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This may be the worst show of all time.

I've just gotten CZCW to Medium size and I seem to have hit the cap of WrestleWorld's reach. I have less than a year on both deals (6 months for TV; 10 for events) but should I prioritize one over the other?

Having done this, I agree with the others. A round robin gets you more potential for stories down the road. But what I do is four groups of four -- two groups wrestle on one tour show, the other two the next show, and so on. The group winners meet in an elimination semifinal and finals at the BOTSJ, and the final is always the main event. I also give the junior tag champs a defense and fill out the rest of the card with whatever.

The NEO split in Burning Hammer ended and things went absolutely nuts afterwards: NEO-X Heihachiro Sakai (leader), Atsumori Takemura (deputy), Sensational Dragon (deputy), Rebel Run X (Jin Miyamoto & Hijo del Relampago), Michio Gensai, Ryushi Sato, Yasuhiko Taira (support) Most of the original group is back under the NEO-X banner. Taira was the leader until his in-ring skills fell off a cliff, and he was taken down by his old partner Masuno at Night of the Burning Hammer 2023. Sakai ascended to the leadership (and is world champion as of February 2025), with Takemura and SenDrag as his seconds. But there's been some bubbling tension between leader and chief deputy. Those familiar with the NEO split in TEW 2016 will notice quite a few names missing: American Revolt Matthew Keith (leader), KC Glenn (Deputy), William Hayes (deputy), The Ring Generals (Dean Waldorf & Marv Statler), Reaver, Giant Brody (currently in rehab), Rob Reynolds, Leftie Wilkes, Andre Jones, Duke Freeman (both pending) Keith blamed his former partner Tatsuya Toshitara for being left out of the NEO reunification. So he turned on him and formed an all-American group, which eventually propelled him to the world title. Glenn dropped the "Helikaon" moniker and won two more Junior titles under his real name before getting injured at The Burning Path 2025. GuiltyKill Toshitara (leader), Brute Kikuchi, Taro Shionoya, Black Iron Corps (Fujio Narahasi & Azumamaro Kita), Chomei Sugiyama After being betrayed by NEO-X and Keith, Toshitara tried to form an alliance with Hiroaki Nakasawa, but it never got off the ground because of his bitterness and anger. So after fighting Nakasawa, he assembled his own group of tough, underutilized, technically-oriented men. (That is their contrast to Senmatsu-gun, who are mostly outsider, rule-breaking brawlers) There's something missing here, IMO -- the group's been mostly an afterthought. Line in the Sand Elemental III (leader), MYSTIC Dragon, Tanyu Toshusai, TomoYuno (Tomonaga & Yunokawa) Seeing all of this, Nakasawa and Elemental III gathered some of Burning Hammer's true born and banded together to deal with the new threats. Nakasawa left the company in some disgrace after a social media scandal, leaving the others scouting for like-minded loyalists to aid their cause. Though Toshusai isn't a true "true born", he is the nephew of an all-time Burning Hammer great. Nakasawa became a backstage mentor to Takemura, and even tried to recruit him to the group, perhaps knowing that he would chafe if Sakai was named the new leader. That situation will resolve with Takemura eventually leaving NEO-X and taking over the leadership here. Slaughterhouse Kinnojo Horri (leader), Yasunobu Masuno (leader), Hirokumi Saito, Marihito Masuko, Avalanche Takano, Haranobu Kobayashi, Prometheus Described as "a bit of a bust", that changed when Horri, who was part of the now-defunct NEO Prime, joined in 2023 during his sixth and final world title reign. Being co-leaders with Masuno has been surprisingly harmonious so far. Takano and Kobayashi were brought in for some much-needed youth. Senmatsu-gun Munemitsu Senmatsu (leader), Ieyoshi Shimakage (deputy), Gonkuro Kamioka, Kazunori Yamura, Toju Munkata, Chaos Khan, Eikichi Itou Not a lot about Senmatsu-gun's methods has changed. They have ruled over both tag divisions in the past (Senmatsu and Shimakage are the current heavyweight tag champs), but Yamura missed a year due to injury and came back as a middleweight, bringing PUNK Nasty Club to an unexpected end, or at least an extended hiatus. Itou is another former WEXXV wrestler. The New Golden Army SUKI (leader), Lion & Eagle (Lion Genji & Eagle Kawasawa), Namboku Makuda, Mabuchi Furusawa, Ichiro Mitsukuri, Koyo Kinoshita, Ryobe Uno Was revived in mid-2023 under SUKI's leadership. Makuda is the only member of the original group here. They continue to bring in the last of the GCG wrestlers. Furusawa and Toshusai had a legendary tag team run before splitting to join their respective stables. Potential future stables: ROYALE: Planning to base this one around Shogun Watoga and Big Boss Emperor. Unnamed SATO/Kiyotaka group, since the auto-booker likes pairing these two and Murai Enomoto together. A lot of the juniors remain unaffiliated, which is something I have to fix. There are also a lot of young heavyweights coming that need homes and people to affiliate and train with. But it's not the easiest thing to put people in the right group.

February 2025 CZCW: Coastal Zone Championship: Juliet Balconi (defeated Jay Becker at Christmas Cage Chaos for the vacant title after Jonnie Perez was injured; is also QAW World champion) Coastal Zone Tag Team: The Heartbreak Express (defeated American Flash & Roger Monteiro at Revolution 2025) Coastal Zone Xtreme: Disturbed (defeated Becker, Balconi, and Simon Waves at Showdown at Sundown. Becker was the previous champion, and his title gimmick was always defending in multi-man matches, since he won the title in one) COTT: COTT World Heavyweight: Guerrero Muerto (defeated Jonnie Perez at OLLIE El Dia Nacional de Lucha) COTT World Tag Team: Duece Deadline & Copperhead (defeated The Beach Boys at MAW The Night of the Champions) COTT Women's: Katya Kornishkova (2) (defeated Emma May at ACPW Classic Wrestling Showcase, November Week 2) BHOTWG: Burning World Championship: Heihachiro Sakai (defeated Matthew Keith at Night of the Burning Hammer) Burning Junior Championship: Vacant (KC Glenn was injured during his defense against Mercury at The Burning Path) Burning World Tag Team Championship: Munemitsu Senmatsu & Ieyoshi Shimakage (defeated Lion Genji & Eagle Kawasawa at Sword of Destiny) Burning Junior Tag Team Championship: Akio & Emerald Angel (defeated Rebel Run X at Silencing Dragons) BHOTWG Japan: Tanyu Toshusai (defeated Avalanche Takano at Inferno of Purity) Best of the Super Juniors 2024: KC Glenn (2) (defeated MYSTIC Dragon in the final) King of Fighters 2025: Senmatsu (defeated Keith in the final)

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Well, that's an interesting random name.

I just looked again and no, you can't do it.

You mean the in-game editor? Not that I can see, no.

That feels like a "Get out of my courtroom, all of you" settlement.

One of the greatest COTT World Heavyweight Championship reigns has come to an end... You wouldn't have thought that to be the case when Jonnie Perez beat Cali Slick for the title on an October 2023 episode of CZCW Coast To Coast. The show was taped back then, and Slick hadn't defended the title in three months. After Jonnie won it, he went to New York to defend it two weeks later. That should have been a sign. Perez defended the title three times in October alone. He racked up a record 25 defenses over his 11 month reign. He was in the main event on seven occasions (five in MAW including the 2024 RCI, once in ACPW, and once in IPW) His most frequent challengers were Kenny Callaway and Guerrero Muerto, both of whom he defended against three times. He had one four-way match in ACPW and two three-way matches, both in IPW. Guerrero Muerto was the one who would eventually end Perez's reign, defeating him at OLLIE's El Dia Nacional de Lucha show. That match was also the best one of his run, scoring a 77 rating. And for the last four months of his reign he was also (and still is) the Coastal Zone Champion, winning it from a departing El Jaguar at Surf Slam in June.

@eayragt I mostly agree with the others. 11's unreadable on the dark theme. I can see 5 and 24 but I wouldn't use either one. 4 and 10 are fine, but 4 is the better of those two.

I see you've started. The closest I can come up with is maybe the early days of TBS when it was just in the Southeast, but it's its own channel, not affiliated with a network.

-Pop! felt like an even younger-skewing Spike TV (now Paramount Network), but that wouldn't really fit it now. Maybe the CW or Freeform? -America Sports 1: Either TBS or TNT -USA Sports 1 is likely ESPN, yes. -Maple Leaf Sports is TSN

Did the random draw for the 2024 BHOTWG Best of the Super Juniors, which consisted of me rolling a four-sided die a bunch of times. Here's what we've got: Block A: Elemental III, Sensational Dragon, Marihito Masuko, Toju Munkata The "Legends" group. EIII (4), SenDrag (7) and Masuko (3) have won this tournament a combined 14 times. Munkata's been running solo for most of the past year since his PUNK Nasty Club partner, Kazunori Yamura, has been out with a spinal injury. Block B: Totoya Munakata, Hijo del Relampago (Junior Tag Team Champion), Reijiro Hiraki, Little Dragon The "I never rolled a 2 during this entire exercise and these guys were all left after the other groups had been filled" group. Munakata and Hachigoro Maeda just lost the Junior Tag titles to Rebel Run X. I think I might like the idea of a complete dark horse making the final four. Block C: MYSTIC Dragon (Junior Champion), Kaoru Shibasawa, Mercury, Rob Reynolds The "tougher than you might think" group. MYSTIC won last year, ending SenDrag's run of four straight. I picked Reynolds instead of Reaver to represent American Revolt because the latter is 45 and probably needs to start getting phased out. Block D: Akio, Akihiro Hisato, Chomei Sugiyama, KC Glenn The "All Wildcards" group. Akio is Almost There. Hisato's kid, the youngest entrant at 22, has his dad's skills and smoothness (and thankfully not his attitude). Sugiyama's a talented dude who I'm struggling to get over. But the big story here is Glenn's "surprising" return. After doing some research and realizing that he was going to die on the vine in CWA because he's not over in Canada and would never be booked as a result, I edited his contract to get him back. If you're thinking, "Someone big is missing," it's Emerald Angel, who is also injured. I will be much less hands-on in booking winners than I was for King of Fighters, since there were specific things I needed to happen (and not happen) in that tourney.

Well, Nakasawa's still here and he's still upset about it. I've put Takemura and Toshusai over him, so once he asks for his release again, he's gone. We took a big hit in March when CWA outbid us for KC Glenn. Bizarrely, he hasn't been booked AT ALL in the almost three months he's been there. (Is that a bug? Seriously, is that a bug?) Both sets of tag titles changed hands at Sword of Destiny: Rebel Run X won the junior tag titles for the second time, while Senmatsu and Shimakage won back the Heavyweight belts. Shimakage's just back from the injury that created the situation where they ended up losing the belts, so there's that. Now it's time to start planning for Best of the Super Juniors in two months. I'm doing it differently than most: Four blocks of four, with the winners facing off in a mini-tournament at BOSJ itself. ---- Meanwhile, in the Zone, El Jaguar is now the CZCW World Champion (completing the Triple Crown) after beating Remmy Skye at Welcome To The Coastal Zone 2024. Remmy got back from injury just in time last year to help us get the belt off California Love Machine, who was leaving for USPW. In the semi-main, Poison Ivy beat Skye Hermosa after several failed attempts to take the tag titles away from the California Dreams. Things got worse for Skye the following week on CZCW Coast to Coast, when the returning Kate Lilly attacked her. Seems Ivy's not the only one jealous of Skye's rising star... Fly America (American Flash & Roger Monteiro) did beat the California Dreams for the tag titles. But the Heartbreak Express have arrived... Pablo Rodriguez has announced his impending retirement from the ring. Yuma Maruya, who spent the last two years of her career in CZCW, retired just before Welcome... and was just inducted into the 5SSW Hall of Fame. Our TV show, Coast to Coast, went from bi-weekly tapings to going live every Wednesday at the start of 2024. Joanne Rodriguez and Troy Tornado went into the Hall of Fame this year. EDIT: And EILL has offered Jaguar an exclusive deal. Welp.

I don't think it'll be a problem. BUT. One thing I'd suggest at the start is doing the split with the two main shows, then feature the women on just one of them, with a match and an angle or two with your best ones/the ones you want to showcase. They'll gain more overness on the A-show and you can bring that to the women-only show.

January 2024: CZCW Coastal Zone Championship: Remmy Skye (3, won at Wave of Fury, Aug. 2023) Coastal Zone Tag Team: The California Dreams (won at Spring Break Bash, April 2023) Coastal Zone Xtreme: Jay Becker (won at Revolution, Jan. 2024) BHOTWG Burning World Championship: Matthew Keith (won at Night of the Burning Hammer 2023) Burning Junior Championship: MYSTIC Dragon (4, won at Night of the Burning Hammer 2023) Burning World Tag Team: Lion Genji & Eagle Kawasawa (won at Inferno of Purity 2023) Burning Junior Tag Team: Totoya Munakata & Hachigoro Maeda (won at Summit Challenge 8) Kazunori Yamura suffered a back injury, ending PUNK Nasty Club's year-plus long fourth reign. BHOTWG Japan: Avalanche Takano (won at Silencing Dragons 2023) Best of the Super Juniors 2023: MYSTIC Dragon (Sensational Dragon had won the previous four, giving him seven overall)

I think it's my current 20 save (CZCW/BHOTWG), which just entered 2024. Before that, I'd guess it was my 2016 USPW save, which also went close to four years.

BHOTWG, January 2024: This seemed like the best time for an idea I've had for a while: I'm bringing back INSPIRE's King of Fighters belt, but as a tournament for heavyweights. It'll be a single-elimination tournament with matches under modified rules (win by pinfall, submission, knockout, or 10-count.) The semifinals and final will be at The Burning Path event. You may also remember that there's been a change at the top of NEO-X: Masuno put Taira down at last year's Night of the Burning Hammer, and Heihachiro Sakai ascended to leadership, with Atsunori Takemura remaining as the group's top lieutenant. Both men are seeking revenge on Masuno for sending their leader into "retirement", and all three are in the tournament. So these four things are going to happen: - Sakai and Takemura will be on opposite sides of the bracket, teasing an all-Neo-X final; - Masuno will defeat world champion Matthew Keith in the first round, setting up a title challenge; - Masuno will be eliminated before either Sakai or Takemura can get to him; - Takemura will win the tournament, beating Tanyu Toshusai in the final. Even though Takemura's winning the tourney, Sakai will actually beat him to the Burning World Championship. (Though I do plan on giving Keith a good, long first reign. He's been killing it.) In the short term, Takemura will have to settle for being the one to avenge Taira and NEO-X by defeating Masuno. The earliest that will happen is at Fire Dream of the Immortals. OH. And Nakasawa got caught up in a social media scandal. I've never had that happen to me before, so I sent him on vacation for a month before the box of options popped up. I picked "Distance" the first time, but I got another one a week later. I think I may have to just suspend him...

So I'm bringing the King of Fighters back as a tournament title. This is the belt: I'd like a trophy based on it. I'd also like two stable logos: Line in the Sand (incorporating the Burning Hammer color scheme) and GuiltyKill (whatever you think that phrase invokes.)

I think I'm starting to get the hang of Japan. This is Fire Dream: And this is Night of the Burning Hammer:

Does anyone remember if INSPIRE had special rules for its matches? I suspect it did, but I'm looking for clarification...

So here's my dilemma. Playing Burning Hammer in 2023. Among the many changes is that NEO is kind of reunified under the NEO-X banner and Taira's leadership, with Takemura and Sensational Dragon (who I added) as deputies and Heihachiro Sakai as the designated heir apparent. Well, that time has come. Taira is cooked in the ring to the point where I can't even envision him getting carried to a tag title reign. He's in "only big tag matches on PPV" territory at this point. So it's time for a new leader. But I don't know how to get there. I'm not sure beating this version of Taira helps either Takemura or Sakai at this point, and I don't want to start off with them fighting each other or threatening another NEO split this soon. (We may get there eventually, but not now.) I've also basically decided that Masuno will be the one to finish off Taira at Night of the Burning Hammer, which is a month away. TL;DR: How do I pass the NEO torch, and to who?

What's the Rumble winner doing at Elimination Chamber? Because... This is pretty close to what I eventually came up with. I agree that the way it's played out, both Roman and Brock have to lose at EC. I asked about the Rumble winner because I think the move may be to put him in Roman's Chamber match, but have him get eliminated cheaply by the eventual winner, giving him motivation to go after the new champion. (Aside: This problem really illustrates how the Fed's insistence on Roman-Brock All The Time IRL has put them into a corner it can't get out of.)