“A game that was clearly a final-game: Pretty long, and very tactical.
It was, besides, fun to play, with luck running wild, favoring both sides from time to time.

We recieved 3 Handicap rolls. I was hoping for Virus (he had 2 nigglers), Greatest and Morleys, or even It wasn´t me. Or at least one of those. But we got Bribe the ref (2) (what is it? foul or 12 players? I only had 11 players and didn´t foul at all...), palmed coin (nice, but not more) and Iron Man (good, Darko got it).

Good thing was that one of the DE nigglers said he couldn´t play and G_Force used the apo on him.

We decided to recieve first. In the first turn we suffered an early turn-over through a block at the LoS. That allowed the DE to spread their players, being able to attack any square on my side, and to lay tacklezones on most of my Rats. Otto Oberhausen then threw the ball to our young Runner Grashüpfer and he started a run towards the unprotected endzone. But he was not fast enough and was stopped by a DE Blitzer, who picked up the ball after that nasty Body Check. Otto was so upset about this that he himself sprinted forward, sending a DE lino badly hurt off the field. Unimpressed the DE advanced forward, but they did not see Ruhr Läufer, who sprinted toward Blocka the ballcarrier and pushed him back a bit. The stupid DE was so confused that he lost the ball without falling to the ground, but he recovered pretty well and picked up the ball again and started running. But our Ruhr Läufer is faster. He reached him once more, and this time, coming from behind, brought Blocka down! And with running past him, he grapped the ball. But once more Blocka recovered, and knocked our Runner down. Shadowing (worked 3 times) forced Ruhr Läufer to attempt a pass that was intercepted by Crone, the bloody witch! He scored the 1:0 TD.
Only a few seconds left, Otto threw the ball to Ewald Essen, who sprinted towards the end zone, dodging around surprised DE and scored a TD! 1:1 at half time.

In the second half the DE received and started to advance slowly. Too slowly. Two of our runners could reach the ST4 thrower and brought him down. The witch Crone started an attempt to stop Ewald Essen, who picked up the ball, but had no chance. Dodging around her he scored the 2nd TD. Now the DE had to push hard, but they had only 7 players left and we 10. The witch Green Hair had an attempt running towards the endzone. Again, our runners were faster and could stop the witch. Again, Ewald Essen was the one who could catch the ball that Ruhr Läufer stripped from the witch. But he couldn´t keep it. The witch was out for revenge and reclaimed the ball heading towards the endzone. But what was that? One step short she dropped down and lost the ball.in Aga, our Runners could get the ball and secure it till the end. In the last minutes the DE were bashing heavily, killing the freebooter Big Berlin. Well, good that it was only the freebooter, I say. He was no big player, anyway.


With their enormous skill, willpower and a right amount of luck the Ruhrpott Ratten won the Golden Ghal Maraz. They suffered heavily during the tourney (186/181 before, now 166 / 167), but want to rebuild and defend the Trophy!”