WWE Brand Split?

[Misanthrope]

Anybody keen to give this a go?

Each of us would take one brand and book shows. Strict brand extension rules - no weird crossover appearances.

Five hires per brand from the world beyond.

I'm keen to book Raw or Smackdown. Who's in?

 

[Manurewa_Marlins]

Keen, I'll take Smackdown.

[email protected]

 

[Misanthrope]

I'm gonna go with Raw. Who wants to give ECW a shot?

 

[Manurewa_Marlins]

Someone should definitly jump on and take ECW. Ive got a few ideas already of what I want to do, aswell as who I want to bring in. Lets get this show rolling!

 

[Misanthrope]

A few 'ground rules', I guess.

I'm using EWR with the latest April update. I'd advise anyone joining in have this as well. If you don't know where to find it, let me know.

The game will start May 1st, but we'll assume Backlash was the last show prior to that.

How we'll run it is up for debate. Personally, I'd say the best way to do it is have someone (me, ostensibly) handle the data update side of things. Marlins could book the show in game using his data, send me the rundown, and I could book it into my copy of the sim.

As for PPVs - I am leaning towards returning to the old 'brand split' style - with only a few brand shared PPVs. I think this will give us all a chance to develop our own talents far more thoroughly. Schedule something like:

New Year's Revolution: Raw
Royal Rumble: Joint
No Way Out: Joint
Wrestlemania: Joint
Backlash: Smackdown
Judgement Day: Raw
Extreme Rules: Joint
The Great American Bash: Smackdown
Night of Champions: Joint
SummerSlam: Joint
Unforgiven: Raw
No Mercy: Smackdown
Cyber Sunday: Joint
Survivor Series: Joint
December 2 Dismember: ECW

Obviously ECW gets less PPV, but I'd suggest they at least get one match on every Raw/Smackdown specific show. What do you think?

Hires
As I said, we're all entitled to five straight up hires. In addition, we can each suggest up to 20 developmental hires. These are guys who aren't huge names that we'll put into training to improve and we'll have some kind of draft on them when they blossom.

As for the five - they can't be guys on written deals with TNA. I'd advise steering clear of guys like Main Event Mafia, Samoa Joe, Mick Foley, and AJ Styles entirely.

Marlins - can you PM me your five or post it here?

Mine are:
Bill Goldberg
Elijah Burke
Marcus Cor Van
+ 2 more TBA

 

[pennywisealfie]

ill do ECW and i choose:

The Rock
Brock Lesnar
Ken Shamrock
Tito Ortiz
Bret Hart

 

[Misanthrope]

PWA, while I do admire your enthusiasm, The Rock is retired. Brock Lesnar and Ken Shamrock I can give you. Ditto Tito.

Bret is available but can't work a match. Do you have EWR?

 

[pennywisealfie]

ahh ok, i had some things in mind, fantasy wise. none of these guys will be back in wrestling, but just thought it might be fun. i planned to build the whole thing around these guys so im no longer interested in doing ecw. sorry to waste your time. ecw is now available guys.

 

[Manurewa_Marlins]

Id like to see how Ortiz would do in the ring. Building ECW around him would have been very interesting. If no one takes ECW chris, we should just drop the brand and get this rolling. I trust you got my pm? have you edited teh EWR data to include the title changes since Backlash and also the roster additions? Lets get this sh*t cracking!

 

[Misanthrope]

I had contemplated killing ECW and holding a draft to claim the talent. Care to send me your preferenced list (numbering roster members from 1-20 or whatever) and I'll split the talent?

Editing is done, save for the ECW split.

 

[Manurewa_Marlins]

Be pretty cool to do a little draft show to start things off too, Iv seen it done on the EWR forums. i.e. we already have our rosters, but we make our picks with a little reasoning and stuff. You get what I mean?

 

[Misanthrope]

Yeah, a draft show to 'celebrate' the demise of ECW would be a must. Three hour Raw? We'd have to co-plan it. I tried adding you to MSN, but it said I'd already added you. Do you not use it?

We'd just be drafting ECW talents, mind. Might need to ammend that list of yours

 

[Manurewa_Marlins]

Lets get this sh*t crackin!!

 

[broncos_warriors_storm]

is this still happening

 

[Beanbag]

I will do ECW if its not take???

 

[Misanthrope]

I had to drop out, but I'm happy for somebody to step in and take my place.