Throughout the weekend ahead of our live Great American Bash coverage on Sunday night, we’re posting our half-year awards, looking at the best and the worst of WWE in the first half of 2008.

So far on we’ve posted our awards for the following (click links to view our picks and reasons for them):

- Worst in-ring performer in the WWE
- Least improved wrestler of the year so far
- Worst WWE PPV of the year so far
- Worst announcer in the WWE (aka The Adamle Award)

Our fifth award is for the Worst feud/storyline in the WWE in 2008 so far:

Phil Lowe: The Colin Delaney/Armando Estrada saga on ECW. This was just awful from the start. They’ve done nothing to try and get Delaney to connect with the crowd, which has helped this to be a huge failure. Putting him with Tommy Dreamer didn’t work because Dreamer has been treated like a jobber for so long, and nobody really cared about Armando anyway.

Mark Bright: The Colin Delaney/Armando Estrada saga with Delaney trying to get a contract, then getting it, then further embarrassing Estrada as he lost more and more, has been a staple of ECW’s programming for the entire year. And it would be a real stretch to think of two people less deserving of being given essentially the same role Chris Jericho and Shawn Michaels have had on Raw of carrying the just-below-main-event storyline week after week after week.

Michael Campbell: Vince McMahon’s Million Dollar Mania. I nominate this for the worst “storyline”, because it’s a wrestling show… not the National Lottery. No one even cares about the National Lottery programme anyway. We all tune in to see if the guest presenter’s hot, turn it over to something decent, then check back for the result of the draw. Am I right?

Plus, who want’s to see other people win anything? Unless it was Hacksaw Jim Duggan doing a lottery winner gimmick. That would be swell now.

Martin Smith: JBL vs. Chris Jericho. There have been a few let downs this year, but this is by far the biggest. This was the feud that ruined the hype around Jericho’s return and had wrestling fans praying Layfield went back to commentating. I can’t remember how this feud ended. I was probably too bored to care.

Steve McLaren: The tail end of the McMahon/Hornswoggle stuff. It pussified Finlay which sucks, the story had some serious plot holes in it, it was cringe worthy at times and just got plain annoying to watch.

James Mustoe: The ‘McMahon’s Millions’ storyline. Firstly, this took away attention from all wrestling related content on a wrestling show. Secondly it was not even available to WWE’s non-American audience, essentially driving viewers away from an already boring non-wrestling related angle that they had no hope in gaining anything from. Thirdly it culminated in what seemed to be another ‘Vince McMahon dies’ angle - almost a year to the day that they tried something similar - an angle that as only derailed by the deaths of the Benoit family.

RESULTS:

Delaney/Armando on ECW (2)
McMahon’s Millions (2)
JBL vs. Chris Jericho (1)
McMahon bullies Hornswoggle (1)