Norsca Union League

We are good to go! 9 teams are in the second season of this cycle, with 1 walkover AI team in the mix.



These are the teams:
Elizardbeth's Royal blood (Lizardmen) - Memofin
Fangless Freshmen (Vampire) - Saitani
Har Ganeth BB (Dark Elf) - Gnaarkill
Kamprads Classics (Humans) - Lars
Non-Fungible Team (Norse) - tags
Old Skool Orks III (Orcs) - Atte1979
Siblings Of Shrek (Ogre) - Mr. B
s0 pRO MAD 53rFs (Chaos Dwarf) - J-Reedy
Steel of Sweden (Bretonnian) - Hakos
Chaos Bloodseekers - Walkover AI team

Mr. B, I think most weekdays next week at 21 should work for me, unless I'm forgetting something. For example Monday at 21?

Yo yo yo, Atte!

Time to fight... or I mean, play ball or... BOTH! :D

I could play already tomorrow (Saturday) if you see this.
Will be home from 16 and onwards. Just hook me up on discord.

Otherwise my schedule will be something like this (CEST-time):
Monday: 19 - 21
Wednesday: 19 - 21
Thursday: 19 - 21

/Gnaar

yay, new season

Quick update, Memofin: I can play almost any time during this weekend. For next week I am probably busy most days until friday. /hakos

All righty, thanks for kicking off the season, TAGS-man!

Discord notifications for this season should work now, this message will show that to be true or not.

10 team league, so top 4 will go into playoffs. Play on!

Looks like I get the honor of going against the champion. So, Lars, here are my OK CEST start times as far as I can tell:
- Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday 18-21
- Thursday 19-20

Let me know if any of those suits you, sir. This weekend is already booked and will know more about next weekend sometime during next week.

Quote from: tags on May 27, 2022, 09:12:39 PMMr. B, I think most weekdays next week at 21 should work for me, unless I'm forgetting something. For example Monday at 21?

well hello there little Norse!
Will any Tuesday next week work then?
My little scrabbler tells my, it will be a good day to..bowl. 

Quote from: Gnaarkill on May 28, 2022, 12:21:47 AMYo yo yo, Atte!

Time to fight... or I mean, play ball or... BOTH! :D

I could play already tomorrow (Saturday) if you see this.
Will be home from 16 and onwards. Just hook me up on discord.

Otherwise my schedule will be something like this (CEST-time):
Monday: 19 - 21
Wednesday: 19 - 21
Thursday: 19 - 21

/Gnaar

Hello Gnaar!

How about today at 17 CEST?

Quote from: hakos on May 28, 2022, 09:06:39 AMyay, new season

Quick update, Memofin: I can play almost any time during this weekend. For next week I am probably busy most days until friday. /hakos

Hey hey!

I'm super busy this weekend and same goes for next weekend too, exept for sunday.
Weekdays are all fine after 19.00 cet.
So maybe friday or sunday then? 

Quote from: atte1979 on May 28, 2022, 11:33:16 AMHello Gnaar!

How about today at 17 CEST?

That is perfect!

See you in a couple :)

/Gnaar-man

Quote from: Mr B on May 28, 2022, 11:24:17 AM

Quote from: tags on May 27, 2022, 09:12:39 PMMr. B, I think most weekdays next week at 21 should work for me, unless I'm forgetting something. For example Monday at 21?

well hello there little Norse!
Will any Tuesday next week work then?
My little scrabbler tells my, it will be a good day to..bowl. 

Yes, Tuesday at 21 should work fine! I do play disc golf on Tuesday evenings, but I'm usually home around 2030, so should be fine. I'll let you know in the off-chance that I'll get delayed.

After a disappointing final round dropping out of the first seasons play-offs The Orks came to the season 2 opening match with rage, fury, and rage. Plus a little rage.

The crowds saw two dark elves removed from the pitch right on the line of slaughter, and Nuffle seemed to have chosen his favourites.

After the massacre of their first turn The Orks caged up and started a steady advance towards Har Ganeth BB's endzone, taking out the dark ones one by one. The pale skinned BB's fought with honour and skill, but since Nuffle had abandoned them from the beginning they could only take out one of The Orks linemen, who was released from his contract after the match due to suffering the second stat reduction of his career which dropped his strength down to 2, in addition to his first season injury which dropped his armor down to 8.

As the cage advanced slowly and steadily, the ranks of the dark elves grew thinner and thinner. As The Orks scored on their final turn of the half, the Har Ganeth BB's were left with only nine players to start the second half.

In the beginning of the second half The Orks were more ready than their opponents and they blitzed the BB's on the kick-off.

Although no removals occurred on the blitz, the BB's found themselves based by The Orks when they eventually could get things going in the half and were forced to dodge out of reach of The Orks. That's when all the blood sacrifices to Nuffle performed by The Orks began paying off and the crowd saw an unusually high amount of dark elves stumbling on their own feet and falling down.

The BB's made a gallant effort down the field on their left flank with one runner, but The Orks had anticipated the desperate one man move and sacked the ball carrier to turn the momentum around in their favor and began advancing once again towards the BB's endzone. With the overwhelming man advantage and the incredibly poor luck with their opponents dodges they managed to advance the ball up the pitch with a blitzer running the ball in on their last turn for the 2-0 victory.

Thank you once again for the match @Gnaar. Nuffle was against you all throughout the match and I hope there weren't any key players permanently injured. Good luck with the rest of the season.

Quote from: Memofin on May 28, 2022, 11:41:19 AM

Quote from: hakos on May 28, 2022, 09:06:39 AMyay, new season

Quick update, Memofin: I can play almost any time during this weekend. For next week I am probably busy most days until friday. /hakos

Hey hey!

I'm super busy this weekend and same goes for next weekend too, exept for sunday.
Weekdays are all fine after 19.00 cet.
So maybe friday or sunday then?

I might be able to squeeze in a game on tuesday evening at 19. Perhaps we could try that and otherwise we aim for friday at 19?

/hakos

Quote from: J-Reedy on May 28, 2022, 11:20:20 AMAll righty, thanks for kicking off the season, TAGS-man!

Discord notifications for this season should work now, this message will show that to be true or not.

10 team league, so top 4 will go into playoffs. Play on!

Looks like I get the honor of going against the champion. So, Lars, here are my OK CEST start times as far as I can tell:
- Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday 18-21
- Thursday 19-20

Let me know if any of those suits you, sir. This weekend is already booked and will know more about next weekend sometime during next week.

Hi J-Reedy

I can play tomorrow Monday at 20:00 if thats still works for you.

/Lars

Quote from: Lars on May 29, 2022, 08:53:41 PMHi J-Reedy

I can play tomorrow Monday at 20:00 if thats still works for you.

/Lars

Sure, tomorrow works fine, see you later today!

Quote from: hakos on May 29, 2022, 11:07:24 AM

Quote from: Memofin on May 28, 2022, 11:41:19 AM

Quote from: hakos on May 28, 2022, 09:06:39 AMyay, new season

Quick update, Memofin: I can play almost any time during this weekend. For next week I am probably busy most days until friday. /hakos

Hey hey!

I'm super busy this weekend and same goes for next weekend too, exept for sunday.
Weekdays are all fine after 19.00 cet.
So maybe friday or sunday then?

I might be able to squeeze in a game on tuesday evening at 19. Perhaps we could try that and otherwise we aim for friday at 19?

/hakos

Tuesday sounds great. No stress though. If it seems that you can't play, we try it on friday then 😁

So match between 2 off the play off teams was played the Champs started with the ball and made a little move to the right and then ran away to left. This little move put the Chorf team out of position and the humans could stall out and score in round 8. The second half was a bit more exciting a deep kick and a quick snap where the dwarfs and bulls and mino went forward, opened up for the humans to try to step between the line and the ball grabbing hobgoblins. That move almost was successful at least it stopped the ball from moving for about 5 rounds. but in the end they managed to run over to the humans half of the pitch, the humans managed to muster 2 players so that they could get a one die on the ball carrier, they die showed a pow and pushed the ball backwards. The humans managed to put some pieces around the ball including a side stepper that in the end managed to stand next to the ball when the hobgoblin had to try to pick it up but the 50% chance to pick it up failed and secured the match for ruling champs.

During the match the chorf armor was terrible but they was good at injury rolls, the humans was opposite a lot of broken armor but not that much injuries. The worst injurie was afflicted by the audience on a bull centaur but it was apod into a miss next.

Thanks for the match J-Reedy and good luck in the coming matches and cya in the play-off

/Lars
 

Quote from: Memofin on May 30, 2022, 05:50:45 PM

Quote from: hakos on May 29, 2022, 11:07:24 AM

Quote from: Memofin on May 28, 2022, 11:41:19 AM

Quote from: hakos on May 28, 2022, 09:06:39 AMyay, new season

Quick update, Memofin: I can play almost any time during this weekend. For next week I am probably busy most days until friday. /hakos

Hey hey!

I'm super busy this weekend and same goes for next weekend too, exept for sunday.
Weekdays are all fine after 19.00 cet.
So maybe friday or sunday then?

I might be able to squeeze in a game on tuesday evening at 19. Perhaps we could try that and otherwise we aim for friday at 19?

/hakos

Tuesday sounds great. No stress though. If it seems that you can't play, we try it on friday then 😁

Hey Hakos, little setback.
My son got sick today and I'm alone with him tonight. Could we try our game on friday? Sorry about this hassling.

Quote from: Memofin on May 31, 2022, 04:10:55 PMHey Hakos, little setback.
My son got sick today and I'm alone with him tonight. Could we try our game on friday? Sorry about this hassling.

Sure, no problems, I was about to ask for Friday as well. Need to work this evening. :(

/hakos

Well, Non-Fungible Team met Siblings of Shrek, and it was an intense back-and-forth. But ultimately, the match felt like it was decided by sweltering heat.

NFT chose to receive, and made a touchdown (forced early, because Ogres hit hard). Next drive, sweltering heat makes sure NFT is undermanned, and it is an uphill battle to defend. SoS handily scores the equalizer.

Turn 8 line of scrimmage is critical; NFT gets a few critical blocks in, which leaves one ogre injured and another KO'd (which doesn't recover 2nd half). On top of that, Sweltering heat finally came for the Ogre side, leaving a third ogre out for the duration.

So what looked like a pretty grim picture for the Norse turned into a pretty decisive victory caused by random events over a turn or two. Well, I guess that's Blood Bowl for ya.

Anyway, thanks for the match B!

Thanks for the game mate.
I was actully more affraid of getting that 1,1 on thick dum head roll than beeing hurt in the last round in the fist half, but that was a deal breaker for sure.
But I guess it was good roleplaying from me, just as a Ogre would have done :D

Anyhow, I had a good grip of the game, and then second half was just, No I do not!
Was blessed with a ball falling outside the grid, and saw that as a sign.
And still do not understand landing roll of 5+ required on a ag4 gobbo, so of course I failed and lost.

GG anyhow, we move on!

Quote from: hakos on May 31, 2022, 06:26:44 PM

Quote from: Memofin on May 31, 2022, 04:10:55 PMHey Hakos, little setback.
My son got sick today and I'm alone with him tonight. Could we try our game on friday? Sorry about this hassling.

Sure, no problems, I was about to ask for Friday as well. Need to work this evening. :(

/hakos

Are we trying our game tonight? Or should we try some other day? I'm free sunday evening :)

Hi

I totally forgot the match between Memofin and myself yesterday. Was sleeping in the sofa, exhausted, at the time. I have offered him the admin win but Memofin was kind enough to offer a new time to play.

New Plan: Match is now planned for sunday, 18:00, CET

/hakos

Final game of the day is played.

Lot's of goals might indicate bad defense, but in reality the defense was good enough to force the attacker to score as early as possible which gave plenty of opportunities.

Bretonnians choose to start as defenders. One peasiant died while valiantly defending against the kroxigor. His name will not be remembered. That was the only noteworthy thing happening. The lizards tried to be greedy but had to score in turn 5. 0-1

Time for bretonnians to attack. It was a fairly classic one of knocking a hole in the right flank, squeeze in as many players as possible while one knight catched the ball and then ran all the way into the end zone to score in turn 8 while all others protected his flank. 1-1

Second half, time for Bretonnians to attack again. More or less the same pattern as in the last attack, but this time they had to score after only three turns. 2-1

Lizards are on the offence but Bretonnians tries for the victory by blitzing. Unfortunately one knight manages to fall while running instead of placing himself where the ball is about to land. One more failed dodge in the next turn and there is nothing stopping the lizards from scoring, but at least they have to score quickly. 2-2 with two turns left.

Final offence is from the Bretonnians and the two turner is made a bit easier when the kick is off-field and thus the ball is given to the knight standing unmarked at the LOS. Everyone is either running into the opposition field as far as they can, or mark key players. Only a skink can attack the ball carrier so they wisely choose to mark him instead. Final turn, a block, a dodge, another block and a final GFI is needed. Defying all odds, the final GFI is succesful. 3-2.



Pheew, thanks for the game Memofin, it was a fun one.

/hakos