2011 Bloody Elbow Tournament of Bad: Elite Eight Voting, Part One
by Mike Fagan on Jun 9, 2011 8:00 PM EDT
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After a long and extensive process, esteemed colleague Brent Brookhouse and I are proud to bring you the 2011 Bloody Elbow Tournament of Bad, an idea from the local Chicago sports radio show, Boers and Bernstein. The concept is simple: compile a list of 64 of the worst things related to the sport of MMA and pit them against one another in an NCAA Tournament-style bracket. You, the readers, vote on each match up until we have our ultimate champion.
Things are heating up as we prepare for Final Four week. Don't forget to cast your vote for the second half of Sweet Sixteen Voting. And check out the full bracket here.
The first half of Elite Eight matchups:
Jon Hess Regional Final
(2) Gus Johnson's makeup vs. (8) MMA Judging
Art Jimmerson Regional Final
(1) Chael Sonnen's credibility vs. (6) Leonard Garcia scorecards
Photos courtesy of UFC.com, Google Image Search, Esther Lin for Fanhouse, and my own private stash of MMA events.
Voting after the jump. Polls close at midnight ET tomorrow.
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Leonard Garcia Scorecards are somehow channeling the power of Leonard Garcia scorecards. I can’t believe it is still in the tournament. But that ends here.
Judging
Chael
"Every time I talk on the phone with someone who doesn’t know me, they call me "ma’am"." .....cut to a couple months later....... "You can alter that sig now. I spoke with someone I know on the phone and she repeatedly addressed me as a female. Fuck." - Scott C. Broussard
by Earl Montclair on Jun 9, 2011 8:03 PM EDT reply actions 4 recs
If Garcia scorecards win again, that’d be the irony of all ironies.
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by bcpjkell on Jun 9, 2011 8:06 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
Oh man there is a very real chance this ends up being Leonard Garcia scorecards vs. MMA Judging
MIRROR BATTLE
Chael is a decision machine and we all know about MMA Judging........oh crap.
"Every time I talk on the phone with someone who doesn’t know me, they call me "ma’am"." .....cut to a couple months later....... "You can alter that sig now. I spoke with someone I know on the phone and she repeatedly addressed me as a female. Fuck." - Scott C. Broussard
by Earl Montclair on Jun 9, 2011 8:08 PM EDT up reply actions
With “Never Leave it in the Hands of the Judges” awaiting the winner in the final. Speaks volumes of the confidence the MMA community has in judging.
I stand by “Never leave it” as the worst of all. Judge’s being bad is a terrible thing. People accepting it to the point it’s the fighter’s fault the judge’s are bad is worse.
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If this was just Gus Johnson in general
I probably would have voted for him.
Leonard Garcia’s scorecards making it this far explains why I don’t believe in the democratic process.
Ya’ll have no idea what the hell you’re doing.
Either that or we know exactly what we are doing
"Every time I talk on the phone with someone who doesn’t know me, they call me "ma’am"." .....cut to a couple months later....... "You can alter that sig now. I spoke with someone I know on the phone and she repeatedly addressed me as a female. Fuck." - Scott C. Broussard
by Earl Montclair on Jun 9, 2011 8:17 PM EDT up reply actions
What a flashy comment for something so stupid.
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by spectaa on Jun 9, 2011 9:46 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
My Votes
Judging
LG Scorecards
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by Wrestling Uber Alles on Jun 9, 2011 8:22 PM EDT reply actions
Judging and Garcia cards are truly worse than Johnsons cross dressing....but just barley
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Judging and Garcia.
The fact that Garcia even made it here is fucking crazy, that just shows that even the dudes name has power enough to win.
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2 great entrants will probably go down to the bland selections of the masses again tonight.
I’m still pissed that Cole Konrad’s body didn’t have a run at all.
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by Brent Brookhouse on Jun 9, 2011 8:28 PM EDT reply actions
I am pretty sure that is how it got the way it is.
I’m still pissed that Cole Konrad’s body didn’t have a run at all.
"Every time I talk on the phone with someone who doesn’t know me, they call me "ma’am"." .....cut to a couple months later....... "You can alter that sig now. I spoke with someone I know on the phone and she repeatedly addressed me as a female. Fuck." - Scott C. Broussard
by Earl Montclair on Jun 9, 2011 8:30 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
If you voted for anything other than MMA judging and LG decisions, you should be ashamed. That’s the only fair fight the finals could possibly have.
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by Hendo_One-Shot on Jun 9, 2011 8:31 PM EDT up reply actions
I dunno. I mean, I don’t begrudge anyone the right to vote as they see fit. But when people spend time arguing about which entrant is “worse for the sport” they kind of miss the “spirit” of the thing in putting a weird amount of seriousness on it.
I mean, I’m not saying “don’t vote for things you think are bad”, that’s clearly the point. It just made me frown to see people be “serious” when discussing the match-ups in some of the earlier rounds.
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by Brent Brookhouse on Jun 9, 2011 8:34 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Even so
I’m glad that 57% of the voters managed to keep some sense of perspective when comparing
“a 10-second shout out to God”
…and…
“a few years of doping, oh and some criminal fraud and possibly perjury thrown in for color”.
You can be not-serious without being completely batshit out of your mind.
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by Mike Fagan on Jun 9, 2011 9:15 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
My girlfriend almost hit me when I told her the gladiator intro was eliminated. I pretty much pick whichever ones she tells me to. Many of these choices were better decided from an outsider’s perspective.
"Every time I talk on the phone with someone who doesn’t know me, they call me "ma’am"." .....cut to a couple months later....... "You can alter that sig now. I spoke with someone I know on the phone and she repeatedly addressed me as a female. Fuck." - Scott C. Broussard
by Earl Montclair on Jun 9, 2011 9:19 PM EDT up reply actions
so what you're saying is
she’s the biggest hater in the relationship?
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by Cory Braiterman on Jun 9, 2011 10:36 PM EDT up reply actions
Only if we are talking about Alex Smith. The things she says about him I cannot repeat here.
"Every time I talk on the phone with someone who doesn’t know me, they call me "ma’am"." .....cut to a couple months later....... "You can alter that sig now. I spoke with someone I know on the phone and she repeatedly addressed me as a female. Fuck." - Scott C. Broussard
by Earl Montclair on Jun 10, 2011 12:31 AM EDT up reply actions
as long as
WHOEVER CHOSE THESE SEEDINGS also gets in.
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by Cory Braiterman on Jun 9, 2011 10:36 PM EDT up reply actions
Haha, this is where the internet fails. I wasn’t being serious at all, but I would not mind being a competitor in next season’s tournament of bad. I don’t take this thing seriously at all, so much so that this is the only one I voted on.
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by Hendo_One-Shot on Jun 9, 2011 10:45 PM EDT up reply actions
I was torn
Judging was an easy one…but the fact that there are STILL a ton of people here who love Chael and think his hackneyed “jokes” are entertaining, despite the fact that he is a racist convict who cheats – I had to vote for him.
BOOSH
How could the way someone does there make up
Compare to the retarded, blind, and incompetent judges. This is the MMA ToB not the tournament of ugly.
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Oh, we were being serious about it.
Okay then, yeah, judging wins outright.
by Brent Ducharme on Jun 9, 2011 9:35 PM EDT up reply actions
Also, your description of MMA judges
is an affront to the blind, incompetent, and mentally handicapped.
by Brent Ducharme on Jun 9, 2011 9:35 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm predicting a "MMA judging vs NY Regulation" final
with NY Regulation emerging as the winner!
(if those two are not in the finals then this comment never happened)
Gus, Leonard Garcia scorecards
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by spectaa on Jun 9, 2011 9:58 PM EDT reply actions 3 recs
gus and sonnen
the turtle got a rec tho
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by Cory Braiterman on Jun 9, 2011 10:37 PM EDT up reply actions
That's a round for the underdogs
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Judging and Mexican Windmill.
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by inadvertentgroinstrike on Jun 10, 2011 9:09 AM EDT reply actions
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