“Some well-skilled up dorfs here, including a deathroller with block, could be a tough nut to crack!

We kick first and they bench their deathroller and advance carefully vs our wall of green. T3 and their blitzer tries to dodge and GFI downfield, but falls over and on T4 they give us an early turnover with poor blocking, however 2 turns in a row we've failed to pickup the ball with our nearby lineorc and they can recover. We then get a good turn in with a few GFIs and a chainpush to 2d blitz the ball carrier. A lineorc catches the bouncing ball and we start running it downfield, managing to score on T8 despite tenacious defending from the dwarves.

Our troll KOs their deathroller on T1 so they spend their apo to keep him on the pitch. Meanwhile the ball has landed in our endzone and we fail the pickup twice in a row til the crowd toss it diagonally into the center of the pitch. This totally messes us up, quite apart from the fact we've been having trouble blocking over the dwarves and have used up most of our rerolls. They pile through the center and steal the ball on T4 and when we fail to knock him over with a 2d blitz they clear space again and rush him down to a corner. T5 and our 1d blitz fails and they are able to capitalise and make it totally safe to stall out the last few turns for a 1-1 draw.

GG malitrius!”