The FAMILY joins the May 2020 145 Club league! The league is off to a great start with three wins. The FAMILY decides that the goal for this league is to defeat the local "bullies" Heretic Mood coached by MiMismo who keep winning game after game bashing anyone who gets in their way. The FAMILY keeps playing games trying to skill up and get closer to the Chaos Dwarfs's impressive TV but the league is prematurely stopped before we have a chance to take the shot at the bad guys.
On the way the FAMILY makes many mistakes, and learns a lot. The final performance is 6/2/3 which gets us a third place. Some of the most interesting games are the 2-0 victory against the other undead team in the league, Los Balakas (the coach is really, REALLY proud of this one as the mummies on the other team are almost star players with +ST, Block and tackle!), the crazy game agains the Halfling team Giants of Llannister, who truly have the hearts of lions, and the crushing loss against Monolith38 norse team. Monolith is by far the best coach we have played against in this league and this game has taught us a lot.

The FAMILY joins a small brawl with 8 teams. The first match is against a human team with a 420k TV difference in favour of the FAMILY. The humans are crushed. The second game is against our old nemesis Los Balakas. Having won against them in the May league gave the FAMILY a false sense of superiority. But it's clear that the opponent's coach has improved their game and, maybe even more importantly, has developed his team in a much more solid way than the FAMILY, who greedily picked all stats increase instead of useful skills. The side-stepping, blodging and strip-balling players of Los Balakas prevent the FAMILY from going to the final game, which is eventually won at a coin toss by Crunch-'s Clever Girls, a team that the FAMILY faced previously in the May league. Their coach has definitely improved their game a lot in just a few games!

The FAMILY has gotten a taste for competitive play and cannot go back to the 145 open play pool. They hear of a free spot in the lowest ranked group of the Isle of Misfit Teams and decide to join the last 3 (out of 7) games of the group. The first game is a painful draw against a Chaos Renegade team. This bloody game permanently kills our most skilled player PRINCESS, with a really unlucky unassisted foul. We go on winning 1-0 vs. a team of really scary Chaos Dwarfs. Unfortunately the FAMILY's favourite MV8 ghoul THE ONE WE DON'T TALK ABOUT was killed in the game.
In the final game of the league we defeated Bretonnian 2-1. A quite "ordinary" game of blood bowl where we were forced to score early (turn 4) in our first drive, we were lucky enough to stop them from scoring, then we forced them to score in only 3 turns, and finally we had a wonderfully violent final drive in which their armours broke into pieces.

The FAMILY found a new home and will join a small KO tournament, the SULKY Shield! First a training game (1-0 vs. Daemons of Khorne) to downsize the FAMILY to 1400k to fit in the format. Thanks to Maxkepa for giving the FAMILY new opportunities to play!

First game is a 2-1 victory vs. Amazons. They kick really deep so it's a slow start. Their armours are resilient and we forgot to bring tackle to the pitch, so it's hard to win by punching. We lose the ball once during our drive but then get it back. We score by turn 7 so they don't have time to equalise in the first half. In fact there is a blitz and we nearly score again. It's 11-11 in second half and, thanks to perfect defense and a very shallow kick we put pressure from the start. Thanks to a lucky bounce they get finally get the ball in turn 3. Some good dodges and they score in turn 7. We need to run! And we do! 2-1.

Second game is vs. a filler goblin team. In the first turn they cheat so much that the client doesn't allow us to blitz vs. the fanatic! They score quickly, in turn 3. We then play slowly and safe and win 2-1 while decimating their team (we feel a bit ashamed stalling vs. goblins, but we really want to play in the final!).

The grand final is vs. a Chaos team. The team is quite bloated with lots (14) rookie players. To our disappointment we cannot induce a wizard in this competition, so we waste our 150k TV difference in a babe and an igor who will not be used during the game. We let them receive the ball, and in the first half their armors break a lot. We even get a free zombie! After few turns we go from the initial 12-14 to 13-12 players. Incredibly DAD intercepts a pass, so it looks like we might be able to score in their half! But their mino can break tackle and POWs OLD SCHOOL UNCLE, who is even KO'd in the process. Those goats have learned to handle the ball, so they manage to pickup in a tackle zone, pass and catch and threaten to score. But PRINCESS runs and blitzes the ball. 0-0 at the end of the first half. It's 11 vs. 10 in the second half. We cage and advance. But we forget they have a frenzy player so it's 10-10 again. But OLD SCHOOL UNCLE manages to get free and we are given the opportunity to stall, so we do for a while until we score in turn 6. But it's a bloody affair! By the time we score we are 9 vs. 8 on the pitch, and KNITTING AUNT is out with a broken neck, while BALD GRAMPA is killed! They have 3 turns to score and they are 10 vs. 11. SKINNY DUDE is killed too. They manage to pass the ball to a goat, but OLD SCHOOL UNCLE saves the day and gets the ball down. The game is over...

The FAMILY signs up for the SULKY league. After the bloody final of the Shield we are left with only 10 players, but since this perfectly fits the tournament TV limit we take the risk and go with it, instead of trading a reroll for a replacement ghoul.

It's a good season and we end up #2, behind Crunch's Clever girls. We don't lose any game but we draw the first game with dwarfs (starting in 10 was a poor idea), vs. Lizards and vs. a big scary Orc team. No major losses during the season, and Old School Uncle is the top scorer of the season.