“Final round of SUMT II. Nearing 5 am so ill keep it brief. :-P

The Zealots won the toss and chose to recieve. Both teams had hired a wizard this game, just as they had done in their previous encounter. First kick off gave us a Blitz!, letting the ladies run into the dwarf backfield. The sure handed hobbo fumbled the pickup on his first attempt, giving us a 4+ rerolled pickup to steal the ball, but that also failed. CD picked the ball up and then formed a cage after some scrummaging.

Zons used their wizard. ag3 hobbo surrounded by 2 CD blockers and a bull were hit... only the CD blocker on the far side that wasnt interfering with play went down. Still, I opened the cage on the near side and got in 6 block dice on the ball carrier... no pows. Lone hobbo is left surrounded by about 6 angry ladies.

He pushes away the surrounding players then hands off to an adjacent BC, cage to him. Next turn I open his cage again and blitz the BC, knocking the ball loose and onto my strip ball linewoman who catches it. I form a cage around her.

He fireballs... 6 (?) zons in the area, 3 are hit... 2 BH and a KO clearing the entire one side of my cage. he blitzs in but as I managed to screen his CD blockers away from the side he opened up, he only has a bull to use, and also makes a mistake and fails to even get a 2 dice block, I retain the ball. Next turn I open up the line he had defending and run forward.. with 2 gfi to just 1 square from the line with no tacklers in range. Of course he prompty gets a clean pow blitzing her with a blodge hobbo.... next turn the ball goes into the crowd who throw it into the middle of the field... and caugh tby my ag4 player. She is then blitzed and loses the ball. BC continue to show they don't need tackle, and first half ends 0-0.

Second half begins with collecting the ball and caging along my right hand side. Lurking does well to switch his players over to block my advance but with a blitz on his BC chainpushing my players away and a dodge I magange to advance along the wing.... he fails to keep anyone in danger of bltizing her letting me stall for 2 (very valuable) turns.

He sets up to reieve with 3 turns to go... he catches the ball from the kick tanks to a quick snap, and hads off to his bull who sprints down one wing with the support of a hobbo, a CD blocker and the 2nd BC. I swing my remaining players over to block him. He attempts to dodge away to switch attacks and (justly!) rolls snake eyes, leaving me to just knock over his remaining BC and hobbo there to leave him unable to score the equaliser.

Shame on the winnings and the -av to my 2nd dp... but a close + fun game nevertheless.”