RRXX Singles Tournament Wrapup

Final word on the tournament! Sgt. Clements was the victor, defeating Noble Rose, who I have to admit I'm amazed made it to the finals. Sista A came in second winning her loser's bracket match. (There's a lot of upset Candy Cane fans out there, so we'll put that down as unfinished business for now.) In addition to her grand prize of nothing, Sgt. Clements will also be reciving this commission of her victorious over poor old Noble Rose, courtesy of DK Studios (who I highly recommend for all your commissioning needs; tell her RK sent you). Behold:

And that's that! As a final note, it looks like there's some interest in a tag tournament, so I'll probably record that one of these years; Since the entire singles tournament just got posted, it'll probably be a while to avoid overload. There's two one issues I can see: One is that RRXX tag matches are long as fuck, since the computer can keep doing "RESCUE" interrupts forever, and does. Hopefully YT will actually raise my upload limit beyond 15 minutes one of these years.

The second issue is number of teams; Putting each wrestler into a tag team yields five teams. One of them can get a bye into the next round, but that means Round 2 will have three tag teams. Likewise, I can add an extra team comprised of both forms of Lady X, making six teams in Round 1, but that also produces three teams in Round 2. The alternative is cutting a team and starting with four in Round 1 - but I dunno who to cut. I can't cut Benikage without also cutting Anesthesia. Well, no need to sweat it out now. You know what month kicks off with the first video today. Check it out; I'll know if you don't.

Rumble Roses Good Vs Bad Tournament Round 3

Last round, the good girls were facing a formidable task, with only two of them left facing off against six bad girls. Lo and behold, they won both of their matches, and now in the semifinals it's all evened up - one good and one bad girl will wrestle in each match for the honor of moving on to the finals. The matchups:

1/8: Sgt. Clements vs Makoto
1/15: Noble Rose vs Sista A
1/22: Final!

The two winning girls will meet up in the finals; The winner will, of course, receive a special prize if I can work up the courage to pay someone on deviantart to draw her covering her nether regions with the championship belt. Boom!

I'm going to try and post a palette cleanser in between the round that's just concluded and the semifinals (Jan 1st); However, I'm running low on completed videos, so, uh, we'll see. Either way, stay tuned!

** Update **

I just realized January has FIVE Saturdays in 2011; No idea what's going to run on the last week (February will be starting Knuckle Pine month). Fuck!

** Update 2 **

It'll be Noble Rose vs Sgt. Clements for the whole bag of chips on 1/22. People have expressed an interest in having a match between Candy and Sista A to see who comes in as first runner-up, so I'm going to record that as well. The girl who comes in #2 in the tournament by winning that match will receive, like the overall champion, absolutely nothing.

Merry Xmas

I went to read last year's holidays message and noticed something weird: I'm sick at Christmas two times in a row. It's not a stress thing, because I'm so anal I have all the presents ordered, if not wrapped and tagged, by December second. What are the odds? Anyway, next year I'll try to heed my sage advice of last year by not getting sick. What a jerk.

Anyways, I'm getting off topic here. Ahem:

MERRY CHRISTMAS

HAPPY HANNUKAH

KILLER KWANZA

ROCKIN' RAMADAN

WHO CARES ABOUT NEW YEARS

Now I wish I could give each and every one of you a present, but alas. The movie going up Christmas Day features Candy Cane, and unfotuneatly, there's one person who really wants to see her win, and one person who really wants to see her lose, and well, one person's going to get a richly deserved present, and one person is going to get undeserved coal in the ol' stocking. So, to whoever's disappointed, I'll see if I can make it up to you in the new year. For everyone else, happy holidays, and go bearhug your family.

Rumble Roses Good Vs Bad Tournament Round 2

Well, Round 1 is in the can, and I have to assure that even though I like bad girls, I'm as surprised at the results as all of you are. The good girls have been decimated. Out of eight possible slots, only two good girls survived; Makoto and Noble Rose are the only two faces in the entire tournament, facing down no less than six heels. The only good news for the forces of light is that there are so many heels two matchups in this round are heel vs heel, which means at least two are going to be eliminated for the next round. Of course, if two other matches go the wrong way, there will be only naughtiness left.

Next week is probably going to be a break from Rumble Roses videos (since we just had 8 in a row for Round 1). That also means the last match of Round 2 will be uploaded on Christmas, however, which seems a little weird, doesn't it? Well, I dunno, it's not like I have any other videos to post. Huh. Well, we'll see - hit thatdrumroll, please. The matches, pulled out of a hat, are:

12/4: Sgt. Clements vs Mistress

12/11:Makoto vs Rowdy Reiko

12/18: Sista A vs Great Khan

12/25 (Why, it's CHRISTMAS day, sir!): Noble Rose vs Candy Cane

And that's all. Stay tuned; I have no idea what's going up next week before the first match of Round 2, so I better get cracking.

** Update **

Okay, I figured out what's going in between rounds; If you're a fan of hideous polygons, don't miss next Saturday.

SHOCKING TOURNAMENT ANNOUNCEMENT

People have been asking what the next match is going to be in the RRXX Heel vs Face tournament, and I've, honestly, been dodging the question, or admitting I don't know. Now hear me out: The way the tournament is set up is Noble Rose vs Ana, then each heel versus her face persona in order of how they appear on the character select screen. Easy, right? Here's the sticking point: I forgot what order they appear on the select screen. Yes, me, the guy who's played this game for 500 hours, can't remember what order the girls are on the select screen, so I can't remember what orders the girls appear in. So, uh, I guess I'll take a screenshot of the select screen, then I can give a schedule for the first round matches. I might even use MS Paint to draw up a cheap-ass roster graphic, that might be fun. That should be up in a day or two, so stay tuned for an ** Update ** with that information here (or, of course, if you already have the game, you can just fire up the select screen and spoil yourself, you stinker, you).

** Update **

Here we go:

10/2: Noble Rose vs Dr A

10/9: Spencer vs Mistress

10/16: Makoto vs BBD

10/23: Reiko vs Rowdy Reiko

11/30: Dixie vs Sgt Clements

11/6: Aisha vs Sista A

11/13: Aigle vs Great Khan

11/20: Candy Cane vs Becky

Double X Tournament!

So you might remember the Rumble Roses XX Singles Tournament, which got interrupted by Mr Seagate pulling a blarg im ded. The good news is my wife's addicted to Civ V, which means I can use the xbox to record the tournament, so it's pretty much all in the can at this point. Barring any disasters, the first match should go live Saturday, October 2nd. The first round is 8 matches, so it will span every Saturday of October and November. The first match, going up the 2nd (of October; man that's a confusing sentence), will pit Noble Rose against Anasteshia; The other seven opening round matches will be all the other girls except Yasha/Benikage, face persona versus heel persona. After that names will be picked out of a hat (possibly literally) to determine the second round matchups. I'm going to market this as a Face vs Heel tournament, although since I'm leaving it up to the CPU, who knows how many faces and heels are going to be left by the second round?

The winner of the tournament will receive nothing (lololol), because there's really nothing to give, unfortunately; I could put the title on her, but you wouldn't be able to tell anyway. Maybe I'll scrape up $15 to commission the winner wearing a title belt and nothing else from someone on DeviantArt or something.*

So that's that - stay tuned. Wednesday WAS programming will continue as usual. I know the area on my YT page listing the current status of WAS requests is way out of date, but I don't have time to update it right now. I need an intern around here or something.

Last note: Do I need a tournament tag for posts? Maybe I do. Fuck it, let's have a tournament tag.

* No, I won't, but if someone else wants to, I'll tell you who won ahead of time. Spoiler alert. Should I have put a anchor link from the asterisk down to here? Man, I really do need an intern. Shit!

Tournament time!

There's been some interest (spoilers: two people) in a Rumble Roses tournament, which got me thinking. Originally someone was asking about a tag tournament; I'd really like to do one of these, but RRXX tag matches take for fucking ever, because of the endless RESCUE elbowdrops the computer spams, so I'm thinking maybe a single tournament. I'd like a Heel vs Face tournament, at least initially. I'd also like to get the number of entrants on each side down to 8 (devides much easier that way). I'm gonna eliminate Yasha/Benikage right off the bat, because she sucks, and she's tough as a wet noodle. I'm also gonna eliminate Evil Rose, because I don't like her and she has a 0% chance of winning the tournament; I'm also going to eliminate Dr Cutter, not because I don't like her, but because there's no difference aside outfits from Ana and Dr Cutter, and I have to get rid of another person to get down to 8 on 8.

So then, I have to think about how the initial round is gonna run; I could start it with each wrestler up against her alter ego (with the odd women out of Noble Rose and Ana taking each other on); After the first round, I have no idea who'd have won, so it'd be up to the CPU from there on in. I think that's the way it's going to go; that way past the first round you'll have only the face or heel version of a particular wrestler in the running.

Winner gets... well, I guess nothing, really. Reiko's the champ right now, but I don't know that there's a Non-Title Match option. Maybe beach matches? Ahh, we'll see. Anyway, stay tuned.