Season 7 Day 1 - Let's Gooooooo!

[IainC]

Finally we're ready to start! The seeding video is up here http://youtu.be/hsVPJ9VyqqM and the divisions have been created ingame so you can schedule your matches and get to it.

Here is the seeding along with who is who:

Division 1 - Warhammer 40k
Danicia
Lightfax
Swiftblade
Megrim
Ulysees
Celer
Carnifex
Falconeer

Division 2 - Hail Caesar
z22 (aka Gort)
Ruvaldt
Eldaec (aka Ramas)
HaemishM
Sjofn
Avaia
Gruntle
Jasper

Division 3 - Hordes
Schpain (aka ChiefTripodBear)
Willlisterman
Modern Angel (aka Brocktoon)
Luckton
Drogg
Reborne
Catfud
Teleku

Division 4 - Tamurkhan
RK47 (aka R3dknight)
Fildrigar
Satael
Proudft
IainC
Ezrast
Lamaros
Ingmar

Here are the first day fixtures you should organise and play these by Monday Feb 25th. Lightfax gets a 2-0 default win as Falc isn't around to play his first game. I'll do that on the last day in case Falc suddenly finds that he can play after all.



Everyone should be in the f13 Bloodbowlers Steam group so look for each other there and get those game arranged. I intend to be a lot less tolerant of over-runs in this league than previously. Games that haven't been played and don't have a definite kick-off date by the deadline will be forfeited as 0-0 draws.

Some reminders:
Matches will not be validated until they have been uploaded to BBManager. I have created the f13 Season 7 league in there and the password is skullskull. Normally the winner should upload but as long as somebody does I don't much care.
Matches are using two minute turns. If you aren't used to that then I strongly suggest that you get in some feeder league or other soft games first with 2 minute turns to get acclimated to the change in pace. In general you should be planning your move during your opponent's turn and not tabbing out to browse porn as I many people do.
It's strongly encouraged to write up your matches here on the forums. It's not mandatory and if you've just been bent over by Nuffle I fully understand that you might be reluctant to revisit the horror again so soon but do what you can, we all appreciate reading someone else's hard luck story; it makes us feel better about our own.

[swiftblade]

Danicia,

I'm away this weekend, but can do Monday or Wednesday or Thursday night (GMT)m next week. Is that of any use?

[Danicia]

Danicia,

I'm away this weekend, but can do Monday or Wednesday or Thursday night (GMT)m next week. Is that of any use?

I'm currently unemployed, so we play to fit your schedule. :)

[Llyse]

With the benefit of timezones, the opening match of Season 7 should be a veteran smashup between Reborne's Wrestlers and Alive not Dead! 

[lamaros]

Ready to play when you are rk. Though as said in the other thread, you do need to ditch your extra cash before we do.

[Modern Angel]

WILLISTERMAN! YOU! I AM FLEXING MY PECS AT THE SCREEN AND YELLING! COME GET SOME!

[drogg]

LUCKTON EH

[Ingmar]

SirBruce and his furpile await you, Ezrast.

[proudft]

PHRASING

[Teleku]

Schpain, any time this weekend should be good for me.  I actually have a three day weekend because George Washington decided to be born around this time, so all day Monday works as well.  I was going to go to Krakow for debauchery this weekend, but I kind of feel like shit, so I'll stay home and play blood bowl instead.

I've moved from the center of the universe that is US Pacific time over to Poland, with is GMT +1.  What is your time zone?

[luckton]

/smartest man alive heroically fighting a t-rex with his mind

Ugh, there goes my team chances for the season.    Maybe I'll luck out with some nice Nuffle rolls.

[Reborne]

Wrestlers 1 - 4 Alive Not Dead

So, Llyse's luck holds out.

I had no doubt that he was going to win but in the kick offs he got 2 blitz' and 2 quick snaps in his favour.
Also, he was the only one to cause injuries. Thankfully only badly hurt.
I know you were all hoping that Hobbs would kill himself on my Ogres but that joy belongs to someone else.

A few miss-clicks by Llyse meant that I wasn't as behind as I could have been.

I did get a couple of good moments.
I do love my 1 turn touch downs  

Well played Llyse.

[Llyse]

I think our Commissioner and Fildrigar beat me to the punch but this is the first match posted.

And the winner is!

[IainC]

You know those games where you win but you are still yelling profanities at the monitor because Nuffle is giving you some of his special sauce? Yeah, just had one of those. To be fair to Fildrigar, he also had plenty of opportunities to yell at his monitor too.

This was a comedy of errors, first action turnovers and horrible dice rolls at both ends. The winner was going to be whoever ended up managing to not fail dice rolls the most.

The Chaos team kicked the ball off the pitch so I gave it to Cosplay is for Amateurs, my Thrower who was safely tucked away at the back. Meanwhile I had a cunning plan involving the Rat Ogre Secretly A Unicorn making a bit of space in the middle and then Stormvermin wrapping up the wings. For the very first action of the game, Secretly A Unicorn throws a block, gets a push, follows up and then rolls double skulls. Burn a reroll but the loner skill says 'Nuh uh!', SaU hits the deck, KOs himself on the way down and that's my first turn over. The Chaos team take full advantage and swarm my exposed guys but luckily don't manage more than a handful of pushes before running out of time. I modify my cunning plan to one where I draw the Chaos players into a scrum in the middle before breaking the ball out and carrying it out of range. I throw some blocks back and again get a bunch of pushes but that's fine. I'm out-bashed and I don't expect to be knocking down Chaos Warriiors with linemen. I move I Have A Backstory You Know out to get a better line on something and he fails a dodge. I've already used my reroll so that's it again and I've not yet moved my Thrower out of range of the rampaging Beastmen. The Chaos team park a Beastman next to Cosplay Is For Amateurs before kicking the crap out of all the Skaven in reach. Cosplay is For Amateurs tries to dodge away, fails, eats a reroll, fails that and then stuns himself trying to work out just how hard he failed. The ball is now loose deep in my half with no mobile rats in range of it. Enlivened by this display of crapness, the Chaos team injure a Gutter Runner called I Was Born A Dragon You Know, knock down a couple more Skaven for good measure and then grab the ball to walk it over the line for an early score.

We kick off again and my Rat Ogre is still out so I'm down to 9 players vs a full Chaos team. It's a short kick so Cosplay is For Amateurs grabs the ball and scampers back out of blitz range. He's still a bit nervous about the last drive so he goes for it one extra square to get out of marking range too and falls over stunning himself once again. The Chaos team bring their greater numbers and higher strength to bear and take down a bunch of Skaven including a KOd and a stunned linerat. Things go south for them when a block goes bad vs a Stormvermin who remains standing after a both down and the Skaven start to push back. I injure a Beastman with a Gutter Runner Block and then promptly stun a linerat with a failed dodge. The Chaos team swoop in on the ball but fumble it and the rats have half a paw back in the game. Cosplay Is For Amateurs stands up, dodges away from his marker, grabs the ball, dodges again to a clear square and lines up a throw to an unmarked Gutter Runner on the opposite wing. Unfortunately he fumbles the pass, rerolls with his pass skill and fumbles that too. Two more Skaven leaves the pitch when the Chaos team score a Badly Hurt injury on I Have A Backstory You Know and a KO on Let Me Show You My Fursuit. Unfortunately they then fail a GfI trying to get to the ball. Cosplay Is For Amateurs reprises his dodge, pickup, dodge trick from the previous turn, unfortunately he also reprises his fumble, reroll fumble anyway routine. The Chaos team take him down, grab the ball  with a Chaos Warrior and then foul him resulting in a Beastman being ejected for unsporting behaviour. I put some markers on the Chaos Warrior with the ball and then get double skulls on a two dice block against him. Luckily he's still double marked so, after clearing away one marker, he still has to make a dodge to score which he fails and that's the first half. I'm 1-0 down and a depressingly large chunk of my team are in the dugouts.

Secretly A Unicorn and Let Me Show You My Fursuit come back which means I'm down to 8 players for the second half, while the Chaos team have nine thanks to an injury and a sending off. I kick short, the Chaos team throw all the blocks they can, knocking down the Rat Ogre and a Stormvermin but not doing any damage. In my turn Yiffy the Gutter Runner makes a couple of dodges, burns a reroll on a GfI to get to the ball and then makes another GfI and a dodge to get to a clear square. Another Gutter Runner is close by to receive the ball but he's been learning to throw by watching Cosplay Is For Amateurs and so the ball is fumbled. A Beastman blitzes Yiffy as the first Chaos action, gets a bad result, rerolls it and they both go down anyway. The ball is loose in the Chaos half and I have a Gutter Runner in scoring range so Let Me Show You My Fursuit comes steaming up the pitch, grabs the ball and throws it to Not Going To Lie, Fur Is Hot who scampers over to the endzone to tie the game.

Now we're both down to 8 players a side and the Chaos team come out swinging but fail to do any damage to the Skaven. They do manage to get the ball safe though. Unfortunately the Beastman with the ball is in blitz range and so a couple of Gutter Runners put assists on him while It's Not A Costume shows him some Stormvermin love. Not Going To Lie, Fur Is Hot sprints in and grabs the ball before running to relative safety with it. I mark up the Chaos players that I can but KO a Linerat in the process. The Chaos team are in a bad spot, I have the ball and their players are tied up, they push a few rats out of the way but fail a GfI trying to get more markers on the ballcarrier. I push away the marker and then romp over the line to take the lead.

The next drive again sees the Chaos team with a slight numerical advantage as 8 rats and 9 Chaos players take the pitch. There are only 4 turns left so it's going to be hard for the Chaos team to equalise and they start badly by getting a turnover on their very first block. The Skaven turn isn't much better as Secretly A Unicorn fails his Wild Animal roll and then You Wouldn't Understand fails a dodge, burns a reroll and still fails, injuring himself in the process. The Chaos team grab the ball and push down the pitch in a desperate bid for a late score but a failed GfI on a blitz leaves the ball carrier dangerously exposed. The Skaven surround the Beastman with the ball, Secretly a Unicorn KOs a Chaos Warrior and it looks as though I have a safe-ish 2-0 win in hand. There is a little scrum forming on one sideline with the ball in the middle, held by a Beastman. I'm confident he can't move forwards but I'm not confident I can get it away from him. Another bad Chaos block however gives me an in and it's Not a Costume knocks down two Beastmen in quick succession - one who threw a block at him and one who he threw a block at. The last of these was the guy with the ball which bounced into the hands of Not Going To Lie, Fur is Hot who slips away, makes a pass to Let Me Show You My Fursuit and that's a third Skaven touchdown.

We have one turn left each, I have 7 players to the 9 Chaos guys on the field. They fluff a block and that's their game over. I throw a few blocks, grab the ball and try a pass for cheap SPPs but that backfires when a Chaos Warrior makes an intercept. The whistle blows and I've won 3-1 despite an utterly awful start to the game.

[rk47]

Ready to play when you are rk. Though as said in the other thread, you do need to ditch your extra cash before we do.

24 hrs, i'm not home yet.

[swiftblade]

Danicia,

I'm away this weekend, but can do Monday or Wednesday or Thursday night (GMT)m next week. Is that of any use?

I'm currently unemployed, so we play to fit your schedule. :)

Come to think of it, I have monday off work so perhaps I can catch you then? What timezone are you?

[Jasper]

Nice writeup, @IainC.  Love your player names. ;-)

[willisterman]

Modern Angel, I'm away this weekend with Swiftblade, but I'm also off work Monday, if you are free then?

[eldaec]

Sjofn!

If I recall correctly you are zulu time -8? I'm +0.

Can play for the next few hours, certainly wednesday night my time,  next saturday any time at all. Probably can do a very early morning one day. Have a new fangled steam app on my phone which apparently means I can be messaged when I am not in any way able to play but may help arrange a time.

[Ulysees]

Megrim with our timezone difference it is going to have to be done this weekend as I am away next weekend. I can do most weekend evenings GMT +0 so let if you can play this weekend it would be good otherwise going to have to forfeit my first match as its not your fault I can't play next weekend.

[satael]

Vast Mountain Raiders got smashed with Khorne's last turn elf cosplay (and my carelessness). I'll leave the details to Proudft.

[IainC]

Validated all matches played so far.

[proudft]

Purple Inferno 2-1 over Vast Mountain Raiders.  Looking at the Purple Inferno's schedule, which, quite frankly at first glance to me looks AWESOME (all newish teams, not too many heavy bashers), it looked like the Raiders might be the bashiest team we were going to play, and so I started very conservatively, choosing to kickoff (and hope they score early in that half), keeping the bloodthirster off the line on the setup, etc.

The Inferno had a pretty good first half, with zero frenzy fuckups and managed to swoop in amongst the Raiders, KO the troll, knock the ball loose and be clear to score with about 3 turns left in the half.  There was stall potential here, but I wanted to ensure at least one score for the Inferno and was not confident about surviving any blocks.  So, first half continued, and the troll woke up.  In the short number of turns they had left, the Raiders did not get into TD range and were going to attempt a last-turn in the half goblin->troll TD but, wise to that goblin sneakery, the Inferno concentrated their firepower on the troll and though unsuccessful at knocking him down, pushed him a long way from the goblin and basically surrounded.

Second half was a totally different story and basically a complete mess for both sides.  The Inferno started with some frenzy fuckups, then the bloodthirster Dis got HAMMERED and was going to MNG with a broken spine or something but the apothecary rushed to the rescue because that's why we bought him, to keep Dis in the game.   At one point the saucy Raiders goblin even tried to foul Dis (what optimism!) but the ref saw him and he was ejected.

During all this the Raiders really swarmed in on the Khorne forces and both sides got mixed in amongst one another in a chaotic melee with numerous failed attempts to pick up the ball.  This extended ruckus was going to really favor the higher-strength black orcs in the mess if it extended very long, and the Inferno was looking at not only a tie, but a bunch of potential injuries during the fracas.  The Raiders eventually got the ball before killing anyone and ran in a TD with about 2 turns left in the game.   It was looking like a sure tie now, barring any weird events like extra turns.  Both sides were out of rerolls, and so anything else seemed unlikely.

Purple Inferno received, ran one bloodletter up the side, got another in position to take a handoff and run up the other side, and then the pit fighter failed to pick up the ball.  Now it surely looked like game over.  The orcs took one last turn of blocks, ran a blitzer down to the ball to grab it (but he dropped it) and it was over to the Inferno's last turn and surely the end of the game in a draw.

And then they put their elf suits on.  A pit fighter ran around and blocked the blitzer and cleared him from the ball.  Then another ran, picked up the ball, ran to the demon who was poised for the previous-turn handoff (one GFI during this), handed off successfully.  The demon then ran up the side, hooked over to the middle, and passed to the one who was up the other sideline, successfully.  Second Khorne score of the game, for a totally stolen victory.  For the Khorne!

No actual injuries for either side.  Minos the Bloodletter went up his first level, and took Block.  Stats:

[Sjofn]

Sjofn!

If I recall correctly you are zulu time -8? I'm +0.

Can play for the next few hours, certainly wednesday night my time,  next saturday any time at all. Probably can do a very early morning one day. Have a new fangled steam app on my phone which apparently means I can be messaged when I am not in any way able to play but may help arrange a time.

I am indeed -8! Wednesday or next Saturday are both good, as far as I know, although next Saturday would probably be better in case I fail math or something. :P

PS: That picture made me laugh. <3

[lamaros]

Ready to play when you are rk. Though as said in the other thread, you do need to ditch your extra cash before we do.

24 hrs, i'm not home yet.

I'll be around home for the next 10 hours or so if you'd like to play. Otherwise we can try organize a time during the week.

[rk47]

yeah im up now.

[Megrim]

Megrim with our timezone difference it is going to have to be done this weekend as I am away next weekend. I can do most weekend evenings GMT +0 so let if you can play this weekend it would be good otherwise going to have to forfeit my first match as its not your fault I can't play next weekend.

I'll try to stick around today (Sunday) to see if I can catch you on Steam, otherwise we might have to schedule for your Sunday night, my Monday morning.

[lamaros]

Blood Bowl. What a game. 

[lamaros]

Edit: I'm an idiot.

[rk47]

 

[lamaros]

So, an interesting game for the Underworld first up, with a bunch of annoying Humans pushing them all over the place, playing with ease and (successful daring). They went crazy for passing, making 7 of 8, and handoffs, making 10 of 12 catches.

I found the game exhausting and so I don't have any writeup in me for the moment, but it's on BB Manager and I'll probably elaborate later.

Summary: I had three chances to get the edge needed to win, failing to stop rk scoring in the first after sacking the carrier when he went for a full pitch collect, dodge, throw, handoff, dodge scoring play. Then failing a handoff catch run in a score on the last in the first. Then failing a GFI (resulting in a injury to my blitzer) after sacking the carrier in the second, from which he collected, threw and handed off another full-pitch score, going 2-1 up. I eventually tied it on the last turn of the game.

Despite getting a few players injured I managed to reroll death and serious injury, leaving me with just 4 badly injured guys. He also rerolled a death to badly hurt.

rk was seriously risky in much of his play, throwing the ball back and forth on the last line of the pitch almost every turn he got the chance. He luckily only failed once, and the bounce landed in field.

[schpain]

Schpain, any time this weekend should be good for me.  I actually have a three day weekend because George Washington decided to be born around this time, so all day Monday works as well.  I was going to go to Krakow for debauchery this weekend, but I kind of feel like shit, so I'll stay home and play blood bowl instead.

I've moved from the center of the universe that is US Pacific time over to Poland, with is GMT +1.  What is your time zone?

Hey bud, I'm +10, will be around for the next 8 hours or so.  I've sent you a steam inv.

[rk47]

RK47's post match conference

[lamaros]

RK47's post match conference

 

[Ingmar]