Haiku Hogan: "Hello, boys and girls, and welcome to Haiku Hogan's oddsmakers! The name of the game is simple; for the past three days, our expert panelists have been locked in this cell for three days, and-"
Saboteur breaks the obviously paper mâché wall down, tripping over himself, a la Shockmaster. He gasps for air, and turns his eyes to Haiku Hogan.
Saboteur: You! You promised us all luchables if we took part in this panel! Where's our lunchables?!
Haiku:Heh.... I, er, um, a... I thought maybe you guys were doing this out of the goodness of your hearts?
Saboteur: Goodness of or hearts?! Do you see the people I've been locked with for three days?! You, sir, are the worst panelist picker known to man, and known to probably some monkeys. You leave us all with Celeste, who's been a real bitch since Kingdom Come. And what's worse...
Saboteur looks left to right, making sure no one can hear him. He gets close to Haiku Hogan, and whispers into his ear.
Saboteur: James Howard thinks that Celeste's dead family is haunting us.
Haiku stares at Saboteur in bemusement, unsure of where this is going and a little uncertain he wants to know.
Haiku:.... Dead family?
Saboteur: Yes!
Saboteur realized he shouted, and looks around again, before getting in close to whisper to Haiku,
Saboteur: I mean, yes. He keeps talking about how Celeste's "Aunt Flo" is visiting her. And I don't know about you, but I didn't have any visitors, and I didn't see any visitors coming in. So, this cell must be haunted by Celeste's family!
Haiku's look of bemusement has not changed on his face at all. He can't muster the words to respond to Saboteur.
Saboteur: Speaking of death, James Howard looks like he's about to murder everyone in the room. I mean usually he's pretty ugly, but now e looks like ass warmed over. Sucks to be him, right? So look, if you're going to lock us in a haunted cell with ugly, ugly men, then we better get some lunchables for it!
Haiku: OK! I'll get you the damn lunchables!
Saboteur: On behalf of my cohorts, this is an acceptable end to the situation.
Saboteur walks back to the cell, and walks through the paper mâché wall.
Haiku: Right... Well, any minute now, our expert panel will finish their rankings of the competitors of the WZCW roster. Once they're done, we'll use our patented formula to find who has the best odds of winning this tournament. How do formulate these odd? Easy.
1.Who has the most momentum coming out of Kingdom Come: Sometimes when you're on a by streak, you just can't be beat. And certain posters are coming out of KC with big victories. But not everyone can win at KC. If you were doing well before the end of Kingdom Come, it can only help you in these odds. If not, well, maybe you should focus on getting some momentum back.
2. Character potential: Sometimes a character has great potential, and is fresh and ready. There are some great character ideas with a lot of ways to go. Succeeding in the tournament. If you're character is burnt; well, you get the idea.
3. Our panelists rankings: this may be the most important component; how do our experts feel you're doing. This should be relatively simple to figure out.
Now, as you may know, the mandate that champions couldn't compete recently was passed down. This mandate arrived just a day after I sent out the requests. As a result, I'm going to amend the rankings, to leave those characters. On the last day, I'll include a "what if", just for kicks.
Also, recently some new (and old) faces were also included into the tournament, all of which were missing on some rankings, partially because some had never rp'ed before. Thus, they will appear in a separate post, as "Off". They are on the bracket, but off the betting odds, especially when they can't meet all the components of the oddsmaker.
So, in about an hour or so, we'll start, with the characters that are "Off" the bracket; the wild cards who could do some serious damage, if they hit a stride.