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Last week we had a giveaway to coincide with the Bounty Builder Series, highlighting that to make a profit you only need to Knock Out five players.

That’s regardless of whether you last long enough to make the money.

So ahead of the Main Event this Sunday, we asked which five players you would most like to KO?

More than 100 players took part (each collecting a $2 Spin & Go ticket for their efforts). That meant a combination of several hundred different “targets” in this hypothetical tournament.

Which leads to another obvious question.

If everyone had the opportunity to KO the five players they picked, and in the same tournament, what would the seat draw look like?

Well here it is, along with a few standout players to look out for.

Among them you’ll find characters from television, film, and a few from the real world. There are super heroes, villains, world leaders and world thinkers.

But we’ll start with the stand out pick.

Plastic Fantastic

The only toy to make the list was Rainbow Sparkle from My Little Pony.

A truly original pick by GBRBreakdown on Twitter, who evidently is still working on a few issues. We wish you the best of luck.

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Cartoon characters proved a popular group to victimise.

You could say Scrooge McDuck had it coming, but Donald Duck not so much. Both make the list.

As did cartoon dogs Scooby Doo and Snoopy. The Pink Panther is the lone cat in the field.

Bart and Homer Simpson take seats, as does Eric Cartman.

Pinocchio might go down as the game’s worst bluffer. Not so much Jessica Rabbit, who you suspect would bring moves, and glamour to the room.

Wile E Coyote is also playing, but likely too busy making rocket roller skates to pay enough attention.

Is this the ultimate Marvel KO player?

Plenty of players had something to prove against Super Heroes, perhaps revealing their own unsettling hint of a Titan-style inferiority complex.

This line up is not without game integrity issues.

For one thing Superman’s unshakeable honesty would still prohibit him from taking a seat with that x-ray vision of his. Sorry sunshine, we’re not fooled.

There to restore order would be Batman, Spiderman, Flash, Deadpool, and Wonder Woman. Although now we’re pitching DC and Marvel against each other for an even greater battle.

The Hulk’s temper might cost him a few penalties. But Thanos would be a click away from wiping out half the field. That makes him the ultimate Bounty Builder Player.

EV = KO squared

Historical figures featured prominently. There was a combination of people who would make good conversation at the table, and others who it would just be good to humiliate.

There were the infamous (Hitler, Stalin) as well as those hard to picture anywhere near a poker table.

Genghis Kahn was a popular pick. Maybe popular is the wrong word, but it would be hard to imagine him playing without a sizeable entourage of blood thirsty Mongol warriors, probably on horseback, and armed to the teeth.

Statesmen Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Alexander the Great (the cards will be the judge of that Al) and Benjamin Franklin were all included.

As were great thinkers like Socrates, Plato, Diogenes, Aristotle, Einstein and Alan Turing. Although with such a fast structure their tanking might grow tedious.

Just three of the most wanted: Spock, Scooby Doo, and Chuck Norris

Heads up against Chuck Norris

South American footballers will be kicking around the rail.

Diego Maradona, Ronaldinho, Lionel Messi and Neymar are all dealt in. As is Mike Tyson. Good luck knocking him out.

A few world figures would be required to take some time off. They include Barack Obama, George W Bush, Donald Trump, Bill Gates, and Jean Claude Juncker.

Pamela Anderson is also playing. As is Chuck Norris. We suggest handing him your cards and letting him decide how you play them.

Baba Yaga himself

Chuck Norris is one thing. But here were full marks for bravery for the player who decided John Wick needed to learn a thing or two. Although you suspect he would knock you out. Probably with a pencil.

James Bond, in various incarnations, will keep things highbrow. John McClane will be on hand in case Genghis and his men try to ruin Christmas, if he can get ahead of Jack Reacher that is. And Rambo.

Only a genius or a fool would take on Sherlock Holmes at cards, but someone picked him. The same goes for Doctor Spock.

Who knows how anyone would ever get a read on Cookie Monster, or Jabba the Hut, but both are playing.

Harry Potter and Ron Weasley make the list but alas are both under aged. That goes for Heidi too.

Spraggy, a great historic player?

The pros would likely stand to profit most from this esoteric, but inexperienced field.

Team Pros Fintan Hand, Spraggy (voted historic, and fictional), Lex Veldhuis, Arlie Shaban, Felix Schneiders, Leo Fernandez, Andre Akkari, Chris Moneymaker and Fatima Moreira de Melo all featured.

As did Daniel Negreanu, Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey, Isildur1, Shaun Deeb, Fedor Holz, Felipe Ramos, Mario Ho and David Peters.

Phil Helmuth heads up against the Hulk anyone?

Could Spraggy beat Sherlock Holmes? Felix beat Flash? Could Lex beat, well, Superman?

The other real players

This final group got a lot of attention.

Knocking out a friend has its attractions. Not least the bragging rights, which only count on a personal level. So never more so than in a Bounty Builder Series tournament.

We can’t list them all, but here are a table full of them.

Tobias Biesterfeld’s Italian friend Rolando

“The lass that serves chips” to GBRBreakdown at Sainsbury’s

Hanno Dammer’s oldest son

Big Dave” from the pub

Sherlouco’s ex-girlfriend

Adam Parson’s wife Allison Parsons

Phreaky Pheeny’s boyfriend

Rajmund Nagy’s father

Main Event this Sunday

Thanks to everyone who took part and who is now trying to Spin & Go their way into the Bounty Builder Main Event this Sunday.

If you haven’t already got your seat you still have time to win your way in for a fraction of the $530 buy-in.

Satellites are running from $22, with $2 Spin & Go’s the cheapest way to qualify and you can play those all weekend in the run up to the finale. Check out the homepage for details of that, as well as the other prizes you can win along the way.

You can also catch up on the latest Bounty Builder news with our updates available here.

 

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