“Nuffle watched this match.

And laughed. And said 'let there be Both Down!'

For these two new teams, playing their first game in the NCBB, there were some beautiful surprises.

First: Ottawa Bee-Bees turned over 9 times due to blocks. Only one of these was a 1db.
Second: UW-Whitewater Warfrogs passed dozens of leap and dodge attempts in the first half before failing one.
Third: Chibuike Udenigwe, ghoul for Ottawa, seriously injures himself attempting to 2d block a

Now at this point, this sounds like 'Nuffle is laughing at Ottawa'. Oh no.

The Warfrogs (after Ottawa removed their own ghoul trying to stop them from scoring) scored a defensive touchdown on turn 6 of the first half.

Only two turns left. For the second time, Ottawa sets up to receive, rushes Hershel (a ghoul) and Jean-Michel (a wight) forward to pretend to have a chance of scoring on turn 8. Predictably, the Warfrogs blitz down Jean-Michel, and put a diving tackler and 2 other players to mark Hershel.

Ottawa looks at this.. and says hell with it. No re-rolls left (ha! used them all by turn 3). So let's run forward, including a GFI, and then hand off the ball (in 3 tackle zones). Then we'll blitz (pow) one of the guarding catchers, then 5+ dodge away, and GOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAALL!

Yes, it really happened. Nuffle was laughing at everyone.

Then the second half. Ottawa manages to cause a bit of pain, there's lots of scrumming going on, eventually the Warfrogs move forward on a lesser guarded wing, no re-rolls left, ok, 2+ to hand off, 2+ to leap, 2+ gfi, and the frogs will score on turn 7. No. They fail the GFI. Fine. Ottawa blitzes a ghoul into scoring position, then tries to pick up the ball. No dice. It's still in Ottawa's end zone. Warfrog cover Hershel, and then leaps a catcher onto the ball! But fails the leap, no touchdown.

Ottawa sets up some fancy 3die blocks, clears a path.. and does a short pass (but it's been SUNNY the whole game, so 5+!). No problem. Then lunge forward to hand off to Hershel once again, who will only need to blitz past the catcher, then gfi twice, and Ottawa would WIN after this whole mess.

No dice. Can't catch the ball because of the tackle zone, even with the re-roll we have left (after suffering 3db turnovers, and skulls, and double skulls, just to save that re-roll).

Draw.

Thanks rodney_dangerfield! May Nuffle laugh at our opponent's next!”