Akira defeated The Kotzebue Kid via no show. This is Moose's third no-show in a row and I don't think I've seen him post a match yet...

Joe Tresda no-showed the match. JHalc wins.

Shade:

Pleasantly surprised would be a perfect way of putting my reaction, considering the first couple of matches from you have been disappointing. Your match started off in a non-traditional way, but I don't have any qualms with that. I thought your strongest suit was characterization where you were excellent with your own character throughout. I thought you made good use of the hardcore stipulation as well. Although it seemed to have it's own lack of illogical progression, it made sense in the context of your nut-job character. Who starts a match with a fucking shovel? Shade.

Reyes:

Wow. Your match was excellent. There was a logical progression, a nice build-up in action, and a concrete finish. Your match was loaded with action and you did a very good job of putting Shade over. I mentioned that I thought Shade's areas of strength were characterization and use of the hardcore stipulation. I think he edged you in those areas. Your match was definitely filled with more action and I think if E-Fedding is a simulation of real wrestling, your match certainly would be more entertaining than Shade's as well.

Verdict:

This match was fairly close. Shade's edge in the hardcore stipulation use I think was the biggest key to making this such a hard decision, because I was hoping for this to be a major play-in match for the King of Xtreme tournament. While Shade's match definitely used more weapons and I think had the better window to what I expect the tournament matches to look like, I think Robbie's post did a better job of selling the tournament as a big deal so to speak. I have to go with Robbie Reyes.

In the most predictable outcome of all time, Mack no-showed. Congratulations to AJ Miller.

Another title won via no-show. Congratulations to Dominik Diveraz and Takumi Sanu.

I'd like to say something before I start grading... I decided to no-show early in the day on Friday because at that point I was on the chatbox and both Caleb and Abdel were talking about their "8K" matches. At that point I had already written 1,000 words. I don't appreciate the gamesmanship that comes from lying about your match because I could have easily gotten 5 or 6 K and competed with you two, I decided to no-show, in part, because you two made it sound like you had labored over your matches. While it certainly seems like Caleb did that, I did a word count on Abdel's match and it comes nowhere close to the 8 thousand he was talking about in the chat. On top of that, I seen him mention somewhere his "rushed" ending. I can't say there is anything, by rule, wrong with it. I just think it's a bitch-ass move.

Abdel:

I tried to read your match in one go but couldn't. I was stricken by how often I thought your choice of words was poor and/or completely unnecessary. "ever-so-classic steel chair" just seems lame. There's a lot of examples from the beginning of your match that I could pull out that seem the same way. The first thing I really noticed that I'm going to say negatively impacted your match was you started the near-falls incredibly early. Everything resulted in a near fall, which I think will take away from potential legitimate near falls later. I think the fact you started early with the pin-saves was poorly done as well. I thought the Gravitational Pull was also poorly done as I can't seem to get behind the route of progression you've taken. I thought the Southern Arrow spot was brilliant but it still seems early in the match for that. I think the curb-stomp spot made a lot of sense and it showed that you understood the character. I thought all in all you did a fairly decent job. I have my doubts that what you came up with will be good enough considering the stage, but it wasn't bad. I know I did some nitpicking in there.

I thought there was a lack of a natural progression. It didn't feel like a real match. There were a couple of really nice spots but as you know I'm not the biggest spot-fan. I don't think you did a good job of telling a story, but there definitely was a story there. I enjoyed EG getting the clean win and if you win the match it would be an excellent way to insert your character prominently in the forefront of story-lines.

Caleb:

I liked the double suplex spot early. The first thing that jumps out at me while reading is that your progression is clearly closer to what I expected and definitely what I would consider more realistic. I got through the rest of your match before commenting again because for the most part it just flew by. Your match had great natural progression for the beginning and the middle, and I think you did a very good job of making everyone in the match look strong. I also thought you did a better job using the triple threat portion of the match. The only disappointing part was probably your favorite part as I didn't love Kanimaniac running down. I'm not sure how to take it. If it was a heel-move... It seemed like a heel turn but it didn't have that big moment that let the fans know. Maybe for you that was the handshake, but I didn't feel it. If it wasn't a heel move, him running down to help you secure the win over a face doesn't make much sense...

Verdict:

I feel pretty strongly that Caleb had the better match. Like I said in his write-up, his finish wasn't what I was hoping for, but there was a lot of good there.