“House of Mandalore won the toss and chose to receive.
The Dodgers newly beefed up STR5 saurus, Crash took up a deep safety position and the unskilled sauris and Krox went into the line. Rest of the team lined up in our typical defence covering the field and threatening the flanks.
The kick was good and Mandalore brought the Smashy Dodgers line down and started a fairly deep cage choosing not to send receivers into my deep field.
The dodgers over the next couple of turns allowed the cage to advance, but only really left a route for it down their right flank... leaving Crash always free to blitz if needed. In turn 3 or 4 after some medicore chaos block dice the Dodgers pounced, tackle zoning the ball carrier and closing off that flank.
Mandalore attempted to double back and dodge out of trouble but disaster struck as they failed a handoff with snake eyes.
The dodgers then freed the ball of tackle zones with a blitz and managed a successful pickup and then set about 'reversing the field' to allow a small stall.
Good positioning bought the Dodgers a few turns before running in the score when threat of the wizard and close by chaos players proved too much.
Mandalore received again and sent 2 beastmen deep into the dodgers field as receivers going for the 2 turn score. The dodgers were equal to the threat tho and blitzed one of them down and blocked the other with a skink, leaving no chaos in scoring range in turn 8.
2nd half there was a small crowd invasion which stunned the Guard chaos warrior and the dodgers star Saurus Crash. The kick went very deep indeed into the dodgers end zone.
A crucial block in the first turn badly hurt the ogre and with the apoth already gone he was carried off for an early bath.
The next few turns saw the Dodgers employing a very loose cage around the ball carrier while trying to force open one of the flanks with their saurus, all the time afraid of the wizard.
PML managed to tackle zone the ball carrier a few times but the blitz was never on and the tackler just got pushed out of the way as the lizards slowly gained ground and gained the man advantage causing another BH and a KO.
In turn 5 PML managed to get 2 tackle zones on the ball carrier who was now within scoring range. But a pushback on one and a stun on the other saw Dipsi in the clear and he ran in the Dodgers 2nd score!
Knowing they now had to score twice in 4 turns to force overtime the chaos sent 3 receivers forward in a more elbowl style attack. This time the dodgers finally had some mediocre block dice and none of the receivers went down.
PML freed up Unknown Mandalore ready to score but for the second time ball handling let him down and the pass was dropped.
Crash then blitzed a chaos player on top of the ball pushing it into the crowd to be thrown into the middle of the pitch leaving Mandalore horribly out of position and the ball in skink hands.
A brave chaos warrior then dodged and double GFI'd and brought the ball back to ground again though as we came into the last 2 turns of the game, leaving the prone skink 1 movement short of being able to score in turn 8.
Both coaches then spite used their wizards :P Coach Grit learning something new as his lightening bolt struck the prone skink? odd, but by this stage it didnt matter.
PML's wizard was even more impressive with his fireball failing to hit a single lizard (including an AG1 suarus) so money well spent there heh.
The final seconds then ticked away before the ref blew his whistle to give the Dodgers the win the the UFL title! :D
Team captain Crash was heard to say after the game:
Ah... well, you go out there and you give a 110%, and you wanna play good, and... you know... you hope you play good... I think we played pretty good tonight!
The Dodgers are now off to party and celebrate their first tournament win, dont know what format this leagues gonna take next season but we hope to be back ;)
GG all!”
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Nice clean game for a finals loss i'm definitely satisfied with the outcome for how Grit played. Congrats!
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