{"id":506,"date":"2006-07-18T10:12:39","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T10:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevepugh.net\/VTT\/?p=506"},"modified":"2006-07-18T10:12:39","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T10:12:39","slug":"first-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/2006\/07\/first-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"First Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night the <b>2006 Old World Cup<\/b> started. This, in contrast with the recent rubbish in Germany, is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.specialist-games.com\/bloodbowl\/default.asp\">Blood Bowl<\/a> tournament <a href=\"http:\/\/home.austin.rr.com\/javabbowl\/\">played over the web<\/a> with a few friends. My team, <i>Frankenstein&#8217;s Fumblers<\/i>, played the opening game against the <i>Dwarf Giants<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The <i>Fumblers<\/i> have a nice mix of muscle, speed and cannon fodder. The <i>Giants<\/i> have muscle, more muscle and some muscle on the side. The Giants won 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>As the cup is being played as a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Double_elimination\">double elimination<\/a> tournament this means that I&#8217;m not out but I do have an uphill struggle if I&#8217;m going to win. My next match will be against the loser of <i>Numinal Comets<\/i> (elves) vs <i>Veni Vedi Viking<\/i> (um, Vikings).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night the 2006 Old World Cup started. This, in contrast with the recent rubbish in Germany, is a Blood Bowl tournament played over the web with a few friends. My team, Frankenstein&#8217;s Fumblers, played the opening game against the Dwarf Giants. The Fumblers have a nice mix of muscle, speed and cannon fodder. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-my-life","category-sport"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1fxq5-8a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}