“BBB Round 7. Our final game sees us in 4th place versus BloodBowlNutter's 2nd place team. If they win they will go first, if we win we will make 3rd (and avoid a nasty seeding in the knock out stages). Everything to play for!

The teams look pretty even, we have a slight TS advantage but that is nullified when our claw beasty niggles out while both their nigglers can play.

We choose to receive but they roll up a blitz, messing everything up! They surge into our backfield and we're forced to do some pretty dodgy stuff to try and get the ball into a semblance of safety, burning a reroll on a 2d block and then tripping on a GFI with the ball in hand. They charge through again, grabbing the ball- but we're able to throw a beasty out of bounds and then make a GFI blitz that knocks over the ballcarrier (once we reroll the double skulls!). Then there's a bit of a scramble for the ball where despite their beast being right there the whole time, we are somehow able to grab it, dodge through (using our last RR), chainpush the beast away from our ballcarrier and then leg it downfield. With our tentacled beast holding lovingly onto the two beastmen near enough to get the ball we are able to stall as long as we dare and score on turn 7.

They have two turns but we have a kicker and roll up our own Blitz!! This lets us mess up their initial turn, though they are still able to grab the ball and get two beastmen through a gap into our half. On our turn we're able to seriously injure their clawed beastman, freeing a MA7 beasty to blitz after their ballcarrier... but since he has blodge we can't knock him down! Our beast then badly hurts a beastman with a both-down 2d block. They dodge backwards to blitz our MA7 by the ball... but can only get a double both-down result (no RRs left) - badly hurting our beastman and ending the half!

We line up 11 to kick vs 10 of them. They secure the deep ball with their blodger and advance as many beastmen as they can. We respond by blitzing down a beastman and DP fouling him for a MNG, while trying to contain them on both sides. They run up one side and it turns into a massive punch-fest, both sides sustaining casualties and the ball being passed back and forth. We're soon all out of rerolls and so are they- every risky move is a potential turnover now! Eventually we manage to seize the ball and run downfield slightly... but they dodge back and blitz us down, with the crowd tossing the ball to the center of the pitch... where they pick it up with a loose beastman and try and throw it downfield to where another beastman waits in a single tackle zone! But our intrepid beastman who's marking the receiver intercepts!!

We try and get another beastman over to support, making a few blocks to free one up who can just get there with a single GFI... SLIP! Oh no, this could be bad! They blitz after the ball with the beastman who threw it.. needing a GFI to reach him.. SLIP!! What's with the banana peels!?

With that we're able to blitz our beastman free and run into space where they can't reach us. To add insult to injury with a mere 4 GFIs over the next two turns he's even able to score in the closing seconds of the game!

Good game BloodBowlNutter, an exciting game with plenty of dastardly plays, excitement and strokes of luck (this time, mostly mine!)”