Brand Splits: Do you have two "A" Shows or an "A" and a "B" show?

[Tomato Can]

Which works best for you?

[djthefunkchris]

Which works best for you?

 

Depends on how many workers I have. With a "B" show you can do less with more, or at least I feel that way... Meaning, I can highlight the heck out of my undercard without any real backlash. If I have a huge amount of worker's (and sometimes I just can't help it, I won't let certain people hang out unemployed), I go for two A shows. This allows me to split up everyone. IF I weren't so lazy, I would go for two A shows and two B shows, with chaos going on everywhere... but I have a hard enough time doing just one good show a week.

[Lex Star]

It depends on how over my roster is overall, if I have enough main event level workers for two brands, I will do it, if I don't, I'll have an 'A' Brand for my Main Eventers, Upper Midcarders and the Midcarders I want to build up.

 

And I'll have a 'B' Brand for the Midcarders I don't have any concrete ideas for to push, and then the rest of the roster.

[The Masked Orange]

2 A shows and a B show. But I don't intoduce the B show as a third brand, I just use it to mingle undercard workers from both brands.

[Mr Rager]

If I was going to do a brand split, and I've considered it in the past, I'd have two A shows. Although I think I'd implement it much like WWE's, with the majority of my stars on one show, leaving a few stars on the other with young talents getting pushed into the main event.

[Winter8905]

I tried a real world mod for a year. started with 2 brads as WWE in 2010. after a few months i added a 3rd brand. 3 shows per week pluss PPV. 13 shows a month. aftr the first year i just got soo burned out.

 

I'm trying the Cverse with CZCW , aiming to get them Global but only having 1 brand of the best of the best workers in the world.

[LoganRodzen]

In June of 2019 MAW changed their name to WCW and added a second A-show (Thursday Takeover) to go along with Monday Mayhem. At the end of the year in December we were able to add a third A-show. It was intended to be a weekly 3-hour event showcasing talent from both brands (Mayhem vs Takeover). I ended this show after only one month on-air because the ratings were horrible on ACE. I thought we'd be able to grab the mainstream audience (we were slowly adding that) and it didn't work.

 

Throughout 2020 we had the two brands (Mayhem & Takeover) with an A-show (2hrs) and a B-show (1hr). In August of that year the two B-shows formed an alliance to take out the bigger brands one-by-one. It didn't work, but the Sunday night B-show was turned into an A-show (Sunday Stampede) and the other B-show was kept as a show for all lower card workers from each brand.

 

In November of 2020 we introduced brand-specific PPVs (on Friday's - weeks 2, 3, and 4). It's currently October 2022 and I'm still going (somewhat) strong.

[Truth]

With my TCW game, I was running an A show and a B show on a single brand, but I found that certain guys I wanted to build (such as Edd Stone and Aaron Andrews) were still getting sort of lost in the shuffle. When I created a B brand for the B show along with a TV title for them to fight over, it became much easier to keep track of who was getting a push and who was just a jobber to the mid/uppermid talent.

 

It should be especially handy now that I'm about to launch a womens division.

[MrKain]

Currently, I run an A show and a B show and five titles. (My company is called Full Effect Wrestling)

 

On the A show I promote

 

FEW World

FEW White (Pure style championship)

FEW Black (Flyer style championship)

 

On the B show I promote

 

FEW Red (Hardcore style championship, which is sadly floundering due to so many wrestlers not specializing in Rumble skills)

FEW Pink (Women's Division Championship)

and then Each month the main event is either the White or Black to help promote the lower card into the main show.

 

I know I don't have a tag team championship... but it's mainly because I mostly have singles wrestlers that I can't imagine in a tag team that is legitimate. The only ones I do have as tag teams are fairly well known teams with both members able to compete in the other groups.

[Hashasheen]

Depends on the roster available, really.

 

WWE can easily support two A-brands with the proper booking, while TCW would be better off in a A-brand/B-brand system.

 

I personally prefer the latter because you can book it the way you want to and experiment with your wrestlers as well as have unique things about it.

 

Example, I run WCW with a A-brand of Nitro and a B-brand of Saturday Night. Saturday Night will have all the young workers and the nascent women's division, while Nitro would have the cruiserweight action, the tag-teams and the main event players. By the time I have my workers developed, I ship them over to Nitro to replace guys on the way out while the women's division become the centerpiece of Saturday Night.