Running a Touring Company

[Ciccio]

Hi guys, I'm thinking of starting a save creating a company that runs tours. Since it's my first time doing this, can someone give me tips on how usually a tour would be booked? Should I have a big event after the tour nights? Should I make tournaments or run storylines?

[mrwhippy]

Go into your schedule and get the game to create a tour schedule for you. Since it was tweaked a few patches ago it’s pretty spot on. You’re right in that you’ll get 8-10 tours a year and a big event at the end of each tour. Traditionally touring companies use a more realistic wrestling style that doesn’t require storylines but you can still utilise them to help build to the big shows and benefit from the extra heat.

 

Your touring shows (the smaller ones in between the big events) don’t affect your company popularity so don’t waste your big matches on here. Use multi man matches and occasional angles to progress your storyline but those 8-10 big events each year are what you need to focus on. It’s a lot different from a TV schedule company so it takes some time to get used to because you’re not required to do something big each week. I don’t use storylines myself because you start to lose heat on them if you don’t progress them often and sometimes I like to stretch a narrative over multiple tours (even years) so I just use Excel to keep track.

[Ciccio]

Thanks, so in those 8-10 tour events that I get every month what should I do? I thought about doing tournaments to build up to the championship matches for the inaugural champions at the big event, but after that?

[CGN91]

Thanks, so in those 8-10 tour events that I get every month what should I do? I thought about doing tournaments to build up to the championship matches for the inaugural champions at the big event, but after that?

 

I mean it's not so different to a "regular" schedule or a company with a TV show. Tournaments are an easy way to progress or build stories around two or more guys. It's a nice addon, but you can build stories without tournaments, too. If you're playing a japanese company you can build stories with multimen matches, let someone pin his nemesis etc.

 

There is no "Puro tour booking formular" because japanese companies are more diverse than the rest of the world.

[Gabriel]

The way I handled my most recent Japanese game in 2016 was to make it a company that focuses heavily on tournaments.

 

Year one was almost all tournaments.

 

I had tournaments for the Heavyweight and Heavyweight Tag Team Titles... the Junior Heavyweight and Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Titles... and then I also did a Trios Tournament for the Openweight Trios Championships and a Young Lion's Tournament.

 

All of that built up to a two week period at the end of year one, where I held my big end of year show, and then launched year two with a New Year's Dash type event.

 

From year two onward, I would continue to have those tournaments, but they would only be for the tournament championships... and I started adding other big events as I felt were necessary.

 

Non-tournament events would be built to with a Road To tour... so for instance, Endgame was my year end event... and in year four of my game, I decided to do a five show tour leading up to it. The Road to Endgame tour took place, setting the stage for the big matches at my year-end extravaganza.

 

I don't always book touring companies that tournament heavy, but I find it's a good way to introduce yourself to the idea of a touring company, and tournaments are just fun.

[Dalton]

<p>The structure of a touring company relies heavily on the schedule you choose to employ. Your best bet would be to go go cagematch . net and look at schedules for some Japanese companies. For instance, NJPW's schedule is usually a series of tour events ending with a big show that has all the title matches. Sometimes, there are two big shows at the end of the tour instead (called split tours), where one event might be headlined by a tag team title match, or an Intercontinental title match, and the second event is headlined by the Heavyweight title. Their tour shows are called something like "Road to the New Beginning" with the big show being called "The New Beginning in Osaka" or whatever. They also do plenty of tournaments throughout the year.</p><p> </p><p>

AJPW's schedule is similar, but not quite the same. I am not an avid follower of them, so I may be mistaken a bit, but I believe their tours have a semi-big first night of the tour in addition to their tour ending show. Their tours shows are called "Summer Action Series - Night #" with the big show having the same name ("Summer Action Series - Night 10" if night 10 were to be the last show).</p><p> </p><p>

What they both have in common is that the tour shows are almost all multi-man tag matches, with some singles against young lions or touring guys or whatever. <em>Usually </em>nothing of note happens on these shows, they're just primers for the big event. Titles matches are rare. For tournaments, the tour shows are obviously the tournament matches. </p><p> </p><p>

I am most familiar with NJPW, so I tend to borrow heavily from their type of schedule. For my current save with United Promotions Japan(which was in TEW2016 admittedly) which I have talked about endlessly in the ThunderVerse threads, I ran five tournaments throughout the year. Ozeki Summit was the G1 Climax/Champions Carnival tournament, the United Cup was a single-elimination tournament (a la New Japan Cup), Junior Mountain Cup was the junior heavyweight tourney (a la Best of the Super Juniors), Junior Tag Classic was single-elimination junior tag, and the Super Tag League was the main tag team tournament (World Tag League/World's Strongest Tag Determination League). </p><p> </p><p>

I do these tournaments for a few reasons. To keep myself interested and something to look forward to, to determine contenders for titles, and to make booking tour shows a million times faster and easier. </p><p> </p><p>

You don't need to book a ton of tour shows either. If you feel like you will get burnt out, then book one a week or however else you want. Since it's not a traditional TV-TV-TV-TV-PPV schedule, you can skip if you want. </p><p> </p><p>

For the most part, storylines are advanced in-ring, as it's not sports entertainment. Acting heelish in a match, attacking someone after a match, calling someone out at the end of the show on the microphone, etc. Puroresu storylines are more subtle and long-term. </p><p> </p><p>

I'm writing off the cuff here so its a little disorganized. Ultimately, how you book is up to you. If you want to throw in a more Western style with sports entertainment stories and your product allows it, then do it! Whatever makes the game more fun for you!</p>

[CGN91]

What Dalton said is absolutely right! You should check out this <a href="http://purolove.com/" rel="external nofollow">Website</a>. A few things are in german, but you will understand most part of it. You can search easily in years etc. Maybe it will help you a bit to organize your schedule.

[Dalton]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="CGN91" data-cite="CGN91" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="49173" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>What Dalton said is absolutely right! You should check out this <a href="http://purolove.com/" rel="external nofollow">Website</a>. A few things are in german, but you will understand most part of it. You can search easily in years etc. Maybe it will help you a bit to organize your schedule.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Jeez how have I never heard of that site.. I can totally tell that's where you get your layout for your WCG diary from <img alt=":p" 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 use cagematch for <em>everything</em>, but that looks like a great tool to quickly look stuff up as well. New bookmark added!</p>

[CGN91]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Dalton" data-cite="Dalton" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="49173" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Jeez how have I never heard of that site.. I can totally tell that's where you get your layout for your WCG diary from <img alt=":p" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><p> </p><p> I use cagematch for <em>everything</em>, but that looks like a great tool to quickly look stuff up as well. New bookmark added!</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Definetly one of my inspirations for sure. The layout was very common in "German Puroresu dynasty writers" years ago, so i had my inspiration from the guys back in the days, too. Great times, unfortunately most german dynasty forums are dead, but that's another topic:p</p>