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Single match with some variation:

TNA has decided to unveil a new belt - the TNA Traditional Title. They will be holding a 16 man tournament for the belt, with the final being a 30 minute ironman match. Write the final of the tournament.

To give some variation, I will give you four potential final fours - each person picks one, selects two of the wrestlers to be in the finals, and writes the match (so everybody doesn't pick the same wrestlers):

CHOICE A: AJ Styles, Homicide, Sonjay Dutt, Kurt Angle

CHOICE B: Alex Shelley, Jay Lethal, Samoa Joe, Robert Roode

CHOICE C: Chris Sabin, Rhyno, Christopher Daniels, Scott Steiner

CHOICE D: Christian Cage, Petey Williams, Eric Young, Matt Morgan

Two sets of rules - one really open ended, and one specific.

I'll return - made it as a dark-horse to the finals last year, and lost to the power of time-travelling Canadian horsemen, so I'm in. I'll PM a set of rules later.

- It also seems as though WWE is purposely trying to dig their own grave. Flair being snuffed immediately comes to mind, as I really doubt that would ever happen in real life. Also, "The Marine 2" would never have been made with the premise that you described, as it's obvious that it would receive the very reception that you described. It just kinda seems as though everything for TNA is suddenly going right for no reason, and everything for WWE is suddenly going wrong for no reason.

Remember, Dynamite - TNA is just getting a full time, two-hour primetime slot now. They're on a roll with the stealings of Colon, Jericho, RVD - obviously, they're gonna run into struggles when they have to be, in the game, at war with WWE.

Just a small nitpicking - but you wrote Colon's name and finisher several times in the four-way where you meant Rhino, I think.

*heart still beating rapidly*

That Sabres/Rangers game yesterday was one of the most heart-attack-inducing, amazing games I've ever seen. I was fortunate enough to get tickets, and I couldn't hear myself think when Drury scored with 7 seconds left.

Sabres have to get some credit - especially considering they still have at least 5-6 regulars out (Connolly, Afinogenov, Paille, Gaustad (season), Lydman, Kotalik).

Question - are there only specific wrestlers in the tournament, or is it open to everybody?

So far, there's Angle, Rock, HHH, Big Show, and apparently Regal...

Buffalo plays another fantastic game - 8 wins to start the season.

Sabres are 5-0 - Miller's been up and down, but he seems to come up really big in the shootouts, and the offense is beginning to click on all cylinders again.

Still waiting for a Biron trade, perhaps for a solid 7th defenseman and an extra forward (so Peters doesn't have to start).

Sabres/Canes a tight one - 2-2 in the third...

Lots of penalties, too.

I do hope that this diary isn't dead - I was really enjoying it, both the Shakespeare and non-Shakespeare stuff.

I do hope there is another update coming soon - I'm really enjoying this diary.

A save implies that you protect the lead. You can get a save if:

a) You enter the game with a three run lead or less in the 7th inning or later, and

b) You protect the lead until the end of the game - the game is not tied or losing between your entrance and your exit.

OR

c) You pitch more than three innings with any lead, and don't give up the tying or go-ahead runs.

A blown save occurs when you enter in the first type of save situation, and give up either the tying or go-ahead runs.

So:

Enters in 7th with 4-2 lead, team wins 4-2 = save

Enters in 7th with 6-1 lead, team wins 6-4 = no save

Enters in 8th with 3-2 lead, team wins 15-2 = save

Enters in 8th with 3-2 lead, gives up 2 runs, team wins 6-4 = blown save and win.

Enters in 6th with 10-1 lead, team wins 10-2 = save

OK, now you're just making it really obvious by stealing lines directly from Othello...

IAGO: How am I then a villain

To counsel Cassio to this parallel course,

Directly to his good? Divinity of hell!

When devils will the blackest sins put on,

They do suggest at first with heavenly shows,

As I do now: for whiles this honest fool

Plies Desdemona to repair his fortunes

And she for him pleads strongly to the Moor,

I'll pour this pestilence into his ear,

That she repeals him for her body's lust;

And by how much she strives to do him good,

She shall undo her credit with the Moor.

So will I turn her virtue into pitch,

And out of her own goodness make the net

That shall enmesh them all.

I love the storyline, and the other dialog seemed to be more reworked and updated for the Polero-heavy audience. However, this quote just seems...off, for some reason.

Wow, I never thought I'd:

a) See Othello be warped into a wrestling story, and

b) The said story be so well designed and written.

Keep up the awesome work - is it going to follow the exact arc, or are you going to avoid the 5 or 6 deaths that need to occur at the end?

Excellent first show - I've always enjoyed your diaries, so I'm looking forward to where you take the storyline - both inside and outside the ring.

This is a very enjoyable diary - I really enjoy the "real-life" segments, and am looking forward to the next show.

It's fairly realistic to begin - the only thing I don't like is how you're jobbing out Team Angle in both of their matches. In real life, they opened up with questionable finishes in singles matches against Benoit and Edge, and were threatening for the tag titles two months later - but here, together, they can't beat Benoit? I know you're trying to build to Angle/Benoit, but it seems like it's happening at the expense of Haas and Benjy.

This seems to be a very well-thought out premise and a very promising beginning - I'm looking forward to the next show.

In terms of the order that they were published by Lewis, it goes:

Lion - Caspian - Treader - Chair - Horse - Nephew - Battle

In terms of the order that things actually occur in the world of Narnia, it goes:

Nephew - Lion - Horse - Caspian - Treader - Chair - Battle

The Magician's Nephew creates the world of Narnia - the Pevensies enter the world in the Wardrobe, and the Horse and his Boy follows the adventures of one of the children. A thousand years later, the four re-enter Narnia to help Caspian, and three years later, Edmund and Lucy (joined by a cousin, Eustance) rejoin Caspian at sea with the Dawn Treader. These are followed by the Silver Chair and the Last Battle.

I'm a fan of reading them the way Lewis released them - *SPOILERS*

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If you read the Magician's Nephew, you already know about the magic in the wardrobe, the street lamp, the professor's history, etc.

Two Q's:

1) The reason you had Kendrick get a title shot was because Corino had to defend his belt every thirty days - however, after he beat Kendrick, Sting's message was "35 days" - wouldn't he have to defend the title sometime between now and then as well?

2) So I guess, by your signature, Codekill will not win the survival match, since you say there will be TWO new NWA World Tag Team Champions. :-)

Who was the leading scorer? :-P