Horns & Hooves League: Day 5

[Ruvaldt]

You have until October 1 to play your match for day five.

Current standings
1.  Breaking Wind - Llyse (12 points, 4-0-0, 6 casualties inflicted)
2.  Lovers, Fighters - Lamaros (9 points, 3-0-1, 10 casualties inflicted)
3.  Malevolent Mammals - Proudft (6 points, 2-0-2, 9 casualty inflicted)
4.  Sheep Go To Heaven - Ingmar (6 points, 2-0-1, 4  casualties inflicted) *
5.  Goat Variations - Ruvaldt (5 points, 1-2-1, 8 casualties inflicted)
6.  Los Stupicabras - Gruntle (4 point, 1-1-2, 9 casualties inflicted)
7.  Mad Goat Disease - Strazos (4 points, 1-1-2, 7 casualties inflicted)
8.  Waitsing - Avaia (4 points, 1-1-1, 6 casualties inflicted) *
9.  Green Bray Alpacas - IainC (3 points, 1-0-3, 6 casualties inflicted)
10.  Triptkyon - HaemishM (1 point, 0-1-3, 4 casualties inflicted)

Day Five Matches
Breaking Wind (Llyse) vs. Malevolent Mammals (Proudft)
Triptkyon (HaemishM) vs. Mad Goat Disease (Strazos)
Goat Variations (Ruvaldt) vs. Sheep Go To Heaven (Ingmar)
Waitsing (Avaia) vs. Green Bray Alpacas (IainC)
Los Stupicabras (Gruntle) vs. Lovers, Fighters (Lamaros)

Outstanding games from previous weeks  *
Waitsing (Avaia) vs. Sheep Go To Heaven (Ingmar)

Be sure to read up on the league's rules regarding skills.  You have a lot of leeway in skill selection, but there are still some standards that beastmen must meet when levelling up or a team could be invalidated.  Once a coach plays their oustanding game from a previous week their team's standing will be updated immediately.

League Rules

I used the official f13 rankings to arrange the calendar and was able to arrange the matches in such a way that no one plays each other twice.  Once we (hopefully) enter the second season I'll be using a different seeding method based only upon past performance within the Hooves & Horns matches.

Games that have been played in previous weeks

The remaining season's calendar

If you would like to submit your matches to BBManager's Horns & Hooves League, the password is Goatse.

On to the Bleat Bowl!

[Llyse]

Hey Proudft,

I'm on holidays this week so it'd be awesome if we could play sometime in the next 24 hours.

I'm GMT +9 and will be frantically packing for my holiday into the wee hours

Edit: Frantic packing starts now.

[Strazos]

Haemish!

I messaged you via Steam at some point, but never received a response.

[lamaros]

With my chances of winning blown with the loss last week I went back to what I do best; injuring goats. 5 casualties and a death to Gruntle couldn't stop him taking the win (2-1), but it did give me a solid buffer in the cruelty stakes. Linda has now moved up to 7 casualties inflicted, despite spending the second half KOed herself!

[Gruntle]

My Los Stupicabras scored 2 to Lamaros's Lovers, Fighters' 1.

Lamaros's Fighters owned the pitch knocking out my +ST guy early in the first half (he had no effect and then got -AV -- or death! -- so will be out for the rest of this 1 remaining game season) and then taking out all my other skilled guys (2x foul appearance, 1 dodger) next. However, double sixes for me meant that Lamaros's Lovers allowed me to make two crazy ball breaks in his back field which ended up allowing me to go ahead 2-0 by the end of the first half (even as I was fielding 9 guys to his 11). In the second half, a slow grind meant though he got me down to three goats (so many injuries in this game!), Lamaros only managed to score once.


Besides the victory, I also got 3 goats to level (one who after getting his 7th SPP was killed from a turn 15 reroll which made a both down desperation blitz into just a self down, so only two actually got skills).

[HaemishM]

Haemish!

I messaged you via Steam at some point, but never received a response.

I've been in and out the last few days. Blame League of Legends, Madden 12 and now FIFA 12. Tell me a time that is good for you this week and I'll see if I can make it.

[Strazos]

I'll be around tonight, just message me via Steam.

[Strazos]

1-0 grinding win for Haemish.

I bottled him up well in the first half, but neither of us could hold the ball long enough to do anything productive. I had a chance for a passing TD in the rain at the half, but failed the pick-up.

Second half I looked to be making good progress, but starting down 1 goat (3 KOs in the first half, two failed with the bloodweiser I bought) hurt, and eventually the weak blocking caught up and the ball popped out. Haemish further compounded it by failing a pick-up which actually put the ball in a great position for him. I continued to try to chase the carrier down, but couldn't get better than a knockdown, and the valiant goat was eventually fouled into a stun, which sealed the deal.

I'm not normally one to complain...but this game was boring as shit. I think this was a good experiment, but playing a game with a team that basically consists of linemen kind of stinks.

[HaemishM]

What Strazos said. The beastmen don't get interesting until there are 3 or 4 decent level ups. Our rolling was about even, it really was just a big game of Goat Grabass.

I did get 2 more levels though. One Beastman got +1 AGI, the other got block.

[IainC]

Avaia and I are trying to mesh schedules and play our game tonight or tomorrow at the latest.

[IainC]

I have been pinging Avaia on Steam for the last three days but he so far hasn't replied. Not sure it's going to get played this weekend now. Tomorrow is a holiday here so I'll be around all day but after that it's a bit dicey as we have an 8 hour offset.

[Ruvaldt]

Yeah, I'll be putting up the final day later tonight, probably.  I still need to play my game with Ingmar as well, but that's largely due to my strange hours lately.

[avaia]

I've already left a message with IainC over steam, but I don't have any real availability anytime soon, I need to catch up on sleep from working way way WAY too much this weekend.  I'm out of commission for a couple of days, I'll go ahead and forfeit the two matches I am missing.   

[Ruvaldt]

I'll accept the forfeits at the end of the tournament.  In the meantime just do your best to play the games.  About to post Day 6 now.

[IainC]

Yeah, I'd much rather actually get to play a game than get a default win.

[Llyse]

Hey Proudft I'm back in town now and am ready to play. I'm GMT +9 which is a pain but should be free for the weekend.

[proudft]

Yay!  I might be able to catch you in the morning, but if not, the weekend will probably work at some point.

[proudft]

OMG we finally played!   

Breaking Wind won 1-0.  That was also the casualty score.

[Llyse]

First half was the more action while the 2nd had some fun placement and ball fumbling giving Proud a sniff of a draw 

[Strazos]

Boring game complete, 2-0 to Llyse. The result was never really in doubt.

[IainC]

Avaia and I finally got to play our game for day 5. Final score was 2-0 to Avaia. He started well by injuring a goat on his very first block and basically kept that up throughout the match. I rarely had more than 4 or five goats able to get to their feet for any given turn. He scored one after about 5 turns in the first half and, playing Elf-style by dodging to make critical blitzes prevented him for scoring a second until late in the match but I was just holding off the inevitable for most of the second half. I had a good chance to equalise on about turn 13 or so but I didn't notice that the two players I was sending the goat with the ball between weren't on my side and that rather closed down the only realistic scoring chance that I had.

[avaia]

Yeah, I can't upload to BBM, but I won 2-0 in score and 4-0 in casualties. 

[Ruvaldt]

2 - 1 Ingmar.

It was a fun game that I honestly thought I had at least rendered to a tie after we were 1 - 1 in the rain, but Ingmar's goatelf bs continues.  I had an advantage in blocks, I'm pretty sure, but my ball pickups were terrible.  I got a double on a level up though so I'm happy.  That makes two goats with dodge!