“Pretty painful match all in all. I had everything that is needed to pull the win, yet nuffle had other plans.. and I played 2 horrible turns T7 and T15. The team overall underperformed exceptionally badly, causing only 1 knockout and 2 casualties despite superiority in mb, claw, po, +ST and fouling skills. 2 Crucial players of mine were however missing/killed by Stonetroll's Chaos pact in the previous game making this game more even than expected..

On my defensive T7 my opponent had lost the ball to my bulls because he focused more on fouling than defending the blodging ballcarrier despite his man advantage. He regrouped his cage after losing his ballcarrier to a knockout, I still had a 3+ 4+ shot to 2die blitz his ballcarrier out. On the last click I chose the wrong square (the one with the assisting CDB) and the dice showed me a 1-die push..

On T15 I got an opportunity to score with a sideline cage to force an overtime, but there were three threats to the ballcarrier. Two hobgoblins who were in TZs of my hobbos and the Bull. I went for securing the situation first, then moving the ballcarrier.. well the bull managed his first 2+ dodge, his 2die blitz but failed a 1-1 on his first GFI ending the game in a 0-1 loss.

Due to Thecounts error in T8, the bull could still score with a chainpush on T8, if the ball had bounced badly, but the ball did not bounce at all since the 2die blitz showed us doubleskulls + doublebothdowns.

Captain future was the man of the match, taking I do believe 7 fouls from a sneaky git dirty player (a few of them unassisted, but passed armor anyway, just failed teh +2 to cas on the injury) and numerous clawmb blitzes but remaining on the pitch not knocked out or even killed..

On the other hand, his bullcentaur managed to break his neck while diving for a gameturning crowdsurf on T7, so my team did not dwindle down without causing ANY grief for the opponent ;).

GL on the tourney TheCount, I'll go back to my corner and sulk now ;]. To win this game, I think I would have needed a negative bribe (ref spotted the 7th foul), shame such an inducement does not exist ;).”