Royal Rumble Tradition

[Dave FCIC]

I mentioned it in one of the other threads just there but I just wanted to know if there are any things like this anyone else does for the Rumble or any other wrestling events for that matter.

But since 1993 (i think I missed it 2 years since then, but ever since I've done it), me and my friends and family put the 30 numbers for the Rumble in a hat, we pick out the numbers evenly so we all have an equal amount of numbers and put in a fiver each (unless its an unequal amount of people, then people have to buy the left over numbers for the highest bid and put it in the kitty).

Then whoever has the winning number gets all the money.

It is so fun and it adds so much to the Rumble match.

[George Harrison]

at 1.00 in the morning, Im lucky to find any of my family awake, Id have a job to get them to draw numbers & watch wrestling.

[Dave FCIC]

yeah my family only done it when I was a bit younger coz i'd moan

but mroe recently its just a buncha mates wae a few beers

[The son of a plumber.]

I think i'll bring something up when i go watch the rumble. My friends like to gamble and it might make it a little more exciting. Give people a fun rooting factor.

[Square]

Oh ai I do that an all, but I always get people like Scotty 2 Hotty


an dthis year I got number 5! so im expecting Big Vis fifth!

[tc03ska]

I get a bunch of my friends over my house, I have all 30 names on pieces of paper. each name is $1 and you buy however many chances. then the winner gets $20.00 and the other $10 is distributed to other things (i.e first guy eliminated gets a $1, number #30 gets $2, etc)


its awesome

been doing this since 2000

[lotus]

It's just me watching the dvd when it comes out.
So "My" Tradition is ordering a large pizza and watching the dvd.
Id like to do the gambling with friends bit one of these years though.

[SpillBeans316]

Between 99' and 04', me and a group of friends bet on the Rumble similiar to the poster above. We'd get all the names down on pieces of paper, some with a ? mark if there was an open slot, and we'd pick our names. Usually we all put in about $10 a piece, depending how many of us were there a given year, so typically our pot was as high as $60 or $70.

One year, we reversed it and drew numbers instead of names. It made things more interesting, especially when you would wait with anticipation for your # 23 or # 24 to finally come out and its Mideon.

Anyway, I had a streak of winning the most rumbles amongst our group. I remember I had picked Vince in 99, Austin in 01, and Triple H in 02. That last year I was late for the event and came in about 10 minutes before the rumble was over. My friends had picked my names in my absence. So I basically came in, sat down for 5 minutes, watched Triple H win (no shock that year) and collected my money. I wasnt invited back for Wrestlemania..........j/k

[mrpink]

Me and my friends do something similar. We just pick a number and whoever wins doesn't have to chip in for food at WM. If no one wins then we go with the closest one.

This year we decided that whoever wins doesn't have to chip in for gas on the way to Detroit.