“Match starts out with a measured drive by the Demon-led Samurai. Nearly got rid of the Oni, but regen. Armor holds up reasonably well which becomes a theme for the game. After a series of failures, we cough the ball up and go down 2-0.

T8...Shadow Horde become my first team to actually pull off a one turn score. MrNomad goes tricksy, but a removal gets rid of his disturbing presence player. Bonehead fails to kick in and a successful pass and run results in a TD. 2-1.

For good or ill, we score quickly in the second half to tie the game with a rookie gutter left unmarked with a gfi needed. Sweltering Heat causes the Humans more distress than the Rats and next drive starts with Rats up 11-9 on menz. This results in a precarious position for the ball carrier who, luckily for us, was not Hanzo. We had brought some pressure around the top and were able to get a 2d block w/ Wrestle/strip on the ball carrier.

Ball bounces to the assisting MA10 SS rat. MrNomad walls off the easiest scoring avenue which was quite congested since we were on the sideline. The rats do their best elf impression and scatter free. Aided by a failure in the midfield allowing the linerats to join the screening formation.

Hanzo and company can't get to the ball carrier safely due to the greased shoes card so they settled for putting pressure on the formation and tying up as many rats as they could. Metalchewer is told to just score 3-2 Rats.

MrNomad sets up to try to score in 2 turns. Perfect Defense ruins the easiest avenue. He gets 2 menz in position anyways. Blitz knocks over one and puts the AG3 option in 3 TZs. Kicker goes and stands over the best guard help nearby through some dodges. Shadowing ultimately dooms the scoring attempt as the lone remaining scoring option fails to escape.

Tough breaks for SL Shogun from T8 on. GG MrNomad”