[Mr. Dashbee]

Week 0 is in the books! We had 20 voters in total. Great job everyone, I hope you all stick around. I think this is going to be good moving forward.

But enough talking, here is the moment you've all been waiting for...

Pun's House 12-Pack, Week 0
1. Ric Flair (114.5 points, 16 first place votes)
“between his finale, his hall of fame speech, and his promo on Monday, he's gone out of his way to show the kids who had any question why such a big deal has been being made out of his end game.” ~bd

2. Shawn Michaels (87.5 pts, 4 fpv)
“…this should also be a weekend that we remember how lucky we are to have Shawn Michaels back and wrestling so many years after we thought it was over for him 10 Wrestlemanias ago.” ~jetskid48

3. CM Punk (33 pts)
“Star of the future. Or future endeavored. Wrestlemania made me think it’s the former” ~needsmorecowbell

4. James Storm (31 pts)
“Anyone who says they knew he would get the best of Sting on Thursday is a liar. I hope TNA handles his push well.” ~ultimatejobber
“SORRY ABOUT YOUR DAMN LUCK, STING!” ~Lucky

5. The Undertaker (21 pts)
“I'm glad they gave the Smackdown Title the Main event lot for once. This is the only day of the year I'd root for Taker over Edge. I'm hoping Edgeward gets the belt back at Backlash.” ~The Game Chris Cole (how could I leave out a comment featuring an “Edgeward” appearance!)

6. Edge (19 pts)
“He was in a match that almost nobody thought should have been put on last, when practically every single heel had already won their match, and he was up against the streak. Despite all of this, his amazing promo--as well as the match itself--managed to let me suspend disbelief.” ~Sergei

7. AJ Styles (18.5 pts)
“Consistently the most entertaining person on the 7 (free) hours of professional wrestling aired in a week, in and out of the ring.” ~bd
NOTE: Tomko got a vote as well, but the overwhelming sense of the votes were for the awesomeness that is AJ Styles.

8. LAX of Homicide, Hernandez & Salinas (15 pts)
“Don West: "They have that old LAX feel." They are looking ruthless and wild like they haven't in awhile.” ~Lucky

9. Shelton Benjamin (11 pts)
“You apparently are the gold standard for killing youself. Congrats.” ~dxb
“Ain’t no stoppin’ me noooowwwwwwwwwww” ~Shelton’s theme song

10. Randy Orton (10 pts – TIE with Sting)
“He left WM as WWE champion as a heel. He joins an awfully short list with that feat. I thought he performed well, too” ~G-B

10. Sting (10 pts – TIE with Randy Orton)
“He's back, baby! (I've always been a sucker for Sting.)” ~TheDead

12. The Big Show (9 pts)
“I think he was wasted with the Mayweather nonsense, but he appears to be ready to go on a roll, even if he next has to go through the motions with Khali first.” ~paddler

Others receiving votes:
John Morrison, Vince McMahon (1 fpv), Booker T, Christian Cage, Mark Henry, Peyton Banks, Fit Finlay, Kane, Kurt Angle, Kong, The Rock, Chris Jericho, Mae Young, Lacey, The University of Miami Band, The Age of the Fall, Austin Aries

I apologize if I didn't get your comments in this week. Some of them were just too good to leave out. Keep 'em coming!

An emotional and exciting Week 0 is completed. I hope everyone sticks around and participates in some great discussion about all of the votes. See you in Week 1!

[Lucky]

Good job, GB. I like the quotes from the ballots. I think eliminating the editorial nicknames might make it look a little cleaner, but just my personal tastes. Like I said, good job, and your format made reading what is essentially a list interesting.

20 voters is a nice turnout for a pretty small board so hopefully we can keep that up and add to it.

I didn't think Storm had much of a shot to rank that high and a full 10 pts past Taker. Here's hoping TNA books him well that he can not be a one week fluke. Main event vs Sting!

All in all that seems like a very representative 12 of the week with not one guy I feel compelled to argue against.




As for Week 1, midway through with RAW, ECW, ROH Video Wire, and TNA Today done and CM Punk seems like my favorite for #1 at the moment. Two good matches will do that. I know people will rank Flair based on the emotion of the RAW closing but personally I don't think he DID anything so I'm not. Otherwise I just got a list of uninspired outings who could easily be taken by Impact and SD, and Punk can easily be knocked down.

There is a new ROH Video Wire. There's a pretty cool ring exchange between Roderick Strong and Erick Stevens, a bad Kevin Steen promo, and the Age of the Fall/Austin Aries/Sunny segment that happened Saturday night and Dev voted for. And three of my crushes made their way into the consideration for Week 1. And Rain/Peyton Banks may even have a chance to make it with a match vs Traci on Impact.


There is also a new TNA Today that is 80% the live show promotions that its become but midway through has one of those old backstage segments that used to make TNA Today so much fuck. Jeremy Borash interviews Eric Young with cameos from Bubba and Super Eric. And Bubba just joined Rain in getting a head start on my TNA candidates.

[Mr. Dashbee]

Yeah, the quotes is a direct ripoff from the rankings ROH does on their board. When I saw that people really added a lot of insight to their rankings, I thought including comments would be a good idea. Hopefully it will encourage more of that from the voters.

As for the editorial nicknames? I was bored. I intend for that to be a random type of feature, like the Raw Roulette, TNA Global Impact or Jonathan Coachman entertaining me.

James Storm represents a phenomenon that also happened at OO. So many people get behind someone that they just ascend the ladder. The fact that he is in the Main Event of the next Impact just might keep him around, though. He appeared on less than 50% of the ballots (9 out of 20) but was #2 for 3 of those ballots. I had him on my list at first, but he was bumped in favor of "Maximum Bonnie" (thanks Serge).

With the wrestling world slowing down a little for Week 1, it'll be interesting to see how things shake out.

Thanks again for participating everyone, I hope to see everyone back for Week 1...

[Batman]

Looking good. I agree, pulling a good quote from a ballot for each of the twelve is a great idea. I'm happy that my Edge stuff made the cut. If I had to pick one of mine, that would have been the one.

This was really a great week to start. The 12-Pack starting up, along with an amazing week in wrestling, has combined to really kick-start my wrestling fandom up again.

I'm looking forward to Week 1, so I can start the Cumulative 12-Pack. That's always fun.

For now, here's the Brand Rankings:

Rank	Week 0 Brand Ranks	Points	Votes	FPVs
1	SD!	159.5	34	16
2	Raw	99.5	25	4
3	TNA	87	31	0
4	ECW	52	21	0
5	WWE	17.5	8	1
6	ROH	3	3	0
7	JAPW	1.5	1	0

[/tr][/table]

I've got to admit, this is pretty iffy, as the WWE brands have been pretty fluid lately. Since Flair was officially a member of the Smackdown! roster, I counted him for SD!, even though the only thing Smackdown about his week was Li'l Naitch refereeing his WM match. And even though the WWE website says that Big Show is on the SD! roster, everything I've seen onscreen has indicated that he is still a free agent, so I counted him as "WWE non-specified," along with Mae Young and the Rock.

[Batman]

Since I'm messing around with the table function, here's the Week 0 results in handy table format:

Rank	Week 0 12-Pack	Brand	Points	Votes	FPVs
1	Ric Flair	SD!	114.5	20	16
2	Shawn Michaels	Raw	87.5	19	4
3	C. M. Punk	ECW	33	11	0
4	James Storm	TNA	31	9	0
5	The Undertaker	SD!	21	6	0
6	Edge	SD!	19	6	0
7	Styles/Tomko	TNA	18.5	7	0
8	LAX (Homicide/Hernandez/Salinas)	TNA/JAPW	15	5	0
9	Shelton Benjamin	ECW	11	7	0
10	Randy Orton	Raw	10	4	0
11	Sting	TNA	10	3	0
12	Big Show	WWE	9	4	0

[Deadly]

This is already great. Thanks for putting this together and keeping a running total.

Oh, and I got quoted! Woo!

[Batman]

OK, now for your amusement, a more detailed breakdown of the vote:

Rank	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
Week 0 12-Pack	Ric Flair	Shawn Michaels	C. M. Punk	James Storm	The Undertaker	Edge	Styles/ Tomko	LAX (Homicide/ Hernandez /Salinas)	Shelton Benjamin	Randy Orton	Sting	Big Show
Brand	SD!	Raw	ECW	TNA	SD!	SD!	TNA	TNA / JAPW	ECW	Raw	TNA	WWE
Points	114.5	87.5	33	31	21	19	18.5	15	11	10	10	9
Votes	20	19	11	9	6	6	7	5	7	4	3	4
FPVs	16	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
G-B	6	5	0.5		3					4
Lucky	6	2		5				3	4
bd	6	1	4.5		2		4.5
firewoman	5	6	3
TheDead	6	2	3				4				5
snelson66	6	5					2				4
metallikid	6	5	3		4	1				2
ultimatejobber	6	5	3	2	4
Attitude Adjuster	6	4	3	5				2
Tommy D420	5.5	5.5					1	4
needsmorecowbell	6	5	3		4	2			1
jetskid48	6	5		2		4				3		1
paddler	6	5	3		4					1		2
Sergei	6	5				4					1	3
wld	6	5		2		4	3		1
psmitty	5					4			2			3
dxb	6	5	4	2				3	1
iamdoug	4	6		5				3	1
DevilSoprano	5	6	3	4			1
blackdragon	6	5		4			3		1

[/tr][/table]

[Deadly]

That's awesome.

[Batman]

OK, same concept, except this time a detailed breakdown of who voted for which brand, rather than wrestler:

Rank	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Week 0 Brand Ranks	SD!	Raw	TNA	ECW	WWE	ROH	JAPW
Points	159.5	99.5	87	52	17.5	3	1.5
Votes	34	25	32	21	8	3	1
FPVs	16	4	0	0	1	0	0
G-B	9	9	2	0.5	0.5	0	0
Lucky	6	2	6.5	4	1	0	1.5
bd	8	1	7.5	4.5	0	0	0
firewoman	7	7	0	7	0	0	0
TheDead	6	2	10	3	0	0	0
snelson66	6	5	10	0	0	0	0
metallikid	11	7	0	3	0	0	0
ultimatejobber	10	5	2	3	1	0	0
Attitude Adjuster	6	4	7	3	0	1	0
Tommy D420	8.5	5.5	5	2	0	0	0
needsmorecowbell	12	5	0	4	0	0	0
jetskid48	10	8	2	0	1	0	0
paddler	10	6	0	3	2	0	0
Sergei	10	5	3	0	3	0	0
wld	10	5	5	1	0	0	0
psmitty	9	1	0	2	9	0	0
dxb	6	5	5	5	0	0	0
iamdoug	4	6	8	3	0	0	0
DevilSoprano	5	6	5	3	0	2	0
blackdragon	6	5	9	1	0	0	0

[/tr][/table]

We want tables. lol.

[National Champion Chris Cole]

Hopefully I'll be more diverse (by that I mean adding TNA probably never any other indies). I didn't watch TNA last week and even if I did Wrestlemania still might have meant more votes for WWE. So far this week I have much less to go from. If TNA has a good show tonight (which hopefully I'll catch on Saturday) then they should get more love from me.

[bdbdbd]

Look at all those SmackDown points. Who'da thunk it?

Now that we have these tables we better get them every week or you're a bad general manager.

[jetskid48]

This turned out really good. Exalt for G-B now for the final results and quoting touch; exalt for serg in an hour when I get the option back for the awesome table's readout (although now you set the bar really high for what you have to do in the following weeks, heh).


I think the readouts for total brand results will get a little clearer once they have the draft because usually they keep things self-contained a little better after drafts and the ppv that still has the status quo.

[Batman]

Setting it up was the challenging part. Now all I have to do is feed in all your ballots and my spreadsheet will spit out the bbcode for those tables. The "concatenate" function is your friend.

Now I have to think of something else to put off doing the dishes.

[bdbdbd]

exalt for the work

[Deadly]

Haha, snelson and I are tied for "Biggest TNA Wank of the Week".

[Byrntrigan]

Exalt to G-B for the work! I concur with all with the best comment for each wrestler thing... It's an interesting way to see what resonantes with the others

Plus, my comment got in , wheeee!

Sadly, I appear to be more witty or funny when at work in the server room doing 2 other things at the same time as trying to type up my ballot...

[Mr. Dashbee]

Apr 3, 2008 19:20:40 GMT -5 Byrntrigan said:

Plus, my comment got in , wheeee!

It was a good comment. Keep 'em coming!

[DevSop]

Where are my comments damn it?

HA

[Mr. Dashbee]

Apr 3, 2008 21:00:36 GMT -5 DevSop said:

Where are my comments damn it?

HA

"4) CM Punk"

I guess sometimes less really is more!

[Batman]

G-B: You really shouldn't have included so many of Dev and blackdrag's comments without attributing them....

dxb: I'm still damn impressed that, after several posters (myself included) had already taken a crack at a "Shelton Benjamin/suicide" joke, you managed to top us all. Evidently, while multi-tasking no less. (And here I always thought multi-tasking was something managers made up to blame you for not meeting impossible work goals.)

[Byrntrigan]

Apr 4, 2008 0:39:01 GMT -5 Batman said:

dxb: I'm still damn impressed that, after several posters (myself included) had already taken a crack at a "Shelton Benjamin/suicide" joke, you managed to top us all. Evidently, while multi-tasking no less. (And here I always thought multi-tasking was something managers made up to blame you for not meeting impossible work goals.)

Super Exalt to you fine sir! And I'll keep them coming as you have stroked my ego. Now go read the GD tome I wrote for the TNA show tonight please. I have no idea how CRZ did it for so many years. And I only hope to be half and good as he was...

Good gawd do I not proofread anything? At least the recap was mostly error free

[Batman]

Haven't watched the show yet. 53% downloaded . . .

But I'll get to it.

[mta] Ooh. "Download complete!"

[Mr. Dashbee]

Apr 4, 2008 0:39:01 GMT -5 Batman said:

G-B: You really shouldn't have included so many of Dev and blackdrag's comments without attributing them....

You, sir, are correct. Who am I to stand in the way of such brilliance.

And the Shelton Benjamin comment was indeed gold...it was the inspiration for me to include comments at all.

[jetskid48]

Is there anywhere to actually see ROH matches from the current week or are released in a given week? I'm probably not going to ever include them in my rankings considering how little I know about it, but it would be nice to be able to check out a match if someone like Dev says a great match happened in a certain week and gives someone points.

[Mr. Dashbee]

The video wire is likely the closest you'll come. The only reason I feel I can vote on ROH events is because I do end up seeing most of the matches, so I know what the talent is capable of. So one I hear about a match result, I can pretty much use everyone's comments, plus my knowledge, to make an informed decision.

Plus, I take into account things like title changes, which I can verify w/out seeing them.