Still, the Unicorns as defending champions and observers expected a close matchup with small individual actions perhaps making the difference between victory and defeat.
The biggest surprise of the quarter-finals was ironically the difficulty Frankfurt had in overcoming the Berlin Rebels in a game with now touchdowns, ultimately prevailing 6–5 on two out of two attempted Field Goals being good.
Frankfurt had the better start and scored both the first Touchdown on an 11-yard run by French Runninback Andreas Betza and the second one on a 13-yard pass by Eiffers to the Finnish Wideout Sebastien Sagne who had played for the Dresden Monarchs the previous two seasons.
The Unicorns, led by the quarterback of the Germany national American football team, Marco Ehrenfried, who had already led his team to victory in German Bowl XXXIX and the 2014 European Championship finally got on the scoreboard in the second quarter, when Ehrenfried found Tyler Rutenbeck for 42 yard Touchdown pass making it 13–7 with the PAT.
Frankfurt drove the ball down all the way to the 16 yard line but after a delay of game penalty, Duis – whose Field Goals had been instrumental to winning the quarter-finals and Semifinal – missed a 39-yarder leaving Universe with nothing to show for their trip to the Red Zone.
Quickly moving the chains, Elffers found Thomas for a 12-yard Touchdown pass and now the Two Point Conversion attempt would decide whether Hall would hold onto a narrow lead.