Mephisto's Fist-o's v Glistening Dementia
Just about everything that could go wrong did go wrong for both teams this game. There were 15 turnovers.
Mephisto's choose to receive, after a lucky injury with the Bloodthirster (his first of the season) with the first move, the Minotaur bought with inducements rolls double both down, succeeds a loner reroll, and rolls double skulls ending the turn on the second block. Dementia retaliate with a few punches, Wild Animal with the minotaur, and move hobgoblins towards the ball. Attempting to set up a cage, a pit fighter goes for the ball and fails the pick up and reroll, ending the turn instantly. Two chaos dwarfs put tackle zones on the ball, then a minotaur on minotaur blitz results in a both down and turnover.
Mephisto's uses a Bloodletter to remove a tackle zone from the ball, runs a pit fighter over for extra ball coverage, then succeeds in picking up the ball and dodging away, handing off to another pit fighter, and forming a three-point cage on the left side of the pitch. Dementia screens with a few hobgoblins, punches some demons, and gets a dwarf in base contact with the ball carrier. Mephisto's shifts some players around and blitzes the ball carrier free, but cannot move far due to the screen. Dementia takes advantage of the standstill to punch three players in base contact with the ball carrier, including their Bull Centaur. Mephisto's punches a hole for the ball carrier, blitzes a Bloodletter downfield free (injuring a hobgoblin), then dodges the ball carrier out and passes to the Bloodletter. The pass fails and scatters the ball 3 squares from the endzone.
Dementia capitalizes on this failure to blitz the receiving Bloodletter down with their Bull Centaur, then proceeds to push and punch demons all over the pitch. Not to be out-punched, Mephisto's charges the Bull Centaur down with their minotaur, fracturing it's arm and removing it from the pitch. Fists are exchanged, with Dementia attempting to get closer to the ball with their only nearby hobgoblin. Unfortunately, the hobgoblin near the ball rolls a both down. Although a pit fighter is KO'd due to this, it leaves a bloodletter demon completely open and dangerously near the ball and in easy scoring range. Mephisto's, using a combination of skill, cunning, and fortitude, proceed to viciously fumble the ball around on the ground for two turns, ending the half 0-0.
Dementia is down by 2 players at the beginning of the second half, while Mephito's remains at full strength. Dementia starts the turn by punching through Mephito's front line, KO'ing a pit fighter and stunning two more. A beautiful hobgoblin pass leads to a tight cage just past the line of scrimmage. Mepisto's screen and bring a few players up the side of the pitch, while blitzing their Bloodthirster next to the ball carrier. Dementia attempts to free their ball carrier, but a bad reroll results in double skulls and a turnover. Mephisto's then punches the ball loose, picks it up with a Bloodletter, and moves downfield under the cover of a second Bloodletter and minotaur. Dementia bases the ball carrier with a hoblin, then blocks a chaos dwarf loose to charge down the field. Making two going-for-its, the dwarf slams into the ball carrier, but bounces off and falls to the ground. Mephisto's exploits this opening to knock the ball carrier free and score the first touchdown of the match on turn 11.
The second drive starts with a Blitz kickoff roll in Mephisto's favor, who use it to surround the dwarf front line and get two players near where the ball will land. A fortunate scatter keeps the ball from Mephisto's and moves it closer to the receiving hobgoblins. Seeing the Mephisto's overextended, Dementia punch a hole through the center off the defense while simultaneously weakening Mephisto's flanks and moving the ball up the left of the pitch. The Fist-o's are barely able to free a single player to mark the ball carrier, which Dementia responds to by KO'ing, then injuring two other players in the center of the field. Unfortunately, Dementia did not have a player to mark a bloodletter further up the pitch who was able to blitz the ball carrier down 6 spaces from the end zone. Dementia attempt to recover by blitzing the single bloodletter on the ball with their minotaur, but suffer a both down and turnover. Mephisto's re-positions a few players and blitzes down a dwarf to cut off the hobgoblin and minotaur from further support. Taking a chance, the downed hobgoblin near the ball leaps up, dodges into a tackle zone with the ball, picks up it, then fails blitzing through the bloodletter in the way, losing hold of the ball again. Some punching and a failed vanity pass happen on the last turn, and the game ends 1-0 in Mephisto's favor.
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