“This match was the end of an Era - the TR cap for Experience tournaments has been abolished, but this tournament finished up with it intact anyways, and led to an extremely exciting Finals match after Royal Bloodlines stayed at nearly the same TR and TS for way more games than it was healthy for the team's long-term growth to do so. Many thralls were fired and even more were eaten in the quest for the team's 2nd victory in 2 tournaments, and their sacrifices were not in vain!

This game was all about the thralls which was very good - the vampires had been receiving way too many SPP and this game they took a break, not throwing a single Gaze all game, and only causing 1 CAS.

I think the most crucial aspect of this victory was my team not trying to score in the second half when we had a good shot, playing defensively and planning on going into OT while watching the Amazons waste all their rerolls instead. Although we were only left with 1 for OT, which was used in T47 , it proved useful enough as it ended the zons very decent chance to tie on their last turn.

After securing the ball early on in OT the thralls, copying classic basher strategy, simply caged, stalled, and bashed the amazons as much as possible. Azure put up an excellent defence and forced me to score giving him 2 turns for an entirely feasable touchdown, but a 3d blitz with tackle/strip ball thrall meant took the lone, brave Amazon catcher down and gave Royal Bloodlines victory for the game and the tournament.

The game it was brutal, bloody, nasty (though not vindictive), and we both gave our all to destroy the opposing team and win! Thank you Azure for possibly the most exciting games in my NBL career, and even my entire BB career as a whole.”