“"Two pitch invasions ruined it for {me} who still managed a draw."

Boy, talk about an understatement! I entered the game after a disastrous effort in my last outing, losing two RIP and two more MNG (including one of my wardancers) without enough money to rehire anybody. So game starts and I have only 9 players to his available 11. My remaining wardancer manages, using passblock/leap, to get into position for an interception, which after some batting around he takes for the score.

Line up, and a PI BH's my thrower (still very sunny, making ball control an issue) and stuns two more players. It's rather a cakewalk for him, outnumbering me 11-6, to walk it in for the tying score. Line up again, I have three turns to retake the lead, plenty of time for wood elves, right? Well, maybe so, if another PI hadn't RIP'd my catcher (wow, the apo worked for a change!), stunned two, and KO'd three, including my wardancer and treeman. This is when his player got his two int's. Not like I could've completed the passes anyway--both long bombs way up field to my two remaining field players, both covered by multiple enemy blockers. But incredibly, he couldn't do anything with the ball either time he plucked it out of the air, despite having ag 5 guys and rr's. Amazing.

Second half I'm receiving, but a riot holds things up for 4 turns. My wardancer is still sitting things out in the ko box, and so (including another bh from the first half) my 6 line up against his 11. I even, through good use of my guarding tree, have an opening to take it to the house, using my super-fast catcher. But he fails a 2+ dodge w/rr, and the darkies are able to surround us. Things look bleak--there's no way I'll be able to stop him from out-muscling me to the ball and then stalling til turn 8 for the win...

Unless it happens to be some incredible bouncing of the ball. My treeman frenzy-blocks a darkelf onto the ball, which bounces around all over the place til landing on...my guy. Can't break free, so surround the ballboy with as many players as I can (which isn't many, as from here out I always had at least one stunned player at any given time). Sure enough, the darkies are able to knock my ballboy over, jarring the ball for yet another round of bounces...until the ball gets stuck in the branches of my treeman! He needed about an 11 to get the ball... My sudden str 6 ballboy just has to hold onto the ball for 2 turns to ensure the draw, which he's able to do with some help from his teammates (who in turn were helped by his guard skill, something the darkies completely lacked).

But only 10k earnings this game? Last game I lost 160k in players to RIP's and picked up a niggle on another 70k player, yet between the two games I've earned a combined 50k, not even enough for a replacement line-elf. *sigh* At least I'll have my two MNG's back for next match...”