Perfectly Straightedge

So this is going to be used as the official sign-up thread. So please post here if you are in. So that way, I can keep a running tally. I know in the previous thread people said they were in, but here is where we make this official as a referee with a whistle. Sign-Up Sheet 1. Perfectly Straightedge 2. Control 3. Siredgar 4. MLB 5. Jeff 6. Mr. JMML

Oh lord yeah! That would be extremely helpful. My OG Idea was to use the PWI Top 500 from 1996 as the list of talent and if anyone wanted to add they could as long as they have proof of activity for 1996.

So to make sure the promotions are fairly given out. Once we get a list of people in. I’ll open the sign up for another 24 hours. So that way it gives enough time for whoever wants to sign up can. So after that I will do a random generator for a promotion draft order where we will go in order of that list, Then from there whoever gets whatever promotion they can do their exempt list so we can start the talent draft after that. Where I will take the promotion draft order and reverse it. So if you got last pick of promotion then you get first pick of talent. It’s the fairest way I could think of distributing talent and promotions. Well we are glad to have you.

Yeah, I haven't started anything till I get a sure number of people first, and then I will start everything in the Battle of the Ages Thread. I am currently getting it all updated now.

Promotions would be held in a draft for sure—random generator.

Well, either of you guys are always welcome to join. As for the rosters, I thought about this morning, and I feel the fairest and best way to distribute talent is to do the pre-made rosters. This brings the reality that people wanted because the rosters will mirror what was in August of 1996 in the wrestling world, and for those that want to create let's say the AWA or something they will be allowed access to talent because the kicker with doing pre-made is that I am going to allow the promotion owners the opportunity to exempt talent from the draft. The number of talents I haven't decided on. Maybe 10 to 15 can be exempt, and the rest get thrown into the draft. So let's say I got WCW, and I wanted to exempt Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Sting, Lex Luger, The Giant, Rey Mysterio, and Dean Malenko; then those would come out of my draft rounds. So I would be skipped because in that round's place would be Hogan, then when the next round comes if I exempted Nash, Nash would be taken off the board and in the spot of my Round 2. Round 1 Draft WWF - Whoever WCW - Hulk Hogan ECW - Whoever NWA - Whoever Round 2 Draft WWF - Whoever WCW - Kevin Nash ECW - Whoever NWA - Whoever So on and so forth. I believe this is the best way to distribute the talent because it makes the guys who weren't exempt able to go to owners who don't have the star power compared to other promotions, but it will also help the promotions like WWF and WCW keep their top talent and stay true to 1996. I base this on it the expansion drafts. If a new team was to join the NBA, the current teams could exempt certain players from that draft, but the expansion team could pick whoever else they wanted that wasn't included in the expansion draft. This will also make for a fast draft process because fewer talents must be picked and fewer people will be actively drafting. It also makes the owners of the WWF, WCW, and ECW owners more cautious and strategic about who they select as for how Foreign talent goes and would work. I know Control was the only one who wanted to do that style. He could have free reign over his talent. He could do it if he wanted to keep all of his talent. I will not put restraints on foreign talent just because I am not going to lie. I am not that familiar with it, but with having that power, they also lose out on American Talent. So if you want to run a foreign territory. You have your pick of a roster and talent to go along with it, but when you make your exemptions from the draft, you lose out on rounds and American Talent. That's fair because it gives the foreign territory owners free reign over their talent for Japanese, Mexican, or whatever region you select. So you can get a dream roster of foreign talent and then whoever you choose not to keep gets thrown into the draft, and you can use those spots for American talent. Before it gets asked, every active wrestler counts as a spot on your roster. So Tag Teams will count as two spots on your roster. This will ensure that rosters are not ballooning to crazy heights and talent is evenly distributed among all owners. The only people who will not count towards your roster would be the following. Those who don't cost a roster spot. Your Owner - They come with whatever territory you select Your Ring Announcer Your Backstage Announcer Your Play by Play Commentator Your Color Commentator You also get 3 Manager Spots free of charge. Now if you go over three manager spots, it will cost you space on your roster cap, as for roster caps. I say for the time being all roster caps are set at 45. Now I want to make something clear about that. You can get an increase of 5 talents to your cap on your 1-year anniversary. Now with that being said. I want to be very clear about the activity. I know we all have lives and everything, but for this to be successful, we all have to post shows. So all owners myself included will be under activity rules. You can't go more than 30 days without posting a show. If something comes up and you need an extended LOA that you know will make it to where you can't post for longer than that. Let everyone know; it will be up to review on a case-by-case basis. What happens if you miss the 30 days and never let anyone know? Then another current owner can move up and take over your roster. So let's say I am ECW, and someone else is WWF. Well if the WWF never posts for 30 days and their roster is taken away then I as the owner of ECW will have priority to take that spot. If I want to stay as ECW and not move up to WWF, the WWF roster including the exempts will be eligible for a supplemental draft. If rosters are at the cap, then they will have to cut talent to draft WWF roster members to their roster. So this means if you are a current owner, you have priority over those who want to join that are newer. We are making a seniority rule. So whoever signs up first gets priority on the date they joined the game if this situation occurs. Free agency would start after the roster exemptions and after the draft. So before we get too far into the weeds, let's get a roll call to see who wants to sign up, and then we can go from there. 1996 Project Roll Call 1. Perfectly Straightedge 2. Control 3. Jeff 4. SirEdgar Who else wants in?

Something that sorta plays into the using historical rosters. why don’t each promotion have a set number of guys that come with the promotion. So if August 96 was the starting point. We could have something like this be the guys that promotion would start with and then the draft for the rest. Historical draft could work as well but I just don’t want people to feel shafted on talent which usually is an issue. WCW starts with Hogan, Nash, Hall, Flair and Sting WWF starts with Austin, Bret, HBK, Taker ECW starts with Heyman, Dreamer, Douglas, RVD, Sabu SMW starts with Jim Cornette, Candido, Rock n Roll Express, Dirty White Boy As for rookies. I mean just bring the rookies that started each year. In January of each year. As for Japan not partaking in the draft. I don’t know how DoW does it but I wouldn’t mind if Japan competed in the draft. It’s not like guys wouldn’t go to Japan in the 90s. So I would welcome it. Like I said I’m not looking to go so realistic that it becomes a chore to keep up with. Just keeping it simple is alright with me. As for roster cap. That’s always a tricky subject I guess it all depends on what everyone wants. I’ve done 40,50,60. So whatever consensus is I’m alright with. I’ve never actually done a project with preset rosters. I mean maybe that’s the way to go and avoid a draft that could take forever to plan out. We could use references to make each roster set for August of 96 then if anyone wanted to trade, release, sign free agents they could but I just don’t want people to not get WWF or WCW and then have no desire to write because of it. I mean something that could work if we did pre set rosters would be whoever gets those promotions only get like 20 keepers and the rest goes into a draft for the other rosters to pick and choose. So that way it evens out talent. Maybe that could work. Just throwing out ideas.

Well, I guess if nobody wants to spearhead it. I guess I will throw some ideas out for what I envision and if people are done. We can start in the Battle for Ages where I will erase everything from there. If nobody likes my ideas, you are welcome to start it, and I will still join to participate. So this is my pitch I was thinking and looking at things in some research. I would say the perfect year for everything is 1996. Here is the PWI 500 for 1996 to give an idea of some talent that was at the top of the list http://www.profightdb.com/pwi-500/1996.html It gives 7 years difference from Dawn of War. So It gives enough time away from Dawn of War that there isn't an interest in fairness with it. Especially if you did August of '96 as the starting point. It would be on the heels of the birth of the nWo for WCW, ECW was gaining traction, and The WWF is in the midst of finding its footing going into SummerSlam with HBK vs Vader as the Main Event. You have WCW going right into the inception of the start of the nWo. I just think it's the perfect leaping point. Plus, it's right where my fandom started. So it's a little bias behind it as well. Now, if this game was to start or anything. I would think it would need some ground rules just on the importance of talent to a brand. I know most people like to keep up with the realisim which I mean I am all for but it has to have common sense with it. I am not a fan of death in these games. I know it's a hot button issue with project pieces but I think fantasy wrestling shouldn't have death just cause the real world is sad enough and who really wants to write the death of one of their favorites or something along those lines. I know I don't and I wouldn't want anyone of you guys to either. So I would say death doesn't happen. You can retire guys sure, but death I am not going to have happen. Plus I don't want to research the day all these guys passed away. As for when guys retire. I mean we have the benefit of hindsight. So it would be similar to what Dawn of War does. If they worked so many matches in the year. Let's say 10 matches in a year that can be considered active and good to compete for your promotion but you have to have proof. You can't just say well that happen. It has to be clear and with the internet as your disposal there has to be something out there. Other stuff can be looked at once we figure out who sign up. 1996 Project Roll Call 1. Perfectly Straightedge 2. Control21

I still think 1995 would be a great jumping off point. WCW WWF ECW SMW NWA I mean the possibilities there would outweigh the 1991 and you get some superstars established like Foley, Bret, Owen, Taker, Austin, Flair, Hogan, Savage, Shane Douglas and many others.

I hate to triple post but going to do it anyways. Something I never noticed that is really cool is that Dax has "Jay Briscoe" on his nameplate on the AEW World Tag Championship.

I LOVE THAT OPENING with Buddy just kneeing the shit out of Max. That might be the best opening rap in the history of AEW.

You know that was something I noticed and ended one of the dumbest traditions in wrestling where a theme song has to play before somebody comes to the ring to speak. It makes the crowd have a legit reaction to seeing a guy. Also Christian with the line of the night "What kind of man carries around a championship he never won" is so good.

I know what the shoe was but 2 things make that stupid. 1. If you are a new a viewer and had no idea that Matt Jackson does that you are going to be confused as to why this guy had two of the same shoes and now has one different color. 2. You are in this violent match but you have enough time to change shoes. My problem with the match was that it honestly felt like whenever someone was working it’s building to the next spot. It didn’t feel like a feud ender to me. It just felt meh. The glass being introduced so early and then having people constantly have to take bumps on it just made that glass a spot early that had no real meaning. Just a weird showing tonight. I don’t know what the gameplan was but it felt like this match didn’t come across the way it was envisioned.

I don’t know. Even like Ibusha coming in. He missed his first moves. Did probably the worst punches we have seen in years when he was ground and pounding Mox. I wasn’t impressed with this You had a random wardrobe change with Matt Jackson that even the commentators were like “his shoe is black now” Just very poor showing. Elite going over is to be expected but I don’t just could have been better in my eyes

That sorta sucked. If it wasn’t for the ending. I would have forgotten Hangman was even apart of that match. He did next to nothing. meh not really as good as previous years.

I thought the exact same thing. Ian is awesome!

I didn’t like that Kota announcement at all. I don’t get why the lights went out a for a video package to save Kenny from the dreaded neck in chair. Just seemed strange and lackluster. Usually for a big debut you sorta want the guy to be there. My thing is we are supposed to suspend reality when we watch wrestling but why didn’t the four guys just keep beating up Kenny while the video played. Like I know we have to throw logic out the window but come on now. Who turned off the lights as well? I did chuckle at the whole you got any last words “watch the screen bitch” lol Also where was Claudio and Wheeler? Why didn’t they show up as well on your go home episode to blood and guts and not have all the pieces are there. Just seemed weird to me. I don’t know I’m not really looking forward to blood and guts this year. I would rather see how they book this MJF/Cole against Sammy/Garcia match.

I say that has to do with motivation. When Joe is motivated about something he will make it look good if he isn’t motivated well we saw what happen. He will either put ok weight and quit giving his all like that TNA run. Remember when he randomly came out with fire dancers. Such a weird time. I don’t think WWE ever saw the Joe as the killing machine he can be which I think is why he got hurt cause he was just collecting a big check at that point which who can blame him. He probably made more in the wwe run then his whole Indy run or maybe close to it. I can’t speak more highly of that tag match. Like I thought it was going to be good but I didnt expect that. Jay White is a tremendous worker and Juice is perfect as a tag team guy. FTR of course looked amazing in their element. I also liked The Owen Hart themed gear by Hobbs. The opening promo by Punk getting the tournament over was also refreshing. Just cause we get the video package every year but actually having your top guy putting it over how big of a deal it is really makes the thing feel special. I like Ricky but I don’t think he should win it all but something tells me that he will.

Next week 2 out 3 falls. Wow! I’m pumped for that. I thought that match was going to be good. I didn’t expect a freakin banger like that. Awesome showing.

This match has been awesome. What a match!!!!

Grayson Waller with probably the worst spray tan in years.

I agree with you. I mean where else this guy going to learn? its not like he can perfect this somewhere else. We are very quick to judge anyone in this day and age. I’ll give it a couple months and see where we are at.

Sting did something to his mouth on that bump.

Happen on the elbow drop from Okada that’s wild. Bryan did a great job at explaining sometimes the easiest spots will hurt you.

You know I was thinking the same thing. Which is a shame cause I Kevin Kelly always seemed like a nice dude but he is not made for Collision. I know he is RoH but Ian Riccaboni would be awesome in this role in my opinion.