“New pro elves vs Chapass' humans of almost identical rating. Both teams have just 11 players, though the humans have an apo; however, they have just 1 RR - lets hope to take advantage of some turnovers.

We opt to kick and they immediately cage up their thrower behind 4 blitzers on the LOS. We pile players in and surround the cage with our entire team, with our sidestepping blitzers proving a major annoyance to the humans. T3 and we are able to engineer a 2d block vs their thrower, knocking the ball free. A lineelf KILLS one of their linemen and the apo intervenes, saving him, before we steal the ball with a catcher! They manage to make space for a blitzer who knocks him over, but AGI4 prevails and we're able to steal it back the following turn. Now out of rerolls, they try and GFI with their catcher to provide an assist.. and he trips and knocks himself out! We score on T5 and see 3/3 of our KOs wake up while only 1/2 of theirs does.

They kick off vs a perfect defence from us, which together with a kick that lands near their endzone, lets us charge players into their half after the thrower. Their thrower runs to one side, and they get 3 blitzers around him, while dodging the 4th into range of our endzone at the far end of the pitch. We have a rookie lineelf free, and he can 1d blitz their thrower- scoring a badly hurt! The ball has bounced awkwardly, but we put two players beside it. Their ogre charges backwards with a blitz, and they knock over most of our players nearby. It's T8 now and we have a slight chance at getting it, blitzing a blitzer free and into the endzone and then grabbing the ball in two tackle zones with a rookie line elf who goes for the long pass (4+)... fumble!

*HALF TIME*
A blitzer remains in our KO box while their catcher sleeps on in theirs, so we have 10 vs 9. We pass the ball from catcher to catcher and run into their half on T1, though they manage to 1d blitz over the ball carrier. We recover in style, piling more players into that quarter of the pitch, but again they get a 1d blitz to knock the ball free (using up this half's RR to get it). With 10 elves still on the pitch, we use our superior dodging power to retrieve the ball and make it extremely safe. They put in a few 2d blocks- managing to -AV seriously injure one of our catchers, before we make it 2-0 on T4.

We kick off and they push through the middle, taking advantage of a double 1 dodge turnover on T6 to make it 2-1 before we can react.

Two turns left and we execute it perfectly, despite all 4 blitzers waiting at the back to try and prevent it. 3-1!

They score a badly hurt on the final kick off and the match ends. GG Chapass!”