Posted by: Species
- Dude [07724916] Tue, Apr 03, 2007, 01:06
......will be posted tomorrow......but HOLY $HIT!!
Seeking opinions on the tag team battle royal. My initial reaction is to score it like a 'regular' battle royal. Winners get 30, 2nd place 20, etc. and just have both men in the tag team get the same placement points. For example, for the first one, HBK/Cena get 30....Booker/Finlay 20, and so on.
With Matt winning and this title change really putting GO and I close, coupled with no precedence for this in my recollection, I want to put it out there for debate. Comments welcomed.
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Great One Sustainer
ID: 053272014 Tue, Apr 03, 2007, 09:36
Saw it as 2 seperate battle royals... and then each "team" would get the points in order as you suggested.
I am behind now, thats for sure. Now watch the Hardys defend their new titles on every show all week vs. all the other teams in the Battle Royal. Seriously. Its gonna happen. Game over.
As I suggested to Species and Mike D previously - I'd like to make a proposal that our seasons END with the big PPV and not with the couple shows after. It seems so anti-climactic. Then that week after could be part of the break between seasons.
Species, I saw you called a couple of times last night. Anything important or did you want me to watch Raw to help with scoring?
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Great One Sustainer
ID: 053272014 Tue, Apr 03, 2007, 11:37
thought this was funny from 411 review... I hear if they get in 10 battle royals by the end of the year, Vince gets a set of steak knives.
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Great One Sustainer
ID: 053272014 Tue, Apr 03, 2007, 11:45
On a side note, I thought it was a creative way to get the belts off HBK/Cena (which was needed) without your basic HBK superkicks Cena and leaves him to be pinned which has been done 1000 times. And it didn't weaken either by having them actually pinned.
Just sucks it had to involve the Hardys from a Fantasy standpoint! :)
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Species Dude
ID: 07724916 Tue, Apr 03, 2007, 12:06
Farn - yeah, I was just wanting to get your take on scoring these "Tag Team" battle royals. If you didn't watch the show, twice they had 10 teams (although was it me? Or were there only NINE in the 1st one???) in a 10-team, over-the-top-rope battle royal. Once either member of the team was eliminated, both were eliminated.
My thought, and the way I scored it, was to score it like any other battle royal, with both members of the team being counted as a participant. In the first battle royal, HBK/Cena successfully defended, so I gave each of them 30. Booker/Finlay were the last eliminated, so I gave each of them 20, and so on like any other battle royal.
With Matt/Jeff winning the 2nd battle royal, I didn't want to show any favoritism in my interpretation, since there was no precedent.
GO - I'm waiting for MVP to do an "International All Comers Invitational" tonight where he challenges the champions from Gilligan's Island, SW Missouri State and Corsica in 3 straight matches, doing promos in between each one! lol
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Great One Sustainer
ID: 053272014 Tue, Apr 03, 2007, 12:13
Species, don't jinx it - cause wouldn't those be Title wins? and subsequently fall under the "any other title" scoring classification?! :)
Thats what I am hoping for.
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Species Dude
ID: 07724916 Tue, Apr 03, 2007, 12:17
philosophy seems good to me Species. Unless someone objects to the way you scored it I won't fire up the dvr.
BTW, with the draft coming I'm open to trades or discussions. I have my #1 plus Species #1 and my #2. So I'll have 3 picks very early on.
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Species Dude
ID: 07724916 Tue, Apr 03, 2007, 12:27
Notes:
- Used battle royal scoring as discussed above - Did not give Venis/Viscera vignette points for giggling at Vince in the background of the backstage shot - I pretty carefully followed the elminations in the battle royal....although for one of them I had to "assume" they were eliminated because it was done in commercial. But admittedly I could be off
Comments: - You have to love how they so often drop these bombs right after Mania to kick off new storylines. The Hardy win came from nowhere, although perhaps Vince finally succombed to their popularity and rewarding them for leaving their bodies on the line repeatedly these last 6 months. You can't tell me that the Hardys haven't been in some of the best spotfests of the year. - I knew they were going to non-branded PPV's, but they might as well throw the brands out the window! And why not? So many likely angles have been done and overdone - but how fun would it be to see some new feuds?
By my ROUGH calculations, GO had a 43 point lead after Mania......but I outscored him by 92, giving me a 49 point lead. For ECW tonight, Cor Von has an 8-man New Breed/ECW Originals match. Punk? Who knows.
I assume Matt Hardy is no longer on Smackdown, so barring a surprise appearance (ANYTHING is possible), I have to assume Cor Von is my only points the rest of the way.
So if Punk and MVP get wins for say 65 points including ONE MVP promo, and Cor Von only gets 12 if he loses the tag match - GO can still win! This is nuts!