The Official ThunderVerse Thread

TLLK · April 1, 2020

Should clarify: Buying out The Club for its popularity and having TV deals in the US helped me out a good bit, and I only ran a show a week for four weeks. I should really call it a mini-tour, because it came between the usual spring and summer ones for me. I saved a lot of the PWI guys I used for the supercard show at the end of the month.

It wasn’t financially a good move at all, but I had a ton in the bank and wanted to test out what would happen if I ran shows overseas.

Editor6 · April 1, 2020

Need suggestions for a tag team to replace The Furlong Brothers in HCG. Preferably babyfaces. (Harris had to retire due to a serious spinal cord injury.) And what to do with Al?

LouMusic · April 4, 2020

In anticipation of the forthcoming TEW 2020 release, I was able to get TEW 2016 going again thanks to Grey Dog customer service. Much appreciated.

While I had a great time booking Ring of Honor to greatness with Alex Shelley as the ace and turning TNA into a successful all-women promotion before my old computer died, I decided to save any real-world stuff for the 2020 game.

Searching for 2016 mod ideas led me to the ThunderVerse, and thus far it has lived up to the high praise I've read about it online, both here and elsewhere.

Opted to start my own company, Jolt Wrestling. Workrate-heavy American promotion. Much like the real-life indies of modern day, there were limited options out there for good workers with at least some name.

But I signed who I could and did my best to build the first show around the strengths of my crew, and to that end it went great.

The ramp-up to the first show took a bit longer than normal, but much of that was reading the various wrestler bios and backstory. Quite entertaining.

Unfortunately I miscalculated with the production value and got dinged on the final score, but from a booking standpoint it went well. Adam Massey beat Buff Norton to become the first Jolt World Champion in a good main event.

Best surprise of the night was Shay Kinsella (59 popularity) beating 46-year-old Evgeny Dobrenko (62 popularity) in a semi-main rated at 70.

https://i.postimg.cc/T3KK8zKX/TEW2016-TVerse-Jolt-Kinsella-vs-Dobrenko.jpg

Dalton · April 4, 2020

In anticipation of the forthcoming TEW 2020 release, I was able to get TEW 2016 going again thanks to Grey Dog customer service. Much appreciated.

While I had a great time booking Ring of Honor to greatness with Alex Shelley as the ace and turning TNA into a successful all-women promotion before my old computer died, I decided to save any real-world stuff for the 2020 game.

Searching for 2016 mod ideas led me to the ThunderVerse, and thus far it has lived up to the high praise I've read about it online, both here and elsewhere.

Opted to start my own company, Jolt Wrestling. Workrate-heavy American promotion. Much like the real-life indies of modern day, there were limited options out there for good workers with at least some name.

But I signed who I could and did my best to build the first show around the strengths of my crew, and to that end it went great.

The ramp-up to the first show took a bit longer than normal, but much of that was reading the various wrestler bios and backstory. Quite entertaining.

Unfortunately I miscalculated with the production value and got dinged on the final score, but from a booking standpoint it went well. Adam Massey beat Buff Norton to become the first Jolt World Champion in a good main event.

Best surprise of the night was Shay Kinsella (59 popularity) beating 46-year-old Evgeny Dobrenko (62 popularity) in a semi-main rated at 70.

https://i.postimg.cc/T3KK8zKX/TEW2016-TVerse-Jolt-Kinsella-vs-Dobrenko.jpg

Shay Kinsella won Independent Wrestler of the Year in 2016, 2017 & 2018 in my game. I'm pretty sure he's won in 2016 in every game I've ever had in the T-Verse

Dalton · April 7, 2020

I decided to keep chugging alone in my UPJ game, now entering the 2021 Ozeki Summit. For anyone familiar with the T-Verse Japanese scene, you know how big of a star Nobuhisa Yasutake can become. Despite starting off in a midcard tag team in HONOUR, he has all the makings of a legitimate Ace, along with a 91 Star Quality rating.

He has worked all across Japan for literally every company worth wrestling for. He was on a PPA deal with HONOUR, and was picked up by IWJ and FKPW in September 2016. As FKPW is technically DIASPORA's developmental and is in the Zodiac Dragons alliance, he was loaned out to DIASPORA six times until May 2020, when he was finally signed to a written deal with HONOUR. He also worked for my UPJ a few times, including a fantastic run in the 2020 Ozeki Summit, which he worked while being FKPW World Champion and (more importantly as they were created as an exodus from UPJ) HONOUR Heavyweight Champion.

In his time as a freelancer, Yasutake took Japan by storm, holding the FKPW World Championship, IWJ Triple Crown, and HONOUR Heavyweight Crown all at the same time! Better yet, his reigns were massive. Here's a breakdown:

IWJ Triple Crown: October 2016-March 2019 (12 defenses, 2 years 5 months)

FKPW World: July 2017-August 2018 (12 defenses, 1 year 1 month)

HONOUR Heavyweight Crown: September 2018-April 2020 (16 defenses, 1 year 7 months)

FKPW World (2): July 2019-May 2020 (10 defenses, 10 months)

The last three reigns coincided with one another. In March 2020, Yasutake took part in UPJ's coveted Ozeki Summit as an outsider, and he shined bright. He was the only participant to have never previously worked for UPJ. He was put into the same block as UPJ Heavyweight Champion Oda Yamawaki, which means that the UPJ champion would battle the champion of the traitorous HONOUR. In 2013, longtime UPJ stalwart Kenta Sonoda took a group of wrestlers loyal to him away from UPJ to form Pro Wrestling HONOUR, and ignited a war. So to have their champion work for UPJ was a huge deal. Better yet, the match between Yasutake and Yamawaki would end up being the best match of the year for UPJ, and perhaps the entire world, as it was rated 99/A+. Of course, Oda would have to be the victor here.

I write all this because in February 2021, Yasutake suffered what looks to be a career-ending injury at only 36 years old (C6 Cervical Spine Cord Compression). It actually made me sad because of how well his career had gone and how I made a point NEVER to sign him exclusively even though I could have because he was doing so well and holding so many titles. It sucks to think that if I had signed him, this would never had happened. UPJ will definitely hold a tribute show once he officially announces his retirement.

I kayfabe'd his career by saying that he was basically the Keiji Mutoh of the T-Verse by working wherever the hell he wanted and would take any gold he wanted to. His injury at that age and at that height of his career basically makes him the T-Verse's Shibata: a star wrestler who would undoubtedly go down as a legend until injury took it all away.

MattL1222 · April 7, 2020

In the thunderverse I hired some people to developmental contracts and main contracts and am looking to rename them but im stuck

For the developmental people

Luke Graves: A biker/american badass gimmick

Johnny Moore: A blogger version of The Miz's gimmick

Bash and Thrash: Keeping there power and paint gimmick

Elexa: Making her have a sasha banks esq gimmick

Hell Cat: Unmasked and going under her *real name*

Shay Kinsella: Just a new name will do

Wilson Hancock: See Shay

I know I posted this in the naming thread and I apologize for posting the same thing in two different threads but I figured it would be more fitting to post this here.

TLLK · April 7, 2020

I decided to keep chugging alone in my UPJ game, now entering the 2021 Ozeki Summit. For anyone familiar with the T-Verse Japanese scene, you know how big of a star Nobuhisa Yasutake can become. Despite starting off in a midcard tag team in HONOUR, he has all the makings of a legitimate Ace, along with a 91 Star Quality rating.

He has worked all across Japan for literally every company worth wrestling for. He was on a PPA deal with HONOUR, and was picked up by IWJ and FKPW in September 2016. As FKPW is technically DIASPORA's developmental and is in the Zodiac Dragons alliance, he was loaned out to DIASPORA six times until May 2020, when he was finally signed to a written deal with HONOUR. He also worked for my UPJ a few times, including a fantastic run in the 2020 Ozeki Summit, which he worked while being FKPW World Champion and (more importantly as they were created as an exodus from UPJ) HONOUR Heavyweight Champion.

In his time as a freelancer, Yasutake took Japan by storm, holding the FKPW World Championship, IWJ Triple Crown, and HONOUR Heavyweight Crown all at the same time! Better yet, his reigns were massive. Here's a breakdown:

IWJ Triple Crown: October 2016-March 2019 (12 defenses, 2 years 5 months)
FKPW World: July 2017-August 2018 (12 defenses, 1 year 1 month)
HONOUR Heavyweight Crown: September 2018-April 2020 (16 defenses, 1 year 7 months)
FKPW World (2): July 2019-May 2020 (10 defenses, 10 months)

The last three reigns coincided with one another. In March 2020, Yasutake took part in UPJ's coveted Ozeki Summit as an outsider, and he shined bright. He was the only participant to have never previously worked for UPJ. He was put into the same block as UPJ Heavyweight Champion Oda Yamawaki, which means that the UPJ champion would battle the champion of the traitorous HONOUR. In 2013, longtime UPJ stalwart Kenta Sonoda took a group of wrestlers loyal to him away from UPJ to form Pro Wrestling HONOUR, and ignited a war. So to have their champion work for UPJ was a huge deal. Better yet, the match between Yasutake and Yamawaki would end up being the best match of the year for UPJ, and perhaps the entire world, as it was rated 99/A+. Of course, Oda would have to be the victor here.

I write all this because in February 2021, Yasutake suffered what looks to be a career-ending injury at only 36 years old (C6 Cervical Spine Cord Compression). It actually made me sad because of how well his career had gone and how I made a point NEVER to sign him exclusively even though I could have because he was doing so well and holding so many titles. It sucks to think that if I had signed him, this would never had happened. UPJ will definitely hold a tribute show once he officially announces his retirement.

I kayfabe'd his career by saying that he was basically the Keiji Mutoh of the T-Verse by working wherever the hell he wanted and would take any gold he wanted to. His injury at that age and at that height of his career basically makes him the T-Verse's Shibata: a star wrestler who would undoubtedly go down as a legend until injury took it all away.

Dang, you’re making me want to go back to my UPJ save. I might still give DRAGON a whirl, but I absolutely love the Japanese scene in the T-Verse.

Jon The GOAT · April 7, 2020

I decided to keep chugging alone in my UPJ game, now entering the 2021 Ozeki Summit. For anyone familiar with the T-Verse Japanese scene, you know how big of a star Nobuhisa Yasutake can become. Despite starting off in a midcard tag team in HONOUR, he has all the makings of a legitimate Ace, along with a 91 Star Quality rating.

He has worked all across Japan for literally every company worth wrestling for. He was on a PPA deal with HONOUR, and was picked up by IWJ and FKPW in September 2016. As FKPW is technically DIASPORA's developmental and is in the Zodiac Dragons alliance, he was loaned out to DIASPORA six times until May 2020, when he was finally signed to a written deal with HONOUR. He also worked for my UPJ a few times, including a fantastic run in the 2020 Ozeki Summit, which he worked while being FKPW World Champion and (more importantly as they were created as an exodus from UPJ) HONOUR Heavyweight Champion.

In his time as a freelancer, Yasutake took Japan by storm, holding the FKPW World Championship, IWJ Triple Crown, and HONOUR Heavyweight Crown all at the same time! Better yet, his reigns were massive. Here's a breakdown:

IWJ Triple Crown: October 2016-March 2019 (12 defenses, 2 years 5 months)
FKPW World: July 2017-August 2018 (12 defenses, 1 year 1 month)
HONOUR Heavyweight Crown: September 2018-April 2020 (16 defenses, 1 year 7 months)
FKPW World (2): July 2019-May 2020 (10 defenses, 10 months)

The last three reigns coincided with one another. In March 2020, Yasutake took part in UPJ's coveted Ozeki Summit as an outsider, and he shined bright. He was the only participant to have never previously worked for UPJ. He was put into the same block as UPJ Heavyweight Champion Oda Yamawaki, which means that the UPJ champion would battle the champion of the traitorous HONOUR. In 2013, longtime UPJ stalwart Kenta Sonoda took a group of wrestlers loyal to him away from UPJ to form Pro Wrestling HONOUR, and ignited a war. So to have their champion work for UPJ was a huge deal. Better yet, the match between Yasutake and Yamawaki would end up being the best match of the year for UPJ, and perhaps the entire world, as it was rated 99/A+. Of course, Oda would have to be the victor here.

I write all this because in February 2021, Yasutake suffered what looks to be a career-ending injury at only 36 years old (C6 Cervical Spine Cord Compression). It actually made me sad because of how well his career had gone and how I made a point NEVER to sign him exclusively even though I could have because he was doing so well and holding so many titles. It sucks to think that if I had signed him, this would never had happened. UPJ will definitely hold a tribute show once he officially announces his retirement.

I kayfabe'd his career by saying that he was basically the Keiji Mutoh of the T-Verse by working wherever the hell he wanted and would take any gold he wanted to. His injury at that age and at that height of his career basically makes him the T-Verse's Shibata: a star wrestler who would undoubtedly go down as a legend until injury took it all away.

This is a pretty great read. Felt like a mini story of your world. Really dug it.

Dalton · April 9, 2020

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Jon The GOAT" data-cite="Jon The GOAT" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41411" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>This is a pretty great read. Felt like a mini story of your world. Really dug it.</div></blockquote> It's amazing how the T-Verse (and TEW as a whole) develop such intriguing stories as the game progresses. The Nobuhisa Yasutake story I had so little to do with, and it's like the game did exactly what I wanted it to anyway. He was literally one of the top 10 most talented in ring performers in the world, but it took four and a half years for someone to sign him exclusively, so he was able to dominate everywhere. There's other examples as well. Over in America, PWI lost many of their top guys to the financially-dominant AWF. One of them was Scott Hart, who would win the AWF World title two years after debuting. Tyler Mercury won the AWF World title on the last show of 2020 at Where Champions Clash by defeating Silva Dolla, which I can kayfabe by relating it to real-world scenarios like Daniel Bryan (indie favorite) defeating the establishment in the main event of their biggest show (98 rated as well). Back in Japan, DIASPORA's roster progressed as realistically as possible. All of their champions (big ones are Kuzuryu and KING) are workers who started in FKPW as developmental or went to DRAGON on excursion. HONOUR's champions are mostly gaijins, their Heavyweight champion is D'Anton Joubert, who graduated from the junior division to become their biggest star. As for me in UPJ, I have my Summit blocks finalized and am about to book the first show: BLOCK A 1 Oda Yamawaki 2 Kintaro Kinjo 3 Seven Brandt (IC Champion) 4 Danny McManus (GBWF Representative) 5 Nathan Jordan (Tag Champion) 6 Magnus Stonebreaker (Openweight Champion) 7 Goto 8 Leonzio Battaglia (IWF Representative) 9 Shinji Uchikawa 10 Kohei Hidaka (HONOUR Representative) BLOCK B 1 Erik van Rijn (Heavyweight Champion) 2 Eikichi Minamoto 3 Sean Girven (Tag Champion) 4 Darren Williams (GBWF Representative) 5 James Gilmour 6 Atonga 7 Kato 8 Ryotaro Naruto 9 Evan Kuja 10 Captain UPJ

Matt_Black · April 10, 2020

I'm still looking for equivalents of real wrestlers, managers, etc among the T-Verse characters, so if anyone can help me in this let me know.

Well, in addition to what's been listed, Cierva Corredora is pretty close to Faby Apache (or possibly Mari Apache) with her father being Gran Apache.

Dalton · April 12, 2020

Halfway through the 2021 Ozeki Summit and just had my first 100 rated match ever in TEW!!!

Before this I had 17 99 rated matches. Finally hit the big one. I am shocked actually because Kinjo is in time decline, albeit rather recently. Kinjo was penalized for that and for inconsistency. I actually thought there had to be no negatives for a 100 rating, but I haven't really dove deep into studying the mechanics of the game. Fittingly the match was a time limit draw, and both of them now sit at 90-92 pop across Japan!

TLLK · April 12, 2020

Jumped back into my UPJ save last week because of Dalton’s posts — awesome job with the 100 match, by the way.

Expanded the Junior Mountain Cup to 20 participants like the Ozeki Summit. Fergus Storm came into the tournament with the junior title and having turned on Juro Deguchi to join RENEGADES.

Storm had grown to resent the rest of Deguchi-gun and Juro himself. Deguchi had won the UPJ Invitational over EVR back in February, which had turned into the winner getting the new Intercontinental belt as a twist. Meanwhile, Storm had upset Kintaro Kinjo in a champ vs. champ match earlier in the year but failed to become the first dual-division champion in the rematch. Deguchi’s first title defense against Eikichi Minamoto became the main event at Procession of Champions — Kinjo was in a special showcase match against PWI champ Eli Morton higher on the card — and overshadowed the tie-breaking three-way match between recent champions Storm, Goto and D’Anton Joubert. After Deguchi beat Minamoto, Storm came down to congratulate Deguchi and then nailed him with a low blow like Deguchi had done to Kinjo years earlier. Storm flashed the sign of RENEGADES and escaped before the rest of Deguchi-gun could get him.

In the Junior Mountain Cup, Storm was rolling in Block A until new stablemate Furosoto shocked him with an upset win. Storm would finish second in the block to Furosoto, while Jung Dragon ran away with Block B. In the final, Dragon pulled off the win — he’s absolutely incredible in the ring. After the match, Storm and EVR and the rest of RENEGADES come down to the ring to help up an exhausted Furosoto. Storm pulls him up to his feet and then levels him with a lariat. RENEGADES then pile on Furosoto, with Storm going as far as ripping his mask off. The United Throne, ever the upstanding heroes, swoop in for the save, with the recently retired Thunder Iesada covering Furosoto’s face with his cape.

This leads to the Ozeki Summit — I moved Ascension back in the schedule to make up for the bigger Junior Mountain — where battle lines have been drawn. Deguchi is feuding with EVR over Storm’s turn. TEMPEST is feuding with Ram Diablo over the COBRA title. Goto has moved to the heavyweight division and is butting heads with all of he and Kato’s old rivals. Kinjo is trying to become the first reigning champion to win the Summit. Scott Hart, fresh off a lengthy run with a now-flailing AWF, has finally made his UPJ debut and joined James Gilmour in FEARLESS.

All of those developments, though, don’t quite have the same heat as Oda Yamawaki vs. Christian Prophet. Yamawaki, having lost the world title to Kinjo at HOI 2016 and the rematch at Procession of Champions in 2017, is trying to get his first Ozeki Summit in order to get a shot at the belt again. But he’s been in the crosshairs of Prophet, who claims the Favored Son of UPJ doesn’t have what it takes to survive the onslaught that’s heading his way. Yamawaki overcomes an early loss to Prophet’s right-hand man, Waotaka Eda, and a draw with Kinjo to win a chaotic Block A. Prophet runs the table in Block B, which was mostly headlined by the continuing war between EVR and Deguchi.

At the Ozeki Summit Final:

- Yamawaki beats Prophet to win the Summit for the first time

- Jung Dragon beats Fergus Storm to win the Junior title after Furosoto — back in his old blue mask — causes a distraction

- Erik van Rijn and Juro Deguchi draw in an intercontinental match after all hell breaks loose at ringside between their two stables

- James Gilmour and Scott Hart beat Kintaro Kinjo and Eikichi Minamoto in a special tag match

- Ignite Zero make their debut as a heavyweight tag team and end Pain & Torture’s long run with the World Tag titles

- TEMPEST retains the COBRA Openweight title against Ram Diablo

- The Fallen (Cameron Cody and Derek Grace) retain the Junior tag titles against Kozue and Evan Kuja

- The COBRA Six-Man carousel continues, this time with the RENEGADES team of Seven Brandt, Richie Santana Jr. and Koji Yamada taking it from the Deguchi-fun trio of Sean Girven, Nathan Jordan and Alejandro Iglesias

The fall tour will include a Young Lions Cup and the World Tag Grand Prix, along with a title defense against Girven for Kinjo and a contract defense against Eda for Yamawaki.

Here’s what I’m thinking early for a Hall of Immortals Card:

- UPJ World Heavyweight: Kintaro Kinjo © vs. Oda Yamawaki

- UPJ Junior Heavyweight: Jung Dragon © vs. Junichi Matsuo

- UPJ Intercontinental: Juro Deguchi © vs. Erik van Rijn — Steel Cage Match (no countouts, no DQ, no one can interfere)

- Mask vs. Hair: Furosoto vs. Fergus Storm

- The Brotherhood (Christian Prophet/Waotaka Eda/Ram Diablo) vs. Eikichi Minamoto and Two Friends to Be Named Later

- UPJ World Tag: Ignite Zero © vs. Scott Hart and James Gilmour (penciled in as World Tag Grand Prix winners at the moment)

- UPJ Junior Tag: The Fallen © vs. TBD

- COBRA Openweight: TEMPEST Masato vs. either Sean Girven or Alejandro Iglesias or Nobuhisa Yasutake

- COBRA Six-Man Openweight: Very Much TBD

UPJ has said goodbye to Toki Ink (never could do much of anything with him), Arttu Jensen (thanks for tagging with Joubert for a stretch), Kris Phoenix (another long-term injury), The Prophets (that did not work at all), Sen Masuda (same) and Taka Yamashita (sadly, same) during this time.

I used those departures to bring in some more young talent, here’s what I’ve got now for an eight-man “young lions” cup:

Dragon Prince

Gao Xi

Ichibei

Jon Diamani

Lincoln Nash

Masa Kahaya

Susumu Kimata (good LORD this kid is incredible, even though he’s a teenage deathmatch worker)

Yusuke Amura

Dalton · April 13, 2020

It's actually incredible how you and I took different approaches to UPJ, and yet still have a lot of similarities.

I like the idea of Jung DRAGON winning the Junior Mountain Cup. I was a huuuge fan of him in my DRAGON save awhile back, so I brought him into UPJ, but he went into time decline like a year later and lost all his skills overnight is seemed. He tagged with Ryotaro Naruto as the Golden Dragons and won the tag belts (Heavyweight too, as I just reinstated the junior belts in 2020).

Yamawaki winning the Summit is always good. So talented. I never used Christian Prophet for whatever reason. Maybe I just saw him as a hardcore guy, but then again he has done very well in DIASPORA and HONOUR. I like that you used the Ozeki Summit event as more of a normal PPV, rather than a one-match show. I should do that as well, I usually just have a midcard title match and the Summit Final with a bunch of multi man tags.

I like the Hall of Immortals card a lot. Obvious good main event, if Jung DRAGON is still talented then he should have a great match with the ultra-skilled Matsuo. Huge tag title match too. Scott Hart must've cost you a pretty penny to take him away from America. IC match in a steel cage is different, so I am interested to see how you make that puro-friendly. The Fallen is a great name for Cody and Grace. I think they're both Small sized, so putting them in a tag is definitely a good move so they can compete. If you have Yasutake, it may be a disservice to hold him to an Openweight match, unless he just hasn't gotten over yet.

Just a few notes comparing it to my game because I enjoy looking at how things pan out differently:

-I so badly wish I could've used Deguchi in my game, but when I started the game he was already deep in time decline a 41 years old unfortunately. It was a huge challenge to pull a 90 rated match out of him. I let him go in in January 2020 with a farewell show because I barely used him. No one else has signed him either.

-I'm happy you signed Eikichi Minamoto back to UPJ. He is 42 years old for me right now and has not started declining at all yet. In this upcoming tour he will be started a new faction named Eikichi-gun (Minamoto-gun is too many syllables lol) with a bunch of other unaligned guys including Magnus Stonebreaker.

-Junichi Matsuo was a stud in my game, and I gave him the Junior title in Nov. 2017. He lost it two months later, and then in February of 2018 just a month after losing the title he suffered a spinal injury at a LETHAL event and retired. He's a talented manager now and I've thought about bringing him in to lead a small crew (Matsuo-gun).

-It's cool to see that you used Eli Morton for a match. He was fired by AWF in April 2019 after making racist comments. It took literally two years for that penalty to go away, and so I JUST signed him in April 2021 at 38 years old, which is an off month so now I'm going into May 2021 with him. I'm not sure what to do with him because I have the rest of the year planned out already, but I might give him a world title match against Kinjo in like September before Kinjo faces Oda at HOI.

-I'm sad you let TOKI INK go! He is by no means a stud worker and is definitely a career midcarder, but I like using him in an enforcer role, i.e. Bad Luck Fale to Fergus Storm's Prince Devitt.

-Mr Yamashita still works for me strictly because Honour Katsumoto took him on as a protege, and I really don't want to let Strength & Honour go because they are locker room leaders and I like the idea of having them around as it's realistic. They work like 5 times a year and always lose.

-Sean Girven is a damn superstar for me, which is hard because he is the third gaijin behind EVR and the extremely fast rise of Seven Brandt. I try to stay at least semi-realistic, so it's tough to find a role for him. I've still been using him in a tag team with Nathan Jordan as Generation Next, but I want to give him a singles run with a title so badly. He had a short IC reign and has had countless world title shots that he always loses. I need a placeholder reign between Yamawaki and EVR in 2022 so those two can battle at HOI a final time (with Oda FINALLY beating him in the main event!), so I might give it to Girven, a la Jay White in 2019.

-Pain & Torture never really did anything for me. I gave them a reign or two but they sucked in the ring. They were basically placeholder champions while I had other plans for a team or wanted a short singles run for someone in a tag team, which I did with Kato.

-Furosuto sucked for me too. It's a shame because every other player I've seen in this thread had good plans for him.

-Ram Diablo, a good worker who went south in a heartbeat. He works Canadian independents since 2019.

-I like the Young Lions Cup idea, I floated that idea for myself just yesterday, but nixed it altogether. That being said, I am shocked you are using Dragon Prince as a young lion! I know he's young but he is so talented and is loyal to Shikoku Pro (he starts off with loyalty right?) so I just use him as a top junior guy. 96 SQ is nothing to scoff at!

-Waotaka Eda is another guy who started off in decline so I could never find a role for him. Once I hired Eikichi in 2018, they had a long run and I think three reigns as champions as Warrior Code before I finally let Eda go in 2020.

With those out of the way, I have a few questions for you Levitical:

-I see you signed most of the DRAGON main event scene, as did I, so is your DRAGON similar to mine in that they basically suck now? Most of their starting roster has left and they are stuck with scraps and without a TV deal.

-You said AWF is flailing, which I didn't even think was possible. What are they like right now?

-Do you have plans for Sean Girven in the future? And Nathan Jordan? Both of them can run their respective divisions for me if I honestly wanted them to.

-Is Deguchi still giving you high ratings?

-Who do you think will be Eikichi's partners? Older guys or new upstarts?

I just finished the Ozeki Summit and now go into the United Cup. Kinjo beat Girven in the final to give him a final run on top now that EVR will be enveloped in a long story with Seven Brandt. Kinjo will beat EVR for the title in May, and Brandt will turn on EVR and split RENEGADES into two factions whose members are TBD. Brandt's faction will be named Mutiny, as he rebelled against his leader.

I haven't had a major shakeup regarding factions since 2016, so the middle tour of 2021 is all about that. The RENEGADES fracture and Eikichi-gun starting are the focal points.

Here's my game in May 2021 for anyone interested:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/2rzxbipmgagujm4/UPJ_May_2021.zip/file

TLLK · April 13, 2020

I like the idea of Jung DRAGON winning the Junior Mountain Cup. I was a huuuge fan of him in my DRAGON save awhile back, so I brought him into UPJ, but he went into time decline like a year later and lost all his skills overnight is seemed.

Dragon is No. 2 only to Kinjo in my Show Stoppers tab on the Creative Meeting. I've been fortunate with Time Decline at the moment, only Graham Mackenzie and Ram Diablo have it at the moment. He could have an incredible junior rivalry with Storm in the future.

Yamawaki winning the Summit is always good. So talented. I never used Christian Prophet for whatever reason. Maybe I just saw him as a hardcore guy, but then again he has done very well in DIASPORA and HONOUR. I like that you used the Ozeki Summit event as more of a normal PPV, rather than a one-match show.

Since I'm such a big fan of Okada, I find booking Yamawaki so fun. But then I realized he had his title run via UPJ Invitational shot instead of winning the Summit, so getting it here made total sense.

And Prophet is a machine in angles and got insanely over in Japan — A across the board —*despite him being No. 5 among the five stable aces in terms of success and wins.

As for the Summit, me moving back Ascension (my version of NJPW's Dominion) because of the bigger Junior Mountain tournament made me fuse what I would normally do there into the Summit Final.

I like the Hall of Immortals card a lot. Obvious good main event, if Jung DRAGON is still talented then he should have a great match with the ultra-skilled Matsuo. Huge tag title match too. Scott Hart must've cost you a pretty penny to take him away from America. IC match in a steel cage is different, so I am interested to see how you make that puro-friendly. The Fallen is a great name for Cody and Grace. I think they're both Small sized, so putting them in a tag is definitely a good move so they can compete. If you have Yasutake, it may be a disservice to hold him to an Openweight match, unless he just hasn't gotten over yet.

- I'll get to this later, but AWF has stuck around at Cult while PWI has stayed steady at National. The wrestling industry and the economy in the U.S. are very low, so I got to broke the bank to go get Hart.

- Excellent chemistry between Grace and Cody have made The Fallen a red-hot tag team for The Brotherhood. Grace is in the Next Big Things for me still, so there might be a single run coming from him down the road, even if he's small.

- The cage match was just an idea, know it's not very puro. I'm trying to figure out a way to get a Juro-EVR match where interferences and all that won't happen. Any suggestions?

- Yasutake just isn't getting over for me yet. Maybe it's a bad roll or something. The Summit helped him some, maybe that can turn things on for him.

-I so badly wish I could've used Deguchi in my game, but when I started the game he was already deep in time decline a 41 years old unfortunately. It was a huge challenge to pull a 90 rated match out of him. I let him go in in January 2020 with a farewell show because I barely used him. No one else has signed him either.

This makes me sad. Deguchi has been the centerpiece to my two favorite feuds so far, and Deguchi-gun just freaking owns as a stable name.

I'm happy you signed Eikichi Minamoto back to UPJ. He is 42 years old for me right now and has not started declining at all yet. In this upcoming tour he will be started a new faction named Eikichi-gun (Minamoto-gun is too many syllables lol) with a bunch of other unaligned guys including Magnus Stonebreaker.

He's a heck of a comrade for Kinjo in The United Throne. Not going to be an ultra star or even a serious world title contender, but he clicks so well with so many people.

-Junichi Matsuo was a stud in my game, and I gave him the Junior title in Nov. 2017. He lost it two months later, and then in February of 2018 just a month after losing the title he suffered a spinal injury at a LETHAL event and retired. He's a talented manager now and I've thought about bringing him in to lead a small crew (Matsuo-gun).

He's starting to take off for me. Perfect in RENEGADES, already has a past connection to TEMPEST, rocks in promos, and just fits the cocky nature of the stable. I hired his girlfriend to be a manager for the stable, and it's worked out quite well. I hate that he had to retire for you, but man, I love the idea of him as a stable leader as a mouthpiece.

-It's cool to see that you used Eli Morton for a match. He was fired by AWF in April 2019 after making racist comments. It took literally two years for that penalty to go away, and so I JUST signed him in April 2021 at 38 years old, which is an off month so now I'm going into May 2021 with him. I'm not sure what to do with him because I have the rest of the year planned out already, but I might give him a world title match against Kinjo in like September before Kinjo faces Oda at HOI.

I started an alliance with PWI and GBWF and took the Puro Society logo from the database. It's great to be able to borrow PWI guys for one-offs, especially with Morton's past with UPJ. At some point, he's going to either face off with his old FlatLine partner Eda or team up again.

-I'm sad you let TOKI INK go! He is by no means a stud worker and is definitely a career midcarder, but I like using him in an enforcer role, i.e. Bad Luck Fale to Fergus Storm's Prince Devitt.

I might have been too reactionary in just not re-upping with him because he hadn't worked out for me, because I like the character and the idea of him. But man, he just wasn't clicking.

Mr Yamashita still works for me strictly because Honour Katsumoto took him on as a protege, and I really don't want to let Strength & Honour go because they are locker room leaders and I like the idea of having them around as it's realistic. They work like 5 times a year and always lose.

I cut bait with Strength and Honour early, and Yamashita never picked up a mentor. Sad, because I thought there was potential there.

Sean Girven is a damn superstar for me, which is hard because he is the third gaijin behind EVR and the extremely fast rise of Seven Brandt. I try to stay at least semi-realistic, so it's tough to find a role for him. I've still been using him in a tag team with Nathan Jordan as Generation Next, but I want to give him a singles run with a title so badly. He had a short IC reign and has had countless world title shots that he always loses. I need a placeholder reign between Yamawaki and EVR in 2022 so those two can battle at HOI a final time (with Oda FINALLY beating him in the main event!), so I might give it to Girven, a la Jay White in 2019.

Girven is on the cusp of becoming a big deal for me. I'm thinking that when Deguchi starts to decline, he puts his attention on Girven becoming the next top gaijin in the promotion. The Best Buds trio of Girven-Igelsias-Jordan have been the backbone of Deguchi-gun.

Pain & Torture never really did anything for me. I gave them a reign or two but they sucked in the ring. They were basically placeholder champions while I had other plans for a team or wanted a short singles run for someone in a tag team, which I did with Kato.

Yeah, Ignite Zero coming back for a run with the belts is the beginning of the end for P&T. They both have gotten popped for steroids recently and are just alright in the ring now. They were big-time weapons for Deguchi when he turned on Kinjo, but now they're just temperamental gatekeepers.

-Furosuto sucked for me too. It's a shame because every other player I've seen in this thread had good plans for him.

Furosoto's performance skills are excellent for me right now, and I loved the idea of Storm being threatened by him as soon as he joined RENEGADES. The switch to being a face and the blue mask was fun, and it gave Iesada something to do — trying to reform him as a "coach" of sorts and taking the junior division back from the clutches of RENEGADES and The Brotherhood.

-Ram Diablo, a good worker who went south in a heartbeat. He works Canadian independents since 2019.

Ram had good chemistry with Eda, which made sense for a tag title run. Eda is always going to be a B-tier worker for me, so they helped each other out for a while. But now Diablo is starting to wear down, and I might not keep Eda around forever.

-I like the Young Lions Cup idea, I floated that idea for myself just yesterday, but nixed it altogether. That being said, I am shocked you are using Dragon Prince as a young lion! I know he's young but he is so talented and is loyal to Shikoku Pro (he starts off with loyalty right?) so I just use him as a top junior guy. 96 SQ is nothing to scoff at!

I *just* now was able to sign Dragon Prince because he finally met some sort of owner goal — either basics or safety, I think —*but he won't be a young lion for too long. Also "Young Lion" is a loose definition there. It's mostly "tournament for young dudes who haven't gotten out of enhancement/opener status yet."

-I see you signed most of the DRAGON main event scene, as did I, so is your DRAGON similar to mine in that they basically suck now? Most of their starting roster has left and they are stuck with scraps and without a TV deal.

DRAGON doesn't have a TV deal either and are basically where they started at, popularity-wise. Naruto, who I let go because he was in time decline and wasn't exclusive to me, is still the head booker and the champion at 43. They've still got Jay Paro and Jarid Hart, but the top real-deal talent is gone and they've signed a bunch of weird indy dudes.

-You said AWF is flailing, which I didn't even think was possible. What are they like right now?

Still at Cult (B- across the board in the US and has been stuck there for a while), behind a National PWI (B+ in the US), which is just behind me in the global rankings. Not sure if there was a scandal or something, because I can't figure out how they've plateaued while PWI is decently ahead. They're also strong financially, which makes the Hart poach even weirder, now that I look at it.

-Do you have plans for Sean Girven in the future? And Nathan Jordan? Both of them can run their respective divisions for me if I honestly wanted them to.

Jordan hasn't quite caught on as a singles guy yet, but as I mentioned earlier, yes to Girven. Jordan will probably get there soon. I love his work.

-Is Deguchi still giving you high ratings?

Hasn't had anything lower than a B+ since the middle of last year. Machine.

-Who do you think will be Eikichi's partners? Older guys or new upstarts?

Not sure yet. The United Throne needs more blood outside of being Kinjo + Eikichi + Kozue and HashiWara in the junior division. This might be where a Yasutake push fits in.

Dalton · April 13, 2020

Still at Cult (B- across the board in the US and has been stuck there for a while), behind a National PWI (B+ in the US), which is just behind me in the global rankings. Not sure if there was a scandal or something, because I can't figure out how they've plateaued while PWI is decently ahead. They're also strong financially, which makes the Hart poach even weirder, now that I look at it.

That is so weird to me. In every single TVerse game I've played, AWF steals a bunch of PWI guys like Scott Hart, Tyler Mercury, Marco De Francesco, Eli Morton. They dominate.

I started an alliance with PWI and GBWF and took the Puro Society logo from the database. It's great to be able to borrow PWI guys for one-offs, especially with Morton's past with UPJ. At some point, he's going to either face off with his old FlatLine partner Eda or team up again.

What's this logo you're referring to? I don't have it for some reason..

TLLK · April 13, 2020

They’ve got Mercury, I believe, but that’s it. PWI has been able to hold onto their dudes. It’s strange.

And the logo is the *American* Puro Society one. Forgot the American in there. It’s not great, but it’s a placeholder and something I can jettison for a name.

Dalton · April 13, 2020

They’ve got Mercury, I believe, but that’s it. PWI has been able to hold onto their dudes. It’s strange.

And the logo is the *American* Puro Society one. Forgot the American in there. It’s not great, but it’s a placeholder and something I can jettison for a name.

Since you have Graham Mackenzie, have you thought about bringing in the other GBWF guys for a run? I have a great stable with Gilmour, Danny McManus, Darren Williams, Staffordshire Saints, and Thomas Beaumont. I kept Graham Mackenzie as an opponent to them because he was in United Throne.

I know it's a lot of foreigners, but by keeping them banded together as an outsider faction instead of integrating them directly into the roster then it makes it more realistic and gives them all a purpose.

TLLK · April 13, 2020

I can dig it, especially since I've got Hart and Gilmour together now. Mackenzie just hit Time Decline, but I like the idea of a British/European outsider stable. Could also use this to freshen up Deguchi-gun and FEARLESS with some young talent.

Dalton · April 13, 2020

I can dig it, especially since I've got Hart and Gilmour together now. Mackenzie just hit Time Decline, but I like the idea of a British/European outsider stable. Could also use this to freshen up Deguchi-gun and FEARLESS with some young talent.

I wouldn't be able to do this as I've already been booking them for years, but you could potentially go a different route and host a co-promoted tour with GBWF as @old_gregge did a few pages back with CLLM. McManus and Williams have been working in Japan since I started the game, working numerous tours with basically every company in Japan, so they are plenty over enough, assuming they have done the same in yours. Align a guy with a certain stable for a week or two tour, end it with a big (well, mid-sized) show that gives your Intercontinental Champion an extra defense against McManus or Williams or something. The Staffordshire Saints are not over at all to start but you could pad a tag title defense in there as well!

TLLK · April 13, 2020

This save is really making me hope Japan in the C-Verse is strong for 2020. Although I’ve never been crazy about the Burning Hammer name, I’d love to take them for a spin when it comes out.

Dalton · April 19, 2020

Just finished June 2021 with UPJ, which means I am two out of three months into the middle (May-July) tour. It was probably my most noteworthy tour thus far due to the shakeups that occurred.

May: United Cup & Stars of Battle Tour

The United Cup was a decent tour. It spanned 5 nights and was host to a number of 80-89 rated matches with the only one higher than that (90) being the United Cup Final, in which Danny McManus scored a huge upset over Oda Yamawaki in the final. McManus also defeated Kintaro Kinjo and Sean Girven (who I kayfabed as a favorite to win the tournament due to him being seen as a future megastar) before besting Oda.

There’s a few reasons why I put Danny McManus, an Englishman, over one of the Three Pillars of UPJ in the final. Firstly, I didn’t want another Erik van Rijn/Oda match yet, nor did I want another Kinjo/Oda match. If Kinjo is the Summit winner, EVR is the champion, and Oda is the Cup Winner, then it seems like UPJ relies wayyy too much on them. The three of them have had plenty of matches between each other and I am trying to save title matches between them for Hall of Immortals so I don’t “oversaturate,” even though the game doesn’t recognize that. Secondly, Zack Sabre Jr. won the 2018 New Japan Cup by beating Naito, Ibushi, SANADA, and Tanahashi. That’s a murderer’s row and if he could do it, then McManus can too

Now the main event of Procession of Champions is set with the winner of Erik van Rijn and Kintaro Kinjo at Stars of Battle versus Danny McManus.

The tour shows leading to Stars of Battle were standard, except the RENEGADES team of EVR/Seven Brandt/Fergus Storm/sometimes TOKI INK constantly defeated Kinjo’s Hall of the United Throne team, with Seven Brandt picking up the pinfall each and every time.

Stars of Battle was a fantastic show, best wrestling show in the first half of 2021 actually.

-Hiroaki Yamato (21 yr old game generated Ozeki Dojo graduate who is 100% the future best wrestler in the world no question) defeated Nicolo Calicchio of the IWF to retain the UPJ International Openweight Championship

-Generation Next (Sean Girven & Nathan Jordan) beat Seven Brandt and Fergus Storm to retain the tag belts when Girven pinned Storm

-Cameron Cody retained the junior title in a three-way with Dragon Prince and Alejandro Lopez

-Kintaro Kinjo defeated Erik van Rijn to become the NEW UPJ Heavyweight Champion in ANOTHER 100 rated match! I don’t know what I did but after years of playing TEW, I just got my first two 100 matches within like 10 shows of each other.

The real story is what happened after the main event. As Kinjo was celebrating, EVR stood back up and walked over to Kinjo. Kinjo dropped the championship ready to fight against The Renegade. However, EVR picked the title back up and handed it to Kinjo before shaking his hand. Kinjo left the ring and left EVR alone, allowing the almost 40,00 fans in Hokkaido to give him a standing ovation. As he soaked in the applause, Seven Brandt came down to the ring and embraced him, but it’s a swerve! Brandt planted him with the Seventh Sign (double-underhook DDT) in the middle of the ring! Down came TOKI INK and OMURA, both standing off with Brandt before pausing…and putting the boots to EVR! And now Fergus Storm came running down the aisle and squared off with the three mutineers, but backed off and left the ring, seemingly conflicted. Brandt gave one more Seventh Sign to EVR before the three of them posed over his lifeless body to end Stars of Battle 2021.

The stables are now changed quite a bit, with two new factions forming here in May, with Eikichi-gun being the other one. The original plan was for Eikichi Minamoto to lead a heelish crew of bullies to reassert his position in the company by taking the Openweight title and becoming the mini-“final boss” of the belt, a la Shibata or Hiroki Goto. Unfortunately, he was put out of action for a year with Adhesive Capsulitis, which may or may not end his career? Not sure how that injury works. I hope it doesn’t because he isn’t in time decline yet even at 42 years of age. Now, Eikichi is playing a manager role, recruiting unaffiliated talent that are “lost in the shuffle” and would be stronger in numbers. Basically guys that are talented or interesting but that I have no immediate plans for.

Current faction lineup from most face to most heel:

Hall of the United Throne

HW: Kintaro Kinjo, Captain UPJ, Evan Kuja, Hiroaki Yamato, Gao Xi

JHW: Kozue, Jin Fujiwara, Shingo Hashi

FEARLESS

HW: Oda Yamawaki, Sean Girven, Daijiro Otsuka

JHW: Nathan Jordan, Kris Phoenix

RENEGADES (now a neutral faction)

HW: Erik van Rijn, Kato, Goto (Ignite Zero joined after seeing what Brandt did to him)

JHW: Fergus Storm (eventually sided with EVR in June), Alejandro Lopez

The Crown (mix of GWBF and DRAGON talents)

HW: James Gilmour, Danny McManus, Darren Williams, Arron Lennox, Owen Richmond, Thomas Beaumont

JHW: Cameron Cody, Ryotaro Naruto, Paul Crowley, Ebi Kadivar

The Kings of Wrestling

HW: Atonga, Leonzio Battaglia, Nicolo Calicchio, Tommaso Calicchio (Italian trio collectively known as The Families), Shinji Uchikawa

JHW: Talisman, Dragon Prince

Eikichi-gun

HW: Eikichi Minamoto (currently a manager), Magnus Stonebreaker, Bray Fulner, Kohei Hidaka

JHW: Tiger Singh

Mutiny (good name right? Rose up against their leader)

HW: Seven Brandt, TOKI INK, OMURA

JHW: Meiyoshin, Daga Verde

June: Junior Mountain Cup and Destiny events

The 2021 Junior Mountain Cup was the biggest yet, expanding from one 8-man block to two 10-man blocks! I could probably never do this again. It was so much booking. Literally 5 shows a week for three weeks.

It was a pretty standard tournament. At the finals, Meiyoshin beat longtime rival Talisman. The two of them actually won the 2018 Junior Tag Crown before splitting and feuding. Meiyoshin now has a title shot against Cameron Cody.

I also threw together a Dr. Texas tribute show on a Sunday during the tour, as he passed away the week before. He hadn’t worked for UPJ since 1990, but had two Heavyweight title reigns with two tag title reigns, so I felt like I should do a quick show in his honor.

After the tournament, the Road of Destiny shows were rough. Seven Brandt, reigning Intercontinental champion and hottest act in UPJ, was injured until like 3 days after the final Destiny show, and Junior champ Cameron Cody was put out of action until mid-July. Brandt was supposed to lose to James Gilmour due to interference from EVR. So two title matches for a split-tour month are gone. Oh well, I had to improvise and basically use Destiny Genesis on Saturday as a set-up show for Destiny of Wrestling on Sunday.

Destiny Genesis:

-EVR beat Jung DRAGON in Jung’s one-night return (he is terrible now, 39 performance rating)

-Talisman & Dragon Prince defeated Bludfire (Blood TIGER & Ryder) to retain the junior tag titles in a match just to get another defense in.

-Nicolo Calicchio defeated Nathan Jordan in a match before their tag title match tomorrow

-Ignite Zero beat Kintaro Kinjo & Oda Yamawaki in a special tag team main event (originally this was the Brandt/Gilmour IC match but plans had to get pushed back)

Destiny of Wrestling:

-Hiroaki Yamato over Paul Crowley to retain the Openweight title

-Eternal Italy (Leonzio Battaglia & Nicolo Calicchio) defeated Generation Next to win the tag team titles! I want to give Girven another singles push as IC champion soon, probably at Hall of Immortals, so they needed to lose to an established team, and Eternal Italy was the perfect team for it.

-Kintaro Kinjo defeated Kato to retain the Heavyweight title in a slightly disappointing match with a 90 rating. Previously they’d hit 94/95.

June was definitely a rough month. On the bright side, Procession of Champions should be a good show, and Seven Brandt will be back soon so I can resume (start) the RENEGADES/Mutiny storyline.

Quick champions roll call before July starts:

UPJ Heavyweight Champion: Kintaro Kinjo (3rd reign, 1 defense)

UPJ Intercontinental Champion: Seven Brandt (1st reign, 3 defenses)

UPJ International Openweight Champion: Hiroaki Yamato (1st reign, 2 defenses)

UPJ International Tag Team Champions: Eternal Italy (Leonzio Battaglia & Nicolo Calicchio) (1st reign, 0 defenses)

UPJ Junior Heavyweight Champion: Cameron Cody (2nd reign, 7 defenses)

UPJ Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions: Talisman & Dragon Prince (1st reign, 2 defenses)

pate · April 19, 2020

Dalton, don't you know I'm trying to take a break from TEW until the demo comes out? These posts are making it so hard!

Dalton · April 20, 2020

At this point I’m probably just stinking up the thread with my victory lap posts, and I don't want to derail other discussions going on. So I apologize for this but I just like talking about UPJ sooo here we go

Procession of Champions 2021 is in the books, and thus the second leg of 2021 is complete. It was a successful show, pretty much saving the lack of quality of the rest of the tour. After a disappointing United Cup, decent Junior Mountain Cup and injury-riddled June, July was a lighter schedule and the final event had a great card.

Procession of Champions 2021

-Opening 6-man tag in which Mutiny (Seven Brandt/OMURA/Daga Verde) defeated RENEGADES (Alejandro Lopez/Kato/Goto). Had to put over the new faction in the opener.

-Talisman & Dragon Prince retained the Junior Heavyweight tag titles against the Thunder Dragons duo of Hiryu and Rising Sun. Hiryu has been a strong junior midcarder for me, and so I brought in his tag team partner for the tour and title match.

-James Gilmour beat Magnus Stonebreaker to retain the Intercontinental Championship in a surprisingly great match with a 90 rating. Stonebreaker is improving every day and Gilmour is declining ever so slowly, but I expected a low 80s match.

-Oda Yamawaki over Atonga in a get-Oda-on-the-card-match

-Erik van Rijn over TOKI INK in the first of the Destroy Mutiny matches. Post match Brandt ran down to the ring with a chair, sending EVR running as soon as the bell rang.

-Darren Williams over Hiroaki Yamato to win the International Openweight belt in a good match. Yamato is exploding in skill and popularity, and I want him in a position to chase a title and win it back at Hall of Immortals to give him that “Immortal Moment” (honestly sounds better than WrestleMania Moment).

-Eternal Italy (Leonzio Battaglia/Nicolo Calicchio) defeats Generation Next (Girven/Jordan) to retain the tag belts in a rematch from their match last month where EI won the titles. Sean Girven will be winning the IC belt from fellow Englishman Gilmour at Hall of Immortals.

-Meiyoshin won a hell of a match (93) against Cameron Cody to dethrone the champion after one full year to the day, and 8 defenses. This will lead right to Talisman vs. Meiyoshin at Hall of Immortals

-In the main event, Kintaro Kinjo retained the UPJ Heavyweight Championship against United Cup winner Danny McManus in a 99-rated match! Kinjo’s streak of unbelievable matches continues. He can do no wrong, even in the early stages of time decline. I almost don’t want to take the belt off of him anytime soon…but I have better plans.

Now with that in the bag, that leaves the final leg of 2021. That tour from September to November is host to the Junior Tag Classic, Super Tag League, and the coveted Hall of Immortals! I hope to get through HoI by the time the TEW2020 demo comes out, as I think that the timing will line up nicely enough for me to finally put that bow on the game.

Procession of Champions ended up being the 501st show I booked in this game, which is wild to me because I can never focus on anything this long

xGus · April 20, 2020

Your save is very impressive Dalton, it's really cool to read all the story that you build. I like the involvement of the IWF it's cool to see this side of Europe. I wonder if UWT would be a good partnership for a Japanese company ? It could be a good choice for the heavyweight division ?

With your save I tried my luck with a touring company but it's difficult for me to find meaning behind all matches, it feels like for me that I just put 3v3 or 4v4 where I pick the wrestlers a bit "randomly" in the stable. I mean, it could be anyone from the two factions it would be same for me. Any advice to try have a logic behind all matches ?

I think I will try my luck again on TEW20, maybe with SPLASH! ? But I don't really know how to book the comedy parts.

Overall, I feel like I'm not really good at that game <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />

Dalton · April 20, 2020

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41411" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Your save is very impressive Dalton, it's really cool to read all the story that you build. I like the involvement of the IWF it's cool to see this side of Europe. I wonder if UWT would be a good partnership for a Japanese company ? It could be a good choice for the heavyweight division ?</div></blockquote> I've never taken a good luck at UWT or their talent so I can't say for sure how they would do in a partnership. I got lucky with the IWF guys, because I bought Nu-Extreme Wrestling in November 2017, and by that point in the game they had signed a good deal of the top guys in IWF. So when I pillaged N-EW, I brought some of them in. I actually started off with like 6 or 7 guys from N-EW, but I kept the top 3 most talented in Leonzio Battaglia, and Nicolo and Tommaso Calicchio. Leonzio and Nicolo have become uber-talented, especially Leonzio. If you were to try to forge an agreement with any European company, I would recommend IWF for sure. <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41411" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>With your save I tried my luck with a touring company but it's difficult for me to find meaning behind all matches, it feels like for me that I just put 3v3 or 4v4 where I pick the wrestlers a bit "randomly" in the stable. I mean, it could be anyone from the two factions it would be same for me. Any advice to try have a logic behind all matches ? </div></blockquote> This is by far the biggest problem in trying to stay "true" to puroresu. Basically, it is boring. There's no doubt about it. I've posted about this before, so I will link you to some posts about delving into the Japanese scene. <a href="http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2307484&postcount=441" rel="external nofollow">here</a> is an old post by Atticus, Bigpapa42 had a great post <a href="http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2385417&postcount=499" rel="external nofollow">here</a>, and I also posted my strategies <a href="http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2383908&postcount=488" rel="external nofollow">here </a>and <a href="http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2385414&postcount=498" rel="external nofollow">here</a>. I HIGHLY recommend reading through those posts to determine how you can piggyback off of them to make your own game more interesting. Basically there are a few key points that everyone follows: -Tournaments are key. Like do them now. I am active 9 months out of the year, and tournaments take place in 5 of them, whether they be round-robin G1-style or single/double elimination. -Something that can make a 2v2 faction match better is trying to find chemistry. Its a good feeling finding out two random midcarders in a faction have excellent chemistry, and can now be pushed as a tag title contender, and/or take a spot in the tag team tournament. It gives meaning to those who didn't have any before. -I also spoke on this a few times, but just in case you haven't seen it, booking tour shows isn't exactly required per se. I myself only book two tour shows a week (unless tournaments are taking place and require more). I would definitely get burned out. If you only want to do one show a week, then who cares its your game! <a href="http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2385731&postcount=507" rel="external nofollow">Here</a> is my standard year to year schedule. You can chop off some of those tour shows with no issue. I just do them because I like giving my talent more experience. Booking puroresu can be a test of patience, but just like NJPW in real life, the payoffs are so so so worth it. For instance, the G1 Climax ends in August, and the winner does not get his title shot until January. That's a looong time. But once January 4th comes around, the wait is well worth it. Like I said a few posts back about Erik van Rijn and Oda Yamawaki, that was a storyline with twists and turns over the span of 3 years plus. There was a lot of downtime between their encounters, but getting to those big matches at the end of the month and seeing the time I put in pay off was well worth it! One last tip about this, if you do 2 tour shows a week like me, and there's 3 weeks until the big show, you can do the same thing that NJPW does, which is book the 2 shows a week 90% the same, with a substitution here or there. I do 1.5 hour shows, so I usually only book 4 or 5 matches a show. It takes literally 5 minutes to book the first show, and then 3 minutes the next show because I'm using a very similar card. I'm just putting over the other team or something in order to build towards the big show. Also, I am almost certain that the scheduling system and other new features in TEW2020 will definitely help solve these issues of boredom <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41411" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I think I will try my luck again on TEW20, maybe with SPLASH! ? But I don't really know how to book the comedy parts. </div></blockquote> Can't help ya there, I am atrocious at comedy <img alt=":D" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />

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