Season 9 Playoffs Quarterfinals!

[IainC]

Everyone is in and the Playoffs have begun! Here are the fixtures:



Please play these by Sunday 9th November and upload them to the Season 9 BBmanager league as day 8.

[Ulysees]

How are you looking this weekend Lamarosin terms of playtime? Better here if I get up early to play you than stay up late cos if the baby wakes up in the night I have to grab him.

[lamaros]

I'm pretty free so just say the time that suits you and I should be able to do it.

[Ulysees]

Checked the who's who and GMT+10 is really quite awkward. 10pm Saturday GMT is 8am Sunday your time? Are you able to make that?

[lamaros]

That's the one time that is actually awkward for me, not sure I can do Sunday evening my time. Blerg.

[Ulysees]

Ok try giving me 3 times you can play and we'll see if I can make one of them. This weekend is quite full except for the evenings but that is not great for you since it makes it an early start (and I know I don't particularly like early starts on my day off)

[lamaros]

Ill likely be ok to play at 8am my time Sunday, so your sat night around 10pm? Might be daylight saving difference of 11 hours now, or 9, so ill have to check that.

Otherwise late my time tonight and early your sat?

Everything else is probably in the middle of the night for one of us I think.

[Ulysees]

OK will be online for 10pm UK time - we just switched back to GMT so should be a straight +10 difference which makes it 8am for you by my reckoning.

[lamaros]

Never has nuffle nuffled so nufflingly.

[avaia]

Telekuuuuuuuuuuuuu....
Teleku..........................
Telekuuuuuuu...............

I live cement
I hate this street
Give dirt to me
I bite lament
This human form
Where I was born
I now repent

Telekuuuuuu.................

[Teleku]

Well, I'm GMT +1, so got a few hours left for the evening I'm open.  Just ping me on steam (I sent a friends invite).  Otherwise may be tricky to get any games in till next weekend.

[IainC]

In a surprise upset the Rats score a very Pyrrhic 4-3 victory over the Presidents.

I was helped enormously by the fact that the first three kick-off events were all blitzes to me. So the first three turns of the game went Kick to Ruvaldt - get a short kick and a blitz - get rat under ball and cage up - make dodges to score in my next turn. I was 3-0 up by turn 3 although I had already lost my Rat Ogre and my Apoth on the first turn. By the end of the half, it was 3-1 and I had 7 players standing. By the end of the second half I had scored again, the Presidents had managed two more and my injury bin looked like this.


I have 5 MNGs and a dead Thrower, one level up on a GR and a massive hole in my team for the next round.

[Ingmar]

 

[Ingmar]

Eldaec -

We need to somehow squeeze our game in before Friday as I am driving down to see my new nephew next weekend. I miiiiight be able to rearrange work if it's necessary. I don't know how your availability looks early in the morning your time, but I also could stay up late if needed. Monday and Thursday nights are kendo practice so it would have to be after 10 pm my time on those days (Pacific Standard.)

[Ruvaldt]

I was helped enormously by the fact that the first three kick-off events were all blitzes to me.

It was pretty brutal.  One blitz?  I can definitely deal with it.  Two?  I think I still would've won in overtime considering how many injuries I managed to score.  But the third one killed me.  There just wasn't any way for me to score fast enough barring a riot.

It was an entertaining game, but I hope I never play another one like it.

[Teleku]

Yeah, it can be extremely frustrating when kick off events streak against you that badly (have had it happen once or twice).

[Ulysees]

Gutted 1 - Lovers, Fighters 2

In my game against the Ex-Presidents I was so scared of the claw beastmen that I focused on trying to take them out over trying to play a game of bloodbowl, with frankly abysmal results and a sound 3 - 0 thrashing and at the end of the match Rivaldt had not scored any injuries so it was a really bad strategy and one I decided not to repeat against Lamaros, which proved to not be a good idea here as with the first 3 blocks of the match I lost a Chaos Warrior and my Minotaur, who was the lynchpin fro my bash strategy and through out the match I continued to lose models with depressing regularity whilst Lamaros's armour mostly held itself together.

First half Lamaros wins the toss and elect to receive and as mentioned above takes out 2 of my LoS with his first round of blocks. However I manage to tie up the ball carrier throughout the half and but for the fickleness of nuffle I could have stolen a score in the last turn of the match but failed a last square GFI. Lamaros did well because he made me burn re-rolls early but this was one of those games where pretty much every turn had a last ditch element to it so the game got very interesting after the re-rolls ran out for me.

Second half it was 10 v 7 but I run 2 guys deep and make a passing play to try and open the scoring. It comes up with a scatter launch and despite Lamaros clearing my models around the ball he maks a mistake and leaves a grounded beastman close enough to blitz away the ball marker and use GFI's to open the scoring, which I duly do on turn 13. This half has not been so unkind on the model removals, I have only lost 1 other guy until this point and put 3 of Lamaros's in the KO bin so a lot depends on whether they wake up as to whether I can hold this together. Nuffle be praised they all stay in the bin meaning that I am facing a 7 v 6 for 3 turns to defend the 1 - 0 victory. Should be manageable as long as I don't take any more casualties and nuffle seems to be done with screwing me over now so I kick off the third drive in high hopes, only to have them dashed on the first round of blocks by Lamaros as he again takes 2 models off the board and suddenly things look very dire.

However there is one more chance of getting out of jail as Lamaros couldn't form a proper cage and as long as I can make one dodge, with no re-rolls, then I can blitz the ball carrier which might give me the extra time I need to stop an inevitable score. Needless to say not only do I not make the dodge the dumb beastman gets KO'd for his temerity too! Lamaros equalises and extra time kicks off 3 v 8 or something ridiculous like that so after my first round of blocks I elect to do the honourable thing and stay on the ground and let Lamaros put me out of my misery.

Fuck bloodbowl.

Well played Lamaros, he did to me exactly what I was hoping to do him so can't exactly complain when the injury dice light up like that and I almost managed to pull off a massive underdog win so happy with my effort too. Good luck for the rest of the playoffs and given the carnage Ruvaldt did to IainC's team you have a good shot at making the final now in my opinion.

[eldaec]

Eldaec -

We need to somehow squeeze our game in before Friday as I am driving down to see my new nephew next weekend. I miiiiight be able to rearrange work if it's necessary. I don't know how your availability looks early in the morning your time, but I also could stay up late if needed. Monday and Thursday nights are kendo practice so it would have to be after 10 pm my time on those days (Pacific Standard.)

This could be difficult, this week I'm travelling most mornings, so may need to think about an early UK time / late Pacific slot next Monday / Tuesday if our glorious Lord high commissioner will permit it.

Will post tomorrow to confirm as my schedule should be more certain.

[Ingmar]

I should be able to do that, if it comes to it.

[Ingmar]

Ping?

[eldaec]

Sorry, I don't think I can do anything before Friday evening my time. Can alarm clock it on Monday morning my time if your whole weekend is out?

[Ingmar]

Yeah unfortunately I will be at my sister's with no opportunity to play. I should be back Sunday evening my time. I also can't do your Friday night due to a board meeting I have to babysit.

[IainC]

Playing Monday will be fine if that's a thing which will happen.

[lamaros]

Playing Monday will be fine if that's a thing which will happen.

If not i think we should just give the win to Ingmar. 

[IainC]

Playing Monday will be fine if that's a thing which will happen.

If not i think we should just give the win to Ingmar. 

I believe in fairness and being even-handed. They should both lose.

[lamaros]

As long as Ulysses (and his badly injured side) and not Ruvaldt becomes in the fill in I'm ok with that.

[avaia]

After an aborted start where both our clients crashed, we restarted and the Hippies kicked.  I turtled up and hoped to take out some elves in the first half, but Teleku didn't want to engage much so I just punch at a tree instead.  I half-heartedly sent a rotter down field around turn 6, but nothing ever came of that and I ended the half on my own side of the pitch, with the elves down to 8 after a couple of injuries and a KO.

Teleku got the kick in the second half.  The elves had some trouble picking up the ball for some reason, and more of them went off to the sideline.  After he sent some receivers deep on both sides, I covered my half with DP and sent a couple of dudes to hunt down the ball.  The elves picked it up in the corner with a twinkle in their eye and elf bullshit on their mind.  Nurgle isn't exactly fast, so when I say they were hunting down the ball, I mean my dudes were slowly making their way towards it.  Sensing shenanigans, I used my wizard on the guy with the ball and injured him.  Teleku was able to pick up the ball with a thrower and shucked and jived enough to get a pass off to the dancer that I had double covered, but my rotter picked it off.  It was a strange part of the whole equation to fail, but that's what happened.  The rotter ran to his friends in the middle of the pitch.  Damn War Dancer stripped the ball a couple of times as I continued to whittle away at the elves, and finally I was able to break out with three turns left.  The elves finished with no players on the pitch, poor Gwythaeth killed by a well placed boot from a rotter.

[Ingmar]

 Hopefully we are on in 1 2 - 14 hours or so. I should be back in time.

[eldaec]

Sure, can plan to be online at 7 my time / 11 your time.

Can be flexible if you need it to be earlier/later.

[Ingmar]

I expect to be home no later than 8 or so, so if you want to go earlier for some reason that's fine, but 11 works for me.

[Ingmar]

Well, I did better than last time against those rats with my Necromantic team, but...

[eldaec]

Ermine Vermin | 6 - 5 | The Banned

The Vermin have their revenge on Ingmar, but a Pyrrhic victory if ever there was one - I'll have to wait till till this gets validated to be sure how much damage was done.

Teams

	Ermine Vermin	The Banned
Race :	Skaven	Necromantic
TV :	1950	1750
Treasury :	350000	650000
Rerolls :	3	4
Apothecary :	1	0
Fan Factor :	13	8
Cheerleaders :	0	0

Match Report

	Ermine Vermin	The Banned
Score :	6	5
Touchdowns inflicted :	6	5
Touchdowns sustained :	5	6
Passes :	1	0
Catches :	1	2
Interceptions :	0	0
Knockdowns inflicted :	6	12
KOs inflicted :	1	3
Injuries inflicted :	0	5
Deaths inflicted :	0	1
Tackles inflicted :	0	6
Yards gained passing :	24	0
Yards gained running :	162	194
Ball Possession (%) :	4	74
Own occupation:	63	36
Opponent occupation :	36	63

Note of the match: 20/20
Spectators: 35000

Will look up more stats later - but need to go to work.

[Ingmar]

Hah, 4% possession, 6 TDs.

Goddamn rats.

[eldaec]

Never ended a turn with the ball.

[Ingmar]

I forgot to mention, fuck Cyanide. Though I'm pretty sure it didn't affect the outcome,we had a disappearing wight, a ghoul that couldn't swap in, and a 12 person side during this game. Worst interface crap I've seen in quite a few seasons.