Anku Circus vs Arinia Invaders
It’s the beginning of Bloodbowl season folks, on this happy First Sontag of Icetime, Year 300! For the first match of this historic season, we have the Anku Circus up against the Arinia Invaders - a friendly warmup match to begin the scoreboard here in the Inner Sea Championship.
This match turned out to be a No Goat, but was plenty exciting all the same - with both sides giving away a fair number of penalties. The Invader kicker, Strongcut, is noteworthy simply because he has failed to prove why he was picked - missing every shot - and was knocked out during the late game, so it may be some time before we see a reason for his selection!
Heavy losses on the Circus side in the form of Ramla and Freedom; both being knocked out; hopefully the Circus substitutes are up to the task!
In form of Touchdowns, all tied up at six apiece - fairly well distributed across the team on the whole, although whether that was from a lack of good defense on both sides will have to be judged throughout the season.
In the end, the penalties the Invaders gave out went to Tikar and his kicks - giving the Circus a 3 point lead they needed; allowing them to just edge out over the competition.
An exciting first match to the season to be sure! I will be catching up with Strongcut later in the week to see if this was just an unlucky day for the Invaders, or whether he suspects something more sinister was involved - the Circus did give away plenty of penalties!