2026 Royal Rumble Pick'em

[Majingir]

I know Bard usually does it, but with an early start for the rumble on Saturday, let's get this filled up asap!

Participants:

@Majingir

@UFCMPunk

@SmashMan

@Fiddy

@Dead2009

@TripleCrown9

@Steve_OS

@TheMatrix31

@WWF80sKid

Bard

Winners will be assigned as follows:

GOLD: Correctly drawing the number of at least 1 rumble winner AND having more combined eliminations amongst their 6 participants than the other user who has a rumble winner

SILVER: Correctly drawing the number of 1 rumble winner

Bronze: Having the most combined eliminations amongst their 6 total participants while having 0 rumble winners in that grouping

Should one user win both rumbles, they get the gold and nobody wins silver.

Should multiple users tie for Gold or Bronze by way of having the same combined rumble elimination total, all tied users will win that respective medal.

[TheMatrix31]

I'm in as usual!

[WWF80sKid]

I’m in for sure!

[Majingir]

UFCMPunk, SmashMan, Fiddy, Dead2009, TripleCrown9, Steve_OS have all also been added by way of posting in this sub at some point this month therefore their participation is legally binding. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...Kx6Lg-6kw&s=10 ">

[Fiddy]

I'm in as well..

[Majingir]

We got 10 so far which is the minimum to really make this work unless we added Vacant. I'll do the random number draws prior to the preshow.

[Majingir]

Whether you chose to or not, as R-Truth would say, your mens and womens balls are now in my hands.





With that said, here's the rumble numbers. If you don't like them, blame ChatGPT.


MENS:

@Majingir: 3, 18, 26

@UFCMPunk: 7, 10, 21

@SmashMan: 1, 14, 29

@Fiddy: 6, 12, 25

@Dead2009: 4, 17, 30

@TripleCrown9: 9, 13, 22

@Steve_OS: 5, 16, 27

@TheMatrix31: 2, 19, 24

@WWF80sKid: 8, 11, 28

@Bard: 15, 20, 23


WOMENS:

@Majingir: 5, 14, 22

@UFCMPunk: 1, 19, 27

@SmashMan: 8, 10, 30

@Fiddy: 2, 15, 24

@Dead2009: 6, 18, 28

@TripleCrown9: 3, 16, 29

@Steve_OS: 13, 17, 23

@TheMatrix31: 7, 20, 25

@WWF80sKid: 4, 12, 26

@Bard: 9, 11, 21


I wanted to mix up the scoring this year, and with the Olympics coming up next week, we'll do podium standings.


Gold and Silver will be awarded to whoever gets the men's and women's rumble winner picks. Should that be two different users who win, the tiebreaker will be the most combined eliminations between ALL your rumble numbers.


Bronze will be awarded to whoever gets the most combined eliminations between all their rumble picks out of all users who aren't the Gold or silver winners.


Should one user win the men's AND women's rumble, then no silver medal will be awarded (unless someone can think of a better way to settle silver and bronze)

[Bard]

Thanks for including me Majingir I appreciate it! I haven't been on the forums since the switch, but had to come and see if the traditions are still going

[TheMatrix31]

Awesome! Thanks Maj!

[SmashMan]

I had a 66% chance of winning when it got down to the final 3 women.

[TripleCrown9]

So I had Mr. Iguana, OG Grande Americano, and Brock.

As well as Kiana James, Zelina, and Brie Bella...

[Majingir]

I'll admit, I rigged the picks, I (or rather ChatGPT) knew Liv was entering at #14, Roman at 26 AND BOTH winning........Maybe AI is smarter than we all know........ For real though, what a crazy coincidence! I don't think anyone has ever won at those numbers before?

I got mad when I saw the first 4 women entrants being good, then my #5 comes up and it's Ivy who literally did nothing in the rumble then got eliminated! Got lucky with Liv at 14 and Rhea at 22, I loved my numbers for once. Same with the men's. I got Solo and LA Parka....then Roman enters!

[Majingir]

As for the overall standings...yes, I won gold thanks to the luck of the draw (14 historically has been a cursed rumble number, and 26 was previously the highest number in a rumble to never win!)

As for who has the most combined eliminations from all 6 number draws...let's first acknowledge (no pun intended) Bard & TheMatrix31 who each had a combined 2 points and tied for last.


No silver awarded here since there was no tiebreaker for the gold. So the bronze medal for most eliminations goes to....@SmashMan! 12 total points between the two rumbles! Tiffany and Sol got you one eliminations each, Jordynne got you 3. Then in the men's, you got the heavy hitters. Orton and Royce got one elimination each and topped off with Oba getting 5 eliminations!


The full standings for combined eliminations:

1. SmashMan (12)

2. Majingir (11)

3. UFCMPunk (8)

4. Fiddy (6)

t5. TripleCrown9 (5)

t5. Steve_OS (5)

7. WWF80sKid (4)

8. Dead2009 (3)

t9. TheMatrix31 (2)

t9. Bard (2)

[SmashMan]

...you almost won gold and bronze of the pick em you set up?!

[Majingir]

I wouldn't have won bronze even if I had the most since bronze is for the most eliminations of the non gold/silver finalists. Outside of Roman and Liv, the rest of my picks were Ivy, Solo, Rhea and LA Parka, so Roman and Liv obviously bailed me out big time.

[TheMatrix31]

It's become tradition with me and having the worst entrants every year it feels like. This year I had Iyo as one of my women's entrants, so that could have been good.

Candace, Iyo, Nikki
Breaker, Dragon Lee, Rey Fenix

*sigh*