Thinking Differently 3 - RASSLEMANIA EDITION!

[Evil Vito]

Time for another installment of Thinking Differently - the game where you're trying to give the correct answer nobody else will give.

We're going with a themed game this week as it's RassleMania weekend. All of the questions this time are WM-themed and are pretty straightforward as we may wind up getting some new players involved with the influx in volume on the boards over the weekend.

Good luck!

Survey link is below:

https://goo.gl/forms/rUz3DwwRXbq7TL1q1

[owenbrown]

this doesn't have the tpww username requirement

[Evil Vito]

Oh tits. That's for the heads up. Fixed. :y:

[Evil Vito]

Actually I just went and deleted the 3 responses since otherwise I'll be double counting people if they re-enter. They MUST re-enter.

[Evil Vito]

https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/72940512/my-bad-this-ones-on-me.jpg

[Jordan]

I love Flavor Flav!

I'll do this later, currently a little hungover.

[Bad News Gertner]

I'm already regretting some of my answers

[Ruien]

Do we get points for putting the same answer as someone or a different answer?

[Evil Vito]

You get points for putting the same answer. The idea is to give correct answers that the fewest number of people will say.

It's been a mixed bag so far. Sometimes the obvious answers get the least amount of points because everyone's trying to think of an obscure response - other times people play themselves and give the obvious answer only to find that everyone else did the same thing (see: Bobby Heenan as "Name a member of the Heenan Family")

[Sixx]

Oh, wait. An answer nobody else will give.

Meh, going with Hulk Hogan probably wasn't the best idea.

[owenbrown]

Ok resubmitted

[Innovator]

This felt tougher

[Maluco]

I find this very hard to do without looking anything up, so feel I will never be in the top 5, just don't have a good enough memory. But enjoy filling it out. Really good idea Vito!

[owenbrown]

I went kinda obscure on at least one of my answers

[Big Vic]

When you say "won a title" does it count if they are the defending champion?

[owenbrown]

There is one answer to one of these questions that I didn't use that I will be shocked if it isn't listed when the results are revealed.

[Big Vic]

I find this very hard to do without looking anything up, so feel I will never be in the top 5, just don't have a good enough memory. But enjoy filling it out. Really good idea Vito!
It helps if you been to a Mania, lol

[Sixx]

It helps if you been to a Mania, lol

Lol indeed.

[Maluco]

It helps if you been to a Mania, lol

Always wanted to go to one, but now I don't enjoy product enough, and guys like Taker, Rock and HHH that show up are not themselves. It's a lot of money to see Roman Reigns and Jinder Mahal!

[Jordan]

Honestly the toughest one for me was thinking of a tag team championship winner... took me a while

[Sixx]

Honestly the toughest one for me was thinking of a tag team championship winner... took me a while

I went safe with this one. Jeff Hardy. I'm sure he's won it @ Mania at least once.

[Ruien]

I went with the Usos since they are always in a tag match.

[rob11]

I hope I'm the only one to remember the dark match I submitted but I doubt it.

[Bad News Gertner]

I hope I'm the only one to remember the dark match I submitted but I doubt it.

Lol I hope we aren't thinking the same one

[Big Vic]

I remembered mine because I watched it like 2 weeks ago.

[Vastardikai]

I posted on a group for an Efed that I was in that used to run. I am challenging them to sign up and try this out.

Also, Done.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Not sure how I'll go on this one. Good fun.

[Savio]

When you say "won a title" does it count if they are the defending champion?

I hope this counts

[Destor]

Why would that count

[Destor]

Unless they lost it and then won it again (Raven) why would that count

[Savio]

Because they won the match and it's really hard for me to think of a wrestler who won a tag title outside of the usual suspects..... and I was asking Vito!

[Bad News Gertner]

There were like 6 tag title changes in the first 10 Wrestlemanias

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

That was a hard one

(that's what she said)

[Jordan]

When will we see the results of this one Vito?

[Evil Vito]

I'm withholding answering questions on what counts and what doesn't so as to not give an advantage to people who enter later.

Dunno when I'll do the results, I only posted this on Thursday evening. Might leave it up through Tuesday night or something since it's still part of the WM long weekend. Only answers through WM33 count anyway.

[Savio]

There were like 6 tag title changes in the first 10 Wrestlemanias

Only dweebs watched wrestling pre 1998

[Vastardikai]

Only dweebs watched wrestling pre 1998

Most of my answers came from pre-98 Mania...

Wait, this isn't exactly disproving your statement...

[Bad News Gertner]

Woooo I got a hankerin for some results!

[Savio]

Me too.... Vito :(...... please...

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

We suckas gots to know!

[Evil Vito]

K, now that it's Wednesday and the WM long weekend is officially over I've closed the survey.

Scored the first few title win questions. Will do the rest tomorrow night or something. I suspect the celeb question is gonna take a while to fact check, fuck knows I don't remember half of these people appearing lol

[Big Vic]

Let us help you on that one.

[Big Vic]

I was for certain I was going to be the only person to say drowning pool since they were soo forgettable but after hear SCG Podcast bring them up I am not so sure.

[Bad News Gertner]

I'm pretty confident nobody guessed Billy Martin

[Jordan]

Can you list the questions in the thread that you post the results in?

[Big Vic]

I was for certain I was going to be the only person to say drowning pool since they were soo forgettable but after hear SCG Podcast bring them up I am not so sure.

I'm pretty confident nobody guessed Billy Martin

My 2nd choice was JTT

[hb2k]

I went with JTT...

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

I picked Flo Rida for the celeb.

[Jordan]

I think I went Pam Anderson because I've been in a big ol titties phase lately.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Marla Maples would have been a good one and relevant to today's times.

[Evil Vito]

Results are in!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eP5K3EI-aTwtXWwUAx9X6VVBm7Cli8fKo9040dxfIHQ/edit?usp=sharing

Closest round yet with only a 20 point variance between the highest and lowest scores.

Top 5 Lowest Scores:
1-T LegendKiller2007: 16
1-T rob11: 16
3-T Bad News Gertner: 18
3-T Big Vic: 18
3-T Nicky Fives: 18

Top 5 Highest Scores:
4-T DaveWadding: 27
4-T loopydate: 27
4-T Noid: 27
4-T sixx: 27
2-T Maluco: 35
2-T Tanawesome: 35
1-T Juan: 36

Top 3 Most Frequently Given Answers:
1. Wrestler who won a WWE/F World Title at WM: Yokozuna (8)
2. WM main event: Lawrence Taylor vs. Bam Bam Bigelow (7)
3. Wrestler who won an IC/US Title at WM: Rey Mysterio (5)


Notes from the Official Scorer:

PLURALITY: I was a hard-ass with scoring in terms of listing more than one person. When I say name A wrestler, name A celebrity, etc. I want one person. Therefore answers for Edge & Christian (Tag Title win), The Blackjacks (HOF), and Drowning Pool (Celebrity) were marked as wrong. In the latter two though it didn't really make a difference since no answer was picked more than twice.

LOCATION LENIENCY: I did, however, decide to not be a total cunt with Mania host city. I could have been super duper specific with the host city (shoutout to Shisen with his answer of Pontiac)....which would've meant disallowing Las Vegas and Dallas. But let's be real, nobody thinks of those Mania locations as Paradise or Arlington.

TAG TEAM TURMOIL: Smash was picked 3 times for the Tag Title winner question and Bushwhacker Butch was picked 2 times for HOFer. Ax and Bushwhacker Luke were not picked at all.

MOTORHEAD MADNESS: Hilariously, two separate Motorhead drummers were listed for the celebrity question. This required research which yielded that Phil Taylor left the band in 1992, 9 years before their WM17 appearance.

The last three questions all got no more than two duplicate responses. This whole board is thinking differently!

[Emperor Smeat]

Winning the Undisputed IC title at Mania doesn't count for Razor Ramon?

Razor did keep his IC title but also won HBK's own IC title in the process.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Oomph, I scored high this time.

[Juan]

Dammit

[Bad News Gertner]

What does "other title win" mean?

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Does Zip not count because they won the tag team titles at the WrestleMania 12 Free For All?

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

I thought "other" title win meant just another one we didn't list. Not a jobber title that has been retired.

[Big Vic]

Drowning Pool (Celebrity) were marked as wrong. In the latter two though it didn't really make a difference since no answer was picked more than twice.

LOCATION LENIENCY: I did, however, decide to not be a total cunt with Mania host city. I could have been super duper specific with the host city (shoutout to Shisen with his answer of Pontiac)....which would've meant disallowing Las Vegas and Dallas. But let's be real, nobody thinks of those Mania locations as Paradise or Arlington.
Cheater

[Evil Vito]

What does "other title win" mean?

I thought "other" title win meant just another one we didn't list. Not a jobber title that has been retired.

The question was "Name a wrestler that won a title that hasn't already been mentioned in the survey."

So that meant no World titles, IC/US titles, or Tag Titles. So European, Hardcore, Cruiserweight, and all women's belts were fair game.

[Evil Vito]

Winning the Undisputed IC title at Mania doesn't count for Razor Ramon?

Razor did keep his IC title but also won HBK's own IC title in the process.

— Vacated — September 27, 1993 — — — Shawn Michaels was stripped of the title for failing to defend it within 30 days. In reality, Michaels was suspended for testing positive for steroids.[35] [36]

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Razor Ramon 1 September 27, 1993 198 New Haven, CT Raw Ramon and Rick Martel were the final two participants in a battle royal, in which the last two would face off the next week for the vacant title; Ramon won the match which aired on tape delay on October 11, 1993. However, Michaels returned in November 1993, claiming to be the legitimate champion as nobody defeated him for the title (though not recognized as such by WWF). Ramon went on to defeat Michaels in a ladder match on March 20, 1994 at WrestleMania X to become the undisputed champion.


HBK's title was just a load of bollocks

[owenbrown]

See I figured someone would put Bam Bam vs LT as an answer to the main event. I didn't expect 7 people total to do so. :-\

[Innovator]

I put HHH vs. Orton because no one wants to remember that

[Nicky Fives]

Not to be a dick and I didn't answer it, but it seems like Drowning Pool should count as a celebrity appearance

[Big Vic]

Not to be a dick and I didn't answer it, but it seems like Drowning Pool should count as a celebrity appearance
Thank you.

[Lock Jaw]

The question was "Name a wrestler that won a title that hasn't already been mentioned in the survey."

So that meant no World titles, IC/US titles, or Tag Titles. So European, Hardcore, Cruiserweight, and all women's belts were fair game.

I took it to be name a wrestler who won any title, as long as the WRESTLER wasn't already given as an answer.

[xrodmuc316]

I took it to be name a wrestler who won any title, as long as the WRESTLER wasn't already given as an answer.

That is how I took it as well.


Yokozuna winning the WWE title killed me, that was more that a third of my total points lol. I did get 5 single entries though, so a good showing!

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

I think if you are the only person to say the answer you should get a 0 not a one. Why penalize for the one person guessing being me?

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Who put Indiana as a City? Oh the admin from the podcast. Makes sense.

[Shisen Kopf]

I think it should be EXACT name of the city the event was held in. This is SERIOUS BUSINESS. I'm just gonna call myself the winner of this. Everyone congratulate me.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

I think it should be EXACT name of the city the event was held in. This is SERIOUS BUSINESS. I'm just gonna call myself the winner of this. Everyone congratulate me.

:y:

[Sixx]

So I win I guess.

Thanks to all my fans.

[XL]

I think if you are the only person to say the answer you should get a 0 not a one. Why penalize for the one person guessing being me?

Didn’t play this round, but absolutely.

[Bad News Gertner]

Lol oh shit, I thought Mysterio beat Hardy for the Cruiserweight. Didn't realize that Hardy won.

[owenbrown]

This is fun

[Big Vic]

I think if you are the only person to say the answer you should get a 0 not a one. Why penalize for the one person guessing being me?

That wouldn't really do anything.

[Simple Fan]

Yeah the objective of the game is to get 10 points. You can't win a game with zero points.

[XL]

The objective would be to get 0 points. It’s like a game show here in the UK called Pointless.

[Big Vic]

If everyones points are lowered by 1 then nobodies points are lowered by 1.

[Sixx]

This would be easier if the scores were counted like in the game "Countries, cities" (I'm sure you have this game, probably called differently). Wrong answer is 0, right answer is 5, unique right answer is 10.

[Big Vic]

Goodness people it's fine how it is.

[Sixx]

No.

[XL]

If everyones points are lowered by 1 then nobodies points are lowered by 1.

Goodness people it's fine how it is.

Yes, and yes.

There’s just something ”cleaner” about aiming for 0.

[Innovator]

It's golf score now everyone shut up and stop ruining good things.

[Sixx]

No!

[Mr. Nerfect]

Goodness people it's fine how it is.

:y:

[rob11]

Wow, I tied for lowest score but I KNEW someone was going to go Huckster vs Nacho Man because it was too obscure for anyone else to not use it.

[Bad News Gertner]

We want Round 4!

[Shisen Kopf]

Round 4 should be Royal Rumble questions in honor of the greatest royal rumble

[Mr. Nerfect]

Or wrestling greats. Questions about Jericho, Khali, Muta, American Bashes, etc.

[Evil Vito]

Solid ideas :y: will get one up sometime tomorrow

[#1-norm-fan]

I half-assed this without reading the rules and did pretty well. Will crush the next one.

[Big Vic]

Would be cool if this came back.

[Jordan]

Plz.

[Bad News Gertner]

Vito, your King requests a special edition.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Is this coming back?