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I think NN said this was going to be... different. So with Nemesis involved, don't expect Dagger et al to get too much play.

 

May you be cursed with Ash Campbell if you succeed with ease, NoNeck!

 

 

You hit the mail on the head, JC. This ACPW will bear no resemblance to the one in the default data. I just needed a logo that made sense, a banner, and some title belts, so I went with one of the future promotions in the default group. So, no, Jayson Van Pelt will not be making any appearances in this project. No Dagger either. :)

 

 

As for the exact scenario.......

 

 

Expect that tomorrow.

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Guest Booker: It Came From the North: Nemesis and ACPW

 

 

 

 

 

Since 1991, when George DeColt first opened the doors to his own national level promotion, CGC, he and his promotion have been a thorn in the side of The Stone family’s NOTBPW.

 

 

Twenty years.

 

 

Twenty years of time spent in a head to head competition for control of the Canadian market.

 

 

The DeColts versus The Stones.

 

 

Slowly, while their war is being waged, the big companies from the United States begin infringing on their territory without being invited, knowing that the focus of both NOTBPW and CGC is on each other.

 

 

This war has stunted and will continue to stunt the Canadian wrestling scene for many years into the future. Neither company, NOTBPW or CGC, can afford to think globally when they are fighting a national war.

 

 

However.

 

 

We here at Guest Booker are dreamers. Memory makers. Visionaries, even.

 

 

Even more than that, we’re a company that wants to sell some DVD’s.

 

 

So we laid out a scenario. It is as follows.

 

 

It’s May 2011, and the battle for promotional supremacy in Canada has finally ended.

 

 

The winner?

 

 

Wrestling fans the world over.

 

 

Victoria Stone, urged on by her father Dan Stone Sr. and her husband Sean McFly, brokers a merger between longtime rivals NOTBPW and CGC, finally ceasing the battle that has waged north over the border since George split the market and opened CGC.

 

 

Unified, the two promotions would make quite the formidable opponent for the big two, the SWF and TCW.

 

 

On paper, anyway.

 

 

True, the company would boast the two first families of Canadian wrestling coming together for the first time ever. Realistically, even if they just picked up a few extra guys off the street, they could put together a pretty good show by themselves.

 

 

But the distinct differences in the two promotion’s products means, in coming together, some people will find themselves not fitting in as well as they used to. Managing the roster to its strengths to put on the best possible television show will be a just as difficult a task as managing the locker room, as some folks fall to the wayside they’ll undoubtedly make their unhappiness known.

 

 

 

 

Enter John Campbell, the man known the world over as Nemesis. He is without question, one of the brightest and most intuitive wrestling minds the business has ever seen.

 

 

Can he take one of the greatest opportunities never to take place and put the SWF and TCW in their places?

 

 

It won’t be without some difficulties.

 

 

Because, unlike previous installments of Guest Booker…….

 

 

This one will be different; this one will push the limits, testing the skills of our man in the hot seat like never before.

 

 

Initially inspired by the “Road to Glory Challenge”, and several of the drafts held on the GDS boards dedicated to our game engine, TEW, this version of Guest Booker will up the ante by dropping an as yet to be determined number of challenges on the booker along the way. They are some of the most wildly innovative concepts ever brought forth in a diary; some are downright ruthless while others are laugh out loud hilarious and all will put the booker into situations that truly test his mettle.

 

 

How will John Campbell be able to handle booking the brand new ACPW, with all of the bells and whistles that controlling a promotion in the game requires, while having to respond to the ‘challenge grenades’ exploding around him?

 

 

It will be an experience unlike any other.

 

 

Join us, won’t you?

 

 

 

 

 

 

2011 ©

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I'm going to be my jerk-ass self and claim complete inspiration due to my RtG diary.

 

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Challenge grenades: now with more BIG SMACK SCOTT WORLD CHAMPION!

 

Dude...I'm seeing two brands, but you can't differentiate product on brands. Match percentage, I mean. You got ridiculously good talkers in the DeColts, and...well, maybe 10 of the top...I dunno, fifty wrestlers in the game? A fair share of the top ten, for that matter. This...without like a three-hour show, this is going to be really hard.

 

Also, Nemesis is kinda screwed due to his ridiculous lifestyle giving him massive penalties in every segment in which he is involved.

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I thought I would invite some of the readers to make suggestions for some of the challenges. I've come up with six and would like to have a total of ten or so.

 

 

Who has got something? Nothing is off limits.

 

 

I'm going to start revealing the "Initial Six" this evening so that I can get the beginning Guest Booker segment out before our November launchdate.

 

 

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Some challenging (but not suicidal) challenges:

 

* Make Bart Biggz one of your franchise players - He's backstage poison and an above average wrestler with decent name value, so he's exactly the kind of guy a growing indy needs

* Mixed tag team titles - Either as a supplement to, or instead of, unmixed ones

* Six-man titles - See above

* No pre-existing tag teams - Not even ones with 10 experience. The whole division, built from scratch

* Find a case of bad chemistry and use it to headline a major event/PPV

* Regular promo segments for a non-English speaker. Added points if they have poor mic skills

* Use a random number generator/list randomiser to select a day, an action, and a target e.g. day 3/bonus/Jay Chord, day 81/title win/Fumihiro Ota, day 214/injure/Davis Wayne Newton

* Don't hire Canadians

* Nemesis forced to push someone who hasn't put in their time.

* A Khoklov contract for Ash Campbell (inevitable? I don't think Nemesis would work that way).

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Interesting to say the least...here you go in no particular order:

 

1) Sign Jay Chord before Rip retires (He's usually loyal to Rip until retirement, at least in my games)

2) Employ dirty tricks upon NOTBPW and CGC and live with the consequences

3) Find poor chemistry between a manager and talent (ie. Matthew Keith and Sam Keith) and keep them together

4) Sign a poisonous backstage presence and let them get away with everything

 

That's all I can think of for now. Looking forward to seeing where this one goes.

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Challenge #1

 

“Mr. Universe Challenge”

 

 

I enjoyed the way the game universe was unfolding in the Guest Booker with Phil Vibert; his reborn USPW, now PWC, was just beginning to nip at the heels of the big two as he predicted. Additionally, the death of TCW owner Tommy Cornell created one of the most unique and interesting game scenarios ever happened upon, slowing TCW's growth as the clear cut number two in North America. With that in mind, the opening of Nemesis’s hypothetical promotion, ACPW, the union of NOTBPW and CGC, will happen in May 2011…..in the exact same universe, six weeks after the conclusion of the last Guest Booker.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

© 2011

 

 

(OOC: This is more or less a throwaway to get the formatting for these segments correct and to start the ball rolling. It is also the way I chose to let you know that I'm just about done getting the game universe ported over from the original GB into its own database (Something I will make available, but we'll get to that later) In any case, I guess, I'm going to end up with 12 to 15 challenges when it's all said and done because there's so much good stuff, I can't not try some of them. Between the ones suggested on the thread and the many (Wow.) I've gotten via PM, I'm really looking forward to both the game and the diary. Keep them coming guys.)

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<p><strong><em>(OOC: Some great suggestions still coming in for the challenges, both on the thread and via PM. Keep them coming. I'm using many of them. Another challenge revealed tomorrow, a great one in my opinion, but first.......this one: )</em></strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>

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</p><div style="text-align:center;"><p><strong>Challenge #2</strong></p></div><p></p><p> </p><p>

</p><div style="text-align:center;"><p><span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>“The Friday Night Wars Challenge”</strong></span></p></div><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>

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PWC, Phil Vibert’s promotion in our previous Guest Booker interview, had, at this point in time, moved PWC’s television programming to Friday nights (more on that in a forthcoming game world update), avoiding the obvious move and interjecting themselves in the ongoing ratings battle that exists between SWF and TCW on Tuesday Nights. Since we are using that universe to begin this game, this challenge puts ACPW into their own version of the famed Tuesday Night Wars, forcing ACPW to position their television programming in direct opposition of PWC’s on Friday nights. That means two separate battles for ratings supremacy a week, which should make for a most volatile game world.</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em>

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<p>Jesus, if I was a fan in that universe, I'd HATE that so damn much. So much extra emotion goes into wrestling when you know you're watching it live: In this universe there's now going to be 4 unmissable promotion in North America and it'll be impossible to follow more than 2 properly. </p><p> </p><p>

Honestly to God, if that happened in real life it'd make my skin crawl. </p><p> </p><p>

You know what I'd honestly end up doing? Attempt to stream (yeah, I'm one of those people, lol internet smarks don't contribute to ratings) both shows on both nights; as in on a Tuesday night I'd probably have SWF on in one window and TCW in another, and I'd just mute the less interesting one and just keep flicking between the two. Same on the Friday night. </p><p> </p><p>

The website I use to discuss wrestling, /wooo/ on 420chan, would be an absolute mess: we'd be like a man tied to 4 horses being sent in 4 directions: absolutely pulled to our limits. </p><p> </p><p>

Surely national battles will slaughter at least one promotion in order to balance things out? I fear PWC, being a step below TCW and SWF, and with the AI at the helm, will take a licking.</p><p> </p><p>

Either that or SWF. In my experience the AI can't keep Entertainment heavy promotions going as well as in-ring heavy ones.</p>

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<p>SWF, TCW, PWC and whatever he's going to call CGC/NOTBPW + ACPW is going to be a rather hectic schedule for any mainstream fan, methinks.</p><p> </p><p>

Still, the differences in styles makes me think that IRL, any fan of one promotion might not be too likely to follow others too deeply.</p>

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<p>@Hashasheen</p><p> </p><p>

Well that's the thing; there's a certain element of "OH MY GOD, IS THAT WHO I THINK IT IS!? THAT'S JAMES JUSTICE MIKE YOU SELFISH P***K, THE MAN FORMERLY KNOWN AS LIBERTY, WHAT THE **** IS HERE DOING HERE IN THE PHOENIX ZONE!?!?!?!" going on even in the default data. </p><p> </p><p>

So for example, USPW/PWC is full of guys from SWF and TCW (Eddie Peak making a fairly spectacular jump), The DeColts had a little vacation there in PWC, but they'll be headed back to ACPW. Then I'm sure they'll be a few more jumps between the lot yet.</p><p> </p><p>

Wrestling fans invest themselves just as much into the different wrestlers as they do the products so, let's say your a fan of Eddie Peak, chances are you're at least checking him out a bit when he popped up in TCW, then PWC. And when you're checked him out, your sampling the new promotion, and you never know, you might get interested in that one too. </p><p> </p><p>

Damn, where on earth are all the former DAVE diehards going to follow? I'd imagine PWC, but then Nemesis is going to be a major factor in them checking out ACPW. Although to be honest, at the same time I imagine personally that the average DAVE isn't so much a fan of the Stones and their oft-criticised "mechanical" wrestling: great in-ring action...just no charisma to actually hold your attention or enough to give another depth of character. Nemesis and NoNeck will work hard to change that view I'm sure, no doubt.</p>

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