I sent this to Chad, figured I'd post my vote on my blog also.
1) Sean Stevens
2) Joe The Plumber
JTP and Stevens are to me the "Brock Vs Fedor" of FWC. Even with their impending meeting in a 5 way at Crash 50, they still aren't going to meet 1 on 1 in a neutral setting. I view JTP as the Fedor here, the unbeatable killer who always dominates everyone, but he's not as active as he should be. Before Lesnar came around a lot of people stopped bothering trying to rate Heavyweights, as clearly nobody was in Fedor's league, but there would be lots of debates that Anderson Silva had overtaken Fedor for #1 pound-for-pound in the world, because he was laying out everyone UFC put in front of him, while Fedor was doing nothing and now and then arm-barring 7 foot sideshow freaks. When Brock showed up and just bullrushed the UFC heavyweight division he became the UFC fanboys answer to Fedor. The one guy Fedor backers couldn't swear Fedor would beat.
It started with everyone saying "Oh Fedor would kill Brock" but then Brock started winning and winning, then he pounded out Couture, got his revenge against Mir. Meanwhile Fedor wasn't fighting much, when he finally did fight, somebody a 2nd round knockout over Brett Rogers was looked at as a weakness, and the polls on 'who would win Brock Vs Fedor' swung to Brock. Is it fair or logical? Maybe not, but that's how it was.
You ask people how they would have voted in August, JTP wins this, he's undefeated, the whole point of Crash 50 was that he's so unbeatable Eddie Mayfield has to go out of the league to find people to SOMEHOW defeat this guy, to finally pry the NFW World Title from him. But Crash 50 hasn't shown up...Stevens won the big Wrestleverse main event...Then cemented his control over EPW with his big win over Westscott and taking up leadership of Anthology. He's at the center of everything in EPW, and for the last few months EPW's been the center of FWC.
Stevens might not have the same aura as JTP, but he's got the belt of the biggest, most active company, and nobody's taken it from him in a year, so he has to be #1.
3) Shawn Hart
This was my toughest selection, and as I write this I still don't know if it's really right. Hart's in EPW's major storyline, he has the New Era World Title, so he's narrowly #3 over.
4) Impulse
NFW TV Champion, I know all about the crazy goings on with his feud with Castor Strife, Semi-Finals of TEAM. Impulse is just a really interesting character and I feel like people like how different he is, he's found an identity in FWC.
5) The First
Formed HOPE, is in the main event at Aggression 50 Vs Stevens, has been around the main event of EPW all year.
6) Felix Red
Now NGEN Champ, was WFW Champ. In Crash 50 main event.
7) Cameron Cruise
Was the de-facto leader of Anthology, TV Champ in WFW:NE, held the IC belt in EPW most of the year, also active in NFW.
8) Layne Winters
TV Champ in EPW, in the HOPE/Anthology storyline. If he's not higher then this next year I'll be floored.
9) Jared Wells
Held the EPW Tag belts all year, has main evented EPW cards, currently I’d say he’s #2 in Anthology.
10) Fusenshoff
This was between Anarky and Fusenshoff for me, I flipped a coin and it came up Fuse. Held the TV Title in EPW, was in the big angle with Stalker, was in a main event win on Agg 48. I think he’ll be big in EPW this year.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Ink and Piercings
Since asking everyone how loaded their characters were, I figured I'd ask everyone another question about their characters, and that is, what kinds of tattoos and piercings they have. All of that is very visual and in a text based format, it's not really brought up a lot, but when you watch WWE, you can't help but notice Randy Orton has both his arms as sleeves of tattoos, and the various ink work others have had done.
So away we go, starting with my rogue's gallery.
FIRST- Had his ears pierced before his 'awakening' or whatever the hell you would call it and doesn't wear earrings. Has no tattoos.
CANYETA- Has a bunch of religious tattoos on his right arm, (Cross, Virgin Mary, the text of The 23rd Psalm in spanish) as he is, like most Mexicans, Catholic...Wears earrings now and again, has let a piercing on his right eyebrow heal over.
DOC- Has a tattoo of a King of Diamonds and a Ten of Spades on his left shoulder-blade, this was because Ryoko had demanded he get a tattoo and after much harassment he finally agreed to get a tattoo of a poker hand he won the $1000 buy-in tournament at Belliago with. He won the final hand with those cards and thus was stuck getting the tattoo. Has his ears pierced, also due to harassment from Ryoko.
So lemme know about your characters.
So away we go, starting with my rogue's gallery.
FIRST- Had his ears pierced before his 'awakening' or whatever the hell you would call it and doesn't wear earrings. Has no tattoos.
CANYETA- Has a bunch of religious tattoos on his right arm, (Cross, Virgin Mary, the text of The 23rd Psalm in spanish) as he is, like most Mexicans, Catholic...Wears earrings now and again, has let a piercing on his right eyebrow heal over.
DOC- Has a tattoo of a King of Diamonds and a Ten of Spades on his left shoulder-blade, this was because Ryoko had demanded he get a tattoo and after much harassment he finally agreed to get a tattoo of a poker hand he won the $1000 buy-in tournament at Belliago with. He won the final hand with those cards and thus was stuck getting the tattoo. Has his ears pierced, also due to harassment from Ryoko.
So lemme know about your characters.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
EPW Awards Part 3: Biggest Impact
As you can see from the above, it's only got 2 possible nominees, and that's because they are the only two possible winners. This one is very close in my eyes. So talk me out of this (but try to be nicer then Josh about the match of the year thing. That was just hostile.)
#2- Sean Stevens- Yeah he beat frigging everyone, retired JA and Westscott, sent Rocko Daymon into a career tailspin and made me just thrilled to even lose to the guy. He was in 3 of my 4 match of the year nominations and besides all that, held the EPW World Title the whole year. Heck writing all this makes me want to change my pick. Well too late now.
#1- Anthology- They dominated the main event of EPW...From Agg 44 to agg 49 every card has had Anthology in the main event. If you were not in Anthology, you were fighting Anthology. They held the IC Title for most of the year and same with the tag belts and had Copycat nearly win the TV Title...Anthology spawned HOPE as a force to fight against it. They crushed TEAM so the finals never came out...Oh wait they didn't do that? Oh well...In the end the Anthology engine of evil was to great for "Triple X" not to join it, so they get my vote, even if it might be the only one.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
EPW Break out star of the year
For a 'break out' star, I mean somebody who's not in the main event currently who I can see being in the main event in 2010. They might have main evented a time or two already, but they have the ability to break out and really main event in 2010.
(Note: I feel Jared Wells and Anarky already main eventers due to what's happened in EPW in their time here, Don't hit me Barry and Josh!)
#4 Copycat- Garth's a great Rp'er and Copycat is a great character. With Anthology's backing I can see Copycat moving up the ranks. For me I wish he'd be a bit more of a monster heel then a ego heel, I know he's the Smartest Player In The Game, but the dude is 6'4" and 280. He's Sheamus sized, he should be kicking ass like Sheamus.
#3 Fusenshoff- I'd most likely move him up to #2 if it wasn't for the fact that he's caught in the crossfire of the HOPE/Anthology conflict...I enjoyed Rp'ing with him for our tag match and I like Fuse a lot, once this storyline blows off, Fuse is primed to pick up the pieces from the wreckage.
#2 Sean Edmunds- Edmunds the handler has really come on strong as of late, and he has Anthology's backing. If Sean keeps up the level of work he's had on the last two shows I can see him being a threat to contend for any belt he wants in 2010.
#1 Layne Winters- Billy's busted his ass with Layne and it shows. When I was reading all his backstory Rp's before our First/Stevens match, I was just blown away by how dark a character Winters is. He's really the horrible underbelly of wrestling given form in E-Fedding. I feel like 2010 will be a big year for Winters, between the HOPE angle and Winters own personal demons of having to 'beat the clock' before his body gives out, I expect big things from him.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
EPW awards: Match of the year
With the year ending, I figured I'd give out my awards for EPW, starting with match of the year, I'll have a poll up for this, so ya'll can tell me how right/wrong I am about things.
So I put my 4 match of the year nominees up for your votes, and here's where I rank them.
#4 Sean Stevens Vs JA Vs Rocko Daymon: This is #4 for me because the build up for it was rushed, literally put together at the end of the last Aggression before Wrestleverse III, and the Rp was only 1 promo apiece from all three parties, and in the end, JA retired after the match and Rocko went on a downward spiral, so really only Stevens got a long term boost from the match. Still it was as good a match as I've written and did establish Stevens as the man in EPW, so it's on the list.
#3 Layne Winters Vs Copycat: Good Rp (For the time, which was during the horrible period when the forums kept crashing) built up by the match on the card before, and a great read from Straw, just a classic match, if this had been for the World Title instead of the TV Title, this would have been match of the year for me. Copycat didn't suffer for coming up short and Winters is positioned as a break out star in EPW.
#2 Sean Stevens Vs Marcus Westscott: Again great Rp while the forums were wacky, and a Straw epic that was on par with the ladder match at #3. This one truly cemented Stevens as a juggernaught, and was a fitting end to Westscott's run in EPW. This would be #1 if not for the fact that Westscott's build into this match got screwed up by Miles and Ice Tre vanishing and for the fact that Westscott retired.
#1 Sean Stevens Vs The First: "Oh You WHORE you!" was Billy's reply when I told him my rankings. And well, I did write this match, and my guy was in it, but it's my blog and I'll plead my case. I'm not going to say the match itself was in the ballpark of the two Strawian epics at 2 and 3, but the thing is, for EPW's history, this was the most important match of the year. Much as Forrest Griffin and Stephen Bonner wildly swinging at each other was UFC's most important fight (Or so Dana White's revisionist history tells us) this is the match that launched First's main event singles push and established him as a threat to win the World Title, and it had Stevens win and keep the belt, which was something a defending champion hadn't done in forever. Both guys got over from this match, and they are from the looks of things heading towards an even more epic re-match.
And if you don't buy my reasoning, well at the very least I'm not an awful person like Billy who makes people quit this hobby.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
What's my line
Lines mean different things in different situations. Lines in chess mean a certain opening, hell in chess lines are so well defined, many opens branch off from moves that are far down the line. The Roy Lopez opening is so well defined that the book on it lists 'with 3 ... a6' and 'without 3 ... a6' meaning black's third move is so likely to be a6 that they branch off ideas based off what that move, think of all the opening moves possible in chess and then the moves after those moves, and yet this opening is so well know black's third move is a large point of discussion.
A line in poker is a way you represent your hand. Let's say you have an Ace and a Ten of diamons, the flop is a King with 2 other cards, and there's 2 diamonds out there. You know in you heart of hearts your opponent has a King...Now let's assume there's 10 bucks in the pot, he bets 10 bucks, you call...The turn isn't a heart, he checks, and you check, the river is also not a heart, and he checks again, and now you bet 50 bucks in a bluff trying to steal the pot. Your opponent hems and haws but in the end he calls, because he thinks you had a busted flush draw, and he was right, he saw what your hand was by the line you played with it.
Now, let's say that same hand happens, but when he bets the 10, you decide to raise to 30, he calls with his King, but he's concerned, on the turn, he checks, you bet 45 bucks, a little less then two thirds the pot, and he hems and haws and calls. On the river he checks and you now bet 200 dollars, a huge bet, with nothing but a busted flush draw. The thing is, the whole way you've represented a big hand, your line is that you have a monster hand. Your opponent finally decides to cut his losses and folds.
Now I'm sure you want me to get to the point, and the point is, there are lines we take in Rp feds, and often the line is defined by who does the first promo, kind of making them "White" in chess, Here's some examples
Debut Match in a league
White is the Debuting guy
Humble- "It's an honor to be here, and I'm fighting big star guy, and well it's gonna be a hell of a show.'
Cocky- "I don't know why I was booked against this bum, I'm gonna crush him and start gunning for belts right quick, I'm running this league over."
Indifferent- "New company, another paycheck, I guess I'll kick your ass, and you are again?"
White is the guy fighting the debuting guy
Respectful- "Welcome to league X, and I we're gonna tear the house down man."
Disgusted- "Of course management tries to use me as a stepping stone for the new guy, to hell with them and you, I'm gonna kick your ass!"
Weary- "Welcome new guy, more meat for the machine, they'll screw you like they've screwed everyone else, you should almost be thankful I'm going to start you off with a loss, give you a chance to escape."
Guys who have had a match before with a result.
White is the winner from the first match
Round 2 will be exciting!- "We had a great match, and that night, it was my night, who knows what will happen this time."
Round 2 is a joke!- "I've already crushed this loser, why the hell am I fighting him again? Oh right, you're there, well screw you loser, you're losing, again."
Round 2 is where I finish the job!- "I beat you last time, this time I END you!"
White is the loser from the first match.
Round 2 will even the score!- "We had a good match you got me, this time I get you!"
Round 2 will be different because I say so!- "Excuse X is why I lost (X= whatever my excuse is, yeah that's right motherfuckers, Algebra in E-Fedding blogs!) and that won't happen this time!"
Round 1 was business...Round 2...IS PERSONAL!- "Yeah I lost the match last time, but this time you're gonna lose even more then a match!"
Now that's the opening and you have to follow it, your leading promo should define your line for the period. If you have no respect for the piece of garbage you're fighting when you start promoing, you shouldn't find respect for them mid-way through the thread...If you lied through your teeth to start, keep lying, deny reality...If you told the truth to start, keep with it. You want your story to be one that's solid all the way through, you might need new angles on it to keep it fresh, but you want the story to be coherent all the way through.
A line in poker is a way you represent your hand. Let's say you have an Ace and a Ten of diamons, the flop is a King with 2 other cards, and there's 2 diamonds out there. You know in you heart of hearts your opponent has a King...Now let's assume there's 10 bucks in the pot, he bets 10 bucks, you call...The turn isn't a heart, he checks, and you check, the river is also not a heart, and he checks again, and now you bet 50 bucks in a bluff trying to steal the pot. Your opponent hems and haws but in the end he calls, because he thinks you had a busted flush draw, and he was right, he saw what your hand was by the line you played with it.
Now, let's say that same hand happens, but when he bets the 10, you decide to raise to 30, he calls with his King, but he's concerned, on the turn, he checks, you bet 45 bucks, a little less then two thirds the pot, and he hems and haws and calls. On the river he checks and you now bet 200 dollars, a huge bet, with nothing but a busted flush draw. The thing is, the whole way you've represented a big hand, your line is that you have a monster hand. Your opponent finally decides to cut his losses and folds.
Now I'm sure you want me to get to the point, and the point is, there are lines we take in Rp feds, and often the line is defined by who does the first promo, kind of making them "White" in chess, Here's some examples
Debut Match in a league
White is the Debuting guy
Humble- "It's an honor to be here, and I'm fighting big star guy, and well it's gonna be a hell of a show.'
Cocky- "I don't know why I was booked against this bum, I'm gonna crush him and start gunning for belts right quick, I'm running this league over."
Indifferent- "New company, another paycheck, I guess I'll kick your ass, and you are again?"
White is the guy fighting the debuting guy
Respectful- "Welcome to league X, and I we're gonna tear the house down man."
Disgusted- "Of course management tries to use me as a stepping stone for the new guy, to hell with them and you, I'm gonna kick your ass!"
Weary- "Welcome new guy, more meat for the machine, they'll screw you like they've screwed everyone else, you should almost be thankful I'm going to start you off with a loss, give you a chance to escape."
Guys who have had a match before with a result.
White is the winner from the first match
Round 2 will be exciting!- "We had a great match, and that night, it was my night, who knows what will happen this time."
Round 2 is a joke!- "I've already crushed this loser, why the hell am I fighting him again? Oh right, you're there, well screw you loser, you're losing, again."
Round 2 is where I finish the job!- "I beat you last time, this time I END you!"
White is the loser from the first match.
Round 2 will even the score!- "We had a good match you got me, this time I get you!"
Round 2 will be different because I say so!- "Excuse X is why I lost (X= whatever my excuse is, yeah that's right motherfuckers, Algebra in E-Fedding blogs!) and that won't happen this time!"
Round 1 was business...Round 2...IS PERSONAL!- "Yeah I lost the match last time, but this time you're gonna lose even more then a match!"
Now that's the opening and you have to follow it, your leading promo should define your line for the period. If you have no respect for the piece of garbage you're fighting when you start promoing, you shouldn't find respect for them mid-way through the thread...If you lied through your teeth to start, keep lying, deny reality...If you told the truth to start, keep with it. You want your story to be one that's solid all the way through, you might need new angles on it to keep it fresh, but you want the story to be coherent all the way through.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
How rich is your character?
All our characters are loaded with cash, or at least that's what we like to claim. Dan Ryan and Lindsay Troy are loaded enough to buy whole wrestling companies. Wrestling would have to be a major part of the US/World economy if the FWC-A-Verse was real. Health Care Reform would live or die in the Senate based on what the Wrestling lobby or "Big Wrestling" had to say about it...
So now I ask you, how rich is your character? I'll go down the list of my major characters first.
Doc Silver- Doc was born into money, that was always a part of the character, he's like BJ Penn in the sense that he never had to work a day in his life if he didn't have to, but he got into wrestling and made good money doing it anyhow. Doc's most likely worth about 4-5 million.
Bloodhunt- Bloodhunt might have made good coin in NFW, but he knew he'd have to work after the business was over. Currently has an ownership stake in a used car dealership somewhere in Maryland, wrestles in bingo halls/VFW Hall's for whatever money they pay him. He's middle class America, making 40K or so a year, maybe a little more. He has enough in the bank for a rainy day fund.
The First- He's new to the sport, we'll just assume UCW paid him OK with promises of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and then ran for the hills when the creditors came calling. He'd still be on a kind of low paying contract in EPW and A1E, his profit margin would really be how much of a cut does he get on his EPW merch. I'd assume he's making a little under 200K from all income sources combined, which seems great, but odds are with his size his career isn't going to last more then 15 years (If it even gets that far) so unless he knows he has to make a big score in wrestling or else his nightmare of being "Brian Nadalny" and working some shitty desk job to provide for his wife and kid will be one that comes true.
So how do you see your characters pay scale? Reply damn you!
So now I ask you, how rich is your character? I'll go down the list of my major characters first.
Doc Silver- Doc was born into money, that was always a part of the character, he's like BJ Penn in the sense that he never had to work a day in his life if he didn't have to, but he got into wrestling and made good money doing it anyhow. Doc's most likely worth about 4-5 million.
Bloodhunt- Bloodhunt might have made good coin in NFW, but he knew he'd have to work after the business was over. Currently has an ownership stake in a used car dealership somewhere in Maryland, wrestles in bingo halls/VFW Hall's for whatever money they pay him. He's middle class America, making 40K or so a year, maybe a little more. He has enough in the bank for a rainy day fund.
The First- He's new to the sport, we'll just assume UCW paid him OK with promises of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and then ran for the hills when the creditors came calling. He'd still be on a kind of low paying contract in EPW and A1E, his profit margin would really be how much of a cut does he get on his EPW merch. I'd assume he's making a little under 200K from all income sources combined, which seems great, but odds are with his size his career isn't going to last more then 15 years (If it even gets that far) so unless he knows he has to make a big score in wrestling or else his nightmare of being "Brian Nadalny" and working some shitty desk job to provide for his wife and kid will be one that comes true.
So how do you see your characters pay scale? Reply damn you!
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