“Our elf cycle continues! This time we attempt to take on DWARVES - a sometimes nightmarish cat A opponent. We're up against Skolopender's 10-dwarf squad (TS +1 in his favour).

The game starts with a 4 turn running battle in and around the ball with passes, blitzes, fumbles, and finally an interception after their blodge blitzer tries to pass a long bomb (after making a 5+ pickup then dodging away!!). This fortunate occurence lets us charge through and make the touchdown almost definite + attempt to waste a little time. Just one turn later we run in the opening touchdown!

With only a couple turns left the dwarves charge upfield, passing to a +MA blitzer who runs into space alone on one side. We pile in, knocking him down and watch the ball thrown deep by the crowd to near our endzone where a waiting elf runs back to claim it leaving the dwarves (once we knock over the nearby blitzer) unable to get near for the equaliser.

The second half starts with a lot of painful blocking from the dwarves and the pitch is starting to look a little bare of elves. However the ones that are left are doing amazing work and twice we manage to sack the dwarf ball carrier just squares from the end zone. Our DP (saved until now) removes the dwarf runner who almost single-handedly blitz-dodge-pickup-GFIx2 for the TD the previous turn and this gives us a bit of space. But there's a lot of dwarves spread around the pitch double marking our remaining elves.. We see a way through and a blitz to clear space for the blitzer lets him take the hand off and sprint into space where he can't be reached by the dwarves, letting him score in the second last turn with a single GFI!

With a single turn left each the game ends a 2-0 win for the elves; our first shutout win!

Thanks for the game Skolopender, a very entertaining game which could have gone either way with some very slightly different rolls!”