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I’ll go ahead and throw my hat in the ring for helping organize the next one. I have thoughts on some things brought up in this thread since my initial post that I’ll have to get organized.

First of all, I want to clear that this is not a criticism of Grimmas or anyone else involved in organizing this year's balloting. I know this kind of thing takes a lot of work and I would never disrespect that. I think GWE is a tremendously valuable project, and I hope that it will help me and others learn a lot about the history of wrestling and different great performers. I've been thinking about the nomination process since is why it requires someone be nominated before they can receive points in the polling from their votes. The most concrete answer in defense of is that I've seen is that it encourages involvement in the process and helps people be aware of candidates they may have forgot. I think that simply relabeling the nomination threads as discussion threads, and removing the requirement that there be such a thread for someone to receive credit for votes, would accomplish the same goals. Do you think the nomination process works? Is there a better way to accomplish the goals that we hope it fills?

I'm not really familiar with his Proving Ground Pro and Zero1 work, but I'm dubious that Connelly's 2018-2020 would be comparable with Rude's (insert three years from the mentioned time period).

I love Connelly, but two years seems entirely too early here.

Sareee I'm still learning about joshi, but Sareee is one person that has popped off the screen whenever I've seen her. She's an intense, physical worker who can match the strengths of her opponent and is in so much demand that she can main event Marigold & Stardom in 2025 while also running her own promotion, Sareee-ISM. She is good enough that I think she warrants consideration despite losing nearly three years of her young career to COVID & WWE mismanagement. Recommend matches vs. Chihiro Hashimoto, 6/8/19 vs. Meiko Satomura, 4/16/19 vs. Nanae Takahashi, 12/13/24 w/ Natuspoi vs. AZM & Takumi Iroha, 7/29/24

I don't regularly watch DDT, but I think it's fair to say that since Takeshita's been appearing in AEW & NJPW, he's proven himself to be one of the very best wrestlers today. I've had him in my top 30 the last four years, and in the top three last year & so far this year.

I think he’s worth consideration for this. He’s a extremely consistent worker who has a great résumé in both CMLL and NJPW.