“Agh, dwarves. Well, this team has dodged the bullets before, we can do it again!

They win cointoss and decide to receive first. We get blitz! and the kick lands relatively deep so we start the match at an advantage. They get two quick casualties on their first turn though and we're forced to go all out on em. We get their ball-holding runner down with a 1d blitz on our T1. They recover well, but we get their runner down again on our turn 3. This doesn't hurt them much, but it slows their drive down, hopefully enough to prevent their score. Turns out it wasn't and they score on their turn 8. 2nd half starts 1-0 for dwarves.

I get all my knockouts out for 2nd half so it's 11 zons vs 11 dwarves on field. At least to begin with ;). Turns out their defense was perfect and they get to rearrange all their players. Luckily the kick ends up next to the LOS so they do not dare to make any radical changes, of course they man the LOS so that I get no blocks. I get the touchback though and stick the ball to a blitzer. I decide to make the desperate run for it but they get the ballcarrier down. I get the ball on a catcher next turn. One of my blitzers gets killed on their turn 3. I fail the last GFI to score on my T3 and they gain control of the ball. They cage up and I have no change to get the ball again :D. They sit on the ball till the end of the game. Game ends 1-0 for dwarves.

The dwarves played a good solid game. I knew it was going to be tough beforehand, but I came quite close anyhow. Had I scored on my turn 4 2nd half, made the GFI I mean, we might've been able to keep them from scoring for five turns. Equally well it might've ended 2-1 in that case, hehe. Oh, I guess we couldn't dodge the bullets this time :)”