Clempzen Razorcats vs Undead as a Doornail

The Clempzen Razorcats climbed one step closer to this season's Spike! Magazine bowl playoffs with a 1-1 tie against one of the league's most rotten teams, Undead as a Doornail. Undead as a Doornail currently holds the league's all-time records for longest win streak and longest undefeated streak at 9 and 16 respectively. Considering those kind of numbers and a strong team played by the most calculating Blood Bowl player that I know, escaping the match with a tie is somewhat of a moral victory. The lighting wasn't great for photos, but here is one that I snapped during the game which shows off my buddy's cool paint job on his undead team. Check out those gruesome bases.

Being the underdog, the Razorcats were able to enlist the aid of The Mighty Zug, a valuable strength 5 addition to help go head to head with the undead mummies. They also picked up a Bloodweiser Babe and a dirty trick to keep up their sleeve for an opportune moment. Losing the coin toss, the Razorcats had to kick off to the undead in the first half. Doornail had one of their ghouls pick up the ball and they aggressively pushed the right side of the field for a quick score. The 'cats were able to get a lucky shot on the ball carrier and pop the ball lose. It bounced out of bounds and the crowd hurled it back into the Razorcat's end zone. The Razorcat +AG blitzer, Brian Blockins, was able to scoop it up and rush it to the other, less pressured side of the field. This move left the slower part of the undead team out of the action, but the fast, dodge-happy ghouls were able to respond and caught up with Blockins as he was a few squares from scoring. Doornail recovered the ball, but neither team was able to come up with a desperation turn 8 score and the half ended 0-0.

In the second half, the Razorcats got the ball first and a quick snap on the kickoff gave them excellent position to punch open the Doornail defense. Brian Blockins raced through an opening that gave Doornail a downfield threat to contend with while the human thrower grabbed the ball and advanced towards the line of scrimmage. Blockins was mauled by a wight but there was still a scoring lane open on the field. The Razorcats made a couple less than optimal plays to advance the ball to the waiting hands of Ceejay Splitter who carried the ball into the undead end zone for a quick, two-turn score.

Doornail then went to work to make sure that their undefeated streak would not come to an end. They pressed the right side of the field and did a tremendous job blocking Razorcats near the sideline and crowd-surfing them. With the player numbers to their advantage and the clock running down, Doornail switched sides of the field. In the Razorcat's last turn, they clawed to try and stop Doornail player Augustus the Strong from scoring. They threw a custard pie in a zombie's face, and their ogre, Brains Haddums, blocked open a path to the ball carrier (after succeeding on a sketchy loner reroll to shake off an initial bone-head result). Unfortunately, Augustus the Strong was able to shrug off a hit and Doornail got the 8th turn TD for a 1-1 tie.