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I do some prep in advance in the editor. I pick a few people I want to be local to the area and move them there, and change their bios to reflect that if necessary.

ECWA? Really? What on earth dividends could that company provide?

You consistently impress me with finding new dimensions of WCW for Ric Flair to work through and mature with, for lack of a better term.

I'm not really all that open to intergender wrestling or mixed gender promoting. I feel like a women's place is best when she's at the top of her own promotion and the undoubted top star. I think this comes from playing older editions of USPW where your best prospects were Alicia Strong and Belle Bryden and it always just made me want to ditch the guys and make USPW stand out like a mix of GLOW and WOW and WCW. I also am not that crazy about openweight wrestling or pushing junior heavyweight wrestlers. I'm not so far off the spectrum that it's Big Heavyweight or larger for me, but if you're lightweight or smaller then you're probably not going to have a very successful career with me outside of the tag ranks with a bigger guy. I also don't like pinfall finishes in wrestling. I know that's basically the most classic and integral parts of wrestling, but I've increasingly become enamored with better utilizing submissions, knockouts, stoppages and draws over the pinfall. I think it's partially due to me loathing the school boy flash finish and how overused it feels, because the other finishes I mentioned can be worked to be dirty finishes (brass knuckles, getting a guy off the ropes, etc...) but they need a lot more work to be dirty.

<p><p>Champion Carnival - Block A: <strong>Zeus </strong>vs. Jake Lee</p><p></p><p> Champion Carnival - Block A: Jiro "Ikemen" Kuroshio vs. <strong>Kuma Arashi</strong></p><p></p><p> Champion Carnival - Block B: <strong>Kento Miyahara </strong>vs. Shuji Ishikawa</p><p></p><p> Champion Carnival - Block B: Yoshitatsu vs. <strong>Shotaro Ashino</strong></p></p>

Two Women Power Trip with Alicia Strong and Fuyuko Higa incoming....

All right, read through the last few updates this page. Still don't quite have a feel for what the midcard matches should be rating, but I'm guessing 55 to 65 is the range? So you're doing good on that front, I guess? Simony Sentinel held up her end of that main event, or is that really just how good Fuyuko Higa is? Your gaijin signings seem to be doing really well at holding their own for the most part, which I'm not sure if its just how good a scout you are for women's wrestling or if its just them being the top acts around. And the Alicia Strong thing is fine. I've seen her leave USPW in 2016 a LOT, but I just never had the ability to take advantage it because I never ran a mixed or women's-only show. I think someone brought her into WEXXV in a dynasty when they turned it into a mixed promotion and that blew my mind. When I used to play USPW in 2010 and 2013 I used to push the women hard between Belle Bryden and Alicia, and she's definitely one of those generational standouts that can define a dynasty. So even if she doesn't enter 5SSW, I'm curious to see what you do with her.

I'm reading quietly when I can, but if I'm being honest I often forget to check the dynasties sub-forum. IDK. I feel like TEW2020 hasn't necessarily reinvigorated the dynasties workrate all that much, even as its freshened up the play styles. I'm still having a lot of fun on TEW 2016 if I'm being honest, tinkering around with the basic 2016 start to create different companies and set ups. So I'm more likely to pop into the discussion forum and ask some questions there for ideas I might have than pop in here to see some good booking. With that said, I've skimmed over the last update but haven't really given it a good read. I'll probably try and do that today if I can and maybe I'll muster up a significant response. A lot of the time I might just read a dynasty and go 'yeah, that's some solid stuff' because I'm not familiar enough with the talent or I've stopped being familiar with the progression of events. Which isn't to say I'm not enjoying it, it's just more of a casual appreciation than a hardcore investment.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="merrykieran2" data-cite="merrykieran2" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47898" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>It would be 10 either side of the bracket like the G1 and I have my own broadcaster so the TV time could be as much as I wanted. I haven't really done this before so have no real clue about how to go about it</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> (This is to plan it in a Word Doc)</p><p> </p><p> Well, to start you can look up round robin generators online, which can let you customize brackets, put names in each brackets and create the schedule of shows. 10 on each block means you'll have 9 shows per block, unless you do them all in one night. So that's either 9 or 18 nights of of the tournament shows to run, if you have the stomach for it, plus an extra night for the two block final header. </p><p> </p><p> I'm at work right now so I'd have to wait to get home and have a look at the game for how to do it in-game as well.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="merrykieran2" data-cite="merrykieran2" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47898" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Wanting to do a G1 style tournament with CZCW. Is it best to go all events or make a TV show for the tournament instead? I'm just thinking about how doing all events may affect buyrates etc.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Depends on how much TV time you have and how long the tournament is going to be?</p>

<p>Trying to play around with a <strong>mid-2000s </strong>IRL game, where <strong>The Rock </strong>sets up a wrestling company on the <strong>West Coast </strong>as a hobby / after falling out with <strong>Vince McMahon</strong>.</p><p> </p><p> The idea is to lean on Rock's Hollywood era and gimmick by calling it the <strong>Hollywood Grappling Company </strong>(nod to CVERSE), with its flagship program called <strong>Championship Wrestling from Hollywood </strong>(nod to IRL). </p><p> </p><p> The problem is, after that initial idea, I'm all out of ideas! <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> I've got some ideas, like giving some nods to the old NWA Hollywood / WWA by having a LeBell Cup, making use of luchadores and Japanese wrestlers, etc... And also since its the Rock, Islanders and the like are a must. And since he's only got daughters, the idea of introducing a women's division from the start has some merit. </p><p> </p><p> But I've not got much else going on, like how many titles the company should have, whether it should be television only or have bigger events, if I should give it enough pop to get to Cult and a decent television deal or just do California local TV or something else. </p><p> </p><p> So I'm amenable to any suggestions people might have! <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>

Every time a new generation of TEW comes about I get so excited seeing Kamchatka do logos. The artistic work done by modders and artists in the community can be so thrilling.

I mean, you just need to go back and watch some WWE stuff for how they describe people, lol. They get so purple prose with describing wrestlers and just force it down your throat. Riff off that and you'll get some ideas.

Hope Glacier and Ice Train form a tag team on the independents.

I'd say go with Texas Pete if you're happy with Caulfield chasing him and his guys for a while. You can have Caulfield slowly burn his pop away to the guys he's chasing before he gets some momentum back by beating Texas Pete. You can have him be a transitional babyface champion if you've got a new heel ready to step in and beat him, and then maybe you can have a Caulfield protege or a babyface Texas Pete step up to challenge that guy.

I guess if I did broadcaster-titles then I could rebrand every time or retire one for another. I'm not really in favor of doing a branded title like you suggest ala NEVER, but that could be a good deal for a mini-tournament or two. Both titles are gonna be openweight so I don't want to make use of weighted distinctions for the titles, even if I'm trying for heavyweight guys first and foremost. Another possibility could be to do arena-specific titles, which I think has been done in both Mexico and Japan with CMLL but also with Joshi titles. That way they can headline specific shows as part of the touring deal. There's also the concept of the National Arena Tag League that NJPW tried once of putting wrestlers from different regions of Japan together. So yeah, maybe I could do regional tag titles with local guys that get defended there, and then Kanto gets the World tag titles as the big thing that these other guys are all working towards.

I'm trying to keep it simply with no governing body. The idea is that the World Tag Team Titles are just that, so trying to figure out a good secondary title name that doesn't have a geographic or weight restriction has been hard. I've been mulling if trying for a marketing partnership (like, picking a broadcaster, newspaper or video producer) as has been the case for some titles in IRL puro, but I figured I'd ask around for some suggestions.

Playing around with some openweight (though largely heavyweight) tag-team oriented Japanese promotion concepts. I'm trying to figure out a name for a secondary tag team title, and I'm stuck on picking a name. The main title is the World Tag Team Titles, but I don't want it to be All-Asia, Intercontinental, International or National, but I can't figure out what to name the secondary title. Any suggestions?

I think you mean Logan is one of Mitch's boys.

Love the interview. The kind of thing that NJPW does very well in localization atmo.

Champion Carnival - Block A: Suwama vs. Zeus Champion Carnival - Block A: Jake Lee vs. Kuma Arashi Champion Carnival - Block B: Kento Miyahara vs. Yuma Aoyagi Champion Carnival - Block B: Shuji Ishikawa vs. Shotaro Ashino

It's kind of just more interesting. Western wrestling is just so much more backyard and tough man. There's very few people IRL or CVERSE that have a background, besides maybe MMA or jijutsu. Catch is pretty much dead and guys are more fists and flips than holds and chokes. And when MMA itself has begun homogenizing into one universal cage fighting style, keeping that style vs. style feel, that grandmaster vs. Grandmaster, it feels cool and raw. Especially since that means you can mess around with shikona and the like for names.

For me, I've got a bit of worldbuilding around C-VERSE puroresu, where the original promotion (Giant Pro Wrestling, the oldest promotion in the history) actually went into worked wrestling from Japanese combat sports, rather than getting the 'pro wrestling' import from America as per OTL. So instead of using western wrestling as the base, they use stuff like judo / jujitsu, karate and sumo as the background, which means a lot of kicks, grappling, holds, locks, slams and throws. And that would be the stuff that GCG kept and prized, which in turn BCG upheld. This is basically 70s / 80s AJPW & NJPW, maybe veering into UWF a bit with doing shorter matches (because realism) and insisting on clean finishes. Which means PGHW can rep 90s AJPW / 00s NOAH with more complex finishing stretches just fine. Submissions would definitely be my favored way to finish matches, but I also like to use knockouts, referee stoppages and the like over pinfalls too.

The sanctity of the NWA World Heavyweight Championship is overrated. Giant Baba picked it up for weekends several times in the 1970s, Ric Flair dropped it to every ethnic babyface he wrestled outside of America, Bobo Brazil got stiffed on his title change, Lou Thesz concocted the title drop to Carpentier to tour Japan that escalated into the WWA, WWA (Indiapanolis), Omaha and AWA World Titles, Amarillo briefly had their own challenger NWA World Heavyweight Champion in the 1960s, the NWA International Titles were invented, etc... It's really all just a matter of perception and promotion. Maybe Verne paid a lot of money to give Greg that world title run in Kansas (which had their own World Titles before and after the NWA) because he knew his fans would revolt if he got the AWA one. It's the title Verne never got to hold, after all. What a good dad Verne is.

Mm. Btw for some reason they didn't save but my picks were Suwama, Zeus and Ashino.