“The game could not start any better for Finest of the Forest. Maquinaro got knuckledusters and one of the Saviors' DP suffered from his niggling injury.

The Finest began their drive niggling the other Saviors' DP, but he was appoed. A series of drives ensued, with the scored tied 2-2 with two turns left in the first half. The only Finest's tackler, besides the WD, was badly hurted by the Savior's DP.

In turn 7, the game crashed. We reloaded the game several times, but when synchronizing, a ball would appear on the ball carrier which prevented me from scoring. In the end, we decided to go on. I moved one of my isolated players to crowd push his OT, but apparently one of his players was standing next to mine (although he was invisible to me) and I failed the dodge. Thus, what could have been a one-turner crowd pushed and the 3-2 lead became a 2-3 at the end of the first half.

The second half saw both teams get the ref, which helped the Saviors' DP to continue his fine work. The Finest retaliated, but they will need more training at fouling since they did not knock out a single elf.

In this second half both teams rolled bad dice, although mine were definitely worse (three double skulls and several double ones), failing several passes and handoffs.

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I was quite confident the game was mine before the game crashed, but losing 2-3 at halftime really got me really annoyed. Soaren kept playing and did not need to do much to beat me, so kudos to him for not losing his focus as I did.

WARNING - If possible, play without a proxy your FC games. Having to reload the game seven times takes away all the fun. :(

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Note after reading Soaren's comment
- If I had scored, you should have tried a OT, but if you had failed it, the score would have been 4-4. So yes, the game crash did matter, mind you.

You will have your rematch any time :))”