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Round 1
Kiko Lake's match against Brightvale made several news headlines, mainly because the Altador Cup Committee was searching the world for the best referees, wanting to hire 3 to keep a good eye on Brightvale. Critics said this was a bad move, most famously, the quote from Kiko Lake's reserve goalkeeper, Leelo Paine in the Neopian Times: "Brightvale will cheat no matter what you do".
Tickets did not sell out as quickly as in the first match, as neither of the teams was particularly noteworthy. However, many Altador Cup fans that did not care for either of the teams were desperate for front row seats, to see if they could catch Brightvale cheating.
Also, tickets in the deluxe box sold out in seconds, as rumour had it that King Hagan, who did not usually support organized sports, was attending the match in person. However, this did not end up being true, and the Neopian Times was briefly boycotted for false information, until it agreed to give White Weewoos to all the protestors.
The captains shook hands; Ditan Colb chuckled nervously as he eyed Reb Weemelott, who flashed a wicked grin. Colb gulped.
The captains then walked back to their teams for a brief huddle. After a short period of time, the teams announced that they had both decided to play 1-3.
The lights dimmed, and the proud Yooyu emerged from the trapdoor, with its head down. As the lights came back on, it proudly shot itself into the air, showing that it emitted a burning heat. The Fire Yooyu rolled itself into a ball, and was promptly caught by Brightvale's Kayn Hireck, who gave a wheeze, and ran for the Kiko Lake goal as fast as he could. The younger and faster Relle Felson ran after him. As he got close enough, and crouched to tackle the Skeith, he suddenly fell over his own feet, and the stands were abuzz with anger. No one had actually seen Hireck trip his opponent, but everyone knew it had happened. However, as no referee had actually seen the move been performed, Hireck kept on running towards the goal, but the ball was seized out of his hands by "Poke" Cellers. "Squeaky" Tressif attempted to block, but the ball flew over his head, as Cellers passed it to Helmo Timm, who dodged a tackle from Montecito, and swerved to avoid Weemelott's elbow. Timm gave a hand gesture to her team, who interpreted it, her fellow three forwards and defenders moving after her. Timm reached the goal, and, as Tressif moved to take the ball away, passed it to Cellers, who skid past an opponent, and passed the ball to Kitah. All four players lined up in front of the Brightvale goal, and began quickly passing the ball back and forth, no player holding the ball for more than two seconds.
However, Moncetito had studied his opponents rigorously, and knew what they were doing. They were making sure no one knew which member would attempt to score. Quickly, Moncetito rammed into Kitah, then slammed Felson to the ground. Cellers caught the ball that had flown out of Felson's hands, and passed it to Timm, who attempted scoring. Orie Dinelle did not catch the ball, but instead slammed one hand into it, the ball sticking to it. She quickly passed the ball away to Reb Weemelott, who had gotten to the other side of the field. Cellers quickly ran across the field to intercept Reb, but Reb rammed his elbow into Cellers, who screamed in pain and dropped to the floor. All three referees angrily blew their whistles, and ran over to investigate Reb's elbow, all sure they would catch him with the piece of metal in it this time.
Reb quickly slid the metal out of his elbow pad, and, with some sleight of hand, deposited it in his shirt pocket with no one noticing. None of the referees found the metal in his elbow, and apologized to him for the inconvenience. Cellers could still play, and play resumed, Reb standing slightly farther away from the goal this time. Reb passed to Hireck, who lept into the air, and threw the ball directly at the ceiling. It hit it, bounced off, bounced on the ground, hit the wall, and bounced away from the wall, into the far right of the goal-net. Colb lay on the ground, his attempted dive to catch the ball a failure.
Reb gave a smile to Hireck, as they moved back to where they were before. The Yooyu leapt up again, showing its Faerie colours. Helmo Timm caught the ball, and dodged a headbutt from Montecito. She passed to Relle Felson, who was blocked by Tressif and Montecito. While Relle searched for a way to evade them, Reb tackled him. The ball flew into the air, flying above the heads of everyone who tried to catch it, speeding past Cellers and Kitah, bouncing off the wall and speeding past the whole Brightvale team, bouncing off the wall again, and going back to Kiko Lake, until finally Timm leaped up and caught the ball. Timm sped towards the Brightvale goal, but Tressif snatched the ball out of her hands, and attempted a shot at the goal from far away. The ball curved away, going nowhere near the goal, and hitting Meela Kitah in the head, which no one seemed to notice.
The ball continued to speed away from everyone, until finally it was caught by Weemelott, with five seconds remaining on the clock, Weem threw the ball as hard as he could at the goal, where Colb blocked it just as the clock hit 0:00.
Brightvale raised their hands in the Brightvale Salute, as their Kiko Lake opponents mumbled annoyance, but went outside to sign autographs for their disappointed fans.
