Blackjak

Let me tally up them points... shouldn't take long as it's the first PPV But Takeover Portland is Sunday and should be a banger.

Apparently they're editing the version on the Network to not be fucked. So that's good.

Fixed

You have different numbers for the women's match, if you didn't know.

Men's Rumble RNG: Women's Rumble RNG:

Changed Tegan to Sasha in my final 4

I won't count the matches that have happened. I'll even count your result of DIY/Moustache since there's no telling how that'll go.

Welp. DIY has a new shirt. May have to change picks.

The Template: 1. Imperium 2. Rhea Ripley 3. Finn Balor 4. Angel Garza 5. Moustache Mountain 6. Kay Lee Ray B1. No B2. Johnny Gargano B3. Roddy Strong B4. Swerve Scott B5. Over The Template: 1. Roman Reigns 2. Shayna Baszler 3. The Fiend 4. Becky Lynch 5. King Corbin 6. Bayley 7. Andrade B1. Can of Dog Food B2. Under B3. Yes B4. Roman, Drew, Seth, Finn B5. Shayna, Charlotte, Sasha, Nia B6. Yes B7. TBD B8. TBD

What hell hath I just unleashed?

It's preshow... you're literally the reason I put it in the picks Also, Skar's UK.... teach him to love Baseball

Oh that shit is an artform in baseball. Also illegal.

Fair enough. I linked a wiki article about it, though it may not have been that apparent depending on how the link showed up for you tl;dr.... While at their home field during the 2017 and 2018 seasons The Astros used video cameras and various audio cues (including hitting a bat against a trash can ) to tip off their batters what pitches were coming at them. This gives an incredibly significant advantage and almost certainly is a reason they won the World Series in 2017. Sign stealing (which is what they did) isn't technically illegal, but is frowned upon, especially to the degree that it happened and the penalties and fallout that have happened in the past couple weeks are pretty much unheard of in Baseball. So a heel wrestler or Manager referencing it for some cheap heat is not out of the question. Looking at you, Heyman. Honestly, I'm hoping Corbin puts a trash can over Roman, and hits it with a bat in a very baseball-just-hit-a-homerun manner.

CHAMPIONS: Universal Champion: EIZAAAAAN World Champion: Nick NXT Champion: Skaraarian The Spreadsheet The Template: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. B1. B2. B3. B4. B5. 1. Eight-man Tag Team Match - Imperium (WALTER, Fabian Aichner, Marcel Barthel and Alexander Wolfe) vs The Undisputed Era (Adam Cole, Kyle O'Reilly, Bobby Fish and Roderick Strong) 2. NXT Championship (Women's) : Singles Match - Rhea Ripley (c) vs Toni Storm 3. Singles Match - Finn Bálor vs Ilja Dragunov 4. NXT Cruiserweight Championship : Fatal 4-Way - Angel Garza (c) vs Isaiah "Swerve" Scott vs Jordan Devlin vs Travis Banks 5. Tag Team Match - #DIY (Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa) vs Moustache Mountain (Trent Seven and Tyler Bate) 6. Singles Match - Mia Yim vs Kay Lee Ray B1. Will any Raw or Smackdown Superstars debut or re-debut for either NXT Brand during the show? B2. Who takes the fall in the #DIY/Moustache Mountain match? B3. Who takes the fall in the 8 Man Tag match? B4. Who takes the fall in the fatal 4-way match? B5. Over/Under on # of Raw/SD/Legends/HoF shown at ringside - Set at 2.5 The Template: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. B1. B2. B3. B4. B5. B6. B7. B8. 1. Men's Royal Rumble Match - 30 Motherfuckers (See below for Entrants) 2. Women's Royal Rumble Match - 30 Motherfuckers (See below for Entrants) 3. WWE Universal Championship : Strap Match - "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt (c) vs Daniel Bryan 4. WWE Raw Women's Championship : Singles Match - Becky Lynch (c) vs Asuka 5. Falls Count Anywhere Match - Roman Reigns vs King Corbin 6. WWE Smackdown Women's Championship : Singles Match - Bayley (c) vs Lacey Evans 7. WWE United States Championship : Singles Match - Andrade (c) vs Humberto Carrillo B1. First weapon used in Falls Count Anywhere match? B2. Over/Under - Length of time of the Shorty G vs Sheamus match - Set at 45 seconds B3. Event is being held where the Houston Astros play - Will there be any references to their recent Cheating Scandal? B4. Final Four for the Men's Rumble (1 point for each correct) B5. Final Four for the Women's Rumble (1 point for each correct) B6. Will anyone enter either rumble that hasn't competed in a WWE/NXT Ring in the past 3 years (or ever)? B7. Random Numbered Entrants for the Men's Rumble - Worth 4 points for winning entrant B8. Random Numbered Entrants for the Women's Rumble - Worth 4 points for winning entrant Confirmed Entrants for Men's Rumble: Confirmed Entrants for Women's Rumble: Regarding B7 and 8: Based on the amount of people that submit picks, everyone will be given a random entrant number via a random number generator (because we can't all pick from a hat). I'll post the results for everyone to see. Whoever has the entrant number of each Rumble's winner will get 4 points Everyone will have an equal number of entrants. So, most likely, there will be a few entrants that don't belong to anyone. If one of those wins. Welp. Too bad, I guess.

Doin' it here, bitches! Doesn't matter if you barely watch anymore. You can still pick (and probably win ) Just gonna borrow from The Center's format for this. Expected Season Schedule: Currently Unscheduled Events Will Be Added To The Schedule at a later date 05/19: Money in the Bank 06/01: NXT TakeOver: XXV 06/23: Stomping Grounds 07/14: Extreme Rules 08/10-08/11: NXT TakeOver: Toronto/SummerSlam 09/15: Hell in a Cell 10/06: Clash of Champions 11/23-11/24: NXT TakeOver: WarGames/Survivor Series [End of Season] Rules: + 3 Points for picking the correct winner of a match + 1 Point for answering each bonus question correctly unless otherwise stated. We try to keep it to around 5 bonus questions per PPV but bigger PPVs may have more. + 1 Point awarded for winning the PPV. Also a "PPV Win" is awarded, these are used as tie-breakers in the standings. + For WWE branded shows and WWE branded "Super-Shows" (Saudi Arabia, Australia etc), we pick Title Matches and certain matches involving big names, only. For NXT branded shows, we pick for all matches. + Bonus points involving Submissions include ref stoppage (passing out etc) + Unless otherwise specified, "Interference" means someone not in the match successfully distracting or attacking a wrestler during their match (Jumping up on the apron and getting their attention, music playing etc) + Cesaro Swing Rule: In the case of bonus questions involving Over/Under on strikes, revolutions (Big Swing, Airplane Spin) or moves of that nature, we use the real number of moves and not the crowd chants + Uso Rule: Don't use wrestlers who are hard to tell apart in bonus questions. + Weapons Rule: "Successfully using a weapon" requires contact to the body. Using a weapon defensively to knock another weapon out of someone's hand doesn't count (even if they sell their fingers) + Cash-In Rule: If you want to join the fun but the season is already under-way, you can "cash-in" and be added to the game with three less points than the current last place. + Forfeit Rule: If you happen to miss a PPV for whatever reason, you'll automatically earn 3 less points than last place and have it added to your score, just so people can keep up some kind of pace and it can be made a bit fair for those cash-ing in. Previous Seasons Previous Winners: Season 1: Blackjak Season 2: Nick Season 3: Blackjak Season 4: Mad Jr Season 5: Nick Season 6: KR Season 7: Nick? Season 8: Blackjak Season 9: Ziggler Mark Season 10: Nick Season 11: Nick Season 12: Blackjak Previous Runners-Up: Season 1: Nick Season 2: HikageRyu Season 3: Nick Season 4: KR Season 5: Eizan Tayama Season 6: Nick Season 7: KR? Season 8: Deejay Season 9: Nick Season 10: Deejay Season 11: Bri Bella Season 12: Nick Third Place Finishes: Season 1: Garlic Junior Season 2: Garlic Junior (Cashed In) Season 3: Mad Jr Season 4: Nick Season 5: KR Season 6: Deejay Season 7: Deejay? Season 8: Nick Season 9: Blackjak Season 10: Mad Jr Season 11: KR? Season 12: Bri Bella Current Universal Champion: BLACKJAK Current World Champion: NICK Current Intercontinental Champion: BRI BELLA MITB Template/Spreadsheet incoming

Sweet. And one of the scoring criteria is this: "If a Superstar is the 1st Superstar to enter the ring for the Royal Rumble Match" for 250 points. So you should probably pick Brock Lesnar as one of your Superstars

Okay... so I'm going to tally up all the points and crown the champion and start a new topic for the next season. Worlds Collide/Rumble baby! Bonus question ideas? I think we can run a version of everyone picking (or RNG getting assigned) some numbers as entrants in both Rumble matches and the whoever has the winning entrant number gets like 5 points or 3 points or something. @Psycho666Soldier @Eizan @Skaraarian @Nick @TySwizz @KR @Garlic Junior @MT @Blackjak @Death Rider Mox @MDSu3rDup3 @facharyzuller

A lot of the G1 would be worth watching? I'll be getting up early for it too... long days of Wrestling and NFL this weekend.

1) Watched it all and loved it. 2) It didn't hit me until a day later. But I knew I knew the actor that plays Jaskier (The Bard) from somewhere... and it hit me. It's because I actually know him (Well, have met, at the very least). And gotten rather shitfaced with him. Every year Cambridge University does a tour in America performing Shakespeare and they often stop at my alma mater because we're awesome like that. He was part of the 2009 production that rolled through. When they come through, we watch their show, then us theater students throw a big ass party that's usually shut down by the cops where there's US v UK drinking games and flirting and all that fun stuff. I spent a lot of that night on a patio a group of us having drinks, smokes (regular and weed), and singing together while one of us played an acoustic (Jason Mraz "I'm Yours" was played a lot).... Don't recall if Joey was apart of that particular group or not, as it was 10 years ago... but we definitely have partied together.

By making NXT more or less dominate the night (and weekend)?

K

So, HBK revealed the Male NXT team about 15 minutes ago. Zach's picks didn't reflect him having seen that. So I figure, as long as KR or Psycho don't make picks, there's no reason we can't just lock the picks in as they were at the time of HBK's reveal and keep the question. But if they make picks, we'll null it too.

Yeah, we're nulling this question because it was revealed after Takeover.