Coaches Ian, Justin and Myself loaded our prospective teams into the team bus and headed off ready to test our mettle.
Deathwing's High Elves vs Marcus' Skaven
On the way up I was tossing up what team to play. My skaven coaching has been a bit naff of late so I thought I'd give them a run out first and see how I went. If I was utterly appalled by the scoreline I had Deadies and Orcs in the team bus who could be kitted up at a moment's notice.
We won the toss and elected to recieve. Starting out with a pass play I ran up for the score only to fumble the ball in the backfield leaving Woody an opening to harrass the throwers. Some appalling dicerolls by the High Elves left Woody cringing as we rolled out for a touchdown pass... inaccurate to the GR waiting in the endzone. The ball sailed over his head and into the crowd. Luckily the ball sailed in to the stand reserved for ECBBL fans and the ball was tossed back in a mere 2 squares from which it bounced back into the waiting hands of my Gutter Runner who rerolled the catch for a touchdown.
Woody has the best "I don't f***ing believe it" face in Bloodbowl
I also have arguably the most annoying cackle.
1-0
We kick short to the elves and they roll the ball back to deep cover, We run down pass interference but Woody threads the needle to perfection and his Lion Warrior breaks away with strong flying cover. We get tacklezones on the ball carrier but manage not to put him under too much pressure. A block and a blitz and it's 1-1.
The Elves are a man down for the next drive which leaves us enough room to set up a pocket deep in Elf territory. Woody's run of bad dice continued as he doubleskulled a blitz on the cage, leaving us to run in uncontested to go up 2-1.
Just when Woody was thinking his luck couldn't get any worse we rolled a blitz for the next kickoff. The ball scattered right up to the line and we pummelled and surrounded the area, hoping to get the onside kick. The ball scattered away from the Rats' clutches but it was close in our half with a lot of support.
Woody threw everything he had at getting the ball back and a ruck ensued. Believing that a touchdown was inevitable as soon as the blitz had been rolled the Rats' coaching staff had ducked downstairs to the commissary to get some warpstone dogs and orca cola and were not present on the sidelines for the next few minutes.
The Skaven, thus deprived of intelligent coaching, ran around like chickens with parkinson's disease, blocking all the wrong people and generally burnt rerolls and fell over.
Woody snatched the initiative and drove downfield for a TD.
2-2
Lacking in rerolls and players by this stage, the elves had no reply left for a 2 turn skaven touchdown and we ran it in in the last turn to secure the 3-2 win.
Absolutely class game that could easily have gone either way. I think the luck factor was the only thing that separated us as coaches and I'm looking forward to a rematch.
I'd like to echo Ian's thanks to Deathwing and Longfang for their hospitality and for a great match.
Roll on Spiky Tournament!
Marcus
and the ball fell loose. Thankfully he wasn't particularly able to gain control of the ball and I was finally establishing a numerical advantage - with 3 KOs. However it wasn't enough and Longfang managed to keep me out with a couple of good blitzing moves. 
It kind of made up for my butter fingers thrower and non-dodging catchers which cost me a few turnovers. It was a really good "play by the seat of your pants" game for me and full of drama. I'll look forward to the "away leg" rematch.