The Heavyweight Contender Birdcage
This recap covers the previous week of May 11th through May 17th.
This week’s episode of ToTU was changed to accommodate the Birdcage Match that was setup to provide us with a new number 1 contender for the LFF Heavyweight Title, currently held by the G R U M P. This match had been highly promoted over the last few weeks, and included Piglet, The Luchamanical Uberstar, Bobby Ohio, Kirk Polka, Chris Pagillo, and Alec V. The match started with Piglet as The Pretzel Wizard and Uberstar as Pat the Thinker entering the match first and Big Pig Energy, Piglet took no time in eliminating Uberstar before anyone else entered the match. The third entry into the match would be Pagillo as The Witch’s Apprentice. The fourth entrant into the match would be Bobby Ohio, entering as himself as Bobby Ohio. Entering fifth would be the Sheep of the Era, Kirk Polka as Hailey Stevens. The last entrant would be Alec V as non other than AJ Styles around the 40 minute mark. It would be a grueling couple minutes as Bobby Ohio would grind out strikes to eliminate Piglet. The Sheep of the Era would eventually take out the very hungry Bobby Ohio leading up to the final 3. The Boombada would eliminate The Sheep of the Era setting up a match up versus Alec V. The Boombada’s dice would go cold and after several attempts of hitting the Styles Clash, it would finally hit, and as Pagillo would roll his first two rolls, he would pop his finish submission spotlight that would allow him to reroll his final breakout roll, and it would be a botch, thus crowning Alec V the new Number One Contender for the LFF Heavyweight Title after this long 2 hour match. This was an amazing match and should be one to watch for months to come as so much deck tech and preparation was shown by all participants.
The Fastest Two Minutes in the LFF
The S R G B O Double S would kick off a very fast two minutes in covering the upcoming events.
Legendary Realms CAC is officially SOLD OUT! Beer, wine, and cider will be available at this event for the first time. There will be special guest’s that will be there, big names. Looking forward, the host will be hosting a King of the Membership Ring tournament, a single elimination event, the first match being 2 out of 3 falls, on Friday night. Going forward if you win this event, you would be given a membership ring challenge, which would take place on Dojo, which means Dojo rules are in effect, as well as crowd participation.
Friday, there will be a new delivery on Friday, the 19th. These will be new 1-27 decks, which will include 12 of each number, including original cards, alt art cards, upgraded cards, and some newer cards, which will be rarer. These will be in mystery boxes and payoff packs. In very rare form, there may be Autographed Matt Cardona sets in these boxes. The new competitors from this week will be released at Origins.
In the United States #1 Contender tournament, the finals are set as Big Match Pete will face Colin the Chrononaut in the finals in a Steel Cage Match as voted on by the ToTU viewers.
The Steel Chain deck still has cards for sell, if this is funded before Origins, there will be an additional promo card added to the deck. If funded even before that, there may be a tag team added to deck as well.
The Week in Review
Thursday Night Fights, as hosted by Chibi, would contain 30 players. The top 8 of the event being Craig the Meeple as Kaiser Wolf, Danny Thunder as Shogun, Bobby Ohio as Steel Wool, Bob Dunn as Ricochet, in fourth place would be Aaron as Helen, in third place would be Tim Riley as Duff Martin, and in the finals Submission Match, Michael Kerr as Quad H would get his grapple finish in play early and Screaming Danshee would not get another turn, and Kerr as Quad H would take down Screaming Danshee as Fast Hands Cam to go undefeated on the night and emerge undefeated on the night.
Monday Night’s Hardcore Event took place with 22 players, the top 11 players moved on, with 3 singles matches and a triad match for the the 11, with 3 players who had earned GMs favor with byes into the 2nd round. The first round of Top Cuts was a Ring Steps match, followed by a Tables Match, Kendo Stick Match in the Semi Finals, and the Finals being a Steel Chain match. Your top 8 would be Kai as New EC3, Candyman Dan as himself, Mad Custodian as himself, Dewayne Raney as Ultimate Grump, Ronnie Rombs as Lord Garruth, in third place, James Booker as Mr Snap v1, in second place, Bob Dunn as Flyboy, and winning the event Zach A as Ariel Lipstick.
Tuesday Night Dojo, the house was represented by Chris Pagillo and Hold the Line Harry. After a rough couple of weeks for the house, the dojo staff finally broke even with a .500 record on the night. Winners included Jeff McPeak, Mad Custodian and The SRG Turtle. Cards that would be on sale are Giant Mode, Runtime Terror, El Hombre Cybernetico, History Making Matt Pineapple and our new interim GM, Uncle Bradley.
At the conclusion of Dojo, there was a Trio’s Title Defense, which pitted Dewayne Raney as the Higher Class against The Cheetah as the mWo. Cheetah would take early advantage of his increased hand and get to the point where he would be passing and burying Cat Scratch, which is a finish in that deck, but the winner on the night and still LFF Trios Champion, Dewayne Raney.
The winner of this round of the CCC which included The New York Phenom, The BIG Picture and Moxxie would be won by none other than Moxxie!!! Congratulations Moxxie on moving on to the next round of this year’s CCC!
Locals Report
Miso’s from 5/13 would be a Mano y Mano event, top 3 being Moxxie as CandyMaM/Sabu, in second place would be Mr Alderful as Death Machine Sami Callihan and in first place, Harvey Luster as Fortress/Silver Marvel.
FCW from 5/14 was a quick Sunday night dominated by Kai going 6-0. Bob would demand a challenger as he would not be at the next event, and though Chuggy would dominate the majority of the match as Overgiver, Bob would come out victorious and still champion. Chugganomics defended his Trios belt as Warlords against Aaron’s Mai Girls, and will face Chris Savoi at the next meeting for another defense. The FCW tornado tag belt will be defended by Savoi will be challenged by Kai as Dirty Jerz. Lastly, there will be an underworld title shot at the next meeting, however a contender had not been decided as of yet.
Looking Forward
Chibi’s Seat of Power kicks off on Thursday 5/18 for the First of 8 weeks of Chibi’s Seat of Power Season 3 tournament. 32 Player Cap, Pod Rounds cutting to Top 2 from each pod. Top Cut if needed, top 16 will be no DQ CM+1, Top 8 Ligers Den, Top 4 Beast Unchained, and Finals Tables! Ladders! Chains!
Friday night will see the B O Double S hosting Friday Night Lucha Fight King of the Membership Ring tournament. Legal competitors are Cosmic Crusaders, Marauders of the Multiverse, any competitor from a 2 player SRG boxed set, any competitor from an SRG Faction Pack, any competitor with a Full Mask, any competitors from the Old School Packs, and Holiday and Full Art deck competitors. This event will be single elimination, first round being best of three, game 3 being New York rules. Later rounds are subject to random sticks, stairs, and chairs stipulations.
Friday Night at 9pm will see the team of iRoNic, Nic Baxter and Ronnie Rombs as Cheshire and Bandersnatch (Welcome to Wonderland) facing off against the current champions, Stoopid Rich, Belle and Griff, as Ms Southern Belle and LEO The Law for the Deep South Tag Team Championship.
Sunday Night Fights will be have three matches, Candymam vs Slamilton, The Beast Michael Kerr will attempt to dethrone Harvey Luster as the Hardcore Championship will be on the line, and the last match of the night will be a Veterans Title Match, which will pit Jeff McPeak against Chris Bridges, in what should be an amazing matchup.
That’s a wrap for now folks! See you next week!!!