Deadlines

I was talking to a friend who doesn't involve himself in E-Fedding. I was telling him about the general slow nature of the leagues on FWC, late cards due to people not getting matches written on time, etc, etc. And he said to me "Do these cards have deadlines?"

And that was really a sort of illuminating moment. That we don't put deadlines on card production. We have deadlines for Rp, but at some point, it become acceptable for the sake of finishing the card, to wait till every match was handed in. Short-forming is a 'necessary evil' that we never deem necessary.

Cards always have to be big, and if not big, than at the very least they have to be good. NFW was a bit late as we all know with Crash 50...I'm hopeful that Sin City Showdown gets posted this week so New Era can get off and running and EPW can get back to what's been a good turn-around on it's cards. NLW has hit a bump in the road because Billy's become active in training for an MMA match and school (as if such things could ever be more important than E-Fedding. I mean I'd only ever not bother writing matches if I was doing something important, like high end raiding in WoW.)

I posted an alternate reality fed in the blog, now for another one. Deadline Wrestling Fed. It posts that a card will be up at a certain time and it shows up at that time, even if it's just 'guy X beat guy Y at 14:21 with a power bomb'...Just gets results posted when they say they will, even if the matches aren't written out. This would give all the card writers a sense of urgency to get stuff done, because you know the fed head is dead serious that he's posting whatever he's got come deadline.

Would deadlines help? What is your acceptable level of waiting for a late card? When would you want stuff shortformed?