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The first thing I do is determine my main event and two main angles. One of them will advance a major storyline; the other usually sets up that show's main event. These are the three segments everything revolves around. Then I look at my storylines and title programs and see what needs emphasizing. Give the tag or midcard champs a defense, hold a contendership match, a confrontation backstage, whatever I didn't do on the last show. This is where I determine what I'm opening the main show with, be it one of these matches (in a less storyline-driven product) or one of the big angles. Then I check to see which of the top guys still aren't booked. They get angles/promos or a short match against a low carder. Maybe two of them get into an argument and they fight later that night or next week. (I do a lot of rearranging of these last two categories as I book the show.) That tends to knock out most of a show. I'll fill in the rest with things like hype videos, adjusting match and segment lengths, or even a throwaway midcard match if there's a lot of time left.

Jon Moxley & Darby Allin vs. MJF & Ricky Starks (Wanted to go with the heels here but the faces are too over) The Inner Circle (Jericho/Sammy/Hager) vs. #StrongHearts Shawn Spears vs. Eddie Kingston Riho & Starlight Kid vs. Tenille Dashwood & Bea Priestley Kip Sabian vs. Adam Page Brian Cage vs. Christopher Daniels

<p><strong>The Buy In</strong></p><p> <strong>Lance Archer</strong> vs. Matt Hardy</p><p> <strong>Nyla Rose</strong> vs. Thunder Rosa</p><p> <strong>Wardlow</strong> vs. Hammerstone</p><p> </p><p> <strong>Main Show</strong></p><p> Tables Match: <strong>Good Brothers</strong> vs. Eddie Kingston & Homicide</p><p> <strong>Best Friends (including Orange Cassidy)</strong> vs. The Inner Circle (Jericho/Santana & Ortiz)</p><p> <strong>Mr. Brodie Lee</strong> vs. Billy</p><p> AEW TNT Championship: <strong>Darby Allin</strong> © vs. MJF</p><p> AEW Women’s World Championship: <strong>Kris Statlander</strong> © vs. Tenille Dashwood</p><p> Brian Cage vs. <strong>Adam Page</strong></p><p> <strong>Cody</strong> vs. PAC</p><p> AEW World Tag Team Championship: <strong>FTR</strong> © vs. The Young Bucks</p><p> AEW World Championship: Jon Moxley © vs. <strong>Kenny Omega</strong></p><p> </p><p> BONUS: Who will debut? Joe Hennig (Curtis Axel)</p>

<p>Venue Name: South Washington Park Gymnasium</p><p> Open Date: April 1977</p><p> Location: North West</p><p> Venue Size: 778</p><p> Description: Once the Mecca of the Seattle street basketball scene, the main building in the park has also been hosting independent wrestling shows since the early 2000's.</p><p> </p><p> Venue Name: Meyer Center</p><p> Open Date: August 2016</p><p> Location: North West</p><p> Venue Size: 7,205</p><p> Description: Seattle University's new on-campus hockey arena boasts excellent sight lines and has become a popular stop for mid-size wrestling companies.</p><p> </p><p> Venue Name: Henderson Park Pavilion</p><p> Open Date: September 1999</p><p> Location: British Columbia</p><p> Venue Size: 2,315</p><p> Description: If you can get 2300 people to Prince George for a wrestling show - or anything else, for that matter - the main pavilion at Henderson Park is ready for you.</p><p> </p><p> Venue Name: Carroll's Centre</p><p> Open Date: March 2003</p><p> Location: British Columbia</p><p> Venue Size: 8,480</p><p> Description: Family-owned convenience store chain Carroll's has over 300 locations throughout western Canada, and financed this building in its corporate home of Kelowna.</p><p> </p><p> Venue Name: Las Ventanas del Sol</p><p> Open Date: January 2011</p><p> Location: Noroccidente</p><p> Venue Size: 4,200</p><p> Description: The rise of Cabo San Lucas as a major tourist destination has led to a building boom, including this open-air beachside entertainment venue whose name loosely translates as "Windows to the Sun."</p><p> </p><p> Venue Name: Bauer Cargo Center</p><p> Open Date: July 2017</p><p> Location: Ontario </p><p> Venue Size: 18,650</p><p> Description: This unique diamond-shaped building (based on Bauer Cargo's logo) is Ottawa's newest arena.</p><p> </p><p> Venue Name: Antigua Mercado de Monterey</p><p> Open Date: February 1944</p><p> Location: Noreste</p><p> Venue Size: 675</p><p> Description: Monterrey's central farmers' market has long outgrown its original home, but the main building has lived on as a place for small theater productions and wrestling.</p>

I have seen this happen, but I don't know how or why it happened. It may simply be random.

Interesting project. Venue Name: The Royal Lexington Open Date: January 1956 Location: Mid-Atlantic Venue Size: 380 Description: This former movie house in Lexington, Kentucky was turned into a community theater, with one of the rooms being converted to a theater-in-the-round, a unique setup for wrestling. Venue Name: Dollar Central Arena Open Date: June 1954 Location: Tri-State Venue Size: 10,300 Description: Whether you know this Trenton, New Jersey arena as the Dollar Central, the Bridge Street Arena, or the Maxwell, it's always been the ultimate destination on the Tri-State wrestling scene. Venue Name: Tri-Cities Speedway Open Date: September 1962 Location: South East Venue Size: 56,000 Description: Built in 1962, this half-mile oval in Tennessee is one of the country's most popular auto racing tracks, and hosts the National Auto Racing Council's Columbia Gas 400 every July. (I've long wondered why WCW never tried a PPV at a NASCAR track. Speaking of Columbia Gas...) Venue Name: Columbia Gas Stadium Open Date: June 2008 Location: Mid-Atlantic Venue Size: 63,800 Description: This retractable roof stadium in Columbia, S.C. became the home of the South Carolina Crusaders when it opened in 2008. Venue Name: Fourth National Bank Center Open Date: September 1978 Location: Great Lakes Venue Size: 19,670 Description: The Fourth National Bank Center is Indiana's premier basketball arena, but wrestling also often fills its nearly 20,000 seats. Venue Name: Golden State Insurance Center Open Date: August 2007 Location: South West Venue Size: 20,500 Description: The San Jose Flash basketball team plays in this arena. Unusually, it has little seating in the north end because of the giant picture window looking out onto the San Francisco Bay. Venue Name: Eternity Boxing Club Open Date: June 2018 Location: Tri-State Venue Size: 640 Description: The old Bronx Tech High School building has been turned into a mixed-use space hosting dozens of local creatives. The basement is now a boxing gym that plans to also host local fights and wrestling. (This one is based on a real place in Philly that had a boxing gym in its basement.) Venue Name: Corsair Stadium Open Date: September 1972 Location: Great Lakes Venue Size: 65,400 Description: Corsair Stadium in Detroit is one of the country's last multipurpose outdoor stadiums (both football's Detroit Rhinos and baseball's Detroit Titans play here.) Venue Name: Canadian Western Bank Centre Open Date: March 1987 Location: Alberta Venue Size: 18,900 Description: In 1987, the CWBC replaced the old Crescent Freight Arena as the home of the Alberta Drillers hockey team. It has also hosted major wrestling events that used to be held at the old "Freight Yard." Venue Name: Boyle Street Recreation Center Open Date: April 1967 Location: Alberta Venue Size: 805 Description: Every great wrestler out of Western Canada has wrestled at "The 102", nicknamed for its location on 102nd Avenue in Edmonton's Boyle Street neighborhood.

I'll defer to those who have done it to discuss specifics, but the help file on this states that Tour Highlight shows (which is what you'd replace your TV deal with) bring in much less money and have smaller pop gains/losses than regular broadcast shows. Total Mayhem and Malice In Wonderland are their two biggest events in that order. Absolutely keep those. Next is probably Summer Showdown. King of Kings is a new event but it's a tournament, so that's probably worth keeping. You'd have to make it so BriCo owned both companies and the broadcaster.

Extending Dean and Tully but cutting Brandi? That's ice cold, Cody.

"The Council is fine. Hijo del Mephisto is fine." Riiiiiight. I'm enjoying this.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Malioc" data-cite="Malioc" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47568" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>All the time. <img alt=";)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/wink.png.686f06e511ee1fbf6bdc7d82f6831e53.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><p> </p><p> You have to set the "Lucha Apuesta" and "Unmask" notes inside your RoadAgent section during a match. If a worker agreed before in "Talking", you should be fine.</p><p> It's not very expensive either. I usually paid $6,000 to $12,500.</p><p> </p><p> <strong>The fans will only be disappointed when you forget to add a mask OR hair loss. When you prebook you can only set Apuesta, which creates the danger to forget the actual loss the show day.</strong></p><p> </p><p> Finally, if you like the gimmick, you can do it very often with hair losses. Most male workers have no problem with it (if they have any hair), it costs the same and you don't need to sacrifice a mask, that takes years to build rep, permanently. <img alt=";)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/wink.png.686f06e511ee1fbf6bdc7d82f6831e53.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> The bolded leads me to a follow-up question: What happens with this in, say, a mask vs. title match where the masked wrestler <em>wins?</em> (I've only ever run these matches in TEW16, and it's very different in 20.)</p>

Trying to figure out how to set monthly events to be aired on non-PPV broadcasters. Specifically commercial and company-owned. I assume it would be under Broadcast Deals, but I couldn't find how to do it.

Man, Beckett Byrd really died on the vine, didn't he? He could've been champ!

What. <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/eek.png.0e09df00fa222c85760b9bc1700b5405.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />

Monday, Week 1, February 2020: USPW World: Rich Money (3) National: Bulldozer Brandon Smith Tag Team: Spencer Spade (2) and Ross Henry Television: Atlas (defeated Marshall Dillon at National Throwdown, Week 3, January) Women's: Killer Kass Developmental - Legacy Pro Wrestling LPW Big Gold: Cip Conduit (defeated Hidemichi Kokan at Full Throttle 40) LPW Women's: Marie Punnen Child Company - MAW Mid Atlantic Championship: Hal Harvard (2, defeated Miller Fforde for the vacant title at The Night Of The Champions) Traditional: Bradley Blaze Tag Team: Jonah Pilgrim and Shooting Star Perez RCI 2020: Regular Joe (!!) Sam Keith Classic 2019: The Mechanics --- OLLIE Universal: Gino Montero (2) Campeanato de Mexico: Boom-Boom Jamaica Campeanatos de Parejas: Blue Phantom and El Mitico Jr (defeated Evil Intent at Lance los Perros 2020) Campeanatos de Trios: Lobo Blanco, La Bestia Purpura & El Toro de Oro Jr Campeanato de las Mujeres: Purple Viper --- TCW World Heavyweight: Jay Chord (2, defeated Nicky Champion at Malice in Wonderland) International: Ernest Youngman (2) World Tag Team: The Virtuosos (Nate Johnson & Chris Flynn) All-Action: Roderick Remus (defeated Masked Cougar at Malice in Wonderland) Developmental - APEX Wrestling APEX Heavyweight: Waylon Walls APEX Cruiserweight: Tyrone Gray

AGAIN?? Oh WOW. Definitely better than Redwood...

Oh my God.

I"m always afraid of burning through money at lower levels. Wages and production add up.

RAW has been my third "trial" game, thanks to this thread. I've never played much in Australia, and after sticking with small indies in my first games, I wanted to book some TV. Man, is there a lot of TV to book. Six starting storylines. It's different to play a scenario where there's no major events to serve as a climax or stopping/resetting point. I have Frogue ducking and trolling Swoop to the point that he ended a show by calling six top guys to the ring to announce that he was defending the TV title against... Loxley Robbins the following week. (He also purposefully invited Blake Belushi to the announcement. Belushi cost Robbins the match.) I see why everyone loves Will Beaumont. That's an interesting storyline because you could easily bring in Captain Wrestling II on the Kerry/Will side while either of them are off doing something else for a show or two. McKenzie/Croft is the program I'm struggling to get a bead on the most. I'm also trying to decide if I want Nicky Gilbert to win the Quest title back. The LiberTeens are fun but I have to remember to always script them. Could they use a replacement for Beaumont? Maybe that'll be a sidequest. Mac Guffin and Maurice Jackson are actively recruiting. Tag team division's a little weird in that the most over teams are all heels who don't work as faces. This is the save that's got me convinced that shows require more segments in 2020 than 2016. I've always envisioned RAW as a pure television show, almost like most network shows. As a purely network-created production, shouldn't they have their own studio(s)?

Generally, but looking at the history, Greg Gauge in 2017 is the only reigning champion to ever win it. Do with that what you'd like.

I think I'll play both for a bit, as I'm a C-Verse guy and won't need to wait for any mods. Plus it'll give me a reason to do something different in 20.

I also think this (though basing it in Europe may make more sense) and have spent far too much time figuring out how it would happen. It'd be primarily UK and European talent, with broadcast deals in both places. I think Joey Beauchamp sees the writing on the wall and cashes out UEW in exchange for the book and/or spots for his best guys. (Byron's too proud to pack it in.) Walker van Cleer joins as the anointed up-and-coming Euro star. Someone who's done everything he's going to do in 21CW, like Matravers, Faust, or even Kevin Jones comes over. The biggest surprise here is that this is where Swoop ends up. I think either AAA or QAW joins the COTT, allowing it to introduce a women's title. MAW gets cleaned out by the U.S. Big Three, who are clamoring for young, cheap talent. (Ross Henry even passed through for a year or so on his way to USPW.) They're around in 2020, but with practically a brand new roster. At least one of SWF's top prospects bolts and finds his feet elsewhere. OLLIE gets a new owner with deep pockets who gets them back on TV. This, along with Champagne Lover reducing his schedule because of his high demand as an actor, allows Gino Montero to seize his destiny as Mexico's next big wrestling star.

USPW: The Money Players (Andre Jones and Julius Moor) This was to help Moor develop in-ring, and it worked, as he showed astronomical improvement. Sadly, SWF signed him away, but he's become a staple of their upper midcard. All-American Perfection (Nelson Callum and Kip Keenan) Though they had a nice run with the titles, this team was always meant to eventually launch Callum as a singles star. It... sort of worked? He was also signed by SWF, but he's struggled to break past their midcard. Keenan has arguably fared better since their split, turning face and having some big matches against the likes of Rich Money and Trent Shaffer. The Last Dragons (Andre Jones and Devin Washington) I've never been able to push Jones as a single. Can't figure out why. He always ends up in tag teams for me. Some time after Moor's departure, the former Devyn Retribution came up from development and eventually talked Jones into forming this team, an affectionate parody of the movie of the same name. The Devils You Know/Necessary Evil (current lineup: Casey Valentine, Greg Gauge, Lassana Makutsi, Killer Kass, Rokuemon Matsushita) Casey, feeling like his talent was being overlooked, formed this group in late 2016 with like-minded newcomers Gauge, Makutsi, and Lauren Easter. They've had pitched battles with the likes of Rick Law, Spencer Spade and Natural Storm. Kass replaced Easter when she returned to NOTBPW, while Matsushita was brought on board in the summer of 2019. TCW: The Virtuosos (Nate Johnson and Chris Flynn) The name, of course, is a reference to Johnson's legendary CGC team The Specialists. Flynn was one of a bunch of younger guys I brought in after taking over, and I figured he could at least be a warm body as a midcarder. I put him alongside Johnson in a dark match and hit chemistry gold, changing their trajectories. It's something of a teacher-student relationship, as Flynn got into the business as Johnson was rising to his peak in CGC.

Need suggestions for a tag team to replace The Furlong Brothers in HCG. Preferably babyfaces. (Harris had to retire due to a serious spinal cord injury.) And what to do with Al?

<p>Alex DeColt was right to cut bait with Philippe LaGrenier. How does a good-looking French-Canadian not get over as a snobbish foreign bad guy <strong>in USPW</strong>? Dude's a zero.</p><p> </p><p> Flip side: Richie Riggins went from a lumbering slug with an attitude problem to a tag team champion (after pairing him with a similarly-stalled Roger Cage) who's getting positive feedback from my roster about his improved ring work.</p>

TCW World's Finest deserves its own post, as we're into the final round of the group stage. One thing I've taken away from this is that I could have easily started the tournament in October instead of September (as I did), as it's the beginning of December and I only have six more matches to get through before the group finals end at Malice in Wonderland in January. The current standings: GROUP B Jay Chord (4-0, 8 points) Brent Hill (3-1, 6 points) Troy Tornado (2-2, 4 points) Masked Cougar (2-2, 4 points) Ricky Storm (1-3, 2 points) Fumihiro Ota (0-4, 0 points) We'll start with Group B since it's more cut and dry: Jay Chord and Brent Hill are going to the semifinals. It's not much of a question of who will win the group, either: Chord's last match is against the winless Ota, while Hill will face Cougar. Hill holds the tiebreaker over Tornado by virtue of his win in Round 4. GROUP A Nicky Champion (4-0, 8 points) Aaron Andrews (3-1, 6 points) Bart Biggins (2-2, 4 points) Davis Wayne Newton (2-2, 4 points) Freddy Huggins (1-3, 2 points) Matt Hocking (0-4, 0 points) This is where things get complicated, particularly for the New School of Tradition. Champion is assured a spot in the semifinals. Andrews' final match is against Newton (the tentative semi-main at Malice in Wonderland) and he's in if he wins. If Newton wins, and Biggins loses to Freddy Huggins, Newton gets the second spot. If Newton and Biggins both win, there's a three-way tie for second and all three guys will be 1-1 against the other two. And I don't actually know how that's going to shake out. Does the New School sacrifice Biggins to give Newton a chance to get in? Do they let it play out and risk the Competition Committee stepping in? Or risk Newton losing straight up and getting shut out entirely? I've been looking for the time to pull the trigger on fracturing the group (read: kicking Bryan Vessey out) but Bart may have to go as well... And we still have to get through Psycho Circus first. That show's going to be nuts, as I'm running with "Circus" and loading the card up with gimmick matches, including a six-man scramble for the World title.