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This was a great year for the Grand Prix! Group A saw Phantom Freak, with 6 wins from 7, narrowly hold off Alex Braun and Rich Money, each with 5 wins, with Sammy Bach being the only person to get a victory off Freak, and Freak and Braun picking up wins over SoCal champion Money. Group B seemed to be all about Flex, who's quickly becoming one of the stars of the promotion. Big wins over Larry Vessey, Human Arsenal, Rumble Roper, Enygma and Craig Dugal saw him enter the last week needing just a draw to win the group, but he fell victim to a Black Sheep roll-up, leaving him on 10 points, level with Panda Mask. As Panda had been the only previous person to defeat Flex, he took the top spot on head to head. Former SWF grad Dugal also made huge progress here, with wins over Panda Mask and Rumble Roper but perhaps more impressively excellent performances as he pushed Arsenal, Vessey, and Flex to the limit in their matches. Enygma and Human Arsenal, with four wins each in the first six, could have finished level at the top if either had won their final match, but they fought to a time-limit draw meaning they were left on 9 each. Panda Mask would go on to get the victory over Phantom Freak in the final, although unfortunately he suffered a lateral epycondilytis in an RPW match just prior to that bout, meaning his planned for huge push may be somewhat delayed - he'll be working injured for about a year. Big news that we lost Phantom Biker, the former Lucas Hale, to SWF who came calling after seeing some great performances. The other big news is that HGC, struggling financially for years, finally went bust meaning we have a huge array of talent available for the upcoming King of the Indies! Other big results from the main monthly shows - Rich Money beat Ota to retain the championship in January, while the Ghosts finally got the tag belts, defeating Arsenal and Gilmore. Another 10-man Starmaggedon match saw our first CZCW Xtreme champion crowned - this belt is open to all competitors who weren't involved in the grand prix in the calendar year. At every show, the champion has to be ready to defend against any wrestler who has two wins in a row, who can add a stipulation to the match if he or she chooses to. It bounced around a lot early on, Acid winning the Starmageddon match only to drop it to Electrofly the next night, with Electrofly in turn losing to The Moving Target in a ladder match in the first episode of our new TV show! Target would lose to Ota a few weeks later, who'd then drop the belt to Donnie J. A TV triple threat in March would see Target become the first two-time champ, defeating Donnie J and occasional partner Jimmy P in another ladder match. Money would defend the title twice more at big events, beating Phantom Freak - who pinned him during the Grand Prix - in February, and then winning a four-way against Human Arsenal, Alex Braun and Larry Vessey at Welcome To... in March. (I say four-way, it was practically a de facto tag match - those 3 had all won qualifiers at the previous TV show, with Braun beating Phantom Zero, Vessey beating Tom Gilmore and Arsenal defeating Flex.) There's also been a change in Team Domination; Money proving to have little gratitude for Joanne Rodriguez's help in retaining the title last year. When Grace Harper, hugely popular due to a recent bikini shoot, became available and challenged J-Ro for her place in TD, Grace won and Rodriguez hasn't been seen since. The pair of Money and Grace have become go-to promos for us as they taunt everyone else, as well as winning several mixed tag matches. Speaking of Team Domination, Genghis Rahn is rising fast. Brought in as a bodyguard, he's stepped in the ring several times and as one of the only light-heavyweights in the fed has shown some spectacular feats of strength. He beat Barry Kingman in January's big show, and Tom Gilmore in March's, and if he ever turned on Money might be a decent shout to hold the belt. The line-up for the King of the Indies Tourney is, in a word, incredible. In addition to every male wrestler from the Zone competing, we'll also welcome the following stars: Silver Shark Monty Walker Spanish Superfly Golden Fox Johnny Martin Brent Hill Duane Stone Jeremy Stone Joey Flame Teddy Flame Seth Storm Dark EAGLE Hollywood Mike Kinsey Richie Pangrazzio Jr JD Morgan El Mariachi Jack Bruce and many more!

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The stables ladder tournament went significantly better this year than last year's fiasco. Team Domination ended up the winners, beating everyone put before them, despite tensions coming to a head between Eden Layman and Rich Money. Layman beat Human Arsenal to get the coveted Christmas Chaos shot at the champion, but also won a four-way match just prior to All Out in November, meaning he'd fight for the belt at that event too. All Out saw Money retain - but only after using brass knuckles slipped to him by Joanne Rodriguez! Post-match, a furious Layman demanded to know what his stable-mate was thinking, only to find himself blindsided by Genghis Rahn and officially dumped from Team Domination. Money would go on to try and avoid facing Eden again at Chaos, with Eden eventually agreeing that if he didn't get the belt he wouldn't compete for it again for at least six months, AND that he'd have to fight Larry Vessey in the Chaos opener to get the shot. Vessey proved a tough test, but Layman won, and appeared to have the advantage in the main again - before Money once more blasted him with brass knuckles, this time in full view of the ref, drawing an intentional DQ. A furious Layman now can't compete for the belt until King of the Indies at the earliest, and also missed out on the Grand Prix (as team captain of Team Domination, Money got to choose which four of their members entered.) The Unwanted - Black Sheep, Black Eagle, Golden Dragon and Kunio Akaike - had been last year's surprise package, finishing third. This year, they did even better, with the addition of Panda Mask and Raven Nightfall instead of GD and KA. Raven proved to be one of the most successful women, happy to go face to face against most guys as well as the other girls, while Panda Mask started busting out some incredible high flying moves. Biggest win for them came at the go-home show for Chaos, in which they beat Cat E Tude and the Ghosts after an insane running twisting leap from the ring over the turnbuckle by Mask wiped out both Ghosts. That left Nightfall to hit her patented DDT on Cat E Tude to get the victory. That loss left Team Mystery in 3rd, just ahead of both Team Tradition pairings who finished 4th and 5th respectively. The 'lesser' quartet of Miyuki, Rolling Johnny Stones, Barry Kingman and Flex actually beat Michelle Brendon, Tom Gilmore, Human Arsenal and Alex Braun to get that fourth place - Kingman and Flex, a fast-rising team, faced off against champions Gilmore and Arsenal in their final tour match. Flex's new Flex Incapacitator powerbomb, which nobody has been able to kick out of, wiped out Arsenal as Kingman had Gilmore trapped in the Kingman Krippler to avoid him making the save. The introduction of women into the stable system generally went pretty well - as mentioned above, Nightfall was perhaps the most successful, but J-Ro held her own on the few occasions she competed as part of Team Domination. One of the most exciting finds was Cherry Bomb, who joined Snap Dragon, Fox Mask and Craig Dugal, and proved a great partner for both Dugal and Fox Mask in various matches. Other big matches outside of the league system - October's Apocalypse Now! saw Money defend against Alex Braun, Team Tradition defend against Kid Tiger Heart and Panda Mask in the losing pair's last outing as a team, and the entrance of Genghis Rahn. He proved to be the newest member of Team Domination, destroying The Assassin after Money blamed the cruiserweight for a Roper/Vessey/Assassin loss to Foxy/Snap/Dugal. The Assassin would go onto take his identity as Acid back, joining Team Rebel with Ota, Dragon Machine, and newcomers The Apocalipsticks. Explosion, as mentioned earlier, saw Layman's first shot at Money, along with an intriguing one-night tournament. 20 of our top stars entered and the first round saw random pairs team up to face each other. The five winning pairs advanced to a ten-man Starmageddon match, four wrestlers starting and a newcomer joining whenever anyone was pinned or submitted. This showed some unusual teams - notably Acid and Human Arsenal, who never quite got on the same page and fell to Electrofly and Fox Mask - as well as some lucky pairings, Barry Kingman and regular partner Flex being drawn together and proving way too in tune for Enygma and Sammy Bach. Panda Mask, Phantom Biker, Donnie J and Flex would start things off, and Flex would lay waste to most of his opponents, ending up with five eliminations. Eventually, though, he would be beaten by Tom Gilmore, who'd go on to eliminate Electrofly to win the tournament. As mentioned earlier, Chaos saw Layman in action twice, beating Vessey to confirm his title shot at Money, and getting the DQ win there. The crowd were NOT keen on that finish, but it was necessary for plans moving forward. Team Tradition beat Biker and Enygma to retain the tag titles, a showcase for the women's division saw Miss Mexico and the War Kittens (Cherry Bomb and Cat E Tude) team with Barry Kingman to beat Nightfall, J-Ro, Wanda Fish and Genghis Rahn. An argument on the losing team cost them here, Rich Money slipping brass knuckles to J-Ro only for Nightfall, clearly not interested in cheating, to kick them out of her hand. Post-match, Fish left as J-Ro, Rahn and Money squared off at Nightfall, but the winning team quickly protected her in a show of respect. Craig Dugal - the former SWF trainee - got a huge career boost with a battle royal victory, meaning he'd get the final place in the Grand Prix, although Flex had another really strong showing, eliminating eight men. Grand Prix line-up is as follows: Group A Rich Money Black Eagle Sammy Bach Barry Kingman Phantom Freak Genghis Rahn Phantom Biker Alex Braun Group B Human Arsenal Larry Vessey Craig Dugal Black Sheep Flex Rumble Roper Panda Mask Enygma

Wight is a decent commentator 98% of the time and then drops something like that which makes me want to SCREAM. Loved Dynamite, though! Fantastic main, tons of good to great angles, and Jade.

Looks like a fun fed, Feng Shui! There've been several patches since I did RTG so not sure if this is still the case, but from my memory the last time I tried it I think I screwed up my finances by getting on Wrestleworld too early, because of the production costs for the levels it needs.

<p><strong>Tag Team Grand Prix recap!</strong></p><p> </p><p> Group A saw two teams tear through nearly everyone in their path - when <strong>The Assassin</strong> and <strong>Larry Vessey</strong> met <strong>Enygma </strong>and <strong>Phantom Biker </strong>in week 6, they were in first and second, with 5 wins from 5 for Assassin/Vessey and 4 for their opponents, whose only loss came to<strong> Team Tradition</strong>. Vessey is obviously one of the best tag wrestlers of the last decade, but despite this, the Team Domination pair suffered a shock loss when Enygma hit The Assassin with The Enygma Variation for the three. Both pairs would win their final match, ending up on six points each and meaning Enygma and Phantom Biker got the win due to the head-to-head victory. Team Tradition finished third on 10 points, having lost to<strong> Sammy Bach and The Moving Target</strong>, while Bach and Target ended joint 5th with <strong>Koshiro Ino and Fumihiro Ota</strong>.</p><p> </p><p> In group B, <strong>The Ghosts</strong> won 6 in a row, before falling to <strong>Money and Layman </strong>in the last match - but by this point, they'd already ensured they couldn't be caught. Money and Layman finished joint second, mainly due to Layman's scheduling clashes with DAVE. Their first two matches had seen substitutes used, with Money pairing with <strong>Philip Roberts</strong> to lose to <strong>Kid Tiger Heart and Rolling Johnny Stones</strong>, and <strong>Rumble Roper</strong> in a shock defeat to Canada's <strong>Jack and Alex DeColt</strong>. KTH and Stones would also finish on 10 points (losing to <strong>Eagle/Panda Mask</strong> and The Ghosts), as would Eagle/Panda Mask (who lost to the Ghosts and Money/Layman). The DeColts ended 5th, but got a respectable 8 points and that huge win over Roper and Money put them firmly on the radar.</p><p> </p><p> That led to a collision between Team Mystery's two top pairs at Reach For The Sky in the Grand Prix finals. Most neutral observers felt the pairing of The Ghosts would have too much experience to lose to their stablemates, but The Enygma Variation proved to be too much for Zero, who got pinned. Enygma and Biker's rise continues and few would bet against them capturing the tag belts soon.</p><p> </p><p> In other big matches over the course of the tour, <strong>Alex Braun </strong>got an August shot at the So-Cal Championship held by Rich Money, but came up short, as did stablemate Rolling Johnny Stones, a month later - Stones having won a huge five-way match against Gilmore, KTH, Eagle and the Moving Target to get the shot. The tag titles were defended just once, as Gilmore and Arsenal gave a September shot to <strong>Barry Kingman and Flex</strong>, who'd missed the tag league due to injury. The end of tour show also featured a huge four-team ladder match, with the winners - KTH and Panda Mask - beating Donnie J/Alex Braun, Bach/Target and Ino/Ota to grab a title shot at the start of the last tour of the year.</p><p> </p><p> We've avoided ladder matches and similar for the most part, as our agreement with BHOTWG was based around the kind of wrestling they wanted to see. After nearly three years, though, we made the decision that we'd outgrown the relationship, and that our goals were no longer aligned - especially as they were horrified when we said that we wanted to bring in some women. That means we broke off our agreement with them (which they weren't massively happy about, oops) and lost Ino, as well as a ton of jobbers, but I'm excited for the new look roster as we head into the year's final tour and stable warfare. (I don't think I've screwed the ladder system up this time...)</p><p> </p><p> Stables will take on others within 3 spaces of them on the ladder, with the stables swapping places if the lower-placed team wins. Matches will be 2 vs 2, 3 vs 3 or 4 vs 4. Women and men can team together; if a man is tagged in while a woman is in the ring, she must be given the opportunity to tag out if she wishes to, although she can stay in and fight the man if she would rather do that.</p><p> </p><p> Stables</p><p> Team Mystery - The Ghosts, Enygma, Phantom Biker, Cat E Tude</p><p> Team Domination - Rich Money, Eden Layman, Larry Vessey, The Assassin, Rumble Roper, Joanne Rodriguez</p><p> Team Tradition I - Alex Braun, Human Arsenal, Tom Gilmore, Michelle Brendon</p><p> Team Tradition II - Rolling Johnny Stones, Barry Kingman, Flex, Miyuki Miharu</p><p> Team Future - Sammy Bach, The Moving Target, Electrofly, Miss Mexico, April Appleseed</p><p> Team Rebel - Fumihiro Ota, Dragon Machine, The Apocalipsticks</p><p> California Cool - Kid Tiger Heart, The Fly Boys, Wanda Fish</p><p> The Unwanted - Black Eagle, Panda Mask, Black Sheep, Raven Nightfall</p><p> FEEL THE BANG! - Craig Dugal (SWF-trained newgen), Snap Dragon, Fox Mask, Cherry Bomb</p><p> America's Most Wasted - The Rev, Archangel, Joel Kovach, Devorah Triton</p><p> Team 420 - Shawn Chase, Tate Lyall, Joe Gilbert, Junko Hayakawa</p><p> The Deadly Sins - John Greed, Nikki Wrath (Nikki Power), Charlie Envy (Coastal Resort grad Charlie Wilson), Chad Lust (regen Chad Horn)</p>

'The Elation Sensation' Sammy Bach vs 'The Rookie Sensation' Yuri Yoshihara 'No Nonsense' Joshua Taylor vs Dean 'The Machine' Daniels Titan w/ Sinner Society vs 'Monumental' Mighty Mo w/ Tana The Mighty TCW Television Championship Match: Greg Gauge © vs Flying Jimmy Foxx w/ Benny Benson One Man Army vs Maverick 'The Ultimate Underdog' Elliot Thomas vs 'All Action' Freddy Huggins w/ Laura Catherine Huggins Aaron 'Ace' Andrews and Devine Fortune (Darryl Devine and Chance Fortune) vs The Syndicate (Wolf Hawkins, Eddie Chandler and Nate Johnson) w/ Doc Hammond & Chris Flynn

Trying something - 12 tournaments as GAMMA, one in each weight class. (I've added 4 women's weight classes plus featherweight/bantamweight.) 36 fighters in each class, 32 for the tournament and 4 as alternates if needed. March has first round matches, July has 2nd round matches, November has the finals (one night tournaments in each case.) 2 weight classes per show, for the first round, with 8 fights in the main card from one weight class, and 8 fights in the prelims from another. (So March has 12 shows overall, with half the people from each weight class on each first round show.) Halfway through, and the following weight classes have completed their first round match-ups: Light Heavyweight Mike Watson made short work of veteran Raul Hughes, and most of the favourites advanced. The one shock, though, was a huge one - 61 seconds into the second round of their bout, Big Magic caught Linfield Ballard with a massive uppercut and knocked out the world ranked number 15! Anthony LeToussier had the most impressive performance in the division, wiping out Petey Barnum in just 34 seconds with a massive head kick. Women's Bantamweight Daniela Sadorra stole the show in this division, a brutal punch KO'ing Serena Hill. We also saw one of our nastier injuries so far, Ruth Becker suffering a broken jaw in her clash with Rain Richards, leading her corner to throw the towel in. The biggest shock of the first round came in Kaoru Nanami's match against Saya Ikegami. With Nanami ranked 21st in the company, and Ikegami ranked 15th in the entire world, Saya was the favorite here but lost to a TKO due to blood streaming down her face and affecting her vision. Middleweight Few shocks here in the week 1 show, although there was nearly a big upset - Ethan Sutton was generally considered to have taken the first round of his fight with Neil Napier 10-8, leading to people thinking he might pull off the win. Napier, though, is far too good to count out, and managed to recover to tap his opponent out in round two with a rear naked choke. Week 3, on the other hand, saw a massive surprise, Isaiah Monroe taking the fight to Osmosis Benn and getting the victory in the first round with a barrage of strikes. It looked briefly as if Alex Cole was set to cause another surprise as he started well against Adam White, but White survived some good early offense and ground out a decision victory. Women's Flyweight The happiest person in GAMMA may be Liz Brunell - the Welsh woman wasn't even in the tournament originally, but got the call to face KT McManamara after Karen Curtis tore her rotator cuff. Despite not looking too good, Brunnell scraped through in a split decision. Meanwhile 32-year-old Emiri Fueki exploded onto the American scene with a fantastic hard knee to wipe out Shannon Palmer in just 36 seconds, and Kimie Igarishi showed her submission skills, forcing Diana England to tap to a heel hook. Speaking of submissions, Trish Biel showed the guys how it's done at GAMMA 57, winning submission of the night by forcing Alicia Fothergill to tap out to a rear naked choke. That card also saw our first draw, Kata Mallasz and Ayame Kondo going to a unanimous 28-28 decision which means they'll BOTH be eliminated. 18-year-old alternate Honor O'Neill steps in and will fight Pamela O'Neill. Super Heavyweight Several shocks here - in the first show of the month, 'The Warlord' Hunter Matuszak, in his first ever pro fight, brutalised number 7 ranked Irwin Middleton, while Jeremy-Brett Teller celebrated his 2nd pro fight and GAMMA debut by beating the heck out of Seb Morehead, ranked 5. Two weeks later, the upsets kept coming. Iggy Coan took just 63 seconds in his pro debut to score a TKO over 6 ranked Gary Sampson, while Marvin Stevens - ranked 4 - fell via unanimous decision to another debutant, kick boxer Martin Greenstein. Bantamweight Favorites falling like flies here! Week 1 saw Mako Day, an 18-year-old BJJ fighter, get a debut victory over Ray Bellinger, ranked 5. Number 3 ranked Kanji Togo took out Takauji Aida with a D'Arce choke in one of our best fights of the year so far, but took enough damage to get a medical suspension, meaning he won't make the next round. And boxer Ward Malaprop got a decision victory over the world number 1 Willy Bassett. The other show could barely hope to live up to that one for shocks, although Nadir Mendes Ferreira took out Gus Waters (ranked 8) and Mitchell Bryan and 15 ranked Stiffy Little took each other out with a unanimous 28-28 draw.

Great write-up, Suplewich - sounds like it should be an awesome match! More from the Zone. April's kick-off show for the King of the Indies was a killer card, featuring Richie Pangrazzio Jr going over Alex Pierce, Lefty Jenson defeating Phantom Zero, Zero's partner Phantom Freak beating the returning Yosuke Narita, Sammy Bach defeating partner The Moving Target, and Fumihiro Ota going over Rolling Johnny Stones. The main event, though, was perhaps the most action-packed match of the evening, as Kid Tiger Heart got a huge win over Mexican sensation Tigre Salvaje. Other big first-round matches - Seth Storm beat Donnie J, Man-Darin went over Brad Kelley, in another clash of tag partners Human Arsenal beat Tom Gilmore, and Philip Roberts took a shine to Phantom Biker (the former Lucas Hale) and agreed to put him over. Perhaps most impressively of all, Nemesis carried Ron Greenhorn to a really good match. Second round started at the mid-tour show in May, which saw Enygma beat KTH and Sammy Bach pick up something of a shock victory over Human Arsenal. As good as HA is, he definitely seems to have problems with high-flyers. In addition, Dark EAGLE beat Rumble Roper, Larry Vessey defeated Nemesis and Eden Layman beat Seth Storm. Over the next couple of weeks, we narrowed things down to the final eight - Rafael Ruiz proved one of the best of the incoming wrestlers, setting up a clash with Alex Braun, while Phantom Biker continued to impress, leading to him facing Vessey in the quarter-finals - which set up several clashes between Team Mystery and Team Domination as anticipation built for that match. Speaking of Team Domination, Rich Money and his bodyguard, last year's winner Eden Layman, got ready to face each other in the quarters after beating Fumihiro Ota and Barry Kingman respectively. And the last of the quarters saw Bach go up against Richie Pangrazzio. The week prior to the tournament, we had those matches, which saw Richie beat Sammy, Larry go over Lucas, Braun beat Ruiz, and Rich Money announce that Eden Layman was unable to make the scheduled match and therefore he'd be withdrawing. (Damn DAVE having two shows in one week!) For the season finale itself, that seemed to leave Money vs Pangrazzio and Vessey vs Braun - however, the show kicked off with Layman coming out. He explained that while he'd been unavoidably delayed from making the previous Thursday's show, he was ready for the quarter-final RIGHT NOW and he knew that he and Money were both good enough competitors to win three in one night - so how about it, boss? Layman, a wildman at the best of times, seemed to insinuate that he'd no longer feel able to continue as part of Team Domination if this request was refused, and Money grudgingly agreed. One floor piledriver later, and last year's winner was into the semis! In that round, despite having already wrestled, he managed to pull off a huge victory of Richie Pangrazzio, and went on to defeat stablemate Vessey in the final. In other matches on the show, Nemesis threw around former SWF trainee Craig Dugal in a crowd-pleasing squash, Phantom Biker got another win over Philip Roberts. In a friendly six-man between two teams who've struck up something of an understanding recently, Kid Tiger Heart and the Ghosts beat RJS and Team Tradition. And in something of an upset, Barry Kingman and Flex, a rapidly rising team, got a big win over Sammy Bach and Electrofly. (Although Bach was keen to stress post-match that if The Moving Target had been fit, it would have been a different story, given their long history as a tag team and great understanding of each other.) Next up, tag league action. Group A: The Ghosts Kid Tiger Heart/Rolling Johnny Stones Jack and Alex De Colt Calvin Dark/Ron Greenhorn Black Eagle/Panda Mask The Maryland Alliance Youth Energy The New Billion Dollar Duo (Money and Layman) Group B: Team Rebel (Koshiro Ino and Fumihiro Ota) Team Tradition (Human Arsenal and Tom Gilmore) The Biggz Brothers Phantom Biker/Enygma Snap Dragon/Black Sheep Sammy Bach/The Moving Target JJ Coles/Tim Tantrum The Assassin/ Larry Vessey

Isn't improvising badly just random?

That’s a super-interesting test! If you’re able to, I’d be intrigued to see what difference boosting experience made. IIRC correctly there’s a penalty for having experience under 30.

While I'm not 100% sure, I think it's to do with the size of the company, yeah. Running events in my CV97 game with the Coastal Zone I've grabbed a few big stars for King of the Indies and it's notable that people with pop about 12 more than the company aren't getting pop boosts for beating even people about 12-15 more than that in great matches, while people at about the same level as the company's pop can get a good boost from beating people 5 points or so higher even in not quite so good matches. (Exact values no doubt change depending on stuff like momentum, maybe wrestling industry)

Arsenal - I'm so bad at mixing those two up! Edited now. Nice to know you're enjoying it, thanks.

`Sounds like an awesome Rumble event, dbritton! Shawn vs Bret should be great at Mania. Latest from the Zone. We hit Medium! We celebrated by adding Sunday week 4 shows in our off months, meaning tours now start and end with big shows, with one in the middle. I also loosened my rules a little with the increase in size. Only three signings per tour on more than $400 a show, except for during the King of the Indies. No signing anyone who's working for a fed with a negative relationship with RPW, since Holt's working for me. No signing anyone working for a fed above medium. No bringing in the top champions in any medium or small fed for King of the Indies. Maximum of three light-heavyweights and nobody else bigger than middleweight on the roster at once. So, onto the Grand Prix. Block A saw Human Arsenal, Phantom Zero, and Rich Money all win six matches. Arsenal beat Money, Money beat Zero and Zero beat Arsenal, meaning there was no tie-breaker on head to head results. In the last Monday show prior to Welcome, there were three one on one matches to determine who'd go through to the final, Arsenal winning both of his while Money beat Zero. Tom Gilmore came fourth with 8 points, winning matches against Flex, Kunio, Kid Tiger Heart and Barry Kingman but not being able to beat any of the top three. Block B was somewhat tighter overall, Alex Braun suffering a shock loss to stablemate Rolling Johnny Stones in the first week but then winning six in a row. Stones, Phantom Freak and Black Eagle got five wins each and Fumihiro Ota got four. Performance-wise, though, Ota was on fire, his matches against Braun, Stones and Freak being three of our best non-Eclipse bouts ever. Unfortunately, Braun managed to injure himself in an RPW match a few days before the show, meaning Eagle and Freak ended up facing off for the right to take on Arsenal in the final. Meanwhile, Black Eagle, Phantom Zero, Rolling Johnny Stones and Tom Gilmore collided in a match to determine Money's challenger for Welcome, which Zero won. At the big show, Money successfully defended, Arsenal beat Freak to win the grand prix, and Money's right-hand men, Larry Vessey and Eden Layman beat Team Tradition's Fox Mask and Donnie J, who put up a spirited fight. Fumihiro Ota and Koshiro Ino fought to a double count-out after Ino - who beat Ota at February's Revolution - pushed for control of stable Team Rebel. Flex got a big win over Lucas Hale, Kid Tiger Heart and Panda Mask beat Rumble Roper and The Assassin as Team Mystery had been having problems with Team Domination, and Bach went over Black Eagle in a high-flying showcase of an opener. With a lot of big names cut over the last 2 years, we have a really star-studded lineup ahead for King of the Indies! Favorites from the Zone: Rich Money, Eden Layman, Larry Vessey, Fumihiro Ota, Alex Braun, Tom Gilmore, Phantom Zero, Phantom Freak Favorites from elsewhere: Richie Pangrazzio Jr (unemployed), Tigre Salvaje (MPWF), Yosuke Narita (MPWF), Seth Storm (DAVE), Dark EAGLE (unemployed), Nemesis (DAVE), Rafael Ruiz (OLLIE)

Okay, so, rules for the ladder system. The 12 stables were randomly seeded to produce a ladder going from 1 to 12. On the first show, 1 vs 2 3 vs 4 5 vs 6 7 vs 8 9 vs 10 11 vs 12 Second show, 1 vs 3 2 vs 4 5 vs 7 6 vs 8 9 vs 11 10 vs 12 Third show, 1 vs 4 2 vs 5 3 vs 6 7 vs 10 8 vs 11 9 vs 12 After each show, any stable who beat a higher-ranked opponent switched places with them. Five repetitions of that, with the sixteenth show being the same positions as the first. A lot of the time I didn't specify a winner and things moved really nicely. (At least, I thought they did until I looked at the results at the end... see below for what went wrong!) Big - and bad! - news was that we lost Eclipse and UK Dragon to MPWF writtens, and Harlow and Tornado to SWF developmental deals. Eclipse put over Ota and Rich Money in six-man tags, then in solo action, offering Ota the chance to win the right to challenge for the belt at Christmas Chaos. (Going into November, Eclipse had the belt AND the Chaos shot.) Money won the belt, offering him $100,000 to put it on the line and getting the shock victory. UK Dragon had a mini-feud with Flex, putting him over at our November Explosion match. Great couple of months for Flex, who went on to win the battle royal at Christmas Chaos to get an entry into the Grand Prix. Prizes on offer for the ladder system were as follows, by the way. 1st place - all four qualify for Grand Prix. 2nd/3rd place - three qualify. 4th place - two qualify. 5th/6th place - one qualify. Final two places in the Grand Prix go to a fan vote, and the battle royal winner. Looking at it stable by stable Favourites Team Tradition 1 won, winning on 14 out of 16 shows. They did suffer two early losses to Batch's Team Domination, but got a big win over them towards the end which proved pivotal. Money actually got pinned by Tom Gilmore in that match, but also legitimately fractured his tibia. That would lead to several big storylines - Gilmore boasting about injuring Money, which didn't go down well with mentor Alex Braun. After Braun pointed out that deliberately injuring opponents was exactly what Team Domination were hated for trying to do, things got heated between them. The alliance for the last couple of shows seemed deeply uneasy, but has held together so far. At one point, it looked like they might face off at Christmas Chaos, but instead Ota offered Braun the chance to win the title shot in a huge main event (since Money's injury prevented him from defending, but wasn't bad enough to strip him.) Braun put Ota over in an outstanding contest. Money refuses to admit that Gilmore injured him, saying he was hurt due to the ring being in an unsatisfactory condition. As a protest, Team Domination boycotted the last few nights of the tour, meaning they dropped rapidly down the rankings, finishing 6th. With Tornado leaving, Money went for the updated version of "If you can't beat them, join them" - which became "If you can't beat them, employ them." Acid, who teamed with Ota to inflict the only loss on Rich in that excellent tag run a few months ago, came on board repackaged as The Assassin. Team Mystery finished 2nd, with 11 wins of 16, although they were never able to beat Team Tradition 1 who they faced off against numerous times. The big question being asked was who would Phantom Zero pair up with at Christmas Chaos to challenge for Arsenal and Gilmore's tag belts? While his team with Phantom Freak is an experienced combination, it was Zero and Kid Tiger Heart who actually won the tag league, with Freak injured for most of it. Eventually, Zero picked KTH, but Arsenal and Gilmore proved too good for them, Arsenal forcing Zero to submit. Perhaps the biggest surprise package were The Unwanted, who went 8-8 but finished 3rd, thanks to a combination of winning when it mattered and Team Domination forfeiting against them. The combination of Black Eagle, Black Sheep, Golden Dragon and Kunio Akaike, all of whom were hoping to get into other teams but couldn't, proved a surprisingly successful one. Team Heartbreak - Barry Kingman, Flex, and The Heartbreak Express of Lefty Jenson and Rocky Constantino - also finished higher than many people expected. Again, it was a case of winning when it mattered, with them also being helped by TD's forfeit. Kingman's Kingman Krippler has proved a feared submission hold, perhaps second only to Arsenal's ankle lock when it comes to moves you don't want to be trapped in. Team Rebel - Ino, Ota, and a third person alternating between newcomers Eichii Saga and Yoshikazu Kikkawa - finished 5th despite a better win-loss record than 3rd or 4th. Unfortunately for them, they couldn't get past Team Mystery, who beat them in a couple of vital contests. On the plus side, the dissension between Ota and Ino appears to have been patched up, while both newcomers impressed. Team Dragon fell down the rankings as we jobbed UK Dragon a lot on his way out, while Team Tradition 2 were generally used to put others over. Team Future managed an incredible 16 wins out of 16 but finished 9th, leading to Sammy Bach asking "Which idiot set up this ladder system?" Colour me suitably embarrassed. Okay, less said about that catastrophe the better. Note to self: Stop coming up with cool ideas when you're too tired to see how they work. Anyway, that gives us, for the Grand Prix: Alex Braun Human Arsenal Tom Gilmore Rolling Johnny Stones Phantom Freak Phantom Zero Kid Tiger Heart Black Eagle Black Sheep Kunio Akaike Barry Kingman Lefty Jenson Fumihiro Ota Rich Money Flex Sammy Bach (winner of fan vote)

Any chance this will get changed? Coastal Resort is only really graduating super heavyweights or heavyweights for me and it's a real immersion killer.

Tag league time, and heaps of fun to be had! In block A, Sammy Bach and The Moving Target went undefeated, winning six and drawing against then champions Hale and Harlow. Just behind them came Alex Braun and Fox Mask, who won 6 of 7, and Hale and Harlow themselves who beat the other 5 teams to get 11 points in total. Debutants The Biggz Brothers were the only team to go 0-7, but got valuable experience. In block B, The Ghosts left a trail of destruction, using their high flying and a fair amount of subtle cheating to go 7-0. However, the team ended up as Phantom Zero and Kid Tiger Heart - the newly-christened Phantom Tiger - after Phantom Freak and stablemate Phantom Panda (formerly Panda Mask) both got injured. Team Tradition, Tom Gilmore and Human Arsenal, won 6 matches. Black Eagle and Panda Mask - later replaced by Enygma - won 5, while Ron Greenhorn/Calvin Dark, The Royal Canadian Air Force, and the Heartbreak Express of Rocky Constantino and Lefty Jenson finished with three wins each. The Maryland Alliance the only pairing here with no wins. The most dominant team, however, weren't even IN the league. Carl Batch's men were banned from taking part as a result of that loss last December which ruled them out of both leagues this year. Rich Money, and Batch's new charge Eden Layman, simply put down a $50,000 reward to anyone who could beat them. Joined by another new signing for Batch, Troy Tornado, who substituted in when Layman was busy with DAVE, they nearly had a perfect run but Acid and Fumihiro Ota pulled off what was something of an upset, Ota beating Tornado after Acid wiped out Money with a moonsault. Disaster struck going into end of tour event Reach For The Sky, though. Just a week before the event, Money suffered an injury against the Heartbreak Express, while a friendly 'Team Tradition' stable match in which Braun and Fox Mask - who'd won the belts at August's All Out - put their titles on the line against former champions Arsenal and Gilmore saw Arsenal pin Braun to regain them, but only after breaking his ankle. That meant the planned title shot for The New Billion Dollar Duo didn't happen, although Layman and Tornado went over Braun and Foxy in a spirited contest. Zero and Tiger won the league, beating Bach and Target. After tensions between Koshiro Ino and the rest of Team Japan, Ota offered to team with him against The Heartbreak Express, and they were victorious, only for THEM to argue after Ino blind-tagged himself in and, in Ota's view, stole the pin. The pair eventually shook hands, but it seems an uneasy alliance for the moment. Double Dragon challenged Barry Kingman and Flex, who'd got an upset victory over them in the tag league, and gained the win back, but these teams definitely seem to still have an issue. And in a match which showed the growing cracks between Electrofly and Enrique Sanchez, they teamed with Acid and put over Bird Dragon (Matt Sparrow), Calvin Dark and Ron Greenhorn, Dark pinning Acid as the other two argued. The final tour of the year will focus on six-man competition, with 12 stables of 4 guys each taking part in a tournament organised on a ladder basis, where you beat higher teams to take their place. Any three of the four competitors in each stable will be able to represent their team each night. Team Tradition 1 - Alex Braun, Tom Gilmore, Rolling Johnny Stones, Human Arsenal (Arsenal should return from injury by then) Team Tradition 2 - Fox Mask, Donnie J (Who'll ditch the DBZ persona for the moment), Iesada Kumasaka, Mokuami Maita (the latter two are new developmental signings from Burning Hammer) Team Domination - Rich Money, Eden Layman, Troy Tornado, Rumble Roper Team Japan - Bunrakuken Fukei, Shigematsu Sada, Sumio Ichigawa, Toin Ichiyusai Team Rebel - Koshiro Ino, Fumihiro Ota, Eiichi Saga, Yoshikazu Kikkawa (the latter two, again, are Hammer guys) Team Dragon - UK Dragon, Canadian Dragon, Snap Dragon, Bird Dragon (Matt Sparrow) Team Future - The Moving Target, Sammy Bach, Hector Davoren, Electrofly Team Innovation - Enrique Sanchez, Eclipse, Lucas Hale, Darnell Harlow Team Mystery - Phantom Freak, Phantom Zero, Panda Mask, Kid Tiger Heart Royal Canadian Air Force - Nelson Blais, Brys Turncote, Calvin Dark, Ron Greenhorn Team Heartbreak - Barry Kingman, Flex, Lefty Jenson, Rocky Constantino The Unwanted - Black Eagle, Black Sheep, Golden Dragon, Kunio Akaike (yet another new Hammer guy)

Lots of fun stuff in the King of the Indies, although things hit a slight speed bump when Eclipse took a knock in a tag match, hurting his ankle. We made the best of the situation, though, with Human Arsenal getting a shock second round victory over him with his feared ankle lock submission. Former SWF star Eden Layman came in hot, dragging BHOTWG developmental wrestler Sumio to a pretty good match and following up with excellent performances in wins over Electrofly and Enrique Sanchez. Meanwhile Kid Tiger Heart returned and was pushed, beating Acid in the first round, Nelson Blais in the second, and UK Dragon in the third before finally losing to Layman. Of the established Zone stars, Alex Braun beat Lance Henderson, Koshiro Ino and Darnell Harlow before taking out stablemate Human Arsenal in the quarter-finals, DRAGON-B-Z (Donnie J) took out John McClean and Enygma, pulled off something of an upset against Tom Gilmore, then finally lost to Ota, whose path (Oscar, Calvin Dark, Lucas Hale) had seemed somewhat easier. The Moving Target went over three Canadians - Jake Sloan, Canadian Dragon, and Alexander Robinson - in his first three matches, then beat Phantom Freak in a really great quarter-final; Freak had previously made Fox Mask look great in defeat against him. That set us up for a big season finale; a now fully-healed Eclipse put his belt on the line in a rematch against Human Arsenal and was successful, Lucas Hale and Darnell Harlow beat The Moving Target and Electrofly to retain the tag titles, Target pulled double duty and jobbed to Alex Braun in one semi while Layman beat Ota in the other before winning the tournament final against Braun. Koshiro Ino - soon to be heading back to Japan - did a great job of putting Enygma over, while various six-mans kept everyone else on the roster happy. Blocks for the tag team league: Acid/Ota Snap Dragon/Black Sheep Sammy Bach/The Moving Target Flex/Barry Kingman Alex Braun/Fox Mask Biggz Brothers Darnell Harlow/Lucas Hale Double Dragon Tom Gilmore/Human Arsenal Lefty Jenson/Rocky Constantino Royal Canadian Air Force Lewis Brothers Black Eagle/Panda Mask Maryland Alliance Calvin Dark/Ron Greenhorn The Ghosts

Fantastic show! PPV looks like it’ll be amazing.

Well, since you asked... I'll maybe try and update after each tour? Grand Prix went fairly well, although was overshadowed by a nasty injury to Phantom Zero, who was one of the favourites until a compound scapular fracture put him out. In addition, returning ex-champion The Explosion Kid came in with a bad attitude and handed in his notice just before the end of the tour. On the plus side, Eclipse carried on having great matches with everyone, his Grand Prix match with Alex Braun being the best in our history and his contest with UK Dragon the following week nearly matching it. He ended up going 7-0, while Braun beat everyone except Eclipse to go 6-1 and Phantom Freak beat everyone except the two of them to go 5-2. In the other block, The Moving Target also won all 7, while The Explosion Kid dropped just one. (This was NOT how things were originally booked; the Zero injury screwed things up!) Target would be unable to beat Eclipse though, meaning Eclipse currently holds the gold AND has the title shot at Christmas Chaos - no word on what that will mean if he retains both. The tag belts changed hands at Welcome, with the fast-rising Darnell Harlow and Lucas Hale - thrown together after an injury to Harlow's normal partner Ernie Turner - pulling off a sensational upset against Human Arsenal and Tom Gilmore. The other main story has been the collapse of Carl Batch's Team Domination stable, with the SWF offering developmental deals to Jesse Gilbert, Ayuta Fajita AND Edwin D Bashford. Rumble Roper would destroy the Gilberts after a losing streak in six man tags, while Rich Money paid the aristocratic Bashford a wad of money to 'get out of my sight forever'. Money and Roper, the last remaining members of the stable, look set to team now. Bryan Holmes and Feliciano Macho also left, annoyed at pay rises being denied them, but we brought in Enygma and Fox Mask who've looked pretty good. The King of the Indies will see 32 CZCW wrestlers compete, along with 32 from other federations. Some of the biggest names appearing: For CZCW: Eclipse, The Moving Target, Alex Braun, Fumihiro Ota, Human Arsenal, Phantom Freak. Outside CZCW: Brad Kelley (CGC), Dark EAGLE(unemployed), Eden Layman (DAVE), Kid Tiger Heart (unemployed), Lefty Jensen (4C), Sean Self (unemployed), Condor (CGC)

Trying a Zone game (in CV97) with them as a sort of test run for BHOTWG USA - in my headcanon, BHOTWG were set to expand in 1997, only for the launch of HGC to take out several of the guys they'd be planning to build around. Instead, they've persuaded the Zone to try running a touring schedule to see how American fans take to it. I've added a relationship where I'm accepting excursion workers from the Hammer and a bunch of money, but I'm limiting myself using the following rules. Only one signing per tour on more than $200 a show, except for during the King of the Indies. No signing anyone who's working for a fed with a negative relationship with RPW, since Holt's working for me. No signing anyone working for a fed above medium. No bringing in the top champions in any medium or small fed for King of the Indies. Maximum of one light-heavyweight and nobody else bigger than middleweight on the roster at once. Running four tours a year Feb/March sees my grand prix, 2 groups of 8 with the winners squaring off at March's Welcome To The Coastal Zone for a Christmas Chaos title shot. May/June sees the King of the Indies, single elimination between 64 wrestlers with people from lots of medium and small feds brought in. Aug/Sept is tag league, similar to the grand prix. Nov sees every faction get the chance to promote a show of their own, where they can book whatever matches they want except for giving themselves title shots. Dec sees fans vote for matches they want to see. (Basically, autobooker with me adding a decent main event if there isn't one already.) There are big shows at the end of each month, with the end of tour ones featuring one on one and tag matches and the mid-tour ones generally featuring more multi-man matches. Highlights of year 1 Plan was for Yosuke Narita to go unbeaten in the grand prix, which screwed up when he got injured against Human Arsenal. It wasn't bad enough to stop him from working, but they called an audible and changed the finish to HA getting the submission win. I leaned into that, and Arsenal was the one to win 7 out of 7, but would lose to Silver Shark at Welcome. Shark won the other league, losing only to Alex Braun and drawing with Rumble Roper, but ending up top on points after youngster Tom Gilmore broke a 6-match losing streak in the league by taking mentor Braun to a shock 20-minute time limit draw. Shark would sign with HGC a few months later though, so eventually dropped the title shot to The Moving Target. Narita earned himself his own shot at Welcome - he beat Ota in his debut, with Ota convinced this was only because he was a secret opponent who the champion didn't have time to prepare for. However, Narita would go on to win the belt there, then leave the company. (I'm still unsure what happened, but think I screwed up booking that - oops.) That meant the winner of the King of the Indies tournament would also become the champion! 64 men from various federations fought hard for the honors, with Gilmore improving fast and going through John Maverick, Braun and Freddie Datsun to make the semi-finals. His road would end with a loss to Eric Tyler, though, while on the other side, Eclipse showed he was fully recovered from the injury which had kept him out at the start of the year. Wins against Black Eagle, El Mariachi and Silver Shark (the last of which was a stunning match) saw him make the final four, vs Human Arsenal, who beat Lefty Jenson, Rich Money and Rumble Roper to make it there. Tyler and Eclipse would win their semis, and the cruiserweight competitor proved just too quick for Eric, to the delight of the fans. The tag league saw Acid/Ota, Sammy Bach/The Moving Target and the Gilberts each finish on 6 wins in group A, with their losses coming to each other. In the final tour show for that group, they each wrestled each other and every team won one, meaning a three-way tag was announced for Reach For The Sky, which the Gilberts won. However, in their second match of the night, they were no match for the Ghosts, who won their group thanks to finishing on level points with Gilmore and Arsenal, but having a win against them head-to-head. Also at Reach For The Sky, Narita would return to put over Eclipse in a title match. The tag championships bounced around a little, going from the Gilberts to Peregrino Soto and Kid Tiger Heart to get ready for a big KTH push, only for him to announce three and a half weeks before the May/June tour started that he was leaving. With most top guys involved in the tourney, and only one match to job the new champions out in, the makeshift pairing of Jake Sloan and Marcus L Reinoso got a shock title win, but would later job them to Arsenal and Gilmore. The pair held them half the year but lost to The Ghosts at Christmas Chaos. The big stories as we hit the final tour were Team Tradition (Braun, Gilmore, Arsenal, Bryan Holmes, Rolling Johnny Stones) vs Team Domination (Carl Batch's crew of The Gilberts, Rumble Roper, Ayuta Fajita, Feliciano Macho, and the Billion Dollar Duo of Edwin P Bashford and Rich Money.) Domination had 'retired' two of the Team Tradition's earlier members due to injury - Keita Fukao leaving the Zone, and Donnie J supposedly disappearing (but actually going under a mask as DRAGON-B-Z.) In addition to the aforementioned Ghosts win, and Eclipse defending against Target, Chaos would see Bryan Holmes job to Ayuta Fujita, who injured Holmes's leg, but Alex Braun beat Rumble Roper in a match with far-reaching implications - the losing stable wouldn't be able to take part in either of the leagues OR the King of the Indies tournament in 1998. In the other match on the card, UK Dragon gained a place in the singles grand prix with a win in a battle royal, as did Rolling Johnny Stones who came 2nd. Big news for 1998 is Ultima being released by SWF, meaning the legendary The Explosion Kid - 2-time SoCal champion and first ever King of the Indies - is coming home! These are the two blocks for 1998's grand prix. Eclipse Phantom Freak Alex Braun UK Dragon Panda Mask Koshiro Ino Electrofly Fumihiro Ota Human Arsenal The Moving Target Phantom Zero Rich Money Snap Dragon The Explosion Kid Tom Gilmore Enrique Sanchez

Ahhh thanks, this is a fairly new laptop so maybe I need to change something! Just finished 1st year with the Zone, and brought The Explosion Kid back after SWF let him go.

Really loving this, as always, Derek. Just a heads-up for when you do go back to it - there are a few people whose pictures aren't assigned; I think it's because of accents or apostrophes in the name. Cap'n Crush Cheatin' Mike Barstow Halcon de Sol Maximo Energia