“Well, I sort of wrote this game off early. A 1db wolf block took out my Claw/Mb early, then Diablos Lobos scored quickly. Of our 10 remaining players, FOUR of them went out with heat sickness, including our DE (with Blodge, +MA, SS). We had 6 against their 11, and basically went into a holding pattern to hold them off.

As we used our whole team to cage at midfield, the necros surrounded us on all sides. We figured: "What the hell, we're all action heroes (or villians) here, let's make something happen!" So we used a little bit out Guard, a little bit of AG3 dodging, and a little bit of 1db blocking to get our +AG/SH marauder, Spike Spiegel out of the melee and toward their end zone. They POWed him and grabbed the ball with a Blodge wolf, but we POWed it and retook it. A bad turn for Diablo Lobos, and we screened off the ball, and were able to score T8! 1-1 at the half.

The second half was a little kinder on the heat, and we had both our good ball carriers. We took advantage of Alucard's Blodge/SS to keep the ball safe, since we were still 8v11 on the pitch. This time we had better luck clearing space, as Mugen got a couple cas, and KOs were more plentiful. One wolf went out to a KO, the other got pushed into the crowd (after frenzy-pushing a SS-er to get sidelined himself, falling over trying to dodge away, then accidentally hitting Stand instead of move). We scored T16 to pull off the upset win, despite Nuffle clearly glaring at us disapprovingly all game.

GG Mystik. A couple mistakes really hurt you in this one.”