GUNNERS FIRE TAIPANS
11-4 team loses to 7-8
Week 16 in Subsim Fantasy Football, and with only two games being played this weekend, one you could have telephoned in the result quicker than a US election. The other was a thriller all the way to the end. One team goes home wondering what could have been and the other advances to the Torpedo Bowl.
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Two weeks ago the Nighthawks were handed a gift horse when the Guns of Hoculi defeated the Australian Taipans and allowed the Nighthawks to claim the number one seed in the playoffs and home field advantage. The Nighthawks were gifted their second seed of the play offs when the Black Cats were the final team to qualify and flew to London...minus half their team. Yep, the Black Cats arrived with just four (4) players on the team. Devonte Adams (WR) did all he could to carry the team with 39 points, but the Black Cats weren't just going to make it, even before Washington (DEF) recording a negative score. Mister Chris could have run out his under 16 team and still would have accounted for the Black Cats. Helmand Nighthawks advances to the Torpedo Bowl as the number 1 seed thoroughly accounting for the Black Cats 123 - 75.
Our second game of the weekend was a thriller with all the drama unfolding earlier in the week. The Taipans lost three (3) players through Covid protocols and started the week playing with an open spot - just in case one of them would pass. The Gunners Coach Casey returned to the team and clinched key players off the waiver wire to start the game favorite. The Taipans had Deebo Samuels (WR) put them on the board with a sizeable start, with the Gunners not running anybody onto the field until early Sunday morning But when they did, the fireworks began. The Gunners chased down the Taipans lead and surpassed them to open a 40 point lead. The Taipans slithered their way back into the game, but their efforts for a win were thwarted when Josh Allen (QB) racked up a season high score. Left with Patrick Mahhones (QB) the Taipans recaptured the lead late Sunday, but eventually, the Gunners final player, Greg Zuerline (K) would put the game out of reach. The Gunners stage their second upset win over the Australian Taipans in the past three weeks to win by the closest margin of the week (LOL) 159 - 151 - and book a ticket to England to meet the Helmand Nighthawks in the Torpedo Bowl. The Australian Taipans get to stay home one more week and wait for the Black Cats to cross the Atlantic and the continent to compete for the bronze medal.
Next weeks third game will see the Who Dat Nation Rises hosting the Drunk Monkeys for the wooden spoon of the league.
Each week, the Associated Subsim Writers (ASW) will nominated their Most Valuable Torpedo (MVT) of the week, the single player who proved decisive in their teams performance.
From nowhere, Coach Casey has returned and after ghosting the league for most of the season, marched into the playoffs and now onto the Torpedo Bowl. Could they ghost all the way? For the effort of passing for 314 yards, 3 touchdowns, and rushing for 64 yards, for a total of 42.96 points, the Week Sixteen MVT goes to Josh Allen (QB) of the Guns of Hochuli.
