“One of the strangest games I have had in a while. My opponent refused to speak at all during the entire match - which got me annoyed sadly. In addition, he had some of the most amazing dice...absolutely dominating me. That can be seen by his players spending 162 turns on the pitch to only 90 for mine. This was one day that 15 players just was not enough. However, some greed and timely mistakes by my opponent along with having a one-turner managed to steal the victory.

The pain started early with 3 fast SI by my opponent and then a RIP. We had little choice but to try to race for the endzone - forcing a POW from our opponent - but he got it. No RR, he then got the pickup and GFI. However, we still could reach him with a dodge and gfi...but we snaked the gfi (it would not be the only time we did that this game). At this point, we had 3 players left on the pitch and he had skitter with the ball, without anyone in range to do him harm. However, then inexplicably he RRed a push block with his claw/mb/tackler (but no block) - and it was a turnover...since he did the block before moving skitter - this gave us a chance to reach skitter with our 2 remaining players. We took down skitter and the end of the half ended up at 0-0 which was much better than we could have expected given the dice.

The second half, the underworld were overly aggressive in pushing forward and removing more players - allowing an easy blitz to funnel through all 7 remaining players to box in the ballcarrier and mark him. he dodged free, but failed the pass and we recovered since we had the superior position and then stalled for a pair of turns before scoring. Now it was 1-0 in our favor, but 6 of us facing a full squad. Amazingly, the underworld failed a handoff and we managed to steal the ball and race downfield - but sadly they again got the pow to take the ball back - more gfis with no RRs worked and they just eeked out a score on T16. We used the apoth the turn before to save Compassion - who after the kickoff went out of bounds, took the ball and went the distance for a one turn TD and the win. 2-1.

Overall, it was an exciting game - just a shame my opponent would not chat at all. Certainly not as much fun playing against a silent opponent.”