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Day 5 ended just in time for Day 6 to begin. Here's the tale of the tape as we head into the penultimate qualifying round.

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And here is the roll of lists for day 6.

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These games must be played by Tuesday 4th Feb. Play early, Play often.

The rankings look like this currently which is bad news for me, Wolven, Stabby and Lamaros who are looking increasingly unlikely to be able to secure even a wild-card ticket to the playoffs.

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Stats from BBManager below the cut.

The Nifty Helmets fought Power Team Volcano in a messy 2-0 game, as chaos and chaos dwarves crashed together in a rough scrum that left one dwarf dead and will prevent a beastman from playing in the next game.

The Dwarves chose to receive and lined up for an off-center drive but the helmets called an audible and rearranged their defense to counter it, though as they were in motion a short kick put the ball squarely in the hands of a dwarf team hobgoblin. The dwarf frontline knocked down two warriors and then (with the help of a reroll) one of their line overextended causing the first turnover. This was immediately followed by a fireball that sputtered out -- failing to effect any of its three targets (including Helmets' mino, Mr. Big). A knockdown brawl ensues back and forth until the ball carrier is blitzed and the ball knocked free. The melee over the ball (and other parts of the field) continued until almost the end of the half, when the Helmets's chaos warrior was finally able (with a reroll) to pick up the damn ball and scored a turn later to end the half.

The second half had the Helmets set to receive. They knocked out some space in the center and caged up with the ball, but it immediately started to buckle from the pressure the Volcanoes were able to bring on it.  The Helmets were able to knock a hole in the chaos dwarvf defenses and the ball carrier ran through it while the rest of the team tied up the Volcanoes in another messy midfield brawl. This ate up a few turns as the teams just brawled while the beastman with the ball waited near the end zone (knocking out the lone hobgoblin to reach him). However, chaos dwarves were no easy opponents and chaos team began to lose the midfield fight, forcing them to score to avoid more injuries. Then after the final kick off the ball was mostly ignored as each team scrabbled for a scrap of SPP but came up empty.

Oooof, how am I in first place in my division (after tiebreaks)? Things are not looking good for me to see some competitive games in the failoffs.  :oh_i_see:

Knights 2 - Chaos Theorist 0

Theorists lose 0-2 to Knights. The game can be summarized by the number of 6s rolled on d6: 9/55 for knights and 1/33 for theorists (theorists also managed to roll more 1s than the knights).

Also all the kick-off events went to knights (+reroll, throw rock (ko'ed a bm), perfect defense, blitz)

Wow, that was fast.

I hope you didn't get too attached to your rats, Jaedar, I need sum SPPs on muh blitzers :drill:

I hope you didn't get to attached to the hope that you might reach the playoffs  :grin:

Keep Rolling 1 - The Camp-Town OrcBoyz 0

This match didn't go the way I was expecting.  I expected the orcs to really pummel my team, but was able to hold my own and turn it into a win.

Keep Rolling spent a bit of money on keeping the ref from noticing the DeathRoller, a wizard and some Bloodwiser babes.  The first few turns have a fair amount of hitting, and then the wizard steps in on turn 2, and he's really had his wizard juice this time.  Kills a player, (appoced), and knocks down a load of others.  This allows the dorfs enough time to slow down the Orcs, and stop them from scoring.  The orcs keep knocking the Deathroller down, and fouling him, but it doesn't connect fully, and on the third attempt, the ref finally notices it, and sends the goblin off. A few injuries on either side, but the next half starts with the orcs down to 10 players, and the Dorfs back to a full lineup.

The dorfs are able to open a line down the middle of the pitch with break tackle on the deathroller, and score.  At this point, Nuffle starts shining on the Dorfs and almost everything they try to do, works.  Dodging and picking up the ball with an agi 2 player, in a tacklezone?  Have 2 6's.  Attacks?  Have knockdowns.  The orcs were not able to recover, and the match ended at 1-0.

(http://bbm.jcmag.fr/BloodBowlManager.WebSite/ImageMatchReport.aspx?Id=268652&lang=en)

Beetles tie Filling 1-1.

Vibrant Filling had a zillion inducements and took the chef, a wizard, babes.  I was afraid he'd take the chef.  And he did.  And the little halfling bastard stole three of my precious rerolls in the first half.  And then, the Beetles' anticipation of a smooth easy victory was smashed by Nuffle, who hates hubris.

The Beetles received and formed up a loose cage when suddenly some chaos warrior decided he was an elf and swooped into steal the ball after a failed Beetle block.  He snatched the ball up and and pranced his way to victory.  WTF.  This whole humiliating process took until turn 6, so with no time left in the first half to score, suddenly the Beetles were playing to not lose, since everyone knows Khemri can't score twice in a half.  

The second half dice did go a little better (and the chef rolled a zero), and the ball was quickly repossessed from the grubby Chaos fingers and the score evened up on turn 14.  En route, the wizard used a fireball which didn't do much.  Knocked over one tomb guardian or something.

On the last two turns, there was a remote chance of a blitz-ra screaming into the endzone for a second score - he did reach the ball and was within a GFI or two of making it in on the next turn if he picked it up (50%)... but he was knocked over by a watchful beastman on turn 16 and that was that.

One badly hurt for the Filling, no injuries for the Beetles.

Stats:

Khemri, khemri never changes.
Tried it a bit, liked the Tomb Guardian, but the constant caging, caging, moar cage, u lost ball? GG u lost, made me decide it's just not for me.
Was getting tired of watching pick up phails too.

Ruvaldt, rotters want to hug.

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I'm sure you have such sights to show me.  I probably have it coming after my years with the Presidents.

I'm available pretty much any evening except for the coming Tuesday and Superbowl Sunday.

It's going to be fun, we haven't played in a while, Avaia.

I forget what your normal hours in your time zone are, Lamaros, so let me know and we can try to work something out. Generally I am available from 7 pm Pacific on although Thursday this week I have kendo and Friday may or may not work. One of Saturday or Sunday will be also good for me but I don't know which one yet, I am waiting for an update from a flaky D&D player.

IIRC we're looking at a weekend game due to time differences. Let me know when you have a clearer idea of weekend time, I should be able to fit in.

alright megrim i think its time for us to determine who truly has khorne's favor  :mob:

Since I am UK hopefully our timezones are not too harsh for a change Teleku so will keep an eye out for you on Steam to get our match played.

heh, it'll be good. I should be free this weekend + Monday (setting aside time for the superb owl). I have nfi what our time difference is, but I'll check Steam whenever I get the chance.

Hey Stabby, I've been checking Steam and it seems you haven't been on for a few days.
Message me on there when you've got a minute so that we can sort out times.

Haha, figures.  Finally get to play against a timezone near mine, and I'm in a far different one.  So yeah, I just arrived in Manila this weekend for training.  I'll be in Manila for about 3 more weeks.  It may be really god damned hard to pull this off, but we'll see.  I believe I'm about 8 hours ahead of you right now.  First step is for me to find an internet cafe where I can get the game installed and played from.  I'm in the top upper teir rooms at the hotel, and have access to an executive lounge with its own computers.  Maybe they don't lock their computers down and I can try that.  I'll let you know.  Beyond that.... I'm assuming it will have to be a weekend, unless you can play sometime mid day on a week day.

If we cant make this work, I'll happily accept the loss, since its my current situation which makes this hard.

Eldaec, I've been trying to ping you on Steam but you never seem to be online. Let me know when you are free.

Yeah, sorry about that. My schedule's been erratic all week to a point I'm not even sure when I'll be free, and this should keep up 'til Friday at least. Hoping you're free for a weekend game, as I'm not sure how I'm going to get a couple of hours to myself any other time right now.

Lamaros, looks like my Friday night and all day on my Sunday are clear. Not going to bother with the Super Bowl this year.

Will be online a bit tomorrow, also Friday evening.

Btw, advance notice - I'm on holiday from the 4th so can play Monday evening or Tuesday , but after that I may have to forfeit vs drogg. Apologies.

No worries.
My weekend is pretty open right now, we'll just need to work out the time difference and go from there.

Ok cool. Looks like your Sat afternoon my Sunday morning may work best, but I'll just double check a few things and let you know.

Er, sorry, I didn't mean that to be Friday through Sunday, just Friday and Sunday. My Saturday during the day is no good (running my Pathfinder game) but I could do late Saturday night (like after 9 my time).

Oh, my bad I misread sunday as sat somehow... Hmm maybe your friday my sat will work. Think I might have birthday, etc commitments that I'll have to check this evening though.

Will have to, as I'm not really available monday/sunday your time.

Theoretically if I had to I could get up early Saturday morning to play your Saturday night as well I think. I don't need to leave home on Saturday until noon, but that's a hard deadline.

I'm out tonight but should be around on Friday evening.

Actually I am on paternity leave for the next 2 weeks so we have a chance of making this happen. Just depends if I can find any time during the day to sit for a couple of hours. If you can give me a day that would definitely help.

Well, I'm GMT-5. and to start t least a general time frame, would something in the range of sat-evening to sun-morning-ish (my time) work for ya?

(Sorry, right now my brain is somehow not able to fathom just how the time difference works in Australia, which for some reason is where I'm assuming you are.)

Carnifex, where you at?

/me casts a spell of +5 Ruvaldt

Hey Ingmar, looks like I'm tied up for most of today, :(, will probs have to try for ... I dunno. I'll have to work out something.

Edit: scratch that ill be around in a few hours.

Still no word from Carnifex, and he hasn't been on Steam to accept my friend invite.  :oh_i_see:

OK - I'm pretty exhausted from this week's various nonsense so I am not sure how late I'll be up, but if we can't do tonight I should be available from 9 PM (maybe a bit earlier) til whenever my time tomorrow as well.

Oh, take the night off. Lets try for tomorrow.

Yep, that makes me about 15 hours ahead of you.
Your Saturday evening should be fine.

Lamaros and I got our game on, with another 1-0 result to The Banned:


The game was pretty close to a tie, as I got off to an early deficit in number of bodies on the field thanks to some clawing action from the Underworld team. I was able to gum the works up enough to prevent a first half score, then after some pushing and shoving got a ghoul loose into his backfield in the 2nd half with the ball and successfully remained standing through a number of blocks and blitzes, Nuffle be damned (one of the blitzes was 4 dice worth of 50% chances to get knocked over and Lamaros rolled 4 pushes). He had I think three chances to equalize via throw-teammate over the last 3 turns, but the rats and goblins refused to cooperate and hand the ball off to each other on the last 2 turns after the first throw attempt was fumbled by the troll.

WUA and my kicker zombie leveled up, but I will be missing a flesh golem and my slow dauntless zombie against Gruntle in my final week (possibly saving my FG from a clawing at the hands of Mr. Big). I maimed and/or killed a few replaceable goblins but I'm pretty sure I didn't permanently hurt anyone important.

Sidekicks - 1
Fursecution - 2

Sidekicks were on top till turn 14, then the Gutter Runner's showed up, skaven bullshit kicked in, and left my guys looking foolish.

This is likely to the Sidekick's final match, as I'm out of the country from tuesday - so will have to concede day 7.

Thanks for the game and well played Iain.

Right as the fat lady starts singing, Fursecution post their first win for this season with the Halflings giving up three points.

Eldaec spent the usual mountain of inducements on Deeproot, Zara, a Masterchef, a bonus reroll and Babes. The Chef took 2 rerolls in the first half and one in the second, Deeproot did nothing other than hold territory but Zara earned her pay for the match.

I kicked to start hoping that I could murder enough Halflings in the first half to make it hard for the Storm to score later in the game and open up the field for some final-period Skaven Bullshit. That didn't really work, the Halflings managed to push me around enough and took more Skaven off than I was expecting before castling up around Zara and escorting her to the end-zone in turn 7. I did manage to foul one of the regular roster Treemen off before halftime but the whistle blew with the Halflings in the lead.

In the second half my strategy of Hobbitocide worked a little better and when they ran forwards to mug the thrower who had fumbled a pickup I was able to clear away the defenders at the back without too many problems. I then pulled out a bit of bullshit with a Gutter Runner grabbing a triple marked ball, leaping to safety and then running and passing to a clear receiver well out of retribution range. I fucked about for a bit longer than I should have trying to take a few more Hobbits off before equalising with two turns to go.

The next drive was a des[erate scramble for both sides. The Storm could only realistically score with a flying Hobbit and I had only a slim chance of getting the ball off them before they made their play. A slim chance was all that was needed however and a 1d Gutter Runner blitz took the ball carrier down and gave the ball to the lucky rat who made a couple of GfIs to get out of immediate trouble. Zara knocked him down but unfortunately for the Storm, the ball bounced into the hands of another Gutter Runner who was providing Cover. The Halflings tried to surround him but I made the series of dodges required to get free before running in the winner on my last turn. The Storm needed a lucky scatter on the kick to be in with a chance of equalising in their last turn but it didn't happen and that was the match. I have two rats missing the next game and a level on a Stormvermin.

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a wild Ruvaldt appears.

It seems like you've been catching me at work!  I'll try to be on in the afternoons/evenings.

Hey Stabby.

Everything ok?
No word over the weekend and we've only go a day or so until the time is called.

Khorne & Khorne should be played tonight (in about 1/2 a day's time that is).

Still no word from Carnifex.

Carnifex - where arte thou?  :oh_i_see:

Ok, I have secured a laptop!  I'm only borrowing it though, so we really need to hammer out a time quick.  Our hotels internet is criminally bad though.  Left it downloading the game at about 50 kb/s when I took off for class this morning.  Hopefully it will be downloaded and ready on my return.  When is a good time for you?  I am ready every weekday after 8 AM your time (4 PM my time).  I can potentially play any time after that for the next 8 hours, but sooner is better since I'm kind of going out almost every night, and don't want to miss to much fun.  Manila is one crazy fun fucking place, haha.

So yeah, just let me know when you can sit down for an hour or so, and we should be able to make it happen.

Huitzilopochtli's Gift 2 - 1 Muscle Daddies

Bloody game, as a contest between champions of Khorne should be. Drogg seemed to have all the armour breaks go his way in the first half, but suffered a devastating rout late in the second, just after he equalised to put the game at one-all. With four turns left to play, he still managed to knock both of my ball-carriers down (blodge doing work), but a lucky throw from the crowd ended the game in my favour.

rep uploaded.

So me and roxor played. It was a gutwrenching first half(score 1-1) but then suddenly my BB crashed. FFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU does not even begin to cover it.

We talked about it and decided we're gonna draw the game if that is ok.

So me and Jaedar played


Highlights include a ball bouncing 3 times between downed dudes and finally into the hands of a human lino, and a gutter runner getting trolled by tackle and taken off the field.

Unfortunately, at turn 8 with a 1:1 score the transmission with CabalVision got severed as Blood Bowl decided to crash and burn, and so the two coaches decided to go for a friendly draw because after the fairly crazy first half, nobody really wanted to tempt fate again (or actually play again because them BB crashes in the middle of the game are frustrating as all hell) (http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/smiles/hmmm.png)

However, the humans obviously emerged as the moral victor!  :why_so_serious:

Sorry about that Reborne, I'd managed to keep myself logged on to steam most of the weekend while dealing with a few pressing matters (fuckin' career changes, as being a struggling poor ass student wasn't fun enough the first time around), I guess we ended up being the pair of awkward teenagers waiting for the other to ask them to dance.  :awesome_for_real:

As for now, my new schedule just kicked in (hooray for unpayed internships! *grumble*) so I might be able to swing an 8am ish game tomorrow before the fun 13 hour day I've got waiting for me. Would be a bit of a hail mary though, as I'll know for sure if I'll be able to swing that when I get home tonight (oh, and if I'm completely silent, all signs will point to 'No').


(Oh, and do pardon the bitterness atm, am just now setting in for my coffee before I have to dash, so Happy Super Cheery^TM stabby has yet to be summoned for the day.)

Ok Teleku how is Thursday at around 9.30am my time 5.30 PM your time?

That should work!  I'll let you know if anything comes up that will make it not.

Deadline was yesterday. If this doesn't happen tomorrow then I'll award it as a draw. Likewise Stabby v Reborne.

If it doesn't happen, give him the win, because its completely my fault there is an issue at all.

Well, atm I don't think I'll be swinging any early morning games, am too dead tired when I get home and cutting back on sleep is liable to lose me a finger, most likely one of the more useful ones.

Definitely won't be able to play until the weekend, so do what you gotta do IainC

Haardous Hippies 1 - The Minizilla's 2

Me and Teleku managed to get our game in and this looked like not being a fun affair for Teleku who the dice were not kind to in the first half and his last play of the opening drive was to throw the ball into the waiting arms of Saurus of all things who Waltzed up the pitch to open the scoring. Despite my rather bash centric team I was not able to really inflict any injuries except an opening blitz KO on the wardancer who woke up after the first score and then the Nuffle love returned for the elves who got a short kick that their catcher diving catch held, handed off to a caged thrower and moved 3 players into scoring position. I blitz into the cage and mark up what I can, double mark 2 of the 3 elves but make the mistake of not double marking the Wardancer so when the thrower makes his dodge and pass and the Wardancer holds the pass it's a quick dodge and away to equalise. I set things up for a 2 turn score and everything works fine except I need a reroll to turn double skulls into a push but that still gives me a shot if my sprint skink can make the touchline through his 3 GFI, makes the first but fumbles the second for a 1-1 first half closure.

Second half I am receiving and decide to try and grind Teleku down and he makes one fatal mistake that probably cost him the game. He left his Wardancer on the sideline in surf range to my frenzy saurus who accepted the gift, scored a POW and killed the spikey haired bitch! Fortunately I don't have to feel too bad as Teleku apothed that to a MNG injury but this now meant that he had few options for breaking my cages and despite some excellent elvish bullshit leap and dodge attempts that actually worked but didn't score the required POWs after a few turns it became obvious that the elves couldn't break my cage so he just passed his last couple of turns and I ran in a turn 16 touchdown to take the match 2-1.

Match is uploaded to BB manager.

Alright I fucked this up and validated the match but didn't see that it gave the default win to Roxor so the stats will show that he won 3-1. However for the purposes of playoffs etc, I'll count it as a 1-1 tie. Sorry about that.

No problem, I welcome the gift of 100k geld and a level 3 lino with open arms

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