HTGTH: WWE Game VI [Special Edition Retrospective]

[Hammy]

* First game without Evolution hence the origin of the title

* 13 Players

* No Players debuted this game, everyone had at least one game’s worth of experience

* Gnrfan finished on 1146 points.  Jim, D and BlowUpYourVideo’s combined scores were: 1043 (That would have nabbed them 3rd)

* D and BlowUpYourVideo finished 12th and 13th.  If you added up their scores they’d still be 73 points off Jim in 11th

* This was the game in which the Benoit incident occurred

* The Benoit Incident prompted Jim to do the scoring for the 1st and last time, he gave Malcolm’s team, which had the Canadian Grappler minus 500 points. (This ruling didn’t stand)

* This was the last game before we introduced money in the place of trades

* BlowUpYourVideo’s Wooden Spoon interim reign began on the 19th May and lasted until the end of the game where it became official

* Gaining inspiration from the Vince McMahon Limo storyline he spent a time under the guise of “BlowUpYourLimo”

* high_times and mallrat were the only players to not use any trades, they finished in 7th and 8th place

* Gnrfan (1st), slash666 (2nd), Malcolm (10th), D (12th) and BlowUpYourVideo (13th) were the only people to use up all their trades

* Jim missed his first pick of the draft.  Sweet616 missed his fifth pick of the draft.  No other draft picks were missed

* BlowUpYourVideo left me with a list for his picks 2-4 due to his absence from the board.  Kevin Thorn and Ashley were high on that list  

* Only 4 teams from the start of the game (17th April 2007) were full through picks 1-5 with wrestlers who are still signed to WWE Contracts.  (As of October 2008)

* This was the first game where the rule of having to have a wrestler from every roster was removed and you were only required to have a superstar from 2 of the 3 rosters

* Jim started the game with the most RAW Superstars, a total of four: Randy Orton, Kenny Dykstra, Chris Masters and Eugene.  Timothy finished the game with the most RAW Superstars, a total of four: Lashley, Mickie James, Carlito and Lance Cade

* axl_rose_700 started and finished the game with the most Smackdown Superstars, a total of four: MVP, Chavo Guerrero, Rey Mysterio and Brian Kendrick.  His finished team was the same except Kendrick had been replaced by Brian Major

* The most ECW Superstars any team started or finished with was two

* The wrestlers released during this game were: Ariel, Sabu, Scotty 2 Hotty, Sylvan and Trinity

* The 10 Top Scoring Wrestlers were:

John Cena = 430 (Gnrfan)
Matt Hardy = 394 (Hammy)
Umaga = 346 (mallrat)
Batista = 286 (slash666)
Jeff Hardy = 286 (Neemo)
John Morrison = 272 (Neemo)
CM Punk = 266 (slash666)
MVP = 263 (axl_rose_700)
The Great Khali = 246 (high_times)
Randy Orton = 243 (Jim)

1st Place (Changes throughout the game):

Jim:  17th April 2007 – 18th April

High_times: 18th April – 21st April

Hammy: 21st April – 5th June

Gnrfan: 5th June – 21st July

Hammy: 21st July – 23rd July

Gnrfan: 23rd July – 19th August

Gnrfan/slash666 (Joint 1st): 19th August – 21st August

Gnrfan: 21st August – 27th August 2007 (End of the Game)

Final Standings:
1. Gnrfan - 1146
2. slash666 - 1065
3. Hammy - 955
4. Neemo - 799
5. sweet616 - 768
6. Timothy - 765
7. high_times - 742
8. Mallrat - 695
9. axl_rose_700 - 633
10. Malcolm - 607
11. Jim - 558
12. D - 264
13. BlowUpYourVideo - 221

[D]

Jesus, I only had 264 points?

who the hell was on my roster?

and how the hell did I beat blowup!?

[Hammy]

and how the hell did I beat blowup!?

Its your secret urge to avoid the Woodenspoon, you might calll 2nd first loser but you don't wanna be the last one.... 

[Gnrfan]

I could review this game every day. I'm sad in some ways that i havent won more. I've had good rosters but if i remember this game i had Cena who was just a monster for me and outscored most if not all. I think Burke was my 2nd pick (that might be wrong, but he was definatly on my roster) and Murdoch did really well for me too. I also had Stevie Richards but got rid pretty quick.

But what i remember the most was how the Women won me the game. I remember picking Candice as my 5th pick because i saw she was gonna do playboy and i thought maybe wwe would try and put the belt on her at the same time (i also did this with Maria and it failed).... and they did and i think she scored over 200 points but then got injured. So i picked up Michelle McCool and swapped Stevie for Beth and the rest was history. I remember thinking i was gonna lose and coz Cena had the belt for so long and i was sure he was gonna lose it..... But he retained and in a Divas Battle Royale Beth and McCool scored me like 60 odd points and i knew i had it in the bag. Brilliant feeling i might add. 

If i never win again.... I have been a champion!

[More Cowbell]

Gnr fan.  You are part of the alumni.  If my reading of the games is correct there has only been what 6 different champions in the history of the game.you are part of a select group. The champions stable.