“Elliott played pretty darn hard, made me really work for the first six turns or so, before I finally managed to crack him and cage up in scoring range. In the second half, you can see he got a tad frustrated and burned a couple turns (and re-rolls) on "late-turn" actions out of sequence.

Dice weren't all that friendly, but they were pretty even. Elliott's first half was a push-fest, and so was my first quarter. But in the second quarter, I still had all my TRRs and was able to hammer him pretty hard. The second half saw me burn all my RRs early on double-skulls, but I didn't turn over, and all Elliott's RRs let him down (though to be fair they were on 4+, 3+, and 2+, and mine were all on blocks and two 2+ rolls). I don't know if that was the difference maker, but it definitely didn't hurt my cause.

Elliott won the coin toss, elected to kick, and did a pretty good job holding me down until he got greedy. He managed a 4+ dodge for a 1d blitz on the ball with one TRR left, pow'ed without re-rolling, and managed to put some pressure on the ball, but it wasn't enough: I cleared him off, marched north, and scored on T8. He didn't try to screen me, but at that point I don't know that he could have. I kicked off to him in the second half, and he did some hard actions early: it felt like he was getting desperate even though he hadn't really started running out of men yet. It seemed like he "snapped out of it" when I stole the ball, and pressured pretty hard until he just ran out of steam.”