How often do you schedule special matches?

[FCB72]

I was wondering other than wrestlers where special matches are a part of their gimmick like Slaughterhouse,Total Anarchy and Truth and Consequences and perhaps Star-Slayer do you use special matches to settle feuds at the end of a game year like in the old territory systems or after a few dq’s?

[phantasyfan]

I have a special matches / hardcore belt in my stardom fed so That gets defended on most big cards. When I ran a GWF fed I did the same thing. For other wrestlers I had special matches settle feuds or to add interest.

[Sam Fain]

It really does depend on the fed and style I'm going for.

In my legends fed, they're a little more rare. Maybe only reserved for the hottest feuds and biggest cards. I may have stipulations here and there, but actual special match (i.e. cage, death, I quit, etc.) is just that - special.

For my modern GWF, they're a lot more frequent. Maybe even one per card and at supercards there might be 3 or 4.

For my GWF Classics fed, they're a little more infrequent, but still might do one for the big cards and certainly a big feud/program might see two - three special matches along the way with a big one for the blow-off.

For my CWF they're more frequent, but still mostly reserved for Primus Carnage Gauntlet matches or big feuds.

My Indy fed sees them rarely. I'll do lots of no DQ bouts and Iron Man/Woman matches, but not a lot of big special bouts.

My overall logic is to keep them special, use them only for upper mid-card and main event programs or for "hardcore" title divisions. That said, rules are made to be broken and sometimes as a player I want to run a special match for the fun of it.

[The Mysterious Budo]

In the case of guys like Splatter or Mayhem, those are guys who would most likely call for a weapons match or a casket match or something of the sort a lot more than say Chaos would. I know for me my Anarchy vs Blazing Holocaust feud was almost exclusively death matches, ending in a scaffold match with no ring under it. I kind of just play it by how the characters play out.

[Drew]

It depends I think on how you book your fed. If you're building to the year end then I would save the best special matches until then. If you run into the multiple DQ problem a Titan Death Match can solve it without using up a special match

[Swarm]

As with most special matches, I run them when a feud calls for it. I don’t do it WWE style where I just have it to have it and try to make it work with whoever. Should mean something.

[FCB72]

Mar 30, 2020 15:08:04 GMT -5 Swarm said:

As with most special matches, I run them when a feud calls for it. I don’t do it WWE style where I just have it to have it and try to make it work with whoever. Should mean something.

.....I agree I use it when a feud calls for it or it is a part of a character’s gimmick.

[ajcostello]

Mar 30, 2020 15:08:04 GMT -5 Swarm said:

As with most special matches, I run them when a feud calls for it. I don’t do it WWE style where I just have it to have it and try to make it work with whoever. Should mean something.

Same here for both my LOW stuff (which I play way more often) and my COTG.

There's usually more feuds/programs and I try to go for a blow-off every three months for the PPVs that I do instead of one big ,year-ending supershow.

[Count Necros]

I also tend to use them sparingly in my LOW-AWA fed, but with my recent introduction of Abdullah, that might change 😊