Royal Rumble BIF V

Welcome to the Smackdown Live of Royal Rumble BIFs!!! It's the BIF that runs the .... GIF? Damnit!

Segue Note: Please do not post GIF's if you would like to avoid a temporary ban by the BA police. This happened last year, so I thought it was only appropriate to warn everyone.

Now on to most talented athletes to grace the planet Earth!!!


(Non-Gif Credit: Some Youtube Channel)

Five years in, and you know the drill. I'm looking for 29 other jobbers to put up a minimum of 44 oz. When we have all thirty people, I'll place everyone into random order generator (http://fftoolbox.com/draft_order_generator.cfm). The number you get is the entry you get in the Rumble.

Here's the prize breakdown:
Royal Rumble Winner - 13 boxes
Most Eliminations - 9 boxes
Longest Survivor - 7 boxes
Quickest to be Eliminated - 1 box

To spread the boxes around, if your entrant is a surprise entrant you’ll get a box from the main pool. So surprises entrants one & four will come from the winners pot, two & five from most eliminations, and three & six from longest survivor. For the most part, anyone not on the main roster is a surprise, unless they haven’t wrestled for a notable time (formally The Daniel Bryan Rule, currently The Finn Balor (but in our hearts, forever, The Daniel Bryan Rule). This includes gimmicks not seen in a long time (formally The Cody Rhodes Rule, currently The El Generico Rule). The NXT roster is a surprise unless they could appear on Raw or Smackdown and you wouldn’t care (formally The Sin Cara and Tyson Kidd Rule, then The Zack Ryder Rule, don't believe this applies to anyone this year). Any person who announces on any WWE program that they are entering excludes them from being a surprise (formally The Bautista Rule, currently The Brock and Goldberg Rule). New rule for 2016-17: Kane and The Big Show will never be a surprise entrant. I know they haven't been seen in a while (at least with Kane it feels that way), but there's just no way anybody would feel more than 'meh' if they entered the Rumble.

Also, please no spoilers. Not everyone reads the dirtsheets. Let’s try and make this enjoyable for everyone!

If there's a tie, most likely with most eliminations, it will go to wrestler that did it first. Final count on eliminations and time are published by the WWE.

Finally, if this gets expanded to 40 wrestlers we’ll take the next BA’ers and figure out how to assign wrestlers (The 2011 Del Rio Rule).

Lower 48 States only. Have a good trader history or someone to vouch for you. Obviously no one on the bad trader list. Be prepared to ship your box by the next Raw PPV (Fast Lane, March 5th). BA’s that don’t ship by Wrestlemania (unless due to weather concerns and agreed upon with the winner) will be taken to task(master) in the Bad Trader Forum.

I think that covers it. Just reply and BM me your email address to put in the order generator. Entries will be assigned after the last NXT before the Rumble. Cheers and good luck!

 

And we're up and running!

1) mcb4538
2) kapkenobi
3) sblickem
4) jpatag66

Come on folks. Let's fill this up quicker than a Ronda Rousey fight.

Topical humor!!!

 

Business is picking up!

1) mcb4538
2) kapkenobi
3) sblickem
4) jpatag66
5) valrxman
6) axic10
7) joenap419
8) damian74
9) gregf51

 

All I know is thank God for the brand split so at least there's a chance to be surprised, which I don't think's happened since Sheamus won?

And we're 1/3 of the way there:

1) mcb4538
2) kapkenobi
3) sblickem
4) jpatag66
5) valrxman
6) axic10
7) joenap419
8) damian74
9) gregf51
10) TheOneTC

 

Unless they announce they're entering the Rumble, yes it would. Also, because of a long absence, and a rule created in the first contest, the Undertaker would be a surprise unless it's announced officially that he's in.

Welcome aboard! Just shoot me your email when you get a chance.

1) mcb4538
2) kapkenobi
3) sblickem
4) jpatag66
5) valrxman
6) axic10
7) joenap419
8) damian74
9) gregf51
10) TheOneTC
11) cjeldon

26 days to go!

 

Welcome back!

Almost to 15, which is our cutoff in case we don't get all the way to 30:

1) mcb4538
2) kapkenobi
3) sblickem
4) jpatag66
5) valrxman
6) axic10
7) joenap419
8) damian74
9) gregf51
10) TheOneTC
11) cjelden
12) LiquidCourage
13) chrisp450

Also, here's the official Rumble entrants so far:

Goldberg
Brock Lesnar
Big E
Xavier Woods
Kofi Kingston
Braun Strowman
Chris Jericho
Baron Corbin

 

Only 12 more spots:

1) mcb4538
2) kapkenobi
3) sblickem
4) jpatag66
5) valrxman
6) axic10
7) joenap419
8) damian74
9) gregf51
10) TheOneTC
11) cjelden
12) LiquidCourage
13) chrisp450
14) PHBoiler
15) BJohnston
16) NJNYC732
17) browniewithnuts
18) greenplastic615

I will after the weekend. Every year I have a couple people who are a little late to joining, so I was to give everyone a fair chance the first week. Is that a valid excuse for being to lazy?

 

1) mcb4538
2) kapkenobi
3) sblickem
4) jpatag66
5) valrxman
6) axic10
7) joenap419
8) damian74
9) gregf51
10) TheOneTC
11) cjelden
12) LiquidCourage
13) chrisp450
14) PHBoiler
15) BJohnston
16) NJNYC732
17) browniewithnuts
18) greenplastic615
19) SirPutzly

And now the summoning for former combatants, as is tradition:

@Bigklip74, @kingkevz, @sandman3479, @miggs3030, @RoninTK3, @jpsy422, @HartsyThaiFood, @jdimento,@cal1207, @Beerman6686, @brydeen, @craft_is_king, @Joe_Grizzly, @jon432, @Bristopher89, @skipjack17, @JoeyIce3

And finally, last year I sent out a double box if AJ Styles was their entrant. This year, I will send extras to the person who has the most surprising (to me) person. These range from shred of possible to likely. In order, with vague clues for affect:

1) If one of these wrestlers shows up at the Rumble, the winner will need someone to Clean their porch.
2) But hopefully not because anything is Broken.
3) Because if the box is damaged then we'll both be Heartbroken.
4) But expect a Perfect Score on these beers.
5) Something something Samoa Joe.

Annnnddd .... the Undertaker is no longer a surprise. Three weeks to go!

 

Good call, let's make him 2b.

1) mcb4538
2) kapkenobi
3) sblickem
4) jpatag66
5) valrxman
6) axic10
7) joenap419
8) damian74
9) gregf51
10) TheOneTC
11) cjelden
12) LiquidCourage
13) chrisp450
14) PHBoiler
15) BJohnston
16) NJNYC732
17) browniewithnuts
18) greenplastic615
19) SirPutzly
20) jpsy422
21) bigklip74
22) OleDixie

8 spots lefts.

 

Since they actively appear on Raw, I'm gonna say no. Plus Neville's gotta Neville!