diff --git a/MosswartMassacre/CombatStatsTracker.cs b/MosswartMassacre/CombatStatsTracker.cs
index 18d3609..a0b8e3d 100644
--- a/MosswartMassacre/CombatStatsTracker.cs
+++ b/MosswartMassacre/CombatStatsTracker.cs
@@ -73,6 +73,12 @@ namespace MosswartMassacre
 
             try
             {
+                // DECAL ChatBoxMessage delivers raw text with HTML tags and
+                // trailing newlines. Strip them so ^...$ regex anchors work.
+                text = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(text, "<[^>]+>", "");
+                text = text.TrimEnd('\r', '\n', ' ');
+                if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(text)) return;
+
                 // Skip non-combat chat (tells, channels, etc.)
                 if (IsNonCombatChat(text)) return;
 
diff --git a/MosswartMassacre/bin/Release/MosswartMassacre.dll b/MosswartMassacre/bin/Release/MosswartMassacre.dll
index 4eceea1..f4b5aa8 100644
Binary files a/MosswartMassacre/bin/Release/MosswartMassacre.dll and b/MosswartMassacre/bin/Release/MosswartMassacre.dll differ