Editing Match Types (section)

== The Royal Rumble ==


'''Quote:'''The Royal Rumble is an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view event, produced every January by World Wrestling Entertainment. The main event in this pay-per-view is also titled the Royal Rumble, and is held only in this event. Some fans of the WWE call it one of the 'Big Four', as it was one of the original four annual WWE pay per views, and one of the four that bring together both the Raw and Smackdown! brands onto the same card, something that hasn't been true of the remaining pay per views of the year since 2003.

The Rumble is comprised of 30 men; beginning with two men in the ring, and at regular timed intervals (usually, but not always, every two minutes), one of the remaining 28 wrestlers enters the ring. A wrestler is eliminated when leaving the ring over the top rope, and then having both feet touch the floor. An egress between the second and third rope or under the bottom rope is not a valid elimination. The winner of the event is the last wrestler remaining after all others have been eliminated.
An elimination can also occur when a wrestler is thrown off the top rope by a non-competing opponent, or by one who had already been eliminated, or when the participant deliberately jumps outside the ring, for instance to hit someone who is ringside. Other wrestlers can be de facto eliminated due to interference preventing the wrestler from entering the ring, or due to a prolonged absence from the ring (although the latter is often a booking error).

Although the order of entry is supposed to be random, it is common to have storylines where wrestlers compete for the right to enter last, or ask for a low number in order to prove their stamina by outlasting all others. A wrestler may also be assigned a high or low number by a figure of authority as a reward or a punishment. In reality, the order of entrance and elimination is carefully planned by the booker in order to put on an entertaining match, with many booked by Pat Patterson. For example, once a wrestler has quickly eliminated several other wrestlers, the next wrestler to approach the ring will often be an enemy of theirs. Also, current tag teams usually face off in the Rumble, due to the Every Man for Himself factor. A rule also states that anyone who participates in a World Championship match that night, whether it be defending the title or challenging, may not participate in the Royal Rumble. There were few people who broke the rule, one being Kurt Angle who lost his WWE Championship match to John "Bradshaw" Layfield and stole Nunzio's number to get into the Rumble.

Since the 1991 event, every winner (other than in 1992, 1997, 1999) has gone on to challenge the WWE Champion or the World Heavyweight Champion at WrestleMania, but this was not made an official stipulation of the match until 1993. This stems from 1992, when the Royal Rumble decided who would win the then-vacant WWF Championship (Ric Flair won the match). This championship match is often the last event on the WrestleMania card according to principles in the WWE that states "Royal Rumble winner gets first class ticket to WrestleMania", which means that the Royal Rumble winner gets to be in the 'first class' top spot in the main event at WrestleMania. The Royal Rumble winner usually gets booked to win at WrestleMania and carry on the burden of a world champion, rising to the top level of the business. Therefore, the Royal Rumble winner is someone who is deserving, which is why the WWE fans were outraged when WWE's own promoter and non-wrestler Mr. McMahon won it. An example of popular 'deserving winners' include Chris Benoit, Rey Mysterio and "Stone Cold" Steve Austin. As WWE also has a February pay-per-view event, the winner may have this privilege put on the line on that pay-per-view card. In 1996 Shawn Michaels retained his by defeating Owen Hart. In 1997 "Stone Cold" Steve Austin had been eliminated by Bret Hart but officials missed it due to an altercation between Terry Funk and Mick Foley. Seeing this, Austin came back in the ring and eliminated The Undertaker, Vader, and Bret Hart to win the Rumble. At the February Final Four pay-per-view, all four men were to face against each other in a match to determine a new challenger, but a week prior then-WWF Champion Shawn Michaels vacated the title, and the match instead declared a new champion, which was Hart. Undertaker was named the new challenger the day after due to his performance at Final Four and his being the match's runner-up. In 1999, Mr. McMahon, that year's Rumble winner, stated he would give up his title shot as he is not a regular competitor, leading to then-WWF Commissioner Shawn Michaels declaring that the WWF rulebook states the Rumble runner-up would get the shot in his absence, who was Stone Cold Steve Austin. As McMahon and Austin were feuding at the time, Michaels set a match for the February's St. Valentine's Day Massacre pay-per-view between the two with the shot on the line, with Austin victorious. In 2000 The Rock won but it was shown afterwards that he had actually been eliminated by The Big Show, leading to a singles match at the February No Way Out pay-per-view for the title shot, which Big Show won. Rock and later Mick Foley were added to the championship match. A similar situation occurred in 2006 when Rey Mysterio put his shot on the line at No Way Out against Randy Orton, who won the match. Mysterio would be added later on as well.

With the brand extension in mid-2002, the 30 entrants consist of 15 wrestlers from the RAW brand and 15 from the SmackDown! brand. This is, therefore, one of the few pay-per-view events (and certain combined non-televised shows held around WrestleMania time) with inter-brand competition on a regular basis. The official declaration for the first post-brand extension event in 2003, the Rumble winner faced their brand's champion at WrestleMania, but starting in 2004, due to a supposed "loophole" in the Rumble's stipulations, the Rumble winner has the option of challenging either brand's champion. 

Chris Benoit switched brands in 2004 and won the World Heavyweight Championship. Batista remained with RAW in 2005, though Triple H initially lobbied heavily for him to jump to SmackDown! so he wouldn't have to face him. To date, there is no relative entry order between participants from different brands, and there has been no storyline to date that has brands facing each other for the right to name the first or last entry.
The first Royal Rumble took place on January 24, 1988 in Hamilton, Ontario. Hacksaw Jim Duggan won, and the first pay-per-view Rumble occurred a year later. 
 
Text quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Rumble

'''KYR Rules'''

This match involves 30 wrestlers. Two wrestlers start out in the ring.

Every round, the GM rolls 1d4 to determine how many minutes have passed. At a certain time interval, a new wrestler joins the match. (Usually, a new wrestler hits the ring every two minutes, but this is at the GM’s discretion.) This continues until all 30 participants have come to the ring.

Order of entry is determined at random.

Edit: Use the rules for the Battle Royal match on page 78 of the WWE Know Your Role! rpg for elimination rules.


Last wrestler left in the ring is the winner.