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Myrgard Maudlins blow away Bahl'al's Battlers in historic match |
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| 11/08/98 04:37 BST |
When the MWC Council lifted the ban on casualties for the recent match between
the pyromaniacal dwarves from Myrgard and the thrall of Bahl'al, many of the
soccer-pundits predicted it would be an all-and-out rout... and it was. The
Maudlins defeated the Battlers 34-1 and laid waste to what later calculations
determined to be over 160 thrall participants, but the moral victory was
garnered by the Battlers as they scored the first goal in their history,
surprising over fifty thousand assembled spectators at Stoneheim Memorial
Coliseum.
The key sequence played out as the Maudlins had already built up a 16-0 lead
early in the second half when the left fullback Dorfi misconfigured a group of
satchel charges near the baseline. When the satchels were detonated, the ball
accelerated to a blur and careened off the head of one of the Battlers'
forwards, shooting past the astonished keeper Gimli and
straight into the Myrgard goal. The crowd of normally raucous dwarves sat
in stunned silence as the thrall celebrated by raising their axes in what
one can only assume was excited jubilation.
Ordinarily, the name of the heroic forward would be recorded for all time
in the Myth World Cup records. However, not fifteen seconds after his
historic goal, the nameless hero was vaporized in a seven-satchel explosion.
History will remember him only from the mangled remains of his left
shoulderplate, the single recognisable element left behind on the battlefield.
The dwarves, filled with anger and a touch of embarrassment, rattled off
another 18 goals in the final 25 minutes of play and proceeded to
kill nearly 100 adversaries in a continuous flurry of satchels and cocktails.
But nothing they did on the field could erase the historic figure which
shone on the scoreboard for Bahl'al's Battlers: a "1" in the score column.
Balin, the Maudlins all-star striker, commented on the game's outcome:
"Ahhh...
into the Great Devoid with them! That damn goal of theirs was all luck! Luck,
I tell you! [belch] Excuse me. Anyway, we showed The Watcher and
his children that
we're here to win, and anyone or anything that stands in our way will suffer
the same fate as those worthless lugs." The thrall were much more conciliatory
and gracious in their post-game reaction: "Erg..."
This match concludes the pre-MWC tournament warm-up games and the qualifying
rounds are set to begin tomorrow. Look for the competition to heat up
and the body count
to rise as the defenders of each sponsor city vie for the honor of becoming
the 1998 Myth World Cup champions. As always, stay tuned to your official MWC
news site for all the latest action!
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