“It was a good and very close game, although it was spoiled a bit by an unfortunate misclick by me at the end, which probably threw away our best chance to get to overtime. Although we only had 6 elves left, we were at 1-1 on turn 15 and should have had a 2db blitz on the Nurglers' ballcarrier. However, my blitzer rolled a 1 on his dodge and I accidentally clicked not to use the reroll. Although, on the turn following that, my rookie catcher, Ryu IV, pulled off an unbelievable move to dodge through two ST5 tentacles tackle zones and sack the carrier on a -2db! That left Tommy's Pestigor needing to make a 3+ pickup and two gfis to score, with no reroll, which he did. It was quite a thrilling end to the game.

The game up to that point had been very close. An unfortunate snake on turn 2 spoiled what might have been a decent shot at the ballcarrier and gave the Nurglers and opportunity to progress up the pitch. However, the elves defended stoically, using the sidestepping, jump-up-ing skills of Chun Li and Sagat. Eventually we got lucky with a leaping blitz from M Bison, which spilt the ball, however we weren't able to get a kind bounce and the Nurglers recovered it to score in T8. We had a good shot at the one-turn TD, with Ken III finding a way to get into the endzone. However, the kick fell within range of 3 disturbing presence players and, even with AG5, Tomahawk (our thrower) needed a 5+ for the long bomb, which was asking a bit too much.

The elves started the second half with 10 players, which wasn't bad, and played for a typical elven running stall. They found a way through the Nurglers' line, but lost some players in the process - gradually being whittled down to 9, 8, 7 ... Tommy's dirty player was particularly on-form, which became painfully apparent when he booted Ken III (our AG5 catcher) straight to the morgue! :( Despite being down to only about 5 players, Street Fighter somehow managed to hold on to the ball and stall for a score on turn 6, leaving the Nurglers 3 turns to score the winner. However, the aforementioned misclick blew the best chance that we had to take it to OT. We probably wouldn't have been able to do much anyway, as by that point 6 out of our 12 players were in the cas box!

Anyway, well played to tommysteele. I wish you good luck in the rest of the tourney and hopefully we'll meet again some day :)”