“The first half was very rough, 4 skinks out in 4 blocks/blitzes (including Shindahl badly hurt), plus KO'd saurus.

But.. we were permitted a very risky blitz on the ball carrier on turn 8 (using a rookie saurus!) and we took down the ball and prevented the touchdown.

Then we got our KO's back, so we had 10v11, and eventually we moved it around to 9v..8 I think.

We stalled and stalled, and got some lucky breaks to keep stalling on their goal line.. and then we had a choice:
3+ dodge (with team re-roll) or
2+ dodge (with team re-roll) into 1d blitz to make that 3+ dodge not need the team re-roll.

We chose the blitz in an effort to save re-rolls for overtime in case they one turned. This was bad. The dodge failed, then the blitz skulled. Then they set up a 3d wrackle hit on our ball carrier which brought him down, and the ball in an unattainable spot.


Then our KO's didn't wake up. 8v10. But we received (and we had 2 re-rolls vs their 0)! And our krox boneheaded, and we failed the pickup despite a re-roll; then they picked up the ball in a tackle zone, and our 3d with tackle blitz couldn't take them down, and they agi4 stuntied their way to victory.



This doesn't do the game justice at all - Malmir played excellently, and while I didn't play quite that well, I at least kept the match even, despite what appeared to be a fairly one sided first half.

Thanks for the match Malmir!”