“Where to start?

First off, props to Pirog for staying up late to get this one in. His schedule and mine don't mesh well, and after an unexpectedly busy weekend canceled our first attempt at this one, we were down to our last shot before needing to get tourney staff involved.

The lack of sleep showed early, as Pirog botched the inducement shopping and came out well short of a full load. It almost didn't matter though, as his low-MB orcs hit like trucks anyway, and an early Blitz!, a lot of skull/pows for me, and some really poor dodge/GFI/blocking/wellkindaeverything rolls for me gave up an easy TD to end the first half. 0-1

We started the second half poorly as well, with more of the same. We knocked a few more orcs over though, and a couple out entirely, and eventually blocked off their advance. When an LRB4 brainfart had the North Tribe dodging like mad with a SF BoB, eventually they failed a dodge and we got a nice shot at the ball...which we pushed. They tried a handoff to escape, as even a punt would have won it for them, but the ball fell to the ground. A couple turns of a scrum later, and Gold Toof Mel took possession of the ball. Out of rerolls, we had a harrowing GFI to score in T7, figuring a failure and possible chance in T8 was better than the 2+ bonehead roll to tie it. 1-1 and it was time for an OTT gob-toss!

The kick was high, and an AG4 blitzer made the catch. The handoff was good, the gob-toss was good, the gob-dodges...FAIL! We're still in the game! 1-1 and to OT we go!

We lose the OT coin flip, and they receive. TWS carry a full 16 players, so we still managed a full crew, while NTN was down to 7 players. They poked a hole around the outside of our defense (manned by a snotling) and rushed their SF/Blodger through with the ball. They tied up TZs as best they could, but it still let us get a 3db with a Blackle ogre...except the 1 GFI we needed to roll failed. The two snotlings giving assists managed to stop him 1 turn with a Push/Push->SS, and another Blackle ogre (thankfully we pack a spare) got there next turn to finish the job. From there it was a frantic scrum across the pitch as Nicky Smiles, possibly the best snotling there is, repeatedly took and lost the ball, always making advances though.

Eventually a few cas and KOs thinned the orcs to the point where they couldn't keep up the chase, and Nicky celebrated with game-winner in T24.

Midway through the OT, we took a RIP to a snotling DP, and figuring the orcs were outmanned enough, we apoed it (successfully!), but then lost Adam Bomb a turn later. Our ogre count is now capped at 9. Oh FFB, you rotten weasel of a rule set! We want MOAR OGARS!

GG Pirog. Fun, tense game.”