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<p>Golden Canvas Grappling, October 2017</p><p> </p><p> World Heavyweight - Hiroyasu Gakusha (5 time champion) def. Raymond Diaz at Kingdom of the Golden Spirit, September 2017.</p><p> </p><p> Openweight - Razan Okamoto (first reign) def. Tsuneyo Yanagimoto at Art of Battle, January 2017.</p><p> </p><p> Tag Team - The Goon Squad (Yoshinaka Taku & Shimpei Hirose, 2 time champions) def. The Wrestlers (Mabuchi Furusawa & Tatsuya Toshitara) at Kingdom of the Golden Spirit, September 2017.</p><p> </p><p> GCG All-Japan - Haranobu Kobayashi (first reign) def. Helikaon on TV, August 2017.</p><p> </p><p> I elevated the Openweight title to main event and created the All-Japan title as my midcard title.</p><p> </p><p> Tournament titles, all of which grant a title shot:</p><p> </p><p> Spirit Ignition [round robin tournament]</p><p> 2017 - Hiroyasu Gakusha defeated SUKI in the finals, later defeated Diaz for the title.</p><p> 2016 - Raymond Diaz defeated Mabuchi Furusawa in the finals, later defeated Gakusha for the title.</p><p> </p><p> Carnival of Battle [single elimination tournament]</p><p> 2017 - Razan Okamoto defeated Diaz in the finals, failed to defeat Diaz for the title.</p><p> 2016 - Toshiharu Hyobanshi defeated Takayuki 2000 in the finals, failed to defeat Gakusha for the title.</p><p> </p><p> Lion Cup [single elimination tournament for wrestlers who have not yet had a title shot for a main event title]</p><p> 2017 - TBA (will be either SATO or Helikaon)</p><p> 2016 - Razan Okamoto defeated Findlay O'Farraday, failed to defeat Diaz for the title.</p>

<p><span>http://i.imgur.com/MTPeuYC.png</span></p><p> </p><p> Finally made enough money to pay off that MASSIVE debt.</p><p> </p><p> I took about 16 guys - a bunch of the GCG regulars have their contracts expiring in 3 months so I'm gonna send about eight of them to BCG and SAISHO on PPA contracts. I can finally get rid of Kuroki who's been causing trouble since day 1.</p><p> </p><p> The PHGW invasion begins.</p>

Do longer matches cause more wear and tear on workers? i.e. will regular 25 minute matches wear out workers faster than regular 10 minute matches?

The last four defenses have all been rated above the title's prestige it still isn't going up. Very strange.

<p>How does title prestige work? My world title has dropped from 100 to 92 prestige and I can't get it to rise no matter what I do - my champion's the most popular guy, he's had the best match on the show, etc.</p><p> </p><p> Is it just because I have two other main event level titles?</p>

<p>[spirit Ignition is my complete ripoff of the G-1 Climax]</p><p> </p><p> <em>totalextremewrestling.com</em></p><p> </p><p> <strong>Golden Canvas Grappling: Spirit Ignition 2018 (So Far)</strong></p><p> </p><p> Golden Canvas Grappling has become the largest wrestling company in Japan. Seen as an impossible feat three years ago, there appear to be two primary factors for its massive resurgence. The first is the injection of new blood - a head booker who was not averse to spending the company's significant cash reserves to sign new and exciting talent, and who eschewed the traditional booking of GCG in favour of new stables, dominant win streaks and basic storytelling structures to provide context and meaning to its matches. The second is the terrible disaster that struck Japan - the tsunami - which resurrected the nation's interest in a wrestling product which was less physically dangerous, and more traditional.</p><p> </p><p> At the conclusion of yesterday's GCG PPV - The Lion's Den - the company's newly instated two month long tournament has completed its first half. What was first seen as a bold - and risky - move by the management to suspend all of its title defences for two months in favor of a twenty man round robin tournament, has seen the creation of new stars, the emergence of new narratives, and a hell of a lot of great matches. Singles matches are very rare in GCG outside of PPVs, so the tournament presents an excellent chance for these wrestlers to showcase their prowess as singles competitors. </p><p> </p><p> The tournament features two blocks - A and B - with the winner of each block facing down at Road to the Golden Kingdom in the finals. Two points for a win, one point for a draw, no points for a loss and a 30 minute time limit on all matches are the rules, and the winner will face their choice of champion at The Golden Kingdom in July. </p><p> </p><p> Presented here are totalextremewrestling.com's five most notable things about Spirit Ignition 2018 (so far).</p><p> </p><p> <strong>Block A:</strong></p><p> Eagle Kawasawa (8 points) (4-1)</p><p> Aeneas [Matthew Keith] (8 points) (3-0-2) (Intercontinental Champion)</p><p> Helikaon [KC Glenn] (6 points) (3-2)</p><p> Raymond Diaz (6 points) (3-2)</p><p> Razan Okamoto (5 points) (Heavyweight Champion) (2-2-1)</p><p> Morimasa Kato (5 points) (2-2-1)</p><p> Tanyu Toshusai (4 points) (2-3)</p><p> Shingen Miyazaki (4 points) (2-3)</p><p> Yoshinaka Taku (4 points) (2-3)</p><p> Totoya Munakata (0 points) (0-5)</p><p> </p><p> <strong>Block B:</strong></p><p> Golden Greg Gauge (10 points) (5-0)</p><p> Hiroyasu Gakusha (8 points) (4-1)</p><p> Mabuchi Furusawa (8 points) (4-1)</p><p> Fujio Narahashi (6 points) (3-2)</p><p> Takayuki 2000 (6 points) (3-2)</p><p> Sir Winston Watoga (4 points) (2-3)</p><p> Findlay O'Farraday (4 points) (2-3) (BRAND Openweight Champion)</p><p> Eien Myamoto (4 points) (2-3)</p><p> Lion Genji (0 points) (0-5)</p><p> Hitomaru Suzuki (0 points) (0-5)</p><p> </p><p> <strong>1) Razan Okamoto Losing</strong></p><p> </p><p> In a bold move, the reigning heavyweight champion and unquestionably biggest star in Japan has come out of the first half of the tournament with a middling record. Losing to Eagle Kawasawa and Helikaon was first reviled by a majority of the wrestling press, claiming that GCG was returning to the 50/50 booking that had spelled out its decades long decline. The dominant booking of Razan Okamoto was seen as the key in the promotion's resurgence.</p><p> </p><p> It seems that the promotion's gamble has paid off, however: Razan remains, to quote one journalist, 'massively over' while both Kawasawa and Helikaon are riding new waves of popularity. Helikaon won GCG's single elimination tournament, the Kudo Cup, in January, but failed to defeat Razan in his first shot at the title. Kawasawa has been largely overshadowed by long-term tag team partner Takayuki 2000 and stable leader SUKI in the last two years - but with SUKI out of commission for a year, it seems to be Kawasawa's time to shine.</p><p> </p><p> Perhaps it is owed to the promotion's continued insistence that anyone can lose at any time in the tournament due to its format - ten singles matches in eight weeks - that Razan's popularity has been barely scratched. In any case, it has been a triumph in shaking up the main event scene and creating new legitimate challengers.</p><p> </p><p> <strong>2) Aeneas, Still Undefeated</strong></p><p> </p><p> Aeneas - the nom de guerre of Matthew Keith - has yet to be pinned or submitted in a wrestling match since his debut. Signed in September of last year, he has been in the company for 251 days. His remarkable run has included winning the Intercontinental Championship from his brother and stable leader, Greg Gauge. His streak remains intact throughout the tournament - two time limit draws, but one of only two competitors to have zero losses.</p><p> </p><p> <strong>3) The Dream Match, Teased Just Enough</strong></p><p> </p><p> At The Lion's Den, Razan Okamoto and Aeneas went to a 30 minute draw in the main event. The match has long been seen as <strong>the</strong> match for GCG to make, and at the PPV the two demonstrated that the excitement and anticipation is well deserved.</p><p> </p><p> Of course, some fans were angry that the bell rung after both men had hit their finishers on one another - Razan's Brainbuster Suplex following Aeneas' Proton Torpedo - without a pin to follow, but the PPV was promoted as the biggest matches of Spirit Ignition, not as the conclusion to the big match.</p><p> </p><p> <strong>4) Golden Greg Gauge Regaining his Shine</strong></p><p> </p><p> Greg Gauge, the man who won the Openweight title, renamed it to the Intercontinental Title, and refused to defend it on free TV, has taken a backseat to the other main eventers. His brother, Razan Okamoto, Hiroyasu Gakusha - Gauge had been more often than not participating in the tag matches lower on the card, rather than the title matches on top.</p><p> </p><p> Now, however, Gauge won the tag team titles together with Helikaon just before Spirit Ignition began, and is the only wrestler with a perfect 5-0 record. It seems that GCG, as part of their push for a more prominent tag team division, is rebuilding Golden Greg Gauge as a big time star.</p><p> </p><p> <strong>5) The Young Guys</strong></p><p> </p><p> Aside from the slew of main eventers and proven talent, the tournament also took the chance to showcase some of the younger wrestlers who have far less exposure as singles wrestlers. While most of them have scored a middling amount of points, the opportunity to display the quality of their work has been a great boon for several of them. Yoshinaku Taka, Tanyu Toshusai, Lion Genji, Sir Winston Watoga and Fujio Narahashi are all between 23 and 27 years old, somewhere in the midcard, and all of them have benefited greatly from losing excellent matches to more established wrestlers.</p><p> </p><p> That's our list so far - we are certain to have more in a month's time when the Spirit Ignition 2018 winner is crowned. And for the record, our money is on Aeneas.</p>

<p>He's my figurehead yeah, I swapped in April of 2017 (three months before I was planning on making him my champion at The Golden Kingdom) because Gakusha was having a negative impact on business after I put the title on SUKI. He's finally become established and is boosting business. As an aside, Gakusha just gave SUKI a major concussion, putting him out for 12 months. Belated vengeance for the title switch perhaps.</p><p> </p><p> If you can get Razan to bulk up, he can reach 97 Star Quality which is far and away the highest you'll get without signing guys from BHOTWG and PGHW on expensive written contracts.</p><p> </p><p> You should also try to sign Sir Winston Watoga, Yoshinaka Taku (sign his dad while you're at it) and Motoyuki Miyagi ASAP since you can make them loyal and they have tons of potential. Tanyu Toshusai is another good signing even if he's too old to become loyal.</p>

http://i.imgur.com/5tVTaTY.png Just went to National as Golden Canvas Grappling in early 2018 - Razan Okamoto is the biggest star in all of Japan and is ensuring that I'm winning the National Battle in my very first month. BHOTWG have been trucking along just fine, still have insane amounts of money so they were able to weather the tsunami just fine. PHGW are something like eleven million in debt and have been for more than a year - they're obviously doomed, just waiting for the bank to foreclose on them so I can swoop in and grab some guys for a new invader stable. I have nowhere near the cash reserves needed to buy them out. WLW went National just a few days after me, but they definitely do not have the star power to compete. We're both part of Modern Japan Movement though, so I think they won't suffer too badly. e: Aeneas is Matthew Keith.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Derek B" data-cite="Derek B" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Go to Company -> Relationships -> pick the company you want and End Relationship.<p> </p><p> You don't actually close the company, but since you have to remove all of your contracted talent from them and they have been giving you any profit/loss they make each month they will generally be in a fairly weak financial position and are likely to suffer initially and perhaps close.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Ahh thanks, I bought out MAW as GCG but I've already bought out SAISHO and BCG so I have no need for an American subsidiary. MAW's going the way of the dodo.</p>

How do you close a child company you own?

<p>Is there any way to sign workers who are loyal to your child company to written deals? Seems a bit silly if they refuse to move up to the company that, you know, bought the company they're loyal to.</p><p> </p><p> e: Looks like I can release them from BCG and then sign them - seems like an inelegant solution but it works.</p>

<p>After about a year and half of losses between 100-150k every single month, I've finally made a profit in July 2017 with GCG. This was my very first game so I had no idea that the tsunami was coming, which wrecked my attendance, growth, and sources of income.</p><p> </p><p> I also did sign KC Glenn, Raymond Diaz, Natsu Miyamoto and Akinori Kwami (the latter two were let go by PHGW, the former two I had to have for my new gaijin stable, The Golden Army led by Golden Greg Gauge) which really started eating into my profits. GCG starts with 2.5 million in the bank and thank god for that - I was down to 312k before finally turning a profit.</p><p> </p><p> I also bought Black Canvas Grappling once they fell into debt. Gonna run them as a development company for a bit (touring makes people develop FAST) and bring their midcarders in to get crushed every now and again, might make a BCG stable to invade once I've grown to National or pruned my roster a bit.</p>

http://i.imgur.com/5sC9zcU.png Toshiharu Hyobanshi getting hit with brutal age decline at age 40. Meanwhile Hiroyasu Gakusga, GCG's other homegrown main eventer, has surged from 84 to 92 in Basics and improved in assorted other skills at age 38.

<p>Update:</p><p> </p><p> <span>http://i.imgur.com/XpbqcVh.png</span></p><p> </p><p> Things are looking up.</p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Golden Canvas Grappling: Modern, Japanese, Definitely Moving (Part 1 of 4)</strong></span></p><p> <span style="font-size:10px;">Thur, 18 August, 2016</span></p><p> <span style="font-size:10px;">by Mittens Blurcat</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> Eight months after Haruki Kudo made the fateful decision to relinquish his booking duties, Golden Canvas Grappling has gone from strength to strength. The promotion had, by universal consensus, been a languishing husk of its former glory for more than twenty years. Although boasting a line up of talented wrestlers, and a rich and prestigious history, the promotion had been creatively bankrupt for a long time. For nearly two decades, their stars had been trading brilliant but perfunctory matches with one another - one would hold the title, then another would, and then another one. Former CEO Hanshiro Furusawa's decision to join the Modern Japan Movement spelled, to many, the death knell for the promotion, with the legendary Yoshifusa Maeda breaking away to form Black Canvas Grappling. When news broke that Haruki Kudo had appointed a new booker for his promotion - the 'Grand Avatar', a man of Swiss origin and secretive demeanor - posters on internet message boards around the world rubbed their hands together in glee.</p><p> </p><p> Instead, Golden Canvas Grappling has embraced its modern moniker. Eight months on, at the conclusion of 'Revolution Resolution' in August, the head booker's transformation of the company is at hand. He has assembled and arranged his pieces, and now it seems he is ready to play. At Blurcat, we have assembled the following analysis, split into four parts, of the head booker's decisions in the last eight months. As he is unable to be reached for interview (or even a picture) some of what follows is necessarily speculation.</p><p> </p><p> <strong>Part 1, Stable Warfare</strong></p><p> When Mabuchi Furusawa won the newly minted GCG Uprising tournament title at 'Road to the Golden Kingdom' in June - guaranteeing him a title shot at 'The Golden Kingdom' in July - he announced at the press conference that 'Golden Canvas Grappling is not a one man's game anymore. It seems as though the last five years has seen no new challengers to the title. A new effort is required. Myself, [Toshiharu] Hyobanshi and [Razan] Okamoto will make that effort. We are UPRISING.'</p><p> </p><p> It seems that the head booker had been planning for some time to organize his workers in stables, as an extra press conference was called swiftly to announce the founding of four stables in the company.</p><p> </p><p> <strong>The Tribunal</strong> - 'Stability is what is required. We must stay the course.'</p><p> Haruki Kudo (Owner)</p><p> Hiroyasu Gakusha (ME)</p><p> Kiminobu Kuroki (ME)</p><p> Shingen Miyazaki (UM)</p><p> Sozen Ishimori (UM, Tag Team Title) [With Stone Yoshikawa as 'The Rolling Stones']</p><p> Stone Yoshikawa (M, Tag Team Title) </p><p> Harumi Okazawaya (UM) [With Lion Genji as 'Dojo Okazawaya)</p><p> Lion Genji (LM)</p><p> </p><p> The establishment stable - the owner organizing his most loyal employees into a stable dedicated to tradition and maintaining the status quo.</p><p> </p><p> <strong>UPRISING</strong> - 'Once the snake has bitten, there is no cure.'</p><p> Toshiharu Hyobanshi (ME)</p><p> Mabuchi Furusawa (ME)</p><p> Razan Okamoto (UM, Openweight Title)</p><p> Yoshinaka Taka (M) [With Toshinobu Taka as father and son]</p><p> Toshinobu Taka (LM)</p><p> Azumamaro Shimizu (M) [With Dynamite Narashi as 'TNT']</p><p> Dynamite Narashi (LM)</p><p> </p><p> The anti-establishment stable, with Hyobanshi leading the charge for modernization.</p><p> </p><p> <strong>The Waste Land</strong> - 'To Carthage then I came, burning burning burning burning.' </p><p> SUKI (ME) (World Heavyweight Title)</p><p> Takayuki 2000 (ME)</p><p> Eagle Kawasawa (UM)</p><p> Morimasa Kato (M) [With Hitomaru Suzuki as 'Immortal Technique']</p><p> Fujio Narahashi (M) </p><p> Munemitsu Senmatsu (M) [With Fujio Narahashi]</p><p> Fujio Narashi (LM)</p><p> Omezo Shikitei (O)</p><p> </p><p> The legitimate stable - tough, skilled, with an unwavering belief in the law of the jungle and their own strength.</p><p> </p><p> ((Yes, I did steal the stable name and the quote from Eliot's poem.))</p><p> </p><p> <strong>No Wings of Fire</strong> - 'Like a human heart struggling and beating.'</p><p> Eien Miyamoto (ME)</p><p> Greg Gauge (UM)</p><p> Totoya Munakata (UM)</p><p> Yasuhide Tamaya (UM)</p><p> Rhino Umaga (M)</p><p> Findlay O'Farraday (M) [With Tornado Nagai as 'The Outsiders']</p><p> Tornado Nagai (M)</p><p> </p><p> The outsider stable - No Wings of Fire contains gaijin, main eventers who built their name outside of GCG, and the workers who were considered too small to make a serious run in the company before.</p><p> </p><p> ((Stable name and quote shamelessly stolen from Blake's Book of Urizen.))</p><p> </p><p> The head booker's intentions to seriously revolutionize and reorganize Golden Canvas Grappling were realized last week, when SUKI defeated Gakusha at 'Revolution Resolution' for the belt and brought it back to The Waste Land. With this title change, it seems as though GCG wanted to announce that its intentions and aspirations were neither small nor temporary.</p><p> </p><p> Stay tuned for part 2 - where we discuss the resurrection of the tag team division.</p>

Is there a way to raise someone's Star Quality? Or is that set for life?

<p>Thanks for the tips everyone, I'll take it all in. I think maybe my reliance on singles matches at PPVs between tons of skilled workers was burning the crowd out, so I'm gonna start experimenting with my cards more.</p><p> </p><p> I did manage to book SUKI vs. Gakusha for my main event and score an 86, so things are definitely looking up.</p>

<p><span>http://i.imgur.com/CKZN4cu.png</span></p><p> </p><p> <span>http://i.imgur.com/H5hqHZx.png</span></p><p> </p><p> <span>http://i.imgur.com/jBAVR7Q.png</span></p><p> (Furusawa and Findlay had Awful chemistry)</p><p> </p><p> SUKI managed to get an 88 against Greg Gauge without any chemistry in the second picture, but I can't quite figure out if it's just that they were placed perfectly on the show or some sort of weird luck. And I've never managed a main event with that kind of grade.</p><p> </p><p> The 'Spectacle' and 'Epic' aims just tank the rating even more.</p>

I posted this in the Small Questions thread, before realizing that perhaps it wasn't such a small question after all: I'm essentially asking about the best way to book a main event between two workers who should, by all accounts, be able to put on world class matches. Am I messing up somewhere with the crowd management? I can't quite seem to figure out how to peak the crowd in the right way, would that make the difference? I'm usually getting dinged for announcing quality too since my team only has Low experience.

<p>I have three fairly simple questions as a complete novice:</p><p> </p><p> 1) I'm running Golden Canvas Grappling and my main events are roughly around the 80 mark - when running an observer game, the AI is getting main events 85-90. My main events are usually 30-40 minutes, called in ring, slow build, default match aim. Is there any way to see what notes the AI is using? Using other match aims I usually just tanked my grades a bit but maybe I should've kept trying with epic, spectacle, technical masterpiece, etc.?</p><p> </p><p> e: As an example, </p><p> Hiroyasu Gakusha going to a draw with Jimmy Cox scored 91 and Toshiharu Hyobanshu defeating SUKI scored 93 and I've never touched those kind of grades.</p><p> </p><p> e2: I am running basic 'World Title Race', 'Tag Team Title Race' etc. storylines, could that be interfering?</p><p> </p><p> 2) Related, when's a good time to use the various match aims?</p><p> </p><p> 3) How is title prestige determined? My heavyweight title started at 100 but has been slowly drifting down towards 90, and I'm not sure why that is.</p><p> </p><p> Thanks for the help!</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Active Jerichoholic" data-cite="Active Jerichoholic" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="26660" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><p> On another note, does anyone here see Korean Zombie beating Aldo? I'm excited to see the fight, but I just don't see him winning in any likely scenario.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Zombie's a dude with a weird intangible combination of ubiquitous aggression, power, scramblyness and submission savvy to beat anyone but Aldo's violence levels are off the charts; he savages guys and he's capable of the pressure that never lets Zombie get a foot in the door.</p>

GSP is going to make Nick look like a rheumatic baby, it's absurd that this fight is even happening.

Mark Hunt is cool, and he did this to a man's skull: http://i.imgur.com/QvVf6Cn.jpg

If Pierce can mitigate the Big Left Hand for 15 minutes by boxing dirty then GSP can definitely do it with the million ways he can render his opponent an impotent baby, it's just that Hendricks has an actual, tangible way to win the fight and Diaz doesn't.

In fairness GSP probably wants Diaz because he's a hundred times easier than Hendricks for him to beat.