| Poll |
| Which Division will win the FUMBBL Cup |
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32% |
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| Ranked |
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47% |
[ 87 ] |
| Serious? are we taking this box/ranked debate to this level of violence? YES!!!! |
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19% |
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| Total Votes : 182 |
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JimmyFantastic
Joined: Feb 06, 2007
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Nov 20, 2014 - 19:51 |
 
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Oh lawds, bonehead play of the tourney! RR an irrelevant failed dauntless thinking it was a GFI... doh!
The rest of that turn was awful anyway though lol.
Grats to Khor_Varik, thoroughly deserved win. |
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keggiemckill
Joined: Oct 07, 2004
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Nov 20, 2014 - 21:05 |
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5 point: Purple Delvers
4 point: I want my MTV
3 point: Cryptic Apocalypse
2 point: Brutal Cherry Pickers
1 point: Vault Tec Squad |
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Malmir
Joined: May 20, 2008
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Nov 20, 2014 - 21:39 |
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5 point match: Aquillas Negras
4 point match: Purple Delvers
3 point match: Gravelords
2 point match: Atrapianos En El Tiempo
1 point match: Offenbach Kickers
Speculation Bet: 11 rips
I am delighted to say I made these picks without looking at a single team so I'm going entirely on ones I know something of. |
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Tricktickler
Joined: Jul 10, 2004
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Nov 20, 2014 - 22:37 |
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5. Offenbacher Kickers
4. Purple Delvers
3. Justice Ranked
2. Aguilas Negras
1. Vault Tec Squad
Speculation Bet: 8 rips |
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sonrises
Joined: May 02, 2013
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Nov 20, 2014 - 23:06 |
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RobRoyDuncan
Joined: Apr 15, 2011
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Nov 21, 2014 - 13:20 |
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sonrises
Joined: May 02, 2013
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Nov 21, 2014 - 16:13 |
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**Bob & Jim FUMBBL CUP Review**
Jim: Good afternoon Blood Bowl fans! Rnd 3 up and running!
Bob: Absolutely, Jim. Let's have a look at coaches after match comments.
Jim: All right Bob. There we go!
Walpurgis 2 (Wood Elf) 3 vs 0 Animated Amphibians (Slann)
Animated Amphibians coach comments:
FUMBBL CUP 2nd round. First off, all the creds to Verminardo all out the week. We both had some troubles finding a time to play, but he always adjusted to it and were very polite. Thanks for that.
Verminado won the kickoff, but chose to kick. Turned out to be a good call. It's probably the first time teams are competing for being the defending team first.
I had pretty basic turns the first 3 or 4. Then I took a risk to open up the defense a little. He took the bait. But first he pow'd my ss,blodge, dt,tackle,guard blitzer, leaving him out of the equation. He leaped, 1d pow'd my catcher and the ball scattered and ended up in his catchers hands.
I managed to get the ball back the turn after, but the recovery wasnt 100%. Some easy dodges and a blitz took the ballcarrier down. BUT, he snaked the pickup. Here I felt that I still had a chance to recover and score. So I went for plan B, the little riskier, but more rewarding. Everythin went according to plan, leaps worked, until nuffle stroke back. The devastating snakes on the gfi for the deciding block. Drive over, 0-1.
I tried to build up and keep on going. I managed well, but I totally fucked up my last turn. I've played over 2500 games on FUMBBL, but never made a mistake like this. Verminardo totally fooled me when it turned out that he had wrestle on his wardancer, leaving my ballcarrier on the ground. Half 1 over. 0-1.
Second half was pretty routine for the woodies. One quick TD and 0-2. About know, my team got fired up. But a little to late. 3 casulties and a few knockouts and I had a safe score. But I wanted to tie him aswell, before the game was over. So I went for the 3+2+2+ td. But, nuffle didnt want me to win tonight. I snaked the last gfi, leaving the ball to his ag6 wd, who passed it, and he slowly made the TD in his 8th turn. 0-3.
But, that pass was also that wd's last. The agility monster got group fouled to his death in turn 6. Verminardo had to choice to score before it happend. But he took the risk. It failed.
Overall it was a good matchup, great coach and it was fun. Equal dices but the ag6 made the difference in this game. I really missed my PO, MB tackle blitzer this game and also my block guard lino. That would have helped alot.
Thanks again Verminardo. I hope Forty Miners wont be any problem for you 
All the best,
Nyberg
Walpurgis 2 coach comments:
Three to nothing, a clear win, a demonstration even, and yet a pyrrhic victory, as could be seen in the Wood Elves' faces after the match. The coach's decision to run down the clock and skill two players instead of one while exposing Willow to a foul, disastrous. The team's best player, in fact the best player ever coached by Verminardo, fouled to death. Oh the crowd loves it when an AG6 Wardancer dies. A bit of the cosmic balance is restored. So close to Legendhood, denied.
"Life must go on", said Catcher Phoebe after the match. "Willow will return from the twilight and join us again in the dance. And in the meantime, I will do the ball recoveries." Phoebe is already training pick-ups in multiple tackle zones this morning. Still it cannot be denied that Walpurgis without Willow is just a very ordinary Wood Elf team. Will this be enough to go deeper in the Fumbbl Cup?
"Matches only get tougher in this competition", coach Verminardo shrugged. "But we are in round 3 and I don't see why we couldn't beat those Dwarves."
*****
Thanks for playing Nyberg, was a fun game! Let's see what will be left of my team at the end of the Fumbbl Cup. This will be my first serious rebuild and I'm looking forward to it!
Green is new purple (Lizzardman) 2 vs 0 Chainsaw (Orc)
Chainsaw coach comments:
After winning the toss, looking at the one turner I decided to try and be clever and kick first. That was the first and worst mistake.
Fast forward to midway through the 2nd half. The orcs have been smashed. The 'Saws have accounted for a single skink. The one sided nature of the fight meant that plans got abandoned and Aztec had to fend off lizards to keep the ball. Whilst my diving tackle failed to stop the skinks, hupap's stopped Aztec both times he tried it and the drive came undone.
I rolled all the double skulls and none of the high armour rolls, and that left my team on their asses and out of the FUMBBL Cup. Things did go my way - a fizzled wizard and a really thick Kroxigor meant I had opportunities but errors were made under tilt and that is probably the one thing that stops me from progressing as a BB coach. It's hard to keep one's cool when ya feel Nuffle is against you though!
Hupap played well and best of luck to him in the next game.
Green is new purple coach comments:
To be honest, I felt a bit nervous to play against such a famous and well feared team. On top of it, I was totaly tired due to (family-wide) sickness. But the dice went my way - all along the match. The orks had no armor on most of the time, and still managed to make a tough defense in the 1st half.
2nd half was mixed, but as far as I can tell, my failures were not as half as critical as Chainsaw's.
So overall, I considere this a dice-dominated win.
Cheers and a deep bow once again to Chainsaw for not loosing his good mood - or at least for not showing it
Home of the Stars (Dark Elf) 2 vs 1 Lammer Cheese Workers' Party (Chaos Dwarf)
Home of the Stars coach comments:
Home of the Stars were POMBed off the field in impressive fashion from start to finish, but held on to win a lucky cointoss. The Witch could have put the game away early against the tide of Cas when she snaked a pickup for an easy TD. After that, there weren't many elves left to mount any defense.
In OT, only 5 elves lined up to defend against the receiving Dorfs. They managed to slow down the advance enough until a doubleskulled block opened a chance for a sack. By then, only 3 elves were left - just enough to down the ballcarrier and hoof the ball upfield far enough to secure a cointoss.
There is not much left of the team for the next round, so we will have to look for hired help.
Thx for a fun game DRPoods!
Lammer Cheese Workers' Party coach comments:
Well, I thought we has this one.
Then "Like Dreams of Happy Times" decides to roll dub skulls. Anything else would have been OK. Fails at key moments decided this one. And then we lost the shootout 5-3
Well played mate. Good luck in the Cup.
I am completely shattered.
Les Vent-Marcheurs (Chaos) 2 vs 0 Brutal Cherrypickers (Dwarf)
Les Vent-Marcheurs coach comments:
Hard match-up for the dwarves, 12 of them (and 2 mercs) were brave enough to face the Chaos. I bought a wiz because I actually fear his elf (runner 7348 blodge).
8 guards, it seems good to defy cpombers. But I have my own guards too, and dwarves tried hard to find a breach.
Wiz found it. 4/4 players hit by the fireball, but then Jimmy rolled 4/4 skulls (rr used by mistake on the dauntless roll).
I try to entrust Golgoth with the ball, but he refused. The bounce is good for the dwarves, but again a roll failed before a double skulls stops their impetus.
I run far to secure the ball, some blocks and fouls secure it more.
Second half, dwarves are back to fight, with their blodger elf and their thick balls.
They try to bypass my guys, the elf comes one turn to see what happens, but no solution seems to come. I put more pressure, the elf fails his dodge, and it's game over.
Great match from the dwarves, despite some mistakes and bad luck. I've done some mistakes that could have been costly, but in fine it's a happy ending.
Jimmy, thanks for the match. Your dwarves have now a second life, and I hope they'll go far in their next tournaments!
Brutal Cherrypickers coach comments:
To be honest the Wiz was great, but nearly every other play I made was wrong lol.
Very gracious of Khor_Varik to say I played well but I was really not at the races, can't blame the skulls or even the bad RR.
Thanks for the match bro, well played, and at least I can be happy that I lost to a Blackbox team!
Good luck for this tourney and the future, beast of a team!
Crossdressers (Amazon) 2 vs 1 Lithuanians=) (Wood Elf)
Crossdressers coach comments:
The dressers were in a good mood. The woodies didn't have tons of special equipment with them or any freaks in the team. And it was a lucky good solid game from the girls side. Did what coach wanted them to do, make one silly setup-mistake which led to a fast td from the woodies at the start of 2nd half. But some important hits and fouls sealed the game pretty much. It was hard work for the woodies most of the time, with pretty crappy dice on top of that.
Thanks for a good chat as well! Rematch anytime.
/Dhak
Contagious Plague (Nurgle) 1 vs 0 2 dodges 1 blitz (High Elf)
Contagious Plague coach comments:
I would say tents won this game for me, as they were huge in holding the opposition in place.
ST5 regening twice was pivitol going foward, I should need to stop leaving him on an island and protect him some.
Rot comes through big time with some nasty fouls and a casualty.
Definitley an enjoyable game, that wasn't decided until about turn 15. I would say worth the replay.
smallnight (Dark Elf) 2 vs 1 Retired Bullfighters (Chaos Dwarf)
smallnight coach comments:
Exciting game. Did not like my chances vs such a well built CD team. I won the toss but it was raining so decided to kick, but sure enough weather instantly fine again lol. Tried a few long shots at the ball carrier early, but main focus was on avoiding much damage and did that part well.
Attempted OTS but was always going to be a long shot, and that failed. Managed to score, luckily kept the ball after the wizard hit me. Thought about stalling, but his team better suited for a long game.
He got the snakes on a GFI with ball carrier at probably the worst time, leaving me with 1 turn to score. Didn't have to do anything too hard to score, other than avoid a fair few 1's. Had to reroll a GFI, but success. GG. Somehow didn't need APO and only 1 MNG.
Harsch (Nurgle) 3 vs 1 La Caótica Heracliada (Chaos)
La Caótica Heracliada coach comments:
Too much, It's the only thing I could say. Every injury roll resulted in a Serious Injury to my players, or something worst.
Elemental Chaos (Chaos) 2 vs 1 Bluwood Blue Tits (Human)
Bluwood Blue Tits coach comments:
The Tits go out in the second round after a good game with lots of drama. The boys did some good fouling but the ref sure took his toll each time.
Despite losing the OT coin toss, just a smidge more luck on my side in any of the 3 halfs would have given the Tits a good shot at the win. I made a dumb positioning move after the OT kick-off gave me the BLITZ and was forced to try and pick-up the ball in 2 tackle zones. I deserved to lose after that. GG Moss.
Spawns of Evil (Necromantic) 2 vs 1 Sarcotics (Lizzardman)
Sarcotics coach comments:
Recorded this one and commentated on it - tried doing it at smaller resolution to reduce the creating time, but that basically made the video a bit too fuzzy. Will try again later with a better version!
First version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUjKI2JVqCM |
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huff
Joined: Dec 19, 2009
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Nov 21, 2014 - 19:17 |
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Are we gonna get ourselves a double header and get a game before Azure & Kam kickoff? |
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keggiemckill
Joined: Oct 07, 2004
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Nov 22, 2014 - 17:10 |
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| keggiemckill wrote: | 5 point: Purple Delvers
4 point: I want my MTV
3 point: Cryptic Apocalypse
2 point: Brutal Cherry Pickers
1 point: Vault Tec Squad |
Spec guess 10 |
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PainState
Joined: Apr 04, 2007
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Nov 22, 2014 - 18:43 |
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The Watchmen have just taken the field in the FUMBBL CUP.
Do they spit the bit and take the swan song exit?
Do they crush all before them in their relentless march of death on all who oppose them?
Head on over and check it out. |
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Qaz
Joined: Apr 28, 2004
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Nov 22, 2014 - 21:27 |
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Smooth exp vs Punish the Monkey is a really good match up to watch both quality and very experienced major coaches |
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the strongest"
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liquidorange
Joined: Feb 08, 2005
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Nov 23, 2014 - 04:10 |
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| PainState wrote: | The Watchmen have just taken the field in the FUMBBL CUP.
Do they spit the bit and take the swan song exit?
Do they crush all before them in their relentless march of death on all who oppose them?
Head on over and check it out. |
Not today, apparently. Long road ahead though - Watchmen Philosophy has won three games, two shy of the total amassed by the legendary humans of Average Mediocrity. Here's hoping we can continue leaving a trail of bodies in our wake - 4 kills and 30 casualties in three matches.
Up next is Dr Suess. |
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Harad
Joined: May 11, 2014
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Nov 23, 2014 - 15:01 |
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Which races are still left:
Chaos 12
Necromantic 7
Nurgle 7
Dark Elf 6
Orc 6
Wood Elf 5
Chaos Dwarf 4
Human 4
Undead 4
Amazon 3
Dwarf 3
Lizardmen 3
Skaven 3
Vampire 3
Khemri 2
Chaos Pact 1
Elf 1
High Elf 1
Norse 1 |
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Rabe
Joined: Jun 06, 2009
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Nov 23, 2014 - 15:10 |
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Looks pretty bashy. |
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Dhaktokh
Joined: Sep 16, 2006
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Nov 23, 2014 - 19:42 |
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