Everybody who comes to Cageside Seats has an opinion about what's going on in pro wrestling - The Smark's Shoot Standings (S3)* are where YOU let us know YOURS.
Cast a vote in the comments. Give us the four performers you think entertained or impressed the most in the last week, and feel free to talk about why. And/or vote for your top performer in our poll.
We also normally have the outcome of last week's voting, the results of which make up our annual competition for Performer of the Year. This being the first week of a new WrestleMania-to-WrestleMania “season”, things are a little different, but we still need your vote.
Remember, the Standings are for the previous week's nationally televised and internet streaming pro wrestling shows - the April 8 episode of Monday Night Raw, SmackDown & 205 Live on Tues, April 9, NXT UK & NXT from Wednesday, this week’s Impact, ROH TV & MLW Fusion, and any other televised or internet streaming wrestling that aired from April 7 - 13, 2019 (not counting WrestleMania 35).
Make YOUR mark, smarks!
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We'd usually have last week's results here, but as those votes ended our fifth season, you can find out how everything wrapped up in our year-end extravaganza here. That post also has a slick new week-to-week movement chart courtesy of Cagesider Ehtesham Siddiqui, so go check it out!
That post also asked for predictions on the 2018-19, WrestleMania 35 - WrestleMania 36 season. And, if the results were any indication, this could be the first year we have not only a repeat winner, but a repeat runner-up, too! We’ll see how this holds up as the year goes on and folks take loses, lose titles, etc, etc.
The S3 Performer of the Year - Voter Predictions for 2019-20
1. Becky Lynch
2. Seth Rollins
3. Kofi Kingston
4. Velveteen Dream
5. (tie) Ricochet
5. (tie) Johnny Gargano
7. Kenny Omega
8. Daniel Bryan
9. Drew McIntyre
10. Adam Cole
As a refresher for veterans and a crash course for newcomers, here's the how and why of our little fan vote...
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The S3:
Perfomers who play a significant role on a nationally televised wrestling show available in at least 50 million United States homes, or on a televised pay-per-view (PPV)/WWE Network special, will get entries in our click-vote poll.
If you want to vote for someone who didn't appear on Raw or SmackDown, and/or if would like to either recognize more performers or have a greater impact on the Standings, you should log in and vote in the comments.
Voting both via the poll and a comment is not only allowed, but encouraged. If you want to really influence the S3, and have a lot more flexibility with your ballot, you’ve really got to comment.
In a comment vote, you have four "slots". If you place one performer in each, first place is assigned 4 points for the week, second 3, third 2 and fourth 1. Weekly points are assigned to everyone's comment for ranking.
You can list more than one wrestler per slot, either as a tag team or a tie between unrelated workers. If you use all four slots and have people tied in any of them, those performers will split the points assigned to that slot. For instance:
1. Jinder Mahal
2. The Bar
3. Tessa Blanchard
4. Matt Taven
results in the former WWE champ getting 4 weekly points, Cesaro & Sheamus getting 1.5 each (splitting the 3 points assigned to a second place vote) while the Impact/WOW star gets 2 points for third and the ROH World champ receives 1 for fourth.
On the other hand, you can assign more points for a tie by having the tie replace one of your other slots, like so:
1. Jinder Mahal
2. The Bar
4. Tessa Blanchard
In this instance, each member of the five time tag champs receives 2.5 weekly Standings points, as they will split the 3 points for second and the 2 points for third. Tully’s baby girl then gets 1 for fourth.
The poll is counted separately. The performer who receives the most votes gets 10 points, second most 9, and so on down to the person who receives the tenth highest vote count earning 1 weekly point. Doesn’t matter if the winner gets 6,000 votes in the poll, he or she only gets 10 points from it. This is because the poll is prone to trolling and not that hard to game... but mostly because we want you to join the conversation in the comments!
The annual list is calculated in a similar fashion. Finishing first in the weekly Standings is worth 10 annual points, through tenth being worth 1. Ties split the points assigned to the rankings between the number of people tied. So if one week, Eddie Edwards, Dakota Kai and Shane Strickland tie for seventh, they each get 3 points from 9 total (4 for seventh, 3 for eighth and 2 for ninth) split three ways.
Hope that makes sense. If not, ask away in the comments.
Refresh your memory with cSs coverage of each show in their respective section. We’ve got them for Raw, Impact, NXT, SmackDown, New Japan, MLW, and the indies (where you’ll be hard pressed to find a better weekly guide than Rev. Claire’s Sermon on the Mat!)
Then vote, and we'll see you next week for the first results of Season Eight!
Poll
Which performer had the best week, April 7 - 13 (not counting WrestleMania 35)?
This poll is closed
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7%
Seth Rollins
(30 votes) -
37%
Kofi Kingston
(152 votes) -
0%
Xavier Woods
(2 votes) -
0%
Big E
(2 votes) -
3%
Curt Hawkins
(14 votes) -
0%
Zack Ryder
(0 votes) -
0%
Kurt Angle
(1 vote) -
4%
Lars Sullivan
(18 votes) -
1%
Alexa Bliss
(8 votes) -
16%
Becky Lynch
(69 votes) -
7%
Lacey Evans
(31 votes) -
0%
Aleister Black
(2 votes) -
0%
Ricochet
(2 votes) -
1%
Dean Ambrose
(5 votes) -
0%
Bobby Lashley
(1 vote) -
6%
Sami Zayn
(27 votes) -
2%
Finn Bálor
(9 votes) -
0%
Elias
(2 votes) -
2%
Undertaker
(10 votes) -
0%
Cesaro
(1 vote) -
0%
Sheamus
(0 votes) -
0%
Mustafa Ali
(3 votes) -
0%
Randy Orton
(0 votes) -
0%
Kevin Owens
(1 vote) -
1%
Samoa Joe
(5 votes) -
0%
Braun Strowman
(0 votes) -
0%
Peyton Royce
(4 votes) -
0%
Billie Kay
(3 votes) -
0%
Paige
(0 votes) -
0%
Shane McMahon
(0 votes) -
1%
Jeff Hardy
(5 votes) -
0%
Matt Hardy
(1 vote)