Royal Rumble tourny games.....

[NoCalMike 0]

Well I am going to be hosting the Rumble, and we usually spice it up by having everyone throw in some money, and then we draw names of the participants and whoever draws the winner, wins the pot. The only problem with this game, is that with WWE, you usually know the 3-4 guys that even have a chance to win well beforehand, so if you don't draw one of their names, you basically have no chance of winning. So I was thinking we could change it up and maybe do it differenty. Usually we have 6 or so guys for the Rumble over, so if everyone got to draw five names, then I was thinking you could either total the number of time each of your guys was able to stay IN the rumble, or the total number of wrestlers eliminated by the guys on your list.........Of course anything with time incriments would be harder to be accurate, where as the eliminations are rather easy because you basically just watch your group of wrestlers and write down who they eliminate when they eliminate them. So I was looking for suggestions for different Rumble tournys I could do, or maybe a website that will post Rumble stats fairly soon after the PPV......

 

Thanks.

[foleyfanforever88 0]

Add up the numbers of entrants between each wrestler and their elimination.

 

So like, if you draw Kenny, he comes in at #10, he gets eliminated a few seconds after #19 comes out, you earn 9 pts for him.

 

EDIT: If you draw a really late numbered guy, you may not get any points for him. So, do what I said above PLUS the number of eliminations.

[The Metal Maniac 0]

We did something like this the year Benoit won, only we didn't draw names, we drew numbers. That way, you didn't know who you had until they came out. The thing that made it work really well though, was that with 9 of us, we decided everyone would get three numbers, and three numbers just didn't get drawn. One of those numbers was one, and so we decided that whoever had the number of the last guy eliminated (because no one had the obvious winner) would be declared the winner. Worked really well for us, but a lot of it was luck.

[Darthtiki 0]

Mike can I still put in for the pot before I move, and possibly collect when I'm up for WM?

[J.T. 0]

Well, I had a 10 person party last year, so it was very much like yours (we had three numbers, not 5).

 

What we did is draw numbers instead of Names, so it was more suspensful during the rumble. If you got 2, then you got entrant 2, 12 and 22. Made sense for 10 people. Also, we had two other pots, Iron Man (which usually is announced or made obvious) and fastest elim (also usually made easily known). If you dont like fastest elim, like myslef, you can name a target who wont win and will be eliminated by one person (like Coach) and person who elim's the target wins.

 

We had 10 bucks a person. Winner gets 70, 20 to ironman, 10 to target/fastest elim.

[Scroby 0]

Mike, no matter what happens...I'M WINNING IT BITCHES!

[Guest JaKyL25]

Drawing numbers instead of names seems to be the best option, but if you do still want to draw names, you could come to a mutal agreement on who the 6 most likely winners are (if you have 6 people), take their names out of the running, and have everyone just draw four names. Reward the person with the last man standing.

 

OR you could have a draft (like a Fantasy Football draft). Sucks to pick 6th though. Maybe you could have the draft now. Even though you don't know the participants, you should have a good idea of at least half of the people who will be in the match.

[Guest Princess Leena]

I don't know a fair way of handling it...

 

The drawing numbers sounds best, but knowing WWE, they'll continue to overdo the #1 or #2 winning thing. And if you're stuck between say #5-20, you know you're not winning.

 

I'd do an auction draft. It would take some time, but it's fair, and brings strategy into play.

[Hawk 34 0]

I don't know a fair way of handling it...

 

The drawing numbers sounds best, but knowing WWE, they'll continue to overdo the #1 or #2 winning thing. And if you're stuck between say #5-20, you know you're not winning.

 

I'd do an auction draft. It would take some time, but it's fair, and brings strategy into play.

 

We used to draw a # and a name. If youre number or name won, you got the pool and as a bonus, if your name drew your #, you got a bonus (win or lose the match).

 

A couple times, myself and some friends would predict "order of entry" and whomever got the most right, would get to keep the tape (this was before the days of DVR and when it took months for video release).

[NoCalMike 0]

Well see the thing is, I am thinking of doing multiple pots, maybe the winner of the rumble yields the biggest pot, whoever lasts the longest(time-wise), and whoever eliminates the most people(with some method of a tie-breaker). That way the game won't be decided almost immediately after everyone has drawn, because you know WWE always likes to throw that random mid-carder in there to last a long time....of course this year a good bet is for Kenny to be the random-lasting till the final four guy.

[Mike wanna be 0]

A couple of things my friends and I always do:

-Pick how many "close calls" there will be. "Close call" is defined as going over the top, touching the apron and returning to the ring without being eliminated (just so there's no "OMG he's on the top rope in the corner, that's a close call" for the idiot that always picks way too many)

-Determine the number of times the announcers will point out how long the Rumble has been going.

-Also calculate how many times the announcers will note how long a particular Superstar has been in the ring. "We've reached the one hour mark" is a Rumble length, but "HHH has been in the ring for an hour" is a Superstar length. This one's tricky as they usually like to jam them all into one sentence.

-If there are any "surprise" entrants (meaning not all 30 superstars are known going in), determine what their entry number will be. Bonus points for guessing a surprise entrant, as well as guessing who eliminates said entrant.

[The Amazing Rando 0]

What if the person goes over the top but then is able to fall between the second/top or bottom/second ropes and back into the ring without touching the apron. I'm sure that's been done a few times.

[Hawk 34 0]

Well see the thing is, I am thinking of doing multiple pots, maybe the winner of the rumble yields the biggest pot, whoever lasts the longest(time-wise), and whoever eliminates the most people(with some method of a tie-breaker). That way the game won't be decided almost immediately after everyone has drawn, because you know WWE always likes to throw that random mid-carder in there to last a long time....of course this year a good bet is for Kenny to be the random-lasting till the final four guy.

 

I can't decide who was a bigger "WTF" final four/five person, Fatu in 1994 being a low card tag team worker, Brian Knobbs in 1991 after being in the company for about a month or Mr. Perfect's incredible and surprising appearence in 2002. I wouldn't be shocked if Sabu, of all people, was the 2007 WTF final 4/5. I could see Orton and Edge in a corner with Undertaker standing alone and Sabu laid out in the middle during the classic final four staredown.

 

However, they have done the mid-carders lasting for 25 minutes+ routine alot especially last year with Carlito, Benoit and Mercury lasting 30 along with the 60 minute men in HHH and Mysterio.

 

Edit: Rando, I think Jericho did that spot about 5 times in the 2003 Rumble as did Rey in 2005 when he was being chased by Edge all night (one of those classic forgotten rumble side plots that people forget)

[Mike wanna be 0]

What if the person goes over the top but then is able to fall between the second/top or bottom/second ropes and back into the ring without touching the apron. I'm sure that's been done a few times.

Our rules say if they don't touch the apron, then it doesn't count. It doesn't have to be a solid landing on the apron; if any body part touches, it's a close call. If you're taping it, you should go to the post-Rumble "instant" replay a couple times every Rumble just to be sure.

[Guest JaKyL25]

Mr. Perfect was still alive and hitting Perfectplexes in the Final THREE in '02. That was a mark-out moment to be sure.

 

Wasn't Billy Gunn in the Final Four in '01 along with Austin, Kane, and Rock? That was quite an oddball as well. I mean, he had been at IC level for a couple years, but Undertaker was just in the ring minutes before. That would have been an all-time classic Final Four, right up there with '92's Flair/Sid/Hogan/Savage quadrumvirate.

[J.T. 0]

How bout the Hoss a rific Final 4 when Lesanr won it. That rumble was so weird. It was like the first half was all wicked workers and the second half was samoans and hosses.

[Jaxxson Mayhem 0]

Well, I had a 10 person party last year, so it was very much like yours (we had three numbers, not 5).

 

What we did is draw numbers instead of Names, so it was more suspensful during the rumble. If you got 2, then you got entrant 2, 12 and 22. Made sense for 10 people. Also, we had two other pots, Iron Man (which usually is announced or made obvious) and fastest elim (also usually made easily known). If you dont like fastest elim, like myslef, you can name a target who wont win and will be eliminated by one person (like Coach) and person who elim's the target wins.

 

We had 10 bucks a person. Winner gets 70, 20 to ironman, 10 to target/fastest elim.

 

 

I'd go with this one....

[St. Gabe 0]

How about making a hand out like the ones we do here every year, and pass it out, search for the topic from the last 2 years to get an idea, and the guy who racks up the most points, 2nd most, etc...gets the pot.

 

makes the rumble much more fun to watch.

[UseTheSledgehammerUh 0]

Let's not forget D-LO making it to the final four in 1999! With McMahon, Austin, and Bossman! And even hitting the Frogsplash on Stone Cold, doing his head bobble, and getting tossed!