“The Warpstone Open VII Finals - Final Round (Round 8 overall)

The best way to describe the game was that it was a great game - fun to watch and fun to play. Easily could have gone either way - the High Elves did an awesome job of pushing the envelope, not being afraid of failure, and it worked very well. My hat is off to anisdrin - he analyzed the game and used the right strategy to make this a very tight game.

The first half we received and an early wizard sent the ball tumbling - our blitzer with grab was key to clear the SS away from the ball...but we gave up the 1d blitz and then our DT failed to trip up the thrower - it was exciting back and forth, until we were left with only 1 option: blitzing with John Litte on his blodger...pushes on the 2d, RRed into double skulls! That was that for the first half as the elves stalled some and it was 0-1 at the half.

Second half, we tried a close kick (had kick skill) - the kick landed on the sidelines and we were awarded a blitz on the kickoff roll. We raced forward - could not reach the ball, but applied a lot of pressure and KOed a key player. After DT had failed the first half...now it came through - tripping a player on turn 1 and turn 2 - in addition, our grab blitzer enabled us to surf a player as well...all the sudden the elves were few in number...and again we were down to 1 option, a 2d blitz by John Little again, a dodge and 2 GFIs, had to use RR, but worked and got a POW on the blitz to send the catcher down...but more - a KO and ball bounced to John. We stalled out the half and it was 1-1.

In overtime, it was 9 vs 7 and we received. Four elves were removed on turn 1 - and that was game...even with a -2d double pow, the elves just did not have the players and John recovered the ball and walked it in for the win 2-1.

A great tournament - thanks to all the specs and my opponent for a fun atmosphere and fun times!”