Dr_Avalanche

I guess that means I'm starting a new joshi save...

Whoa. Yeah, that seems very Big Smack Scott somehow.

Brilliant! Thank you! Yeah, I thought of a scenario that would impose some kind of limit on myself, and having a mediocre (but not useless) wrestler who I just *can't* fire because she's the point the promotion was created in the first place was interesting. Grace is kind of a headache who can't go more than about 6 minutes at a time, and gets unhappy if she's booked poorly. Good thing her brother runs the whole shebang.

Hey Willr0ck, good to see you still kicking around. I have started a save where Big Smack Scott starts a promotion *just* for his little sister Gear Head Grace, called Big Smack Wrestling (BSW). Any chance you could whip up a logo and a banner for that promotion? Bonus (and you *really* don't have to): A singles and a tag team title belt - BSW World Championship, BSW Tag Team Championship Style wise go with whatever inspires you. The product is a three ring circus, kind of AEW but all women, I guess? A bit on the grittier side, but still mainstream.

I just discovered this mod, what an incredible work you've done on it! Incredible inspiration to start a new save... I did help Willr0ck a bit with his mod, and the sisters were one of my creations, although of course the art was entirely Willr0ck.

I haven't been around much lately, but I still don't know how I managed to miss this diary up until now. Glad to see you've picked it up again, it's been a good read catching up with the story.

Scandals last between 3 months and 3 years from what I can gather. Bad attitudes can last forever.

Following this with great interest.

Why do wrestlers get annoyed or even angry for causing injuries to other wrestlers? Why do I need reward the wrestler that botched with money or time off to fix their morale when fines or a stern talking-to seems more appropriate? Help me understand the logic here.

This is wonderfully written. Big thumbs up.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Bad Collin" data-cite="Bad Collin" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47579" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>The UK scene is a slight disapointment to me. Unless you want to jump in as the dominant 21CW the options are not too interesting. You have a ultra old school promotion with no angles and long matches or a hardcore promotion. <p> </p><p> I created a promotion with a classic balanced product but it would have been nice to have something like this from the start.</p><p> </p><p> I do like some of the new workers though, Dangermouth and Bryn Archer in particular look very fun to book.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> The absolute absence of female workers in the UK took me back a bit. My hope to run some kind of Cverse analog to EVE was well and thoroughly dashed.</p>

I'm gonna go looking for inspiration. I am super curious to see how the scene has changed between 2016 and 2020 in the game, if there is something interesting going on with the joshi scene in Japan that might be where I go first.

This the same month they bragged to stockholders they had half a billion in cash reserve. If these releases had happened a month ago, I wouldn't have blinked an eye. Now, I feel pretty disgusted.

Just for the heck of it, I took a look at some undrafted talent to see if I could put together a company that would be interesting to play, and honestly, I'm pretty sure I'd rather book this company than the one I drafted. Wouldn't be as competitive, but that's besides the point. Gakepro Wrestling Owner: Sanshiro Takagi Booker: Miyako Mitsumoto Road Agent: Command Bolshoi Referee: Red Shoes Unno Announcer: Makoto Abe Color: Kazuo Yamazaki Main Event: Nanae Takahashi Tsukasa Fujimoto Takumi Iroha Syuri Momo Watanabe Rina Yamashita Upper Midcard: Hanako Nakamori Jungle Kyona Arisa Hoshiki Yoshiko Yuka Sakazaki Ryo Mizunami Risa Sera Yuu Midcard: Reika Saiki Utami Hayashishita Cassandra Miyagi Konami Tam Nakano Jamie Hayter Lower Midcard: Natsumi Maki Tsukushi Yuna Manase Makoto Kaho Kobayashi Shoko Nakajima Azumi Openers & Enhancement talent: Mei Suruga Maki Ito Ayame Sasamura Rika Tatsumi Mizuki Tae Honma Honestly, I'd be pretty happy if I went to a joshi show in Tokyo and any combination of those "openers/enhancement talent" were main eventing.

- What was your goal in drafting your roster? In short, a big umbrella type promotion that caters to every taste, from comedy to bloody deathmatches. A couple of recent events played into this idea. Most obviously from the name (thanks to southside_hitmen for that), the Bushiroad purchase of Stardom. The second, a visit to Sumo Hall in November, when NOAH, DDT and Big Japan over a span of three nights put on their own shows in the venerated building. Being there for those shows, the idea got stuck in my head what it would be like if those weren't three different companies, but just three heads of the same beast. - What pick(s) were you most excited about? I've got the biggest man crush on Isami Kodaka, so that's probably the one I was most excited about. AJ Styles and Randy Orton lasted longer than I thought, and I was happy to bring them in. Sareee I think is the best female wrestler on the planet and I'd be thrilled to see her in a promotion like this. - Are there any picks you regret? Only because of timing. ASUKA was picked just a bit too early. Two other options for that pick were Go Shiozaki and Tetsuya Endo, and at the time, Larrikn had two skipped picks hanging, and picked those two right after I picked ASUKA thinking I needed to protect her from all the promotions needing to fill women's divisions. That hurt. Otherwise I told myself I was only going to draft wrestlers that excite me in some way, and Jay White, Randy Orton and the New Day doesn't particularly *excite* me, except for being good value. - What were some picks made by others that you really liked? Uncrewed: The colorful characters. The Fiend, Pentagon, La Sombra, Marty Scurrl, Rosemary, PCO, the list goes on. willr0ck: Becky Lynch, Ruby Riot, DASH Chisako. I would have picked them all at some point if they'd been available. Tardelli/Alpha: PAC, Samoa Joe CreeperGav: Daniel Bryan, Drew Galloway, Hikaru Shida Juanster: Fenix, Gargano & Ciampa Larrikn: We were often looking at the same wrestlers I felt. Katsuhiko Nakajima, El Lindaman, Higuchi were all guys I wanted. LucianCarter: I would soon have picked Crazy Mary Dobson if LC hadn't. GooseRobb: CM Punk, Buddy Murphy were good pick ups. southside_hitmen: Again, we were fighting for the same talent by and large. Naoya Nomura at the point in the draft felt like a great late pick and I should have picked him earlier. Also: Shuji Ishikawa, MIyu Yamashita, Misaki Ohata, Sakura Hirota... - What were some picks made that puzzled you? I think it was more puzzlement about wrestlers who *weren't* picked than who were picked. That the Rock, Randy Orton, the New Day and Rhea Ripley lasted until late in the draft felt odd. - What company other than your own would you be most likely to watch? I'd watch FMW if their entire roster was Sakura Hirota, so that's an easy pick. Tardelli has put together a great version of what a big British wrestling promotion could look like, so I'd be interested in following that. Lucha Underground with Undertaker and the Fiend? Yes please. - How do you see your promotion unfolding once you're able to play it? I'm really curious myself. I think it would be fairly difficult to book a promotion like this in TEW, trying to fulfil quite demanding fan requirements in regards to match styles, intensity and levels of danger. In a watcher save, I think it could do okay with a solid streaming service and some top level stars to bring in fans. In a three-way race with Wrestle-1 and FMW, I think we could be early out of the gate but with our awkward product we have probably tied a leg to our back and I would be surprised if we came out winning in the long run.