I know these scramble matches aren't exactly popular but as Christopher Casur and I have both mentioned in our "Raw" and "SmackDown" reports these will be our "main events" and while the talent in the matches makes a main event, I still use that term loosely. I don't want to be negative, but there is so much about this that is screaming epic failure. Then again I said that about Adamle as "Raw" GM and I'm not too sick of him.Here's the thing though, the old rules were five guys in the ring at one time. Twenty minutes to the finish and the title could change hands as many times as possible but the man in possession (figuratively not literally-this isn't TNA) of the championship at the end would be the champion. Now though it appears the rules have changed.
Instead of Punk and Triple H starting the match with everyone in the ring, the others will now enter at timed intervals, and numbers one and two will now be chosen at random. Here's the "official" explanation of what I just said. Every 5 minutes a wrestler will enter, and whoever scores the last pin fall or submission when the 20 minute time limit is over will be the champion. What still hasn't been answered is does the timer start with the first two guys or after everyone is in?
This could potentially be a 35 minute match or just a 20 minute match. With the latter that means that the final entrant will spend a grand total of five minutes in the ring, for a match for the World and WWE Championship. Please let the situation be the former. Folks I've looked into this, not too much, but some, so if there is something I've missed please feel free to point it out. I feel like I'm being jerked around with this just like I am awaiting the decision of whether or not MLB will be introducing "Instant Replay" into the game.
3 comments: on "Unscrambling Tha Scramble"
This match has just been made exponentially worse by this announcement. It's like WWE is booking on the fly. I can just picture the conversation backstage between Brian Gerwitz and Michael Hayes...
Gerwitz: "Hey, let's have a Scramble match!"
Hayes: "Great idea! What's a Scramble match?"
Gerwitz: "I don't know! We'll figure it out as we go!"
Exactly. Seriously I don't want to see anyone anywhere their jobs but Brian Gerwitz has absolutely no place as a head booker for anyone. Seriously his qualifications appear to be carrying Vince's bags.
The continuance of that conversation:
Hayes: Lets do five guys
Gerwitz: Yeah we have seven in the Elimination Chamber
Hayes: No dumbass we have six
Gerwitz: Yeah exactly and we have three in the fatal four way
Hayes: Yeah lets do five thats easy to remember.
Gerwitz: So lets give them a twenty minute time limt
Hayes: Twenty? Dude we'd do sixty minutes a night in my day
Gerwitz: Well this isn't your day anymore Michael
Hayes: Well let me..
Gerwitz: Here comes Mark Henry you'd better shut the fuck up
Hayes: Ok fine twenty minutes it is...Hi Mark how are you?
I think the scrabble matches are a great idea. I hope The Brian Kendrick throws down xanthophyceae on a triple word score and takes the title. After all he'll have Ezekiel with him to help with the spelling.
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