[Mikey]

1) Ric Flair bye
Dusty Rhodes vs 9) Shane Douglas
5) RVD vs 12) Sabu
4) Hulk Hogan vs 13) Mr. Wrestling II
6) Roddy Piper vs 11) C. M. Punk
3) Eddie vs 14) Scott Hall
7) Booker T vs 10) Michael P. S. Hayes
2) Chris Benoit vs 15) Johnny Nitro / John Morrison

1) Kurt Angle bye
"Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig vs 9) Big Show
5) Christian Cage vs 12) Bam Bam Bigelow
4) Edge vs 13) Harley Race
6) A. J. Styles vs 11) Tommy Dreamer
3) Bret Hart vs 14) Brock Lesnar
7) John Cena vs 10) Ted DiBiase
2) "Stone Cold" Steve Austin vs 15) Dean Malenko

1) "HBK" Shawn Michaels bye
Jeff Hardy vs 9) Kevin Nash
5) Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat vs 12) Ricky Morton
4) "Macho Man" Randy Savage vs 13) Barry Windham
6) Andre the Giant vs 11) "The Great Mutah" Keiji Mutoh
3) The Undertaker vs 14) Mike Awesome
7) Rey Mysterio, Jr. vs 10) Brian Pillman
2) Triple H vs 15) Steven / William Regal

1) The Rock bye
Kerry Von Erich vs 9) Diamond Dallas Page
5) Sting vs 12) Owen Hart
4) Samoa Joe vs 13) Jushin Liger
6) Raven vs 11) Lance Storm
3) Mick Foley vs 14) Bruiser Brody
7) Christopher Daniels vs 10) Jake "The Snake" Roberts
2) Chris Jericho vs 15) Bryan "American Dragon" Danielson

[Pun]

tarheelmike said:

What You'll See...

[Moose]Not a damn thing![/Moose]

[The Jewish Cunthead]

Too bad we're not at the favorite match showdown yet. I was able to figure out Moose's list:

1. Roberts vs. Martel - Blindfold match
2. Roberts vs. Martel - Blindfold match
3. Roberts vs. Martel - Blindfold match
4. Roberts vs. Martel - Blindfold match
5. Roberts vs. Martel - Blindfold match
6. Roberts vs. Martel - Blindfold match
7. Roberts vs. Martel - Blindfold match
8. Roberts vs. Martel - Blindfold match
9. Roberts vs. Martel - Blindfold match
10. Roberts vs. Martel - Blindfold match
11. Roberts vs. Martel - Blindfold match
12. Roberts vs. Martel - Blindfold match
13. Roberts vs. Martel - Blindfold match
14. Roberts vs. Martel - Blindfold match
15. Roberts vs. Martel - Blindfold match
16. Roberts vs. Martel - Blindfold match
17. Roberts vs. Martel - Blindfold match
18. Roberts vs. Martel - Blindfold match
19. Roberts vs. Martel - Blindfold match
20. Roberts vs. Martel - Blindfold match

[Moosehead Jack]

[The Jewish Cunthead]

Come on. A blind Roberts is fucking priceless.

[Lucky]

RVD vs Liger? Rey vs Pillman? AJ vs Punk? Raven vs Lance?

BOOO! I hate this showdown already!

[Batman]

You might want to hold off on picks, guys. Mike's working on some minor corrections in the lower seeds.

[Mikey]

sergeial said:

You might want to hold off on picks, guys. Mike's working on some minor corrections in the lower seeds.

Yeah, what Sir Gay said. I automatically eliminated guys who were only nominated on the bottom half of only one ballot. That's how Windham, Race, and Morton got in - they were on someone's top half. However, there were a couple of other solo top half nominations that got in that I missed. It will be SLIGHTLY modified in a little while.

[Batman]

So are you going to add a 15th seed so that everybody who was at least in the top half of one ballot still makes the tournament? Then only #1 seeds would get byes.

[Batman]

I'm impatient. If Mike's going to add a 15th seed, and if I've done the snaking properly, this should be how the brackets will look. If Mike decides not to add a 15th seed, just knock the 15 seeds out and give the 2 seeds their byes back.

1) Ric Flair bye
Dusty Rhodes vs 9) Shane Douglas
5) RVD vs 12) Sabu
4) Hulk Hogan vs 13) Mr. Wrestling II
6) Roddy Piper vs 11) C. M. Punk
3) Eddie vs 14) Scott Hall
7) Booker T vs 10) Michael P. S. Hayes
2) Chris Benoit vs 15) Johnny Nitro / John Morrison

1) Kurt Angle bye
"Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig vs 9) Big Show
5) Christian Cage vs 12) Bam Bam Bigelow
4) Edge vs 13) Harley Race
6) A. J. Styles vs 11) Tommy Dreamer
3) Bret Hart vs 14) Brock Lesnar
7) John Cena vs 10) Ted DiBiase
2) "Stone Cold" Steve Austin vs 15) Dean Malenko

1) "HBK" Shawn Michaels bye
Jeff Hardy vs 9) Kevin Nash
5) Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat vs 12) Ricky Morton
4) "Macho Man" Randy Savage vs 13) Barry Windham
6) Andre the Giant vs 11) "The Great Mutah" Keiji Mutoh
3) The Undertaker vs 14) Mike Awesome
7) Rey Mysterio, Jr. vs 10) Brian Pillman
2) Triple H vs 15) Steven / William Regal

1) The Rock bye
Kerry Von Erich vs 9) Diamond Dallas Page
5) Sting vs 12) Owen Hart
4) Samoa Joe vs 13) Jushin Liger
6) Raven vs 11) Lance Storm
3) Mick Foley vs 14) Bruiser Brody
7) Christopher Daniels vs 10) Jake "The Snake" Roberts
2) Chris Jericho vs 15) Bryan "American Dragon" Danielson

[Moosehead Jack]

Mick Foley vs. Bruiser Brody

holy christ IJEOMK

[Lucky]

Out of curiousity did you set these brackets up deliberately? I see these potential 2nd round matchups:
Flair vs Douglas
RVD vs Sabu
Booker vs Benoit
HBK vs Nash/Hardy
Steamboat vs Savage
Christian vs Edge
Austin vs Cena

That's gotta be intentional, right?

[Batman]

100% by the numbers.

If I had been fudging, I would have traded AJ with Raven to get Raven v Dreamer in the first round. In fact, I wouldn't mind if Mike did that very thing.

But I'll leave any fudging to him. The brackets I posted were totally legit--once again, that's presuming I did the whole "snaking" thing right.

[Mikey]

No, that's the thing, I didn't. I ALMOST swapped Joe and Hogan - as they had the same point total, but no, those are completely random as hard as that may be to believe. I also don't think any of those will be affected by the slight tweaks I make to the things later this evening.

[Lucky]

How can snaking confuse you so much, serg? Its been like a year.

1
--2
---3
----4
----4
---3
--2
1
1
--2
---3
----4
----4
---3
--2
1

You're a damn statistician, or something. This is something 12 year old boys and drunk football fans can remember.

[Batman]

That's because it looks like boobs.

Other than the fact that it looks like boobs I am completely mystified by that diagram.

The way I figured it, since the highest #1 seed was getting a bye, then the lowest #2 seed needed to be in the same bracket and up against the highest #15 seed. Then the highest #3 seed versus the lowest #14 seed, etc, until I got to the lowest #8 seed versus the highest #9 seed.

Then the next bracket needs to be the lowest #1 seed with a bye, and the highest #2 seed versus the lowest #15 seed, etc, until you get to the highest #8 seed versus the lowest #9 seed. The other two brackets then are the two that are in the middle of their seed.

I'm pretty sure that's right, but I'm not sure how that relates to that diagram.

Though I'm not going to argue with teh BOOBIES!

[Lucky]

For a big ass tournament like this you're overthinking things. If you have 64 guys just number them that way. 1 vs 64, 2 vs 63, etc. That gets you where you want to be. That should leave 1-4 at 4 different corners of the bracket and those are you #1 Seeds.

It looks like you did it right. Right now it looks like you have HBK vs Flair and Angle vs Rock in the final four. So the four of them should be overall be 1 and 4 for HBK/Flair and 2 and 3 for Angle/Rock. If you want to take it back a round you have Flair/Benoit, HBK/HHH, Angle/Austin, and Rock/Jericho. So if Flair is the #1 overall Benoit should be the #8 overall. Rock 2, Jericho 7. Angle -3, Austin 6. HBK -4, HHH - 5. Although if I have the HBK/Flair and Angle/Rock ones mixed up then adjust that properly. Basically, if your top 8 overall look like this, I think you're fine.

1. Flair
2. Rock/Angle
3. Angle/Rock
4. HBK
5. HHH
6. Austin/Jericho
7. Jericho/Austin
8. Benoit

I think that made sense.

[Lucky]

As far as the boobies think of it like Gym class. If you had all 64 of your wrestlers lined up in proper order of their votes you'd walk by them and go:

A
--B
---C
----D
----D
---C
--B
A
A
--B
---C
----D
----D
---C
--B
A

All As would then form one bracket, all Bs one, all Cs one, and all Ds one. Then you'd have them face off highest to lowest seed. That should set you up for

Winner of 1 vs 8 vs Winner of 4 vs 5
vs
Winner of 2 vs 7 vs Winner of 3 vs 6

[Mikey]

sergeial said:

I'm impatient. If Mike's going to add a 15th seed, and if I've done the snaking properly, this should be how the brackets will look. If Mike decides not to add a 15th seed, just knock the 15 seeds out and give the 2 seeds their byes back.

1) Ric Flair bye
Dusty Rhodes vs 9) Shane Douglas
5) RVD vs 12) Sabu
4) Hulk Hogan vs 13) Mr. Wrestling II
6) Roddy Piper vs 11) C. M. Punk
3) Eddie vs 14) Scott Hall
7) Booker T vs 10) Michael P. S. Hayes
2) Chris Benoit vs 15) Johnny Nitro / John Morrison

1) Kurt Angle bye
"Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig vs 9) Big Show
5) Christian Cage vs 12) Bam Bam Bigelow
4) Edge vs 13) Harley Race
6) A. J. Styles vs 11) Tommy Dreamer
3) Bret Hart vs 14) Brock Lesnar
7) John Cena vs 10) Ted DiBiase
2) "Stone Cold" Steve Austin vs 15) Dean Malenko

1) "HBK" Shawn Michaels bye
Jeff Hardy vs 9) Kevin Nash
5) Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat vs 12) Ricky Morton
4) "Macho Man" Randy Savage vs 13) Barry Windham
6) Andre the Giant vs 11) "The Great Mutah" Keiji Mutoh
3) The Undertaker vs 14) Mike Awesome
7) Rey Mysterio, Jr. vs 10) Brian Pillman
2) Triple H vs 15) Steven / William Regal

1) The Rock bye
Kerry Von Erich vs 9) Diamond Dallas Page
5) Sting vs 12) Owen Hart
4) Samoa Joe vs 13) Jushin Liger
6) Raven vs 11) Lance Storm
3) Mick Foley vs 14) Bruiser Brody
7) Christopher Daniels vs 10) Jake "The Snake" Roberts
2) Chris Jericho vs 15) Bryan "American Dragon" Danielson

What he said. I was just gonna bump everyone down and add the other guys where they needed to go anyway. Thanks Serge.

[williamssl]

1) Ric Flair bye
Dusty Rhodes vs 9) Shane Douglas
5) RVD vs 12) Sabu
4) Hulk Hogan vs 13) Mr. Wrestling II
6) Roddy Piper vs 11) C. M. Punk
3) Eddie vs 14) Scott Hall
7) Booker T vs 10) Michael P. S. Hayes
2) Chris Benoit vs 15) Johnny Nitro / John Morrison

1) Kurt Angle bye
"Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig vs 9) Big Show
5) Christian Cage vs 12) Bam Bam Bigelow
4) Edge vs 13) Harley Race
6) A. J. Styles vs 11) Tommy Dreamer
3) Bret Hart vs 14) Brock Lesnar
7) John Cena vs 10) Ted DiBiase
2) "Stone Cold" Steve Austin vs 15) Dean Malenko

1) "HBK" Shawn Michaels bye
Jeff Hardy vs 9) Kevin Nash
5) Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat vs 12) Ricky Morton
4) "Macho Man" Randy Savage vs 13) Barry Windham
6) Andre the Giant vs 11) "The Great Mutah" Keiji Mutoh
3) The Undertaker vs 14) Mike Awesome
7) Rey Mysterio, Jr. vs 10) Brian Pillman
2) Triple H vs 15) Steven / William Regal

1) The Rock bye
Kerry Von Erich vs 9) Diamond Dallas Page
5) Sting vs 12) Owen Hart
4) Samoa Joe vs 13) Jushin Liger
6) Raven vs 11) Lance Storm
3) Mick Foley vs 14) Bruiser Brody
7) Christopher Daniels vs 10) Jake "The Snake" Roberts
2) Chris Jericho vs 15) Bryan "American Dragon" Danielson


Bye has got it tough with four first round matchups against #1's.

[Batman]

williamssl said:

Bye has got it tough with four first round matchups against #1's.

And you're picking "bye" over Kurt Angle?

SMITE!

[Batman]

My picks in the first half of the first round:

1) Ric Flair bye

Dusty Rhodes vs 9) Shane Douglas
Not a big fan of either guy, but Douglas throwing down the NWA title is an amazing moment, so he gets the nod.


5) RVD vs 12) Sabu
Both of these guys were on my ballot, and RVD was ranked higher for lots of really good reasons. He really is amazing. So this shouldn't be hard. And yet it is. Here's why:

That may be the most amazing thing I've ever seen. He just fucking stands there on the top rope like he could balance there forever if he wanted to. Fuck.

4) Hulk Hogan vs 13) Mr. Wrestling II
Wrestling II has an amazing mystique, and I think that mystique is a really important factor in wrestling, but I've been looking up his promos and matches on youtube and I'm mystified as to what he did to build that mystique.

Not very interesting on the mic:
(For some reason this video won't work imbedded.) Linky:

Not very interesting in the ring:


Sorry Lou, (and President Carter!) I just don't get what the appeal was.

6) Roddy Piper vs 11) C. M. Punk
Punk is awesome. Piper is awesomer.

3) Eddie vs 14) Scott Hall
Latino Heat versus fake latino? You decide.

7) Booker T vs 10) Michael P. S. Hayes
2) Chris Benoit vs 15) Johnny Nitro / John Morrison

1) Kurt Angle bye
"Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig vs 9) Big Show
I can't find my favorite Big Show moments on youtube, like the awesome brawl with Lesnar where he starts bleeding out his elbow, or the great streetfight with Booker. But the ring collapse is also pretty damn cool:


5) Christian Cage vs 12) Bam Bam Bigelow
4) Edge vs 13) Harley Race
6) A. J. Styles vs 11) Tommy Dreamer
This is a tough one. A. J. has his faults--he often seems to have all the personality and brains of the average pet rock. But the main event of Lockdown 05 was A.J. vs Abyss, and when it was over the camera panned the crowd and there was a chick who was moved to tears over all the passion in that match. Gotta give it to A.J.

3) Bret Hart vs 14) Brock Lesnar
See ring collapse above.

Also, wiping Hogan's blood on his chest--what an awesome moment!


Couldn't find the promo where he wears a sombrero to make fun of Eddie, darn it.

7) John Cena vs 10) Ted DiBiase
Lest we forget:




2) "Stone Cold" Steve Austin vs 15) Dean Malenko

[creepy]

mooseheadjack said:

Mick Foley vs. Bruiser Brody

holy christ IJEOMK

Does this mean I Just Ejaculated On My Keyboard?

I honestly don't know. Figured you 'puter dorks could enlighten me.

[williamssl]

Just havin some fun to see if anyone reads some of this stuff!

Of course I'm voting for Angle. He was on my nomination slate. I considered nominating Bye....he prob would have made top 40 but alas we were confined to 20.

[Fire-Babe]

Are we voting now?