Quest For The Best is a marathon of a night, and this year it's stacked with some of the best competition it's ever seen. You're not going to win it by sitting around massaging your goddamn manifesto. If you win Quest For The Best, and you have to admit it's kind of an outside shot, you'll open up a whole new world of followers, soldiers for your army. There are some ways you can improve your odds, and that will help the cause more than this rally ever could.

First of all, you know that you're far from being the biggest dog in the fight. You've got a lot of heart, but your other muscles could probably use some work. If the time should come to grapple with somebody on the order of Redemption or Cain Colossus, you'll need every ounce of strength you can muster just to hold your own. Hitting some weights might do you a world of good. If nothing else, it would be a good outlet for this nervous energy you're feeling.

Of course, lifting weights may not be your best option. Raw power isn't what you normally bring to the table, and that's unlikely to change any time soon. You don't have the sheer musculature of other competitors, but you're one hell of a scrapper. You proved that in your victory over Spaz to get this far. He's a wrestler who can normally hold his own, but you pummeled him in a way that many people didn't see coming. You could definitely accentuate your ability to put the hurt on somebody with your fists and boots. Some bag work would hone your striking game to a keen edge.

Then, too, there's something to be said for mental preparation. You're fortunate enough to know and have been trained by a previous Quest For The Best winner, and while he's a shadow of his former self, that former self has almost certainly been immortalized on the internet. There might be a lot you can learn from Piter's performance in 2007. After all, he always liked to play up whatever sort of mysterious Jedi training he received from Above Average Man, even though it seemed mostly to amount to being dedicated to winning at all costs and watching a lot of VHS tapes...

a) It's time for me to pump some iron!

b) I'll beat the shit out of that bag!

c) I'd better make some popcorn, because it's video time!