“This one warrants a quick write up. It is one I had no business tying, much less winning.

In the first half Yuri's excellent play plus my poor play plus some bad luck meant I had no real chance of stopping him from scoring. I had two good shots at the ball. The first resulted in an elf failing a done to blitz the ball (prehensile tail). The second was a one die shot at the ball carrier that failed due to a failed GFE then a skull on the ball carrier block. My apo also managed to kill Seal in an attempt to prevent a -AV casualty.

In the second half the dice swung hard in my direction.

The second half saw me start losing elves quickly and Yuri made the correct decision to pressure the ball. My niggled lineman wiggled free and caught a desperate pass. Many successful GFIs by that elf combined with unsuccessful ones by the Malal squad let me score.

A draw would have been a somewhat fair result after my first half missfortune and Yuri's Nuffle hate in the second half drive. But Nuffle is a fickle mistress and she piled on to give me the win.

Yuri went for the win. All of my elves were well marked. But he did not see the smallest opportunity. My blitzer pushed one malal player out of the way and that opened a dodge, two GFI single die bliz on the Foul Appearance ball carrier. Not only did the ball pop free without the need of a reroll, but his ball carrier was stunned and I picked up the ball with my blodger.

Not to worry. Yuri pinned the ball carrier to the sideline with three players. One with tackle and one with S5 and prehensile tail. The escape required -2 dice block to push one player that turned it into a 4+ dodge through prehensile tail an a tackler. Pro reroll turned the skull into a pow. 4+ dodge succeeded to get away from the tackler. Another 4+ succeeded get off the sideline thanks to dodge. Another 3+ dodge to finally be free of the prehensile tail. Use sprint to get as far away from the tail as possible only burning my final reroll on the final GFI.

His turn the only one in range to blitz was the S5 tail. He does. GFI succeeds but he only manages to push the ball carrier. The last turn of the game, the 3+ dodge from the tail works and my catcher Crab scores the game winning TD.

Yeah. Too much luck. Yuri. I will be watching for you. Next time we will put your skinks on the field.”