Scott's Blog of Doom

Polls close at 11:59PM Monday night, so get voting!

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A couple of very close, and a couple of pretty surprising results to start us out here. 

- Barry Windham & Mike Rotundo (60%) d. The Powers of Pain (29%). 

- The Steiner Brothers (94%) d. The Filthy Animals (5%).  Thanks for showing up, guys.

- Unbelievably, Steen/Generico and the Smoking Gunns garnered the exact same number of votes, so they do the old double pin spot and I flip a coin to send the Gunns to the next round with 39% of the vote. 

- Doom (69%) d. The Sheepherders (16%).  I thought this would be closer since I specified the Sheepherders and not the Bushwackers, but the people have spoken.

- The Rockers (81%) squash The Briscoe Brothers (15%).  Maybe I should have left Benoit/Jericho in there after all?

- The Rock N Sock Connection (71%) d. AMW (26%).  Another surprise to me, as I thought teamwork would win over star power, but I guess not.

- Demolition (54%) d. The Rock N Roll Express (43%).  This one started as a massacre by the Demos, but the RNR gained momentum all through the day.  They just couldn’t pull it out, however.

- The Road Warriors (87%) d. The APA (8%). 

So for our next round later this week, that’ll give us:

- Windham & Rotundo v. The Steiner Brothers

- Smoking Gunns v. Doom

- Rockers v. Rock N Sock

- Demolition v. The Road Warriors

Stay tuned tonight as I post the voting brackets for the Eddie Gilbert division!

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OK, after taking into account requests in the previous thread, I’ve subbed in a few popular choices and subbed out a few unpopular ones (mainly those with Paul Roma in them, oddly enough) and after a random seeding process, we now have a field of 64 teams.

So here’s how it’s going to work:  I’ve organized the tournament into four divisions:  The Jim Crockett Division, The Eddie Gilbert Division, The Lou Thesz Division and the Eddie Guerrero Division.  Each division has eight first round matchups, and we will proceed through each division until there’s a winner of each one.  Then it’s a four-team tournament to crown the ultimate tag team of all-time!

Seedings are entirely arbitrary and meaningless, so don’t get offended because Demolition and the Road Warriors ended up so close together, for instance. 

I decided to go with three options:  You can pick either team to win, or you can pick a draw if you’re playing armchair booker and think it would end up that way.  You can use whatever criteria you want to choose your winner, whether it be the team that’s your favorite, the team you think would be booked to win, the team that would win a real fight, I don’t care. 

The official pairings follow after the break, and then we’ll begin with the Jim Crockett Division tonight!

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