“WIL Fringe CUP IV- FINAL

Our undead are up against hogshine's vampire team, who have hired the Count PLUS a wizard. This makes us pretty clear underdogs I think!!

We kick and they collect with a regular blodge vampire and move all 3 down to one side of the half way line. We try a gang foul on a different vampire (stun) but they show us how it's done by KILLING one of our mummies (regen) though they do manage to badly hurt a wight (no regen) with a block. Looking good for them so far!

We foul the vamp again and again it's a stun, while they KO our sole tackler while getting their DP sent off. They've charged all three vamps into our half, so we go for a -2d block vs the count for a push that lets us blitz their other blodge vamp holding the ball with a mummy- and we get the POW and knock him out! The ball bounces around, off heads, faces, and in and out of tackle zones for a couple of turns until we are able to take advantage of an early vamp turnover to grab it with a ghoul and run downfield. They charge back after him, managing to get a tackle zone on him twice, but it's not enough and we make it 1-0 on turn 7.

We kick off and our fans get the ref (for one miserable turn til half time), and our attempted foul is a third, miserable stun :/

** HALF TIME **

It starts pouring rain as we receive the kick, burning up a reroll for us on turn 1, but we do manage to niggle a thrall with a mummy and KO another with our DP (bunny slippers removed at last?). On turn 2 they unleash the wizard on our ball carrier ghoul, 2 zombies and a mummy.. but everyone except the mummy dodges it! One vampire blitzes the ball carrier over, and the other one steals the ball.. then trips over on a GFI! We get players around the ball, but they are able to grab it in a tackle zone on the following turn- argh! We get 3 ghouls back for the blitz but can't get a pow on 4 dice. Our DP then manages to niggle himself with a 1d block, and they make it 1-1 on turn 4.

A bad kick lets us give the ball directly to a ghoul rather than fumble around in the rain, but good use of hypnotic gaze lets them blitz over the ball carrier. Luckily we're able to knock over the vamp, secure the ball, AND niggle two thralls (apo saves one) the following turn. They go for a desperate blitz with their blodge vamp through several tackle zones, but fail the dodge, letting us run a ghoul into range of the end zone. They go all out with the dodges + hypno gazes on turn 7, trying to free up a thrall for a 1d blitz attempt on the ball, but their vamps trip over again and we're able to run in the winner on our final turn!

GG Hogshine!!”