“Mighty Quins started the match very strong with a threatening Blitz kick-off event, forcing Arlem to focus on keeping the ball out of their hands as their half of the pitch was rushed into by Quins catchers.

The first half, however, was characterized by a willingness of the Quins to remain in base contact in unfavorable positions with Arlem bruisers, and a hesitation on the head coach's part to commit the entirety of his team to the brawl that was brewing on the Arlem half of the pitch.

The Arlem strategy relied almost entirely on tentacles to keep key players from making use of their ability to handle the ball and a consistent doctrine of gangfouling wherever possible thanks to their deeper roster to push more KOs and injuries.

By the end of the first half there were a significant number of Quins players recovering on the side of the pitch, one of which (to the author's memory) was badly hurt. Things didn't get truly dire for the Quins, however, until the second half.

A majority of the knocked out elves recovered as half-time came to a close, leaving them able to take to the pitch to receive the ball. Unfortunately, they were met by an Arlem blitz out of the gate, the nearly0-decaying players eager to give the elves the treatment they received in the first half.

It was in the second half that the consistent boot-to-head strategy of Arlem's #7-#13 players began to pay dividends, as elves were isolated and stomped until they stopped moving, until a late-half full-pitch-clearance lead to Arlem #6, Goatface Johnson, scoring his first touchdown.

While it is not surprising that the Quins' head coach was spitting teeth about the failure of the referee to "properly" enforce the "rules", the author wishes to emphasize that nothing personal was meant by the continual fouling regime after the game, especially as it appears no real lasting damage to the team was inflicted (apart from #9, which, in the author's opinion, is hardly team-breaking).

If the author had to suggest anything to his opponent, he would caution against an over-reliance on one-die blocks, warn him that tentacles is potentially a much bigger threat than was really given credit, and suggest dodging more than he blocks on a team that is much more graceful than the author's own. The author also hopes that he will one day come to see fouling as the grand source of entertainment, for the fans and for himself, that it really is. Most importantly, he hopes to see the Quins continue to play, develop, and learn as a team, so he can eventually come back and hit them some more in something less-akin to a sweep.”