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Post by "Dr Death" Ric Anderson on May 2, 2020 16:59:37 GMT -5
How do you guys book your undercard matches? Obviously feuds/title matches etc are at the top of the card but do you use some kind of chart or anything to set up the undercard or do you just pick the matches you're interested in?
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Post by Mynnotaur on May 2, 2020 18:06:41 GMT -5
I just pick the matches that "feels right" at the time. There can and should be feuds and angles going on in the undercard and mid-card, too, though. If a wrestler or team has not been doing good, I will have them face off against a wrestler/team that is at lower card status...or set up a match between two where the winner gets a shot at a title or something.
For me, I try to make every match meaningful in some way or other...
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Post by phantasyfan on May 2, 2020 20:55:03 GMT -5
I take and use the Booking sheets from GWF Promoter on you tube. Then I take the current champs and then I select a certain number of wrestlers normally 30 and I book them in matches that fill out both sheets. Undercard I save for Debuts , cards I may not use a lot or talent that haven’t been able to get over for me or those that have been losing or having not so good matches. In my stardom I had Wendi Richter in Curtain / ticket seller matches as an angle she was getting punished because she lost a match and had to start all the way at the bottom and she had to wrestle Francine.
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Post by Mike M on May 3, 2020 7:49:05 GMT -5
Booking a coherent program for your undercard is challenging, but in my opinion separates the best bookers from the rest. If you can get people to care about your lower midcard, it makes for a really compelling fed. Two of the best examples of how to do this come from our Legends team: Cory Olson 's USWA TDalton 's Booking 102: Tim's NWFSadly, Tim stopped posting his fed, but 105 pages should give you a good idea of how he did it. (If you want to see more, go back to the old Fans of Filsinger Games board: Booking 101: Tim's NWF. That should give you plenty of examples to chew on for now. |
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Post by Cory Olson on May 3, 2020 10:25:57 GMT -5
Booking a coherent program for your undercard is challenging, but in my opinion separates the best bookers from the rest. If you can get people to care about your lower midcard, it makes for a really compelling fed. Two of the best examples of how to do this come from our Legends team: Cory Olson 's USWA TDalton 's Booking 102: Tim's NWFSadly, Tim stopped posting his fed, but 105 pages should give you a good idea of how he did it. (If you want to see more, go back to the old Fans of Filsinger Games board: Booking 101: Tim's NWF. That should give you plenty of examples to chew on for now. Thanks for the plug, Mike M! Just a few quick notes on my USWA: a typical house show card will have 10 matches. For supercards, I may do more matches but it just depends on what the overall card looks like. Also for supercards, I try not to have too many specialty matches so the specialty matches have more meaning and seem more special. But it just depends on what feuds are being featured on that card and where those feuds are in their overall storyline. While some like to get as many wrestlers on their supercards (sort of the WWE Wrestlemania mentality of giving every wrestler a good payday), I don't always feel the need to do it. If it works to do so, great, but I don't like to try and force everyone on the card. I typically try not to have tag team matches back-to-back. And I try not to have wrestlers with the same manager wrestle back-to-back. (It's hard for The House of Humperdink, as there are currently five guys in that stable and sometimes I overlook that.) But there are always exceptions! |
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Post by joebreakdown on May 3, 2020 12:58:41 GMT -5
Booking a coherent program for your undercard is challenging, but in my opinion separates the best bookers from the rest. If you can get people to care about your lower midcard, it makes for a really compelling fed. Two of the best examples of how to do this come from our Legends team: Cory Olson 's USWA TDalton 's Booking 102: Tim's NWFSadly, Tim stopped posting his fed, but 105 pages should give you a good idea of how he did it. (If you want to see more, go back to the old Fans of Filsinger Games board: Booking 101: Tim's NWF. That should give you plenty of examples to chew on for now. My two favourite feds. |
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Post by Bazzy on May 4, 2020 5:30:53 GMT -5
After the feuds , just randomly pick matches . Try not to keep repeating the same old matches .
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Post by TDalton on May 4, 2020 7:27:58 GMT -5
How do you guys book your undercard matches? Obviously feuds/title matches etc are at the top of the card but do you use some kind of chart or anything to set up the undercard or do you just pick the matches you're interested in? When I did play, I tried to have everyone on the roster matched up with an opponent or two over some issue. That way the undercard filled itself in. Obviously it doesn't always work out, as you can have one side tied up in title matches. But that's how I did it. The openers (the Mister X type matches and potential squashes) were a little more random and based on who wasn't working the rest of the show. I'm not a big fan of using charts for any type of booking decisions. I wanted control over what was happening. The dice gave me enough problems to worry about.  |
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Post by Drew on May 4, 2020 15:03:31 GMT -5
I put together matches I want to see. I used to get caught up in a fair slate and giving everyone the same amount of matches. Then I Remember it's all about keeping your biggest fan happy.
1 thing i do is if a wrestler is coming off a feud win and hes lower on the totem. Yet a higher guy is coming off a feud loss, I face them off. That way the higher guy can take the low man's heat. If he wins that is.
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