Greetings sports fans,

It was a long time to hear from us*, but we are still kicking (or better getting kicked..) in the CIBBL championship, the best championship in the FUMBBL from our subjective point view offcourse.

Despite the grim forecast, we have entered on our second full cicle of CIBBL saisons and we maybe soon be eligible to become a Cabalvision Silver Partner hurah! ( see CIBBL Achievements). We are proud to say that we manage to break almost all the halfling records in CIBBL and we assure you that we will continue this year and maybe until we become Gold Partner. Then who knows?

Our Y8 season was okay, "not terrible, not great" to quote a famous skaven warp physicist. Last spring we were a dodge away from the 3rd place in the Empire, our last spectacular tournament, from summer we have nothing to remember, and autumn was not so much disapointment despite we went 7th from 8, because we played in a very high division for halfling standards and actually fought all our games until the end and created upsets against very strong opponents.

But now is Spring and that means we are playing again in Empire Championship! Ideally we will end again with a top 4 placement, but realistically lets make it difficult for our opponents to take the win, which they consider as granted! More importantly, lets pray that this time we will manage to dodge away for a 16th turn 2-1! We need also at least 1 win to cover the loss of the 25 Prestige Points from the prestige decay and keep our place in autumn high. Maybe we will be lucky and gather enough prestige in order to play again against our traditional Autumn rivals Crystal Mere Mystics (3 games) and Corpse Run Nightmares (2 games)! That will be great!

Mentioning our traditional rivals, I will reveal what the Swan Riders will see in their Cabalvision screen this spring:

- All Empire games, offcourse. We must be informed how our Mighty Blow - Guard - Tackle spam opponents play.
- Clan Toko games in Cathay and Nippon Championship. We always cheer for our brothers, the Ninja ones and the Forest ones. Unfortunately, no Forest Halfling this year.
- Corpse Run Nightmares games in the Haunted Hills Championship. Not only because these Strigoi are our traditional autumn rivals since our common time and CIBBL debut in the Pit, but because they are playing also spectacular football. Hey we even have a win against these guys, who costs them the Pit Division title. Not a surprise that they massacred us in the next years Wood!
- Crystal Mere Mystics and True Roots of Khaine games in the Athel Loren. The first because of our rivalry. This rivalry is a bit one sided in favour of the Zoats. We managed to take only a draw once and that draw was in a friendly... They have also the habit to kill our players when they are blocking us! We may return the favour someday, but the important thing is to try to catch them in prestige, so that we will play again in an autumn championship. We are following also the Treeman team, because we have also Treemen Blockers and fans! If you were checking our older blog entries, you know also about our Treemen fans.

That's it folks! Short, but a bit needed. See you on the field and do not forget, cheer for the Swan Riders!


*The reason for this is that we cut our marketing sector for an indefinite time and we do not know, when we will manage to reactivate it.