I hired Disco Inferno to replace Taz cause I wasn't feeling Hogan as a color commentator, and he has great chemistry with Tenay, yay!
RVD has awful chemistry with AJ Styles and Daniels, which is why the ratings were so low. Whoops. (Double whoops in that I actually knew AJ and RVD had terrible chemistry due to house show scouting, but was booked into a corner with the bracket progression)
I originally wanted to have RVD beaten by Daniels-- so most of you were right in having RVD lose round 1, but Daniels is packing his bags and heading to RoH which I'm apparently at war with for some reason so I had to abort. I'll probably be able to rehire him soon, though, as I'm actually over halfway to national.
AJ Styles went from 61 over to start the week to 85 over now and with 93 momentum. Apparently meshing 4 tournament storylines into one big one really helped everyone involved as the more over guys he beat didn't exactly tank either. That's what I meant by "it felt big" I'm pretty happy that the game stats backed up AJ emerging as a truly legitimate champion which is what I was going for here.
Bully Ray's loudmouth gimmick gets 80 (technically I didn't change his gimmick but they were saying his "Bully" gimmick was stale so I gave him a "new" one)
AJ Styles's People's Champion gimmick gets 85
Last week's Smackdown got 81
Final bracket:
I'll calculate points in a bit. I remember there were two AJ pickers so one of them probably won but yeah I'll get everyone's scores up.
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