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Week 134: JD3 - (Twitch VOD)
The RNG has not been kind to us as of late, but I don’t dare to fuck with it because I know the moment I do the RNG will correct course and make it so all our matches go to a one hour time limit draw.

Week 135: Judgement Dusk III - 30th October 2021 - 22:00 GMT+2

Next week is JUDGEMENT NIGHT III and I forgot to do the bit where I call the episodes leading up Judgement Dawn/Day/Dusk this year. I mean okay, I called the last one JD3, but that could mean anything. But I finally caught back up, welcome to Judgement Dusk III, here’s the card.

#1 4v4 Tag Match
This war rages on, eternally.
Anime Death Squad (KAG, Palpy, WNA) vs. Anime Defense Force (Skull Girls, Anna May, Samio)

#2 Singles Match
Note: Our Hell has no nobility
Baron of Hell vs. Family Man

#3 Singles Match
Ultimate Brain vs. Ultimate Brawn, match of the century (mid-card)
EGO vs. Muscle Wizard

#4 Legion Tag Championships No. 1 Contender Match
Undeddie and Mimic are going to dick kick city
The Union (Mina and Josef) vs. Criminal Sanity (Undeddie and Mimic)

#5 Bloodtober Gorefest Qualifier
What shall it be? Princess Slaughter? Or Deathmatch Kayu?
Kelsey Slaughter vs. Kayu Zakisaka

#6 Hellweight Championship No. 1 Contender Match
Can’t wait for Pantha to gloriously defeat Dash Rendar again.
Pantha vs. Dash Rendar for some reason

#7 Seven Deadly Pins
Eight people enter… eight leave. But only one of them can win.
Lightning vs. Robutt vs. Duckbaby vs. Suman vs. Lea vs. Bone Idol vs. Florida Man vs. Koji Kojinaka (c)

Week 135: Judgement Dusk III - (Twitch VOD)

Week 136: JUDGEMENT NIGHT III 6th November 2021 - 20:00 GMT+1
(Note for people in the US: This may be two hours early for me but it’s only one hour early for you. As always, click the link above for the exact time.)


Time for JUDGEMENT NIGHT: The Third
And in the main event we even have a rematch of the main event from the first. That’s badass. Much like the rest of the show! Here’s the card.

#1 Seven Deadly Pins
High stakes match, high profile wrestlers. And one baby above them all.
Family Man vs. Baron of Hell vs. Dicky P vs. Ricc 2 Thicc vs. Hayley Simmons vs. Skullistair vs. Haz Matt vs. Isabel Ibarra vs. Quackenduckboy Jr. (c)

#2 XOC Rules Match
This is down 10-count and submission.
Bobson Dugnutt vs. Palpatine

#3 Singles Match
I think this may or may not be highly anticipated, but it’s gonna be dope either way.
Grace Thoruson vs. Majin Bob Sapp

#4 Legion Tag Championships
Unionizing against the six time champs.
The Union vs. Pineapple Pizza (c)

#5 Singles Match
This has been coming for basically a year now.
Not Your God vs. Freddie Hope

#6 Darkweight Championship
This looks like a video game-ass match.
Flash Hammer vs. Arcade Legend Ass (c)

#7 Bloodtober Gorefest
Part three, still almost the same team.
Maya Northwind vs. Steve Dirt vs. Hobo One Kevodki vs. Kayu Zakisaka

#8 Hellweight Championship
Two years ago Fomore faced Pantha to win the title… but can they beat Pantha again?
Pantha vs. Fomore (c)

Week 136: JUDGEMENT NIGHT III - (Twitch VOD)

All right!
This weekend we kick off the second Showdown Tournament with two nights in a row. Here’s a few links you may or may not care about.

Announcement Video - Posted this last week.
Tournament Standings - Nothing’s happened yet!
Predictions ← This is probably the most relevant one

Pay special mind to that last link for the predictions up there. They will close a bit before the show goes live on Friday. Unfortunately since this is a round robin tournament Challonge does not accept predictions. It’s piss easy to set up though so I did it myself with a simple google form. This means you can’t easily see how much points someone has gathered so I added a spreadsheet to help you calculate that if you want your predictions to make sense for whatever reason (lol)

Week 137: FIGHT! - 12th Nov 2021 - 22:00 GMT+1

#1-4 Showdown Tournament Block A - Round 1
Johnny Fuckyou (0) vs. Not Your God (0)
Austin Ramon (0) vs. Angus McMutton (0)
Bobson Dugnutt (0) vs. Harmony Gray (0)
Cocademon (0) vs. Fomore (0)

#5 Darkweight No. 1 Contender Match
EGO vs. Danny V5

#6-9 Showdown Tournament Block B - Round 1
Family Man (0) vs. Abby Lawrence (0)
Harley Havik (0) vs. KILL ANIME GIRLS (0)
Sgt. Sprinklez (0) vs. Sapp Ledesma (0)
Cock Thunder (0) vs. Mr. Shakedown (0)

#10 Seven Deadly Pins
DCB vs. Doctor Mutant vs. TSGG Blue vs. Guzma vs. Midas Minoson vs. Agnes Paragon vs. Pig Destroyer vs. Dicky P (c)

Week 138: Knockout - 13th Nov 2021 - 22:00 GMT+1

#1-4 Showdown Tournament Block B - Round 2
Kill Anime Girls vs. Sapp Ledesma
Cock Thunder vs. Sgt. Sprinklez
Harley Havik vs. Family Man
Mr. Shakedown vs. Abby Lawrence

#5 Legion Tag Championship No. Contender Match
School of Slam vs. The Fun Gang (Skullistair and Bone Idol)

#6-9 Showdown Tournament Block A - Round 2
Johnny Fuckyou vs. Harmony Gray
Fomore vs. Bobson Dugnutt
Not Your God vs. Austin Ramon
Angus McMutton vs. Cocademon

#10 Underworld Darkweight Championship
TBD vs. Flash Hammer (c)

Week 137: FIGHT! - (Twitch VOD)
Week 138: Knockout - (Twitch VOD)

Yup, that’s two updates in one post, just in case there’s confusion. The below also includes the results of both nights.

After two nights we have the following standings

It’s too early to really say anything. It’s just two rounds after all. The first mathematical eliminations can only happen after Round 4, After all. What’s interesting with Block A is that Fomore ranks so low. This is calculated automatically due to tie breakers. It’s why Harmony is still ranked 3 despite also taking an upset loss against Johnny, but she has the tie-breaker over Bobson.

With Block B it’s more clear-cut. While there have been some surprising results, such as the destruction of Thunder by Mr. Shakedown and KAG being this dominant (I was personally sure he’d do well, but I didn’t predict this.) However, we’re still only two rounds in.

Here’s the current standings of the predictions.

You can also look at the tournament on Challonge. If you are reading this after the tournament has progressed past the first two rounds be aware that the following link contains spoilers: Challonge page

Week 139: With An Armbar!

Tournament Standings (Don’t click this if you’re reading this for the first time after the Tournament has progressed further.)

We’re entering the third round of the second ShowdownTournament. So far there’s no danger of anyone getting elimminated and we’ve had some upsets already so anything goes. But depending on what happens this week the stakes might be higher next week at the PPV.

Here’s the card for the next show.

#1-4 Showdown Tournament Block A - Round 3
Bobson Dugnutt (2) vs. Cocademon (0)
Austin Ramon (0) vs. Harmony (2)
Not Your God (4) vs. Fomore (2)
Johnny Fuckyou (2) vs. Angus McMutton (4)

#5 Singles Match
Grace Thoruson vs. Dash Rendar

#6 Hellweight No. 1 Contender Match
Ricc 2 Thicc vs. Kayu Zakisaka

#7-10 Showdown Tournament Block B - Round 3
Abby Lawrence (2) vs. Cock Thunder (0)
Family Man (0) vs. Kill Anime Girls (4)
Sgt. Sprinkles (2) vs. Harley Havik (2)
Sapp Ledesma (2) vs. Mr. Shakedown (4)

#11 Legion Tag Championships
The Fun Gang vs. Pineapple Pizza

Week 139: With An Armbar - (Twitch Vod)

No one actually won with an armbar

Tournament Standings (Don’t click this if you’re reading this for the first time after the Tournament has progressed further.)

All right, in a Round Robin Tournament with seven rounds statistical eliminations come at the earliest in round 4 and there’s a few people here, of course, who might lose all chances of winning if they lose another match. These people are Austin Ramon, Cocademon, Thunder and Family Man. It’s a bit surprising for me to see the former three in this position but I guess it had to hit someone. In addition to them having to win every single match to stand a chance there’s also tie-breakers to consider.

Austin was beat by NYG, Harmony and Angus. NYG would have to lose every single match going forward for Austin to remain a viable contender.
Cocademon was beat by Fomore, Angus and Bobson and has a little more leeway but he HAS to beat NYG.
Thunder was beat by Mr. Shakedown, Sgt. Sprinkles and Abby Lawrence. Easy, just win every match and somehow Shakedown has to lose them all.
Family Man, well, he’s been beat by Abby,Harley and KAG. He has to win every match going forward while KAG has to lose them all. Sounds doable.

But that’s not all. Fomore is also in Danger. NYG has a tie-breaker over them. If NYG wins his next match and Fomore loses then Fomore is out too because they can’t catch up anymore in terms of points.
The same is true for Sapp Ledesma. Mr. Shakedown has the tie-breaker over him. So in order for Sapp to have a chance at winning he needs to win every match from now on and Shakedown has to lose at least one.
KAG also has a tie-breaker over Harley Havik who is much in the same position.

So in summary, we have the following people who might be eliminated next week:
Austin Ramon (0) has to win all of his matches and NYG (6) has to lose all of his.
Cocademon (0) has to win all of his matches and Bobson (4) has to lose at least one.
Cock Thunder (0) has to win all of his matches and Abby (4) has to lose at least one while Mr. Shakedown (6) can’t get another win.
Family Man (0) has to win all of his matches and Abby (4) has to lose at least one while KAG (6) can’t get another win.
Fomore (2) is eliminated he loses and if NYG (6) wins one more match.
Sapp Ledesma (2) is eliminated if he loses if Mr. Shakedown (6) wins one more match.
Harley Havik (2) is eliminated if he loses and if KAG (6) wins one more match

And finally, here’s the standings of the predictions. 24 out of 56 matches have taken place, that’s not even half so anything still goes here.

Week 140: REMAIN VIOLENT

#1 Seven Deadly Pins
Surfborg vs. Manic vs. Samio vs. N.A.Robutt vs. Tara Milleneon vs. Florida Man vs. Hayley Simmons vs. Pig Destroyer (c)

#2-5 Showdown Tournament Block B - Round 4
Cock Thunder (0) vs. Family Man (0)
Sapp Ledesma (2) vs. Abby Lawrence (4)
Mr. Shakedown (6) vs. Harley Havik (2)
KILL ANIME GIRLS (6) vs. Sgt. Sprinkles (4)

#6 Legion Tag Championship
Team Skull Girls vs. Pineapple Pizza (c)

#7 Underworld Darkweight Championship
Palpatine vs. Danny V5 (c)

8-11 Showdown Tournament Block A - Round 4
Austin Ramon (0) vs. Cocademon (0)
Johnny Fuckyou (4) vs. Fomore (2)
Not Your God (6) vs. Bobson Dugnutt (4)
Angus McMutton (4) vs. Harmony (4)

#12 Infernal Hellweight Championship
Ricc 2 Thicc vs. Pantha (c)

Week 140: REMAIN VIOLENT - (Twitch VOD)

Standings: Only click this link if the tournament has not already progressed past this point

[spoiler]

In Block A we got a much more crowded top field with four people having 6 points. This also means less people are statistically eliminated. The only one completely out right now is Cocademon.

In Block B it’s a bit different. Shakedown and KAG are dominating and half the block is eliminated as a result. Sapp, Harley, Thuner and Family Man are all out. Abby is just behind the two leaders of the Block and still has a very real chance while Sprinkles is once more on the chopping block. He could be out as soon as next show.

Elimination Candidates for the next show are:

Block A:
Austin: He as to win all his matches, and NYG hs to lose all of his. As does Angus.
Fomore: Also has to win all of their matches and NYG has to lose all of his. Additionally, Johnny Fuckyou has to lose all of his as well.

Block B:
Sprinkles: He’s out if KAG wins one more match. Shakedown CAN get one more win, but Sprinkles needs to get the tie-breaker over him.

In case you don’t know how this is calculated: Take the current points and add the potential points that can still be earned (three rounds remain, so that’s 6) and then also consider tie-breakers.[/spoiler]

And finally, here’s the current standings for the predictions:

Week 141: Elimination
Tournament is heating up now. Many of the matches have consequences on stuff besides them. So I put a write up for that after the card.

#1-4 Showdown Tournament 2 - A-Block Round 5
Harmony (4) vs. Cocademon (0)
Fomore (2) vs. Austin Ramon (2)
Bobson Dugnutt (6) vs. Johnny Fuckyou (6)
Angus McMutton (6) vs Not Your God (6)

#5 Tag Championship No. 1 Contender Match
Criminal Sanity (EGO and Undeddie) vs. School of Slam

#6-9 Showdown Tournament 2 - B-Block Round 5
Family Man (0) vs. Mr. Shakedown (8)
Sapp Ledesma (2) vs. Harley Havik (2)
KILL ANIME GIRLS (8) vs. Thunder (2)
Abby Lawrence (6) vs. Sgt. Sprinkles (4)

#10 Underworld Darkweight Championship
Anna May vs. Danny V5 (c)

The drama in A-Block is more or less obvious.
Harmony is likely to get the win against Cocademon, or so we think. We need to remember that Cocademon came in second in his block in the first Showdown Tournament. So he could easily get a win in against Harmony and even though Coca is eliminated already he can still be a spoiler Beating Harmony would put her in deep trouble and right on the chopping block. She hasn’t faced NYG, one of the fore-runners yet so she’ll have the best chances if NYG beats Angus but Harmony manages to beat NYG for the tie-breaker. She’ll then have to continue winning, of course.

Then we got Fomore and Austin. Now, I didn’t know this when I wrote the results for last show but Austin is de facto eliminated. Because in order to win the tournament he has to not only win all his matches, but neither NYG nor Angus can win another. Problem is, Angus and NYG fight on the same show. So one of them will win. Sorry Austin. However, Fomore still got a faint chance of making a comeback. If they win all their matches, and NYG land Johnny Fuckyou lose all of theirs it’s possible. NYG and Johnny fought already so that’s not a wrench that can get thrown into that. But there’s so much that can go wrong.

Then we got a big one: Two the four people on top with 6 points right now and and two strong strikers face off: Bobson Dugnutt and Johnny Fuckyou. At this point both of them are still safe from elimination. But as mentioned in the previous paragraph, the fate of others relies on the outcome of this match too. If Johnny Fuckyou wins Fomore is instantly eliminated no matter if they win or lose against Austin.

Finally. we have another match of two sixers against each other: Angus and NYG. No matter the outcome of this match: Austin is eliminated. Manwhile, if NYG wins Fomore is also eliminated. So while Angus is fighting the battle for himself Fomore is sure to watch this one.

Now, in B-Block the situation is more precarious. While A-Block has four people with six points, A-Block has two with eight. So the overall gap in points is much larger. Half the people (Sapp, Harley, Thunder, Family Man) are already eliminated.

Family Man vs. Mr. Shakedown is one of those matches where perhaps, Family Man can shine as the glorious spoiler. He nearly beat Shakedown in a regular match a while ago. Though, he did go crunk mode for that one. If Shakedown wins then Sgt. Sprinkles will be on real thin ice. Because if he wins one more after that Sprinkles is out even if he wins on this show.

Sapp and Harley are essentially having an exhibition here. Both are already out, unfortunately. But there’s potential for a great match here.

KAG is out to murder Thunder. Thunder is already eliminated as well. But he has to win for Sgt. Sprinkles to have a chance. Given the friendly rivalry between SHA-MO and RBF I’m sure Thunder will fight extra hard to give Sprinkles that chance but he’d have to become the first person to defeat KAG in this tournament.

Finally, we got Abby vs. Sprinkles. This is do or die for the latter as he’ll be eliminated if KAG wins. Shakedown can win one more match over the course of the tournament but it’s obviously better for Sprinkles if he does not.But Abby also really needs to win, especially if Shakedown or KAG also win their matches. Catching up to them will only get harder and she’s yet to face either of them.

Week 141: Elimination - (Twitch VOD)

Time for the standings after the show!

Only click this link if you’re not watching from the future, as it’s updated after every round


With round 5 behind us we are now nearing the end. There’s only two more rounds to go. Here’s the people who are still alive and those who might be eliminated soon.

A-Block:
Angus McMutton (8)
Bobson Dugnutt (8)
Johnny Fuckyou (6)
Harmony Gray (6)
Not Your God (6) - Dead Man Walking

There’s only four more points to gain, so everyone who has below 4 or someone higher as a tie-breaker over them is out.
Angus and Bobson are safe for now. They sit at the top of the block, but not quite as comfortably as the top two in B-Block.
Angus has yet to face Bobson and Fomore, while Bobson still has Angus and Austin ahead of him.

NYG, Johnny and Harmony could still win, but they’ll have to win both of their remaining matches while Angus and Bobson have to lose at least one. However, this isn’t accounting for tie-breakers yet.

NYG was beaten by Bobson AND Angus. Since both of them have yet to face each other and one of them will get 10 points guaranteed, NYG might not technically be eliminated yet, but he is a dead man walking. No matter what happens he has no chance of getting enough points to win the tournament due to the tie-breakers at play. The same fate that has befallen Austin after Round 4.

Johnny Fuckyou was beaten by Bobson but has a victory over Angus, so if Angus loses one of his matches but beats Bobson then Johnny can still win the block if he doesn’t lose anymore while Bobson is not allowed to win one more time. Johnny has yet to face Austin Ramon and Cocademon. Given their records his chances aren’t too bad, but Austin decided he wants to be the big spoiler so Johnny needs t obe careful, and I’m sure Cocademon also wants to at leaste finish with one win.

Harmony lost to Angus but beat Bobson in the inverse of Johnny, for her to succeed Bobson needs to beat Angus but lose his other match. And Angus has to lose both of his remaining matches. Her remaining opponents are Fomore and NYG. Going by the pure statistics of this tournament alone she should be able to beat Fomore, NYG might not be that easy. But Fomore is sure to put up a fight too.

B-Block
Mr. Shakedown (10)
KILL ANIME GIRLS (10)
Abby Lawrence (8)

Since there’s only four more points to gain but the top-field is smaller (and thus has more points) everyone with less than 6 points is out. Or if either of the top 2 have a tie-breaker over them.

Well, we got two extremely dominant people right on top here. Neither have been defeated yet, but they’ve yet to face each other.
Mr. Shakedown and KAG are safe at least until that happens. Shakedowns other remaining opponent is Sgt. Sprinklez while KAG’s is Abby Lawrence.

Here’s the thing with Abby: She might only be one win behind the two top guys. However, Mr. Shakedown has the tie-breaker over her. So he’d have to lose both of his remaining matches. The only way for Abby to win is if KAG beats Shakedown but is defeated by Abby. Because, yes, Abby has yet to face KAG. Her other remaining opponent is Harley Havik. Abby is definitely fighting upwards here but she still has a chance, even if it looks to be a slim one.

Week 142: Last Chance

We’re entering Round 6 of 7 and that means things are really reaching a boiling point now. Read the wall of text below. B-Block is pretty cut and dry but A-Block is… it’s something.

Showdown Tournament 2 - B-Block Round 6
Family Man (0) vs. Sapp Ledesma (4)
Harley Havik (2) vs. Thunder (2)
Sgt. Sprinklez (4) vs. Mr. Shakedown (10)
Abby Lawrence (8) vs. KILL ANIME GIRLS (10)

Tag Team Match
DCB, Surfborg, Koji Kojinaka, Duckbaby vs. Palpatine, Guzma, Dash Rendar, Boob Marley

Showdown Tournament 2 - A-Block Round 6
Cocademon (0) vs. Johnny Fuckyou (6)
Bobson Dugnutt (8) vs. Austin Ramon (4)
Fomore (2) vs. Angus McMutton (8)
Harmony Gray (6) vs. Not Your God (6)

Legion Tag Championship
School of Slam vs. Team Skull Girls (c)

Standings and Elimination Scenarios
Points behind names are listet as (current points/max potential points)

A-Block
Alive:
Angus McMutton (8/12) - tie-breaker over Harmony, NYG - Yet to face Fomore and Bobson
Bobson Dugnutt (8/12) - tie-breaker over Fuckyou, NYG - Yet to face Austin and Angus
Johnny Fuckyou (6/10) - tie-breaker over Angus, Harmony - Yet to face Cocademon and Austin
Harmony Gray (6/10) - tie-breaker over Bobson - Yet to face NYG and Fomore

Dead Man Walking:
NYG (6/10) - tie-breaker over Fuckyou - Yet to face Harmony and Cocademon

Eliminated:
Austin Ramon (4/8)
Fomore (2/6)
Cocademon (0/4)

All right we have quite the scenario here, we got five people very close to each other, with tie-breakers all over the place. I did pronounce NYG dead in the results of the last show. The reason for this is that Angus and Bobson have yet to face each other and so they will get two more points guaranteed. NYG can still spoil Harmony’s tournament. And… well. The thing is there is a very very slim chance for him making a comeback. But more on that later.

Angus and Bobson can both afford to lose one but still come out on top due to tie-breakers they have but they can’t lose to each other. Due to those tie-breakers if Angus simply wins another match, Harmony will be out. If Bobson wins another match Fuckyou will be out. If Fuckyou wins Harmony will be on very thin ice. If Harmony wins then… well. She’s not eliminated if Angus loses both his remaining matches. The same is true for Fuckyou, only Bobson has to lose both matches.

All right, let’s get funky. The good news for Harmony is that she has a tie-breaker over Bobson Dugnutt. Now, assuming Bobson beats Angus, getting a tie-breaker over him, who has a tie-breaker over Harmony. Let’s assume Bobson loses his other match while Angus wins. All three of them will have 10 points. We’ll have a three-way tie (Harmony > Angus > Bobson > Harmony). Well, more specifically we have three people with tie-breakers over each other. The same thing happened last time we did this. We had to do a three-way match to break it up. The fucked up thing is, this might happen in B-Block too…

Except! Here comes Johnny Fucking Fuckyou beating his two remaining opponents, achieving 10 points as well, with tie-breakers over Angus and Harmony and what even in the fuck. The thing is, as funny as the idea of a four-way tie-up is, this would be immediately resolved. Johnny’s tie-breakers would eliminate Harmony and Angus while Bobson has the tie-breaker over Fuckyou. If we go by number of tie-breakers this would give Fuckyou the win, if we went by logic it’d be Bobson, because his tie-breaker would eliminate Fuckyou. I’m leaning more towards the “logic” approach myself but I might change my mind.

Johnny Fuckyou can, of course, also be entangled in a three way tie-up if Angus beats Bobson but loses his other match, while Bobson wins his other match. If Johnny wins all of his remaining bouts the three of them will have three points with a convenient Johnny > Bobson > Angus > Johnny tie-breaker chain that needs to be resolved.

Now, what if all that happens. And what if NYG wins his remaining matches against Harmony and Cocademon, putting him at 10 points as well. He does have a tie-breaker over Johnny Fuckyou, creating a four-way tie at the end of the block… except both Bobson and Angus have tie-breakeres over him so he’s out. Huh. But I did allude to him still having a chance.

Bobson loses both of his matches, remaining at 8 ponts.
Angus wins against Bobson, loses the other. Angus has 10 points. (has a tie-breaker over NYG)
Fuckyou beats both his opponents. Fuckyou ahs 10 points (and a tie-breaker over Angus)
NYG beats Harmony and Cocademon, reaches 10 points (has a tie-breaker over Fuckyou)
Harmony is beaten by NYG and thus can reach 8 points at most, eliminating her.
We got NYG > Angus > Fuckyou > NYG

This will not work if Bobson beats Angus instead because Bobson has a tie-breaker over NYG and Fuckyou, resolving it immediately in favor of Bobson.

Wow that was quite a lot. I could probably think of more obscure scenarios if I spent more time on this, but I won’t.

B-Block
Alive:
Mr. Shakedown (10/14) - tie-breaker over Abby Lawrence - Yet to face Sprinkles and KAG
KILL ANIME GIRLS (10/14) - no tie-breakers over living participants - Yet to face Abby Lawrence and Mr. Shakedown
Abby Lawrence (8/12) - no tie-breakers over living participants - Yet to face KAG and Harley Havik

Eliminated:
Sapp Ledesma (4/8)
Sgt. Sprinkles (4/8)
Harley Havik (2/6)
Thunder (2/6)
Family Man (0/4)

Thankfully this is simpler than A-Block, there’s not that many outlandish possibilities. There only three people still in the game.

Shakedown and KAG sit more or less comfortably at the top. For Abby it’s not so easy. Her match against KAG is make or break. If she loses, she’s out, and this will be between KAG and Mr. Shakedown for the Block Finals next week. And even if she wins, she’ll have to rely on Mr. Shakedown to lose his remaining matches. If Mr. Shakedown reaches 12 points with one more win he’ll have as many points as Abby can earn by winning her remaining matches. He also has a tie-breaker over Abby.

All right, that’s not all. Assuming Abby beats KAG this week and Shakedown wins this week but loses next week against KAG, while Abby beats her final opponent, Harley, we’ll have a gridlock of sorts. In that scenario Shakedown, KAG and Abby will all have 12 points but they’ll have tie-breakers over each other in an eternal tie-breaker Oroboros. Just like one of the possible scenarios in A-Block. If both blocks end this way then I don’t even know what to say.

Week 142: Last Chance - (Twitch VOD)

Once more it’s time for the current standings and all.
As usual, the link is updated after every round, so if you’re reading this from the future when the tournament has progressed further, don’t click it (unless you don’t mind spoilers): here

Now for our actual standings and what it takes for each competitor to get the win.

A-Block:

[spoiler]Alive:
Bobson Dugnutt (8/10) - tie-breakers over Fuckyou and NYG - remaining opponent: Angus
Angus McMutton (8/10) - tie-breaker over NYG - remaining opponent: Bobson
Johnny Fuckyou (8/10) - tie-breaker over Angus - remaining opponent: Austin
Not Your Goid (8/10) - tie-breaker over Fuckyou - remaining opponent: Cocademon

Eliminated:
Harmony Gray (6/8)
Austin Ramon (6/8)
Fomore (4/6)
Cocademon (0/2)

Scenario: Bobson Dugnutt
-In order for Bobson to win all he has to do is beat Angus. He has tie-breakers over both Johnny Fuckyou and NYG, the only other people still alive. So Bobson is essentially the safest. He’s the only one whose victory does not rely on other people winning or losing.

Scenario: Angus McMutton
-In order for Angus to win he needs to, of course, beat Bobson Dugnutt. But Johnny Fuckyou also has to lose.
-If Johnny and Angus win, Johnny wins because of the tie-breaker.
-If Angus, Johnny and NYG win we’ll have a three-way tie of Angus > Johnny > NYG > Angus that needs to be resolved with an additional match.

Scenario: Johnny Fuckyou
-In order for Johnny to win he needs to, first of all, win his own match against Austin. Both Bobson and NYG have to lose.
-If Angus beats Bobson but NYG wins his match we’ll have a three way tie of Johnny > NYG > Angus > Johnny
-If Bobson wins, he’s out.

Scenario: Not Your God
-In order for NYG to win he needs to win his own match, naturally. NYG has the distinct disadvantage that both Bobson and Angus, who have yet to face each other, have a tie-breaker over him. That means, whichever of these two wins, they’ll have a tie-breaker over him and match him in points. Meaning NYG loses. But there is one way for him to still win. Or rather, create a three-way tie that would allow him to do that. It relies on Johnny winning, who has a tie-breaker over Angus, and Angus winning, who as tie-breaker over NYG, while NYG has the tie-breaker over Johnny. Creating the NYG > Angus > Johnny > NYG triangle we’ve already brought up twice so far. He would then, of course, have to come out on top in the tie-breaker match.
-NYG is the only one who cannot win without a three-way tie. Any other outcome will instantly cause his elimination. That plucky underdog heel…[/spoiler]

B-Block:

[spoiler]Alive:
Mr. Shakedown (12/14) - remaining opponent: KILL ANIME GIRS
KILL ANIME GIRLS (12/14) - remaining opponent: Mr. Shakedown

Eliminated
Abby Lawrence (8/10)
Sapp Ledesma (6/8)
Sgt. Sprinkles (4/6)
Cock Thunder (4/6)
Harley Havik (2/4)
Cocademon (0/2)

Scenario: Mr. Shakedown
-Mr. Shakedown beats KAG and… that’s it. Nothing else going on here. All complexities this could have had are eliminated.

Scenario: KILL ANIME Girls
-KAG has to beat Mr. Shakedown. See above. Nothing else to see here. Where A-Block is quite complex B-Block is simplicity incarnate. We WILL see a winner by points and he will be undefeated.

The first Tournament:
Last time we did this the finalists were Harmony Gray (undefeated in her block) and Malfest Goat-Monster (had to beat a three-way tie) and we might see the same thing gain. The winner was Malfest Goat-Monster, of course.[/spoiler]

And finally, here’s the standings of the predictions

I believe the reason I’m on top is because I knew that Bobson is good, while everyone else only saw him lose once prior to the tournament

Week 143: Victory

The last two matches here are the ones that have the most impact on how the tournament is going to go. If Bobson wins his match the wins the block, if Angus wins it’s a bit more involved. Could be anything from losing because Johnny has a tie-breaker over him to winning the block. For B-Block it’s even simpler. Whoever wins, well… wins. Below is the write-up I also included with the results of last episode but without spoiler tags.

#1-3 Showdown Tournament 2 - B-Block Final Round
Sgt. Sprinklez (4) vs. Family Man (0)
Harley Havik (2) vs. Abby Lawrence (8)
Thunder (4) vs. Sapp Ledesma (6)

#4 Hellweight No. 1 Contender Match
Malfest Goat-Monster vs. Majin Bob Sapp

#5-7 Showdown Tournament 2 - A-Block Final Round
Cocademon (0) vs. Not Your God (8)
Harmony Gray (6) vs. Fomore (2)
Austin Ramon (6) vs. Johnny Fuckyou (8)

#8 Seven Deadly Pins
Rick Wreckage vs. George Cluwney vs. Skull Grunt Blue vs. Doctor Mutant vs. Chief Engineer vs. Cock Lightning vs. Spitbal vs. Manic Misanthrope (c)

#9-10 Showdown Tournament 2 - Block Finals
Bobson Dugnutt (8) vs. Angus McMutton (8)
Mr. Shakedown (12) vs. KILL ANIME GIRLS (12)

A-Block:

Alive:
Bobson Dugnutt (8/10) - tie-breakers over Fuckyou and NYG - remaining opponent: Angus
Angus McMutton (8/10) - tie-breaker over NYG - remaining opponent: Bobson
Johnny Fuckyou (8/10) - tie-breaker over Angus - remaining opponent: Austin
Not Your Goid (8/10) - tie-breaker over Fuckyou - remaining opponent: Cocademon

Eliminated:
Harmony Gray (6/8)
Austin Ramon (6/8)
Fomore (4/6)
Cocademon (0/2)

Scenario: Bobson Dugnutt
-In order for Bobson to win all he has to do is beat Angus. He has tie-breakers over both Johnny Fuckyou and NYG, the only other people still alive. So Bobson is essentially the safest. He’s the only one whose victory does not rely on other people winning or losing.

Scenario: Angus McMutton
-In order for Angus to win he needs to, of course, beat Bobson Dugnutt. But Johnny Fuckyou also has to lose.
-If Johnny and Angus win, Johnny wins because of the tie-breaker.
-If Angus, Johnny and NYG win we’ll have a three-way tie of Angus > Johnny > NYG > Angus that needs to be resolved with an additional match.

Scenario: Johnny Fuckyou
-In order for Johnny to win he needs to, first of all, win his own match against Austin. Both Bobson and NYG have to lose.
-If Angus beats Bobson but NYG wins his match we’ll have a three way tie of Johnny > NYG > Angus > Johnny
-If Bobson wins, he’s out.

Scenario: Not Your God
-In order for NYG to win he needs to win his own match, naturally. NYG has the distinct disadvantage that both Bobson and Angus, who have yet to face each other, have a tie-breaker over him. That means, whichever of these two wins, they’ll have a tie-breaker over him and match him in points. Meaning NYG loses. But there is one way for him to still win. Or rather, create a three-way tie that would allow him to do that. It relies on Johnny winning, who has a tie-breaker over Angus, and Angus winning, who as tie-breaker over NYG, while NYG has the tie-breaker over Johnny. Creating the NYG > Angus > Johnny > NYG triangle we’ve already brought up twice so far. He would then, of course, have to come out on top in the tie-breaker match.
-NYG is the only one who cannot win without a three-way tie. Any other outcome will instantly cause his elimination. That plucky underdog heel…

B-Block:

Alive:
Mr. Shakedown (12/14) - remaining opponent: KILL ANIME GIRS
KILL ANIME GIRLS (12/14) - remaining opponent: Mr. Shakedown

Eliminated
Abby Lawrence (8/10)
Sapp Ledesma (6/8)
Sgt. Sprinkles (4/6)
Cock Thunder (4/6)
Harley Havik (2/4)
Cocademon (0/2)

Scenario: Mr. Shakedown
-Mr. Shakedown beats KAG and… that’s it. Nothing else going on here. All complexities this could have had are eliminated.

Scenario: KILL ANIME Girls
-KAG has to beat Mr. Shakedown. See above. Nothing else to see here. Where A-Block is quite complex B-Block is simplicity incarnate. We WILL see a winner by points and he will be undefeated.

The first Tournament:
Last time we did this the finalists were Harmony Gray (undefeated in her block) and Malfest Goat-Monster (had to beat a three-way tie) and we might see the same thing gain. The winner was Malfest Goat-Monster, of course.

Week 143: Victory - (Twitch VOD)

Before we get on to the show here’s a few things.

  1. No OHPW next week. Even, though I got no no days off because my employer can eat my ass I need to prepare something for next show that I’d rather not rush.

  2. There will still be a show next week, though, not on Saturday and not at the usual time. I’ll air a director’s cut of Sting of the Sting, which I first aired in April on AES, on my twitch channel. Two hours later than regular OHPW time on Thursday. I have to work on Friday but I don’t give a fuck.

  3. Next show (more specifically the 2021 wrap-up post that follows it) will be the final update to this thread, after that the show will continue but in a new thread. This one’s got three years worth of shows in it after all.

  4. I’ll also prune some characters by people who haven’t been around in a while to make our roster less huge and open up some space. If you signed up within the last year or so you got nothing to worry about. And even if I remove one of your characters you can just tell me to put them back in. This is more of a soft reset kinda thing. On the other hand there’s characters I will only remove if asked to (like Vacation Skeleton, come on, do any of you want me to remove Vacation Skeleton???) so if you want someone you signed up gone you can also let me know this. You can do that any time but this transition to a new thread is as good a time as any.

And now, finally, here’s the results of the show:

The final Standings of the tournament’s Block phase can be found here
But I’ll also write it down here:

A-Block:

1. Bobson Dugnutt / 5-2-0 / 10 Points - Advances to Finals due to tie-breakerse over NYG and Fuckyou
2. Not Your God / 5-2-0 / 10 Points
3. Johnny Fuckyou / 5-2-0 / 10 Points
4. Angus McMutton / 4-3-0 / 8 Points
5. Harmony Gray / 3-4-0 / 6 Points
6. Fomore / 3-4-0 / 6 Points
7. Austin Ramon / 3-4-0 / 6 Points
8. Cocademon / 0-7-0 / 0 Points

B-Block:

1. KILL ANIME GIRLS / 7-0-0 / 14 Points - Advances to Finals
2. Mr. Shakedown / 6-4-0 / 12 Points
3. Abby Lawrence / 5-2-0 / 10 Points
4. Sapp Ledesma / 3-4-0 / 6 Points
5. Sgt. Sprinkles / 3-4-0 / 6 Points
6. Cock Thunder / 3-4-0 / 6 Points
7. Harley Havik / 1-6-0 / 2 Points
8. Family Man / 0-7-0 / 0 Points

And Here’s the predictions:

No one predicted Bobson Dugnutt would reach the finals
I’m the only one who thought Bobson would do well at all, which is probably the reason I have the most points.
Two people successfully predicted that KAG would make it to the finals, but no one thinks he’ll win them. In other words, since no one had him or Bobson as the winner, even though they haven’t happened yet, no one correctly predicted who will win the finals
Three people thought that Harmony would make it to the finals, out of those three everyone thought she’d win it too
Three people thought that Harley would make it to the finals, and two of them even thought she’d win them

Week 144: YEAR OF THE BEAST 2021
Holding the last show of 2021 on the eighth day of 2022 to make absolutely sure it’s really the last one.

#1 Showdown Rules Match - 3 Rounds, 5 Minutes each
Cocademon vs. Family Man

#2 Seven Deadly Pins
Blaze Rider vs. Suman vs. Florida Man vs. Steve Dirt vs. Baron of Hell vs. Flash Hammer vs. Skullistair vs. Manic Misanthrope (c)

#3 Tag Team Match
Young Devils 2nd Generation vs. Young Devils 1st Generation

#4 Happy New Year!
The Fun Gang (Vaycay and DCB) vs. The Union (Mina and Josef)

#5 Darkweight Championship
Maya Northwind vs. Anna May (c)

#6 Legion Tag Championships
Caveman Connection vs. School of Slam (c)

#7 Showdown 2 Grand Finals - 5 Rounds, 5 Minutes each
Bobson Dugnutt vs. KILL ANIME GIRLS

#8 Hellweight Championship
Majin Bob Sapp vs. Pantha (c)

ATTENTION:
Due to a challenge issued by persona non grata VACANT that he said will at the latest take place at YEAR OF THE BEAST 2021 we will likely have to interrupt our program to accommodate this. Trust us, it’s better than fighting it.

For shoot: VACANT’s challenge will be a pre-recorded “cinematic” match and will occur in an appropriate spot on the card.

Week 144: YEAR OF THE BEAST 2021 - (Twitch VOD)
If you prefer Twitch keep in mind that portions of the VOD are muted due to a false positive copyright claim that I hope will be taken care of soon. In the meantime I recommend Youtube instead.

All right, that’s year 3 wrapped.

I said I’ll close this thread and start a new one instead but I’m not so sure anymore. We’ll see. What I’ll do for sure is do a write-up like I did the last years too. But that’ll come some time in the next few days.

I’m a bit late on this for a variety of reasons but here is, like every year. A look back at the last 365 days.
Well, technically more than that because I aired the final episode of 2021 in 2022, but the flow of time is convoluted. And time’s bullshit anyway.

Without any further ado, let’s just hop right in with some general numbers.

It bears mentioning that I didn’t count VACANTs beatdowns once he turned red at matches. They weren’t after all, he just showed up and demanded to fight people.

I don’t have last year’s sheet here for you to see, but we had about as many “Multi” (read: Battle Royals and variations") matches as last year. There’s one less. In turn, there’s one more tag match. Even though, there’s 10 more matches total than the previous year. Mainly owed to the Showdown Tournament which had cards with more matches due to matches in the Dodecagon being shorter.


All right, I’ll do some comparisons here too. The average ratings are about the same as they previously were. Well, they’re a bit lower, actually. But not even by one percent. I’d have thought our weird freak matches that ended super quickly would leave a bigger dent in here but they didn’t. As far as the time goes, matches this year were shorter than last year (good) but longer than in the first year. However, this can mainly be attributed to the aforementioned freak matches that were super short. On the other hand we had a much smaller number of freak matches that went long. But even with that in mind, our longest match is still the shortest of all three years, while our shortest is shorter than last year’s but longer than the first year’s (the first year had one that was 1:53)

I believe I mentioned this last year. But after noticing that matches started going for longer and longer even when they weren’t meant to I made an effort to make them a little shorter with usually tiny tweaks. This worked pretty well overall. We still get occasional weirdness due to RNG. But that’s just how it is. Like that one match, Pantha had that almost went to a 60-minute draw.


If you remember last year’s stats you’ll already know what’s up. Yellow names are people who were Hellweight Champs during that timeframe of episodes. This is the one time in the year I actually use these ELO ratings for something. For booking they are only used if we fuck up. ELO is a system to measure the skill of players in zero-sum games (originally chess). In this case, we are partially measuring RNG, though. the top field here is very stable. Angus was on top all throughout the year except for the month where he didn’t have any singles matches. He was on a killer run that could only avoid a clean sweep by not being booked. Grace is surprisingly far up considering she has not held any titles here. It’s definitely nice to see at least one yellow name in each quartal. Because that tells us that whoever was champ was actually among the top four at the time and thus deserving. Hell, even Ricc 2 Thicc who was merely a challenger was really high up.

It bears mentioning that the above is only affected by singles matches in a ring. That means matches in the Dodecagon don’t count. Due to the vastly different ruleset, they don’t factor into the ELO calculation. They do however very much factor into the next ranking.


Where ELO is cumulative by necessity, otherwise it wouldn’t be accurate at all, whatever this is actually only awards points for matches that happened in that timeframe specifically. You can best see this in our fourth quartal, which was dominated by the Showdown Tournament. You can see it pretty much only features people who did really well in the tournament and Pantha, who was the Hellweight Champ. The reason NYG is on top there is that he’s had some matches before the tournament that bumped him up.

Compared to the last years there’s a bigger discrepancy between this and the ELO version. And much like with the ELO ratings these are not actually used for booking. I originally did this because I like looking at numbers sometimes. but they are also useful for fuck-ups (not always ours) or when we do something like the Showdown tournament that dominates the card but we still want to have at least somewhat viable challengers for the titles. Though, before looking at any of the “ratings” we look at stuff like recent wins or even winning streaks. Wins over the current champ at any point are also a plus.


Now we got some general stats. I’d say I’m surprised NYG, Family Man and Thunder rank in most matches at all but them being in the Showdown Tournament definitely bumped them up. Angus on Top makes perfect sense. With his Darkweight reign that lasted nine defenses, I’d be more surprised if he wasn’t. So eleven of his matches (earning and losing the title are not successful defenses after all) come from that reign alone.

Then we got match ratings. They don’t really matter, of course, but I track them anyway. The rating depends as much on the wrestler as their opponents so it’s not like it’s their achievement alone anyway. Fomore’s record here is seriously impressive, though.

The longest average matches here are skewed towards people in a lot of Battle Royals and Tag matches because those tend to last longer.

Meanwhile, the shortest matches are a bit more interesting… well… the top 3 are all people from the Showdown Tournament where the matches just don’t last as long. But Kayu had this weird streak where she won super fast against some people. But also lost super fast when she did.

The cumulative time comes with the caveat that it considers matches with eliminations as being in it the full amount of time even if they were eliminated partway through the match. But it still gives us a good idea about who spent the most time in matches. Mina’s on top here with 8:15 hours. She’s already working overtime.


All right, same deal but Singles matches only. For the most matches, Angus is still on top here surprising no one. Neither are any of the three that follow behind. For Pantha, I can say it took us nearly the whole year to get her into a position to be Hellweight champ again. We booked her but she often lost the important matches. If you want to push someone in a fed where 99.99 of all matches are simulated then you need to sometimes accept that things don’t work out, even if they normally should.

Fomore’s average match rating for singles matches is even more impressive than the one for all matches here, wow. Every average above 90% is really good. But 98.83 is insane.

What’s a bit surprising to me is that Fomore has had a longer match time average than Pantha, who suddenly decided to have a near one-hour match again. This is only the third time this happened with Pantha specifically. Then again, Fomore was also in the longest one out of those.

Our shortest matches here are somewhat surprising. Especially considering Skullistair. In the stats for all matches, they were in the longest, after all. Hobo’s on top, partially because he showed a glimpse of the guy who was the first to beat VACANT way back in 2019 again.

And it comes as no surprise that Angus has spent the most time actually wrestling in singles matches with his run. However, look at Fomore. They aren’t even on the list of most matches so they managed to come just five minutes short with much fewer matches. Guess that’s the Hellweight Main Event kinda bump that you get. And for them and Pantha, one hour of that cumulative time comes from a single match. Well almost, it was 55 minutes.


Time for some random stuff here.

The column for VACANT Slayers is a relic of the time when we did the VACANT Open challenge regularly. It hasn’t been for a long time. In fact, this column was empty last year too. I could remove it or replace it with something but eh.

I didn’t really track Best Bouts as much anymore. So we only had four people who had more than one anyway. But hey Suman and Florida Man sure gave it their all to make it this far.

For the title defenses, I’m listing the most for each title currently in circulation. Two lines for the Pokeymanz because both Duckbaby and Vacation Skeleton had three successful defenses. With a title this weird I honestly expected longer reigns. You don’t even need to win matches to keep it, just not be the one to take the fall.

The longest reigns in terms of days really show just how long Angus’ Darkweight reign was. The 7DP is the only title without a reign that made it past 100 days. But VACANT nearly got there and they had to team up to get rid of him too.

Finally, we got our Workhorses. Basically, this means matches per episode. It’s a lot more even than in the past years. Mainly because we made more of an effort to spread bookings out more a little bit. Though newer characters still get booked more often barring something like the Showdown Tournament getting into the way of, for example, Baron of Hell, who had two matches, and then the tournament started.


And here’s our four longest matches. Last year we had two rumbles at the top. But this year even our third-longest match is still longer than our second longest from last year. And we even got a singles match here, because Pantha and Fomore went 55 minutes. Last year Pantha went 54 minutes against Harmony. Generally, I make an effort to keep matches at a reasonable length, the exception being main event title matches. But knowing Pantha’s track record I decided not to do that for any of her title matches and we STILL got our longest singles match ever out of it somehow.


Surprising me a little bit, our very shortest match is not from the Showdown Tournament. Instead, it was VACANT destroying Hobo. That was before he became red and was expected to do that. Then we had Dash destroying Josef as our second shortest. After that, we got two matches from the tournament.


Nothing much to say here but it might interest some. But we can compare to the previous years. Though this year’s episode with the longest match time average is shorter than last year’s, overall it was shorter both previous years. Though, our shortest matches are on average shorter. So there’s a wider range. Episodes 100, 104, 108, 112, 116, 120, 124, 128, 132, 136, 140 and 144 were PPVs Every fourth episode, basically.

Time for our spotlight of this year. Let’s have a look at Fomore.

With the quest for earning all solo titles at the very beginning, which was completed at episode 40, and the transformation into Fromore, there’s quite a bit going in. Fomore still has not earned the Pokeymanz, though that’s not sanctioned, or the Tag Titles. But if they also held those two Fomore would be the first to hold ALL titles at some point.

I was also going to do another one of these spotlights for another character but I got lazy.

VACANT
This is a storyline that went all throughout 2021. Even 2020. Hell, 2019

The story of VACANT was never meant to be quite so dramatic. He started as a simple joke: “What if the dark gray silhouette that often represents vacant titles or mystery challengers was an actual wrestler and he was mad that he was advertised to appear all the time but never actually got to wrestle. And what if he was also the strongest wrestler!” It ended up spanning four separate “eras” of VACANT. Open Challenge, Gray, White Eyes and Red.

Episodes 5 until 66 - VACANT Open Challenge
51-8-0 - Win Percentage 86.44%
Avg. Time: 11:40 - Avg. Rating: 86.44%

And thus the VACANT Open Challenge was born. It lasted for a little bit over a year and had the audience vote on the challengers for most of them. He made his debut on the fourth episode in a scene, kind of unassuming but we made clear what the joke was. He had his first match the very next show against Vacation Skeleton. I don’t have any records for who was up for a vote at each of the challenges anymore, unfortunately. The VACANT Open Challenge was held 56 times between Episodes 5 and 66

Episodes 67 until 89 - VACANT Gray
5-1-0 - Win Percentage 83.33%
Avg. Time: 27:52 - Avg. Rating: 91.60%

From here on out we did not book the VACANT Open Challenge anymore, not the way we used to anyway. VACANT still had matches but they were much rarer. We figured after over a year of him having a match almost every show we should dial it back a little bit. The challenge was supposed to come back eventually, though. At that point I already had the idea to “power him up” eventually. But figured it’s a “down the line” kind of deal. I also already planned to have multiple escalations based on whether people managed to defeat him often enough. That part of the story kinda changed, though. On Episode 90 I went through with his first escalation. I don’t think I ever explicitly mentioned it but this is where I first implied that SATAN is the one who created VACANT. If only because he is able to lend him more power and “modify” him so to speak. The idea was to also have VACANT with different colored eyes over time but that idea was scrapped.

Episodes 90 until 124 - VACANT White Eyes
9-3-0 - Win Percentage: 75.00%

The plan here was to have VACANT not actually want the power-up. He gets kind of mad at SATAN when he gives him more power. It didn’t happen immediately but VACANT was always supposed to get corrupted by this. For the Hellfire Tournament 2020 VACANT held the VACANT Fuck You Challenge. I went a BIT out there and had him tear off Tara’s arms in the middle of a match. Now, explaining how Tara lost her arms originally was a thing I was gonna do anyway and since she has a time-traveler gimmick I could easily get away with actually showing it. Originally I wanted to have blood squirting and everything, but I figured the dismemberment was already enough. Yep, that’s a line crossed right there. VACANT was “suspended” and it was kinda explained away with us being able to grow back Tara’s arms (which she refused) and VACANT knew that so the punishment was really light. But hey, maybe we’re gonna go edgelord, right? VACANT came back a few weeks later and actually lost to Majin Bob Sapp here in a really good match.

It went on for a bit and VACANT was clearly going overboard with some of his moves. His finisher turned from a regular Burning Hammer to him teleporting up high and dropping the hammer from there. He also used many more Izuna Drops and some other moves.

When he easily takes care of Angus McMutton quickly in a Lest Jimmy Standing match SATAN decides it’s time to power down VACANT again. At this point, though, VACANT is no longer the same person he was when he got upset and SATAN for giving him more power. Because he tricked SATAN and actually consumed most of him instead, becoming much stronger than before.

Here VACANT’s record ends. All the matches past this point have not been sanctioned. But his total lifetime stats are as follows
65-12-0 - Win Percentage 84.42%
Avg. Time: 14:27 - Avg. Rating: 86.04%

Episodes 124 until 144 - VACANT Red
Victims: Dash Rendar, IGgy IGsen, Fomore, Ricc 2 Thicc, Pig Destroyer, Isabel Ibarra, Fomore, Tara Milleneon, Sapp Ledesma, Supreme Sadim, Majin Bob Sapp, Grace Thoruson.

14th of August 2021 was the day Episode 124 aired, which is the episode VACANT consumed most of SATAN to power up once more. The reason I bring up this date is, because about a month before that I first had the idea for the final showdown against a crazed VACANT in the clouds of a foreign sky with rings floating in the background and everyone working together to bring down the big bad. That’s why I did it the way it happened.

The reason for all of VACANT’s matches being off the record from this point on is twofold. For one it simply doesn’t make any sense to book him anymore when he nearly killed the guy who runs the show. But also every one of his matches after this was rigged. With one notable exception: Grace could have theoretically won her match. And I actually had an idea just in case she managed to pull off a miracle. But that was always going to be unlikely. Basically, when VACANT later came out with DCB in tow it would have been Grace instead. Putting sympathy on a heel is probably not the best idea but it would have made sense.

I brought his resentment towards Black back up, since he beat VACANT three times total over the years and coupled that with a strong desire to not lose. On one hand, I don’t think I stressed this part of the story enough on the other I think it’s extremely clunky to keep having him say stuff like “I’ll no longer lose.” In fact, I cut out at least one instance from the script of his final showdown. The idea is he’s not so much obsessed with winning, but with not losing.

I always felt like ending it the way I did would be controversial because I’m basically going against one of the most important aspects of wrestling (and, hell, storytelling) and that’s that the villain needs to get comeuppance. Instead, the villain won, but inadvertently killed himself in the process because he was so obsessed with not losing that he blew himself up in a last-ditch effort. Don’t worry, I don’t plan on adding any more dead bodies to OHPW. So I was a bit surprised that I got a mostly positive reception for it.

While this story was not built to be like this from the start you can still explain stuff away, like SATAN apparently not being familiar with VACANT when he first shows up. That’s probably the biggest one, after all, considering SATAN created VACANT. I had ideas for flashback sequences and stuff, but felt those would break the flow too much. I was gonna include them in the NEWD showcase, which will feature the final showdown, but the time limit was too tight. I don’t really think it’s necessary to show this anyway.

Shows should ideally resume next week. Or maybe not I don’t know yet. We’ll see. I’ll post a card once I’m ready again.