TOURNAMENT COORDINATOR

[Dr. Silaconne M. Plants]

Pending approval, Dr. Silaconne M. Plants, the reigning BOB ONLY WORLD CHAMPION THAT MATTERS, via email today has (in an attempt to 'prove' himself as the greatest ONLY WORLD CHAMPION THAT MATTERS) proclaimed that he will defend THE ONLY WORLD TITLE THAT MATTERS in the original March Mayhem Tournament format.

What this means is, SMP will put up his title in a non-booked 65 man tournament based on the outcomes of NCAA tournament games as BOB wrestler fortunes are determined by the teams they're matched up with.

For example, if your wrestler gets paired with the Kansas Jayhawks and Kansas wins the National Championship, then you are the new ONLY WORLD CHAMPION THAT MATTERS. No other championships are at stake.

It's unprecidented. It's crazy. Why would a champion do this? Why would a champion that could skate to the next On-Demand to face Kobe Gyant risk losing his title before hand and ruin a saucy main event?

Because, as SMP wrote in his email, "I'm the best. And Carolina should win this year."

Granted SMP will receive the overall number 1 seed in the tournament since he his the defending champion. However, North Carolina and Pittsburgh are split in certain polls right now. Conference tournaments are still in progress...

And the NCAA tournament is unpredictable. They don't call it "March Madness" for shits and giggles.

As of today, going by the AP Top 25 to keep it simple: prospective top four seeds:

1. SMP (North Carolina)

2. Kobe Gyant (#1 contender for OWTTM) (Pittsburgh)

3. Sam, Sam, the Dancing Yam (multiple eWmania gauntlet champion and current eWmania World Champion.) (Connecticut)

4. Steve Studnuts (last GRAND SLAM CHAMPION) (Memphis)

Possible 2 seeds in the four regions:

Kid Pirate (Swiss Army Champion) (Louisville)

Axl (for no other reason than his handler lives in....) (Oklahoma)

Sarah "the Jobber Slayer" Whatbody (2 time OWCTM-champ before Studnuts and beaten by Studnuts) (Michigan State)

Death (OWCTM before Sarah and beaten by Sarah) (Wake Forest)

Possible 3 seeds:

Hamster Girl (The You Gotta Be Kidding Me I Ain't Doing That, Are You Out of Your Frickin' Mind T&A XX Division Hardcore Champion) (Duke)

The Great (Former Swiss Army Champion, Tag Team Champion) (Villanova)

Jerri Li (former You Gotta Be Kidding Me I Ain't Doing That, Are You Out of Your Frickin' Mind T&A XX Division Hardcore Champion) (Kansas)

Scatman (Gonzaga) (Because Gonzaga is "shitty")

Events and seedings SUBJECT TO CHANGE!

Official seedings announced next week if tournament is approved and SMP doesn't chicken out.

[@xL]

Go Sooners!

Really. PLEASE win.

I usually couldn't care less but... Dammit, you just GOTTA win!!!

- Axl, born and raised in Nowhere, Oklahoma...

[John Leary]

This should be awesome. Thanks for doing this.

Not sure what format your results will end up in, but maybe we could bring back Mike Monroe to "recap" the action for use as a compilation show of sorts once the whole tournament is done, and we can keep it in the Newz Zone until then?

I'll leave that up to you, sir, to decide. Your show. Just throwing out my one idea...must go recharge my brain now...

[J]

Concerning the March Mayhem Tournament. I've still been thinking about the city rumble idea, and it came to me that maybe the "Big 12", the final 12 participants in the tourney, could go on to a battle throughout Sin City [yes, Vegas, not Axl's hometown], and the Final Four could finish things ontop of the roof of a casino. I really liked the November in Nowhere rumble, and the Mall Brawl of course, and I'd like to see that idea used again. But it's JUST an idea. Maybe the finale of the tournament could be shown as a special on Nick at Nite, just like NiN... or maybe [adult swim] or The Weather Channel. But again, just an idea.

Re: This idea:

1) The NCAA tournament never comes down to a final 12. There's a play-in game with #65 and 64, then it's 64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2, and then champion. It couldn't come down to a final four against each other as the final four teams don't play a basketball game with all four teams on the court at the same time. That is, if you were thinking Fatal Fourway for the finale. That's the impression I got.

2) What's your fascination about dudes fighting on a roof top? I read that you've mentioned this about 4 times now. If anything, the matches will be held in a gym. It IS a basketball tournament determining the winners after all.

3) If NiN was so special with the roof top finish, why try and duplicate it? Let it stand alone as a "once in a lifetime event." That would make it more meaningful IMO. However, if you liked the idea that much I'm sure it can be used again. The tournament is not the time to use it, though. March Mayhem stands on its own, the brackets and the upsets are the draw...not the venues.

4) Leary, I can't find the original March Mayhem tournament from 2001, only the 2002 version where I shit-canned the highlights and just posted the winners. Any idea where 2001 (and douja's win) are hiding?

5) There isn't a number 5.

6) That is all.

[@xL]

Actually, it wasn't the rooftop part that I liked the most, that was just a smaller part of it. The MAIN part is the city rumble, where the guys fight throughout a city, and different people write different parts of the match. Think in terms of the Mall Brawl. I'd love to do something like that again... For now, I'm thinking about doing it in my show over on eWzine. Oh, and the reason I don't know anything about basketball... is because I don't know jack squat about sports perioud [unless you count pro wrestling]. Other than a bit of soccer, I just can't get myself interested in watching sports. Although, I have enjoyed playing basketball at the park myself, but as far as WATCHING it... nah. And don't even get me started on football. Blech...

- MB

[John Leary]

4) Leary, I can't find the original March Mayhem tournament from 2001, only the 2002 version where I shit-canned the highlights and just posted the winners. Any idea where 2001 (and douja's win) are hiding?

Here's what you managed to rescue: Classix 5

Back in 2002, you found some (not all) of the March Mayhem '01 stuff on an old computer and emailed it to me. If the UnFOURtunate Four or the earlier stuff exists anywhere, it's probably on that old computer of yours.

As for 2002, I actually posted all those results after a certain J fellow vanished for a while due to burnout or something. I think you had started posting results on the old Rant Zone, but unless you saved them by some chance, they're gone forever.

[John Leary]

Also, once you get the seedings, I'll probably make some brackets for you, like this: www.bobwrestling.com/mayhem2007splash.jpg

[J]

Here's what you managed to rescue: Classix 5

Back in 2002, you found some (not all) of the March Mayhem '01 stuff on an old computer and emailed it to me. If the UnFOURtunate Four or the earlier stuff exists anywhere, it's probably on that old computer of yours.

As for 2002, I actually posted all those results after a certain J fellow vanished for a while due to burnout or something. I think you had started posting results on the old Rant Zone, but unless you saved them by some chance, they're gone forever.

Oh yeah, all that is true. You posted it, but I'm pretty sure I wrote it (at least the intro part). My memory really sucks. And yeah, I was burned to a crisp in '02.

I remember now that you said it. It's gone forever then, I smashed that comp to dust years ago.

And yes yes YES! I was going to ask you about that snazzy bracket! Love to have one of those for this... ;D

[John Leary]

Oh yeah, you wrote the intro. I could've never pulled that one off.

I also totally ripped it off for the '03 disaster. www.bobwrestling.com/MM03_01.html

[J]

Mar 14, 2009 13:25:41 GMT -5 John Leary said:

Oh yeah, you wrote the intro. I could've never pulled that one off.

I also totally ripped it off for the '03 disaster. www.bobwrestling.com/MM03_01.html

Actually, Skeeter wrote the INTRO intro for Classix. All that other shit is sadly my doing. It sounded good at the time...