mothers day/etc until the weekend of 18th/19th May.

So, we've agreed that if you'll extend the deadline, we'll play then. If not, we're both happy with a coin toss to decide the winner since that's better than us both forfeiting.

Over to you.

I'll extend it to the 19th May as I know there are a few other people who are likely to have problems playing in time as well. Updated post.

Thanks as I don't think Ulysses and I would even have a chance to do our game before this weekend.

Awesome, so just in case how does late Friday night your time (GMT +1?) sound? I should be drunk and sleep deprived so you're in with a chance!

Jasper - i get home from work 18:00 at the earliest, more likely 18:30, is that start time too late for you (midnight ish)?  can do the game tonight if you like (ie. in about 11 hours from this posting).

add me on steam - ChiefTripodBear (that's chief of all the bears, not chief of one tripod bear.)

You an orc among men!  Thanks!   :thumbs_up:

That works.  I'll look for you starting at midnight tonight PST, i.e. about 6 hours from now.

Teleku - I assume weekend is the best bet?

Yeah, time difference looks like it will be impossible otherwise.  I don't have any plans yet for Saturday/Sunday, so just message me on steam over the weekend when you're ready, and prepare to be pranced to death.

Understone Raiders 5 - Bring Back the Biff 0.

The dice and injuries went my way early, which snow balled into a numbers advantage.  Then it started to rain!  It was a hard matchup for the decimated Biff to begin with, and the dice heavily favored the Raiders to boot.

Haemish how is your Sunday looking 12-5-2013? I have a small window around 4pm my time Saturday which would be midday your time if my timezone cals are right but at the moment I am free pretty much anytime on Sunday except between 18:00 and 21:30 GMT+1 to play.

Eld, my ISP is having a nationwide meltdown (CenturyLink).  Not sure if we'll be able to get our match in today.  Will try and ping you this weekend.  Posting from my cell.

I'm 6 hours behind you. 4 pm Saturday would be 10 am my time, which is probably out for me. I'll likely be just waking up and walking the dogs. 21:30 your time is 3:30 pm my time. I would be available after that. Your 1800 is my noon - earliest I'm usually available on Sundays is 11:30 am (so 1730 your time) so it looks like after 4 pm my time (10 pm yours) might work best?

NP, let me know when free, I'll be getting home fairly late - will check if you are online when I get back.

z22,

So, what day and time next weekend then?

ruvaaaldt.  hi! i'm home tonight, home thursday night, maybe can free up some time early friday night but out late.  find me on steam if you're around and ready for your comeuppance.

Thursday might actually work.  I get off work at 5:00pm CST and normally have Thursdays free.  If not then, it'll have to be this weekend.

sounds good! i'll jump on steam when i get home - should be ~6 PST.

Managed to talk with Avaia last night just before I went to sleep, was up late because Crusader Kings II eats time.
Turns their wake up time is right in line with when I have to crash for work, so we're now aiming for the weekend.
Just keeping you all up to date because I don't want to stall another failoff  :ye_gods:

How about Saturday the 18th at 10am my time?

That should be 3pm my time, see you then.

Ok lets go for Sunday 10pm my time.

Arrrg!  Somebody please please please for the love of (the Horned Rat) god validate Understone Raiders vs. Bring Back the Biff!  I got three skillups and it's just killing me not knowing whether I rolled doubles or not.

No, I'm not addicted to Blood Bowl.  Why do you ask?

IainC is traveling right now IIRC, and I don't think he delegated me for the failoffs.

Purple Inferno 4-0 over Biolab Sea Bears.  The Sea Bears had a shitload (like 800k or so) of inducements and bought Morg, a wizard, a half-dozen mercenaries, and I dunno, the menu was so long and off the bottom of the screen that I probably missed something else.   

The wizard's lightning bolt fizzled on Dis, Morg was taken out of the game by Dis on about turn 5, and it alll spiraled downhill from there for the Sea Bears with a continually full KO box throughout much of the game  (they did seem to wake up well, but then just went back in) and demons scampering merrily about the open field.

Somehow through all that, the Sea Bears suffered no deaths.  And all the injuries were to loners.  Christmas Miracle!

The gory stats:

(http://bbm.jcmag.fr/BloodBowlManager.WebSite/ImageMatchReport.aspx?Id=231232&lang=en&bg=orca)

Yeah I'm out until Sunday, will validate all matches then. I have net access but this laptop is a Mac so no BB client.

Jesus, 19 knock downs to 1.

nm.

Vermin - 4
G6 Crew - 1

Ymiron's men struggled to pin the rats down, and conceded 2 one turners and 2 defensive rush turnover TDs. The consolation TD was scored by standing in the middle of the pitch and punching things until the sea of rats parted.

No injuries, 2 skaven gutter runners and a norse thrower level up.

And now some stats:

Vermin

32/41 Dodges
1/1 Pass
2/3 Catch
9/13 GFIs
10/23 Blocks

G6 Crew

0/0 Dodges *
0/0 Pass
5/6 Catch
5/5 GFIs
36/72 Blocks


*not a typo, Yniron's crew attempted zero dodges.

I don't know how to submit matches in BB Manager.
Here's the replay file. (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/829607/Bloodbowl/Replay_2013-05-11_01-12-13.db)

Well there goes our chance of a Necro vs Necro final!  :why_so_serious:

Quite the upset.

Zara is the best star player for price that cyanide bothered to code in IMO.

drat it i was looking forward to going back up against lyse with my extra guard  :tantrum:

Haha there's always next season Drogg  :awesome_for_real:

Congrats to rk for playing a great game and good luck to all for the rest of the play offs!

Celer I am about sopping ATM but should be back in few hours. Can't work out the time different off the top of my head but if that's too late I'll be about tomorrow!

Ok, I seriously can't find the F13 playoff league in BBManager to upload the replay to.  Anybody know whats up?  Can you upload Ingmar?

Hippies 3 - 0 Banned

Game of hilarious dice rolls as both of us got some crazy luck and then some hilarious failures.  I made a shit ton of leaps and almost all my dodges, however, which is what probably tipped me over the top.

I think it was meant that you upload it as day 8+ of the season 7

Must have missed you, might have been too late.  By the time you wake up, it should be almost evening here, I will be waiting <3

Correct.

Also need the RK47 v Llyse game to be uploaded.

i cant figure out how to upload it. nvm got it

Got it.  Unfortunately, I logged back into BB after the match trying to figure shit out, and that appears to have fucked up BBManagers ability to read it.  I tried running the replay like it said, but it didn't fix it.  Ingmar will have to upload...

Hippies vs Vermin then?

I predict touchdowns....

In the spirit of finals meltdowns...

FUCK THIS GAME.

I am probably being a really bad sport but I feel like I had this game. I let him score early then slowly fought my way up the pitch to score in the 8th turn. Despite Morg and my MB/Claw/PO troll and my MB and Claw blitzers I only got him down to three KOs though. So he returned with a full squad.

Then in the second half he got a blitz at the kickoff, which I then recovered from, only for him to go on a run of stuns, KOs and injuries - which I was handling, only for double 1s to cause a turnover, from which he got the ball from my thrower, which then happened to bounce into his hands despite him having one around the ball and I three (basically the only square that didn't favour me), which he then ran and handoffed and passed to score.

And then again I was going to recover and score in the 16th to make it 2-2 with a wizard still up my sleeve, only to fail double 1s on the last turn of the game when one square from the endzone.

FARKKKK THIS GAME.

I am pissed off! Twice out in the first week of the finals in a row.

Congrats to Celer.  :grin:

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PLAYOFF UPSET BABY  :awesome_for_real:

The Chemical Elvers hold on against Best With the Mess, 2-1!


The Elvers received first and scored their usual 2-turn TD, the Undead team did not put up much of a fight (almost as if that was the plan...)  The mutants then did a nice slow deathmarch down the field, between Morg and the Troll there were several Elves KO'ed, but luckily for the Elves none really hurt.  The Elves even managed to put a scare into the +ST rat by giving him -ST, but the Apoc saved him.  The equalizer came right at the halftime buzzer, and the Underworld coach seemed to be executing his plan just fine.

A Blitz! event on the ensuing Elven kickoff was helpful, but the kick was deep enough that not even the speedy elven catchers could reach it.  The rats had the ball and formed up a fine cage, but they were well surrounded.  Armor started to break, and several Underworld players were off the pitch in quick succession with elves getting bodies on the ball carrier.  A goblin failed his Dodge roll at an inopportune time, and that's about all the opening the Elves need for some high-class BS.  In 60 seconds, the ball was knocked out, bounced directly into elven hands (praise Nuffle), and a handoff-and-pass later it was a stunning 2-1.

There were still 3 turns to force an OT, and the Elves made a crucial mistake by leaving a crack on their sideline.  Several rats poured through, including the ball carrier (thanks to a quick pass), and all that could be done was some scrambling to form up at the goal line.  Honestly, that's probably how it should have gone, as the elf defense was not great... but it was enough.  They left it up to 3 stunty dodges for OT, and the gobbo came up short.

It was pretty clear to me that lamaros was the better coach here.  But some combination of crucial (absolutely crucial) dice failures and a small XP difference was enough to give me my first Playoff win.  PLAYOFFS!

To be fair Celer played an excellent defense whenever I had the ball and my final turn was an animosity handoff and three 2+ dodges. Even with dodge and a reroll it wasn't that unlikely I might fail. He used his guard advantage really well too.

Bleating 3
Wrestlers 0

I managed to take out 3 ogres in the first half with the help of some friendly dice and claw.  I didn't even need a reroll the first half.  I was up 2-0 at the turn and the second half was pretty much mop up time.  

Reborne had a fine snotling toss on turn 14 or 15, but sadly the snot came up a square short of the goal.

Lots of casualties in this match.  I have a dead rotter and one with a damaged back.  Reborne had all but one badly hurt, and that was only a MNG on a snotling.

Stats...

Keep Rolling 2, Changer of Minds 0

The dwarves mainly came through here by very lucky die rolls.  A turn 8 touch down by the dorfs which required a 5+ pass and catch, plus a go for it, but the Chaos team had been hurt a little bit by then, and not many of them got up next round, giving the dorfs a strength advantage.

The chaos team almost got an equaliser in the next round, but a failed go for it stopped that, allowing the dorfs to get the ball back, and score again.  At one point only 3 of the Chaos team were on the pitch.

The dwarves take a -1av injury on a level 2 blocker :(

Four matches in and we've lost half the group winners already.

Now we just need the Zellar Dwellerz to see off the Minizillas! :drill:

Yeah, that's not happening.

The Minizillas 3 - Zellar Dwellarz 0

Total utter shutdown. Ridiculous death of 1000 silly skinky cuts. All but 1 of his skinks had diving tackle and every single time it was used, it succeeded. I couldn't dodge for shit. Blocks weren't even remotely close. By the 3rd turn of the game, he had the ball in a skinks hand, had it caged against the sideline with 2 other skinks with diving tackle (making a dodge into a blitz impossible). By the 5th turn, I was just passing turns because it was either risk getting more injuries without affecting the play at all or do nothing. Second half I might have had one chance as I passed to a gutter runner, but he failed his dodge (no diving tackle involved) and it was game over from there. 5 casualties on my side. I think I might have KOed one goddamn skink the whole game.

Fuck Games Workshop for making a game so dependent on dice literally NOTHING I could have done would have made one iota of difference. I wasn't even making mistakes - I had on chance to make a mistake because I was on the backfoot from the get go and every attempted action failed. Also FUCK YOU CYANIDE. I spent my 480k in inducements on a halfling chef and a merc gutter runner. The gutter runner disappeared in the first half - he wasn't even a bench option. Second half, after some guys are injured and KOed, he just appears. Fucking frogs.

Now I get to see if there's anything worth salvaging with this team.

The Minizilla's 3 - Zeller Dwellerz 0

Sorry to disappoint Eldaec  :awesome_for_real: but if anyone wants to watch a proper nuffle fucking then this is the match and I can only imagine the look of utter disbelief on Haemish's face after this match where I swear not one roll that he needed to make even with re-rolls would come off for him. My dive tackle skinks didn't miss a single tackle, Xhooqs either injured or KO'd pretty much everything he hit .

First half started with a blitz event allowing me to KO a gutter runner and then move 3 markers around the ball landing spot, quickly get possession of the ball then stall out to score on turn 8 while I took all bar about 3 rats off the pitch for the half.

Second half kicked off and 3 KO's stayed asleep plus the 1 injury meant I was facing 8 Rats and made a quick 2 turn touch down. On the next kick off Haemish gets up to 10 players on the pitch but things then start to go downhill as he makes a pass to a gutter runner but a block that would have opened my midfield doesn't work and he has to make a triple dodge which he fails and though I have a few issues recovering the ball eventually I manage it and run up the pitch and the rest of the half is spent decimating the rats scoring another 4 injuries, plus 1 that Haemish inflicted on himself failing a dodge blitz and a few more KO's to score the last TD on my turn 16.

Match is submitted on BBmanager.

for old times' sake, ruvaldt once again dashes HHB's playoff dreams 2-1 with special help from morg.  somehow i got out-positioned and occasionally outdodged by a team whose main constituency has mv 4.  its a bad sign when your str 4 guard saurii can't do anything but 1/2 die blocks against their str 3 opposition.

ugh.  probably time to shelve these guys, though i say that every season and every season come back to lose again in the first playoff round.

The First Ladies 2 - 1 Hunqua Hunqua Burninluv

The ladies move on in their inaugural season.  Hell of an exciting game if anyone wants to watch it.  We went into overtime, and if I hadn't scored on that last turn would've gone into double overtime.  I got lucky on two kick-off events where I got to reposition my defense, and Drogg had really bad luck on armor breaks.  Scored by TDs with Eleanor, and she is becoming quite the beast.  With block and break tackle she'll be a superstar.

My hat's off to drogg for quite a game

as a post script, that single injury was ruvaldt's minotaur getting an attacker down on a block roll, not a hit from me.

Yeah, and he died on the original injury roll.  I was tempted to let him go, too.  He's been nothing but trouble.

Yet again I win at the failoffs!  :drill:

First of all, well played to Avaia.
No openly stupid moves and with Nuffle focused on my team it was just a matter of not blowing things, which they didn't.
It was a fun, if slightly frustrating game.

Chatting with Avaia during the game has further confirmed my teams status as league mascot, as it sounded like Avaia was upset that I couldn't make any headway, knew some of my Ogres by name and were glad when they didn't receive any lasting injuries.

That being said, I almost felt bad for killing one of his players, till I realized it was a level 1 rotter with no XP and it was done by Kane as well, Kane's a jerk.
Any of the others would feel aweful for actually doing real damage.
Or at least that is the way it seems since they only seem to knock people down, possibly out, but only hurt people by mistake  :uhrr:

UI comment: Disturbing Presence has a misleading graphic. looks like it only extends to 2 squares, really affects 3.

Look forward to playing with you all again in Season 8  :grin:

I am looking for the "like" button...  :heart:

Just saw this, I will see if it still reads the match. Might be an issue as I played some single player since then I think.

Re: the match itself, outcome was more or less as I expected. Due to the piece skill imbalance (in particular my dearth of tackle) I was going to need the injury dice to come to my side early, and for the elves to get a reasonable number of d6 roll failures; I got neither (I eventually got a few elves off the field, but not enough), and just couldn't stop the long distance elf BS.

Carnifex's Cripplers fought the Nifty Helmets in a play off game that got a little out of hand, turning a wee bit violent leading to the sad death of the Crippler's starting Kroxigor.

As one would expect the high scoring game was a flurry of passing plays run to quick scores by two sides known for the pinpoint accuracy of their throws and their adversity to physical contact. No wait that's not right, it was the opposite; a slow moving scrum that ended with a solitary score being posted in the second half.

The Cripplers won the toss, and Carnifex opted to kick, setting up with 3 in the center and four skink-saurus packs on the sides. A decision he probably regretted when his front line folded against the four chaos warriors and the minotaur. Two sauri were immediately downed, the Kroxigor stunned and the Claw badly injured another saurus guarding a skink, and then the two turns later injured another saurus (groin strain). Then there was a bad turn for the Helmets when they had to use both apothecaries (Helmets went with enough incentives to buy a second apothecary) to keep the Claw and a goat with Mighty Blow in the game (the Claw would have died though the Mighty Blow goat was never more than badly hurt). But the tide went the Helmet's way and they slowly made their way up towards the Crippler's endzone -- knocking aside the Crippler's last ditch defenses and leaving a clear path to the goal for the ball carrier who in turn 8 -- because their coach is a huge idiot and for some unknowable reason ?! thought there was still a turn to go -- stopped on the goal line and waited instead of bothering to score. For all his plaintive pleas of "A little help?" the Cripplers -- tangled up as they were by a fair number of helmets -- didn't use their blitz to push the ball across the line, and that was that. If there were such things as Helmet fans, they would've been extremely pissed.*

(*This is also why there are no such things as Helmet fans).

With the Claw having taken two Sauri out of the game in the first half, the Cripplers had to field six skinks with the Kroxigor and the sauri to make a full 11. The Helmets' double-apothecaries-in-one-turn meant that we also had a full 11 on the field. Facing the strong center line of four chaos warriors and a minotaur, the lizards split their defense to focus on the two sides with two sauri on the right and a saurus and the kroxigor on the left, holding one sauri back with the six spread out skinks. The kick was shortish and a skink scooped up the ball to hold it in a defensive cluster on the right side. The sauri on the left and right were only able to push the chaos warriors out of the way, and so the ST 5 kroxigor attempted to cross sides (to defend the ball carrying skink) but failed to break tackle (on a 1), loanered the reroll and died (well a niggle apoth'd to death). Which let the helmets swoop in; on a blitz the minotaur rode a skink (3 dice to push then downed) to get its tentacles around the ball carrier and other goats came in to cage the cage on the other sides. Amusingly a pack of skinks KO'd the ST 4 dodgy-goat but otherwise there was a general pounding of lizards. A little too much so, because over-confidently we failed to tackle the ball carrier eventually letting the skink side-step his way out of the tentacles, then it was just some ridiculous stunty dodging to thread his way out of the cage and he was streaking down the sidelines towards the goal. However, he had no protection and needed to limit the number of goats that could be on him next turn so he went for it, tripped and dropped the ball out of bounds.

The helmets recovered the ball, clustered up and just concentrated on knocking lizards down and/or out of bounds. But you can never count Carnifex out; even when he was down to 2 sauri and 4 skinks (even when he was down to 1 saurus and 3 skinks) he would dodge a skink in to blitz the ball-carrier, knocking the ball loose again but failing to recover it. Eventually on turn 16, the Helmets remembered finally to cross the damn goal line and put up the only score of the game.

The game has been uploaded to bbmanager for the morbidly curious, . A few crucial dice failed Carnifex, a few crucial rolls favored us (we rocked wild animal for once), and it became a much more lop-sided game than anyone expected, but his perseverance (and my stupidity) meant the end result was never close to certain. But bad luck again or no, Carnifex is sure to be a factor in the playoffs next season, i tell you what.

Looking forward to it, RK.   :drill:

Falconeer, I have been a total loser and I apologize, but I am ready to punch some Amazons anytime this week, basically.

Yeah, I pinged you a few times on Steam but to no avail. I hope we'll have a chance in the next few days. I apologise to everyone for the delay.

Bah, shd've bought Chaos Ed.

Fursecution v Insatiable underway!

Ugh.

So there was a Bloodbowl game. I had 590k in inducements and I was torn between taking Headsplitter or a master chef as I know that Instiable lean on rerolls a lot. However I took a look at his roster and between the four rerolls on the sheet, 1 Leader and a bunch of Pro, I figured that taking 0-3 of his five team rerolls away wasn't a good deal and went for Headsplitter, a Wizard and two babes.

I won the toss, elected to kick into the very sunny pitch and the game was on. First kickoff result was a Quick Snap which let Megrim get a vampire under the ball which he caught easily. The Vampires put their superior strength and overwhelming Block superiority into the centre and cleared a space with no real problems. I put some Gutter Runners behind the line and then went to push back with Headsplitter but, in a moment of foreshadowing he managed to stun himself while trying to take down a Thrall. The Vampires second turn saw the first of many Skaven leave the pitch although this one got off lightly with a KO. Fursecution regrouped and tried to bog down the ball carrier in a tide of bodies and then the nightmare turn started. The Vampires started off by killing a linerat. As it was early in the game and he only had 2SPPs I elected to let him die in case I needed the apoth for a more valuable piece later. As it happened I didn't need to wait long as the next block on Secretly a Unicorn gave him a Serious Concussion (-1AV). I rerolled that and got an MNG instead. The next block that Insatiable threw injured a third Skaven although this was only Badly Hurt. Down to one Rat Ogre, only seven players on the pitch in total and we're only at turn three. This was going badly and then it got worse when Headsplitter rolled double skulls on his opening blitz and broke his neck. The Vampires pushed deep into my half and formed a loose cage. I had a bit of luck here as I caught the ball carrier and the two escorting Vampires in a Fireball and knocked all of then down. That gave me enough room to scamper in with a linerat who dodged away from his marker, made a pickup and then a pass to a nearby Gutter Runner who ran it out of range of most Vampire reprisals. There was a single Thrall who could just about reach the Gutter Runner with the ball but he only managed to get a push, the Vampire consoled themselves however by injuring a fifth Skaven before I Was Born A Dragon You Know dodged away from the Thrall who had failed to take him down and scored.

There were two turns left and I was reasonably sure that I could hold on to my lead until halftime but the ref added an extra turn to the half at the kickoff. My only KOd player failed to wake up despite the double helping of Bloodweiser and so I was down to 9 players to a full team of Vampires. Insatiables starting blocks were fairly successful, a couple of stuns and most of their targets fell over however the ball pickup was fumbled despite the Sure Hands Thrall on the job. I figured there was an opportunity to get some pressure on the loose ball but to do so I wanted to clear a slightly safer path. Unfortunately I managed to turn over on the first action so the Vampires had more time to get themselves back in order. They got the ball and handed it off safely then pushed forwards hard but suffered a rare casualty when a bloodlust roll went south and the Thrall was badly hurt keeping his dark master on the pitch. The Skaven disengaged and tried to get a blitz on the thrall with the ball but failed a GfI. Insatiable cleared some space around the thrall, then made a pass in the sunshine to a waiting Vampire who walked it over the line to equalise.

With two Skaven and one Vampire turn left it was still possible to go into half time with the lead so I set up aggressively but again the kickoff result favoured the Vampires and they had the chance to reorgansie their defence to cover my setup. I made some space anyway and pushed a receiver through then decided to pick the ball up before making more dodges. Unfortunately that didn't work so well as it was my turn to fail a Sure Hands pickup. The Vampires KOd the only Skaven who could score then inflicted their sixth injury on my team. I had nowhere to go on my last turn and it ended without further excitement.

At half time my KOd player recovered but I was still down to 9 on the pitch. I wasn't going to win a grind so I went for the Elf play and filled the backfield with receivers. Of course the Vampires covered them all but I was able to injure a Vampire (who made his regen roll naturally). I decided to take a big risk, put a Stormvermin in the endzone then made a long running play with a short pass to a marked Gutter Runner who caught the ball, dodged away, made two GfIs then handed it off to the waiting Stormvermin to retake the lead.

The next kickoff saw the weather change, this time to pouring rain and I had a faint hope that if the Vampires managed to fumble the pickup for a couple of turns I might just make it through with my narrow victory despite the carnage on my bench. Sadly that didn't happen, not only did they pick the ball up without incident but they also managed to KO two more Skaven on the way out. The Skaven redeployed to cover the Vampire advance but they were seriously outnumbered and heavily outmatched. Then a stroke of luck, for some reason the Vampires decided to throw the ball rather than grind down the pitch and the rain made the vampire at the end of the pass drop the catch. Not only that but it scattered into a square that was reasonably easy for me to get to. I put some furry bodies around the ball then ran in to get it. I had a reasonable pass out to a clear Gutter Runner who could have scored that turn but even with Sure Hands, I couldn't get a paw on the ball. The Vampires came in mob-handed and stunned all the Skaven near the ball then managed to fumble the pick up as well, this time knocking it over the sideline. The crowd helpfully threw it back into a clear square in my half but all my players were tied up by Vampires. I had a dodge to a clear square to get a player over to the ball and make the throw from the last turn but I failed the dodge. Insatiable however saw their chance to put the game out of reach and got a Vampire onto the ball who sprinted down to the endzone. He had to make two GfIs to score and he failed the second even with a reroll. The ball went out of bounds again and was thrown back in to another clear square in my half. This time I managed to get a receiver out and picked the ball up but the pass went wide. Insatiable took full advantage and got the ball into the hands of a nearby Vampire before KOing another Skaven and caging up. This time they took no chances and walked methodically down the pitch before handing the ball off and scoring on their last turn.

I had one turn left and I really didn't want to go to overtime as there was no chance I'd be able to hold the Vampires off. I set up aggressively again and was happy to see the rain clear up from the kickoff. My joy was short lived however as my first block to clear room for a Gutter runner invasion caused a turnover and injured the Stormvermin responsible. The Vampires surged forwards, injuring my star Gutter Runner, KOing another and getting their hands on the ball. From there it was a slow but inevitable grind down the pitch and they scored the winner in the last turn of overtime.

Apart from the dead linerat, only the Rat Ogre came away with a serious injury which was surprising considering the Vampires managed 8 injuries and a death in total. Also all of the doubles and statups that i hadn't got in the main season happened after this game. I got doubles on a linerat and +1ag on a Stormvermin.

(http://bbm.jcmag.fr/BloodBowlManager.WebSite/ImageMatchReport.aspx?Id=232018&lang=en)

Let the pre-match hype begin.  :awesome_for_real:

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/829607/Bloodbowl/KoK/MD09/PRE/01.png)

Don't worry, managed to get it uploaded already.

rk47, looks like you reversed the score for Hazardous Hippies vs. The Banned.

(http://bbm.jcmag.fr/BloodBowlManager.WebSite/ImageMatchReport.aspx?Id=231997&lang=en)

Maybe its because I didn't have the replay up with cool stats gif.  Here you go!

I've advanced the day for the Playoffs so you can start organising and playing those games while we wait for the last few Failoff matches to be done.

Bony Slaves, Iron Beards over 8 Eyes 2-1 in a 28-turn beatdown.



 :drill:

Holy crap, Lightfax really undersold how squished your team was by the end there.  :ye_gods:

Lightfax or Ezrast, can you upload that match to BBManager please (season 7, day 8)?

Yeppers fixed it.

Megrim it is going to have to be this weekend to get our match in as I am away the next 2 weekends which might be an issue depending on me getting past your Vamps and who my next opponenet would be so lets get the crunch done!

My bad, I said I would but then I saw something shiny. It's up now.

See you tomorrow still, 10am my time, 3pm yours?

I have to travel at short notice over this weekend and won't be back until midweek. I've made Ingmar a commissioner for both the playoffs and the failoffs so that matches can be validated or reset and the day can be advanced on the failoffs.

Gort's Blitzburg Brewzers outroll Swiftblade's Orc-town Campboyz 2-0.

While trying to submit the game to BBManager, I did not see a "f13 Season 7 Failoffs" league to submit to. Should I submit to "f13 Season 7"?

Yes.

Day 8. (day 7 + postseason game x)

MY GAME WITH TELEKU GOT RESET TO A WIN HOW DID THAT HAPPEN

Have the failoffs failed already (like they did last season) or will there be day 2 in the near future?

I don't know. Why don't you tell us.

Acting commissioner.

I'm hoping for a day two.  I think we are only missing one game?

Mr. Acting Commisioner, would you kindly ask those Hunking Norse Lads to (briefly) quit the ale house and skeedadle down to the pitch?

Us rats have a date with these tasty Dwarfs we'd just hate to miss!

I will bother them.

Thanks!  And yeah, tweak those Amazons too; I just figured the Norse were a bit closer at hand. ;-)

 :dead_horse: (I'd rather we bury the failoffs sooner than last season where it took a month to do so)

I'm back from Switzerland tomorrow. If the game isn't at least scheduled and both coaches post here to confirm that it's getting played imminently then both coaches are out. I'll flip a coin to determine a winner and give the winner's quarterfinal opponent a bye.

Given I feel like ass and I was the one more annoying to get ahold of, Ima forfeit to Falconeer. Sorry about the wait, guys, I just kept forgetting to even check my Steam list, a bunch of bullshit happened in the past week keeping me distracted. And now I am sick, which is clearly divine punishment.  :why_so_serious:

 :headscratch:

He's referring to the Failoffs.

 :awesome_for_real:

Ok, Sjofn has conceded and Falconeer goes to the Quarterfinals. The day has been advanced for the Failoffs. Please see the Quarterfinals thread (http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=23268.0) for deadline and other details.