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Curious Defense Leads to Green Dukes Second Loss of NCBB Season 48


Kam Skatreeboo makes the catch deep in Werecat territory to score the Green Dukes’ lone TD.

The Duqueswood University Green Dukes dropped their third game of NCBB season 48 by the score of 2-1 to the South Salem Werecats in a hard-fought match that turned on a curious first-half defensive coaching decision. Freshman wardancer Kam Skatreebo (independent study: unnecessary physical contact) scored the Green Dukes lone TD on a 6-yeard scamper after catching a 9-yard pass from senior thrower Phaedry Featehrwind (plant psychology), who had a game-high 2 completions on the day. Speedy senior ghoul runner Jack McCarty had both of the Werecats' TDs, the first on a late first-half sideline scamper that the Green Dukes curiously declined to head off.


Green Duke defenders strangely move out of the way as McCarty runs past to score the Werecats first TD at the end of the first half

Asked whether he made the coaching mistake because he failed to identify McCarty’s gutter-runner-like speed when he scouted the team, Green Duke Coach Baerys Pondripple said there was no mistake. “That was just part of our safety-first strategy,” he explained. “We made the decision to leave the sideline open because I felt it was safer for our players not to get in the way.”

When reporters in the postgame press conference asked Pondripple if “getting in the way” weren’t actually the whole point of playing defense in Blood Bowl, the coach pointed at the zero on the score sheet under casualties. “You see what that says?” he said. “That means no dead elves. Now, if we go out there and we do everything we can not to die, then I don't care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game. In my book, we're going to be winners!” He threw his fist into the air and paused awkwardly as if he were expecting people to cheer. There was no cheering.

The loss drops the Green Dukes to 1-2 so far on the season, with a match-up vs. the Mary's Land Terrible Terrapins lizardman squad next up on the schedule.

Off-Field Notes

Northern Section of Forest Closed

Duqueswood Grand Chieftain Mervys Spinleaf has closed the northern sector of the Duqueswood Forest for what he is officially calling “renovation purposes.” Despite rampant rumors that the northern section of the forest has been blighted with a Nurgle infestation and that several of the clans living there have been attacked by, and then transformed into, rotters and bloaters, the Duqueswood elders continue to deny any presence of Nurgle pestilence in the wood.

When pressed as to whether there would be any effort mounted to rescue the elves still trapped in the northern section of the forest, Spinleaf said there are currently no such plans.

“Well, there are two reasons that's not what we're doing,” he said. “The first is that there is no Nurgle infestation. And the second is if there were an infestation a rescue mission would not be the safe response.” Curiously he then threw his fist in the air, shouted "Safety first!" and paused as if expecting the gathered crowd to cheer. Here again, there was no cheering.


Magecast images from the northern section of the Duqueswood forest show that there is definitely, absolutely, positively not a Nurgle infestation in the area.

See you on the bleachers, wear a green hoodie to show support.
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CIBBL is starting up recruitment again, we just finished the last matches of the Summer season of the 14th year. This means our next season will start once all the admin is done - so join up now!

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CIBBL is one of the largest custom-roster scheduled leagues on FUMBBL and one of the largest active scheduled leagues on FUMBBL.

More importantly it is the place where stories are born!

CIBBL (CabalVision Inter-regional Blood Bowl League) is a seasonal fluff-heavy league, with regional play, cups and inter-regional ranked play, making use of CRP + SL teams and CRP+ rules, along with some modifications, edits and possible extras. CIBBL uses a unique, personal ruleset.

For more information, see the group HERE.

We are looking for committed reliable coaches to join CIBBL, but your journey is up to you. We are looking for you to join our next Autumn Season, which is the prestige-based ranked time of year.

Maybe you want to create fouling history with goblins? Perhaps you want to chase the longest winning streak in the league? To us the games are important but the stories & rivalries are what make CIBBL unique.

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Great fun - join today!

When that guy pronounced that he had invented Blood Bowl, this is the sort of thing he was envisaging. CIBBL brings the game to life just that bit more with a real feeling of story and history to it, all so well put together and maintained by the CIBBL staff.
Loads of great coaches and loads of different teams make you want every FUMBBL game to be a CIBBL game." (Sweep12121)

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- CIBBL -

Happy to report that the fundraiser for my 3000th game, with Ranked Amateurs against grrrreindeer's Cokenhagen Lizzzzrds was a resounding success! We ended up with a 1-1 tie, with 5 total Casualties, which by itself would have raised 7 gold crowns from each participant, a nice haul well over 100 Euros.

But there was another contributor, one who really decided to pitch in.

Near the end of the match, Merc Lineman 1 convinced the great and mighty Kroxigor KRIEX to sacrifice himself for the good of Nuffle and FUMBBL. Kriex had 110k of improvements, bringing his total value to 250k, a sacrifice worth a whopping 5 gold crowns each, bringing the total to 12 crowns apiece. So if your name is on the list below, multiply the your commitment per crown by 12 (out of 5-20, remember?), and that's your donation. So if you said €1 per, that's €12; if you said $3 per crown, then $36. If you gave a flat amount, give that. It comes out to 196 units of real-world currency with a value of about $200 USD.

Thank you to all of our generous pledgers!

grrrreindeer
JackassRampant
Klazam
Koadah
Lorebass
Morehouse
PatKnez
quix
Rijssiej
Townee
Xelron

Extra special thanks to KRIEX!

Let me know at least a month in advance if you want a fundraiser for your landmark game, and I'll show you how to put it together.