Twenty-four teams. Six games. Two days. One prize:
The Bunker Bowl trophy.
But is this glittering prize within the reach of the embattled Green Glade Hackers? Their recent slew of mixed (but mainly poor) results has certainly not filled their fans with confidence.
Surely their hearts sank when their first match was drawn against one of the most notorious Lizardman teams in the tournament.
Head Coach ‘Unlucky’ Lysenko reports in his own words:
GAME ONE:
Green Glade Hackers Vs. Bloxy Music
The Hackers always knew this would be a difficult match, and in a way, we were glad to have gotten it over with first thing.
Panic and triumph intertwined early on in the game when we lost ‘Thoroughly Dubious’ Duran to a violent Saurus tackle – but then scored our first touchdown of the tournament almost immediately afterwards.
Our hearts sank when we lost ‘Bloody Luckless’ Luthien almost immediately after the subsequent kick-off.
Two players down and only a quarter of the way through the game.
It was a nervy remainder to the half, but we managed to hold off the lizards until just before half-time when they unfortunately scored.
Our hopes rose once more when we scored half-way through the second half – only to once more have our hopes dashed, this time by the serious injury on The Auburn Assassin – a blatant act of vengeance which came immediately after our touchdown.
Sadly, just when a draw was in sight, we lost the game when our Treeman, ‘The Outrageous’ Girth, managed to fall over his own roots as he tried to take down a Saurus. This left a gaping hole in the middle of our line for one of their Skinks to run through, grab the ball from beneath our noses, and score.
FINAL SCORE:
Green Glade Hackers 2 – 3 Bloxy Music
GAME 2:
Green Glade Hackers Vs. Jagermonsters
If the first game was about being out-played, then this was definitely going to be about being out-crunched.
These Norse had a fearsome reputation for violence, even amongst some of the more hardened Blood Bowl coaches.
We knew that there was going to be a high casualty tally, but although four Serious Injuries was bad, it was nowhere near what we were expecting.
We were hammered hard in the first half, losing two players – Thrower ‘Go Long’ Glorfindel and fan-favourite, Clooney the Bear – one almost at the outset and the other towards the middle of the half. This blow was softened by the Norse losing one of their two werewolves, when one of our line-elves (who will naturally remain nameless) stuck out a foot and tripped the creature as he tried to dodge away from him.
Needless to say our fans were cheered up no end by this.
Unfortunately, as with the last game, we let through a touchdown in the dying seconds of the first half and went through to the second half needing to catch up.
Once more, touchdowns and injuries came hand-in-hand as ‘Bloody Luckless’ Luthien scored early in the half only seconds before ‘Thoroughly Dubious’ Duran took yet another injury.
The fans had to wait until the last minutes of the game to see Stormwind, the Golden Tornado – one of our fine Wardancers – score the winner, but in a fit of bitterness, the Norse fouled The Auburn Assassin out of the game, only for their player to be sent off for it.
FINAL SCORE:
Green Glade Hackers 2 – 1 Jagermonsters
GAME THREE:
Green Glade Hackers Vs. Far Sea Falcons
I don’t mind admitting that we were completely out-elf’d by this Pro Elf team.
A blow-by-blow account of this game would be almost impossible as the two teams danced skilfully across the pitch amassing numerous touchdowns and collecting many, many injuries for their trouble.
No matter how cunningly we passed and dodged though, for every touchdown we scored, the Falcons notched up almost two, though we came off a lot better on casualties.
Our star scorer of the match, with his hat-trick of touchdowns (which were our only touchdowns in the end) was Stark-Elm the Reckless, who had been rather quiet so far in the tournament but now seemed to have warmed up to the event.
‘Bloody Luckless’ Luthien, living up to his name, fell over his own laces and had to be stretchered off, while the Falcons’ Thrower managed the same feat later in the game.
Rather uncharacteristically violently, the Hackers managed to injure four of the enemy players, thanks to frustrated blocks by Stormwind, Girth, Twister Pine-Cone and Clooney the Bear.
The numbers advantage gained from these injuries could not however rescue the game.
FINAL SCORE:
Green Glade Hackers 3-5 Far Sea Falcons
So, the first day under our belts and a very mixed bag, really. We expected defeat at the hands of Bloxy Music, were surprised to beat the Jagermonsters, but then really should have managed to defeat the Far Sea Falcons. After seeing the injury tally we inflicted on them at the end of the game, perhaps we should have tried hitting them sooner. Still, tomorrow is another day...
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The second instalment of our exciting and EXCLUSIVE Bunker Bowl 2010 report!!!
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