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Road to Glory 2 - History Part 2 (Apr 2020 - Jun 2020) The big deal in this time frame is the growth to tiny in May. In March we added a third brand and night of shows to our rotation, and the increased exposure speed up our growth a fair bit. First Show at Tiny NHPW Tuesday Night Thunder Tuesday Week 3, May 2020 New Haven, CT in front of 80 people Ray Snow over Luca Sacramoni - 35 Nicholas Reyes over Antix - 33 Sayeed Ali over Riley McManus - 46 Trapper over Ash Campbell to retain the New Haven Tuesday Night title - 39 (Trapper is LA Star 1) I'm glad this has Ash Campbell being a disappointment because wow oh wow was Ash Campbell a disappointment in New Haven. Not much of a spoiler to say he doesn't stick around too long. Ali and McManus show why they are centerpieces on this show as well. OVERALL 32 Reyes Wins a Belt NHPW Lightning Thursdays Thursday Week 4, June 2020 New Haven, CT in front of 88 people Mascara de la Estrella Americano over Logan Wolfsbane - 45 Jake Idol over Masked Stranger - 49 Ernest Youngman over Andrew Harper - 61 Nicholas Reyes over Hawkeye Calhoun to win the New Haven Thursday Night title - 49 (Mascara de la Estrella Americano is L.A. Star 2) OVERALL 41 You can tell match and show quality is increasing already by this point. I wanted to get a run with the title because by this point I was scoring some pretty decent matches and had white hot momentum. Figured I would strike while the iron was hot. Around the World April - SWF fall to Medium - USPW hires Marc DuBois and Freddy Huggins - Ade Nelson and Ash Barnaby are no longer friends! - Gemmei Oonishi injured for 2 months - Brett Biggins injured in just the second match of the Biggins reunion tour. He would never wrestle for SWF again, being out for a full year, then cut. - OLLIE gets a TV show May - SAISHO and ACPW rise to small - USPW hires Robbie Retro, Leigh Burton, James Prudence, Spencer Spade and REMO RICHARDSON - Rip Chord passes away - RIPW signs on to WrestleWorld for events June - QAW rises to small - USPW hires Cerebro, Lenny Brown, Pharaoh King, Hugh de Aske and Valiant - SWF hires One Man Army - TCW hires Frankie Perez - In USPW gossip, Charity Sweet and Leigh Burton begin dating - SWF...despite being at medium and losing workers monthly to USPW...start a second A show

Ahem... So the reason we haven't been in here is twofold. 1) Work sucks and I'm still a little sick so writing was a little bit on the back burner 2) I was having way too much fun with my RTG. So with that in mind, let's switch gears and start: Road to Glory 1 - History Part 1 (Jan 2020 - Mar 2020) So for RTG I started as 0/0/0/0 with my user character of Nicholas Reyes. The stat layout in as below: Brawl 0 Char 50 Puro 50 Mic 25 Hard 0 Act 25 Tech 25 StarQ 75 Air 75 SexA 50 Flash 50 Menc 0 Psych 40 Basic 40 Exp 0 Sell 40 Resp 0 Cons 40 Rep 50 Safe 40 Stam 50 Ath 50 Pow 0 Tough 25 High SQ, high flying stats. I picked Masked Mauler VI as my owner ... really for no special reason. Had I done research/planned out more I would have probably picked someone who is not an isolationist. What can you do, eh? Back then the company was called New Haven Pro Wrestling as I wanted it to be a local indy feel and I live in CT. Plus New Haven attracting stars from NYC and PA makes sense to me. I wont go through every show of the New Haven Era as I was running 2-3 weekly shows back then but here are some highlights. The First Show NHPW Thursday Night Lightning Thursday Week 2, Jan 2020 New Haven, CT in front of 10 people Nicholas Reyes over Trix Triumph - 21 The Masked Mauler VII over Hawkeye Calhoun - 37 Ernest Youngman over Sayeed Ali - 51 OVERALL 41 Yes that is my user character starting out with a 21. Fast forward just 3 years and he's getting over 80s and a legit main eventer. The main event of Youngman/Ali showcases two workers who would go on to become staples in NHPW/MW. The First Thunder NHPW Tuesday Night Thunder Tuesday Week 3, Jan 2020 New Haven, CT in front of 11 people Acid II defeated Austin Smooth - 35 Nicholas Reyes defeated Golden Delicious - 23 Jake Idol defeated Talia Quinzel to win the Tuesday Night Champion title - 38 OVERALL 32 I decided early on to have Nicholas Reyes work both Tuesday and Thursday. Jake Idol was always a project in 2016 for me so I was glad to be able to utilize him early on here in NHPW. These shows give a good idea of what early NHPW was like. 3 matches, generally carried by our top talent. Around the World January 2020 - EWA and VWA declare war on each other - APW and DIW declare war on each other - GSW and IPW declare war on each other - PGHW ends it's talent trade agreement with SAISHO - OLLIE agrees to take developmental talent from EILL - Matty Faith was caught in possession of steroids - USPW starts a B show February 2020 - EX2010 and 5SSW rise to small - Bart Biggins leaves TCW to return to SWF - Troy Tornado, Devious Doctor Fang and Greg Gauge sign to USPW March 2020 - Matthew Keith signs to EILL - Roderick Remus and Mighty Mo sign to USPW - SWF starts a B show - QAW, MAW, FCW, NYCW, CZCW, ACPW, GSW, IPW and PSW all agree to show events on WrestleWorld

1 main TV show a week, 1 lesser event for my B brand a week and a monthly big event. The lesser really only gain me pop in new regions (right now Mexico).

Year 2 in the books Just hit my first 75+ rated show (main evented by me UC no less) too! My company, MYTHIC Wrestling is currently Medium and ranked number 6 in the world behind only USPW, SWF, EILL, 21CW and TCW. We currently sit at (57 , 57 , 54 , 52 , 62 , 47 , 53 , 54 , 62 , 35 , 31) across America. Canada is basically entirely above 60 and we just signed with La Red de Lucha to get Medium coverage in Mexico. Growth has been hampered by an economy in the teens and a low industry as well, but we are sitting at 909k for the moment. My user character Nicholas Reyes is growing as well. He is currently 64 across America and Canada. Best match to date is an 83 where Nicholas Reyes defeated Ernest Youngman. I am really enjoying RTG this game. A lot of the new elements are making it very fun.

Abbi! My heart! I love this, very well done.

Also depends on personality. Needy seems to complain a lot.

Kira Lee and Skye Hermosa. Yeah! Be careful though, so can the AI so you can get in a bidding war with other small companies (lost James Diaz to MAW because of this).

One year in! 200k in the bank and knocking on the door of Medium. I've locked up Youngman, Acid II, McManus and the California Dreams as well as getting Marc Speed! We run 2 events a week on WrestleWorld right now but once we hit medium I plan on getting to a tv and major event schedule. So far my best match is a 75 rated match with Ernest Youngman and Acid II.

I think it might be helpful to label the ctrl + ___ as left ctrl + ___ for people who use left handed mouses and as such are righty keyboard users.

Many thanks! USA Big Three 2 - Reviewing USPW So starting off with USPW one of the first things I always do is look into the roster. I wont be doing each of these graphically because that would take forever and I want to get to the booking! I'll just jot down some thoughts as I go through, Unimportant to Major Star. [*] USPW seems to a stone's throw away from having a women's tag division so I think I will make one of my personal goals to establish one. [*] Jack Jackson. Terrible name. Great future ahead of him. [*] Kirk Jameson is far too low (Unimportant!) for his 83 Star Quality. [*] Anthony Trask is absurdly boring. A technician with middling entertainment skills and low end SQ. Get out of here. [*] Funky Fedora was in the RCI at 17 and signed to USPW at 19. The absolute phenom (he is not a phenom). [*] Looking over the recognizable and well knows USPW does seem to love raiding the indies. Greg Black, Grandmaster Phunk, Bulldozer Brandon Smith, Jacob Jett. This is something I expect to be emulating with my USPW. [*] Poor Rick Law. He's never cracking that main event scene now. He really should have stayed with TCW... [*] No womens stars. Need to change that. [*] Stars: Enygma, Joss Thompson, Running Wolf and Tyson Baine. Joss is the only one here I would normally seriously push. [*] Major Stars: Champion, Money, Frehley. All major pieces of USPW and needed if USPW is to stay ahead of SWF and TCW. Current titles are: USPW World - Rich Money USPW Women's - Jaime Quine USPW National - Roger Cage USPW World Tag - Jacob Jett and Julius Moor So after that I usually check out the starting storylines, then decided if I want to add any myself. As a reminder strict storylines are off here. The storylines themself are ... decent if not spectacular places to start. Bulldozer & Shaffer should be good fun, and I am looking forward to booking heel Strong. At the top Champion and Frehley is a very 2016 feud, and I'll be looking to end it sooner rather than later. At least Money vs Wolf is fresh and fun. Looking over the list for not in storylines we have Baine and Joss at the star level then a hodge podge of others below that. Baine can only wrestle on PPVs, but I have an idea and pair him off against the Natural Storm. For Joss I have him opposite Valentine, as I feel Joss needling the former heel could be good heat. Last but not least you cannot talk about USPW without talking about Reverie. Reverie is the Amazon Prime of the CornellVerse and has Huge coverage through the US and Canada, Big in Mexico, British Isles and Australia and Medium in India and Japan. They are a beast of a broadcaster and a huge reason why I consider USPW the 'final boss' of the CornellVerse. I'll be taking advantage of this by starting a B show. I'm undecided at the moment as to how I want to go about this. I may just do as the game normally does it with the B show being something like USPW Turbo or something. On the other hand with such a large market I could see USPW wanting to expiriment. Something like the original NXT concept. Last idea is running it like it's own fed, kinda like the current NXT. Speaking of next, next up will be checking in on SWF.

<p></p><div style="text-align:center;"><img alt="5xJW5tO.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/5xJW5tO.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><p> </p></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> <strong>The USA Three 1 - Concept</strong></p><p> </p><p> So I suppose a bit of 'how is this going to work' is in order. I've also done various test saves and have a general idea as to how I want to play each company. First let's lay down some ground rules as it were. </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li> While I will not be keeping a strict company size I also wont be making mass hirings either. If I'm signing someone it's for a reason I'll explain it in the post.<br /></li><li> I'll be playing as the bookers and not owners. Owner goals will be on.<br /></li><li> I will be trying to roleplay a bit as the workers in my decision making. So hiring / not firing friends. Looking at hiring as they would per their worker stats. <br /></li><li> After the season finales (USPW with Independence Day Slam, SWF with the Supreme Challenge and TCW with Total Mayhem) I will turn over 10% of my roster. This should be about 4-5 people. <br /></li><li> I'll be trying to stick to the starting strategies of the companies apart from one big change I have planned. Meaning no Big USPW/SWF/TCW Network. At least not until these companies have a reason to do so. <br /></li><li> For resignings I'll just be competing against myself. It'll be on a case by case basis but usually the owner's step in eventually anyway. If I find this to not be working I'll circle back but it worked in 2016. <br /></li><li> Strict storylines will be off.<br /></li></ul><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <img alt="ZMmZb1S.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/ZMmZb1S.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> <strong>USPW</strong></p><p> </p><p> USPW is a monster! They're so big and with the financial muscle and coverage of Reverie they're not slowing down any time soon. They're really the final boss of the CornellVerse at this point. I'll be doing a deep dive once I start the save but at this point here are my thoughts on USPW.</p><p> </p><p> USPW doesn't need a PC, developmental company or dojo. This is what the indies are for. What USPW <em>does</em> need a B show to train up these indy talents to be on USPW's level. USPW is run like a modern WWE so that is how I will try to book them.</p><p> </p><p> <img alt="K05GBLg.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/K05GBLg.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> <strong>SWF</strong></p><p> </p><p> SWF is very interesting. By the default data they are beaten down and pushed back but ready to strike with a young core that is poised to take the fight to USPW. The biggest issue I see is they seem like USPW-lite. USPW is Family Friendly Entertainment and SWF is Classic Sports Entertainment. Not too much of a difference there. However, hidden in the data is a little gift. Eric Eisen's booking preference is 'Edgy Entertainment'.</p><p> </p><p> So let's get edgy. In fact let's move SWF to Attitude Entertainment.</p><p> </p><p> <img alt="8O29n71.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/8O29n71.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> <strong>TCW</strong></p><p> </p><p> TCW is a brawlers paradise. Using an old school, southern style wrestling and now being based out of Texas TCW feels like a whole new company, and I do love it. One thing I do want to do is re-establish the All Action division to give a little bit of variety to TCW's show. </p><p> </p><p> By the end I want TCW to feel like a mix of early and mid 90s WCW.</p>

<p><strong>CZCW 10 - Uprising 2020</strong></p><p> </p><p> Nothing too witty here, just glad to be able to book another big event before the demo ends. Started off in the pre show with Bullseye wining the not book battle royal and Matt Sparrow leading some youngsters in a six man tag. Very New Japan there.</p><p> </p><p> J-Ro opens the show by welcoming everyone and running down the card. We then get right into the action with Higa vs de Aske. The match did worse than I thought it would to be honest. Added to that was Hugh de Aske big leaguing Higa and refuses to drop the belt or take the loss. The plan was for Higa to win clean and that to be a catalyst to really begin pushing the Dark Wave. Sadly that is out. I still had Higa look good and only lose when Acid Wave interfered. </p><p> </p><p> Acid Wave then had a triple threat match against Going Coastal and the Wildcats. Really a throwaway midcard match but I'll take it for both match rating and getting Acid Wave a win. Speaking of throwaways I had a four way match between Coleman, Kira Lee, Heartbreaker and Onslaught eat up some midcard time too.</p><p> </p><p> Getting into the meat of the card I then had The American Cobras and Notorious rematch. These two teams put in a quality match, but Cobras retain. It will be difficult for the next tag feud to do as well as Notorious and Cobras, but here is hoping.</p><p> </p><p> After this we have our semi-main event with Masked Cougar facing Pablo Rodriguez for Pablo's COTT title. Pablo took the title off Cougar so I imagine these two had some wars. This match performed very very well, making me worried I put the wrong title match on last</p><p> </p><p> Luckily, I had nothing to worry about. Frankie Perez and American Flash brought in a main event that we've come to expect in these three months of the demo. Honestly American Flash has to be the most pleasant surprise of this run, he is someone I never really utilized in 2016 so it's been a pleasure to run with him.</p><p> </p><p> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">CZCW Uprising</span></p><p> Friday Week 2, March 2020</p><p> Los Angeles, CA (2143 people)</p><p> </p><p> Bullseye won a battle royal on the Pre Show - 48</p><p> Matt Sparrow, Juliet Balconi and Skye Hermosa defeated Tony DeWonderful, Waylon Walls and Zel Quinn on the Pre Show - 42</p><p> J-Ro starts the show - 75</p><p> Hugh de Aske defeated Fuyuko Higa by DQ to retain the Coastal Zone Xtreme title - 52</p><p> Acid Wave defeated Going Coastal and the Wild Cats - 54</p><p> Al Coleman defeated Kira Lee, Heartbreaker and Onslaught - 52</p><p> The American Cobras defeated Notorious to retain the Coastal Zone Tag Team and COTT World Tag Team Titles - 68</p><p> Pablo Rodriguez defeated Masked Cougar to retain the COTT World Heavyweight title - 72</p><p> Frankie Perez defeated American Flash to retain the Coastal Zone Championship title - 73</p><p> </p><p> OVERALL........64</p>

CZCW 9 - Uprising Go Home Show So this became a bit of a disaster at this point. I had moved Uprising up to Week 2 but I still had one more Coast 2 Coast to book. Started things off with all of Dark Wave facing Hugh de Aske and Going Coastal. Nice to get Dark Wave and Higa some momentum before the event on Friday. J-Ro hypes up Uprising this Friday! Then we get Notorious a win in the biggest example of "I don't know what I am doing" booking. They go over Inner City Express? Why? Who knows! I do a sit down interview next. Both Flash and Perez talk about holding the CZCW title and what it means. This is the segment I am most glad I got to get in as I love these type of angles. I also misrated these. I had them rated on Entertainment but they should be Microphone per the handbook. In the main event I did a non-title triple threat with Masked Cougar, Pablo Rodriguez and Tigre Salvaje Jr. The match served the purpose of testing Salvaje and he passed CZCW Coast 2 Coast Monday Week 1, March 2020 San Jose, CA (431 people) El Jaguar defeated Bullseye on the Pre Show - 50 Al Coleman defeated Storm Spillane, Marvel Malloy, Matt Sparrow, Heartbreaker and Chet Chavez on the Pre Show - 58 Dark Wave defeated Hugh de Aske and Going Coastal - 57 J-Ro hypes Uprising - 72 Notorious defeated the Inner City Express - 54 Perez and Flash sit down interviews on title - 58 Masked Cougar defeated Pablo Rodriguez and Tigre Salvaje Jr - 67 OVERALL........60

Or highest pop in the region. So it could be US based asking price, Japan based asking price. Etc.

Adding on: this would be of course before economy effect or anything else that effects contracts.

Hello! The current wage system is producing a lot of inexpensive American indy workers due to the way it averages overness. I would propose a 'going rate' where the worker asks for wages based on his highest overness. My formula would be ((highest overness/10)^2)*10 for per show. Let's take for example Bradford Peverall. He is 38 in Puerto Rico but has far lower across the rest of the US. This is dragging the average down to a wage request of 40. Using the above formula he'd ask for 144 per show based on the 38. Not game breaking but seems a bit more in line with how it should be. Thoughts?

That's from the default data, did not change that. You mean in like taunt angle vs promo for example?

I'll get into more details on the USA 3 stuff in a later post. CZCW 8 - Uprising is When!?! The demo livessss onnnn. Adam added another month and I kept booking in CZCW. Well this is embarrassing. I booked this next show 100% convinced ALL CZCW shows were Saturday Week 1 on the month. This is ... not correct. In fact Uprising is all the way at the end of March! I figured it out and fixed it for week two but yeah ... whoops. I realized for this show that in the entire 2 month demo I don't think I booked Onslaught once. Not that this is some crime or whatever, but I was curious to see how he did. He ... hung pretty well with Coleman. Might need to try some more with him. J-Ro then comes out for her nightly appearance and tells Acid Wave they are suspended this week without pay and kicked out of the arena! I then book my 2 'pre big event 6 man tags' with Perez and the Cobras taking on FBF and Flash Sparrow as well as Pablo Rodriguez and Notorious vs Masked Cougar and the Wild Cats. I thought Cougar and the Cats would carry the but I should have main evented with Frankie's team vs Flash's team. Oh well, still our best Coast 2 Coast yet. CZCW Coast 2 Coast Monday Week 1, March 2020 Sacramento, CA (564 people) Chet Chavez, Heartbreaker, Hugh de Aske and Kira Lee defeated Air Raid Syren, Ellie de Grazia, Jonnie Perez and Zel Quinn on the Pre Show - 46 Al Coleman defeated Onslaught - 55 J-Ro bans Acid Wave for this week - 69 Frankie Perez and the American Cobras defeated Frankie-Boy Fernandes and Flash Sparrow - 70 Hype for Uprising - 61 Pablo Rodriguez and Notorious defeated Masked Cougar and the Wild Cats - 66 OVERALL........62

Hello! I decided to take the time to go through all the angles from the default database and remove any instance where it would cause the user penalties. Luckily Adam had already done this on a good chunk, so it was a little easier than before. I attached the database to this post, it should only have angles in it. Feel free to import them into any mod you wish. If you find any errors/concerns feel free to post in here and I'll either fix or explain my reasoning. TEW2020.zip

RE: TV vs Events the biggest in game difference that I can tell is fatigue/injury. People take it easier on TV so less fatigue management.

USPW, SWF and TCW

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="tryker2710" data-cite="tryker2710" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="49045" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>As much as spooky workers can be spooky to advance storylines and can take the occasional you don't want them getting that old Bray Wyatt loser stink either</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> <em>This is very true! I am usually bad at that so I try to be more aware of it but Dark Wave fell into that zone a bit at times. Doesn't help that Higa and Acid II have no overness</em></p><p> </p><p> <strong>The USA Three 0 - Preview</strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><img alt="5xJW5tO.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/5xJW5tO.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> Come release I will be starting my 'play as all the big companies' game. For dynasty purposes I've decided to trim it from 8 to 3 so that things actually move forward.</p>

<p><em>Only four days to the full release!</em></p><p> </p><p> <strong>CZCW 7 - Winding Down the Demo</strong></p><p> </p><p> At this point the demo only lasted until the end of February so these shows were the end of the demo for me.</p><p> </p><p> Matt Sparrow was injured at Vendetta, so I had him do an angle to see if he was any good at that. The answer was nah. Also had Pablo, Storm, Miguel and the Wild Cats left over so I tossed together a six man tag.</p><p> </p><p> American Flash starts the show off proper with a promo with Frankie Perez. American Flash is still #1 Contender so he gets his title shot at Uprising. Then I had Carlos Barrera take on and defeat Marvel Malloy. This helps set up a tag rematch without falling back on lazy auto-rematch clause. </p><p> </p><p> Hugh de Aske defends against Swipe Romero. Nothing to write home about, or write in the dynasty about. After the match Acid Wave come out and beat down de Aske. J-Ro storms out and was Stockton Police escort the pair out. </p><p> </p><p> The main event of show 1 is a #1 Contenders match for the COTT title. Masked Cougar and Al Coleman both won at Vendetta so they get a shot at facing Pablo at Uprising. I gave it to Masked Cougar mainly because of all my 2016 saves. </p><p> </p><p> Moving to Week 3 I decided to try the Beach Boys again because ... I don't know why. They actually did decently this time. J-Ro announces she booked Hugh and Al Coleman vs Acid Wave. That match happens right away and I do some Puro booking having Acid pin Hugh to set up a title match. </p><p> </p><p> Before the main event of this show I run more American Flash and Frankie Perez promos. Then I ran Cougar and the Cobras vs Pablo and Notorious. Big fan of the mixed champ & challenger six man tag.</p><p> </p><p> To round out February I started the show with another Xtreme title match. Hugh de Aske went over Acid in a match I was hoping would do better. The angle after however, that does a lot better. Dark Wave challenge de Aske to face Higa at Uprising. Hugh accepts and J-Ro comes out to make it official.</p><p> </p><p> I toss a throw away four way match where I put El Jaguar in the winner's circle...I don't entirely remember why. Then I set up the main event with promos. The main of Pablo and AmFlash vs Masked Cougar and Perez does very well! Had the demo been to March I would've held this off until the go home but I wanted to run this tag. </p><p> </p><p> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">CZCW Coast 2 Coast</span></p><p> Saturday Week 2, February 2020</p><p> Stockton, CA (453 people)</p><p> </p><p> Matt Sparrow talks on the Pre Show - 38</p><p> Pablo Rodriguez and the Wild Cats defeated Storm Spillane, Miguel Rivera and California Love Machine on the Pre Show - 43</p><p> American Flash promo on taking on Perez - 64</p><p> Carlos Barrera defeated Marvel Malloy - 54</p><p> Hugh de Aske defeated Swipe Romero to retain the Coastal Zone Xtreme Championship - 49</p><p> Dark Wave attack Hugh de Aske, J-Ro and cops run them out - 57</p><p> Masked Cougar defeated Al Coleman - 64</p><p> </p><p> OVERALL........56</p><p> </p><p> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">CZCW Coast 2 Coast</span></p><p> Saturday Week 3, February 2020</p><p> Long Beach, CA (464 people)</p><p> </p><p> Heartbreaker defeated Kira Lee on the Pre Show - 41</p><p> The Wild Cats defeated The Beach Boys - 52</p><p> J-Ro announces Acid Wave vs Al Coleman and Hugh de Aske tonight - 69</p><p> Acid Wave defeated Al Coleman and Hugh de Aske - 56</p><p> American Flash and Frankie Perez promos - 59</p><p> Masked Cougar and The American Cobras defeated Pablo Rodriguez and Notorious - 61</p><p> </p><p> OVERALL........55</p><p> </p><p> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">CZCW Coast 2 Coast</span></p><p> Saturday Week 4, February 2020</p><p> Bakersfield, CA (449 people)</p><p> </p><p> Kira Lee and The American Cobras defeated Amy St. James and the Inner City Express on the Pre Show - 51</p><p> Hugh de Aske defeated Acid to retain the Coastal Zone Xtreme Championship - 46</p><p> Dark Wave challenge de Aske - 55</p><p> El Jaguar defeated Al Coleman, Frankie-boy Fernandes and Heartbreaker - 56</p><p> Cougar/Perez vs Flash/Pablo promos - 60</p><p> American Flash and Pablo Rodriguez defeated Frankie Perez and Masked Cougar - 72</p><p> </p><p> OVERALL........61</p>

I know I'm not giving too much time, but eh, gave up on wanting predictions. Maybe later I'll feel like it. Would rather get more posts up CZCW 6 - Vendetta 2020 Held a pre show battle royal to start. I usually book the pre show last, with people I know I wont use. As I had so much of the show planned I was able to do this first this time! I wanted to start things off hot. Generally my booking strategy is 3rd best match, worst match, ... 2nd best match, best match. I was lucky enough to nail this on my guesses for this show. Started off with The American Cobras and Notorious. I may have mentioned but I am very, very high on the Cobras. Moving both belts over to them seemed like an obvious move. After this I went to Heartbreaker and Hugh de Aske. Gave this only 10 and set it to steal the show too. For two nobodies they gave me a really good match, and I'd happily run it back if I didn't have other plans for Hugh. I then did a J-Ro sit down interview to get her on the show. She puts over the Dark Wave as talented but desn't understand the theatrics and spookiness. She mentions Higa is working in Japan as well (where she is tonight) and eventually says if Dark Wave can stop with the cheating they could go far. I then tossed out Al Coleman and Tigre Salvaje Jr. These two are both pretty good workers and I wanted to give them a showcase. I have plans for Coleman eventually. Then I went to the Semi-Main with Cougar and AmFlash taking on Acid Wave. Gave the CZCW crew a win here, the spooky heel team can afford losses as they can just ... be spooky to advance storylines. Cougar and Flash both have big storylines going into Uprising. For the main event I mentioned previously I thought this was my last event main event and wanted it to do better than Revolution's. It delivered! I went with the time limit draw here because A) it's a classic and B) I don't mind having two main event belts. CZCW Vendetta Friday Week 1, February 2020 Grissom Auditorium (1,931 people) Willow welcomes everyone on the Pre Show - 20 El Jaguar won a battle royal on the Pre Show - 42 The American Cobras defeated Notorious to win the Coastal Zone Tag Team titles and retain the COTT World Tag Team titles - 66 Hugh de Aske defeated Heatbreaker to retain the Coastal Zone Xtreme title - 55 J-Ro sit down commentary on the Dark Wave - 70 Al Coleman defeated Tigre Salvaje Jr - 62 American Flash and Masked Cougar defeated Acid Wave - 69 Frankie Perez went to a time limit draw with Pablo Rodriguez meaning both the Coastal Zone Championship and COTT Championship were retained - 74

CZCW 5 - Building to Vendetta One of the things about Vendetta was when I was booking towards it and when I booked it the demo ended after 2 months. So I wanted to really put forward another good event. In fact I was so focused on putting together all the big matches I wanted to do that I ...kind of forgot to ensure all my workers would be there. Higa had a 5SSW show that night. Whoops. Let's go ahead and do two shows this post to get us to Vendetta. C2C Pre Show was once again the Al Coleman Experience. I really had no idea what to book here regarding Coleman. From there I gave Acid Wave a little momentum with a win over the Wild Cats. J-Ro comes out for her weekly booking updates, announces Vendetta match of Cougar & Flash vs Acid Wave. She also announces Flash has been cleared to wrestle a little earlier and books Flash vs Acid for next weeks Coast 2 Coast! Frankie Perez comes out and cuts a promo on Pablo and the COTT title. He still wants to hold both the CZCW and COTT belts at the same time. #FrankieTwoBelts Fuyuko Higa faced CLM and it is about this time I gave up on CLM. I really loved using him in 2016 but honestly he's just not good or over enough to hang in 2020. Or I just don't utilize him well enough. Then J-Ro comes out AGAIN as I realize I did not properly set up the main event. She explains that Storm Spillane got the pin last week the COTT board is giving him a title match TONIGHT! Pablo and Storm deliver, Storm being a legit star for CZCW. I am pretty high on both Storm and Marvel in this save. No way was Storm winning though. In between these shows the end of the month came. We won the regional battle in the South East (huzzah!) so we should be seeing some benefits. The go home show had three pre show matches. Wanted to keep Hugh de Aske's momentum up so I coupled him with Al Coleman to go over the Inner City Express. Marvel Malloy got a win over Jack Avatar and after booking the show I realized I had never tested American Flash and Masked Cougar's tag team chem. I tossed them into a non-canon pre show match just to test it out. Started the show with Storm Spillane vs Miguel Rivera. During the match I would have Fox Mask go over the fact that there would be a tag unification match at Vendetta as well with COTT Tag Champs the American Cobras facing CZCW Tag Champs Notorious. Match itself was decent, expecting big things for Vendetta. Pablo and Frankie cut sit down interview style promos for the unification match. It scores way better than I thought it would. Then I toss a throw away Wild Cats win over Going Coastal. I wanted to test Higa on the mic next. I had her challenge J-Ro to a fight, a challenge J-Ro refused as she is retired. Higa laughed and laughed. In the go home main event American Flash got a measure of revenge on Acid. The match was pretty good, confirming Acid can hang with our B tier main eventers. This is great because I have plans for the Dark Wave. CZCW Coast 2 Coast Monday Week 4, January 2020 San Diego, CA (408 people) Al Coleman, Marvel Malloy and Notorious defeated Matt Sparrow, Eureka LaBelle and the Beach Boys on the Pre Show - 46 Acid Wave defeated the Wild Cats - 57 J-Ro announces Cougar/Flash vs Acid Wave and Flash vs Acid - 58 Frankie Perez Promo - 60 Fuyuko Higa defeated California Love Machine - 52 J-Ro sets up main event - 69 Pablo Rodriguez defeated Storm Spillane to retain the COTT World Heavyweight Championship - 63 OVERALL........58 CZCW Coast 2 Coast Monday Week 1, February 2020 Anaheim, CA (431 people) Hugh de Aske and Al Coleman defeated the Inner City Express on the Pre Show - 47 Marvel Malloy defeated Jack Avatar on the Pre Show- 49 Flash and Cougar defeated Eureka LaBelle and Zel Quinn on the Pre Show- 45 Storm Spillane defeated Miguel Rivera - 53 Pablo and Frankie sit down promos - 67 The Wild Cats defeated Going Coastal - 48 Higa challenges J-Ro - 60 American Flash defeated Acid - 63 OVERALL........56 CZCW Vendetta Predictions: Honestly I wasn't going to do predictions but hey, why not. If no one does them I'll stop, but it could be fun for the bigger shows. American Cobras © vs Notorious © for both the Coastal Zone and COTT Tag Team Championships Heartbreaker vs Hugh de Aske © for the Coastal Zone Xtreme Championship Acid Wave (Acid and Acid II) vs American Flash & Masked Cougar Frankie Perez © vs Pablo Rodriguez © for both the Coastal Zone and COTT World titles